he'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease

dick grayson and friends | AO3

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[wanderintofics]

rough drafting it here but i think Batman has a special connection to the concept of child sidekicks in a way that defies modern feelings about child soldiers because he was the child who lost everything and felt he needed to make a change in the world but was denied the agency and choice to do anything. child Bruce would have fit right in with any of the Robins if he'd had a Batman and it's the fact that he didn't that ultimately drives him to extend the choice he never got. it was never about soldiers or "refusing to protect the children from themselves," it is, within the acceptable morality of the genre, respecting a child's personhood and ability to make decisions for themselves and giving them opportunities their adult never had. it's why you can't take the Robins away from Batman without significantly changing the character, because Batman was born from child Bruce's most heartfelt wish to be able to DO something about all the injustice in the world and so to deny other children that is to deny himself

[draconisxmalfoy]

Dear, sweet, Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley?  I guess so. But why do I have to know if you’re going to be with me? I’ll be with you. Even if you can’t see me. What do you mean I can’t see you? I can always see you.

The Land Before Time(1988) dir. Don Bluth

[floating-in-the-blue]

#Children’s media used to be about making you feel the entire depth and breadth of the human emotional spectrum#All while your 7 y/o brain struggled to make sense of if all. But it was like an emotional vaccine#Comprehending loss at that age didn’t make it any easier to bear with age. But atleast it was familiar (conserving these tags by @jonairadreaming because yes)

[sreppub]

Trying to work on commissions but my head has been hurting so bad when i look at screens........ i dont usually have random headaches....... if im getting sick or something i will. Cry

[sreppub]

drawing dick makes me feel better

[littlebabytimmybird]

the crucial thing to understand about dick grayson is that he is the #1 child labor fan. he's had a job since he could walk and by god will he keep having one. world's most employed ten year old.

[randalltier-deactivated20230711]

[dumpy-dump]

[valtsv]

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real

[hood-ex]

DC announces ‘Batman & Robin: Dynamic Duos’ as Waid and Samnee return for new maxiseries

'Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos' #1 arrives in comic shops on August 12, 2026.

[keysmashslushy]

like idk I just think that if I spent several years with a man who took care of me in the wake of one of my worst traumas and most of the people I met who were against him were A) criminals who want him dead B) social workers who want to rip me away from him or C) my friends who mock me for being loyal to him, I would probably not be very receptive to criticism either

[lumsel]

Of all the weird contrivances that superhero media have by virtue of genre, I think the no-kill rule is one of the easiest to justify. "Why don't these paragons of virtue extrajudicially murder people?" fuck dude, I wonder.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

do u have a fav robin? (dc) or do u prefer Batman solo?

yeah batman definitely worked better before robin got added to the mix. he was really good from march 1939 to april 1940 and it's all been downhill since then.

[destructions-daughter]

and you know what's really fucked up about a site like rco getting taken down? there are a ton of comics that you genuinely can't acquire elsewhere. during the height of my involvement in the dc fandom i did pay for so-called 'unlimited' access to the dc catalogue and there were huge swathes of comics- comics that weren't even that old or obscure! fucking batman annuals!!- that just did not appear in dc's database. a couple of these titles were available for purchase on amazon but the vast majority were not for sale through any official channel. so unless you were willing to shell out absurd amounts of money on the secondhand collector's market- which wouldn't benefit the copyright holder at all anyway!- rco or a similar site was your only option. it's just ridiculous.

[diablo-sera-tops]

hey don't cry. blorbo coughing up blood

[petridishbabydesigns]

“A hundred plus years.

And there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You...

I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you. Or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you *are*. What you do. How you try... I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand, with perfect clarity, exactly what you are... You're a hell of a woman... You're the One, Buffy.”

- Spike \ William “the bloody”

[keysmashslushy]

He’s a good person. You know that’s true. He saved you. He gave you everything. He could toss you aside at any moment. He’s a good person. Sometimes it’s confusing, being alone with him. He says you’re better than your friends and they’ll get you hurt. He keeps you on a tight leash. If you were under more pressure, you’d be a diamond. He’s a good person. You tell them that. Your friends snicker among themselves when you say it but you won’t stop. You know what he is. Sometimes you say something about what he does and they look at you blankly, like you’re an alien. You’re not sure how much they hate Batman and how much they hate you for loving him. He’s a good person. He tells you you shouldn’t let your emotions get in the way of your brain after screaming at you. You started the fight, you think. Everyone says you’re going to grow up to be him. You know he’s a good person, you admire him. He gave you everything. You’ve never felt more loved than the day he let you climb in his bed and. You look at your girlfriend and you see everything he isn’t. You’re madly in love with her. You know Bruce is a good person. He leaves the cowl sitting out sometimes and when you look into the sockets it looks like a coffin. You can’t do this forever. The thought of leaving him in there makes you sick. You can’t save him. When you were eight and he wrapped you in his jacket it felt like the world narrowed down to you and him. It’s never stopped feeling like that. You need to leave.

[big8cola]

great trope

[p1tufina]

Who else but THEEE dynamic duo