#comic is outsiders 2003

[fl4kf4n]

Another old post... this is a badly formatted comic but I wanted to finish it so it wouldn't stay a coloured sketch anymore :0

[mysterycitrus]

let dick grayson have sex with a man on page

[disco-troy]

I love how jarring it is to meet Dick Grayson for the first time. Like oh okay he’s just jumping out of a plane now. Okay.

[vechter]

i'm back on my dickroy bullshit and was re-reading teen titans and outsiders secret files and origins (2005) and just look:

EVEN ROY? ESPECIALLY ROY.

oooof, something about how this is the first question kory asks jade. because to kory, it's a crazy thing to even conceive- the way dick is treating roy. but also how kory, a person who dick loved deeply and who loved him back equally devotedly, can probably understand exactly why dick is treating roy like this.

look at roy's sad lil face here. he's so disheartened trying to convince everyone that dick is doing okay. is he lying to raven or to himself? does it matter when nothing is the same, that things'll never come around- not as long as donna is dead?

but despite everything- they know each other. they trust each other inherently and there's faith in the fact that they can rely on each other. look at how they confide in each other and only each other. maybe roy isn't lying to himself that things are okay, that dick is okay- when everything has changed- but this hasn't.

and maybe my fav panel ever:

go off, kory... the implications of this!!! maybe the only two people who have kept him afloat so far- bruce's indirect funding of the team that roy built from scratch for dick. also just how closed off dick's body language is here (what is this cape like coat btw i can't remember ever seeing it before) because he and kory know each other and still. still. dick's grief is paralyzing and so far, only roy and his life raft of a team have helped him to keep moving.

[make-the-devil-cry]

-Outsiders (2003) & Twin Size Mattress by The Front Bottoms

[allovesthings]

Outsiders (2003) in a nutshell:

Dick: Donna is dead my entire life is sorta falling apart and I'm going to isolate myself and never be on a team again because of my grief.

Roy:

Also Roy: Here is our emotional support team that you will get attached to because you not getting attached to a team is kinda laughable.

Also: ✨ homoerotic subtext ✨

[foolbo]

them :(

[littlefankingdom]

Dick: I may not agree with everything Batman does, but I understand it. He raised me. He was like a father to me -- and to Tim. And you know how it is with fathers. You can criticize them... But no one else can.

Dick is a "Only I and my siblings can criticize Bruce/Batman, and I will fight you if you do" son confirmed. Watch what you say about Batman in front of him.

I think this is important because of the posts I see saying the Titans are Batman's biggest haters. Dick would not tolerate them criticizing or talking shit about Bruce, about his dad, so the Titans better watch the way they talk about and to Batman. Only he can whine about Bruce.

[kurapioca]

…and so, he caved to the puppy eyes

[hmslusitania]

Roy: look. I know we both just lost someone we loved more than most other people who have ever existed. We should form a new team instead of wallowing in misery maybe

Dick: no. I’m wallowing in misery.

Roy: okay but I already came up with a roster

Dick: I’m not sending more friends into dangerous situations. I can’t do it again.

Roy: that’s the brilliant thing! It’s you, me, and a bunch of strangers you don’t care about!

Dick: I suppose that would work

Roy: 👍🏼😃👍🏼

Also Roy: [gets shot five times on like their second mission]

Dick:

Dick: swear to god Harper if you weren’t already in critical condition I’d kill you myself

[gob-lob]

guys I need fic recommendations please,,, i'm in the mood for a good fic rn but i've been struggling with finding one. don't even worry about what fandom it's from tbh as long as it's good LMAO

(but i did put fandoms I'm interested in in the tags if you wanna know- feel free to recommend whatever though)

[heroesriseandfall]

So so sad that Bart never got his chance to go apeshit after Kon died. Cassie got to join a Superboy cult. Tim got to attempt cloning 99+ times. Bart just became a depressed Flash and went into forensics to copy his grandpa. No, not fun, Superboy-resurrecting forensics. Regular cop forensics.

[mysterycitrus]

Outsiders era Roy Harper I love you even with your fuck ass soul patch

listen….. he was clinically depressed. he was sleeping with three different people. his bf was actively suicidal. he reprograms the robot that helped put donna in the ground. his daughter kept asking him why he was sad all the time. slade wilson (derogatory) was also there. he gets shot and is forced to grapple with his own morality. his best friend holds a gun to his temple and tells him to take it. there is never any fear that he’ll shoot.

at least roy got out before captain boomerang showed up.

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2004]

[bitter-hibiscus]

I'm fucking obsessed with this comic to a worrying degree

[make-the-devil-cry]

*leans back and munches popcorn*