#fox answers asks

[foxonrollerskates]

I kept thinking about the whole moot in law rule and I just remembered the reason why Ver thinks of it as such a powerful weapon: she's moots with catboybiologist. She could easily make your polls get hundreds of notes.

CATBOYBIOLOGIST?????

[foxglovefaun]

Hello! I figured while you seemed to be on the struggle bus that it was a good time to send some fanmail love your way. Your art, characters, and settings ring a bell deep in my heart! I love recognizing kindred spirits through their artwork that echoes in me like that. I hope you recover and enjoy your days soon. Good luck, keep up the good work!! Youre doing great stuff. ✌️🌈🌱

;-; ❤️ thank you.

Words are so hard nowadays, but pls know that it means so much to me to know that you feel connected to my project. Kindred spirits are exactly the folks I was hoping would find it ;w; ❤️❤️

Ah

words

thank you, ;v; here’s one of my favorite cozy drawings because ur message was cozy and also don’t know how to end a reply

[thebridgeburnercomic]

🤩 A WHOLE BLOG OF THE GUY EVER?! YESSS!! IDK how I didn't know you had a whole blog dedicated to just comic/art but I am finally here! Excuse the spam reblogs/likes hahaha

YESSS your enthusiasm fills my gills! ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) ahaha no worries about fillin my notifs! it's always exciting to know that my work's bein "active", you know what i mean? i watch a big stream of one screenname appearing in my notification tab like

i like having a weblog archive for my art! i started running this side archive/blog a lil late in the game so there's a lot of work that ive done that isn't reblogged here, but i do what i can to avoid post duplicates so it's easy to go pretty far back to see what i was doin. also like for functional reasons i have a passion for memeblogging and shitposting, which is excellent internet time for me but there is no denying that it clogs up more than just my own feed, so for those who want updates from me but dont want to see my shitpost blogging spurts, following @thebridgeburnercomic is a solid way to do that

[bunnis-monsters]

For you bunny and fox hybrid story (WHICH I AM OBSESSED WITH) how would bunny comfort fox when he’s out with their babies and people think he’s going to eat them? I feel like he’s so in love with bunny and he would love their kits/bunnies so much it would really hurt him:( please I’m begging for more fluff and comfort🥺🥺🥺

Aww, he’d definitely be very hurt that people would think that.

Some of the first litter cling to his leg, while two of their second little are in his arms. People whisper nasty things, some even trying to take his babies away from him!

But he snarls and snatches them back, his little buns running to their papa and crying, wanting him to pick them back up and keep him safe from the scary people trying to take them away!

[daily-metalsonic-and-others]

Game sonic: "How do you manage to get your Metal to change?!" Stray au Sonic: "Oh it was mostly Tails's doing really" (turns out to help a metal is to have the fox genius who's good with tech and help a robotic copy of a sonic that don't have a cool little bro)

Day 36

Tails just has to abuse his youngest brother privileges (aka guilt trip with the biggest wettest eyes you've ever seen) and even the local killer robot will back down

[super-cool-taxi-service]

[iam-anordinary-human-orami]

For the sillies, I raise you Nicky Hemmick has a vine account. Stay with me

What he usually does is he just goes around and asks the monsters their opinion on pop culture stuff. And let's say for this post's sake that both vine and omegaverse was created earlier in the 2000s rather than the 2010s.

One day he posts a vine asking Kevin "are you an alpha, beta or omega?" And Kevin is like ???? "Like the greek alphabet? Probably a Kappa, since I'm Kevin" cut to a picture of Kevin from a photoshoot with the biggest celebrity smile on and the words 'KAPPA' and underneath in smaller letters 'he's Kevin'

Next victim is Aaron. Nicky asks, Aaron looks annoyedly at him and says "I'm ym", "What's ym?", "your mo-" video cuts to an edited picture of Aaron looking like he's pregnant next to a small Nicky (only Nicky hasn't used a baby picture, he's just shrank a picture of himself as an adult), caption reads "OMEGA"

Nicky gets brave so he goes and asks Andrew who is just minding his own business. Nicky asks the question and Andrew responds with "I'm carrying" and makes a move to take out a knife from his sleeve. Cut to a blurry photo of Nicky running for his life, Andrew in the distance with a sharp and shiny object in his hands, caption reads "We'll be right back with our regular programing"

Last vine from Nicky is Neil. He's fixing his racquet or sth, Nicky asks "Are you an alpha, Beta or omega?" "What?", Nicky repeats the question, Neil is obviously not paying attention so he says "the first one?" cut to an edited picture of Neil in a forest, the full moon behind him and 'ALPHA?' on screen.

Other teams start copying the trend, Cat post's a vine asking Jean the same question but it's Jean after practice, "is this one of your kink-" jump cut and we can hear Cat saying "Just answer the question". Jean looks deadeyed at her standing behind the camera "I am tired of your incomprehensible american lingo is what I am". Cut to a still of Jean, a cigarrete edited on his mouth and a beret on his head, and the word 'FRENCH' in cursive.

The vines go viral. No one is happier than Nicky and no one is more miserable than Kevin whose KAPPA , he's Kevin, reaches worldwide audiences.

[foxonrollerskates]

are blue eyes still submissive

I will kill you where you stand

[foxglovefaun]

Ross looks great in a kilt

hehe thank u :3c

tbh i think everyone looks great in a kilt, but in this case it was fun to explore a little bit of Ross' family history to make this piece. his last name MacFayden is a variant of clan name McFadyen, so i wanted to make some time to be faithful to the clan Tartan. (I stuck with the modern Tartan coz the story takes place in like 2070.) While writing stuff for Burner i found that he uses different spellings of the family name to generate clerical errors. There's so much bureaucracy in Canada that the right tangle of red tape could get him released from custody on a written technicality. McFayden McFadyen MacFayden McFadden MacFeyden MacFadwyn MacFadyean when u can hide your last name in a crowd of similar names, someone's gonna spell it wrong eventually >:3 also as a second side note, i've joked that if Ross had a Scottish accent he would be too powerful so instead he sounds like Dr Brule

[casscainmainly]

"My long-held belief that Duke and Luke should not get along" <- could you please elaborate on this? I'm fond of both and I collect your thoughts and analyses like they're rare trading cards so I'm ready to be all 👀🫳🍿

First of all anon this might be my favourite ask ever, I've been dying to write my thoughts on these two so THANK YOU. Secondly my belief that Duke + Luke wouldn't get along actually stemmed from WFA, I was super annoyed with Luke giving Duke the pep talk in ep 76 because they have no relationship!!! Then I started thinking harder and realised they are a really interesting pair. In case anyone hasn't noticed I'm fond of giving Duke relationships where he's annoyed with the other person so 😭 this is very on brand.

The thing about Duke + Luke is they are, on the surface, similar - they are Black members of the Batfam who operate mostly independently, 'separate' from a legacy as Signal/Batwing (though I will deconstruct this later), devoted to their family, have a strong sense of justice, and view crime-fighting as a business. But I believe at their cores they are fundamental opposites - and it's this hidden opposition that makes me think they wouldn't vibe with each other. I'm focusing on We Are Robin Duke and Batwing Luke, though I will also refer to Duke's Signal days + Luke in Detective Comics.

(This is going to be a long post because this is lowkey my Luke + Duke thesis 😭)

Introductions

Duke and Luke were both introduced in the New 52, actually in the same year (2013!). What's really cool about their intros is that you already see how different they are. We first meet Duke in Zero Year, where he's fishing in the subway and then attacked by a gang; we then get the famous scene of him solving crosswords by Bruce's unconscious body. When Bruce tells Duke and his family to leave, Duke refuses, telling him they can't leave Duke's grandma and that all it takes is one riddle to free the city from Riddler's influence.

By contrast, we first meet Luke in the spotlight as he's wrestling for MMA in Batwing #19. He's been wrestling to get Batman's attention, refusing all job offers from his dad to do so (and thus creating some juicy father-son tension). In Batwing #20, we see he has two degrees from MIT, lives in a fancy apartment, and is really tech-oriented; his cover story for Batwing is that he's travelling the world.

Already, there are a couple things that already firmly separate them:

Class: Duke is from the Narrows whereas Luke is rich

Connection to Batman: Duke stumbled across Batman and gained his attention quite organically, whereas Luke was actively begging for Batman to notice him

Agency: Duke's actions were motivated by the extreme circumstances of Zero Year and a desire to help rooted in his material environment, whereas Luke's is a more internal, abstract wish to help (pointing to their class differences again)

Gotham: Duke refuses to leave his city, whereas Luke immediately packs up and travels the world

Intelligence: Both of them are fiercely intelligent, but in different ways - Duke loves puzzles and riddles whereas Luke is more inclined towards engineering and technology

And these differences only grow as they get older!!

Maturity

Duke is 16 (in my head, canonically it's vague but he's between Damian and Tim so 14-17) and Luke is 23. This age gap is honestly not that big, but I think it would feel big to both of them. And what's worse is that Duke is quite mature, but Luke is said to be immature:

Batwing #23

I don't think Luke is actually immature, but it's a recurring theme that other characters perceive him as unwilling to grow up; and I genuinely do think Batwing, for him, is kind of an adventure at first. Now compare this to Duke, whose circumstances disallowed him being childish. He had to grow up because his parents weren't around anymore, and he became quite jaded as a result. Even after he's mellowed out in his Signal days, I still don't think he could tolerate working with someone who comes off as light-hearted as Luke does. Duke would be annoyed by how he perceives Luke doesn't take things seriously, and Luke in turn would be annoyed when Duke inevitably criticises him for it.

Arc

Following on from above, their arcs are actually in total opposite directions. We first meet Duke alone and disillusioned with everything, putting his whole being into finding his parents. Then, through We Are Robin and Robin War, he begins to understand what Robin means as a symbol and finds community, leading to his brighter personality in Signal comics. Luke, however, begins very light-hearted (as seen above), with a huge respect for Batman and the Bat symbol. Once his family starts being torn apart, though, he becomes increasingly aggressive, more isolated, and in a much darker place. Compare a narration box from the last issues of both:

Batwing #34 / We Are Robin #12

These encapsulate their journeys: Duke learns that he doesn't have to act alone, whereas Luke struggles with accepting all that has happened since he put on his suit. Being a vigilante improves Duke's life, whereas it essentially ruins Luke's. This is why I don't think that WFA ep made sense!!! They have nothing in common in terms of the vigilante experience, and I think they would frustrate each other because they have such different conceptions of what the vigilante life is!!!!!!!

Batman and Robin

Okay so I said that Luke + Duke aren't legacies; even though Batwing is one, Luke doesn't actually talk to David Zavimbe, and his Batwing is not spiritually connected to David's really. But Luke and Duke both do take inspiration from other Batfam members - Batman and Robin, respectively.

Batwing #25 / Batman (2011) #45

Luke is the rare Batfam member whose motivations don't spring from tragedy - he's inspired one night when Batman saves him and he jumps in to help. Luke's love for Batman is wrapped up in Bruce himself, as a person rather than a symbol; he genuinely thinks Batman is awesome and wants to help people under his name.

Duke is the exact opposite - Robin is not a person for him but a symbol, and a symbol that can be spread to many people. It's also intimately tied with Duke's relationship to Gotham, because Batman is "on the gargoyle" and Robin is "on the street". Importantly, Duke says to Darryl that "I know you work for him, but you're us". Working for a singular person is in opposition to this 'us' that Duke believes in.

Luke, though not exactly an employee, literally wanted to work for Batman, Inc. Batwing is in many ways a 'job', an alternative to the corporate life Lucius wanted for him. Duke would, I think, take huge problems with Luke's philosophy as a whole. Separated from Gotham, attached to Batman as a person rather than as a symbol, Duke just literally wouldn't understand where Luke is coming from. And Luke, too, doesn't seem to respect Robin as a mantle (this is after someone mistakes him for Batman in Batwing #34):

I think Luke views Robin as firmly a kids' role, a sidekick for Batman; that would annoy the STUFFING out of Duke. I actually could write a whole post in itself about this incident and Luke being mistaken for Batman but that's for another day. The point is they are attached to the Batman and Robin legacies which in themselves are already vastly different, but Duke is kind of anti-Batman and Luke is a little anti-Robin, so they would not mix.

Family

One thing they do have in common is a deep love for family. But even then, their familial relationships are extremely different: Duke has a wonderful relationship with his parents, bolstered by the fact he lost them for a while, whereas Luke has a contentious relationship with his. Duke in some ways idealises his mom and dad, while Luke is sharply aware of his parents' shortcomings.

Batwing #20

Now this wouldn't be an issue normally, but Duke canonically has, like, a problem with judging other people's families. It's a really consistent (and somewhat hilarious) trait of his:

We Are Robin #5 / We Are Robin #5 / Gotham Nights #8

The Dre comment ("you're a mob kid?") is particularly telling. Because Duke has such a good relationship with his parents, and because he's shaped so much by them, I think he sees children as reflections of their parents/families. It's hard for him to see someone completely divorced from their family - you even see this a bit in Batman & The Outsiders, where although Duke understood Cass' disagreements with Shiva, I don't think he really got the nuances of what that felt like for Cass.

Luke's relationship with his father is complex and contentious. They love each other, but Lucius' desires for Luke just don't match what Luke wants, and Luke can't tell him about Batwing either so it's a constant back-and-forth. This secrecy is another thing Duke wouldn't get - I've made posts before about Duke and honesty, and it's a huge value of his. It's significant that as soon as his mom is healed she finds out about Signal; dishonesty is not really a factor in Duke's life, whereas it is Luke's central conflict. Luke's entire thing with his dad and his alter ego is something Duke has never had to deal with, and I think Duke would just be like 'tell him?? and make up??' and Luke would sigh so loud and hard.

Personality and Authority

But all of that aside, I just think their personalities wouldn't mix! Duke is a jaded teenager whose overt honesty and resistance to authority often give off a bad first impression (see his first encounters with Black Lightning, We Are Robin, Damian, even the Bruce train scene...). People do warm up to Duke quick, and once you love him you adore him, but there's a hurdle to becoming close to him that you have to leap first.

Luke, on the other hand, is affable and immediately likable. He's popular in school (as Russell mentions in #25), has experienced college social life, and is open and friendly. I think in an initial meeting Luke would find Duke off-putting and rude, while Duke would find Luke shallow and annoying. Luke is an extremely confident person, as shown in both Batwing and Detective Comics (particularly the latter). I think Duke would take this confidence as him being stuck-up, especially because Luke is rich.

Their class differences also separate their reactions to authority. Luke doesn't take authority at face value - he disobeys Bruce basically as much as Duke does. However, given his upbringing he isn't that anti-authority. Compare Luke and Duke's attitudes to cops:

Batwing #25 / We Are Robin #2

The Luke narration box is after the cops shoot him and accidentally make him kill his best friend 😭😭😭 like if that had happened to Duke his inner voice would NOT say that. This is another example of how their different upbringings and personalities cause them to have DRASTICALLY different outlooks on things. Batwing also sides with Batwoman when she kills Clayface in Detective Comics, something I think Duke would not do (he would've sided with Cass) so their ideologies often put them on opposite sides.

FINALLY, and least importantly, Luke is not a reader. This is a recurring thing and it's so funny:

Batwing #21

That's Tam telling Luke to "read a book". I think this exact interaction would happen with Duke taking the place of Tam, where he'd just be super annoyed that Luke doesn't enjoy literature. Honestly I think Duke might remind Luke of Tam in a lot of ways, since Duke is Bruce's golden child just like Tam is Lucius'. And that would annoy Luke, like he can't escape annoying younger siblings even as Batwing?? Bruce liking Duke more than Luke, even when Duke doesn't even care for Bruce's approval, would send Luke's blood pressure through the ROOF.

Conclusion

Um anyway I'm so so sorry this was so long but that's why I think Luke and Duke wouldn't get along!! It's mostly that they have such different outlooks on literally everything and their personalities clash. Anyway, if anyone bothered to read til the end here's your reward!! A little edit of what SHOULD have happened in WFA ep 76:

[sincerely-sofie]

Do Foxes like giving gifts like cats do?

You know how there’s wild versions of the anthro animals? Like the spiders, squirrels, fish, and birds? What if the Fox gifted Firn a dead wild cat that looks nearly identical to Narinder.

Here is my gift for you, the metaphorical corpse of the person who hurt you. Hopefully someday it’ll be more than metaphorical

He even left a thoughtful message with the leftover viscera! Surely Firn will receive this well!

[daily-metalsonic-and-others]

What if Neo Metal is just this Metal going through an "edgy teen phase"

THAT'S SO FUNNY. Sonic scared him with a bug 5 minutes after this and Metal hid on top of the fridge

[bigtreefest]

Fake fic title: Long Time Coming

GREM! I adore this, there are so many ideas running in my head. Hehe, let’s go with Stevie.

Based off this ask game

Long Time Coming

Steve Rogers x Reader (avengers AU)

Steve was a patient man. Well… at least he thought he was. Likely moreso when he was little. Literally. When there’s not much you can do on your own, everything besides action becomes waiting. So he was used to being patient, but not necessarily good at it. No longer practiced. Because now, in an era where everything happened in an instant, there was no point in sitting around.

He had already waited long enough. A hundred years of waiting for the right one. So close just to be taken away. So he filled his time with other things, using saving others as an excuse to not save himself.

In this new time, Steve also had to adjust to so much change. Constantly. New foods, new technology, new people. It was overwhelming and numbing all at once. Putting his head down and getting to work everyday was the only way to get through. And it was always the same. Rushed. Precise and safe as possible. Forget it and move on, quickly. Too much was going on to hang on to one thing.

And then suddenly, after a recon mission on the beach, it all slowed down. He wasn’t sure if it was the end catching up with him. Finally. After all these years. But he took in the beauty of the land for the first time since he was a teenager.

The waves crashed in slow motion on the shore, sun starting to dip below the horizon, painting the sky peachy orange. As he fought to keep his eyes open to take in the whole, blindingly bright sight, a silhouette rose from the water, giving his eyes reprieve he didn’t ask for. Tony emerged from somewhere on his right side, walking towards the figure, arms open for a hug. Steve’s ears felt like they were stuffed with cotton, he could hardly read the lips of his friend, welcoming a new member of the team: you.

[super-cool-taxi-service]

PAPYRUSSSSSSSSS.

sexuality?

[storyweavingspider]

how’d you get into Bataireacht!!!! also you look very cool with the stick over the shoulder like that

Thank you!!

Short version: a friend posted about it on Lex and I went “oh hey, people keep physically threatening me and talking about lynching me, I should learn how to defend myself better as a disabled Black transfemme who uses a cane full time” then started classes. The faction is Strange Fox Fighting Arts, which is (inhales) an anticolonial/antiimperial/antizionist/antifascist/antiracist, covid conscious, transmisogyny-informed, disability-informed, trans-run martial arts faction. (I want to actually say all that because a lot of fash and white supremacists REALLY like other Bataireacht factions bc Irish fetishism)

Cú teaches masked in person classes once or twice a month in DC at Highstyle Jiujitsu (a leftist jiujitsu gym), weekly at SFFA’s gym, and online weekly with options for multiple timezones! You can read more at www.strangefoxfightingarts.com or see more at @bmorebata on ig!

If you’re not interested yourself but would like to help others attend, you can sponsor a class/pass! Email Cú for more details there.

Longer version under the cut (with a couple pictures!):

I have *some* martial arts background (taekwondo and informal wrestling) and had wanted to start capoeira pre-disability bc I used to be a professional dancer, and had been interested in ways to defend myself beyond firearms even with my disabilities for ages.

So being able to learn a distinct style for fighting with a cane, from a trans teacher? I was interested instantly.

From there it became one of the most important parts of my life, honestly.

Not only was it taught by another trans person (Coach Cú, our faction leader, is a trans man), but it was covid-conscious and serious about it, not just “masks ✨suggested✨”. Over time, I got to go to even more stuff like our factionfest and the Big Bata Weekend a year ago in Chicago to meet Foxes from everywhere! :3

I also passed my level 1 test and am now a Hare, the first level/animal mentor of our faction’s system (Doyle style, a two-handed Bata style) and I really wanna get a tattoo to connemmerate it.

[foxonrollerskates]

Why r u always up at midnight huh

Midnight for YOU. Its 11 pm for me