FluffinCreatorPerson

Hello! I write fanfic on AO3 and spend most of my time here lurking. She/they

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[bluemuffin-draws]

Endurance runners

Part 2 of this

[dogpuppy]

[demigodoreo]

Young Justice (1998) #27

[pinkbuttercreame]

Credits to Victor Reynolds on Facebook

[gabegiles777]

Bruce's varying opinion of impulsive heroes

An interesting story could be had with Bart Allen, Cass, and Steph meeting and discussing Bruce's opinions of their early behaviors as heroes.

All three were extremely impulsive and acted without thinking when they saw misdeeds. They all have become better at planning as they have become more experienced though Cass still can be impulsive when she sees people who are extremely scared and in danger. Cass' having the least reduction in impulsiveness may be related to the fact that Bruce treated her impulsiveness very differently from the other two.

Bruce gave Bart his hero name of Impulse as an insult over how much trouble he caused other heroes with his actions. He was one of many heroes who regularly got upset at Bart and berated him. Bart had to become less impulsive in order to be fully accepted by the superhero community.

Bruce also disliked Steph's impulsiveness and Steph was sometimes claimed to be treating superheroics as a game. Nowadays, she's written as one of the more able planners among the bats, with that skill being shown in the Night of the Monster Men story from DC Rebirth, Detective Comics #980-981, and the current New Titans series. Before the War Games story though, Bruce and sometimes Tim criticized her for not taking being a hero seriously. Bruce and Tim's attempts to stop her from being Spoiler included insulting her for not thinking before she acted and the War Games story centered on Steph supposedly being incompetent and untrustworthy when actually she was running on a lack of information from Bruce refusing to trust her.

Cass, on the other hand, regularly got praised by Bruce for her impulsive and emotional actions. That's especially obvious in Batgirl (2000) #6, where he praised her bravery for not even trying to dodge bullets. Cass regularly acted without thinking and Bruce complimented her bravery and dedication. She also had the least exposure to non-bats, rarely even being shown with Dinah even though her mentor/mother worked with Dinah regularly. Bruce was milder in his criticism of Cass freeing the Joker in DC First: Batgirl/Joker than he ever was with Bart and Steph when they messed up. That may be why she still acts without thinking sometimes even when it messes up plans, as in Birds of Prey (2023) #16.

Does anyone know of any stories where the three discuss Bruce's favoritism towards Cass compared to not just Steph but Bart also?

[basementexperiment]

My favorite Kryptonians with pierced ears and sunglasses and traumatic childhoods

[goodieprocter]

A direct sequel to this by @ohwait-shesinspace

The Bird belongs to @justcakethanks and the fabulous eridian welcoming committee, of course

[blackholesun321]

Baby eridians, for a good portion of their lives, are soft-shelled, as Erid likes to call it. It takes a few molts (more than a few, but for abbreviation's sake) for their shells to entirely harden, absorbing minerals from around them and through their food to develop the shell on their exterior. If you need a comparison, consider how human bones fuse and we become less flexible as we get older.

But for a few years (cough, decades, cough), a baby pebble is about as hard as a soft-shelled turtle—or a normal turtle, if they're a bit older. Disadvantages aside, there is an advantage to being able to see your offspring's internal functions. And until their vocal bladders form and they're capable of making multiple complex sounds, being able to see what is hurting is absolutely helpful.

It's a universal experience among parents to lament the day they can no longer hear their pebbles' heartbeats.

That is to say, Rocky knows Grace is an adult, okay? He isn't someone who anthropomorphizes, and he isn't going to start now. Statement.

But when he first heard Grace in all his squishy glory— heart pumping away, lungs filling and deflating, organs digesting food— his brain went full baby-fever mode. Frankly, he was white-knuckling the urge to find the nearest hypothetical cave, bundle him up into a proper nest, and wait for his skin to absorb the surrounding minerals and start hardening properly.

But because Rocky is sensible and proper and not going to infantilize his best friend (he swears to God, stupid fucking instincts, shut the fuck up!!), he won't.

But sometimes the urge to squish his best friend is overwhelming. He just pinches at him through the permeable mesh of his ball. And Grace will screw up his face (so soft) and go what’s up bud? I piss you off or something? (He learns what bruises are and sulks for half a day afterward.)

All of that aside, once again, Rocky has gotten used to Grace's heartbeat, his clumsiness, and his one-tone voice. That's his best friend, and he's smart and just as capable as any other adult. He is also the cutest fucking thing to Eridian hearing. Is he also disconcertingly alien, definitely— His size, the limbs, the head protrusion (and other protrusions), the leakiness detracted maybe. But his cluster-sibling once cooed at and brought home a pet sulphur slug because, oh my spirits, hear his squishy respiratory system and you tell me that's not the cutest thing on the planet! It blurbles, Rocky! It fucking blurbles!

So, as Erid draws closer and Rocky/Grace become more excited and stressed. (The food has yet to run out, and as good as Erid is, they need substantial help from the human side to figure out how to make proper human nutrition. And finding the right informational packs in all of human knowledge is a very big undertaking.)

Rocky dreads the ever-looming talk he’ll need to have with Grace about the fact that Erid may, in fact, possibly find him very, very adorable. And that this might hamper communication for a second while he explains no, that is not a tall baby and no you cannot squish it.

[paper-mache-stars]

been thinking about grace and adrian being alike

[thatringboy]

oh my god. this isn’t happening.

[thatringboy]

okay I think that’s enough reblogging for tonight. Sorry everyone

[puncertainty]

continuing traditions

[demigodoreo]

Young Justice (1998) #27

[algae-illustrations]

Silly comic. Grace would absolutely pull this move.

[flash-family-blog]

Tim teaches Bart to play chess

Bart: Hmmm... so... if I move my horsey here... isn't that checkmate and I win?

Tim: ... hm.

(Tim thought it'd be funny, but it turns out Bart is a quick study and really good)

Bart: Well, is it or isn't it?

Tim: ... y'know, maybe this is a good stopping point. After all, it takes a while to learn how to play and I threw a lot of information at you-

Bart: No, no, no. Look, your king is trapped, right? He can't go here because of my lighthouse. And he can't go here because of my pointy-head guy.

Tim: Like I said, complicated game.

Bart: So did I win, or not?

Tim: (hastily putting it away) Did you have fun? 'Cause if you had fun, then yeah, you're a winner!

[even-atlas]

Longtime dream to put Bart in an 80’s style man in a horror movie crop top and found an EXCELLENT reference photo. Look at him. He’s so cutesy. I love Bart (also the shirt is implying he’s college age, it’s a college shirt, University of Alabama at Birmingham to be exact). I like to think he’s modeling for a student magazine or something 😊

[moompl]

I was just thinking about how little we know about the Tornado Twins and how little they’re actually discussed in the comics and it hit that there is only really three people who are alive that ever really knew them, and we barely see Melonie or Jevan.

That really only leaves Iris to talk about them, and we do get a little of them in the Flash book that she wrote (who else remembers that I can’t be the be the only one) and the two or three other times we see them appear in comics, of which they’re personalities are wildly different in each iteration, and that’s about it. They’re like blank spaces to fill in and I think that’s what so interesting about them to me.

These two are the children of one of the more popular Silver Age supers, and even more they’re the children of a very beloved super in universe. You would expect them to have maybe a bit more attention, especially since Impulse was a pretty popular character too.

I get it, they’re very minor characters mainly used for backstory, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to know more about them or have them at least be acknowledged more.