a cheerless bird in a gilded cage

he/they | AO3: here | currently reading post-crisis arrows + bats circa 2000

[embers-writes]

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embers | he/they | adult

dc nerd, dick grayson and kon el enthusiast, fab five enjoyer. dinah lance brainrot is rapidly taking hold. enormous fan of weird mentor/protege relationships and legacy mantles.

Wally West CSA thesis

Garth & Arthur relationship study

Are all sidekicks molested?

I write sometimes! I'm on ao3 as EmbersOfUprising. Most of it is about Dick Grayson and occasionally other DC goobers. Often dark to varying degrees and often nsfw, so read tags/warnings etc.

I try to tag commonly sought content warnings when I'm posting out into main tags, but in general, this blog is an 18+ 'choose not to warn' space.

Ostensibly this is my writing blog but it is actually 90% art reblogs, and I will deep-dive blogs and resurrect posts from over a decade ago. Posts that are actually about my writing are tagged as #embers writes. Completed fics (mine or fic recs) are tagged #fanfic and snips are tagged #fic snippet.

I tag asks as #embers answers, and also #ask game specifically for ask games. Comic reading posts are #embers reads, and posts with comic panels are #comic panels.

Clarkdick is my favourite ship, but I'm a huge multishipper and will ship basically anything that compels me in some way or just is nice to look at. Below the cut are the ship tags I use, if you want to peruse or block anything.

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I always tag characters in posts, including ship posts. I'm not going to list out all the character tags I use because that sounds painful but let me know if you want to know what I use for a specifc character.

If any of the ship tags below are empty, the post is buried somewhere in my extensive queue and will emerge in 3-5 business months in all likelihood.

Dick ship tags:

Batships: #brudick, #jaydick, #dicktim, #dickbabs, #heldick, #damidick, #robinpile, #selinadick, #azdick, #gordick, #daviddick

Titans: #roydick, #dickkory, #birdflash, #garthdick, #joeydick, #titans poly

Morally ambiguous older men: #sladick, #tigerdick, #dicknighter, #owldick, #tommydick

Other: #clarkdick, #dickcest, #grantdick, #haldick, #raptordick, #romandick, #penguindick, #harleywing, #kaldick, #taliadick, #midpollodick, #zatannadick, #ivydick, #dickstantine, #doriandick, #banedick, #kondick, #bluewing, #riddledick, #terrydick, #lexdick

Other ship tags:

Batships: #jaytim, #stephcass, #timsteph, #brujay, #brutim, #brudami, #damitim, #damijay, #brualf, #timhel, #batcat, #helbabs

Bats / Other: #dinahbabs, #superbat, #batlantern, #bruharvey, #brutalia, #ghostbat, #wonderbat, #bruslade, #aquabat, #batlex, #batstantine, #timkon, #timbart, #clarktim, #ra’stim, #jaykyle, #jaykon, #jayroy, #sladejay, #harvjay, #bizzajay, #jaycest, #casskon, #karasteph, #damijon, #pennywaynes, #korybabs, #kylane, #pamlina

Titans & YJ: #ollieroy, #dianadonna, #arthurgarth, #konbart, #koncest, #konthad, #matchkon, #donnakory, #cissiecassie, #dicass, #roydonna, #roygarth, #jaderoy, #roywally, #halroy, #kalroy, #wallygarth, #sladeroy, #slara, #raetara, #snaibsel, #bluepulse, #blueboostle, #raybart, #karadox, #vickory

JL: #clois, #clex, #clarkjon, #wonderlois, #dinahshiva, #dinahollie, #halollie, #halbarry, #halkyle, #guykyle, #halguy, #sinhal, #halcarol, #eobarry, #wonderflash, #boostle, #aquabros, #aquamera, #atomhawk, #terrificgreen

Others: #midpollo, #harlivy, #slabilly, #mirrorang, #swampstantine, #constantshark

[embers-writes]

Teen Titans (1966) is such a fever dream of a comic that it reads like it's the post-crisis Titans with the thickest rosiest rose-coloured glasses on, fondly and nostalgically reminiscing about the wacky adventures they used to have. back when everything was fun and magic was real and they were all best friends playing in their secret clubhouse together. and every so often there's an oblique reference to something not-so-rosy under the surface - an offhanded mention of the Justice League being told about Roy's addiction, or Donna being left behind without a place to live when all the Amazons left this dimension - and then, as though the Titan telling the story is desperate to brush over it, it quickly moves on. turn the page and it's as though everyone has forgotten it. hey, don't mind about that, do you want to hear the one about the rock'n'roll star's long lost uncle? what about the ghosts of romeo and juliet? we don't need to talk about that other thing. it's literally fine. everything was so perfect back then. hey, maybe we should reform the titans-

[abtrin-blog]

Request finished

[casscainmainly]

"If you want to continue working with me... with my family... you need to commit. You need to decide in your bones that you're not going to lie down and die."

"You lost sight of the value of Roland Desmond's life. If you need me to forgive you for that, I probably can[...] but[...] you have no right to expect me to excuse you - for losing sight of the value of yours."

Gotham Knights #2 // Nightwing (1996) #117

[minm31]

涂

[kannoponta]

Honda Motocompo

[lornahs]

Where to start reading Vixen?

Let’s start with her first appearance in Action Comics #251

DC Comics Presents #68

Justice League of America Annual #2

Justice League of America v1 #234-261(especially #234-235, 239, 242, 261)

Animal Man vol.1 10-12, 44, 48-50

Suicide Squad v1 #11-58 (especially 11-12, 39-40, 58)

Suicide Squad Annual vol.1 #1

Hawk and Dove vol. 4 #2-6

Birds of Prey v1 #69-73

JLA Classified #2-3, 22-25

Flash vol. 2 #44-47

Justice League Task Force #7-8

Wonder Woman vol. 2 #174-175

JLA/JSA: Virtue & Vice

JLA #26

Infinite Crisis

JSA Classified vol.1 #14-16

Justice League of America v2 #1-41(especially 1-7, 11, 22-24, 25-26, 28, 32-34, 38-41)

Justice League of America 80 page Giant Size #1

Vixen: Return of the Lion

Final Crisis #1-3, 5-6

Red Tornado #4-6

Justice League: Cry For Justice #1-7 (especially #6)

Zatanna vol. 2, #2

Titans vol. 2, #35-36

[jays-crowbar-collection]

I made this after reading the first few issues of the 2009 Grant Morrison run. Ougghhh something about a mantle being an inheritance nobody wants to receive.

Lyrics from Eternity by Alex Warren

[lightmare000]

[remcadll]

Detective comics comics Innately evil kids club

[kartsie]

Drew some Black Canary 

[t00psbeary]

for @matan4il 

Dick and Bruce bats ~

[chickenbrain-exe]

Can’t believe I’d never drawn Steph before… had to fix that asap.

Also messed around with colors more than usual — not exactly my strong suit, so sorry if it turned out a bit weird

[pearlforalbatross]

Donna Troy doodle :D

Recently watched Troyoboyo17's Wonder Woman prewrite video (on yt) and I genuinely teared up Skjaks

[vanta-bat]

father & son 001

[magebird-old]

Dick. As a catboy. As promised.

[fermiumice]