#this is future dickkory btw.

[eagleeyecherrypie]

Dickkory fans were robbed and malnourished: a rant

Being a fan of Richonne and watching how The Ones Who Live played out really makes me see how absolutely starved we were as Dickkory fans. I finished TOWL with mixed emotions. On the one hand I was over the moon with happiness. On the other, I was sad and jealous…of myself. What I mean is, the part of me that is a Dickkory fan was savagely jealous of the Richonne fan in me. One was over here fat and happy while the other was counting her ribs again. Both shows had the same potential with the chemistry between their two leads being off the charts. TOWL showed us what could have been while Titans left me wanting and there is no excuse for it.

Exhibit A:

I’ve lost count of how many times Rick declared his undying love for Michonne both in actions AND (very importantly) in words. I mean, I’m so full I’m about to pop.

It literally got to a point like “Dude we get it. She’s the air you breathe and you can’t imagine your life without her. Okay, okay.”

We. Were. FED!!

Exhibit B (or as a lesser man might say, Number 2):

Meanwhile Dickkory fans (me included) are/were over here living off crumbs and trying to find meaning in anything and everything. We all became experts in body language and read into everything we could just to add substance to their story:

“See, every time she touches him he short circuits. Dude is down bad”

Or “When he paused and sighed while mentioning her boyfriend that one time, that means he’s so in love with her that it pains him to imagine her with someone else”

Even the actual “love confession” was weak in my opinion. Far too passive.

I know Titans was not a love story but the man couldn’t have just said the words one time? Or at least used his actual words to discuss how he felt about seeing their baby from the future.

Don’t get me wrong, we got the occasional full bites instead of crumbs, but I would argue that this made the situation even worse. They got our hopes up. We got a glimpse of what could have been.

The show should have just kept all of that instead of teasing us with a love story so RICH with potential only to let us down again and again. They basically either completely ignored it or just keep dangling it in our faces until the final credits rolled. Not to mention the absolute travesty of the wasted chemistry between two actors. Brenton and Anna did the best they could with what they were given. I believe the few crumbs we got were mostly coming from them trying to drive the story along. We all loved the build up in season 1 (the GOAT) but they (the writers) completely lost momentum.

I could even forgive some of this if they just ran out of time to tell the story (again, I get it, Titans wasn’t a love story), but the truth is that they wasted so much time on unnecessary and frankly boring storylines:

🥱

🙄Why? What were the writers actually trying to accomplish here? Who or what was holding them back from greatness?

In conclusion:

Fan fiction is the only thing that got me through with Titans. (Shout out to the ones who held it down with those BTW. I’ve pretty much read them all.) Meanwhile, I personally haven’t read even one story about Rick and Michonne because there is zero need. I left fully satisfied with zero notes. Their story is complete.

Le sigh 😔

[buk0wskis]

character mix masterlist !!

now THESE babies are my pride and joy. i have so much fun making them, just sitting and brainrotting on some silly little guys to craft these mixes… gods, there’s really nothin’ quite like it. so enjoy these, if you’re curious! :)

this list will be updated in the future, but now that this is posted, i’ll likely make a separate post when a new one is up and add it here as well. suffice to say, i’m not stopping any time soon! the grind never stops, baby!

playboy psycho villain played by brenton thwaites (a concept playlist for the type of character i am absolutely DYING to see brenton play)

Titans (2018)

— THE ALAZUL. (the essential dick grayson mix)

the boy wonder. (dick as robin)

COME OUT AND PLAY! (dark dick, aka when he was possessed by trigon in 2x01)

the grayson road trip mixtape (self-explanatory. some songs were totally added due to self-indulgence, btw)

Brenton Thwaites characters

Desmond Brimble (Office Uprising)

Henry Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)

Devon Cassidy (I Met A Girl)

Prince Phillip (Maleficent)

Bek (Gods of Egypt)

Luke Gallagher (SLiDE)

Norman Young (A Violent Separation)

Paul Asher (An Interview With God)

Chris Goodson (Ghosts of War)

Tim Russell (Oculus)

Dean McMullen (Blue Lagoon: The Awakening)

JR White (Son Of A Gun)

Unreleased WIPs:

Possessed Henry Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)

Nic Eastman (The Signal)

Jonas (The Giver)

Mark (Save Your Legs!)

Angelo Durning (Ride)

Sam (Charge Over You)

Chet (Ruben Guthrie)

Aaron Stanford characters

John Allerdyce / Pyro (Fox X-Men + Deadpool & Wolverine)

James Cole (12 Monkeys)

Seymour Birkhoff (Nikita)

Doug Bukowski (The Hills Have Eyes ‘06)

Hades (Horse Girl)

Will Traveler (Traveler)

Duke (Rick (2003))

Stephen (Fear Itself)

Oscar Grubman (Tadpole)

Unreleased WIPs:

Jim Brauer (Fear the Walking Dead)

Sergei (Third Watch)

Skeemo (Finestkind)

Beagle Kimbrough (The Cake Eaters)

Neal Downs (Flakes)

Andrew Peterson (How I Got Lost)

Michael Adler (Runaway)

Anthony Tregoni (Holy Money)

Kyle Braddock (Furthest Witness)

Miles Richardson (Clinical)

The Man (We've Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew)

John "Rugged" Rudgate (Live Free or Die)

Ship mixes

DickKory (Titans)

DickHank (Titans)

AdriDick (Titans / Peacemaker)

Casserole (12 Monkeys)

Unreleased WIPs:

Allerdrake (Fox X-Men)

Misc. unreleased WIPs:

Lucas Parker (Goosebumps '23)

[ambelle]

In my humble opinion, Titans did a better job than most of Berlanti’s other super hero shows in terms of giving focus to the leads and taking us on their individual journeys, while also connecting them and the rest of the cast making it feel like an ensemble/family (in the end). There were missteps, of course, particularly with Gar, DickKory and Tim. However, that stemmed from them thinking they had more time to tell their stories. I sincerely believe that if we had been gifted another season, everyone would’ve gotten close to almost everything they wanted!

Titans did do a great job and didn't have bigger missteps than every other show in this genre. They may never get their flowers. The constant dismissal of Kory's plot that didn't involve Dick is sad because it's rare for female leads to even have their own thing going on every season.

As for people getting everything they wanted for DK in s5 I think that was pretty impossible sadly. The problem people had was having expectations based on writing of shows in completely different genres. The type of scenes and tropes they wanted weren't happening here. Like what made anyone think there would be a love triangle this season other than not paying attention to anything at all the past 3?

Instead of comparing DK to like Shawn/Angela (who ended terribly btw) or Kathony they should have been comparing them to couples on action shows with short seasons. Not TVD, not Merlin, not Greys Anatomy. Hank/Dawn was the only other series-long couple. Everyone should have noted how they were written and had more realistic expectations. HD were riddled with problems and ended with Dawn propositioning Dick a day after Hank died. DK not having the type of trust issues and trauma bonding would mean they wouldn't have the same problems. I.E jealousy, cheating, half-baked love triangles, nasty fights, and distrust.

Dickkory had everything other couples on the show didn't have. They were wholesome, supportive of each other, and in love. No triangles, jealousy, tears, insecurities over being just an option, or pining. Just pure love.

You can find epic love speeches in those shows and then if they go on long enough those same couples break up or end up tainted after one too many violent disrespectful fights.

I'll always love what we got with these two. I just wanted one more season. I'll never blame the writers for creating such a beautiful ship and showing us their bright future together but not being able to expand on it. That's on WB. They were phenomenal in s4.

[dottie-wan-kenobi]

Hello!!! I've never done this before so I hope I'm doing it right lol. I was wondering if I could request forced out of the closet + titans!dick grayson?

You’re doing just fine!! Thank you so much for this prompt, I was really excited to do it and I hope I’ve done it justice. Also I hope you don’t mind I added some past Dick/Joey and kind of maybe bash Donna, Hank, and Dawn a little itty bitty bit. kdfhjdhjakshkj. just to be clear, there is no cheating in this fic, but Dawn uses that stereotype to her advantage :x

written for the @badthingshappenbingo square “forced out of the closet”. x’s are finished, asterisks are requested, and the last two are free! many thanks to @whateverrrrwhatever for betaing even tho she isn’t even in this fandom

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“How fucking long have you been lying to us, exactly?” Hank demands, fury emanating off him in waves.

I wasn’t! He wants to shout back, I wasn’t lying! But in order to do that, Dick would have to lift his head out of his hands, stand up from where he’s sitting on the second level, and meet Hank’s eyes. Or anyone’s eyes, really. They’re all here, the old Titans and the new ones and Rose fucking Wilson. The only way this could possibly be any worse is if Bruce were here, too, but thank god, Dick isn’t that unlucky.

“It can’t be true,” Donna says, but she sounds unsure. She’s doubting him and not even trying to hide it. That’s never happened before. “Dick, tell us what he said wasn’t true.”

“So what if it was?” And that’s Rachel, defensive on his behalf. “I don’t understand why you’re all so upset if Dick’s bi—”

He doesn’t hear the rest of what she says, his heart pounding in his ears. They all know now, and he wasn’t the one to tell them, didn’t get to decide who or when or how. Slade just broadcast it out for all of them to hear and make with what they will, and of course, it’s nothing good. There’s a reason, he thinks, that he’s never told any of them. Not Kory, who he thinks he could trust with anything, or the kids, who so desperately want to know and connect with the real him. Not even Donna, who’s always been his best friend.

“He’s been lying to us, Rach,” Dawn says, and her voice is so soft and so steely, the way it always gets when she’s angry. And she has reason to be, he knows that, but it still hurts. “He lied to us about what happened with Jericho, and that’s—that’s not just something we can walk away from.”

“No,” Hank agrees, worked up. “No, it’s not.”

“He was just lying about a relationship! What’s so wrong with that?” Gar asks. His arms are probably crossed, but Dick doesn’t want to look up to see.

“Nothing,” Kory says, but her voice gets overpowered by Dawn’s.

“How about the fact that he was in relationship with me already?” Dawn shoots back. Dick thinks about how they broke up days before Garth’s death, and were just playing at being together until after his birthday, to avoid ruining it for him. Afterward, they never spoke about it, drifting away from each other, grief and revenge more important than anything else. It wasn’t until after Joey died that they finally, officially ended. “If he could lie about that, then he could be lying about anything. About everything .”

“Dick…,” Donna says, and she’s closer now, but not close enough not close enough to touch him, which is the last thing he wants. “Tell us it’s not true.”

Everyone is staring at him, he can tell. He can feel it: the weight of their gazes and confusion and anger. Dick lifts his head finally, and his eyes feel heavy and hot. No tears fall. He has to be strong here, can’t let it show any more than he already is how much this situation fucking sucks.

“It is,” he rasps, clearing his throat once the words are out.

Donna jerks back like she’s been slapped.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this, he thinks. Coming out is supposed to be private. Personal. Safe. It’s supposed to be him sitting these people down and saying he loves people no matter what gender they are, and these people loving and supporting him no matter what. Instead, Slade hacked their speaker system and gladly outed him.

There’s no love and support in the room right now.

He has to pull himself together, needs them to understand. Stronger, he says, “It is true. Joey and I were together.”

Jason’s gaze is bouncing between everyone in the room, and Dick wonders how much the kid is going to hate him now. And Rose, she’s tense and ready to fight him, and he can see that it won’t take much to set her off. The others are still staring at him, the older Titans coiling with hurt, the newer ones just confused.

“Was it worth it?” Hank asks, breaking the silence. “Was he that good of a lay that you had to betray us?”

“What the fuck are you talking about?” Dick stands, trying to ignore how tight his chest feels. He’s finding it more difficult than usual to pretend he’s perfectly fine. Convincing himself means he can convince the others. Right now, no one is fooled. “I didn’t betray you.”

“Really? ‘Cause it sounds like you were cheating on Dawn, fucking the enemy, and lying about it for five years!” Donna explodes. “Sounds like fucking betrayal to me!”

“Joey wasn’t our enemy—!”

“How do we know you weren’t feeding him information the whole time?” Dawn interrupts, and Dick freezes, shocked by the accusation. “Were you telling him our secrets so he could go and tell Slade everything, and help him get under our skin, in our heads?”

“No! How could you even think that?”

Ignoring his words, Donna asks, “How long were you and Joey even together?”

“Not that long,” he admits, fists clenching by his sides. “It only started once he came to live here.”

“Live-in double agent,” Hank says wryly. “How convenient.”

“It wasn’t like that,” Dick protests.

“Then how was it?” Rose demands, stomping forward. “How exactly was it? You were using and manipulating my brother for information and for sex? What a stand up guy you are.” For all her tone is bone-dry, he can see tears threatening to spill from her eye.

Dick thinks about Joey’s smile. His eyelashes. How he pulled away from every kiss grinning, like it was a dream come true. The meals they ate together, and how Joey spent whole afternoons trying to teach him a few phrases in ASL, and only laughed a little, kindly, when Dick messed up. How he’d told Dick he was fine keeping their relationship on the down low, that he understood Dick wasn’t out yet and wouldn’t push. What he looked like, lying dead on the ground, killed trying to protect Dick, who’d fucked up every step of the way.

It was real, he wants to say. I had nightmares for months afterward, and even now it hurts to think about him. There’s a reason I never told any of you, and it’s not just because I wasn’t sure how you’d react.

But it wasn’t real. Not fully, anyway. For every sincere moment, there were two more where Dick was doing what the others wanted him to do—becoming Batman, using Joey to their advantage. For every time he thought it was wrong to treat Joey that way, he never put a stop to it. It was easy to get lost in Joey, in exploring feelings Dick had never—and has never, ever since—let himself know. Their relationship had felt safe, in a way. Even with all the subterfuge, Joey knew about Robin, and he’d never worried about it. Dick had felt free for the short time they had been together.

It was real, but it wasn’t.

“It’s complicated,” he says finally. Rose won’t like it, but how can he explain it all? How can he explain that he hadn’t wanted things with Joey to get serious, hadn’t wanted him to die, hadn’t been able to even think about telling anyone about his sexuality without an avalanche of grief and guilt burying him? “I—I wasn’t trying to hurt him.”

Joey’s smile, his eyelashes, his kindness. He was like the sun peeking over the horizon. He deserved better than Dick.

Dawn and Donna both scoff. Hank says, “You’re fucking pathetic. Not trying to hurt him got him killed. Great fucking job, asshole.”

Kory steps up beside Dick, a hand coming up to rest on his shoulder. It’s like an anchor, stabilizing, and something he desperately needs right now. Her thumb makes a slow, calming circle as she turns on the others. “Yelling at him isn’t going to help shit. Why don’t you all go do your jobs and figure out if this Slade guy hacked us remotely, or if he’s here and we need to suit up?”

“Oh, he’s probably here,” Rose says through gritted teeth. “And I’m going to fucking kill him.”

She heads towards the elevators, and Donna follows, fists clenched. At Kory’s raised eyebrow, Hank and Dawn leave too. The kids move toward them, like they’re closing ranks. Gar’s biting his lip nervously. Rachel has her arms crossed over her stomach and Jason looks lost in thought.

Without the older Titans, the mood of the room feels lighter, but Dick finds that isn’t a good thing. Like he’s a puppet with his strings cut, he falls back onto the step, his skin crawling.

Kory sits next to him, her hand going down to rest on his back. Softly, she asks, “Are you okay?”

He wonders if Jason’s going to tell Bruce. Wonders if Donna, Hank, and Dawn will ever forgive him. Hopes Rachel and Gar don’t hate him now. Hates how much her kindness right now only reminds him of Joey.

With a deep sigh, he says, “I’ll be fine.”

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[coolgirl]

will never forget the way we were baited here

[ambelle]

Your response to my ask (and your podcast which I loved BTW) reminded me of something. I don’t know how I forgot in my analysis of DK - their daughter showing up in the penultimate episode of Titans S3 … Mar’i manifesting (in addition to how Dick was shown to treat his other relationships (Babs and Dawn) throughout the series) speaks volumes to what Dick wants and feels about Kory. More so than the use of the term “family” in S3. The family with Dawn in the Trigon trial in S1., on the surface seemed ideal, but was purposefully overshadowed with Dawn’s true feelings for Hank and Dick’s underlying feelings for Kory (that he still hasn’t dealt with). In Dick’s purgatory he not only came to terms with his guilt for failing his Father (John Grayson) which allowed him to forgive himself for who he had become as Robin, and prevented him from becoming Nightwing. It also highlighted Dick’s desire to be a Father, not just a father-figure. Dick is (at heart) a family man, and he wants to have that family literally and figuratively with Kory. Family is the reason he got tangled up with Rachel in the first place. It’s also why he didn’t object to Kory and Gar joining the party. He took on Jason (Bruce’s stray); Rose (Deathstroke’s daughter), Conner and now Tim. In the interview with Anna and Rotten Tomatoes Brenton called it a directive. To reiterate your point, how people are claiming that DK have had no build up or Mar’i isn’t significant, earned or plausible is just devoid of storytelling comprehension. Holy Context Clues Batman!

Yes! And I swear I wouldn’t be so rude about this point if I didn't find the blatant dismissal of Mar'i so offensive. This is the first live action Mar’i. A character the comics erased from existence and never mentioned again because they are busy dragging her parents romantic history through the mud in order to prop up Batman/Batfam. Just because she didn't immediately lead to him professing his love to Kory doesn't mean she doesn't matter. 

As it turns out Mar'i is a person not a plot device and in terms of race, which I'm only bringing up because the fandom insists on bringing it up, claiming a little black girl is useless if she doesnt help move a particular plot forward is what sounds racist to me. She saved her dad from his own downward spiral and she represents his future with Kory but she is also an innocent child who deserves love and respect. I frankly don't think Dick was ready to be a father until the very moment he finally let go of his past. Kory couldn’t be a mom while still not knowing herself and being torn between two worlds. Now makes sense to show Dick what he can have if he allows himself to have it.

And I agree family and fatherhood has been a constant theme in Dick's character journey. First time we met him he was beating up a man for abusing his daughter and when the cops ask him to speak with Rachel they say he's good with kids. It's a thread that's been there since the pilot.

I think sometimes people only measure romance by how many sex/kissing scenes there are and you will never be able to convince them building trust and friendship is an important part of a relationship too. So I'm no longer going to try. I'll enjoy s4 Dickkory all by myself LOL