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A Canon-Compliant Headcanon Which Came To Me In A Dream: FLORIDA MAN DICK GRAYSON

Ok so one thing it’s important to understand about gypsies, but particularly Showmen/Carnies (who travel with the fairground/circus) is that we’re not just travelling indefinitely. We’re not homeless. We have a home address (think, logically, how would we be able to pay our taxes/have a bank account/have a correspondence address to run out businesses from without a home address?).

Now, this home address is usually (particularly in the case of showmen who need somewhere to store their equipment, rides etc) a yard. In this yard, there will usually be a chalet (mobile home) which acts as the family home. It’s also not uncommon for unmarried children (teenagers +) to have their own little trailer. I’ll do another post explaining what living in a yard is like later.

Anyway, this is relevant because even if we’re travelling most of the year for our work, we tend to “pull in” (aka return to the yard) at backend. Backend is the time after the last bank holiday of the summer (end of August/start of September in the UK, Labor Day is probably the US equivalent but I’m not certain!). Whilst nowadays it’s more common than it used to be to have some work for firework night (Thanksgiving is again probs the US equivalent) and Christmas/New Year, this isn’t the same as being pulled out and travelling. We then stay “pulled in” until the season starts up again, usually with the Valentines Fairs (in some places) or, for most, around Easter.

That means that, realistically, you’re expecting to spend months pulled in. During this time, we may get work elsewhere, make repairs/upgrades to our stuff, and kids go to school (as opposed to being homeschooled or educated by the travelling teacher as in the summer). Whilst usually (at least in the UK) we tend to have a slightly different accent to our peers due to the isolationist nature of our culture (mine is a Cockney accent stuck in the nineteenth century), our accent is generally based around where we winter/who we travel with (e.g. I am London section).

Now, how does this relate to Dick Grayson? Well, somewhere in Dixon’s Nightwing run, it’s mentioned that Dick’s family pulled in somewhere in Florida every year. Now I know that there is some mention of Baby!Dick having a European accent, which I love, and which fits in with how our accents are influenced by who we travel with/our family’s origins more than our geographical location, but I do think it’d be hilarious if we imagine little Dick Grayson, having just started school in Florida, suddenly coming across purely American English words and developing the strongest Floridian accent around just those words.

Furthermore, any time Dick displays a weird trait which could definitely out him as Nightwing? Oh don’t mind him, he’s from Florida. Which, when you combine it with the insanity of growing up in Gotham, creates a level of unholy weirdness unique to Grayson. Civilian!Dick ends up being cornered in public by Killer Croc and thinks what the hell? How’d he fight the giant crocodile? Florida Man Dick Grayson.

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We go forward.

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STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

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They have just now, at 4:10pm, sent out an email to let us know that the network is down due to a major incident. But this has been escalated guys don't worry! It's not like this has been happening a couple times a month since January or anything.

You can always tell when our network is down at work because i talk incessantly pls unfollow at will 😔😔😔

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dick grayson will always win in games of skill but almost never in games of luck

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five months and more than a 110K words later, the last chapter of door, opening is up 🥲💔 thank you all for coming with me on this adventure, and I hope to write more for this universe in the future!

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BRO THIS IS NOT BASKETBALL

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loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

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zhu and ouyang moodboard

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"let men be friends" no they have to fuck each other raw

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忘了发

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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why don't you look at a black cat's fur turning brown in the sunlight and maybe you'll calm down