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🦇@fliipclaw's DC (mainly batfam) sideblog 🦇 micha/bee, they/fae, 21 🦇 original posts tagged #hot takes & fic-related posts tagged #my fics 🦇 non-original posts are sporadically tagged based on spoons 🦇

[shokuto]

The funniest thing about the Teen Titans cartoon is how they all call each other by their code names and it's because despite living together they don't each other's real names. Titans Tower was a discord server

[fortegrace]

Cass doodle dump from last year!

[upswings]

tbh i find this fandom’s insistence on interpreting all real-world arguments about batman as personal attacks on bruce wayne, the character, as opposed to critique of batman as a media property exhausting. and to be fair, it’s not like people on the other side don’t conflate the two but … i think it is invariably less interesting to see a comment like “batman is always beating up mentally ill people” and read it as “bruce wayne should just give the joker a stern talking to about all the murders he does,” rather than “the way that batman’s antagonists are commonly portrayed as driven by symptoms of mental illness to violent crime, up to and including mass murder, reinforces dangerous misconceptions about a vulnerable population.” like, how often do the comics depict people with psychosis, DID, compulsive behaviors, etc. who aren’t a danger to others, as opposed to people with those symptoms who are theme villains? you can’t tell me that has no political implications.

you also can’t tell me it has no political implications that street crime in gotham more closely resembles right-wing talk radio’s deranged ideas of what chicago is like than it does any actual us city, or that billionaire bruce wayne donates large portions of his extensive fortune to charity seemingly without effecting any kind of meaningful change. like, come on.

[flybynightwing]

This is the point about Batman’s politics that I eternally return to: Yes, the universe is constructed such that Batman has to beat up poor people, but it didn’t just magically happen that way. People designed it that way.

And not even in a sort of casually thoughtless way—although yeah, a lot of it is casually thoughtless—but like, the explicit argument of The Man of Steel #3 is that Batman has to beat up poor people, or Gotham will spiral out of control. Knightfall has entire, fully unnecessary sequences making fun of the idea of sympathizing with incarcerated people with mental illnesses.

Not only is it entirely reasonable to step back and question the ethics and politics of how a fictional universe is constructed, Batman comics invite that criticism by, often enough, engaging with it.

[boxonarock]

i blacked out when i was drawing this idr anything

[arguablysomaya]

broke: duke being the “normal one” in the batfam

woke: tim being the normal one

bespoke: NOBODY is normal in this godforsaken family, duke wears bright yellow and punches villains in broad daylight while jumping off bridges, and tim is the worlds first 8 year old stalker fan and is only ever two bad weeks away from becoming a cackling mad scientist a la frankenstein

[sohotthateveryonedied]

in light of recent developments (the epiphany that i apparently only read the same fanfics over and over again and never branch out) i'm hereby taking action to cure my fic deficiency!

✨so send me your favorite big multi-chapter fanfic (preferably batfam please) and i'll probably read it!! ✨

[bullyingbatman]

here's some recs!

3:16 by partingxshot - set during dick's time as batman, the slow development of his relationship with damian

upside down and inside out by danishsweethearts - my favourite reverse batfam fic

into the brighter night by shoalsea - tim gets kidnapped by aliens and rescued by his friends. his family has a crisis about it.

detective stories by prismatical - a series of casefics

not big multi-chapter fics but they're fairly long for their chapter count & i like them a lot:

one shot, two shots in the night by discowing - my favourite batfam fic of all time. bruce writes a memoir.

red robin under the spotlight by poteto - tim deals with the press

& if you'll allow me some shameless self-promotion, my fic the echoes of scars and the unbeaten road is a quite long fairytale au.

[emilyarmadillo]

Wayne Family Adventures Ep. 32

Cassandra Cain icons

[sohotthateveryonedied]

i think he's earned it. as a treat

[carrotkicks]

This weeks doodles! Unsurprisingly a lot of Tim Drake.

[broosepayne]

Tim, texting discreetly on his phone:

Tim: hey b

Bruce: What is it. I’m busy.

Tim: how busy

Bruce: Busy with Clark.

Tim: 👽 🍆

Bruce: Stop.

—

Tim: gremlin. r u back from your shonen tournament arc

Damian: I’m beating the Joker with a socket wrench.

Tim: owo

Damian: Please do not tell Father.

—

Tim: jason r u available

Jason: What do you want, goober?

Tim: i need help i brought Bernard up on a gotham bank gargoyle to see the city and he kissed me and my grapple fell but he doesnt know so im playing it cool but we’re stuck up here please come help me can you climb the gargoyle and lower a grapple to me so he doesn’t see please help i don’t want to look like an idiot i will do anything 😞😞😞

Jason: You’re stuck on a gargoyle with your conspiracy theorist boyfriend?

Tim: ye :(

Jason: LOL

Tim: JASON

Jason: Alright just play it cool. I’ll come find you. But you owe me one.

[batfamilyonline]

jason todd & mocking the ‘rumours’ about him being dead

[bagofbonesmp3]

imagine if they made comic book writers actually read comics. the industry would be in shambles

[corhore]

The fact that Marvel or DC doesn’t have like continuity editors or something to make sure characters are in check is baffling to me. 

[autisticredhood]

im obsessed w bruce’s grief over jason but not in DC’s brainrot weaponizing it as a way to guilt-trip. it’s about love, babey! there is no purpose to this grief other than it being about love! how love doesn’t change anything, doesn’t fix anything, doesn’t excuse actions & choices made but it still exists, never stops. tragedy can’t kill love and love can’t save tragedy

[tim-drakes-showgirl-wings-deact]

OMFG!!!!

THA PRIDE COVERS FOR 2022 ARE AMAZING

LOOK AT THEM!!! THEY ARE SO HAPPY!!!

[noartnowritingsorry]

Please read the whole thing.  

Now I will argue that Batman’s motivations (protecting the innocent), level of preparedness, and the fact that he doesn’t kill people, put him miles above the current uniformed fascists charged with maintaining the status quo and protecting property. That being said I think this would be an innovative take on the Batman mythos, and have social commentary guaranteed to piss the wrong people (by which I mean the right people) right off.  Personally I’d watch the shit out of that. 😉

[sinigangrobot]

Batgirls <3

[dear-ao3]