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Psst! Maybe doodle a Bruce and young Dick spotted by paparazzi!

Heartwarming! Bruce Wayne spotted walking with young ward Dick Grayson!

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one of the reasons why “what if people went on a road trip and it was weird” is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says “what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person”.

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

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Me and the homies dying on the fun hill with all our friends

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

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“Bruce wouldn’t call his kids any cutesy nicknames y’all are cringe” first of all Bruce canonically refers to children as “honey” and “sweetheart” as BATMAN, so, close your mouth, monster breath

Second of all, Thomas Wayne called him everything from “Bunny, honey, sweetheart, baby, bambino, sweetie” to “Gumdrop, honeybee, amore, babe, “ and you can die trying to take it away from me

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okay okay, pardonne moi, I am currently rewatching umbara for fic writing purposes and I have a lot of other things to say but the first thing is highly inappropriate and only funny if you have mental health issues BUT YOU KNOW WHAT WE WERE ROBBED OF???

When the clones first turn on Krell and he jumps out the tower? The clones down there attack him, but Rex and some others are still in the tower. THAT ELEVATOR RIDE??? I WANNA FUCKING SEE THAT ELEVATOR RIDE DOWN. GIVE ME HARDCORE ACTION INTERRUPTED BY *robotic voice* “you are on the top floor” “you have selected bottom floor” *generic elevator music that lasts way to fucking long* “you are at the bottom flo—“ and then it cuts off because Fives shot the sound system

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I think my main issue with Bad Dad Bruce is that Batman is at his core Hope. He's the kid that lost everything and has decided to try and do right by other people, to make sure no one else ever suffers what he did.

He's the Dark Knight, and in Gotham even with all of the other stuff Batman is in a lot of ways a signifier of hope. A good thing coming out of a cursed city from a position of power that he chooses to use to help others in every way he can. Someone who believes that no one deserves to die and is trying to help the people who have been driven into being his enemies by the circumstances of their lives.

He's hope. And the idea that he hits his kids, kids he took in because he saw himself in them and wanted to help to prevent them from turning into him? That just doesn't make sense.

Exactly. And if Bruce is that dark, gigachad overpowered edgy guy who hits his kids, how does that ensure that they end up on a path better than his? He endured tragedy and then sought out vicious training, and surmounted the impossible to return to Gotham. That's not the path he wants for his kids, otherwise he'd be shipping them off for League training every summer.

The point is that Bruce endured tragedy, sought a solution to his anger and desperation, and realized that he could teach a better way, even if he couldn't follow it himself. Dick was the test case. The others were proof, even Jason. Throughout it all, he's guiding them to something -- excuse the shitty marvel quote here -- he can never truly possess. Which is hope and healing.

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And if the answer is “no,” they’re not the one for you, sweetheart.

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The San Francisco Examiner, California, February 25, 1935

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sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

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yiké

just don’t do that

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Envy

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Lust

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oct. 3 pt 2.

also:

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Scrappy kid in the jaws of defeat // Oct 3.