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Random reporter: Mr Wayne, do you think men can get pregnant?
Bruce: uh, I am.
Reporter: *laughs* you are?
Bruce, offended: how about a congratulations instead of laughing at me?
Reporter, starting to get flustered: oh, um congratulations, I’m sorry… so how far along are you?
Bruce: two weeks.
Reporter: oh, uh… how did you know you were pregnant after two weeks?
Bruce: my stomach was growling more than usual, plus me and him had sex so that’s probably where it came from…*points towards Clark across the room*
Reporter: did you take a pregnancy test?
Bruce: uh, no?
Reporter: then how do you know for sure?
Bruce, smiling condescendingly: because I have a kid, I know how it feels like and it was like this. Where did you think Dick came from?
Reporter: But you took him in after his—
Bruce, putting his hand on the reporters shoulder, concerned: There are pictures everywhere of the day of his birth. Are you feeling well? You look a little pale, maybe you should take an early night…
#Clark would absolutely play along#“it was supposed to be a one night stand but we got into a proper relationship cause I wanted to be there for my child#it’s the top news story for a week#this becomes his cover story every time he gets a new kid#”oh yeah Tim’s birth was so long- twenty hours in the hospital but he came out healthy thank goodness#cass’ birth was the easiest bless her#source: tiktok#batman#dc comics#batfam#bruce wayne#dcu#batfamily#dc robin#dick grayson#Clark Kent#superbat#brucie wayne
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I love the idea that Bruce takes the Batfam on hikes outside of Gotham, and puts up with the arguing over who goes in what car, packs everyone's favourite snacks, will race with the other car if enough passengers in his egg him on. Bruce generally stays ridicuously quiet while the kids jabber enough to alert everything living in the woods near them but will weigh in once the kids debate who's strong enough to wrestle a bear, chime in on unsolved hiker cases, build fires, and carry anyone that gets tired, all while sneaking awful pictures of them.
#One of the kids usually peels off the rest of the group and quietly joins him at the front#Bruce has to beg and plead that none of them climb stupidly#There was one funny occasion when Jason broke his ankle and Bruce carried him back (Jason was utterly unamused and annoyed)#Damian loves the hikes and informs them of every animal and plant in the vicinity (and pretended there were leeches once when Steph took a#dip in a lake)#Duke becomes the flashlight when it gets dark at everyone's insistence and has a phenomenal spooky story voice#Cass and Dick have silly contests to give Bruce heart attacks by going off trail and scaling the side of the mountain#Tim has to be pried off some technology and sunburns awfully even on cloudy days. He's also the only one ready for the ticks#Babs and Alfred join when the hikes are wheelchair accessible or take a more scenic drive up and meet them at the top/at campgrounds#dc comics#batman#bruce wayne#batfamily
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sorry but do you ever think about the fact that the bernard we have today is a direct amalgamation of everything that happened in his past and i know that sound like such an obvious statement to say but it actually kills me to know that you can draw a direct line from who he is today all the way back to that sixteen year old boy who watched his best friend bleed out. like it is the defining moment in his life. it fundamentally shaped who he is and the person he's become. he is the bernard we know and love not despite the grieves shooting but because of it. because the gangs all got together and shot up his school. because tim walked out of that room with nothing but a baseball bat. because his darla got shot. because he watched her gasp and cry as she died. because he watched the blood coagulate around the wound. because he sat there and held her hand as her life drained out of her. because he walked into school that day with a joke he knew would make her laugh and her nose would scrunch up and she'd snort a little and tim would roll his eyes at him and call him ridiculous and instead he walked out with a bloody white shirt, blood under his fingernails, and two friends less. because, even now, almost half a decade out from the shooting, he thinks that if he closes his eyes, he will always be that stupid, scared little sixteen year old, holding the cooling body of dead best friend.
#there is a direct throughline from the boy we meet in robin 121 all the way to man tim reconnects with in urban legends 4#like maybe you guys have other interpretations of it but to me this is *the* defining moment in his life#and that's not to say that he perpetually bound to this traumatic event but it impacted him sooo much that his life is now divided#before shooting and after shooting#like you cannot tell me him falling into the cult was just something that happened to him#it happened bc he was in such a bad place from watching his friend die and then on top of that he loses contact with tim!!!!#this is his canon event!!!!#if you took it away from him if you made it so that he never had to go through it#the bernard we would get would not be the same bernard we got in urb leg4 and tdr#does it not make you want to chew on drywall that to get to the bear we love he has watch his darla die first????#head in hands head in hands#and it wasnt like batman came immediately after darls died!!! iirc they had to wait a little before he came#which means!!!!! alll those kids but bear esp had to sit in that room with darls' dead body until batman came!!!!!#do you think he cried and held her hand until batman came??? do you think he begged her not to go??? or do you think he told her#stories and made promises of all the things they were gonna do after they got out??? do you think he put pressure on the wound and#watched as the blood soaked through the jacket they were using as a towel??? and when she finally passed do you think he bit his lip#clean through to stop himself from wailing? bc if he's too loud the gunmen will hear them and he cannot be the reason jay from#history dies#auuuugh i cant fucking do this anymore#bernard dowd#timbern#darla aquista#louis grieve trio
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The Confession Booth
Confesssing his sins or something(he’s really just talking about Batman)
Batjokes January day 3: Confession
#batjokes#joker#the joker#batjokes january#🎶 screaming at the top of my lungs in the confession booth#also inspired by that last story in the Joker 80th anniversary 100 page thing#batman’s so much easier to draw yet here I am
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new suicide squad anime got me thinking about the genderbend batman au i made when i was 16 again.
extra (nsfw??? body horror + shirtless doodle lol) art under the cut + drabble.
A mysterious actress appears in Gotham!
Production for the long-anticipated remake of the 1930s classic horror film, "The Clay", is saved in part thanks to the audition of one woman with no credits to her name, just a face and demeanor identical of the late leading actress of the original film.
However, the cast and crew have bigger worries than their limited budget and endless demands from their producers -- everyone involved seems to be disappearing one by one!
While the average gothammite worries that the cult classic's "cursed" reputation might be a little more than an urban legend, The Batman refuses to entertain such unfounded silliness and aims to get to the bottom of this crime against cinema!
presenting BATMAN '63 - THE RISE OF CLAYFACE coming not actually ever lmao
(her hair is brown now because I like the idea of her appearance never being fully consistent lol. shapeshifters gotta do their thing)
#batman au#gotham rogues#genderbend#clayface#dc comics au#i have no idea how to tag this. hi guys.#anyway i rlly do like how silly they made clayface in the isekai anime. i definitely took some inspiration from that iteration but#this version of fem clayface has been. in the back of my mind for literally years. i like the film actor angle for him too much#might do more of these might not. depends on how indulgent i feel ig.#anyway some misc headcanons for this clayface:#she was a struggling actor who was incredibly insecure about her appearance.#before she became clayface she would undergo plastic surgery for every new role she landed. her over the top passion for getting into (cont#(cont) character frightened directors. she gained a moniker for herself as “the woman with 1000 faces”#in this story specifically she's working under the penguin to get rid of some loose ends in a sensationalized way because the targets (cont#(cont) are famous. and she's more than happy to comply because a good chunk of the cast on set have been bad to her in the past.#her shapeshifting abilities have some limitations. she can morph into anything she has had skin to skin contact with however (cont)#(cont) she cannot change her total mass. which is why she has so much hair lol#she also can't copy powers cus that's whack. also only living things she can't turn into a car.#i probably forgot something important but yeah. goddamn you au i made as a teenager#goddamn you stupid ass suicide squad anime for making me think about this au again#cw horror#body horror#oh yeah she's also probably got a weird gender but she doesn't know that#she also can't maintain her not-clay-monster form for long or she starts to literally melt away.#my art
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no shade to anyone but it kinda gives me the heebies when i see people like "oh Steph is just like Jason but without all the melodrama lmao!" like. no she isn't actually? I love Jason and I LOVE Steph but they honest to god are not that similar. The most interesting events in Stephanie's story like her diying her vigilante work and all the personal life stuff going on with her are not at all applicable to Jason and Jason's death had implications for him and a butterfly effect that Stephanie's death simply did not hold for her. Both are tragic events but the context around them is like not the same, at all, even a little. Of course they have things in common like the kinda snarky demeanor and rough home life, but for them to be "pretty much the same" you have to be playing pretty fast and loose with personality and tone for both of them, and it's kinda a disservice to both as unique characters. Also idk it just rubs me the wrong way to pitch a female character to the fandom as like "omg she's just like your favorite boy except without the most interesting parts! Isn't that something?" but who am i to decide it's kinda just a pet peeve of mine lmao
#stephanie brown#spoiler dc#jason todd#red hood#batman meta#steph is purple and waffles and tim son or steph is jason 2 daughter#extremely inconsequential problem but like. brother eugh.#“steph and jason are the same” as in they're both used in the fandom to stand around and critique batman sassily and do little else#“steph is just like jason” and then she gets along overall amicably with every bat and has no major clashing values#also why is it never “jason is just like steph” it's only ever one way and the way is reducing steph to a guy that's not even in her top 3#i don't see steph plotting extra ass schemes and i do NOT see Jason struggling with misogyny#how much steph should be struggling with misogyny in story is questionable#but the fact is with the way she's treated both in story and as a character it comes across.#correction i don't see steph plotting EVIL schemes. I suppose stopping her dumbass dad could be considered a scheme#beef with their respective dads is one other thing they have in common but it's very different types of beef#hanburger vs stroganoff if u will
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Fic idea: Before or during his Red Hood plan. A returned from the pit Jason Todd is determined to make it to his high school senior prom
WAIT EVEN BETTER, It'd be longer and harder to write but I really like the idea of Jason just casually going to highschool too, and maybe it leads up to the prom. He just shows back up one day. Does something that manages to keep media attention off of him. Would it be before Red Hood? would it encourage him to not don the helmet? Would he do it while Red Hooding? Would he finally get to join an after school theater club?
#jason todd#red hood#dc comics#batman#theres Multiple stories about his school though i cant remember off the top of my head#immediately what comes to me is an annual where he's shown being friends with 3 boys who try to change their grades#its a very fun story#now i dont separate pre and post crisis in my mind well so the rest is probably most likely pre#-the bullies who tried to get others to do drugs#-rena(?) his girlfriend (definitely precrisis)#-the two girls who saw him reading a newspaper and said he was like a silver fox or something#i wpuld like to edit this to show comic numbers eventually#ANYWAY#back to the post#does anyone know he's alive? well. no. but he and talia can certainly have some strings pulled to make it look it#i cant stop thinking about this actually#i want him to go to prom and hang out with kids his age who knew him#and mostly thought he was a loser nerd stick in the mud. i feel jason would prefer that over the anger narrative the heros have#jason getting to dress in a fancy little suit! having a quick dance with rena!#i never got to go to prom so i am projection my desire onto jason also#its not like a big desire but im sad i never got to experience it#fic prompt#?#do i have a tag for this#EDIT: Comic references in the reblog now !
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jason todd does not need new friends new team new costume new romantic plot he just needs a fucking decent writer
#also a decent artist but im okay with him being drawn ugly as long as the story is good#he needs to go back to his roots eight severed heads in a duffle bag terrorising black mask controlling the crime and killing nazis#for a change he should be depicted as not giving a shit about batman or bat adjacent people and actively ignore them#also let him be with no human friends no more outlaws he has goons now he must have cats because he is a cat person but only when he's read#he can be the aro ace king that he is and finally be free from forced romances he can be his fucking age for once#give him back his one year age gap with tim so i can finally be free from tim woobifiers#his all caste training was cool he can have that one take the crowbar away and give him his guns and the kriss back#he can have multiple knives as a treat#utrh and rhtld was top tier storyline unmatched and yes i am pointedly ignoring a couple of pages in tld#jason todd#dc
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if there's one thing you gotta know about me is that im always going to reccomend the story perpetual mourning aka the first story in batman black and white 1996 like legitimately nothing else about me matters more than my intense insistence that everyone should read the short story perpetual mourning from the first issue of the comic batman black and white (1996) nothing matters more to me than being an advocate for everyone reading the first 8 pages of the 1996 comic batman black and white so they can experience the story perpetual mourning
#literally i will reblog it every single day without fail if it convinces even one of you to read it its so short and soooo :((((#one of my top moments of getting into batman and reading it for the first time and having to put my phone down to process my emotions#blog thesis#putting this on my own post idc. my name is ransom and i like body hair & the story perpetual mourning.what else do u need to know about me#perpetual mourning posting
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hey guys can you guess what my favorite video game series is??
#top 5 games and 4 are batman arkham games INSANE#3rd was minecraft for those wondering#batman arkham series#batman arkham knight#batman arkham city#batman arkham asylum#batman arkham origins#batman arkham games#arkham games#arkhamverse#irl stories#shitpost#dc
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finished christian bales batman and i love them
#the dark knight rises was somehow the funniest of the three like pure comedy#batman begins was so so so good i love the story of how he came to be and i think the big bad being his mentor was great#the dark knight gifted me heath ledger joker and i will forver be grateful#also anne hatheway catwoman i love i love i love#so many thoughts no time basically top tier movies#probably gonna watch halle berry catwoman now bc#U N I T Y LOVE A BLACK WOMAN FROM INFINITY TO INFINITY#also tom hardy bane ...... oh he could get it#like i will would go absolutely feral on that if given the chance#alfred that lovely piece of work#he really is the type of guy to walk into a burning building for you but also give you that tough love#and cillian murphy scarecrow 🤨🫣#he's very twinkalishious
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Reading Batman comics makes me realise how bad of an adaptation a lot of the Nolan trilogy really is
#like imagine trying to adapt ras al ghul without his absolute insanity#the dark knight is valid and the origin story in begins is good#the fark knight rises is barely a batman movie with how much it features EVERYONE ELSE than batman#then as a cherry on top that movie adores the idea of a police state and does the dumbest little wink to a robin in the universe#tom hardy as bane was a+ hilarious casting though
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I saw a post once that was someone trying to do the “OH BATMAN ONLY BEATS UP MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE? WELL HERES A LIST OF HIS VILLAINS:” thing but then they included Twoface and its like. Are you just not into Batman or like
#Like. Every popular Twoface story besides like The Dark Knight Movie is 'Harvey's going evil because hes mentally ill!'#like on top of the acid thing obviously.#like come on you'd get this just by watching TAS like everybody else does#Also I still hate it when people like take that criticism like that#like 'ohhh its not because theyre mentally ill its because theyre evil!' like every other batman writer doesnt#try to spin it as at least half the gotham rogues are evil because they have some Symptomes#Like his most popular villain is the joker and jokers whole thing is that hes CRAZYYYY but Im supposed to pretend that actually#hes not being written like that at all hes just evil its not like every other joker comic is like but hes CRAZZYYY
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okay but was the league of villains named after the league of shadows / league of assassins / league of villainy or was it named after league of legends
#tomura (+ afo) does not strike me as a batman guy tbh#well actually#he def played the arkham games#because they’re great and any video game aficionado has played them#bUT#he doesn’t strike me as a hardcore batman fan; like enough of a fanatic to name his lil#group a name inspired by the batman universe#you know who *does* strike me as a hardcore enough batman fan to do that?????? horikoshi hahaha#but on top of that tomura def strikes me as a huge league of legends fanatic like a genuine FAN like he’s in the damn fandom#so i could totally see him naming his group after it#whereas i could see hori using batman as inspo for him and lol as inspo for tomura’s in-story inspiration#especially since hori took such heavy inspiration from batman’s knightfall for izuku’s lil vigilante stint lmao#does that make sense i’m so tired rn hahaha#anyway#these are my early morning thoughts HAHA
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Bruce using nightmares, coincidences, and surreal intuition the same way he would use fingerprints, evidence. An almost Twin Peaks approach to detective to work, just starkly horrific. I love Gothic a lot.
#Batman#Batman Gothic#Grant Morrison#Klaus Janson#Steve Buccellato#like seriously I struggle cutting my favorite Batman stories to a top ten but this is on the top ten
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