#duke: She’s cool

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

Bruce thinking he finally has a child that won’t immediately desert him for a Super only to have Duke head straight for Lois Lane and there’s just no winning

[dreaming-tonite]

Opening the discussion on what class members of the batfamily would be if they are dnd pcs because in true nerd fashion, all my current hyperfixations must have intersection points even if it means creating one myself:

Bruce — battle master fighter (ngl superiority dice confuses me sometimes but imo it is such a versatile and tactile class to play)

Dick — college of swords bard or hexblade warlock (not as focused on the charisma/performance aspect of things but still makes attacks using charisma stats over strength stats)

Barbara — I’m torn between school of divination wizard or knowledge domain cleric subclass because the former seems a bit too on the nose but it does make sense?? Tho i also think cleric honors her role as support (also clerics are so underrated, spirit guardian is literally one of my top spells)

Jason — path of the berserker barbarian OR oathbreaker paladin (im not a big fan of the black-and-white alignment styles of like “oathbreakers are innately evil” but the fact that this is the common idea makes for great plot potential)

Tim — bladesinging wizard (ngl im not sure about this one but i picked wizard for the int stats)

Cass — gloom stalker ranger (literal definition of you wont know what hit you until you are hit)

Damian — half-elven(*) assassin rogue

(*under personal preference, everyone is human unless specified because the charm of batfam to me is always that theyre not “meant to be” heroes but consciously become one. HOWEVER, elven al ghuls just seems like such a cool concept)

[presiding]

high chaos/low chaos/join the chaos in my dishonored 2 rewrite

[coconut530]

💍PUT A RING ON IT💍

[ladychandraofthemoone]

In my au Stanley (narrow gauge) has a special interest in insects (I hc him as being into animals, they don’t judge you for your “jinx” and he’s got a soft spot for critters that are seen as “bad luck”) and tends to blurt out the most detailed information, he often info-dumps with and to Nia who encourages it cause it makes him happy once he’s freed from his “jinx” and she know every single insect name alphabetically along with their scientific names and nicknames Here we have Duke immediately regretting asking them if they can name every single species and ends up sleeping when they’re engrossed in their conversation before leaving when they were in the mid section of the e category (Nia gave him “the disappointment older sister look” awhile back so the poor guy can trapped there and wondered how did he got ever himself into this situation)

Basically it’s just Stanley to Duke in alphabetical order: Alderflies Angel Insects Anoplura (Sucking lice) Ants Antlions Aphids Archeognatha (Bristletails) Barklice Bees Beetles Bird lice Biting lice Blattodea (Cockroaches) Booklice Bristletails Bugs Butterflies Caddisflies Chewing lice Cicadas Cockroaches Coleoptera (Beetles) Collembola (Springtails) Crickets Damselflies Diplura Diptera (Flies) Dobsonflies Dragonflies-

Nia joining in cause she was mad at Duke: ah yes the alderfly which are megalopteran insects of the family Sialidae. They are closely related to the dobsonflies and fishflies as well as to the prehistoric Euchauliodidae. All living alderflies – about 66 species all together are part of the subfamily Sialinae, which contains nine extant genera. Sialinae have a body length of less than 25 mm (1 inch), long filamentous antennae, and four large dark wings of which the anterior pair is slightly longer than the posterior. They lack ocelli and their fourth tarsal segment is dilated and deeply bilobed. Dead alderfly larvae are used as bait in fishing-

duke:shooketh (Nia’s is basically the train version of a encyclopedia also her design is based off of MrTerrier673 on Twitter)

[aingeal98]

At the end of the day I love the batfamily so much. I love Cassandra Wayne and her four loser brothers (and her one non loser very cool little brother Duke) and her even bigger loser dad and her sister from another universe that the general family may or may not know exists and may have a baby counterpart out there in the world and the woman who inspired the sister's hero name and her momsister who named her and her birth mother who never wanted her and her best friend situationship kind of dating but only canon in alternate timelines so far Stephanie. And I love her dad's two main flames both of whom are 10 times more compelling and cool than him Selina and Talia if you are free any day please call me. And her dad's lesbian cousin and the cousin's ex the Question. And Leslie Thompkins and Jean Paul Valley and the Fox family and Bette Kane too. I love them all they're so silly and fun and I will read through as many bad comics as I have to in order to get to the good ones that make me smile or stop and think.

[cloudydayjoy]

Duke Dominion here to make life worse for everyone and capture some sick footage for her metal music videos while she wrecks planets

Her helmet has a camera lens.

[breadandblankets]

While the Thomas's are still in their at home recovery phase, Elaine takes to keeping the news on so she can keep an eye on Duke while he is on Signal duty.

She doesn't like it of course, she winces at bad hits, remembering her own training as a young woman. But she fears not knowing what happens to her son more than she fears a little worry. He's strong, she knows that, and she trusts him.

She's glad for this one day.

For Duke it had been a long week, a long life if he was being honest. The "what ifs" had kept him up most nights and made whatever sleep he had gotten functionally useless. Not to mention how he helped out Tim with something around 11 and that nearly every fucking meta in Gotham had it out for him today.

A dozen fights in and someone finally knocks him in a way that Duke is wondering how he's going to get up from this one.

His powers are screaming, his body is screaming, hell, he might be screaming. Around the ringing in his ears it doesn't really make much of a difference.

Someone (or something) is coming at him and Fast, Izzy in his ear is telling him Hood's position, she already called for aid ten minutes ago (he loves her so much, has he mentioned that recently?).

A shadowy figure steps in front of him.

At first he thinks it might be Bruce, but then Izzy would have warned him, and Bruce had never looked so oily and smoky before. Duke concludes that maybe this is someone else coming to finish him off.

Great, wonderful, he thinks as his muscles tense to shadow step.

Duke is soon proven delightfully wrong.

The big guy who was, not a second ago, rushing him to squish his tender flesh, is struggling, making nearly animalistic sounds as the oil slick clouds from the shadow guy in front of him shoot out to grab the big guy.

There's a poof, not unlike his own shadow stepping, and then the big guy is fucking gone.

Shadow guy turns to look at him, big glowing purple eyes shine at him through the darkness. Duke is struck dumb for a moment.

"Mom?" he whispers.

The Red Hood steps onto the scene just in time. He wasn't far, less than half a mile away, putting the finishing touches on his taxes for the year. (He may be running a criminal enterprise but let it be know that he does pay his fucking taxes, Tim.)

He rushes over, training a .44 on the remaining non-bat on the field. The smog creature turns to look at him, and pointedly at the gun. Somehow he feels more chastised in a way that nothing B could do or say could ever achieve.

And then it's gone.

Jason jogs over, offering a hand to his (co-worker? co-sufferer of B's shit? 'lil bat bro' [Jason rolls his eyes at internal Dick]) Duke.

Duke grabs it, weakly (ohhhh someone's gonna get Bennchhedddd).

"What the fuck man," Jason can't help but say. "Does the hat-man owe you money?"

Duke laughs, and he looks more alive than he did a second before. (Jason is going to get a good grade in mentor, something both normal to want and possible to achieve.)

They both hear Izzy's audible relief on the line.

"Yeah he fucking does," Duke jokes back.

[unfriendlyamazon]

headcanons of things the yugiohs can't do

listen they're all perfect little angels but everybody's bad at something

yugi: can't school

anzu: can't sew

tristan: can't sing

joey: can't dance

seto: can't draw

duke: can't smoke

serenity: can't cook

mai: disaster lesbian who's only skill is conning people

[eschercaine]

SPOILER ALERT: Nevermore Academy students in their Spectre forms (2/?)

[deus-ex-mona]

such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨

[dukethomas]

another day another sighting of renee only ever being mentioned in relation to kate as a love interest biting and killing . they're exes THEY'RE EXES. they're messy exes whose relationship was never healthy because during it they are both trying to repress things so hard and using that relationship as a coping mechanism. there was a real love and real attraction there and i find it very entertaining when they have mutual jealousy of each other's new gfs but y'all keep using renee as the kate ex gf's name you recognize & it's so transparent. most of batfandom doesn't even care about kate beyond knowing she's a lesbian and renee gets reduced further like i'm putting their past relationship on a shelf until ppl can be normal and recognize renee as her own independent character who doesn't need kate to exist. renee's arc INTRODUCED kate, not the other way around. renee's arc is abt identity not being static but instead ever-changing and directing your focus not on guilt and wallowing but accepting the things you've done as part of you and directing yourself towards the future. the real question behind it all being not "who am i" but "who am i going to be?" like katerenee doesn't work after they've both undergone character growth. before a few years ago (batwoman 2018 iirc) katerenee was never even a relationship that was ever currently happening, it was always a past relationship. they were always exes

[presiding]

you'll never guess which level we're up to in this dishonored 2 rewrite

[coconut530]

TURNING TIDES

[starlooove]

Duke should have a chain with a lil bat on it and that’s all I can really say about fashion

[littleraeofsunshineda]

I know it's seriously old and if made now would take its gender queer energy so much higher but

She's the Man was a fucking great film