songs for you, truths for me

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[epigenetics]

[…] Batman from 1938 who’s out there with guns in his hand and he’s fighting vampires and crooks, I thought, well, imagine that’s Batman at 20, you know. And then he meets this kid when he’s 21, and the kid’s this little working class circus kid who’s totally cocky. And this introverted young Norman Bates Batman is suddenly, “Wait a minute. This is the kid that died in me. This is everything that I wanted to be.” And the two become friends, and it’s not creepy. It’s like, “He’s my best friend and my brother and everything I wish I could be.” And the kid’s looking at him like, “He’s everything I wish I could be.”

Grant Morrison to Kevin Smith who said “You’re going to make me cry.” Me too ;_;

[epigenetics]

I am never writing fic again*

[radiantradium]

Creep blaring in the batcave after every tense interaction with Dick.

[epigenetics]

literally

[epigenetics]

literally whomst asked for this 🫥

[sparrowww0428]

[h-l-w]

[epigenetics]

HAYDEN SHERMAN'S VARIANT COVER FOR BATMAN & ROBIN: YEAR ONE - DYNAMIC DUOS #1

screaming, crying etc

[mysterycitrus]

wonder twinnssssss wip

[ciricearts]

For those who commented that they hadn’t seen my dick grayson before, here are more of my drawings him <3

[bruced1ck]

can't stop thinking about bruce who is always there protecting dick from afar when he was still amnesiac

[lokutofu]

And now what if it was Nightwing in the honda odyssey?

[vintagerobin]

Bruce having extremely overactive empathy and almost debilitatingly intense emotions AND flattened affect and great difficulty understanding and explaining his own emotions (and all of these affecting his relationships) is so so important to me.

[help-me-yes]

yes... ha ha ha... yes!

[ultravhasart]

Animated a panel from Batgirl (2024) #5

[epigenetics]

just having thoughts on Dick being completely enamoured with Batman & Bruce Wayne since age eight, in a way he doesn’t even really understand until he is much older and hormones enter the picture.

and just assuming, since age eight, and with all the confidence of youth, that he is going to marry Bruce when he’s older too.

[dickgraysonsptsd]

DGPTSD what do you think would happen to Bruce if Dick properly died in front of him…..

he would die 🥰 either literally (realistic route in my own mind, i think he gets so reckless in a post-jason's-death way that he effectively dies by suicide) or spiritually (as happens in elseworlds where dick dies but the writer still needs bruce around). 100% my belief. i don't think he can go on in a world that dick doesn't exist in. he can survive dick leaving him because dick is still alive somewhere out there, but if dick is dead it's over for him one way or another. and if he watches someone kill dick there's a solid chance he breaks The Rule and kills dick's murderer himself, which itself is a spiritual death for bruce imo.

there are some elseworlds from around my favorite era of bruce+dick comics (late 90s/early 00s) that get into this! jla: riddle of the beast (2002) is a fantasy au where, after dick dies, bruce goes mad and keeps dick's corpse by his side in a throne that matches his own:

jla: the nail (1998) is a "superman wasn't adopted by the kents" au where the joker kills dick and babs in front of bruce. bruce loses it and goes catatonic. he's only shaken out of it when selina dresses in dick's robin costume to shock him back to reality for a moment with the idea that dick might still be alive:

and like, this is about babs too, but we know how bruce reacts when bad things happen to dick vs to babs. the total devastation on a personal level is about dick imo, while the self-blame is about both of them. ultimately bruce leaves the jla after the nail's story and lives out eternal penance in gotham for letting dick and babs die and then killing the joker in revenge:

and even his relationship with selina is kind of a consolation prize, a thing that might make life a little less dark, but that's all. she can't repair him after he lost dick and broke the rule; she can just keep him alive for now, basically.

there are of course examples of settings/timelines where dick dies and bruce doesn't completely self-destruct (i can't think of any off the top of my head because i don't CARE ABOUT THEM <3 but i know they exist!!) but i selectively chose the ones where bruce totally loses it because i prefer that take lmao. i will always be honest about my cherry-picking 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[whyactlikeahuman]

[quasikool]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me