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Head canon that Jason being alive is the worst kept secret in Gotham.

He regularly goes out with his brothers in public. He has a Twitter as Jason Todd that the rest of the family follows and interacts with. The only reason he’s not verified is that he’s legally dead. He hangs out at the manor during interviews and galas.

Interviewer: I understand that it’s the 7 year aniversary of Jason Todd’s death. How do you feel about that?

Bruce: well Jason was a very important part of this family and we loved him dearly

Jason: *walks directly in between him and the reporter mumbling about how he absolutely did not fucking die for his favorite player to get kicked off of survivor*

Bruce, not even blinking: we miss him very much

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Tim was so tiny and cute when he was a little, bitty Robin. I love the fact that he’s copying Batman’s pose and that, despite only coming up to Bruce’s shoulder, looks like he’s completely capable of taking down any sundry forces of of evil that he comes across. Good things really do come in small packages. 

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no excuses writing meme, askbox version

(Nicked from iambickilometer):

drop one of these bad boys in my askbox and i will post, without editing

FIRST — the first two sentences of my current project

LAST — the most recently written two sentences of my current project

NEXT — the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.

[insert prompt here] — you post a prompt, and i’ll write three sentences based on that prompt, set in the same time/setting as my current project

THE END — i’ll make up an ending, or post the ending if i’ve written it

BEFORE THE BEGINNING — three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project

POV — something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective

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All of the bats have just a little bit of fang, their canines are just a little longer and sharper than a normal persons.

it’s not terribly noticeable but you can tell with the way their canines sink into food far before any of their other teeth touch it.

or the way Dick’s stand out just a little bit extra when he flashs a toothy smile to paparazzi

or how Tim uses his to shotgun a red bull before a long night

or how Duke accidentally gnawed a permanent split into his lip during post-patrol debrief

or when Damian bit Dick during a training exercise and now he has two spots on his forearm

or that time Wally cut his tongue open while making out with Dick

no one knows why, or how, because most of bruce’s kids are adopted so it can’t be genetic. it’s just the product of being a bat.

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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Digger: Why’d they make us sit together? Was it Trickster’s bloody idea?

Hartley: Len’s. He said it would make the photo more visually compelling.

Digger: Right. And what’d he actually say, then?

Hartley: ‘You’re grown men wearing tunics, stockings, and goofy hats. If we put you both up front, all the rest of us are going to look better by comparison.’

Digger: Len’s a top bloke, but if he can’t tell the difference in quality between my fuckin’ classy get-up and your polka-dotted elf costume you made from yer mum’s shower curtains then he needs his eyes checked.

Hartley: Could you please stop manspreading? Or at least pull your sk…tunic down?

Digger: *spreads legs wider apart* I figure that whoever eventually has to lay eyes on this rainbow vomit of a photo should at least get some benefit out of it.

Hartley: Ugh. You are a fucking abomination.

Digger: Mate, don’t act like you’re any better. You’re coverin’ up your meat and two veg now, but most of the time you run around with that skirt flipping up and ‘em flapping about all over the place. And those tights are semi-transparent. Shameful is what it is.

Hartley: You know what? Fuck you. *spreads legs even wider apart*

Digger: Oh, it’s on now, elfie. *spreads legs as far apart as possible and holds boomerang up in imitation of his dick* How’d you like that, eh? *waggles eyebrows*

Hartley: *reciprocates with his pipe*

Len: If you two losers are done playing I’m A Little Teapot, we’d like to take the damn picture now.

Hartley: Question: Who in God’s name invited Gorilla Grodd?

Mark: He’s breathing on my neck. I think he’s going to bite off my head. I am literally too terrified to move. 

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This was never really officially established, but pretty much everyone in the DC fandom knows that:

Cass = Cassandra Cain

Cassie = Cassandra Sandsmark

Cas = That one guy from Supernatural idk I’ve never watched the show but I somehow know he’s that one guy from Supernatural so I’m assuming other DC fans know this too

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Okay but like. Let’s talk about Chris Kent. Because that’s what I do. And I adore the Bat Family, but he Super Family was always my core lbr

Like woah.

Here’s the thing: Chris Kent wants nothing more in his existence than to do what he thinks Superman would do. He wants nothing more than to please people, because he’s terrified to his core that if he doesn’t he’ll have been worthy of the abuse he suffered his entire life. Like I’m not talking subtext this is text. And it’s… I remember reading Last Son the first time and just breaking into tears. Chris just means so much and he deserved so much love and so many chances – and Clark and Lois and Chris were so happy and ready to give each other the life they never could have before.

Chris stood up to his General Zod – his abusive bio-father – and said 1) his name’s not Lor-Zod, it’s Chris Kent and that’s why I’m so against calling him “Lor-Zod”, and 2) he fought back against his father, under threat of being hurt again, and plainly said it’s what Superman would do.

(this nuance is part of why I’m not all that tempted to look at how Morrison’s writing the character in Multiversity, I’ve seen what Morrison’s done with this type of character before and he kinda misses the point and the power)

“What Superman would do.”

[Action Comics (1939-2011) Annual #11]

Chris hates and he fears and that directly contradicts with everything else about his character but it’s such an important part of who he is, too. Because it’s been his only defense for most of his life against the hatred and terror his biological parents and the other Phantom Zone inmates tried to instill in him as a child – instead of hating Superman and Earth, Chris hated his abusers instead. He was taught hate. He can’t erase that.

And it’s why he’s always terrified of being told he doesn’t belong on Earth and with his real family, with Lois and Clark, because they’re good people. Chris wants to be like them, to make them proud, and he sees the love they have for each other, for him, and the world. And when Chris does things that his biological parents would have or taught him to do – like be destructive and hurt people, like he accidentally did when the red sun radiation from his watch made his powers build up and destroy the apartment in an attempt at release, he was mortified. It brought him to tears and he was afraid that Lois and Clark would find him unworthy of love. 

And when Lois and Clark realize that Chris feels this way they immediately help him and respond to it in the best way: assuring him that that’s not the case at all. That he is loved because of every part of him, and that he is deserving. That he does belong. 

[Superman (1940-2011) #673]

Chris finds his real, his true, his incredibly amazing family and learns his value and worth as a person because of them. He overcomes fear and trauma instilled over his entire lifetime by the awful people that are Zod and Ursa. He gets a name that doesn’t make him feel dirty. He gets life.

And that’s why it’s so baffling and awful to me that they ended Last Son as they did. They made no bones about the life Chris was returning to in order to “spare Earth and his family” – he was being hunted by the others in the Phantom Zone, including his bio family, and they were going to make his life an even worse hell. And that’s the note they left his story on initially – that ultimately despite overcoming tragedy he had to spare people for daring to bring his awful burden into their lives.

The fact that they “aged up” him to bring him back to the point that he had pretty much nothing in common with his child character did not help things, and is the reason I mostly discount it outside of a few moments.

Chris is important okay. Such a minor character, but it’s just so important to me.

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I love it when I see them using their own merch.

And a special shout out to Scott Free’s fabulous T-shirt collection.

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#yes someone did once ask if The Old Guy On The Phone was dick's grandfather and dick said: more like my mom (tags from op)

Okay but who’s gonna write the fic where Dick slips up and calls Alfred “dad” in front of the whole family and someone starts hacking on their water and wheezes out, “Your what now?” and someone else is like, “Did you just call him dad?” and someone else is like, “Oh, so he’s dad in front of everyone else and mom when it’s just you and me. I see how it is.”

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Batman Annual #3 - “Father’s Day” (2018)

written by Tom Taylor art by Otto Schmidt

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Keep your birds feeling loved and hydrated <3

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You've given us Clark and Grayson, but would you consider Jay and Wonderwoman???

:,D

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They’re both,,, 12 years old.

Man of Steel #3

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someone posts a blurry photo of batman with robin captioned 'lets fight crime with mama' and bruce has to pretend it didnt make him cry

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i’m hOWLING