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btw I hate the term "lovechild" to design the child that would come from two characters that should be unable to reproduce together. what if they hated each other enough to defy biology? hatechild should be a thing

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I really think that Dick’s initial reaction to the weird neighbor kid who comes up to him after his little brother has been brutally murdered to tell him that he needs to go back to being Batman’s sidekick is just

Do Dick and Tim eventually become good friends/brothers? Yes.

Did Dick still initially think this weirdo middle schooler was totally loony toons for thinking he’d go back to being Batman’s sidekick after he’s been the solo hero of Blüdhaven for how long now? That Tim was completely coo-coo for coco puffs? Yes. Yes he did.

He also had a huge blowout argument with Bruce about it, because he was convinced Bruce set the whole thing up.

Then he kidnapped Tim for two weeks when he first saw him out as Robin, because no nope not happening, give me the child. You’ve lost your child privileges, Bruce. You have to earn them back.

But he definitely thought Tim was off his fuckin rocker for like a good year. Maybe a year and a half.

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I love the idea that one of my very cool mutuals presented me a few months ago which I will call the “Cool Grayson” theory

Where basically we call know that Dick generally is a pretty cool guy. He’s like if Superman had Batman’s chill and broody abilities

But naturally he is the loser big brother right

He is old and uncool and super cringe and fail and all that other violently embarrassing jazz

Up until you put him around like his og teenage friend group and suddenly??? Bro is acting like a normal person

Except he’s not bc he’s cool

Like really cool? Which is embarrassing bc Steph would rather die than admit Dick was cool. Nightwing yes, Dick Grayson fuck no lmao. TIM thought?? Dick was cool which automatically makes Dick the least cool person in existence??? Tim Drake used to rat on parties to kids parents if he heard someone brought beer. If Tim Drake thinks you’re cool you’re automatically about as cool as plastic man

He’s so goofy around babs, like in a sitcom cutesy way. Like the parents where the dad is always tryna play cool but the mom is so obviously cooler. STEPH AS SEEN IT??? When in his life has he ever been this smooth!?? She feels like she has to cover her eyes after one conversation between Nightwing and Starfire. GODDAMN

And like okay??? She knows that he regularly wears a leather jacket, okay. Ofc he doesn’t take that shit off it’s his dads or something sappy. But it was like sappy and sweet?? That old ass leather jacket looks cool for once?? And it’s giving her culture shock

Anyway she goes back to Gotham about as shellshocked as a man in a psych hospital in the 40s okay

And Jason who is around for Terrorizing Bruce related reasons takes one look at her and goes

“ah so you met the titans”

“They-“

“Yep”

“And he-“

“Uh huh”

“So he’s a loser-“

“Entirely on purpose bc he thinks it’s funny yeah exactly”

“… I kind of want to punch him”

“Him and Roy have matching tongue piercings”

“….huh”

“Yep”

“Wait- how do you know that”

“Dick was supposed to be babysitting me but Roy texted him about it so he took me with him”

“Wait Bruce let dick babysit you in tower?”

“Bruce didn’t LET me do anything, when I was bored I’d hitchhike over”

“See this is why you’re the robin who died first”

“Fuck you very much Steph”

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I actually love the idea that people can tell Dick's emotional state just based on how cursed his outfits are.

You know, like how he wore DiscoWing during his darkest, emo-est time. "Ugly" fits just mean he's going through it...

On the good days Dick dresses like someone straight out of a Pinterest board; trendy clothes, subtle accessories and perfectly styled hair. But the moment his mental health starts declining– BOOM! It's bedazzled pants. Neon shoes. And patterned shirts.

The more outrageous and flashy Dick's clothes are the worse he's holding up.

It's like the warning light in a car. Everything is fine but if Dick walks in looking like David Bowie on acid then somebody should probably go check on him before he breaks down on the middle of the road.

Dick doesn't really notice that other people notice. He's just a guy trying to manifest happiness through his clothes –No, he's not sad. Could a sad person rock the shit out of Polka Dots?? Think not–.

Unbeknownst to him practically every person close to him has been conditioned to outfit-check him.

They will take one look at Dick and ask if he's doing alright. And Dick will be like "Yes?? I'm fine. You're like the third person to ask me today. Wonder why..." While wearing bright red leather pants, sequin boots and a cowboy hat.

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Superman (2025) + Text posts

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My boy quit the the Blüdhaven police force a continuity reset before Duke was even in the picture but he still cannot live it down lmao

Headcanon that Dick always knows when Dukes mad at him bc he'll only refer to him as officer

Duke "fuck the police" Thomas: good evening officer

Commanding officer Dick Grayson: c'mon Duke, I said I was sor-

Duke: I am being detained?

Dick: what?

Duke: officer, am I being detained?

Dick: no of course not but-

Duke: oh okay so am I free to go officer?

Dick: I mean I'm not gonna keep you here

Duke: *already walking away*

When everyone else catches wind of this they start doing it too ESPECIALLY Steph and Jason. Even after he quits being a cop he will forever be known as Officer Grayson in his own home. Gets no sympathy from anyone lol

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imo a discord server should be like a breakout room for fandom. like the place to run your wips by your besties or discuss your otp in more detail with a few people who were insane about it on your post or organise events with a handful of trusted mutuals etc etc. if it’s where ALL the fandom activity is going to happen it will inevitably foster a cliquey environment where the fandom is divided into “those in the server” and “those who aren’t”, lurking is disincentivised if not made outright impossible, people who feel uncomfortable joining in conversations and would rather interact with fandom through reblogging etc are largely excluded because there’s no repost mechanism, and the fandom itself becomes an enclosed space so new fans are limited in how much content and meta they can access without having to make the plunge into Joining The In Group, there’s limited scope for interaction between different communities within the same fandom, god it’s just an altogether dogshit stupid idea. what if we moved all fandom activity to really massive private groupchats. STUPID

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mister clock "i have no favorites" work

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I keep having this reoccurring scene in my head where there’s a small, controlled fire somewhere in Amity and Phantom, who is nigh invulnerable and has powerful blasts, super strength and frigging ice powers finds the nearest fire extinguisher and puts it out easy as you like. Growing up in a household that was on fire at least once daily, not even the addition of superpowers can shake Danny’s ingrained instinct to locate and put out the fire with an extinguisher.

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I needed to draw this. 🥹♥️‼️

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Dick looks like he is competing for gold at the Olympics and Tim looks like a six-year-old trying really hard at his first ever gymnastics class (He's pouting because they won't let him swing on the bars)

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So I've recently come across this really cool post by @isosceles-is-never-here and GOT ABSALUTLY HOOKED ON THE IDEA.

I think that in my version, Danny is a hero, which travels down to the underworld to visit the shade of an old friend (Haven't decided who yet). The only reason he is able to get inside the underworld in the first place is because of his half ghost and shade king status. Unfortunately, Hades does not appreciate him being in the underworld, so he has to fight his way down.

At first he uses his ghost form to try and sneak around but gets recognized very fast.

Every time he gets all the way down, he has only a few hours before he gets sent back to the surface.

Zagreus can encounter him when he stops to rest, in a room packed full of shades. He gives Zag the option to trade some boons with him, and as the relationship gets more hearts, he eventually appears in the lounge from time to time to hang out before he is returned back to the surface.

Zagreus escape attempts are useful to him since they distract Hades from his own break-in attempts, so if they find themselves in the same battle room, Danny will do his best to help him:)

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Danny Phantom X Hades [crossover]

| more info after & link to my original concept post below |

character design notes: -Danny has half a coin, cause the dead needed a coin to pay for passage into the afterlife. he's half dead so he gets half a coin -Blue icy hands like the game's protogenos, Zagreus' fiery feet -armor inherited from Pariah Dark -gold/bronze armor for Danny for that good opposite color palette

my original concept post

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t.he character s

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Batman Writers Need to Stop Making Alfred the Drama

Just read through the end of the Batman: Contagion storyline for some references, and I'm kind of upset at a prank Alfred pulls at the end there.

Anyway, for the uninitiated, shortly after Bruce's back was broken by Bane/Azrael Bats/Dick!Bats-one yada yada, the Order of St. Dumas (that Azrael belongs to) sends in the "Apocalypse Plague" to Gotham, also known as "the Clench" and is a highly-modified Ebola-based virus intended to cleanse the world of sinners.

It's very, very bad. A lot of people die. It kills within a day of contracting it/showing symptoms. Gotham gets locked down in a super quarantine and there's chaos with looting and riots and all of that. Tim as Robin is trying to help keep the city in order and gets infected. He's dying. He's hallucinating a dream world where his mother's alive and he gets to have his dad/mom/girlfriend all support him and love him and be proud of him being Robin, and Bruce suggesting a better work-life balance when it comes to Robin.

(Batman Chronicles 1995 #4)

(Azrael 1995, #16)

Bruce is trying to figure out a cure, but there's no way to make a vaccine, even. Azrael and his friends figure out a way to make a cure based on text they stole from the Order of St. Dumas and deliver it to Gotham's hospital. Dick races back to the Batcave after people are treated by it, but comes back to find the cave empty, the bed Tim was in vacant.

(Azrael 1995, #16)

If you jump to Robin #28 to find out what happened, you find out that Alfred was just kidding.

(Robin 1993, #28)

It turns out Azrael decided to make a dramatic break-in through the bridge to deliver the cure to Gotham, when one of his friends had a fax machine and was just faxing it to every fax machine number he had in Gotham, including Wayne Enterprises. So Bruce already formulated a cure and gave it to Tim beforehand.

Tim and Dick both scold Alfred about the joke, but dear god, is that not even remotely funny. Especially to Dick, who was probably running as fast as he could with the cure because he was probably thinking of Jason the entire time.

Like, obviously, Alfred cares about Tim. He was crying and heavily upset about Tim's condition, watching him deteriorate over all that time. Obviously, also, that was the end of the Azrael book and the ending was suspenseful and dramatic to get people to buy Robin #28, but man do the writers do their best to make it hard to love Alfred sometimes for the sake of drama.