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Guess what I just figured out I can do, I'm so proud of her.

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First time trying semi-realisim, her coat is kicking my ass.

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My Tim Design!!!!

Fics: The Whispers in my Mind and Warrior's Whispers

By: Larkspuroleander

On: Ao3

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My animation is finally finished! Yes, the sound was completely necessary, enjoy.

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Finished my Damian and Peter designs in honor of finally posting the first chapter of my fic, The Whispers in my Mind by Larkspuroleander on Ao3. Enjoy!

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It took me twelve hours but I finally finished the lineart!!!!

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conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt 2

*Damian and Jason, four hours into a stakeout*

Damian: Jay, hand me the mango pieces.

Jason: *plastic crinkling* ayyy, I’m Jason again!

Damian: *snorts*

Jason: what was with that, by the way? I just showed up in Gotham and found you referring to everyone like they’re your professor. Like, that’s not a ‘you’ thing, I don’t know why you started doing that.

*audible chewing noises*

Damian: do you want the genuine honest answer?

Jason: please god do tell

Damian: so- and you aren’t allowed to laugh. but when I first came to Gotham and I showed up at the manor, father obviously had to give me a tour of the place, right?

Jason: yeah.

Damian: and they wanted to do a DNA test to check that my mother wasn’t pulling a fast one by claiming my birthright, so the first place he showed me was the cave, which was also where Tim was.

Jason: *hums*

Damian: and you know that place- the first time you went to the cave, it was wild, right?

Jason: oh, like walking into the tardis for the first time. insane.

Damian: exactly. all high-tech and shit, and I’d just come from the desert compound I’d spent my entire life in- like, my first time going into the kitchen at the manor I saw Alfred loading the dishwasher and my first thought was ‘oh my god what the fuck kind of machine is that-‘

Jason: *abrupt cackle*

Damian: -so the fucking cave for the first time? as a little desert-boy ten year old? I was a little distracted,

Jason, chuckling slightly: ok, fair,

Damian: and so I’m zoned the fuck out, looking around this cave and not paying attention to anything father’s saying, and then I finally tune back in just to hear the words ‘-ackson drake’ while he like, tries to introduce me to Tim.

Jason: *slowly starts laughing again*

Damian, raising his voice to be heard over Jason’s increasing beats of laughter: -and so I’m fucking standing there, ten years old, no clue what this kid’s first name is, and everybody’s looking at me like I’m supposed to be the one fucking talking right now, and ALL I can think of is my mother, who before she shipped me off to Gotham completely alone kept fucking telling me ‘Damian you have to be strong and show that you deserve to be the Batman’s blood son. show no weakness and take the mantle you were born to have; show no fucking hesitance.’, so I’M panicking,

Jason, still cackling: *a clap* NO I DO- I DO REMEMBER, LIKE, BACK IN THE LEAGUE-, holy shit back in the league when your only coping mechanism for not knowing the fuck was going on around you, was literally just to pretend you knew what the fuck was going on around you and bullshit till you make it,

Damian: WELL IT WAS LIKE THE ONLY FUCKING THING MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME-

Jason, through tears: -that’s why I didn’t say shit when I came back to Gotham and found you fucking, doing all this blood son bullshit! You started calling me Todd and speaking in old english and I was just like ‘bless him he’s terrified, just leave him be’

Damian: *cackles* and I did- I did appreciate you going along with it, because back when this happened I panicked and just started calling Tim ‘Drake’ because I was too embarrassed to ask him for his first name, and then by the time I heard somebody else call him Tim in passing, everybody had just assumed this was a thing I did. and I was too socially awkward to clear it up and switch back, so I just had to stick to Drake.

Jason: *wheeze* a-and Grayson?

Damian: well at first I just went along with the surname thing out of awkwardness, but then I’d gone too deep and I had no way out- AND THEN- and then Batman fucking died-

Jason: *wheeze*

Damian: -and I went from being parented by the gymnastics version of the dark lord to being gentle-parented by fucking Nightwing-

Jason, choking: holy- holy shit-

Damian: do you know what it’s like to go from *gruff voice* ‘Damian we don’t fucking kill, give me the katana or I’ll put you in Arkham’ to *high pitched, sweet voice* ‘oh hey Dames, obviously I can’t stop you from killing but I really would appreciate it if we discussed all our options and came to a mature decision together on what’s best in this scenario-‘

Jason: *crying, silent wheezes*

Damian: so DURING all this I’m trying to subtly switch back to using peoples actual names, except it fucking backfired because people just assumed I was calling Richard Richard because we had that special parental mentor bond, and Tim had pissed off to- whatever he was doing in the desert for six months- getting a hysterectomy or whatever the fuck happened-

Jason, amused: hysterectomy- he lost a spleen, Dames

Damian: well whatever happened he wasn’t AROUND for me to shift to calling him Tim! and when father was back I’d made no progress and was back to square one, except this time I was stuck calling one brother Richard and the other Drake!

Jason, still laughing: and this is where I came in?

Damian: I felt BAD! I’d already taken Robin from the guy, I didn’t want him to feel like he was lesser of a brother to me than Richard. So I demoted you to Todd so he wouldn’t feel alone.

Jason: very thoughtful.

Jason: we should probably get you a therapist, dude. I think everybody forgets that when you showed up you were literally just a very confused immigrant child with no experience of normal social interaction apart from me at the league.

Damian: oh I was like, 60% into an anxiety attack consistently for the first two years I was in the city.

Jason: *snorts*

Damian: the first time I was left alone with Tim we were in the kitchen and he said ‘do you want wifi?’ and, y’no, coming from the league, barely any tech and the only normality was the concept of fighting to the death over everything, MY instinctual ten-year-old thought was ‘oh shit, wifi must be slang for brawl here, we’re about to fight’-

Jason: *laughter* you’re fucking kidding

Damian: -so I’m like, so be it, and I say ‘come on then’ and get ready to start punching, only for him to turn around and grab a piece of card stuck to the fridge and hold it out to me,

Jason: *cackles*

Damian: and he goes ‘here’s the password so you can connect, I’m assuming you have a phone or something’-which I fucking didn’t by the way, my mother gave me a shitty flip-phone to call her in emergencies but it didn’t use wifi-, and he’s holding it out to me and I had to like, subtly shift my posture out of the defensive position I’d been in-,

Jason, delirious from laughter: this is the fucking best. thing.

Damian: -and I take it from him, and he gives me this weird look like he has no idea how to communicate with me, and I was just like ‘shit I might have to kill this one, it’s the only way to get out of this interaction’.

Jason: *wheeze* if we go through the timeline, every murder attempt on Tim’s life has just been an occasion where you’ve felt socially awkward and didn’t see any other way out of conversation,

Damian: pretty much, yeah. I should have been on xanax for those first few years.

Jason: stories from your first years in Gotham are my favourite thing in the world.

*a few silent beats*

Tim: are you telling me I’ve been stuck as Drake for YEARS all because Damian’s fucking scared of social interaction?!

*crashing sound*

Jason: HOLY FUCK-

Damian: OH MY GOD I FORGOT WE WERE CONNECTED TO THE MAIN LINE-

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Socially awkward Damian my beloved

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In progress JJ animation!!!!!

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This is my latest art piece, titled 'Kindred Souls" I'm really proud of how it turned out, and I think it might actually be one of my favorite pieces, aside from a couple of WIP's I'm working on.

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Isn't it absolutely wild that I finished my Peter Parker design for my fic before I finished the first chapter? Procrastination at it's FINEST. I'll probably update here when it's posted. Maybe.

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Me because I finally got around to drawing myself for artfight:

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Bruce can probably cry on command. I feel it in my bones that that's true. He's such a good actor, there's no way he didn't learn how to turn on the waterworks whenever he deems it necessary.

The thing is that Bruce only rarely deems it necessary tho, like probably less than once a year and never as Batman. But when he does oh boy.

Do you know the backlash you'd get for making Brucie, the beloved and golden hearted Prince of Gotham cry? He'll shed a singular tear and all of the sudden you're the social pariah. No matter how high in society you are, you'll loose all your social standing. No more invitations to galas, charities or other events. No one wants to go to whatever you celebrate and people are crossing the street when they see you.

Lex pissed off Clark at an event and to cheer him up Bruce just talks to the other billionaire before tearing up and blinking away tears when Lex says something only mildly offensive. It's caught on camera. It's reported on trashy magazines everywhere. Lex lost any chances to establish a deal in Gotham's underworld bc he ALMOST made Brucie cry. Clark is wheezing while clutching the papers and calls Bruce 'evil in the best way'.

The only thing worse than making Bruce fake cry is to actually bring him to tears. Because then it's not just the common Gothamites that are after you but his family too.

Like, there's some guy in the WE building ranting how Bruce is a disappointment to everything his parents have established and that the only thing good about Crime Alley was that it spared Martha and Thomas from seeing what their son has become.

Bruce, honestly agrees with him, his self loathing ass really would think that and do nothing but stare at the guy cussing him out. The guy's not physically violent, just loud and angry. It's only when he notices his cheeks are wet that he had started crying, unplanned. In public. It's honestly not much too, just a few stay tears silently dripping down his cheeks.

Bruce doesn't want to further show this vulnerable side of him tho and just wipes them away and calls security. He doesn't want to make it a big deal but unfortunately everyone else thinks otherwise.

The man is roughly escorted out of the building thrown outside with far too much force and Bruce never sees him again. He thinks it's bc he moved away due to the typical protecting-Brucie-backlash. It's actually due to the entire city shunning the guy, Gothamites are not crossing the street anymore but starting lecturing the man about all of Bruces charity and relieve efforts, if they aren't already pelting him with rotten food. The worse of them all are his kids tho: They've tracked the guy, stalked him, messed with his socials and then threatened him with increasingly violence in and out of costume until he fled.

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I'm doing artfight this year! My user is Larkspuroleander and this is one of the characters I've put up so far! I'm in the process of making more!

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This is my first time using oil pastels! This painting was based on the story of Andromeda. He mother boasted that she was even more beautiful than Poseidon's sea nymphs. As a response, Poseidon set a sea monster on Cassiopeia's, her mother's, kingdom. In order to save Cassiopeia's kingdom, Andromeda waa sacraficed to the sea monster. Andromeda was chained to a rock in the sea yo await her fate. I kept the bounds, if loosed, on Andromeda in the painting. It shows that while she wants to reach the flower, to be able to touch on last thing that is not fear or suffering, she is too bound to do it, and she will not live for those bonds to loosen.

Sorry if it looks a little weird, I think it varnished unevenly.

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This is my art piece called 'Dusk and Dawn.' I really love how it turned out, and it only took me thirty hours!