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Packing the Essentials

✨closeups under the cut✨

Inspired by this silly dog bag

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@aburameweek Prompt: Free Day!

I let you all determine the free day piece so I can have a piece for every day of this little week and that resulted in a KibaHinaShino piece! Thank you all 🖤

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"Ladies."

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Mood

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The last lot for now of this elegant man. Sorry for the constant spam of Zarbon guys!

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@mahiroaikio said I could try drawing one of their artworks in my style, so I tried drawing their tf2 yamtien! 😊 click here to see their original art :D

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Behind Every Wound

Jackson Storm has always been unstoppable on the track—until one mistake forces him to face the ghosts of his past. As he struggles to reclaim his dominance, his rival, Cruz Ramírez, becomes an even greater challenge, breaking through the walls he swore to keep up. Now, Jackson must decide: keep running or finally confront what he's feared all along.

I want to thank my dear friend @sapolina for making this beautiful cover ❤️

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Planes/Cars characters as silly Ao3 tags

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Esta chikito, hay que cuidarlo. 😭☝️

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Dick Grayson’s Nightwing Suits (2/2) - Elseworlds/Multimedia Edition

Dick has appeared in quite a few Elseworlds (non-canon comic universes) and Multimedia projects. Most of the suits used in fantasy settings seem to take much of their inspiration from Dick’s early more flamboyant costumes. In recent years, he’s also worn jackets in two separate Elseworlds and one video game.

This isn’t a complete list of all Elseworld and Multimedia suits. A lot of Elseworlds suits are quite similar to the fingerstripes suit while cartoons have the habit of using a bird emblem.

Brothers of the Night Designed by: Michael William Kaluta (drawn by various) First Appearance: JLA: Riddle of the Beast (2001)

Riddle of the Beast is a fantasy adventure DC describes as their version of Lord of the Rings. The regalia and warrior suit Dick wears are clearly meant to draw parallels to Dick’s early suits with their focus on midnight blue and feather-esque stripes of gold.

Facets Designed by: Scott Lee First Appearance: New Titans Annual #10 (1994)

In their version in ‘Facets’ the New Titans rise in a magical world of sword and sorcery. Here too Dick’s warrior suit is largely inspired by the Mulletwing suit, which was his suit at the time. Even though the golden wings seem functional, they aren’t.

Unused Kingdom Come Suit Designed by: Alex Ross First Appearance: None

Dick Grayson appeared in Kingdom Come as the original Red Robin but, apparently, there were plans to make him Nightwing. The black suit has a dramatic cape and a beaked hood. A large golden bird emblem stretches over Dick’s chest. Alex Ross later repurposed the suit and used it for a Nightwing Chris Kent design.

Gotham City Garage Designed by: Aneke First Appearance: Gotham City Garage #4 (2018)

In Gotham City Garage, Nightwing doesn’t wear anything but a leather jacket with some clothes. A variation of his iconic symbol has instead been inked onto his chest. Because of his connection to Catwoman, the emblem is a cat. 

Batman: White Knight Designed by: Sean Murphy First Appearance: Batman: White Knight #1

Sean Murphy has designed a few different suits for Dick, but this is the one that truly features what a Nightwing suit needs. Apart from the jacket with emblem and suit combo, Murphy notably gives Dick a triangular mask. It also incorporates the bird emblem that The Next Batman Adventures popularized.

Futures End Designed by Sean Chen First Appearance: Batman Beyond (2016) #40 (2020)

Unlike most of Dick’s suits, the Futures End suit features a much narrower chevron. It is underlined by a kind of angular u-shape.

The Next Batman Adventures Designed by: Bruce Timm & others First Appearance: The New Batman Adventures S1 E2

The Next Batman Adventures marks Nightwing’s first appearance in a cartoon. This Nightwing suit is notable for its use of a chevron in the shape of a bird. This design element has since been incorporated into several other designs, including Nightwing Rebirth’s and Bruno Redondo’s suits for the comics.

Young Justice The Animated Series Designed by: Phil Bourassa (Lead Character Designer) & Various First Appearances: Young Justice S2 & S4

Unlike the comics, where Dick’s suits have gotten darker over time, in Young Justice Dick starts out with a small bird crest before changing to a suit with a large chevron and fingerstripes, though the blue is darker. The same trend can be observed in the DC Animated Movie Universe.

Harley Quinn the Animated Series Designed by: Shane Glines & Alex Wilson First Appearance: Harley Quinn S3 E2

The Harley Quinn Nightwing suit is much brighter and lighter with a large, light blue chevron and a blue-collar, but the most original aspect of this design is not the suit at all - Dick has brown skin, something which the Rom had previously only been drawn with for a brief time in the 2000s by Gregory Wright. This was quickly changed, as in Nightwing’s first appearance in the Harley Quinn tie-in comics he has pale skin.

HBO Titans Designed by: Laura Jean Shannon & Joyce Schure First Appearance: Titans S2 E13

The Titans suit is currently the only live-action version of the Nightwing suit. Though Dick Grayson has been featured in several live-action movies and shows, he is almost always Robin, not Nightwing. No other character has held Nightwing in a live-action adaptation.

Gotham Knights Designed by: Laura Jean Shannon & Joyce Schure First Appearance: Gotham Knights (2022)

Dick’s latest video game suit incorporates him wearing a jacket as well. While the Arkham Games gave him the neutral chevron, Gotham Knights is using the more modern bird head in combination with it.

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Dick Grayson’s Nightwing Suits (½) - Comics Canon  Edition

Over the years Dick has had many Nightwing suits. Some of them look quite different - especially in his first decade as Nightwing - while others have gotten slight variations over the years. Dick’s most recognizable Nightwing suites can be seen above.

70s-80s suit: DISCOWING Created by: George Perez First Appearance: Tales of the Teen Titans #44 (1983)

Dick’s first Nightwing suit is the most colorful of the bunch. It owes its name to the popular disco fashion of its time. Even though the darker fabric of Dick’s first costume is often colored in a darker blue, it’s actually intended to be black. The variations of the suit mostly differentiate themselves by the height of Dick’s collar and the deepness of his neckline. On some occasions, the golden feathers already get replaced by the golden squares more prevalent to Dick’s second outfit.

The origin of Dick’s suit depends on his Nightwing origin. In some cases, it was his father’s old aerial suit that later got repurposed by Alfred to make Dick a suit, while in other cases Starfire made him the suit. In Nightwing Year One, we see that Deadman also had a suit inspired by John Grayson’s aerial suit.

90s suit: MULLETWING Created by: Tom Grummett First Appearance: The New Titans #88 (1992)

Dick’s second distinct Nightwing suit owes its name to his hairstyle - though on some occasions Dick had his mullet in a ponytail. While it retains the same blue-black-gold color scheme, the blue isn’t as prevalent as before. In some cases, Dick can use his golden wings as a parachute. Ironically, the golden feathers had by then been replaced by golden squares. The outfit mostly stayed the same over the years. Only his belt comes in slight variations. Though the most recent modern versions of it that appeared during the New 52 and in Future State: Teen Titans are quite different from the original suit.

90s-2000s suit: FINGERSTRIPES Created by: Brian Stelfreeze First Appearance: Nightwing (1994) #1

Dick’s most famous and beloved suit was created for his first solo-comic. It rarely changed visuals in an obvious way. Mostly, the arm and shin guards were drawn differently depending on the artist - Rick Leonardi made them much more obvious and bulky, reflecting street fashion in the early 2000s, while Jim Lee slimmed them down, making them almost invisible. While on Titans, Phil Jimenez decided to color Dick’s shin guards blue. It’s one of the more obvious design deviations from the initial suit. Though this design started with Dick having a long ponytail, early in Nightwing (1996) his hair was cut, which became the most iconic version of this design.

2011-2014:The New52 Red Suit Created by: Jim Lee & Cully Hammer First Appearance: Nightwing (2011) #1 (2011)

This is an awkward one. The suit is mostly known for doing away with the blue color scheme and the fingerstripes and is therefore not liked by many fans. That only changed a little when Brett Booth did not only bring back the fingerstripes but also gave Dick some nice stripes to accent his hips. Interestingly the concept art put Dick in black and blue instead of black and red. In an interview with Polygon in 2021, DC co-publisher Dan Didio said that he had several arguments with artists who wanted to make the suit blue.

2016 - 2021: Rebirth Suit Created by: Javier Fernandez First Appearance: Nightwing: Rebirth #1 (2016)

When Rebirth was announced, one of the first things Dan Didio proclaimed was that Blue Nightwing would be back. While the fingerstripes remained sorely missing, the Rebirth suit grew on people. The suit remained largely consistent. The quite thin chevron-bird became thicker as time went by. Brett Booth brought the hip stripes back for this costume while he drew Dick on Titans. He also gave the costume a more distinct collar.

2022 - Now: Redondo Suit Created by : Bruno Redondo First Appearance: Nightwing (2016) #88 (2022)

Redondo’s suit saw the return of the fingerstripes after about a decade without them. His first concept art introduced some other changes that sadly didn’t make it into the comics. Redondo’s primary design innovations have been in the gadgets hidden in Nightwing’s escrima.

Nightwing’s Shoes Some artists like to give Dick’s Nightwing shoes some extra flourish.

Nightwing’s Jackets Some artists occasionally give Nightwing a jacket, either plain or emblazoned with his crest. There are also two Elseworlds Nightwing designs that include jackets.

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I just think it would be funny if Dick became a viral news story when he moved to Blüdhaven because of record breaking enrollments in the YMCA gymnastics program after he became an instructor

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Is Robin Dick's superhero name bc that's what Mary Grayson called him or is there some other reason Dick Grayson's superhero alias is Robin?

(Robin Annual #4)

Dick’s mother nicknamed him Robin because he was born on March 20th. For fun, he’s some of the design process from when Dick was making his costume.

“Uh huh. She’d like that.”

Dick named himself Robin as a tribute to his mother’s memory. While we’re here, here’s one of Dick’s costume designs from The Batman Files which is cute and drawn in crayons.

“Dick’s original ideas for his uniform, before he settled on the idea of Robin.”

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If Dick had time for sports in school, what do you think he would have played/participated in ?

Well…

(Batman Vol 1 #162)

(Robin: Year One)

(Young Justice - “Downtime”)

(Teen Titans - “Overdrive”)

Going by sheer canon consistency, Basketball comes up the most and was actually the sport he played at school. We’ve also seen him play football and volleyball in the Teen Titans Animated show. I’m sure Dick loves any sport with a lot of motion, but I like the idea of basketball being his favorite.  

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Jackdaw of All Trades In the latest issue of Nightwing (20 December 2017), it was revealed that Dick Grayson’s new daytime job is the owner of his own Cross-Fit Gym and Instructor – this would be his third (depending on how you count it) job since the series was re-launched in 2016. He was a Volunteer Leader for the “Teens Affected by Violence” Program at the Haven Community Center (Nightwing #10) and a Blackjack Dealer at the Marcus Casino (Nightwing #25). Over the span of more than three-quarters of century of history, Grayson had many jobs from his beginnings as a Trapeze Artist at Haly’s Circus to the respectable Police Officer for the Blüdhaven Police Department or the Ambassador to South Africa, to the esoteric Super Spy for Spyral, the illegal of being a Mob Enforcer, to the outlandish of being a Runway Model or a Museum Curator. All in all, Grayson’s employments have run the gauntlet. Dick Grayson’s C.V.:

Prime Earth

Owner and Fitness Instructor, Grayson Cross Train Studio, Blüdhaven, New Jersey (Nightwing (Vol. 4) #35)

Blackjack Dealer, Marcus Casino, Blüdhaven, New Jersey (Nightwing (Vol. 4) #25)

Volunteer Leader, Haven Community Centre, Blüdhaven, New Jersey (Nightwing (Vol. 4) #10)

Secret Agent, Spyral, United Kingdom (Grayson)

Bartender, McCellin’s, Chicago, Illinois (Nightwing (Vol. 3) #26)

Owner, C.C. Haly and Norton Bros. Circus, North America (Nightwing (Vol. 3) #2)

Trapeze Artist, C.C. Haly and Norton Bros. Circus, North America

New Earth:

Director, Wayne Crime Lab, Gotham City, New Jersey (≈Detective Comics (Vol. 1) #876)

Volunteer Gymnastic Instructor, Chelsea Piers Bones Fun and Fitness Center, New York City, New York (Nightwing (Vol. 2) #142)

Museum Curator, The Cloisters Museum, New York City, New York (Nightwing (Vol. 2) #141)

Runway Model, Freemont’s Fab Fashions, New York City, New York (Nightwing (Vol. 2) #119)

Enforcer, Tevis Mob Family, Blüdhaven, New Jersey (Nightwing (Vol. 2) #107)

Police Officer, Blüdhaven Police Department, Blüdhaven, New Jersey (Nightwing (Vol. 2) #41)

Owner, 1013 Parkthorne Avenue Apartment Building (≈Nightwing (Vol. 2) #16)

Owner, Haley Circus (≈Nightwing (Vol. 2) #16)

Bartender, Hogan’s Alley, Blüdhaven, New Jersey (Nightwing (Vol. 2) #4)

Co-Owner, Haly Circus (New Titans #60)

Trapeze Artist, Haly’s Circus

Earth-2:

Journalist, Chicago, Illinois

Earth-Two:

Ambassador for the United States to South Africa

Attorney and Partner, Cranston, Grayson & Wayne, Gotham City, New Jersey