#me when father and son dynamics

[zorangezest]

thanks for listening

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[lemonfizzyy]

I made all four Batboys in sims 4 and GKIWAJDKSJD THEY'RE SO CUTE!!! also when Damian came home from school he went to talk to Dick first and got a happy moodlet from being around his favorite person, it was so adorable!!

[m0thlegs]

rereading the luxury liner arc after I just got back into my hyperfix recently and I wanna make sure I have a fresh understanding of the characters and. Guys I’m slowly being convinced of dadbastian now. I’m a changed woman

[dukeofthomas]

calling bruce jason's 'father figure' should be illegal. jason is his son. he was literally even legally adopted. "father figure" my ass that's his dad ???

[soleminisanction]

Like, here's the thing about Bruce and Dick in Batman '66:

When the series started filming in 1965, Burt Ward was 20 years old, and Adam West was 37. They're playing a Dick Grayson who's a Senior, maybe a Junior in High School, so somewhere between 17 and 19, and a Bruce Wayne whose age is never mentioned but who is implied to be vaguely in his early 30s.

So while Bruce is technically old enough to be Dick's father, in a strictly biological taking-responsibility-for-a-teenage-mistake sense, that's not really how the show plays it. Bruce is absolutely Dick's mentor, Dick looks up to him and admires him and there's usually at least one scene per episode where Bruce gets to give him a little mini-lecture passing Important Life Advice onto his impulsive young companion. But it's not played as a parental dynamic.

What you've got instead is the character of Aunt Harriet, added to the cast with the hope that a feminine presence in the manor would make them seem less gay. Harriet bustles around as a maternal figure, being the one who makes the dinners and needs to be kept out of the loop of the whole superhero thing for some reason, and is always fussing about ironic things like keeping her precious nephew Dick away from untoward criminal influences. She's the one who the show treats as Dick's parent, not Bruce.

Moreover, Harriet treats both Dick and Bruce like they're her sons, often roping Alfred into the position of a somewhat dottering older father figure. The end result being that the two of them come across like the elderly parents of the family who have retired and now mostly focus on maintain the house and pursuing their own personal hobbies while their eldest son, Bruce, takes over as head of the household. And as a result, Dick comes across much less like Bruce's child than as his teenage brother who just happens to be over a decade younger than him.

This isn't an unusual family arrangement at all, especially not for upper- to upper-middle-class white American boomers -- both of my parents have similar age gaps with their youngest siblings, as do several people I knew growing up. And this would only continue to be the default for how Bruce and Dick's relationship was perceived as Dick in the comics (and in his portrayal in things like the Superfriends cartoon) was aged up into a college student to match Burt Ward's portrayal while Bruce remained vaguely in his early 30s.

When I say the idea that Bruce is Dick's father is a super recent phenomenon, this is what I'm talking about.

[soupforsoup]

Yeah I'd love to make new and original content but unfortunately there's only so many ways that I can say how the opening scene in 1x07 where Daniel's training Robby in the home dojo makes me scream and cry and claw my eyes out

[edelweiss-buttons]

(I’m watching fantasy high for the first time and I’m starting from the beginning of s1)

“Don’t you try to put a dagger in my heart! I’ll put you in the ground before I’ll let you kill me” “I never would. I never would” my foreshadowing sensors are going fucking haywire what is going to happen (don’t tell me) (I’m blissfully unaware rn)

[cyndaquillt]

I'm on the chapter where they captured the leader of the bandit group Chang Geng had his first memories with and Gu Yun is close to finding out everything and it's viscerally driving in the point of how helpless Gu Yun feels that he could not do anything for Chang Geng back then because he was also a child.

When Chang Geng was a baby, Gu Yun was about 7 and couldn't possibly have done anything to save him. When they found Chang Geng at 12 yo, Gu Yun would've been roughly 19 and it's illogical to expect a socially awkward ptsd ridden 19 yo to immediately grasp that Chang Geng may have been running away from an abusive parent, especially when both Xiu Niang and Chang Geng were hellbent on hiding it so well. Of course Gu Yun has regrets. Whether you are old or young, naive or perceptive, you are still you and the people you love are still the people you wanna save and you couldn't do it. You couldn't be there and when you were there, you didn't get what was happening.

And at this point it comes full circle when you realize that Chang Geng feels EXACTLY the same. Him wishing he was born 10 years before his time, him trying to grow up faster and become capable soon so that he could be of use to Gu Yun, all of those are Chang Geng's fight against time and his own youth. Gu Yun wished he wasn't a child when Chang Geng needed rescuing just like Chang Geng wishes he wasn't a child when Gu Yun needs/needed support

[elisedonut]

at lrb

Im too much of a coward to add it directly to it but sometimes it's not even a mentor it's a a romantic love thing and just how they show affection

[seussedge]

imagine if there was a 5000 Fingers revival and people started shipping Dr. T with the Cat or Grinch or something

like a remake? i imagined it would be 3D animated like illumination movies and ofc they'd tone down a lot of the dark stuff

i think people would ship him with the onceler lmao

[maigetheplatypus57]

everything in my entire fucking life can be traced back to him I'm so fucking serious

[likeabxrdinflight]

yugioh fics that use the 4kids dub characterizations just...you're not invalid for it because the dub exists but like...why

[necrotic-nephilim]

I’m here to bother you again!!!

You don’t have to if you don’t want to but maybe dark ship bingo with timjay or brudick????

hELLO i love being bothered by you this is delightful omg thank you, i would love to

Here is JayTim, I can't believe I only got one bingo for them. Ironically I genuinely don't view Jason and Tim as family, even when I'm not shipping them, I think they're tentative allies at best and you can only brother-ify them if you're doing very generously OOC fluff, a la WFA-style. They're absolutely toxic and codependent on each other's existence, Tim wouldn't exist without Jason and Jason is Undeniably Weird about Tim, but not brothers so I can't check off the familial squares. Also, I have no idea if I've been blocked by 10+ people, but it'd be funny if I am. And funnily enough, I don't think Tim or Jason are vanilla in any capacity even when they're not fucking. Especially not Tim, that boy is Certified Weird.

and ofc BruDick I nearly blacked out the whole board because they absolutely are weird and unwell. Some of these only apply to certain AUs of BruDick (like an idea I have rattling in my skull rn with Talon!Dick) but most of it applies to them all the time. I really need to write some fucked up BruDick, it's tragic I haven't yet. Right now the two fics I'm working on are a weird JayDick and a more fluffy DamiDick, but I have Plans™ for BruDick too. They are the OG and deserve their flowers for being the most toxic mess you've ever seen.

[sculptambitio]

/ I know that technically it would be impossible bc of many reasons, but I keep seeing cute fanart of D.io having met/raised tiny G.iorno and I can't help but think of dad-Diego as he's sort of an alternative universe version of Dio (or well, he replaces the antagonistic place that D.io would have normally taken in the universe in which S.teel B.all R.un takes place had it not been a reboot of the universe.) and proud D.iego on a horse carrying little g.iorno in his arm since both love animals AND IM EMOTIONAL!!!

[to-the-batcomputer]

hold on. Bruce and Dick. wait let me restart

Bruce ❤️ Dick

Dick 🤝 Tim

Bruce 🍼👶👪 Tim. kinda

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