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Image refference + draw of the selfie under the cut

I havent posted in a whileee havent I, you know how artblock is ;b

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you’re not alone, someone else is reading this post at the same time as you

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I am. So fucking tired of Batman being portrayed as a bad parent and a toxic person. And it’s so goddamn widespread. Fuck, it might be as bad as the whole “Superman being a kindhearted Boy Scout is boring” take.

I get it, the man’s not exactly stable, he watched his parents get murdered in front of him and spent years of his life training to fight crime dressed like a giant scary bat, of course he’s not perfect.

But to say that Bruce Wayne isn’t caring, isn’t empathetic, to call him abusive…it just misses the point of who the character is to me.

Why do you think he fights crime? Yes, part of it is because he’s bitter and sad because his parents were cruelly ripped from him as a child, and he’s lashing out against the corruption of his city. It’s arguably the focus of his earlier years. But he learns to become more than that. He learns to bring hope, a chance to be better.

Harleen Quinzel is the Joker’s right hand lady, but she’s also a victim of an abusive relationship and a woman with a surprisingly strong moral compass and a love for animals, and wants to get better.

Harvey Dent is a man who will decide someone’s fate on a coin toss(and a pretty inaccurate depiction of DID), but he’s also Bruce’s close friend who clearly needs help learning to live with his condition, rather than try to get rid of it, and someone who he still goes out of his way to visit, even after everything.

Victor Fries is a cold, emotionless man who will callously discard allies and blame them for being careless, but he’s also a man who’s either lashing out because he had the love of his life taken from him, or just desperate to make sure she isn’t taken from him, and is willing to do anything just to guarantee her survival.

Even the Joker, arguably one of the most morally bankrupt characters in all of fiction, is someone that Batman has offered a chance to. After the guy shoots the daughter of his friend, a girl he cared for like she was his own kid, and paralyzes her from the waist down, he tells the Joker that he doesn’t want to hurt him. He wants to get him help. He looks at this monster who has taken countless lives and says “You don’t have to be alone.”

For fuck’s sake, he sat with Joe Chill in his last moments so that he wouldn’t be alone. Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents, who took so much from him, the person responsible for all of the misery and suffering he’s gone through. And he sits with the man to comfort him while dies.

And you’re gonna tell me the man who did that would abuse his kids?

That he’d hold up the young man whose death was his greatest failure, the boy he grieved, and say this?

That he’d look his goddamn son in the eyes and say this to him?

Why the FUCK do you think he took in Dick Grayson in the first place? It wasn’t because he saw the kid and thought “Ah. A potential soldier.”, it was because he saw a boy experiencing the same heartbreaking loss he had so many years ago, and wanted to make sure he didn’t end up as bitter and miserable as he was.

Why do you think he smiled when Tim Drake presented him a broken watch for Father’s Day? Because he was just happy to see the boy alive and safe.

DAMIAN LITERALLY POINTED AT A COW AND SAID “I’m keeping her. She’s Bat-Cow.” AND BRUCE JUST WENT WITH IT. DIDN’T EVEN NEED TO ARGUE WHY BRUCE SHOULD LET HIM KEEP HER. HE SAID “this cow is my pet now” AND BRUCE SAID “alright, bet”.

The thing about Batman is that he wants to make sure nobody else ends up feeling the way he does. That’s not just about stopping a mugger so a boy’s parents aren’t gunned down. It’s about giving his loved ones the support and care that he couldn’t have, because it was taken from him. It’s about comforting someone who just went through a traumatic experience and letting them know that they’re going to be okay. It’s about going to someone locked away in a cell who thinks that they’re a lost cause and a burden to society and telling them that he wants to help them get better. It’s about EMPATHY.

That’s what makes him a HERO. He’s meant to inspire us, to show us that we can have that same empathy for others around us, that we can turn our suffering into hope for a better future.

I just wish more people at DC would start recognizing that. But I might as well follow that example myself. Maybe through this struggle of having to see this hero mistreat the people around him and act like a grade-A jackass, people will start to recognize that missing empathy, and slowly but surely, it might come back. After all, what is this post, if not trying to bring attention to the matter in the hopes of fixing it?

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Batman dog owner vs Superman cat owner

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Major Angst: Dead Dove

A horrific idea came to me about Bruce and Jason immediately after Jay's death

So I wrote a fic about how Bruces psyche delt with his sons death and my own personal timeline headcannons (if interested: Read here -Warning it is superbat endgame but nothing romantic actually happened).

But a awful thought just came to me that I now must spread like the curse it is.

For those who don't want to read but for context of my mind, I hc that it took Bruce 3 days to dig Jay's body out of the rubble and when he found him Bruces mind couldn't comprehend that Jay was dead. Like total denial.

Soooooo, after he finds Jay, he wraps him up in a blanket and Flys him home. By the time he gets to Gotham it's like 2 or 3 AM and Alfred is already asleep since Bruce isn't home. Back then they didn't have sensor alarms if one of batmans vehicles went into the cave (which is why they do now).

So Bruce gets home and he takes his baby boy to the medical area and tries to feed him his favorite scooby doo gummie snacks but for some reason Jay won't eat them. Then he tries to give him water but no dice, he even tries to give him a soda telling him he won't tell Alfie if he drinks it but still nothing.

Whatever, he must be incredibly tired, so Bruce cleans Jason up, which is a lot harder than he thought it be, but he was under there for a while. He then grabs his sons favorate pajamas (the wonder woman ones) and dresses him in that. Though it isn't fitting the way it did a couple of weeks ago, he might need to call Dr. Thompson for a checkup.

But he knows just what will cheer his baby up. So he grabs his boy and takes them upstairs, and goes to Bruces room, tucking them both into bed. Jason always loved sleepovers. They made him feel safe, so it was the logical thing to do. It was the best night of sleep Bruce will ever have.

Alfred wakes up around 6 to get started on his dutys. He takes out the garbage and grabs the mail. He goes down to the cave, and what do you know? His boys are back. So he goes and makes them both a nice breakfast in bed. He pops into Jay's room, but the boy isn't there. He must be in the masters room. Alfred walks into the room and puts the trays of food down to open the curtains. When he turns around, he sees the closest thing to a son he will ever have cradling the corpse of his dead child.

OK that's all the horror I got, it's 5 AM and I just got off my shift so bed time.

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What if, instead of becoming a journalist, Clark, who's always felt like an alien freak and definitely didn't have the money to go to college, decided to join the traveling circus.

What if he becomes good friends with other members of that circus including the flying Graysons, practically a second father to their child since his infancy. Such good friends in fact that they make him the child's godfather, to take care of him even when they can't. Such good friends that when on their travels he decides to assume the identity of superman and use his powers for more than just his strongman act, they are the only people he tells.

What if on that fateful day in gotham when clark couldn't save them in time, he was left not only with that guilt and grief but with a young dick Grayson to take care of. And when the circus has to shut down things only get worse as Clark has no idea what to do or where to go. Until billionaire playboy bruce Wayne expresses his interest in taking Dick as his ward. And Clark, with no money, no qualifications and no real work experience, does what he thinks is in dick's best interest.

Maybe Dick goes off to live with Wayne, feeling abandoned, leaving Clark to fend for himself while letting the guilt eat him up inside.

Maybe Clark declines the offer keeps Dick, raising him as the only parent the child has left with Mr Wayne constantly checking in on them to see how their doing, helping them find stability and eventually becoming part of their little family.

Or maybe Bruce invites them both to stay at the manor with him, not wanting to break up a family and forcing Clark to swallow his pride by accepting the offer but being cautious of the billionaire's intentions.

Regardless of how it happens though, it would just be Batman, Robin and Superman finding each other and figuring it out, like they do in every universe.

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They’re both,,, 12 years old.

Man of Steel #3

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sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever

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happy wip wednesday! this week i'm avoiding thinking about work and taxes by drawing even more superbat kissing. a++ life choices

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) dir. Steven Spielberg

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let's say that you died and were replaced by an impostor who lied so convincingly in its portrayal of the real you that it genuinely believes itself to be you. would that be fucked up or what?

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I cracked open and ate several raw eggs.

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

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i’m ngl i would LOVE to see two face in your style

you make everyone else look so good and pretty (jason and dick), i would love that for my boy harvey🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

I DREW HIM ONCE TIME BEFORE!!<3

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a drawing i did yesterday heheh