#I'm considering making an au or something but idk because its been forever since I last created one

[bubbeebear]

Baby duck guy, again.

[formula-fun]

my love. today I read your venom au finally (idk why I was putting it off, probs bc I wanted to enjoy as much of it as possible before I go into venom!max brain rot). RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ABSOLUTELY AMAZING FIC!!!!!!! DETHRONED YOUR OWN ABO FIC FROM MY LIST OF ALL TIME FAVESSSSSSSSS

in all seriousness tho, I loved it so much, max is so silly there:] he's just a big goopy lad who's obsessed with his human and I have to respect it (me too, mate, me too).

now my love, I have a question that burns me which I'm afraid I have to ask: how upset is max that he can't get his human pregnant? and does he make his indignation with charles' biology known? alternatively: mpreg? 🤲🏻? venom style mpreg? 🤲🏻🤲🏻? for me? 🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻? lestappen with a lil goop baby that wrecks havoc and who lives in charles' pockets? 🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻?

thank u for the fic mwah mwah kissing you loving you all that shabam

my LOVE! thank you sm i'm glad you liked it!! <3333 dethroning if i had words is CRAZY my evil little goo fic has come so far hashasahsah no i have so much fun writing them being silly and bullying each other in charles' brain, it's a good time!!

and im gonna write under the cut because i love this question, i have many many many thoughts. this is also gonna show how little regard i have for the source material unfortunately. but im having FUN

so i wrote a snippet a little while ago abt max's reproductive cycle because apparently this au wasnt weird enough, and basically long story short HE can get pregnant and has in the past, but symbiote babies are very vicious and hungry and their first act in life is usually either to eat their parent or be eaten. so max's parenting instincts are pretty nonexistent. they also reproduce asexually, so his mating instincts are similarly nonexistent. sort of. for a while

max is in love with everything about earth though. he loves that so many creatures instinctively care for the young of even other species, he loves that reproduction is a decision between two parties, he loves that humans devote so much of themselves to raising their young. he finds it all kind of sweet, but the weight of it didnt really click until charles found out max could have babies but was disappointed to learn they couldnt raise them and love them like humans do. its like he hadnt really considered that could even be possible for them, but once he learns there might be a way he goes all warm and soft and max is like ??

cause then max realizes all at once, like. he wants to make something with me. he wants to do the things that humans do when they raise their young, he wants to be with me forever and ever, he wants me because his oldest most ancient instinct thinks i would make a good mate and i would take good care of his babies. he wants to have sex because it feels good and he wants it to be me because he loves me, but maybe also he wants it to be me because he wants me to help him make something thats a little bit of both of us?? and welcome 2 earth alien blob max w a breeding kink

and i dont know, i would like to say they find a way around the problem eventually. maybe there's some way it works out? maybe it's some sort of nature vs nurture situation where max's babies end up being super chill because they were raised in a loving environment, or maybe symbiotes arent driven by a base urge to consume, it's just a product of their hive mind which has been silent since the civil war started. maybe any babies max has end up taking on a lot of charles' characteristics simply because charles was hosting him when they were created. it's possible they find a way around it and get a lil goo ball to call their own. maybe max almost does eat it until he feels how anguished charles is abt it, and then he looks down and registers that their baby is the same soft pink as charles' palms and eyelids and the tips of his ears, and all at once he just can't do it

but yeah definitely a lot of room here for exploration and discovery to say the least dfjskfjsdf

[bigskydreaming]

Hi! I saw a post on Duke being robin and never being acknowledged, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he only one of the many Robins in We are Robin? From what I read, he joined the Bats as Signal, not Robin.

Should he really be included as Robin?

He was a Robin in an alternate universe/timeline thingie, and at one point he was being pushed as a character codenamed 'Lark' with a kind of yellow Robin costume before they settled on the Signal as his ultimate persona. But a lot of that was like, when he was still in his developmental stage and Snyder was kinda...idk, trying different things out with him through various 'alternate takes' before debuting him or developing him much in the main continuity? Its kinda weird.

But yeah for the most part 'officially' he was only ever Robin as one of the many Robins in the We Are Robin movement, and isn't really considered an official Robin as such. BUT the unofficial side of things has to be considered, because a lot of his fans - with validity - view DC as having done a bait and switch with his character, where he was initially teased and hyped as the first black Robin, but then they pulled back from that and made him something else entirely....with a lot of people suspecting that DC refrained from making him an actual Robin because of his race. Like, given comics' shitty track record with antiblackness, the optics are something that have to be considered here, and so between the fact that Duke was 'initially' a Robin, even if only in alternate takes, and the behind the scenes based switcheroo between how DC was initially talking him up versus how he debuted.....people who call him a Robin aren't coming out of nowhere, y'know?

Personally, I don't write him as 'a Robin' specifically except for AU takes (like I have one AU I've been playing around with forever where both Duke and Tim are co-Robins at the same time), but then again, even though Steph was definitively a Robin in the comics, I don't tend to focus on her time as one overly much either. This though is largely because as much as I like both characters, my personal focus character is obviously Dick Grayson, so the lion's share of what I headcanon and meta about tends to be about how other characters relate to him or things about them THROUGH his POV, if you get what I mean?

And from that perspective, there's not a ton to say about EITHER Steph OR Duke as Robins, because......in both cases that had absolutely nothing to do with him. And since I'm also so big on like, the initial meaning of Robin and what Dick created it to be and why, and how I don't think it really works (or at least is massively diluted) when Robin is completely divorced from Dick and his personal connection with it, I'm just like....that's where my interest in the concept, the mantle, lies y'know? Its not that there's NOT stuff to explore in either Steph or Duke as Robins, its just that I already have a ton to explore about the Robin mantle outside of their connection to it, to such an extent that its not something I'm likely to spend too much time on?

Also, at the same time, there's the fact that personally, from an in character/in-universe perspective, I think there's MORE to explore between Dick and both Steph and Duke when its NOT about Robin, but rather, when its about their self-created personas, Spoiler and the Signal, specifically. I think there's a lot more to comment on and build upon when examining Dick's view of and interactions with these two members of the Batfamily, who unlike most of the others, originated their own mantles just like he did himself. Even most of the others' LATER mantles, like Red Hood and Red Robin and Batgirl, were based on something else, but Steph and Duke created Spoiler and the Signal ENTIRELY out of their own personal motivations for being vigilantes and what those mantles meant to THEM, specifically. I think that's something that Dick can really relate to and respects, and gives them an individual bond or dynamic with him that isn't in any way overlapped with any of the other Robins.

But again....that's all from an in-universe perspective. Although that's MY personal preferred focus, I recognize the situation with Duke and the is he or isn't he stance DC took with him being a Robin, and so I'm not going to argue with anyone who DOES classify him as a Robin, because again, there's validity. Same as with people who put more emphasis on Steph as a Robin than I do. Because again, speaking to optics, let's not kid ourselves that Robin is a bit of a 'prestige position' as far as comic book AUDIENCES go, and gives a character built in name recognition to be associated with, and Steph being female and Duke being black have everything in the world to do with why they're less associated with the mantle than others - even if you argue that 'no, they're just less associated with it because they spent less time connected to it' - well again, how do you pretend that had NOTHING to do with the fact that they were the two characters out of all the Robins that DC seemed least inclined to explore or keep connected to a mantle as high profile as Robin? All of this is stuff that I think is just useful and important to keep in mind when examining the issue from multiple angles.

And ultimately, I think most people know that I personally don't spend too much time examining the Robin mantle as a prestige position and in fact a ton of my diatribes about Tim fans, lol, tends to be about how much emphasis certain fandom debates place on characters 'earning Robin' or 'not deserving Robin' when I think from an in character/in universe position, that's a terrible take that completely misses the point of the mantle and its significance WITHIN the Batfamily specifically....and thus I just don't have a ton to say on the out of universe perspective. The in universe one keeps me plenty occupied.

BUT that doesn't mean ignoring that the out of universe perspective EXISTS, and so while I'm not prone to focusing on it, I acknowledge its there and respect other peoples' focus on it, and like, totally get and 'am fine' with others calling Duke a Robin, for whatever that's worth. (Which isn't really much because who the fuck even cares if I personally am fine with it, lmao, but you know what I mean hopefully.)

[ilovetowritebutwhohastime]

it feels like it's been forever since I read your au ahh. I had to move to a brand new city (which I don't like) and I got rejected from a college that I applied to and so everything has been so stressful and hence I missed like every update after the 11th one I think. I'm so glad I can now catch up to them and tbh reading this au made me feel so much better ❤️❤️❤️ there are so many things happening omg and I have so much to write sorry for the long message ❤️❤️ (1/4) - 🍑

1. tae bby ❤️❤️❤️ I hate how he’s feeling excluded and because of the horrible parents of jk he now has to hide himself and its probably going to get even worse :((( 2. jks parents piss me the fuck off I want to fight I want to fight SOOOOOOOOOO badddd I will literally go over there and fight. they make me so mad!!!!! how dare they even think of experimenting on soulmate!!!! experimenting on humans or animals is just so wrong THEY ARE LIVING BEINGS AND THAT IS CONSIDERED ABUSE!!! (2/4) - 🍑3. I’m happy they’re going on that trip to rio but in your caption you were like ‘I’m sure nothing bad will happen’ LIESSSSSSSSSSS SOMETHING IS GOING TO GO WRONG FOR SURE FJWBDJ IM WORRIED AND SCARED MY PRECIOUS BABIES 4. OKAY BUT ZENDAYA IS SUCH A MOOD. I LOVE HER SO MUCH I CANT WAIT FOR HER TO GET A SOULMATE. (¾) - 🍑5. I HOPE TAEKOOK CAN FORM THEIR OWN BOND. I hate how they’re are distant, they both obviously have a different kind of bond like how vmin have a different bond and jikook have a different bond they’re all different from each other and I hope they can realise this and start liking each other. 6. I HAVENT LISTENED OR WATCHED FAKE LOVE YET I’VE BEEN BUSY WITH THE MOVE AND I DIDN’T HAVE INTERNET IM SCARED BUT EXCITED IDK HOW TO FEEL ANYMORE I JUST KNOW THAT I WILL BE SHOOKETH AS FUCK (4/4) - 🍑

I am so sorry things have been so stressful for you. I hope they are better now? And more settled at least. Tae is feeling excluded but things will get better (after getting much worse). JK’s parents are the worst, and they’re about to show that. It will be bad news for awhile. Zendaya is amazing…I love her too.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY LISTEN TO THE ALBUM! IMMEDIATELY! Seiously, it’s so good. I’m not exaggerating at all. Not even a little. REALLY REALLY GOOD! Hope all is well now for you, finally!

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