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they/them, moved to @dadeemest

[dadeem]

a fanart for batman and jaybin star wars au by @/asphyxinnax on instagram (all design credit goes to them) ! i saw their designs during art fight and just had to try drawing ‘em.

[dadeemest]

howdy (another art blog, who would've guessed..)

[dadeem]

i’m moving art blogs ! here’s my new one, see ya there 🤞🤞

[lgbtmtg]

i really like what gay people have done with batman

[lushloooser]

at this point crowwkui is just my james gunn

[claryfrayed]

i think that out of all the batkids, jason and stephanie are my favorite duo and there’s just not enough with them. like hello, dead robins club. the whole situation they have with black mask. both of them being raised by their moms. and you just know that they raise everyone’s blood pressure.

[dadeem]

i don’t look like a ghost.. do i?

[vampirlor]

imagine being dick grayson and you get fired from your job and then your girlfriend breaks up with you and then the place your parents died burns to the ground and then your apartment explodes and then ur twin dies and then you have a situationship with roy harper and then ur city explodes and then your dead brother comes back to life and starts killing people and to make everything worse his new helmet looks like tylenol

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

Bitter Steph, Steph with human emotions besides ‘quirky silly girl’, angry steph, mature Steph, immature Steph in a way which feels natural, jealous Steph, Steph with a heart too big for her body, insecure Steph, cautious Steph, Steph who’s character is rooted in her Robin 1993, Batgirl 2000 and Batgirl 2009 characterization over anything post flashpoint- oh don’t mind me just manifesting. Tate Brombal are you listening.

[razed-filth]

Jaybin will straight up behave exactly like Bruce and then Bruce will get mad and then behave the same exact way

man that’s your son

[glitter-stained]

Fandom likes to act like Jason's too broken for therapy or something but I just know you put that guy in a confidential space why a guy who specialises in withholding judgement, accepting him wholly and listening with empathy, and I don't believe for one second he's gonna be "too tough for it" or anything. The man yearns for connection. The true obstacle to Jason getting therapy is that someone would inevitably bug the office or break into it to steal Jason's therapy notes

[horsechestnut]

I have a lot of feelings about Stephanie and her relationship to the Wayne fortune, but I think what it ultimately boils down to is I don't think she would ever put herself in a position where Bruce could take her life away again. He's already done that once when he ripped away Robin and Spoiler, she wouldn't give him another chance. Even years in the future when she's comfortable and they're on good terms, I don't think she would be able to ever let him support her because if he has any control over her life then there's always the chance he'll back slide, and she will not be caught in that position a third (fourth?) time.

[victoryarchive]

“If you write Willis Todd as physically/verbally abusive while also completely ignoring any form of abuse from Bruce Wayne you are feeding into classist stereotypes” OMG who said that?!?! 😱🫢

[crimebosscommunism]

i like to think jason deliberately obfuscates the role sheila played in his death from the others, because he’d rather be painted as cocky and impulsive than have to acknowledge that she never wanted him, that she used him, that he was easy to manipulate because he was so desperate for a parent who wouldn’t leave. i think he revisits the memory of being held at gunpoint by his own mom and feels deep shame for ever having allowed himself to hope, for being unlovable, for seeking love in the first place. it was a betrayal so cruel it altered his neural pathways. i think there’s a part of him that wants to go back and scream at himself for ever having been stupid enough to believe her, that blames himself for having fallen victim to her lies, that hates himself for not having been “better” so as to avoid the situation entirely. the sheer depth of shame - i think it chokes him

[girlsinthelazaruspit]

i have a post about urban legends cheer and how at the current moment the biggest hurdle in us getting good jason stories is bruce himself and the way dc editorial bends to his whims + an analysis of why under the red hood remains such a good comic but i have College.

[kiirbytunaa]

i love me some good serious fear toxin tropes, but have we ever considered that the bats just. start doing shit.

like, obviously they're going to take it seriously in the moment. a bit hard not to when jason is in the corner muttering about some hotline or whatever. but when they're in the medbay, antidote still being curated to match the particular toxin, this is exactly how I picture it going and I fully believe this is what happens.

tim : so. you, uh, good?

jason : (staring blankly at a corner of the room, hands catastrophically shaking)

tim : okay, not good, yeah.

jason : (glances at tim) there's something. right there. (looks back to the corner)

tim : oh so we're hallucinating still, got it.

*a beat*

tim : do you want me to... beat it up?

jason : what.

tim : you know. like. start throwing hands with the thing.

jason : fuck do you think that's gonna— oh fuck it's moVING JUMP IT TIM JUMP IT—!

tim : SHIT— (starts punching the absolute shit out of the air)

jason : FUCK IT UP TIMBO!!

tim : is— is this working?!

jason : I. I think so. huh. what th— KEEP FUCKING PUNCHING KEEP FUCKING PUNCHING.

tim : IM TRYING!

dick, walking into the medbay : alright, so it seems like scarecrow used a mix of the hallucination toxin and the regular fear toxin, so we should just give you both— what the hell is going on.

jason : timmers is trying to beat the shit out of my toxin demons.

dick : ... is he winning?

jason : hell no, four more have shown up since he's started. it's just easier to realize they aren't real whenever he's just absolutely going at it and nothing happens.

dick : .

dick : you said there was more?

by the time jason is given the antidote tim and dick have "successfully" fucked up like, three jokers.

[obligatorytropeinsert]

a low effort meme I made today instead of studying for exams

[damianbugs]

just watched a video about "calf grafting" which is where if a calf doesn't survive, they skin their coat and place it as a jacket on another calf so the cow can't tell their biological one is dead. the cow will then, hopefully, accept that new calf as their own because of the familiar smell. the process itself is very gruesome, but centuries old and very successful. some studies suggest the cow is fully aware their calf is dead and will mourn, but then suddenly, assume their calf is alive and well again. some reject the new calf while others seem to be nonethewiser. usually the replacement calf comes about this job because their actual mother is unfit to care for them or they were rejected soon after birth.

now, naturally, my immediate thought upon learning anything vaguely disturbing is: where have i heard this before? taking the skin of the young and passing it along, sparing the parent the grief and the time lost. something that has happened for years and proves to be quite successful, repeated over and over. who's skin have i (we; the readers, creators and watchers) taken and draped over another...

the parent that seems to accept it everytime, despite the violent and very physical truth of their loss that was just laying before them. a familiar smell and smile and behavioral pattern, familiar actions, familiar purpose... well i've got my child back, their skin as i remember, why would i disagree? why would i stop? how can i stop? who will take responsibility if not me? is this not my doing, after all?

the young that knows nothing more than this coat they now own, perhaps a size too big or too small, a cape to shield decay for a couple days before this too becomes the new normal. a purpose to fulfil and a dark grief to overpower... this legacy i accept, this burden i must carry, this purpose and this life i crave. this guardian i yearn for and this devotion that eats me. who will take responsibility if not me? is this not my doing, after all?

life is full of scary coincidences like that, existing in the balance of science and indulgent story telling. how interesting!