#red thinks

[rd-scribbles]

The trope of "child drawing horrific drawings" but instead it's "child draws a 'scary' woman".

And when the school guidance counselor calls the kid's parents a woman with the same red blob that the child always draws on the 'scary' woman shows up.

She's the kid's mother.

She just has a birthmark.

But the guidance counselor is convinced he's in The fuckin Ring and is basically stalking this innocent woman and creative accepting toddler.

[red-n-stuff]

The more darlin backstory we receive the more and more I want to sit down and write a whole timeline of events for my version of them just because I need to be able to correctly reflect their experiences in the blurbs I write….

Also: (unpopular opinion, so if you disagree that’s cool, don’t worry I’m not comin for you, this is just my darlin in my head)

I tend to see a lot of content that has David being sort of an older sibling to Darlin, or that their role in the pack is often more inflated then what’s canon (which again, cool for y’all if that’s how y’all wanna play it) but there’s so much room for angst and growth and raw emotions by exploring the avenue that Darlin isn’t really that same teenager that they all managed to make friends with- and that now after everything that happened they’re much more jaded.

They’re trying again, and they want to be a part of the pack again, and right now David, Asher, and Milo are all trying to find their footing with where they stand with Darlin. Too much has happened for all of them for them to just resume that easy teenage experience- but I think that the four of them rebuilding a bond that extends beyond just being in a pack, that stems beyond blood (real or metaphorical), is a stronger bond than the idea of them being there out of obligation.

Darlin is choosing the pack. Not because they have a duty to their past self- not out of guilt for some connection to Gabe, not because they feel like they owe it to anybody, but because these people are people that have proven they’re reliable, safe, and willing to allow darlin the space to breathe that they need. Consistently, David has made it a point to not try to take up the role of an overbearing older brother because Darlin does not need more family. Darlin needs friends. And at the end of the day, they need a circle of support they know they could never let down rather than more people they have to try to meet expectations for.

[shining-red-diamond]

CHERRY BULLET DISBANDED?!?!?! What the heck FNC?!?! With all of the protest trucks asking for better treatment and such this is what y’all decide? I’ll still support the girls in what they decide, but come on!

[gothamitee]

What will you be tonight? That’s the question

[mcworm]

JUST SAW A FED-EX DRIVER JUMP OUR OF HIS TRUCK AT A REDLIGHT AND RUN UP TO A SECOND FED-EX TRUCK (THREE CARS AHEAD) AND THE GUY LEANED OUT AND THEY JUST KISSED ON THE LIPS? HELLO?

[ideas-ideasideasideas]

Batman gives each of his Robins a different code to use when they’re in trouble and need immediate extraction. He promises that when they call, he’ll drop everything just to get to them, come hell or high water.

Jason, during his time with the League, shares his code with Damian, to be used “only in the direst of circumstances, when you have exhausted all other options.” He doesn’t know if Bruce will answer, given how fractured their relationship was before he died, but it is better than nothing. Every tool counts when they live such dangerous lives.

Damian uses it exactly once, and Bruce, who still feels the loss of his son like a yawning chasm in his chest, responds to it even though he knows it can’t be Jason because Jason’s dead. What he finds, instead of Jason, is a boy in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-small feet, with a face that Bruce sees himself and Talia in, requesting asylum from a grandfather who wishes to possess his body. Bruce doesn’t question how this boy who is so clearly his son knew the code. Talia al Ghul is resourceful and places family above all; the code is not beyond her abilities to discover, and she is not above using Bruce’s desperate love for his dead son to ensure that hers does not meet the same fate.

Bruce takes Damian in, because of course he does, and since Jason is dead he allows Damian to keep using the code. After all, it’s not like Jason is alive to use it, right? If someone uses the code, there’s no one it could be but Damian, right?

The next time the code is used, Bruce traces the location to Gotham even though Damian was supposed to be in Bludhaven visiting Dick. But whatever happened that resulted in Damian being in Gotham can wait, because he has already failed one son and he will not fail another, his son is in trouble and he needs to get to him, he needs to—

What he finds, instead of Damian, is a boy (just eighteen, too young, but also too old, but also he will always be a boy to him) in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-large feet (when had he gotten so big), wearing the face of his dead son.

(Who, maybe, just maybe, may no longer be so dead.)

[wellensittich01]

Dick 9 times out of 10 failing to hide a severe injury from the rest of the batfam because without fail when he’s tired or drugged or generally not firing on all cylinders his native accent comes out as thick as the day he met Bruce.

- - -

Bruce: Dick come down for a check up I saw you take that hit for Tim.

Dick, halfway towards the cave exit and still going, in the quietest voice possible: im fine

Bruce: Say squirrel and you can leave.

Dick:

Bruce:

Jason:

Tim:

Damien:

Dick: …skweeerrehl.

Jason: Get him boys.

[abisalli]

Jason but he wears this helmet 😼

[paintedcrows]

Nooo little Stanley watch out! Your striped shirt, bandage, and sad backstory are too Fallen Human Coded!! The Undertale narrative is going to get you!!!

[ktkat99]

Jason comes back from the dead and, as he's still a bit out of it, heads to the manor.

Crawling straight up through six feet of compacted earth is hard, especially after waking up suddenly in a coffin, so after he makes it inside, he sits down to rest on the couch.

And immediately falls asleep.

Hours later, Bruce returns home to find Jason's body, covered in dirt, dug up from the grave and left on his couch.

[assiraphales]

remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was 'oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT'S funny?' like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i'm walking on sunshine', killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes' to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight

[rd-scribbles]

A prince seeks out a witch for a love potion.

He has been forced into an arranged marriage so this is his last chance...

That is the only thing he will willingly tell the witch.

He returns months later upset that it didn't work, when the witch asks who he gave it to the prince proclaims that he took it.

He says that he wanted the potion so that he can force himself to love his new spouse and give her the loving husband she deserves.

He asks again why it stopped working, begging and pleading for the witch to make it work again.

Only for the witch to round the table, and softly hold his hand as she tells him that the reason it stopped working is...

A failsafe.

For a love potion, she always adds a failsafe so that if the other partner becomes in any way toxic or abusive then the potion stops working allowing the other party to escape...

[red-n-stuff]

Headcannon senario for the post Quinn Comfort Vid:

(Spoilers? Sort of?)

The day after everything happens Darlin starts stress cleaning the whole house, and Sam wakes up that mornin with the bed empty. For a split second he worries that the pressure was too much, and Darlin took off all together until he hears the mumbled lyrics to some rock song from the kitchen. He gets up to find darlin having already done all the dishes, swept, dusted, and is now mopping every conceivable surface. They don’t notice him at first- their headphones in. Sam kisses their forehead and starts helpin’. Knowing they need to do *something* to get the feelings out of their body. The two of them hook up the speaker and jam out to their favorite tunes. Singing together and dancing with broom/mop in hand until the darkness recedes to the corners…just for a while longer.

[shining-red-diamond]

I’m still here, y’all. Just been focusing on life as a newlywed wife

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[psychokatrixxxy]

Love when the Justice League thinks Batman is a cryptid. This believe is only further enhanced by the face his sidekick, Robin, is clearly a shapeshifter, what with changing their height, hair style, skin tone, and even gender.

Batman clearly thinks that by having Robin look different every couple of years, it will show that they aren't cryptids like it would if Robin didn't age.

But the Justice League is too smart for that. They figured it out! But they are good friends (colleagues) and won't spill Batman's secret, but they will drop hints to him that they know, to show that they are smarter than he gives them credit for (they aren't.)

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When the batkids learn that the league thinks this, they start periodically going to the Watchtower with Bruce, taking turns dressed up as Robin.

The League is surprised as Robin seems to prefer taking the form of a child, perhaps to have villains underestimate them? But they just assume Robin is trying out something new.

The batkids definitely tell eachother about what was said/happened as to further sell the act of Robin being a shapeshifter, because clearly it has to be the same person, Robin knows what happened, so it couldn't of been someone else dressed as Robin.