#b answers things

[that-bi-fan]

1, 12, and 15 for the podcast asks :)

1.) what’s the first podcast you listened to?

The Two Princes - Gimlet Media. starring Noah Galvin and Ari'el Stachel

12.) what’s a podcast you wish more people listened to?

hm. Camp Here & There. really fun show and really entertaining. though TW for bugs, murder, autocannibalism, stalking, religious themes, and a whole host of others. Each episode has the proper TWs in its description

15.) who is a podcast character you can’t stand?

ok, I know a lot of people love him, but I just cannot stand Prince Darling. He gets on my nerves so much that I haven't been able to listen to season three again.

[turrondeluxe]

always happy about the fact that in 2012, mikey often asked donnie questions if he didn't understand something and donnie always answered no matter what

this can be seen in a bunch of episodes but my favorite example of it it's the one in half shell heroes where mikey is extremely excited to be in the museums and is the one actively asking donnie questions about the exhibits they saw and also actively listening to donnie's explanation (before raph got silly lmao). he was very excited to learn!!!

And while it's true that mikey would lose interest quite fast if the explanation got too lengthy with too many technical terms, it doesn't change the fact that he does retain the info donnie is always rambling on about different things!!! (even if mikey himself doesn't notice he's doing it lol) and also i find it very sweet that no matter if donnie himself got annoyed, donnie would always answer the questions. no matter what. he would always try to explain if he didn't understand something

This is prob because mikey is the one brother who is often seeking out donnie to pass time around him Meaning that donnie might have used mikey as his rubber ducky whenever mikey hangs out with him while he's working (explained him a lot of his experiments and theories while trying to solve them himself and in this way mikey also learnt in the process WHILE spending time with his brother! win win!)

it also helps donnie because accompanies him while not letting him get lonely in his lab 24/7, sometimes explaining things to someone makes it better to understand it yourself AND it's shown in the comics that donnie is quite used to his brothers just Living as background noise and literally cannot function without it lmao

They are literally the two smart kids in the family even if none of them notice it and it's all because mikey looks up to his brother and is like an sponge with donnie around. donnie is actively teaching mikey and mikey is learning! even if they have no idea they are doing it

[sergle]

sound off, soldier, how we holding up? 🫡

not dead!

[princemick]

that second redbull needs to be investigated what the fuck r they putting in there to consistently only be shit no matter whos in it

[fairyhaos]

cruelest thing that kpop has ever done is impose a "you can't eat anything" rule on their idols in the country that says "have you eaten today?" as a way of showing love

[benevolenterrancy]

Your Zhuzhi-lang design is too adorable, I wanna kiss his little snoot. What a precious noodle

consider his snoot kissed u.u

[glassedplanets]

a few months ago giffy was like "haha hear me out, what if tattoo au" and then we blacked out and talked about nothing else for like three weeks

[that-bi-fan]

favorite word?

Cornobble - to slap or strike someone with a fish.

oh! or

Cacophony - a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

[forgettable-au]

I'm curious... Are we gonna go back to the surface at some point? Would it be often like every other chapter? Absolutely adore Flowery and Papyrus' interactions they're wonderfully written

YES THEY WILL APPEAR AGAIN

Papyrus and Flowey are basically the B plot :D

They're gonna appear from time to time and they're doing their own separate thing ^^ (wich connects to the A plot)

[natalieironside]

Why is shipping Kirk and Spock called Spirk when it could be called Kock? Missed opportunity if u ask me

[dragqueenstarscream]

What would the Cybertronians' reaction be like when they saw a human for the first time?

(gonna guess we're talking about tfone for convenience's sake)

unpopular opinion, but considering this is a universe where sentinel "inventor of slavery" prime is the one leading, i imagine it'd be a lot like the cybertron of tfa. and by that, i mean it's surprisingly racist! seriously, go back and watch the episode where ratchet and captain fanzone go back to cybertron to save arcee. it is BAD. (funnily enough, sentinel prime was leading cybertron in that episode, too. i guess racism is just a him thing.)

so yeah, i imagine it'd be pretty xenophobic. lots of, "eww, what is that thing? does it have viruses? don't let it touch you! get it away from me!" happening.

however, like it is on earth, every cybertronian is different, and it varies from bot to bot. orion/optimus would be cautious, but curious, the way one might be with a stray cat; starscream would be weirded out, but not really care that much; alpha trion would definitely want to learn more since that was his thing as a prime; and there's no doubt in my mind that b127 would see a human and get instant cuteness aggression. he wants to pet the human.

[evelili]

24 :>

[eatmoresoupss]

what r u thinking about the current b&r run? tbh i think they are knocking it out of the park with the dr idea (bruce being a complete dick and it being another legacy notwithstanding). Damian being into the idea of community and health is just soooooooo 😙🤌

I'm really liking it! I think my main like, editorial criticism is that they could probably speed things up a little bit, but that's neither here nor there for the actual content.

damian being into community is so so so good! I think it also touches on some of his previous beats too, he's canonically set up two island safe havens (one for his clone brothers and then what he was trying to do with lazarus island) so I think it's a super viable and interesting thing to explore with him. Damian going from this incredibly isolated and alienated kid to someone who builds spaces of community and safety for people experiencing the same things, oh it hits so fucking hard. what i also really appreciate about damian's doctor goal in this run is that it doesn't (at least as the primary/explicit reason) come from a place of atonement. it reads to me as damian wanting to explore different ways of being and helping other from his own want to, he just wants to live in a better world and believes he's found a better way to do it.

I've been also really digging the explicit tackling of cycles and wheels as a theme in this run, especially in the past few issues. the boats really fucking get me especially. Thomas finding Bruce's boat and making a promise to change, but ultimately dying. Bruce finding Damian's boat and being unable to make a change, and unwilling to allow his son to change either. I also really appreciate that this negative cycle is explicitly a Wayne thing, we've seen Damian struggle with the negative patterns in family from his maternal side but seeing a story outright tackling that his dad also causes him issues that are Not Damian's Fault is really refreshing. I get why people criticize Bruce's characterization in this, but to me Bruce has to fumble the parent stuff sometimes, removing it cheapens the kid's actions and cheapens the affect Batman has on his interpersonal relationships I think.

I'm also so fucking hyped that their bringing the supernatural into it. It's a good way to highlight how Damian's ways of thinking and understanding of the world differ from Bruce's that doesn't involve killing (I'm so glad we're out of the dark ages of making Damian evil). It also shows that Damian can in fact be right when he disagrees with Bruce!! Bruce tells Laurtec that he wouldn't have respected that theory from Damian, but Damian's history makes that idea make perfect sense. It's just another way Damian is one of Bruce's biggest blind spots in a lot of ways.

[stemmmm]

its really funny how hard i fought not to get back into gf as my wife went down the billford rabbit hole when my track record for characters i get insane about now looks like this

[necrotic-nephilim]

for the ask game (1)

au where bruce is attracted to his robins and batgirls. he tries not to think about it or act on it, but it's getting more difficult with every new member of his team he acquires. does anyone know? do the robins and batgirls notice his weird behavior? what do they do about it? do they ever find out the truth? who would think it's terrible and who would find it strangely hot/comforting/nice? does bruce ever act on his feelings?

for the ask game!

oh my GOD do i have thoughts for AUs like this, i love this shit so dearly, dirtybadwrong Bruce who's trying to keep a lid on it my beloved.

i think the fun of this AU is if characters would notice Bruce lusting for themselves vs would they notice Bruce lusting for a different Robin/Batgirl. like does Dick pick up on it when it's just him and Bruce? no, because it's just. him and Bruce. he and Bruce are weird and complicated and hold endless bounds of nuance. that's just How Bruce Is, and Dick is the "test run", in a sense. he knows Bruce is new to this whole sidekick/family thing and is giving Bruce grace for being rough around the edges. but when Bruce starts looking at Jason or Tim or Cass that way, that's when Dick starts to notice. it's never enough of a suspicion he feels justified to bring it up, but the thought lingers. he's hyperaware and grows less and less comfortable with leaving them alone with Bruce. it's a weird game of chicken, Dick and Bruce staring each other down when Bruce's touch lingers too long. each waiting for the other to say something first. if Bruce ever broke and actually acted on his feelings, Dick would be eaten alive by the guilt of knowing something was up, but never saying something until it was too late.

obviously, Cass would know. there's no world where Cass *doesn't* know, the nature of who and what she is would immediately clock it. but the issue is, Cass doesn't have a good framework of what family looks like. she doesn't really understand familial vs romantic love bc she has no firsthand experience of what a parent's love should even look like. so she never calls it out. she just watches. i'm a fan of Cass believing this is normal and believing she too can express and act on attraction that's vaguely incestuous. maybe it's with Babs, maybe it's with Dick or Tim or Bruce himself. but she recognizes this as Normal and Accepted within the Batfamily, so it severely fucks up her understanding of familial love and i just. man it's my favorite thing about Cass in Batcest honestly, is how you can play with her lack of experience with love, boundaries, and sexuality.

Tim is the fun one for me. because my favorite flavor of BruTim is when Tim knows, as he agrees to be Robin, that there's a non-zero chance that Bruce is going to be Weird and agrees anyway because he's decided it's an acceptable risk. so Tim knows from the get-go because he's expecting it. if Bruce acts on his attraction, i think it's either with Tim or Cass first, because they're the most likely to confront him about it in a way that isn't entirely negative. Tim has accepted it's a possibility and Cass just seeks being loved and touched so. it leads to the first time someone's ever confronted Bruce about it. and the thing is, Bruce really doesn't like confrontation about his flaws. the first time Tim tries to imply he's okay with it, Bruce would lash out at the idea, tell Tim how inappropriate that is and benches Tim for a week. it'd probably take a united front from Cass and Tim to get Bruce to even *admit* to the attraction. still Bruce wouldn't allow it to happen and he brushes them off until finally, the dam breaks. it's fun if there's a cause like sex pollen, but i think it's *more* fun if it's just. a random fucking Tuesday and finally Bruce is at his limit. he has no real reason, there's nothing particularly different about that day's routine. he just sees Tim or Cass striping armor and sighs and gives in.

i don't think Steph, Jason, or Babs would notice until anything substantial happened. not because they're not wicked smart, but just because none of them were looking for it. Jason put Bruce on a pedestal when he was alive, and when he came back from the dead he wasn't close enough to be noticing Bruce's interpersonal dynamics outside of his narrow scope. Steph has no real framework for what healthy fatherhood looks like, so if Bruce's touches linger, if he stares too long, she just shrugs and assumes it's how it is. and Babs was just never quite close enough to Bruce to notice. if and when she notices, is when actual sexual things start to happen between Cass and Bruce. because Cass would see no reason to hide it. Babs would be pissed, but it'd be tricky to navigate. Cass would be an adult, even if she's only 18/19, so technically, she's old enough to be consenting. if nothing else, Bruce is a careful man. even when he breaks and gives in to his desires, he covers his tracks well. he makes sure he has enthusiastic consent and there's no legal recourse that could be taken. age of consent and all that. there's not much Babs can *do* other than try to tell Cass (and/or Tim) that this isn't normal or okay. not that it gets her anywhere, but god would she try.

by the time Duke comes along (if we venture out of the pre-Flashpoint era) i think it's a sort of. open secret, in the Batfamily. talked about in nothing but hushed whispers and knowing glances. at some point, they've all had sex with Bruce, caving all for different reasons. some more than others. Tim sees it as a duty, Cass sees it as a way of seeking comfort, Steph sees it as getting Bruce's approval for once, etc. it's never forced on them, but eventually, they all come to Bruce sooner or later. and that's the fun irony of it, i think. they try to convince the others not to, but would go to Bruce on their own well. because complicated reasons they can't put into words. sometimes, Bruce is just a messy man who doesn't realize how prized his Attention to for the rest of the Batfamily. that weird duality of not liking him, but also wanting desperately for him to like you. all of them have dealt with it, at some point. so for Duke, it takes a while for him to understand this... whole dynamic. it's Cass who tries to explain it to him, and he's a little horrified, a lot confused. especially when Bruce starts staring at him a little too long as well. i think he'd only want to watch first but well. they all cave eventually.

also fun bonus if we venture into the Dark Knight Returns universe for my bestest girl Carrie Kelley: there's such a like, "i'm fucking around and i'm finding out" vibe to Carrie. like Tim, she's very proactive in just. deciding she's going to be Robin and she's ready for whatever that entails. (IMO canon Carrie is closer to fanon Tim than canon Tim is but *that* deserves its own post-) like she takes one look at the old man that is Batman and goes yup. he's never fucking getting rid of me now. if Bruce started having weird feelings about her, i think she'd have *fun* with it. she's decided she's in it for the long haul and for whatever being Robin means so. she's almost teasing about it, seeing how hard she can push before Bruce snaps. since it's an older, gruffer Bruce, i think he'd express open annoyance at it first, almost a sort of banter about how Carrie behave. but of course he caves and Carrie leans into it, because there's a fun in having all of Bruce's attention to herself. in the main timeline, Bruce is pretty split with so many Robins and Batgirls, but during their era, it's *just* her and him and she's very proud she's got him all to herself.

[occasionalsnippets]

thinking about how from an outsiders pov who doesn’t know of fd mc having a past life if, it would make sense that she wouldn’t view herself as part of the family. she’s basically been a parent to tim for most of her life so she wouldn’t really view herself as someone her age and more as an adult, she’s only tagged along for tim, she becomes a teenage ceo and had to be a parent to a grown ass man basically all at the same time.

Alskfj you’re falling victim to FD MC’s unreliable narration. Things may have been like that in the beginning but it’s gotten a lot better, like, way better.

Once everyone kinda gets over themselves they're trying so damn hard to show them "I WANT YOU TO BE FAMILY". MC is unfortunately, pretty shit at reading those signals and maintains the "I am here because I care but you don't have to worry about me".

The batfam take care of what is them and theirs even if MC can't understand it when it's directed towards them.