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Saw someone wondering about how the buildings in gotham are chipped from years of the bats grappling everywhere and am now imagining

- the bats swing around all the time but in certain areas they tend to parkour instead of grapple

- after a couple of them have close calls of falling, gothamites realise its bc the buildings are too weak in places to use the hooks safely anymore

- in starts in one neighborhood but quickly spreads throughout gotham; people get into the habit of checking their roofs for chips and cracks and start painting them

- different places do it different ways, some people use bright neon colours, an apartment block keeps a tin of glow-in-the-dark paint in the rooftop garden for anyone to use, one children's shelter fills the chips in with glitter glue

- slowly but surely the gotham skyline becomes a starry night with stars of paint and colour, marking the weakpoints so they can be seen even in the darkest of the city's nights

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I did it

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Following the Sun

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography

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¿Jason?

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Okay, another possible hot take: I don't think Jason is big on the romance genre, but rather Romanticism, the cultural movement.

One: a number of books and authors he reads/references fall under Romantic literature (some satire/critical of the movement, but are still considered as part of it) - Alexandre Dumas, Herman Melville, and Jane Austen are the ones I remember are in the comics. Other notable Romantic authors are the Brontë sisters, Mary Shelley, and Nikili Gogol.

Two: defining traits of the Romantic movement were emphasis on individuality, emotion, isolation, and celebrating stories about 'common people'. Which sounds right up Jason's alley let's be honest.

Actual literary scholars are free to add their thoughts because I'm just an amateur literature enthusiast, but yeah.

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Jason is the best

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Fanfiction is so silly. I am playing with my dolls and people are coming over to watch. Some of them even clap and give me compliments. And when I'm done playing, I can go and watch other people play with their dolls.

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I hate when a tiny stupid thing pushes you over the edge and makes you freak the fuck out because it makes you look like a completely irrational tar pit of a human being. Like no I promise this is warranted just maybe not about that specifically I swear I'm well adjusted. Come closer stick your fingers in my cage

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Dark Crisis #2

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(4+1) 4 times Grayson has almost died and one time he actually did🗣️

This looked cooler in my head ngl, and you can tell I lost motivation time to time.

All of these moments are canon but slightly made more dramatic:

Forever evil #1

Nightwing (2016) #40

Grayson #5

Nightwing (2016) #25

Forever evil #6

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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but now i plead, just take the deal

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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Some more Jason Todd!! I’m trying to practice more full body drawings :)

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Dick Grayson, staring despondently at the Batman suit in the Cave: I will never be better than him.

Bruce Wayne, watching Dick proudly from the skywalk above: I will never be better than him.

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which ao3 tag are you?

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