#even if he fails at showing it sometimes

[angstandhappiness]

DUDE

i feel like the fandom as well as dc characters in general like to give bruce a lot of grief over his choice of side-kick. you know, the age old but so god-awful true argument that robin is a child, hasn’t come close to puberty, and has no place in their world of crime fighting and seeing the worst of humanity daily. and they’re all right, don’t get me wrong, but it’s funny how everyone seems to forget that bruce knows. he’s more intimately aware of robin’s youth than anyone else in the entire universe

how could he not be when robin tucks himself into batman’s cape on cold and windy nights, teeth chattering away as his small body winds the heavy kevlar around his tiny shoulders? how could bruce not know when robin pesters him for snacks and treats during patrol, pointing to and calling out to street vendors and folding his hands together in a mimic of a plea for ‘just one pretzel, c’mon b! just one’? how could bruce not know when robin loses a tooth and asks excitedly if the tooth-fairy will know where to find him since he doesn’t live where he used to? how could bruce not be aware of exactly how young robin is when he whines and cries over skinned knees, arguing to be carried home and laughing when batman complies, surprised at how light the boy is in his arms?

and it hurts bruce more directly than any blow he’s ever received when the league glares at him and accuses him of child endangerment. it feels like getting sucker punched in the stomach when alfred tuts and tsks away when robin returns home with bumps and bruises, the smallest of side-eyes sent in his direction. it hurts because it’s all true and yet his heart feels like rupturing when robin smiles despite his age and reassures bruce that it’s all okay, he doesn’t mind getting hurt, he’s strong, he’s brave, this is nothing. 

except it’s not nothing and robin is so young and such a child and bruce knows. he knows and he can’t do anything about it because he also knows that, just as he was born, fated, to be batman, he knows that the boy was always meant to be robin. it doesn’t matter if bruce stopped him now, said no and barred the boy from ever parading the name robin ever again. it’s too late. he tells himself over and over again that it was better this way, to have robin by his side rather than the boy running off on his own, but it kills bruce. it kills him because robin is… the boy is meant for better things in life. his child deserved better things in life but he’s batman and he can’t change that

robin is a child and he can’t change that

[cementcornfield]

this fucking dude.

[bluntfriend]

Okay, now I am thinking of Team Green and Team Black actually going to therapy in a modern au, and oh my god that is going to be a whole fucking colossal fuck up... the therapist is going to need fucking therapy themselves.

[citrusai]

some shippers when solas has had important relationships from thousands of years ago and he can't just forgive himself for failing those closest to him then and go "okie dokie!" when his wife tells him he can come back home

[supurman]

[nubuckleather]

🤠

[sourweather]

the thing i genuinely love about succession is that Kendall is just straight up Not Cool. Like when they introduce him you kind of assume that they're setting him up to be like this baddass, smart talking, Harvey Specter type, and then you are almost immediately informed that no, actually. Kendall Roy is a fucking loser. He's an embarrassing fuckup who tries wayyy too hard. Like I LOVE the guy but he's so painfully Uncool.

[pa-pa-plasma]

i don't think i'll ever get over how people treat kids that aren't good in school as worthless no matter what. "oh it can't be that bad" my guy idk how to tell you this but the last time i went to a normal high school the principal called me into his office to brag about how he failed me in all of my classes before the semester was even finished & i should quit while i'm ahead cuz i'm too stupid ("officially" diagnosed as such by a school counselor & a psychiatrist!!) to succeed. & this is considered normal

[brittlebutch]

a lot of people seem to use Entry #61 as 'proof' for the crux of the "Brian didn't care about Tim, he was Taking Advantage of Tim's conditions and Forcing him to work as part of totheark" thing, but honestly when you think about it there's no possible way Brian could have possibly orchestrated that series of events, like you almost have to interpret that as a baffling group of coincidences

[silly-bees]

i know we shit on miguel for beating up miles and how it was unnecessary and stuff, and that's totally true. he should not be beating the hell out of children. he definitely should spend time in spider-jail for that. but can we talk about how terrified this man must be?

the loss of his daughter is fresh- possibly within less than a year fresh, and it was all his fault (at least that is what is interpreted by him). an entire UNIVERSE got destroyed because of his actions and now some punk kid who he was been trying to hard to keep out of this operation suddenly appears and starts making the same mistakes miguel did.

miguel sees this kid preaching that he can fix it all and miguel 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴. he can remember thinking those same things. he can remember the naivety of being someone new to multi-dimensional travel; but understanding doesn't change the risks, and this kid threatens everything miguel has seeked to fix.

miles is thinking like miguel did and that terrifies him. it terrifies him that what happened to his world would happen to everyone else's and it would inevitably be 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘭'𝘴 fault. not miles', not anyone else, miguel's (in his mind, anyway).

so, yes. yes he shouldn't have chased miles, but fear does things to the brain. fear leads to desperation and desperation leads to miles' determination and that leads to more fear and it continues in this vicious cycle of pain, danger and pure, guilty terror.

i'm not excusing his actions, but i understand them. i understand them and it hurts so bad in a good way.

[septiccoffeefreak]

love seeing posts i already reblogged in me and Tommy's DMs, love being sent things I already saw and enjoyed because he saw them and knew the happiness it would bring me. Yeah I already saw this but the intention was there. The evidence of how well you know me is written on the wall. The color of the like button shows how much you care. fuck

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

sometimes..so.etimes they change something even after the premiere. sp you appear and watch an entirely new and prolonged monologue. and it's like. FUCK YEAH.

[a-wins-a-win]

unpopular opinion?? maybe?

Matt & Ivy have a really interesting dynamic!! both pre- and post-canon!! with or without romantic undertones!! either reciprocal or one-sided!!

and obviously it has to be handled with a particular level of care/respect BUT I think if we allowed them enough grace there is space to explore a really interesting possibility for that relationship.

[ukuslip]

maybe i don't care about doing a complicated think-piece on nickel's actions and how he mistreated suitcase and how he's an awful person and if you like him you hate women actually. maybe i just think it's funny when the coin is a dick. i don't think this object show shit is really that serious

[orcelito]

Ykno the suckiest thing about being broken up with for someone else is that like. Well I'm doing generally fine, all things considered, but I Am kinda sad thinking about the things I've lost and all the casual affection that I can't have now.

But she's out there having all the affection she wants from her coworker, and it's just like. Damn this feels so skewed and SO unfair.

[deus-ex-mona]

me when the bacteria c o l o n i s e s