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I love how much DickBabs and DickKory shippers are going to fight over which one is the best ship, but both sides can agree that DickRoy is one of the bests. DickRoy rules✊

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I need Bat writers and Titans writers to get it together and communicate, please.

I understand the writers have their preferences. Bat writers probably prefer DickBabs while Titans writers prefer DickKory, but I'M BEGGING if one editorial is making one of the couple canon, can't the other one tone down the flirting or implications??😭

I also understand "feeding" the fans, especially DickKory ones since they're not the current couple but can't they use... Like... Elseworlds? Same for DickBabs. If Dick and Barbara were to break up and Dick would start dating Kory again, I'd rather have them in elseworlds instead of flirting or implications in main canon.

Dick Grayson character is already often mistaken as a cheater because of... That annual, shudders.

Why would they make it worse..?🫠

You can give us content for both ships to make everyone happy by giving us flashbacks or elseworlds stuff (Kami Garcia's books are currently the best example. They're so cute in that and it's an elseworld, fans of both ships are getting "fed" and happy), why making it seem like he's cheating or not "committing" (?) to his partner? It feels so disrespectful for all three characters idk.

Can't they talk it out like "if you're writing about the main continuity keep in mind that Dick is dating Babs/Kory so don't write some certain stuff"??

And again I understand they must have their preferences but it can't be that hard to write Dick and Babs or Dick and Kory as close friends? Like, I always say DickKory is good but not my thing: I'd still be able to write them as friends, same for Babs. While I heavily ship her and Dick, I wouldn't have problems in writing them as close friends with funny banters, without having to include romance.

I keep hearing from others that Dick is a cheater because of the annual or him flirting with Kory while dating Babs — probably meaning the Titans Academy thing. And following the timeline, apparently, he and Babs weren't together. But Taylor was indeed writing them with the intentions of getting them together at that time, so why the need of writing that part of the story???

Before being a fan of the ship, I'll always be a Dick Grayson fan first, and I can't blame people for thinking he's a cheater if writers keeps pulling inconsistent stuff😭😭

Or like the recent cover, where they put Dick and Kory but always include Garfield. Like... There's no need to put Garfield to make it platonic. You can just draw them as close but not in a romantic way, and if people want to ship them it's not the artist fault and canonically no one's doing weird stuff.

It didn't even look like a romantic cover, just two friends (and exes who are still close) getting a coffee together. Compared to Dick and Barbara's covers you can feel the difference.

I just wish they were more consistent.

If Dick is dating one girl, don't make him flirt with the other one, it's so bad for the three characters, especially for Dick who's getting the "cheater" flair.

Am I just imagining things, is it just me?? Like it could be, maybe I'm just not sleeping enough again (it's almost been a day)💔

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Recently on Reddit, there have been this top 30 heroes ranking with people's votes in the comments. Honestly I love these things, I always enjoy reading of other's opinions on things, and look at this:

MY MAN NIGHTWING MADE IT TOP 6

I'm so proud of him🥹 he's grown so much🤧🤧

AND MY WOMAN BABS BEING 14TH? Like it's quite high compared to other characters and I didn't even think she'd make it in top 15 tbh😭

Her being higher than characters like Hawkman, GL or Hawkgirl makes me smile. And yeah I know it's only a "poll" on Reddit but it still something🙏

And am very happy that even John Constantine made it in there🤧

What's more funny? The person who made this also added with how many votes the characters won and look at this:

Nightwing won with 283 votes, literally the highest "score"🥹

And his lady 146, which was also a bit unexpected.

And John 153🙏

I always love seeing my faves getting so much love and attention lol.

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So I'm like exhausted

I haven't slept in 49 hours by now and can't seem to do that

But looking at them makes me happy. They're holding each other's waist🙏<3

Also does someone know the source of this ↓?

I can't remember

Or maybe my brain is just fried and I'll remember tomorrow if I get some sleep... I probably won't anyway though

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DickBabs kisses on the cheeks <3

Boy Wonder

Batman Family #1

Nightwing Annual #1

Batgirls #21

Nightwing #127 (2016)

Bonus: forehead kisses

Nightwing #75 (1996)

Nightwing #15 (2016)

If you guys have more of both the kiss on the cheek or forehead thing... Sharing is caring, y'know...🙏

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Superheroes cheek kisses <3

Clark and Lois:

Art by Adriana Melo

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Bruce and Selina:

Catwoman #52 cover

Batman and Robin Adventures #16

Steve and Diana:

Wonder Woman #25

Oliver and Dinah:

Art by DaveWachter

Green Arrow #13 (2023)

Wally and Linda:

The Flash Annual #1 (2022)

Barry and Iris:

How to Lose a Guy Garden in 10 Days #1 Variant Cover

Ralph and Sue:

Art by Gene Gonzales

Secret Origins #30

Roy and Jade:

Green Arrow #13

Tim and Stephanie:

Convergence: Batgirl #2 (2015)

Dick and Babs:

Boy Wonder

Batman Family #1

Nightwing Annual #1

Batgirls #21

Nightwing #127 (2016)

Garfield and Raven:

Art by Gabriel Picolo

Hal and Carol:

Green Lantern Vol 5 #38

John and Zatanna:

?

This is more like a kiss on the eye but we love it anyways🙏

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Barbara here kinda looks like a mix of Daphne and Velma

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Tim DID want to be adopted, actually

Sometimes people take canon facts out of context and use them to build a narrative that's not true to the full context of those facts, and while there's a certain degree to which that's fine (I firmly believe people in fanfiction and stuff can alter details however they want to build a narrative that pleases them), where it annoys me is where these beliefs extend into people thinking this altered narrative is true beyond the scope of an alternate fandom exploration, and in particular it hits me hard when it comes to topics related to found family and adoption because I'm just so tired of blood tie narratives.

So

Facts: Tim Drake invented wholesale a fake uncle "Eddie Drake" and hired an actor to play him rather than accept Bruce's (first) offer to adopt him following Jack Drake's death.

And out of context, wow, he sure went pretty far to avoid getting adopted by Bruce. I get why people who didn't read the source comics think he didn't want it, I get it.

But here's Tim's actual thoughts in Robin #134 on the page following Bruce's offer:

Wow! Wow! I was like - I couldn't speak! I was totally speechless! It never occurred to me that Bruce would want to - He wants me to be his son? Real and legal? I mean - Wow! Of course, eventually, when I got my voice back, I had to tell him I needed time to think about it. This is nothing like I ever imagined might happen, way back when I became Robin for the first time. Okay, it wasn't so long ago - but it seems like a million years.

(Also look at Tim immediately calling the idea of this making him Bruce's son "real", thank you, Tim, for having more sense than so many words more recently that I've had to read with my own eyes.)

So if you haven't personally read this before, you must be asking the question, well, why didn't he accept? Why did he go to such lengths to avoid something he apparently had some degree of excitement about?

Well

In Hindsight, I should have handled lots of things better. I kept putting Bruce off, even though he deserved an answer to his incredibly generous offer. But I only had a week to get things ready for the reading of Dad's will. Only time will tell if I did the right thing.

During my visit, it took every bit of discipline I could conjure to keep from asking Bruce that one terrible question I'm stone cold certain that our relationship can't survive. "What happened in those last moments between you and Stephanie, and why did you keep me from being there?"

Like the proverbial bell that can't be un-rung, once asked, it can't be taken back.

Better for us to be apart for a while, even if it means I have to run away to a crummy hole like the 'haven.

Or, in other words, he knew if he lived with Bruce he couldn't keep himself from asking about what happened with Steph. And he felt like the answer would ruin their relationship forever. (Tim often has problems with catastrophizing and fatalism of this nature.) Something Tim desperately did not want to happen.

So he temporarily separates himself so he can get distance from the emotions that revolve around that question. However, he only had a week and he kind of panicked into something that he didn't necessarily think was the best decision.

By the way, once he DOES get adopted later, after Bruce's SECOND offer to do so, we get his thoughts again (Robin #159):

It is pretty weird, I guess... No, I know it's pretty weird. My parents will always be my parents... ...But Bruce was a father figure to me in lots of ways before both my parents died... ...So having him adopt me, when everything was going so lousy in my life...mostly, it just made me feel wanted...made me feel good.

Tim not only affirming that he likes having been adopted, but also reconfirming that Bruce was basically another dad to him long before that was even legally viable.

Which is honestly also just stating out loud what was already very painfully obvious for an extremely long time.

The uniqueness of Tim's situation in the 90's and early 00's was not that he wasn't Bruce's family, but that Tim had more than one. And the push and pull with an odd situation wherein Tim had two dads but in a way that you don't think about when you usually hear that someone has two dads. Especially here on tumblr dot com.

(Personally I loathe Jack Drake, as he's very clearly emotionally abusive [I think the moments he is "better" with Tim are intended to humanize him and tell you that he's not so bad, but it's literally an abusive cycle, because he always goes back to being shitty. Until he couldn't anymore because he died], but I also respect the fact that Tim loved him and still wanted him to be his dad, because people and family are complicated like that. And I could see this thought turning into another essay so I'll leave it at that for now. And I still haven't really discussed Tim and Bruce's actual relationship, either, which I hinted at doing in my other post. I'll get to it...another day.)

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Y'all know when someone ask you your favorite character, you tell them (a famous one in this case) and they say "that's boring, he's overrated" sir. 😭

There's a reason if that character's famous yk...?💔

Of often, depending on the media, the character happens to be the main character and they say the MC sucks or again is overrated.

Sorry if I like the MC of the story...????😃

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Covering their baby's eyes

Nightwing Annual #1 (2021)

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Dick Grayson and Jimmy Olsen:

1. World's Finest #111

2. World's Finest #141

3. World's Finest #143

4. World's Finest #147

5. World's Finest #195

6. World's Finest #27

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"Nightwing is DC's Spider-Man/Spider-Man is Marvel's Nightwing" no.😭 Not lately, at least.

Being a Spider-Man fan is so painful man...🫠 I'm surprised my man Peter doesn't have chronical depression.

While Nightwing has a lot of friends always backing him or being there for him, the love of his life on his side, an adorable dog, quite the stable life...

And it wasn't just in Tom Taylor's "lighter" story. While in Watters' run there's stuff going on, he still have his friends, love and dog.

Peter keeps losing, or meeting his dead girlfriend over and over again I guess... It reminds me of a story where the man lose the love of his life and his enemies kept sending fake clones of them to kill him, and he had to fight them and burn them. Not exactly the same but similar and it hurts to read omg😭

I think I've said this somewhere but I'll repeat it: If the writers have zero idea for Spider-Man... Please take a break. I prefer not having Spider-Man comics (and I love them with all my soul) for a whole year instead of getting the same old stuff and seeing Peter's life crumbling every time. A tiny break to come up with a good story and new ideas🙏

Actually I just thought - A story like TT's run for Nightwing would be nice for Spider-Man (Peter) too. Not saying it has to be years long like for Dick though. I know many didn't like TT's Nightwing run, but I feel like we needed it after the Ric thing. A story to settle down, to get him back on his feet and give him an at least stable life, show how many people do care for him, how supportive his lover is and their relationship, his relationship with many other characters... And again it doesn't have to be long and people don't have to read it if they're not into it, but I feel like Spider-Man needs a story like that. Might be just me, obviously it's only my opinion😅...

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My heart cannot accept this

Barbara, Koriand'r and now they got Helena too?💔

No seriously DC gotta stop throwing Dick's exes to Jason omfg😭

Begging on my knees this is just to get people's attention and they're just gonna be a super cool team up of coworker/friends.

Cause ain't no way they keep throwing Jason his family's left overs

I'm willingly to accept the most bizarre [character] x Jason pair instead of [BatFamily member's ex] x Jason.

Or even JayRose and I don't ship them together😭 but way better than Jason x Helena

Next up are:

Jason x Bette Kane

Jason x That woman Dick married for a mission

Jason x Lori Elton

(this is a bait, this is a bait, this is a bait, this is a bait, this is only a bait DC please-)

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Aunt Dolly

Hellblazer (1988)

Dolly

Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood (2000)

Dotty

Constantine #1 (2013)

Someone let them know they can use different names😭 and like totally different and not just changing two letters lol

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I love how

Barbara Gordon in short BG

Batgirl in short BG

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Okay but seriously. This cover without monster Tarantula would be so beautiful

Nightwing #87 (1996)

Like, look at them 😩 Tarantula move out of the way omg.

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I love them

Martian Manhunter #4 (1988)