A Tiny Study

I'm Mandy. I post stories! Find me on AO3 at @hiddendreamer67. Not really active on Tumblr anymore but feel free to send me an ask anyways and I'll get back to it once a millenia. {Header image was commissioned from the wonderful @chamomile-g-tea, and is an image of my fae OC named Camellia.}

[hiddendreamer67]

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I just figured I’d pin a post here to let y’all know I don’t interact w/ tumblr like at all anymore, everything is a queued lie lol. Stories tend to disappear to the void too much here. I will no longer be posting any writing to tumblr. Here’s a hopefully direct link to my AO3

[sexybritishllama]

the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

[gt-zel]

Drew my giant sona again lol, he’s so blind without his glasses hahaha

[htorrr]

P.s. Odysseus from timeline after "Thunder Bringer". Eurylochus and Polites from timeline right after Troy. Don't ask how it works, it's all for the sake of a hehe haha comic 👐 [2/2]

(character designs by Neal Illustrator. Polites design by formerly human)

[neal-illustrator]

I love this so much! I need to start sketching them more as youngens!

[nightwingsgypsyrep]

*taps microphone* is this thing on? Okay…

🎤 THIS IS A REMINDER THAT ALL OF THE ROBINS ARE SMART, GENIUSES IN FACT. THEY ARE IN A FAMILY OF DETECTIVES. THATS LIKE THEIR WHOLE THING. ALL OF THE ROBINS (AND THE REST OF THE BATFAM TOO) ARE CLEVER, STRATEGIC, AND CAPABLE, NOT JUST TIM. (No hate to my boy Tim, though. I love Tim.) YES, EVEN THAT ONE. Thank you. 🎤

[arguablysomaya]

i think this happens because often, batfam writers focus on (and unintentionally or intentionally inflate) the relative distinctions between robins, forgetting the massive similarities between them. these characters are way more similar than they are different, but that mostly comes out when they're not interacting with each other *taps sign* :

[nemizeiya]

Hello again!

POSTED this on the COMMUNITY and posting here too!

You guys i bet you were THIRSTY for DEACON.

Please. So HANDSOME 😏😏🫂

These were the base colores jeje🥹

Im sure Bronze had a great time doing the outfit. Look at the CHICKEN.

Also i never realized he had kinda BLUE EYES? HWLLO?

[bruciemilf]

Ruthlessness is *sniff* mercy upon ourselves

Edit:

(Poseidon design by @neal-illustrator !! I don’t know if she’d want to be tagged or not but I’m putting it just in case)

[neal-illustrator]

This style is so pretty!! The poor big guy

[claradrawsocs]

Dragging my friends into my little guy obsession

Ref sheet for a ferngully/epic/tinkerbell/idk man they're basically just fairies in new york - esque story. Thus guy is notably not a little guy and will be going through a crisis.

[guaxinimraccoon]

Commission I did for @rosesilvermoon of Conner Kent protecting a tiny Tim Drake

I had a BLAST doing this, I forgot how much I liked super heroes omg thank you so much for commissioning me!!

[frownyalfred]

“Gothamites don’t care about Superman—” Gothamites still care about Superman! They just show it differently. Metropolites will see Superman get thrown through a bodega and immediately go check on him. Gothamites will do the same (with a little more hesitation), but while they’re yanking him out from whatever crater he caused, they’ll add in a “Hey remember when you were fighting that alien last Tuesday? You really fucked up the traffic on the I-95 back to Gotham” and Clark just nods, all dazed, and says “Sorry, sir, it won’t happen again” and the Gothamite is like “No really, I was on the bridge for like six hours, I had to piss in a sprite bottle” and poor Clark is internally like what do you want me to say here??

[mama-imscared]

“We Still Care :)”

It’s true, Supes. It’s just that…ya do cause a lot of minor inconveniences.

[ashtreegt]

Mermaid nurses an injured bird back to health in a shoe box but the bird is a human

[thememedaddy]

[bobacupcake]

its a mystery

[bonkalore]

One of my paper drawings I colored on the computer. Hadn't done Cyprus' bioluminescence in a while.

[ellie-exe]

Arts and crafts

[almondcroissantsandink]

Ryland Grace, seconds before losing consciousness: did--did you just reference Parks and Rec

[januariat]

“People are always asking, “Who’s the real man? Superman, Kal-El, or Clark Kent? Batman or Bruce Wayne?” And they do this completely unrealistic and, I’m sorry, completely ridiculous thing where they pick the mask as being the sole personality. As if these different titles do not encompass many aspects of a greater personality. As if there isn’t a person behind that mask. As much as Bruce Wayne wants to assume that he is no longer a human being, but instead a symbol greater than himself, he is not that symbol; he is a man in a mask who uses that symbol. Bruce Wayne is certainly Batman but Batman is not Bruce Wayne. And as much as we’d like to think that the human being underneath the mask who lost his parents as a young child isn’t really the man we see when we look at Batman, but that The Bat is the main personality, that’s not doing Bruce Wayne any justice. The Bruce Wayne the population of Gotham sees is not the real Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne is a man who, after suffering a great loss, decided to go to the ends of the earth in order to protect the innocent and fight to ensure such tragedies will come to an end. The Bruce Wayne that Gotham sees is not who he is. The Batman that Gotham sees is not who he is. Bruce Wayne inside the suit is who that man really is. Then you have Superman, born Kal-El, raised Clark Kent. There are so many people who try to say that he’s Superman, he’s Kal-El, he’s Clark Kent. What they fail to take into account is that this is a very human man. Even Kryptonians, for all their differences, are very human. This is the story of an immigrant. From the time he was a baby, Clark Kent has lived on Earth and grown with a human family. His heritage is important, yes, but they did not make him the man that he is. His heritage, without his biological parentage, simply gave him his powers. It’s his Earth family who made him a man deserving of having them and capable of wisely using them. But the goofy and insecure Clark Kent that Metropolis sees is not the real Clark Kent. The real Clark Kent is the man that his parents welcome home when he visits their ranch. I would wager that Batman and Superman are never more themselves than when Batman calls Superman ‘Clark’ and Superman calls Batman ‘Bruce’. Both sides of their major personalities are inherently acknowledged in this exchange. They both see before them a person who is treated like a god but is really just as much a man as they themselves are. That’s why you’ll rarely see them referring to each other as anything by name in each others company. They both look directly at the myth and see the man. Yet they recognize, at the same time, that the man is the myth.”

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(via baudyhallee)

Very nicely phrased, and I agree with these completely,

I also agree with Paul Dini’s assetion that the “true” person is neither the ultra-grim Batman, nor public Bruce Wayne, but the man who sits in front of the Batcomputer, in costume, but with the cowl pulled back, putting the pieces of the latest puzzle together. There’s a reason Ra’s al Ghul respects that person enough to refer to him as “The Detective”.

And for Superman, I think of the exchange between the Spectre and Norman McCay in “Kingdom Come”; McCay - Sometimes I forget he’s not actually from Earth

Spectre - A mere accident of birth