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more birbs… i fucking love pigeons

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something something generational emotional over regulation something

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muscle is very dense so someone carrying a lot of muscle might appear lighter than they actually are. this is all to say, Batman picks up his Robins no problem and makes it look easy, so the one time Jim Gordon needed to haul an unconscious/injured Robin over his shoulder to safety, he actually almost threw his back out and swore so loudly the entire time he woke up Robin

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style study idk

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Also huge portions of tiptoes were written with John Prine Summer’s end on loop. Sometimes I went for the Nathaniel Rateliff cover to spice things up but HUGE portions of that fic were written to a background of COME ON HOME. COME ON HOME. YOU DONT HAVE TO BE. ALONE. JUST COME ON HOME

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There are comments that make me so excited that I squeak out loud and then I respond “thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed!” Which in no way communicates the amount of happy wiggles and/or squeaking

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Being a Batkid doesn’t mean pushing through pain just for the ego or superiority win. It means pushing through pain long enough to make it somewhere safe to get help. It means not giving anyone, even an ally, a chance to parse weakness.

Dick finishes a rough mission with the Titans where he got thrown hard into a wall, smiles and jokes with everyone, and then zetas back to the Cave where he promptly throws up and collapses because almost every bone in his left arm is broken and not a single person noticed.

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Another Tim Drake fanart cause I love him so much. I'll go crazy if I don't draw my boy once in a while.

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Post-patrol sunrise ☀️

I drew this for Tim's bday and couldn't help myself but draw steph too :') i love them.

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:3

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My Child

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Imagine sending your kid away to a boarding school, and the guy that has been developing a father/son relationship with him (which may be one of the reason you are sending your kid away) sends his butler to be your son's VALET at his school. Personally, I would lose my mind. Is he trying to prove something to you??? Is he actually competing for your child's affection like divirced parents??? Your son is probably the only one at his school to have a valet, he is giving your son the prince treatment. WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO?!?!

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Timothy

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after some research to clarify statutes, here's where I generally fall on each of the Wayne kids' adoption status from a story perspective (note that this is not about their canon status, but what reasonably would happen given their individual situations):

Dick: Realistically, in the modern era Dick would be adopted basically immediately given his legal situation and Bruce's canonical willingness to adopt; the only reason he historically wasn't adopted was becasue single men weren't legally allowed to adopt minors (which is no longer the case). However, there are theoretically a few ways an author can justify Dick being permanently fostered and adopted as an adult instead, like Dick asking Bruce to not adopt him because he didn't want to feel like he was replacing his parents in Batman: Year Three.

Jason: Jason is definitely adopted prior to his death, idk what 2011-2021 DC tries to say. There's no reasonable outcome for Jason's situation that isn't adoption even if (like in the post-Flashpoint universe prior to Jason's post-Crisis backstory being re-canonized in "Cheer") Willis was alive and didn't want to give up parental rights, since Jason was 11-ish and Willis's sentence was canonically 'twenty to life.' At absolute minimum 2011-2021!Bruce was Jason's permanent foster father and/or legal guardian with physical custody, with Willis retaining limited parental rights. However, the court wouldn't have protested Bruce's adoption application after Willis's apparent death, especially if Jason voiced a desire to be adopted.

Tim: Tim's adoption process should have been fairly smooth given that Tim was 16 at the time and very much able to voice his own opinions on his living situation and desired legal status to the court. There's also very little incentive for Tim to opt for foster care over adoption under the circumstances, though Bruce and Tim could likely easily arrange a kinship care situation with Bruce classified as fictive kin if for some reason adoption wasn't in the cards.

Cass: Cass is a legal grey area in general since she was already 17 when she met Bruce, has no birth certificate, and her parents were never legally established as being her biological parents, but there's no reason either legally or practically for her status to be anything other than adopted...especially since it was 100% certainly an adult adoption regardless of universe. There's no existing parental rights to consider or terminate from the court's perspective.

Damian is obviously Bruce's biological child, but given the circumstances of his birth and early childhood it's not only possible but highly probable that he doesn't have a legally recognized birth certificate when he comes to live with Bruce. While this is obviously forgable via Babs or Bruce himself, the more likely situation is that someone (probably Bruce's lawyers at Bruce's request) went to the State Department and registered Damian as a foreign birth abroad using Damian's positive paternity results as an identification method, providing him with a Consular Report of Birth Abroad to prove his American citizenship.

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Greater Blue-eared Glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus), family Sturnidae, Kruger National Park, South Africa

photograph by PanWoyteczek