#void bruce

[warlock-enthusiast]

Turns out Bruce is an intense snugglebutt when the lights are out. He slept both on my husband's legs (left) and on mine. Before sleep he also crawled into my arms and started to purr and to knead and to clean me u.u what a soft cat.

[laufire]

sorry but the whole "jason fans are delulu if they think he's a feminist" thing is hilarious. no, he's not a feminist, in the sense that he's not primarily focused on politically fighting for women's liberation. sorry to break this to you, but neither are any of your favourite male superheroes. nor your favourite female superheroes, for that matter. dc sure isn't writing stories through genuine feminist lenses anymore, come the fuck on.

[kacievvbbbb]

In a perfect world where I get to write a Red Hood movie. It’d be tragic but aggressively,desperately, funny; Just like Jason.

It’d also be like across the spiderverse where something is hunting Jason across the multiverse because he’s abnormal. But instead of finding multiple different spidermen what he will find is that in every universe Jason Todd dies tragically young. This is the only one he comes back, and he adamantly doesn’t want to know why.

Because what’s a little torture? It’s good for character.

[martyrbat]

batman: doa

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[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 340

You know what I think is fun for a cryptid batfam AU? Living Armor. 

They do not realize that people think they have civilian identities. Or that people assume human when they tell them they have no powers. They are literally their armor and vigilante outfits, that is what they are, and they aren’t trying? To hide it? 

Somehow it should be obvious in their opinion! They don’t have heartbeats! Or skin! No it’s not just shadow and lead, why would you think that??

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Time loop edition!

Jason gets a chance to do everything right.

He’s got one day, twenty four hours, to change everything to the way he wants it to be (read: repeatedly kill Joker). And if he’s not satisfied with the result by the end of that time, well, that’s fine. He gets a do over for as long as he wants—if he offs himself before the twenty fourth hour mark.

He just didn’t count on his stupid family to be such a wild card and keep switching their routines around at the drop of a hat. Makes it so much harder to plan Joker’s perfect demise…

((Meanwhile the batfam: screaming and falling over each other, very much aware of the time loop but under the impression that Jay’s death is the catalyst, trying desperately to stop Jason from committing suicide by the end of each day.))

[mysterycitrus]

bruce and jason are the scariest bats because they’re physically intimidating — boring, obvious, overdone

dick and cass are the scariest bats because you’d never see them coming — brilliant, incredible, amazing, revolutionary, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique

[brainmuncher]

Many years ago, in a different country, a set of twins were born. In another room, a runaway league of assassin also gave birth to a baby boy.

To punish the runaway, a hit was put on their newborn son. The assassin silently traversed the hospital and grabbed the baby from off the cart as the nurse was distracted.

After successfully securing the child the assassin ran off into the woods behind the hospital. They grinned to themselves as this was their first mission and glad to have made such a great success. Preparing a dagger in one hand they raise it above the child to strike when...

The wristband on the baby twisted to look at them, and with horror, they read the last name 'Grayson'.

They kidnapped one of the Grayson twins...

In a panic, they threw the baby into the woods and fled back to the hospital. But by the time they got there to kill the real baby they were sent for it was too late. The runaway assassin and the child were gone.

Meanwhile, two ectobiologists scour the woods behind a hospital on their honeymoon. What better way to celebrate marriage than with ghost hunting in a new country!

Then they hear the sounds of crying... suffering spooks! Is that a baby? Well we already have our daughter... why not give her a new baby brother :)

Dick notices that Talia gives him a weird look whenever she sees him. It's one that he has never seen her wear towards any of the other bats, so it bothers him.

Then one day after Damian and him defeat an assassin sent to kill Damian Talia shows up and says something that makes Dicks blood run cold.

“I'm so glad that you're the Grayson twin that hadn't been killed.”

[qcomicsy]

My favorite thing about the Batfamily is that each one of them thinks they are cooler and the worst of all of them and are consistently wrong™ about that.

It's Dick Grayson "Tim and Damian are better Robins than I am" and "Yeah I can totally take the weight of the world on my shoulders despite everyone I know and who knows me almost begging me not to, why?"

Or it's Batman "They are all better than I am" and "None of them can make their own decision na therefore I should intervene or already make their decisions for them."

Or Jason's "I am a failure. The only failure" and "I can easily fool all of your bitches and kill you if I wanted."

Or even Tim's "I live under Jason's shadow and fear constantly Damian will surpass me." and "Yeah I can totally babysit a grown ass man and prevent him from commiting suicide and making dumb decisions... What do you mean I can't? Like it's hard?"

[petrerpkr]

Batman comics I recommend for beginners

Batman(2011-2024) Start here (Batman #567 – First appearance of Cassandra Cain)

Robin (tim Drake as robin)

Detective Comics (1999 -2024)

Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls(2012)

Batman and Son(2006)

Batman and Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn(2009) (dick as batman)

Batman and Robin Vol. 2 #1 (2011)(bruce as batman)

Batman Year One (1987)

Robin: Year One #1 (2001)

(dick as robin)

Batgirl: Year One #1 (2003)(Barbara as batgirl)

Batman: Under the red Hood(2006)

Detective Comics Vol. 1: Faces of Death(2013)

Batman: Urban Legends #1 (2021)

Reading order here & here for more In depth list

Read here Or here 🏴‍☠️

[ryanwinsatlife]

(I didn’t make this, it was made by harseik.deviantart.com)

[finniestoncrane]

sometimes i think about how batman (not always, but usually, and to my preference) calls the rogues by their name. surnames, mostly, but sometimes their first name. while others around him use their chosen names, their tabloid given names, the names they use when they're committing their crimes, the names that take away their humanity

and then i think about liz lochead's poem, revelation. about loss of innocence, childhood fears, facing the unknown (or the sort of known), the line about the giant, menacing bull that the child is afraid of:

"They called him Bob – as though perhaps you could reduce a monster with the charm of a friendly name."

and then i get sad, about batman reducing the monsters by using their names. does he do it because he knows they're not monsters? because he's trying to take the monstrosity out of them, for their sake? to remind them of who they are, beneath it all? or is it because of his own fears? a child, scared of the monsters? trying to reduce them to their humanity so they're not as monstrous too him?

[laufire]

batman #683

oh look! more definite proof of which character wanted jason's memorial in the cave (AND actually could make it happen).

it even adds another dimension to the possibility that alfred would lie to jason about it in order to get him to look at bruce with better eyes. alfred did put up the memorial. as in, he did the manual labour. as befitting for a servant.

[kacievvbbbb]

I need someone that believes in magic to get ahold of Batman again. He is an overly serious man that runs around in an admitted bat suit fighting a gimmick rouge gallery. And he is doing it because he sincerely believes in a better tomorrow and somewhere along the way we have lost the plot. Batman wasn’t created to punish the guilty that is actually completely antithetical to his beliefs he is not the fucking punisher.

Batman just like wonder woman and Superman primarily wants to save people! sure he doesn’t do it in a sunny way but that is still what drives him. Hell he even goes a step further and actually builds a case he’s not just waiting for criminals to commit the crime he is shutting down smuggling and trafficking rings foiling plots he is a detective! For Christs sake it’s what made him so unique and fun as a superhero.

Also His desire to save people is literally what compels him to adopt Dick, Jason, Stephanie. Cass because he wanted to give these kids a chance, to save them in ways 8year old him wasn’t. Someone who just wants to punish the guilty wouldn’t do that, And now they have turned him into a borderline physically and emotionally abusive absentee parent all in the name of making him an edge lord. Where is the heart! Where is the fucking heart in it all! Where are the kids and the bright colors and the zaniness. Let Batman and Gotham be FANTASTICAL! I’m tired of the greys and the browns.

I’m tired of “grounding a story” meaning sucking all the joy and color out if it. Also superhero stories don’t need to be grounded in your fucking abysmal reality they are literally superheroes they exist outside of reality, let them!

A story does not have to be joyless to have depth and it does not have to be nihilist to be compelling.

I am sick and I am tired of it. 😔

[martyrbat]

FUCKING GETS YOU.

[jazzymin97]

JLA MEETING DANNY when he shows up with Batman

“Another one spooky? Really?” — Hal probably

“They call you spooky?” Danny asks, highly amused, grinning at Bruce. “Should I show them spooky?”

Bruce just sighing and looking like a Tired batdad

Nightwing, RR and any other chaos Gremlins present chanting quietly. “Do it. Do it. Do it.”

“Yeah let’s see if you can spooky him.” — Flash or green arrow.

Danny’s grin sharpens before he disappears in plain sight, merely dropping off the visual spectrum. He floats carefully, positioning himself upside down as he floats closer to green lantern and waits until he’s right next to his ear.

“Boo.”