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in my ideal world every time bruce does something annoying dick just puts some priceless vase on ebay for 7.99

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and i'm sure this compilation can grow

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murder-suicide can be a happy ending. if youre deranged enough

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I am never not thinking about the load-bearing bodies in the Batman franchise (Thomas + Martha, Jason, + 90s Gotham in Peril) + how they each echo throughout the canon.

Successive authors keep setting up storylines which either implicitly or explicitly call back to these distinct frameworks of loss (eg. Batman encountering others who have lost or will lose their parents; Batman's kids after Jason all (temporarily) dying in some way; Batman's city forever succumbing to some existentially threatening trouble across the twenty-first century). All these, consciously or not, tap into the potent feelings of grief staked out by the original losses, + yet I find they fail to overwrite the OG memory in part because it was experiencing these unique types of losses for the first time that made these bodies matter. Metatextually, they each became the foundation to a different floor of Bruce's characterisation.

The loss of his parent/s => the man who would create the Batman. The loss of his child => the man who would struggle to maintain meaningful emotional bonds. And finally, the loss of his city, a process inaugurated by the Cult but solidified by No Man's Land => the man who could no longer envision a better world for Gotham and was left defending its remnants.

This is another reason why I believe the Batcat marriage from Rebirth Batman should've gone ahead + ended in divorce. If Bruce + Selina had genuinely done their best but it wasn't enough, Batman would have experienced a new framework of loss - the loss of a partner who chose to walk away. And instead of making him worse, maybe, just maybe, the mourning cycle kicked off by this grief would have led to him appreciating the people he still has.

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Thinking about outsiders 2003 #44-46 again. And just outsiders 2003 in general. Also this post happy pride month

Specifically had this panel in mind, look at them hanging out and displaying terrible trigger discipline <3 Jason is a reliable source :)

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How well do you think you can tell Dickbin and Jaybin apart? Take my quiz and find out! Also there's a Tim thrown in there to fuck with you. And a Brothers In Blood reference to fuck with @glitter-stained

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New Jersey Psycho

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Batman: Knightfall (click for better quality)

(masterlist of my abstract dc fanart)

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“I’m getting lectured on child safety from a man who’s gone through four robins?!?” might be the funniest line in dc comics history actually

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I’m attached to the whole ‘Jay died at 13’ thing for a lot of reasons (absolute canon complicity above all else), but one of them is definitely the inevitable conclusion that Jason Todd died before he could graduate middle school. Guy of all time.

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Remember when Gar said that Dick was so serious that he could make World War III seem like a sitcom 💀. Same vibe as when Linda was talking about Dick and said, "There goes the most intense guy I ever met. Is there such a word as 'over-responsible?'"

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the teen titans powersets are so crazy because it’s like. girl whose father is the devil, from the bible. girl who can make the earth swallow you. alien princess with laser beams. boy who can do a backflip

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who the fuck changed his locg picture

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EXPLODES. EXPLODES. EXPLODES /POSITIVE

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Bruce really pulled the "I don't like him................. I love him"

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good news everyone he doesn't have to pay taxes

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i just find it neat that in the multiple stories where clark is accused of theft the first reaction from the daily planet gang (lois usually) after seeing unexcusable evidence is that if he needed money, he should've just asked his friends :(((