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There is no rhyme or reason to this, just stuff I like Find me as eaglerayys on ao3 if you like Batman/ DC stuff

[eaglerayys]

“Best friends” 👀

[eaglerayys]

Americans in 1988, 2000, and 2004:

[eaglerayys]

We’ve all heard of Dad Lore™ but I love the idea of Dick having an insane level of Big Brother Lore. Like Dick lived his entire childhood an only child and was out of the manor before Jason came along, and there’s only so much that can be learned through case files and stories.

Imagine one of the younger bats, who think they have a good understanding of Dicks childhood just coming up short when they hear Dick say “Uncle Clark” in a not-quite-a-joke voice because they knew Dick was close with the og Leaguers but not that close.

Or imagine they see Dick interact with Talia for the first time without Damian present and realize that have evil stepmother level beef that Dick has simply never acknowledged.

It could even be as simple as Dick offhandedly mentioning that time his apartment got blown up or that he does actually know how to shoot a gun because he was forcefully taught by fucking Deathstroke the Terminator.

Like the possibilities are endless and it’s just such a fun concept to consider.

[eaglerayys]

I now have a fic about Tim finding out that Dick and Talia lowkey hate each other!

Secret Grudge (1327 words) by eaglerayys Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Jason Todd Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Dick Grayson, Talia al Ghul, Jason Todd Additional Tags: POV Tim Drake (DCU), Batfamily (DCU), Batfamily Dynamics (DCU), Talia vs Dick, they hate each other, But Only When Damian's Not There, Humor, canon? I hardly know her, Rated T for language, Dick Grayson Has Secrets Summary:

Somewhere along the line Tim had neglected to account for two very glaringly important facts: Dick Grayson could stage a performance like no other, and he was uniquely adept at manipulating the way he was viewed by younger heroes, especially those he considered to be his younger brothers. And Tim, being one of said brothers, made the fatal mistake of forgetting that he was not immune to Dick’s maneuverings.

These realizations came rather synchronously as Tim watched Nightwing and Talia al Ghul exchange blows in a dark warehouse on the outskirts of Blüdhaven.

 Or

Tim watches Dick and Talia fight and realizes that he missed the memo on them hating each other

[eaglerayys]

I love you Dimension 20

[eaglerayys]

City Council of Darkness ep 9 spoiler without context

[ariadne-mouse]

when Game Changer briefly becomes Game Changers

[eaglerayys]

I just read a Heated Rivalry fic that referred to French as a “foreign language” and I don't know whether to laugh or be appalled

[prokopetz]

You are an unreliable narrator because your coping mechanisms for your deep-seated trauma forbid you from acknowledging the reality of the situation. I am an unreliable narrator because I sincerely have no idea what the fuck is going on.

[eaglerayys]

Hal Jordan one day, half delirious during a long shift on the Watchtower: No but like, have you noticed that Batman is like super strong for a normal guy? Like he has to have powers of some kind

Barry, side-eyeing Hal: What are you talking about

Hal: He's never been seen in Gotham during the day, and he like, lives in the shadows

Barry: How long has it been since you slept

Hal: I think he's hiding something

Dick, inserting himself into the conversation for fun: It's because he's a vampire

Hal:

Baryy:

Hal: Oh my god he's a vampire

[eaglerayys]

Every time I see a Heated Rivalry au that is like “what if they had an age gap?” or “what if they played on the same team from the start?” or “what if if they were childhood friends” I laugh a little cuz like. Those books exist. Believe it or not there are so many mm hockey romances out there that are like Heated Rivalry (ie. about gay hockey players) but based on different romance tropes.

[stealingpotatoes]

Me imagining Kanan and Toph meeting 🤣

i mean they have a lot to bond over!

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[stealingpotatoes]

@happybabysloth yeah but like who's gonna know. who's gonna know he's wearing red. definitely not these guys, he's invited <3

[msmazingham]

Dear Rachel Reid haters,

I’m not sure at what point you picked up this little Harlequin gay sports romance and confused it for “Racial Trauma” by Kenneth V. Hardy, the DSM-5, “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love” by bell hooks, or “Born on a Blue Day” by Daniel Tammet, but boy, you have opinions about it.

Two thoughts here:

1. As someone who has worked in advocacy environments for two decades, it has been deeply woven into me by equity denied advocates that we will never be perfect in our advocacy, but that’s okay. Write with love for the character when you write someone whose experience is not your own (ie ALL CHARACTERS). Rachel has been pretty clear about her love for both characters, despite expressing frustration when her writing wasn’t what she envisioned or how she wanted it to come out. That’s life and that’s writing. No writer is perfect, but if we tell them not to include diverse characters and experiences in their writing, how does that exposure begin?

2. In the genre she is writing in, she brings attention, she doesn’t teach. It is not her job in this novel to explore the complexities of an equity denied athlete in hockey, except for the ways it consciously and directly impacts the plot. It is to the reader to bring your knowledge or to expand their knowledge to connect with the text. That is literary analysis. This isn’t non-fiction, it isn’t dramatic fiction, it is romance. The requisites for a Harlequin romance tend to follow specific tropes and be light enough for people to pick up and put down without too much brain power.

My point is, by all means, wish it was more. Take the work, research, and write a dissertation on the real impacts of race on athletes, on neurodivergence in identity, on the impacts of childhood trauma on mental health, on neurodivergent, anxiety, and disordered eating. But don’t turn around and shit all over a writer because she didn’t use her vehicle, that was designed for something else, for not doing it. If you don’t like it, put it down. There is no need to lambaste and tear down someone because you dislike what they created, OR because you feel like you know their creations better than they do.

Stop being mad at Rachel Reid for running sprints because you decided she should be running a marathon.

[vermofftiss]

Murderbot: take my arm

Farai: but you don't like to be touched

Murderbot, currently standing there with a small child clinging to its chest like a barnacle: we are so far past that right now

[eaglerayys]

Love that anytime Maul appears in Star Wars he is doing a some combination of:

Scheming with Mandalorians

Being pissed at Palpatine/the Empire

Please be my apprentice 🥺

Aura farming

[padofwan]

We've had "guy who doesn't know he lives in star wars" (Din Djarin) and we've had "guy who is so aware he lives in star wars that it's ruining his life" (Baylan Skoll) but now we have "guy who didn't know he lived in star wars but just found out in the most traumatizing way imaginable" (Rylee Lawson)

[eaglerayys]

My hottest Shane and Troy take is that if Ilya can have a frenemies relationship with Hayden based largely on his own jealousy, then Shane can have beef with Troy based on the far more justifiable fact that Troy was—at best—accessory to bigotry thrown Shane’s way

[frownyalfred]

I know Detective!Dick isn’t a popular trope but man oh man wouldn’t it be hilarious to throw him and Jim Gordon into a fast paced multi-jurisdiction investigation between Gotham, Blüdhaven, and Metropolis where they have to work together and try so so hard not to mention the elephant in the room (Batman, who neither of them are supposed to know) or the other elephant (so far nobody in Blüdhaven PD knows Dick is Bruce Wayne’s son) and yet another elephant (Jim knows Dick is downplaying his detective skills and letting him take the lead) and to round out the herd, one more elephant (he’s still dating Babs but only as Nightwing and Jim can’t threaten Nightwing with a shotgun) and then there’s the crushing realization that they should absolutely be calling Batman but, again, neither of them “know” Batman.