delicatebatharmony

Batman Research | Writing Practice she/her/hers

[casscainmainly]

The incalculable damage "He never let me touch him... hold him..." has done to fandom and DC writers' conception of David & Cass. omg. omg they literally snuggled on the rooftop together while stargazing. He held his arms open to her for a hug on the night of her first kill. One of the first things he did when they reunited was cradle her face. He goes in for a hug again after that. His physical affection was part & parcel of why Cass had such trouble identifying her childhood as abusive don't playyyy with me

[zahri-melitor]

Hi! You're very insightful about comics and your fics are really good, so I wanted to ask what you would recommend when writing a canon-accurate Tim Drake? Like, what main aspects about Tim are to be most considered?

I think vital aspects of Tim include the following:-

He’s a Good Kid (TM). Tim generally wants to live up to expectations and do the right thing and look out for others. He’s polite and sends thank you notes and feels guilty when he has to lie to people. He expects and accepts dealing with the consequences of his choices and actions. That’s not to say he doesn’t act out on occasion or think about doing the wrong thing, but he’s the sort of person that gets held up as a good role model for others.

He’s earnest and works incredibly hard. Tim is the 99% perspiration of achievement. He’s certainly brilliant in some areas but what he is more than anything else is incredibly hard working, and somewhat cautious over his skills until he knows he has them down. He’s one of the best bo fighters in the world not from natural talent but from so much practice and training with the best.

“Someone should do it. I’m someone, so I guess I will do it.” This is rhetorical nuance from ALPOD some people overlook. Tim’s involvement with the Mission has a core of ‘someone needs to step up and do this. And nobody else is volunteering. And I tried to find an alternative, but there’s just me.’ It’s not that he puts himself forward; it’s that he’s willing to volunteer for what he sees as a duty and responsibility that everyone else is trying to sidestep. It’s why he flirts with the idea of no longer being needed, and why every time he does end up in that situation where he has to choose whether to be a civilian or step back up because he can help, he is pulling the costume back on and returning.

He’s extremely socially adept and a compulsive networker. Tim is a gregarious social person. He makes friends easily, he can work with people even when he doesn’t like them, and most importantly he can hold a group together even when there are otherwise tensions in it. Two characters might not want to work with each other, but they’re both willing to work with Tim, and that’s what makes the team or teamup function. Tim isn’t necessarily the team leader, but he’s the reason the team functions together.

He is an annoying know-it-all and forgets to think before he speaks. King of sticking his foot in his mouth because he didn’t think through exactly what he said and missed an unfortunate implication. He’s got compulsive pester power in terms of being the exact line of annoying but charming and loveable that meant most older characters wanted to take him under their wing as a little brother immediately after meeting him. He also gets caught up in his own cleverness on occasion and feels the need to announce it to others or overcomplicate a situation. Hubris is usually pretty immediate in how it arrives when this happens, but it’s small scale (see the foot in mouth problem).

[vibrantstarfire]

more women whump. more women pushing themselves and passing out from sleep deprivation and exhaustion. more women training until their knuckles bleed and their legs give out from under them. more women being held prisoner and remaining stoic until the very end or perhaps when they’re rescued. more women under truth serum and terrifying hallucinogens. more women waking up in a pool of blood, their own and others’ and not knowing what happened but that something is terribly wrong with them. more women falling apart o ly when rescued. more women pushed to their breaking point. more women whump.

[casscainmainly]

In terms of Orphan vs. Batgirl it is vital not only that Orphan is as much a legacy name as Batgirl, but that Orphan is a legacy from her father whereas Batgirl is a legacy from her mother. It's not so much that Batgirl is gendered and Orphan isn't, but that Batgirl represents a time where Cass forges relationships with other women while Orphan is an era where these relationships have been erased. In her New 52 backstory, Cass meets Bruce before she meets Babs, and does not really form a close relationship with Babs at all. Her relationship with Steph has similarly been wiped out, and while she gets close with Harper her backstory now includes that she murdered Harper's mom (whereas in the original story she only murdered 1 person who was a man). Orphan interfering with Cass' feminine relationships is more or less explicit when looking at Cass' ballerina friend Christine Montclair. James Tynion IV (one of the creators of the Orphan name) writes a scene where, after Christine reads Cass a story written by Carolyn, Cass begins to introduce herself as Orphan but cuts herself off and says instead that she is Cassandra. By growing close to Christine - whose character also symbolises feminine legacy, who desires to pass down her love for ballet to another young girl - Cass breaks free from the Orphan name. Orphan is not and was never meant to be a sustainable name; it always symbolised Cass' isolation from other women, and in many ways represents her at her lowest. But Batgirl will always represent the family who took her in, the 'like a mother' who gifted her the suit and taught her how to wear it, the girl she loves who eventually wears the suit alongside her. When Cassandra is Batgirl, she is never alone.

[delicatebatharmony]

Item: The Wishlist Rarity: ⏶ Common

How many video games are in your backlog right now?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

None because I’m actually very selective about the games I buy!! (Plus it’s not my main hobby)

[delicatebatharmony]

For the whole time period where Dick has lost his memories after being shot and insists on forgetting his past and going bu Richard and ignoring everyone who used to love him, I think it would’ve been much more interesting to have at least A LITTLE bit of internal struggle by still feeling pressure to be someone he doesn’t remember (and so he tries to break away and do his own thing) while ALSO feeling a gaping hole in his life and/or feeling inexplicably drawn to the people who’d been so so central to his life for years (Donna, Bruce, Barbara, etc) and not knowing what to do with that

[renaithri]

save me characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation…..characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation save me………..

[renaithri]

save me character who made an undeniably terrible decision but man i dont know what i would have done either………

[delicatebatharmony]

The thing about Tim King, is that I have some serious doubts about his ability to demonstrate much range…

[jay-wasreblogging]

What if Jason's scars never healed and when he goes over for a quick visit he lifts off his helmet to drink and Bruce partially sees his son's face for the first time since he was killed realising he will know an adult Jason with scars and trauma behind a helmet longer than he's ever known his small child beaming up at him?

[nottodayupstarts]

begging for a fic with this premise PLEASE

[possumtion]

Getting ready

[cowsnotcrows]

happy Valentine’s Day!!!! :D

[delicatebatharmony]

I feel like a lot of people on tumblr aren’t fans of ai anyway, but if you are and use ChatGPT give this a watch!

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[swagophile]

I had a dream that Joe Biden kept trying to sneak back into the white house to become the president again and he had a variety of silly disguises like in one he was wearing a big moustache and top hat and introduced himself as Job Iden and tried to sell trump snake oil and trump was super interested until his moustache fell off and then JD vance was like "wait a minute.. that's joe biden!!" amd he was like "welp, gotta run, see ya later jack!" and then all the evil white house staff were shaking their heads cus joe biden almost sneaked into the white house and the newest aid was there and she was like "That was a close call, Mr President" and his new aide was actually kamala harris wearing a big cartoon wig and they were all too distracted by joe biden to notice

[nina-s0]

Damian, climbing through the window: oh

Bruce, sitting with his arms crossed on Damian's bed: where were you?

Damian: um with dick?

Dick, spinning around in a desk chair: try again.

Damain: Jason! I was with Jason!

Jason, tumbling out the wardrobe: right.

Damian: okay, you got me, I was with tim

Tim, crawling out from under the bed: bullshit, you don't rate me like that.

Damian: what the fuck. Duke?

Duke, spawning from the shadows:

Damian: oh ffs. I was with Cass.

Cass dropping down from the vents: 🤨

Damian:

Damian: I was with mother.

Talia, also crawling in from the window: hello, son. Where were you-

Talia: why are there so many people in your room?

Damian:

Damian: whys this happening to me

Steph, jumping out from under Bruce's cape: youngest sibling problems. Can't relate.

Bruce: where were you actually? And don't lie this time.

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In Smallville:

Jon, crawling in through the window: crap

Kon and Clark sitting in his room:

[ladyloveandjustice]

There is a video on youtube titled something like "why is Jason Todd so popular with Chinese fans' and I was like 'wow i didn't know he was but I guess that explains the fat plushie why is he" so I clicked on it, and honestly all the comments everyone left this girl are cracking me up (and some of them are insightful so)

"you cannot pity a man because that will be the beginning of your destruction" okay but this is probably exactly how I feel the more I read Robin!Jason and see how dirty they did him. The pity is leading to my destruction, which might be why he's probably jumped above Dick in the Robin rankings these days (putting him second after Steph)

"he can flirt with the same sex with ease but is a little helpless with the opposite sex" WHAT fanfic are they reading, is there jason todd donghua out there or are they going hard on creating their subtext

okay this is completely unrelated, I'm not conflating Japan and China here at all obviously, it's just a random connection...

... but the emphasis on the "cute/cool" contrast coming up repeatedly

keeps reminding me

if you put it in anime terms does.

does Jason Todd have gap moe.

guys did you know Jason Todd is a communist icon

wait when did he greet furniture

when did he

oh okay

ohhhhhh yeah I can see that.

Generational Trauma ft. Jason Todd

I never thought I'd see Jason Todd compared to Sun Wukong but you know, I'm glad I did. I'm glad I know now.

[cologona]

Learning that Jason took care of his sickly mother all by himself as a child definitely had a hefty hand in endearing him to me when I was first learning about the batfamily. That kind of background screams “good and pure” so much that it could be called a cliche.

[dogsuffrage]

I like when delivery people ask you to sign their tiny shitty screen with your finger like alright sure we can do some free drawing I guess. Some random strokes that evoke the essence of a signature. Looking me dead in the eyes while I play fruit ninja on this blank screen. Why not.

[etakeh]

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[petermorwood]

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