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[imsorrybruce]

Lucius Fox is such a litmus test for fake canon fans. "Alfred took care of WE while Bruce was growing up"/"Tim took care of WE while Bruce was lost" - instant give away. You forgot to consider my goat Lucius.

[bat-raccoonz]

Fun fact, Alfred calling Bruce 'master Bruce' isn't normal as Bruce is in fact the employer. 'Master [first name]' is mostly used for children (if I'm correct).

It should be 'master Wayne'.

Now, 3 ways you can go about this:

Alfred is basicly calling Bruce a manchild.

Just Alfred having to take care of this giant of a man and making sure Bruce knows it.

"Master Bruce, get off that computer and eat something for the love of all that's holy."

Alfred is making sure Bruce know that he'll always be Alfred's son/child/ward

That's his employer.. yes.. what's your point? That is also the kid he had to help with nightmares about scattered pearls.

"I'm proud of what you've achieved today, master Bruce."

Alfred cannot call Bruce what he used to call Thomas.

The first time Alfred called Bruce 'master Wayne' Bruce nearly cried. Scratch that, he did cry. That was his father's tittle, not his.

"Master Way—Bruce, shall I inform you of your schedual?"

[oboy049]

In my mind is the second one bc that’s his baby

[frownyalfred]

"Bruce never reveals his secret identity to mind readers or the Lasso of Truth because he truly believes he's Batman and Bruce Wayne is just the mask-" WRONG. Bruce Wayne is so fucking good at lying, both at the mental and physical level, that he allows himself to truly believe whatever he's saying in that fraction of a moment and THAT'S why no one can ever force him to reveal his identity.

Bruce has been lying for SO long that he can drill down to the tiny ways his body needs to breathe, move, etc and the way his mind feels when it's telling the truth. And then he tells himself, just for a moment, that whatever he's lying about is the truth. That he doesn't just need to believe it, but that he does.

Of course when someone asks him, in that moment, who he is -- the answer is "I'm Batman." Because in that moment, that is the only answer. It's the truth.

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

IMO he’s not lying. He’s codeswitching.

Not one of us has only one identity or one style of communicating. Not one!!

I am lurkinglurkerwholurks. That is me. I have other names, other labels, other ties that shape me. I have a job with a title. I have contexts that shift how I communicate and present myself as do we all.

Bruce just took it to an extreme, as he does with everything else. To stay balanced, he has to maintain a consistent self of sense but consistent is not the same thing as flat or one-dimensional.

He is Bruce Wayne. He is Batman. He is Matches. And he is many other things as well. All of these are the truth. None are a lie.

[elissagothicity]

Many writers have tried to give their take on the "Bruce Wayne's rich friend of years is murdered and Batman has to find the culprit" trope, and none of them acknowledge the fact that this has happened many times before, especially since these stories are usually just short arcs of 1 to 3 issues thrown in somewhere between hundreds of tec and Batman issues

Which means that nobody takes very seriously the depressing fact that this man must have already lost about 10 friends of his civil life and had to investigate the murder of all of them

Like "oh thats the Wayne guy who lost his parents as a child? What a tragedy, good thing that he managed to overcome it and is now a popular socialite with many friends, too bad they all continue to getting killed"

[mialoveseddie]

It’s Halloween 1984 and Steve Harrington has nothing left. Nancy broke up with him. His friends ditched him. He’s storming out of the party with his hands on his face, sobbing when Eddie Munson who’s selling catches him and offers a ride Steve’s about to refuse but figures he doesn’t want anyone else to see him crying.

Steve collapses in Eddie’s passenger seat, shaking and ugly crying. Eddie has no clue what to do, so he just awkwardly pets Steve’s hair like he’s a stray dog. “Shit, Munson,” Steve sniffs, “you probably think I’m a pussy.” And Eddie goes dead serious shaking his head “No, man. I don’t.”

They are parked outside Steve’s dark empty house smoking what’s left of Eddies lunch box and Steve tells him everything. Nancy. Him losing friends and how it feels to be King of nothing. Eddie’s floored they’re even talking, let alone like this. But then Steve whispers it. “I just want to run away.”

Eddie doesn’t even blink. “Okay.”

Steve, startled: “Okay what?”

“Let’s run away.”

[bruce-wayne-enjoyer]

Batlantern in bed. Hal asks Bruce if he wants to make out. Bruce nods enthusiastically and shows his cheek, excitedly shaking.

Hal frowns and says he meant like... serious kissing. Bruce suddenly turns pink, nods slowly, and presents his forehead while closing his eyes tight.

Hal suddenly falls over and covers his face with his hands because oh my god he's so cute this will kill me—

[mkaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Steddie but Steve simply does not stereotype people. It's literally a built in feature, he takes everyone at face value and doesn't assume based on looks or backgrounds.

This leads to problems when he developes feelings for Eddie. Because Steve automatically just assumes Eddie is straight and that he has no shot ever. (Robin is trying to insist and make Steve see that Eddie is literally the gayest man to ever grace Hawkins. "Steve come on! He's got long hair and walks around wearing crops, you cannot be serious!" "I am Robin! He's a metalhead, of course he wears stuff like that!" Robin rolls her eyes. "Okay, but what about the hanky, Dingus! That's a clear indicator-" "Robbie, it isn't! I read up on things, that's another thing that's also a part of metal culture too! It might not be flagging! I don't want to embarass myself!" Steve pauses, rubbing the back of his neck. "I also uh.. don't want to ponder his bandanna at work." Robin gags and throws an empty tape cover at him.)

[bruce-wayne-enjoyer]

I hate it when fics make Diana the trusted adult of the Justice League because not only is it very sexist, I just think we forget that Diana's comics in themyscira often involve trying to fight people for being mean to her mommy or also getting in brat fights with her sisters over the pettiest things

The trusted adult is actually J'onn. That man is peak trusted adult. He's been a dad/mentor of several species many times over. That man is so polite with scolding that you end up apologizing for crimes he never even accused you of. J'onn has once made Bruce, Clark, and Diana face different corners of the room in a "time out" scheme for being too loud, and since then, he's had the justice league's respect

[unethicalconsumptionofyou]

random thought that just came to me: give bruce wayne a cane. Please🙏 lets say after breaking his spine he never actually does walk right again but hes literally batman so he has to learn to get around it and push through the pain, which with his pain tolerance is pretty easy. But when he isnt batman? man he just spent the last HOW many hours aggravating a literal permanent ache and taking hits on top of it??? hes been doing heavy duty parkour for how long?? nah, when hes bruce he gets a cane. Batman isnt allowed to show that weakness of needing that support but goddamn if bruce wayne aint allowed to have something to relieve that pain a bit, not just from the baseline aching but from aggravating it every night?

also dont pretend this would make bruce wayne less sexy, we all know there would be fics tagged innapropriate use of cane💀 he can keep that playboy persona even with mobility aids🕊

[things-strange]

Steddie prompt:

After getting out of the hospital, Eddie and Steve somehow fell into a whirlwind romance and now they have an apartment together! Eddie is still riding the high of it all one day when he has someone from his new job over and they say “Are you sure Steve lives here?”

“Huh?”

“It’s just, this apartment is extremely you but I’m not seeing anything that says ‘Steve.’ Granted I don’t know the guy too well, but…”

Eddie looks around. Sees a lot of metal and fantasy shit, a lot of dark colors. He knows if he went into the bedroom he would find Steve’s colorful wardrobe and the kitchen is stocked with dishes and utensils that Steve picked out himself but that’s it. Theres not a single sports thing to be found and not a single poster or tape related to anything other than metal.

He’s not sure what to make of it. Brings it up to Steve later, asks why there’s nothing that Steve likes around the apartment. And Steve says something devastating.

“It doesn’t matter what I like.”

[things-strange]

Listen. Nancy is great but the way she was constantly ruining Jonathan’s photos by opening the dark room despite it being not only his passion but his JOB? You can’t tell me she gave a single shit about ANY of Steve’s interests or what he thought was important. But the way Steve was going to dinners with Barbs family? Yeah, that boy definitely gave up A LOT during his relationship with Nancy and it kinda fucked him up. He figured he must not have given up enough.

So when Steve and Eddie start dating? Eddie having previously been so vocal about hating everything Steve liked? Yeah, Steve starts shoving himself into a box and it takes a distressingly long time for Eddie to realize he’s not actually ‘expanding Steve’s horizons’ or whatever he thinks is going on

[atomikats]

curiouser and curiouser

[hollis-art]

let's be pebbles and misbehave on our field trip to mr. grace's habitat :D

do you think this would give him flashbacks to his last memories of earth being him getting manhandled? yes or no

[emhidesart]

First meetings <3

[datsderbunnyblog]

The scientology speedruns were already funny but I thought they were joking when they said they were mapping the building. I absolutely lost it when I saw the actual map.

[tb-png]

hot summer day with a couple of baby robins ☀️ 🍦 🐥 ~!

[tb-png]

not all of them want ice cream though, so bruce has to hold the rest of his little gaggle

[rika-mortis]

So I watched the movie