#dc comics asks

[soleminisanction]

Did Stephanie actually cheat on Tim when she got pregnant or? Were they on break? Is it a sort of gray area issue where they weren’t speaking or they weren’t officially together or? The whole situation confuses me..

No, Steph didn't cheat on Tim. She was already pregnant when they got together, she just didn't know. She was, however, cheating on her then-boyfriend Dean for at least some of the time she was aggressively flirting with Tim and turning all of their random patrol meet-ups into dates, because unlike Tim, she was the one who initiated that flirtation and she never mentioned to him that she was seeing someone else (while Tim repeatedly told her to cut it out because he was).

Which, to be fair, was almost certainly because Chuck Dixon decided he wanted to do that pregnancy arc after she'd been flirting with Tim for a while, and everything about Dean was an afterthought. I imagine the only reason the pregnancy wasn't from a one-night stand is that Mr. Reactionary Conservative Asshole didn't want to imply that his darling Spoiler was a ""slut"" who (gasp) slept around. She's a "bad girl" but not that bad a bad girl, after all. 🙄

[paladin-of-nerd-fandom65]

1, 3, 18 for the DC ask thing :)

1. While Aquaman is cool by himself already, on both accounts I gotta go with Wondy and the Amazons. A bit more familiar with them

3. Jason (with Tim and Dick as first and second place respectively); I like his willpower and ability to stand up against great odds despite his lack of acrobatic prowess yet abundance of street smarts. What I dislike is the though is the way many writers make him a bad boy as if being Robin did Jack and squat to his outlook and try making that look cool for him as a grown up. His jokey side is more bitter than compelling, his actions are ultimately not cool and the only thing he has going but even that’s tired by now is Daddy issues up the whazoo when it comes to Batman

18.I’d say maybe the Sandman verse though it’s understandable that it isn’t mentioned in this ask since it’s dense and compact with so much lore, one cannot truly know where to begin asking about it

[ashoss]

the brothers ever

or i saw this post and i blanked out to this being done

w/o text under the cut :)

[dragonpyre]

If the Lazarus pit can restore lost limbs and bones and shit, would that mean it also restores wisdom teeth?

What I’m saying is, assuming Jason had his wisdom teeth out early (like I did), he’d have to get them out AGAIN before enacting his 5D chess revenge plan on Batman

[notholaenas]

small timmy, regular sized hoodie

[martiniluvr]

I just cannot get over the thought of Jason Todd cooing while you take his massive cock, talking you through the pain of stretching you out on it the first time, and giggling at each other from euphoria because of just how much love there is between you two AHHHH 😭

this ask is so good I had to let it marinate in my mind…anon take these flowers I beg 💐

18+ minors dni

★・・・★・・・★・・・★

“jay…” you say apprehensively, trailing off as you bite your lip. your eyes are fixed on jason todd’s huge body hovering above you, and you can hear your heartbeat in your ears. you look down anxiously at his hard cock resting right below your bellybutton and smearing your skin with precum, and instantly avert your gaze. fuck, that’s big.

“I don’t—um…I don’t think it’s…” you trail off, your cheeks burning. despite your nerves, you feel your arousal drooling out of you. he smiles and shakes his head lightly, reaching down to run his fingers over your entrance.

“don’t worry ‘bout that,” he coos, collecting your wetness on his fingertips as you shudder. “look at me, ma.” you tear yourself away from the sight of his length, meeting his stare. “that’s right. just keep lookin’ at me. you’re gonna be fine.”

his hand comes down to pump his cock, spreading your slick onto his shaft as he aligns himself between your legs. after a pause, he sinks the tip in, and you suck in a sharp breath at the stinging in your walls as he penetrates you. he pauses halfway to allow you to adjust to his girth, his brows furrowing at your tightness. shit, you feel good around him. you let out a whine at the unfamiliar feeling of his size, your nails digging into his shoulders.

“fuck…you’re doin’ good, ma,” he says, the muscles between his shoulder blades tensing. “c’mon, princess, just relax for me. worst part’s almost over, hmm? just a little more.” his words are strained with need; he’s holding himself back from fucking you like he wants to, the way a pretty cunt like yours deserves to be used. soon, he tells himself. soon.

“ready?” he asks, his green eyes searching yours. you nod anxiously, and he bottoms out inside you with a groan. you gasp at the flash of pain as he stretches you, right as jason’s hand comes up to caress your cheek. he looks down at your expression, with your eyes screwed shut and your lower lip trapped between your teeth, and lets out a soft laugh. god, you’re pretty.

“hey, eyes on me, ma,” he rasps gently. you pry your eyelids open to meet his gaze, and he smiles at you. “that’s right, baby. fuck—doin’ so good.” he rocks his hips gently, and you let out a quiet moan despite the ache. “so fuckin’ good for me.” he thrusts again, a little deeper this time, and you notice the stinging is starting to subside, pleasure gradually taking its place. you moan again, louder this time.

“startin’ to feel it, huh, baby?” he murmurs, his eyes glancing down at your stretched pussy taking him in. heat pools in your chest as you hum in agreement, a sheepish giggle escaping you when jason’s eyes lock back onto yours. he chuckles in return, before planting a longing kiss on your lips as his hips continue to rock slowly.

you whine into him, wrapping your legs around his waist to signal that you’re ready for more; he smiles against your lips as his arm snakes around your back, locking your body against his. oh, you poor thing. you have no idea what you’re in for.

[not-another-robin]

I think Bruce was a chip off the ol block

[audhd-nightwing]

jason, coming back from the dead and seeing tim as robin: how could bruce replace me? how could he give robin to someone else?

dick, who created robin in honor of his dead parents and then had bruce take it away and give it to jason without even asking him:

[mysterycitrus]

I just love your Tim drake as it's just practically getting jumpscared everytime and I just love that

Also can we talk about the wonder twinnss and the FIC!

tysm !! i will go into heavy detail about the scientific sliding scale of jumpscares between the wonder twins and timmy drake

[abisalli]

the way you draw bart is so fun i want to explode him with my mind

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[soleminisanction]

I think it’s so fundamentally telling of what sort of person Stephanie is when her reaction to Greta potentially being killed via 10,000 megawatts of electricity isn’t to be sad or devastated or beat herself up about it/ be disappointed in herself (like I think maybe Tim or Batman would be) it’s purely fear of punishment via Robin being angry at her. She did not care whether greta lived or died. She’s never been overly concerned with whether someone died or not and this has been a consistent characteristic of hers, but that’s usually only in reference to criminal characters who you could justify ‘had it coming’ and whatnot. This was just like. Greta read her diary? And Steph then tried to kill her for it? And did not feel any regret upon trying to do so? Tf??

You're not wrong, anon (aside from comedically exaggerating the voltage of a suburban powerline). I considered calling that out in the post and decided it was a tangent that would've distracted from the actual point, which wasn't so much "Yikes, Steph is an asshole" so much as it was, "And this is why you shouldn't always take characters at their word; with good writers, there's often a lot more going on when you pay attention."

Although looking back over the post now, I really have to wonder if the whole issue wasn't Peter David's way of, in part, criticizing how Chuck Dixon was handling the whole Steph-hunts-Tim's-secret-identity storyline.

Peter David is not shy or subtle about working his opinions into his comics, YJ especially, and he definitely knew where the story was going -- the last page of the issue, the one I didn't include on the post, includes a direct reference to the way the arc would soon end, with an editorial note pointing readers to Robin to find out more.

Throughout the fight Secret specifically calls Steph out on invading Robin's privacy multiple times; it lines up with the way David had, for example, negatively portrayed pair of sports hunters in issue #7, or how he wrote Cissie's "It was the guns you idiot" rant from issue #15. Whereas Steph's responses are mostly comments on the immediate situation and personal barbs that deepen Greta's arc, ie, the bit questioning whether she's even human.

And even though YJ was working with the exact same themes and narrative elements, there's never a comparative incident where a member of the team tries to learn Robin's identity behind his back. Again, despite the fact that Secret could do so easily, and despite all the tension the identity issue ultimately ends up causing on the team. Because even if they don't like that he's keeping secrets, they respect that they're his secrets to keep, and Stephanie doesn't. Or rather, Chuck Dixon doesn't, at least not when it comes to his precious pet character.

Heck, there's also the fact that the "lecture" Tim gives at the end, the one hinting towards the storyline's conclusion, hinges on how Batman and Robin is a relationship built on a bond of implicit trust... and how the relationship doesn't work if that trust is broken... and it's hinting at the end of a storyline in which that implicit trust is broken in a way that arguably took Bruce out of character and turns him into the bad guy while not only excusing Stephanie's behavior but rewarding her for it with her first round of actual Bat-training...

Of course, I have zero way of knowing what Peter David was thinking so this is 100% just my analysis but... I could see it. It's a way to professionally express his displeasure without publicly criticizing a colleague or sabotaging their plans. David's a good writer, I wouldn't put it past him.

[linkspooky]

Why the disinterest in marvels superheros?

Just asking since I was curious. There isn’t any I’ll intend. If fact I also prefer DC over marvel too. But that’s mostly because I grew up with them more instead of marvels

The short answer is their non-spiderman characters just don't grab me. (There's the X-Men, but X-men shares the same problem as spiderman in that they don't really fit into the wider Marvel universe well).

The longer answer is that you might never guess this about me from my My Hero Academia takes, but I actually love teenage superheroes, and stories about adolescents with superpowers growing up into adulthood. My favorite comic of all time is Teen Titans precisely because it's about this topic, instead of someone like Bruce Wayne who has trained their whole life to be a hero what is it like to be a teenager with superpowers and suddenly have to grow up and figure all these things out about yourself and balance that with the crushing responsibility of being a superhero that adults struggle with? What happens when you have to grow into a different hero than the adults that came before you?T hat eventually you can't live entirely off their guidance forever?

It's a common saying in DC that batman needs Robin. That's why a lot of batman movies feel like they're missing something when they cut Robin out. DC does it's sidekicks extremely well, better than any other big comics continuity and they are also the best at letting them grow up. The best example is Nightwing of course, but every twenty years or so there is a generational shift in DC Comics where the sidekicks grow up and they get to rotate new superheroes in and the titles and costumes pass down. Jason Todd is allowed to grow up into Red Hood even though it is drastically different from who he was as Robin. Wally West replaced Barry Allen as the flash for a long time and even is the default flash in a lot of adaptations (Justice League Unlimited). Roy Harper is a proud single father of the world's cutest daughter Lian.

The thing is I don't just love the Fab Five and the NTT. When we got to Tim's generation, I was super invested Young Justice especially Tim and Kon and Cass. There are a lot of new kids that are being added in the post rebirth continuity, the new wonder girl, Wallace West (reverse flash's son), Emiko the new arrow sidekick, Duke Thomas fairly new additions that have so much potential and are just as interesting as the teenage characters from the 80s and 90s.

DC isn't perfect about this (the two reboots didn't help one bit we're now stuck in Damian's generation like perpetually) but it's better than anyone else.

When it comes to Marvel, basically the only Marvel series that's not Spiderman I've been able to stick with is Young Avengers which I thought was a genuinely interesting comic and the first time Marvel really tried to push to give teenage superheroes and fresh new superheroes into their lineup.

[paladin-of-nerd-fandom65]

DC asks

12

(Cracks fingers)

Nightwing

Starfire

Beast Boy

Raven

Cyborg

Troia

Terra

I think that should work just fine for a lineup

Their main HQ would be of course Titans Tower…two of them, One in space and the other in the bay of Bludhaven, functionally similar to how the JLA have the Watchtower and the Hall of Justice as dual HQs for whatever purposes.

Thanks buddy @spider-jaysart

[thoughtsaboutbats]

Jason, holding a photo of Tim as Robin: Tim what was with this haircut

Tim: it was the 90s! Everyone had that haircut!

Jason: it’s still ugly!

Duke: so is nobody going to mention Tim claiming to have been around in the 90s?

Tim: of course I was alive in the 90s? I was born in ‘77?

Duke: WAIT WHAT? So you’re in your 40’s???

Tim: no? You know I’m 17

Duke: If you were 17 you’d have been born in 2006!

Tim: that…. Yeah that makes sense. But I was definitely Robin in the 90s? I don’t…

Jason: yeah… and I definitely died in the 80s

Tim: … this is making my brain hurt

[workingbynyx]

Guys...what do we think about this jason

In a divergent-esque fic 👀

[crowkip]

if you hm. drew cass. for a poor lesbian. you know. if you wanted...........

shes giving u heart eyes