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was talking to a coworker and realised i could not for the life of me remember his name but i was too embarrassed to ask because we've spoken multiple times so mid-conversation i started concocting a plan to nudge the conversation towards the ID photos on our building passes so that i could be like oh my ID photo is awful haha the camera they use to take these has a real talent for making me look as unphotogenic as possible and then he would say oh yes me too haha everyone says that (because they do) and then i would be able to say well let me see yours it can't be as bad as mine! and he would show me his ID because we are coworkers and why wouldn't he and this would allow me to see his building pass which of course would have his name on it and then i would be able to say well yours is perfectly nice it must be me that's the problem! and then we would have a polite chuckle about it and i would have his name without needing to ask for it and he would be none the wiser and all would be well but then before i could execute this fine plan a little voice in my head went "so this is some light yagami bull shit you are about to pull" which was such a violent reality check it shocked me completely out of my embarrassment and i went "hey im so sorry your name has slipped my mind could you remind me" and he did and it was fine.

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The only thing funnier than that it's canon that Nightwing vouching for someone gives them a massive boost in the superhero community is that they've named the phenomena. The Nightwing Bump. And that not even Batman is immune to this, Mr. "I don't trust Superman" over there is like, "Hm. I guess I'll acknowledge you since Nightwing likes you." Every superhero basically outsourcing their people judgement to Dick Grayson is 1000% accurate. Also EXCUSE ME DICK GRAYSON IS THE CLOSEST THING THERE IS TO A UNIVERSAL CONSTANT--HE'S ALWAYS KIND, COOL, AND THE GUY EVERYONE WANTS TO LIKE THEM. It's like that time the other alternate universe Superman wanted to destroy our world and Batman refused to go along with it because Superman couldn't say his world's Dick Grayson was a better one than our world's. DICK GRAYSON MAKES THE WORLD BETTER JUST BY BEING IN IT.

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You know something? Maybe once a week, I wake up paralyzed… reliving that night. But before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life. Was it like that for you? No doubt about it.

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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god. re: that post about racism/colorism dynamics wrt character design i also have to say!!!! this comes up a lot in the timkon tag :') how many popular artists are there who insist on portraying kon as loud, stupid, and aggressive, and tim as smart, reserved, and hypercompetent, and then just so happen to always give kon darker skin while tim remains pale as snow?

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fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

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I tend to imagine that in some sort of time travel scenario where the mind goes back in time that Jason wouldn't tell anyone what's gonna happen. Like maybe he'd ask if he would he allowed to change anything and if that'd be safe but if he gets told no or gets an unsure answer he'll be ah okay. And buy his plane tickets and just go along with his death

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are we gonna talk about the part where ruby says conrad made a nice world because............... girl what. that entire scene i hoped she was bluffing because listen, i get trying to connect with him on an emotional level to lower his defenses but. the dude created a misogynistic, homophobic and ableist world where trans/nb people don't even exist. and you're gonna tell me it was nice because it could've been worse???? and you're gonna mean it???????

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bat girl

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Batman,Robin and Leslie Thompkins by Chris Samnee

Batober prompt: Spooked

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that post which acknowledges the weight of bruce not telling jason about willis' death is a godsend, it is such a major breach of trust and it happens at the beginning of jason's robin career as well and imo really sets the tone. to me it was always where jason's trust in bruce started to fracture and the diplomat's son was the last straw after which he desperately starts looking for someone to trust (a parent).

i think the change in jason's backstory in post-crisis is a major in-universe reason for why bruce's parenting stops working for jason. pre-crisis jason lost his parents in a singular moment due to an act of violence just like bruce (and dick) which bruce personally knows well and has already had experience helping dick with so he is able to be a relatively better parent to jason (i mean he was still a fumbler with the whole dyeing the hair, comparing them, jason not having time for much outside of robin and all but still much better that post-crisis). when the crisis happens and jason's trauma changes that similarity ends. jason is now a child who took care of his mother in her final days and had to survive poverty and homelessness. his loss of his parents is a slow painful process. bruce cannot relate to any of these things but he still approaches jason with that same tactic which worked for him and for dick. jason understandably wouldn't respond well to this.

none of this is jason's fault but it displays that bruce is not very capable of handling or personally helping people with trauma that he does not understand himself. he also does not understand why he is unable to help jason or why jason isn't responding to his methods. this combined with alfred's fuckass classist bullshit combines into everyone viewing jason as a problematic child instead.

i think this is why bruce being the best dad ever to jason in before his death does not work for me in a post-crisis setting because bruce fucks up a lot of things from the get-go, i do not think jason ever really felt that secure in that timeline despite the adoption (which i have seen a lot of people use as proof of their bond's stability before jason's death but i think that is incomplete without understanding why their bond fractured in spite of that). i mean there is a reason why jason doesn't even think that bruce would help him with his mom quest. the garzonas case is not a "omg why is my supportive loving dad suddenly not trusting me on this" but more of a "this man who i thought i am supposed to depend on has proved to me yet again that he does not trust me". jason doesn't really seem all that concerned or surprised with bruce not believing him imo, almost like he didn't expect bruce's explicit trust in him. which he is right to do because bruce has proven multiple times that he does not trust jason and that jason cannot trust him. garzonas was always the straw that broke the camel's back.

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I dont have much to add to this I really really like it and just like, YEAH yeah exactly.

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a steph!

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there's always just one more thing she needs to do before she's perfectly happy with herself for real this time!! just one more change until she's fully content with her circumstances! she just needs her body back, she just needs to find a good work life balance, she just needs to go home and stay home, she just needs to have sex with other people, she just-

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Red Hood: The Lost Days fanart 💚

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golden age Batman didn't give a single shit