A Humble Dumpster Fire

Joining fandoms without proper context since five minutes ago (but really, this is almost all Batfam with other scattered DC properties)

[muffinhoe-thedragon]

Tiny unit is full of murder

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[caseyd1a]

[plancinginthemoonlight]

I feel so called out

[laquilasse]

Damian’s little button nose reblog if you agree

just a few shining examples of how About his lil button nose i am

thanks for bringing this good content to the surface, god bless

[ayinggg]

Batfamily☺️

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DC Superhero Teams Summed Up

Justice Society of America: Superhero Retirement Home Serves As A School House For Youngsters

Justice League: Pillars of Society Form Superhero Team Too Big To Fail

Teen Titans: Local Teens Demand Respect, A Place To Angst, and Food

Outsiders: Batman Dragoons Nobodies To Fight Crime Due To Spite

Green Lantern Corps: Space Cops Stop Themselves From Becoming A Space Dictatorship

Secret Six: Shit People, Shit Work Effort, Shit Results, But Still A Good Family

Shadowpact: Magical Bar Flies

Justice League Dark: Kinky People Meet Up Each Friday To Fight Demons

Justice League International: Idiots Team Up To Solve International Incidents

Legion of Superheroes: Local Teens Demand Respect, A Place To Angst, and Food, IN THE FUTURE

Gotham Knights (Detective Comics Team): Leather Wearing Furries Obesse About A Hellhole

Justice League of America (Rebirth Team): Batman Dragoons A Bunch of Misfits For Reality TV Drama and To Combat International Affairs 

Suicide Squad: A Bunch Of Villains Are Held Hostage By A Psychopath That Makes Them Look Good In Comparison

Doom Patrol: Weirdos Gather To Ponder The Meaning Of The Universe

Young Justice: Pre-Teens Trade The Treehouse In Their Backward For A Cave

Earth 2 Justice Society: Hot Young People Fight Crime In The World Created By Both A Godlike Planet and A Magical Box

Infinity Inc: Local Teens Demand Respect, A Place To Angst, and Food, In A Parallel Universe

Super Sons: Two Kids Resist The Urge To Murder Each Other

New Gods: Everyone is an Asshole Except Mister Miracle, Big Barda, and Bug The Forager

[arasart]

Have a messy Dick Grayson.

[bitch-a-la-mode]

So it’s officially canon that in times of duress™️ Bruce will in fact pick up tiny robins

TDLR: wasn’t it @identityconstellations who head-cannoned this???!?!

[comicbookwomen]

Ale Garza

[prokopetz]

If you ever feel like you must be the most unobservant person in the world, remember: I once spent half a year failing to notice that my new favourite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the Ukrainian mafia.

(I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but in retrospect, the fact that it was always dead no matter the time of day - I think the busiest I ever saw it was five people, myself included - well, that should have been a tipoff. Also, the waitstaff kept calling me “Mr. Prokopetz”, which I had assumed was just part of the restaurant’s gimmick, but given that “Prokopetz” is a Ukrainian surname, I’m now force to wonder whether they’d thought I was, you know, in the business. I just liked the pierogi!)

[moonbelowsea]

What I need to know is how on earth did OP finally realize his favorite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the mafia.

[prokopetz]

I’d like to say I put together the clues, but in reality, I just showed up one day to find that the place had been indefinitely shut down, and later learned it was because the managers had all been arrested.

[andersonsallpurpose]

What I really want to know is how good the food was?

[prokopetz]

Excellent, if your tastes run to the “heavy cream and too much garlic” end of the spectrum.

[toloveviceforitself]

Every crime front I’ve ever eaten at has had completely amazing food, honestly. I am pretty convinced that if you want to open a front, you don’t choose “restaurant” as your front-business unless you have a relative who loves to cook.

[prokopetz]

It tickles me that this is evidently a sufficiently common experience that people find it relatable. (Seriously, check the notes!) We should write reviews or something.

[onewit-torulethem-all]

did I just read the line “every crime front I’ve ever eaten at” with my own two eyes

[toloveviceforitself]

Look, I went to college and lived my early adulthood in a town whose entire thing was import/export, and we had a lot of restaurants that were suspiciously empty except when they were closed and filled with very serious men in nice clothes.

They were usually run by someone who was about the right age to be some adult’s parents or grandparents, and in the case of the two Korean restaurants matching this description, they didn’t speak English. Universally though, they were very pleased to see customers, very proud of their cooking, and very very interested in keeping us far away from the aforementioned serious men in nice clothes. And despite having huge dining rooms and never having more than a couple customers, they never went out of business.

Also, because I am very, very stupid and sometimes don’t think before I talk, I once said loudly, over the phone, while sitting in one of these places, “Hey! Yeah if you want to meet us, we’re eating at [place]. You know…[place]? You totally know it. The Front, on Warwick st!”

The looks I got from every single employee were amazing and then I left.

[cat--77]

We had a corner store/deli-place near our apartment in college. Everyone knew they were in on something and no one cared because they looked out for their customers and their neighborhood as a whole.

They started stocking my favorites because I mentioned them within hearing range once, would tell their “vendors” to move out of the way if we stopped in. I walked a different route home and got harassed one night and they asked after me. When they found out what happened, they declared “Consider it taken care of, you should never be afraid around here.” Never happened again.

Everyone needs their friendly neighborhood crime lord.

[friendlyfrankenstein]

This is both my favorite and makes me fondly remember home. Less of the  eateries, more of the mysterious retail joints that never seem to close despite no one ever buying anything, though. Well. Aside from the juice bar. Didnt last, though. 

[jupiterjames]

I found these places everywhere I lived. My favorite was an omurice place near my home in Japan, and a mother/son officially ran it. The food was incredible, and one night I was there and there was a boisterous crowd of BLATANTLY yakuza men eating and drinking. They started talking to me, and were super nice. Said they wanted to “practice their English,” and paid for my food and drinks and then said they wanted to take me to karaoke. That was a little alarming, but the mother/son, who seriously looked after me as the only foreigner in the area, said I should go, and the son came along. So we piled into a white landboat Cadillac and partied until dawn.

One of the older men at the party took me to my neighborhood and dropped me off out front (the car was literally too big to fit down the small neighborhood streets) and said that I had his blessing.

Which was confusing, but I was drunk, so whatever. Then I went back to the restaurant about a week later and the mother said, “the family approves of you. You may marry our son if you wish and be welcomed.”

I did not marry him, but wow. There were no hard feelings, either. They still helped out if I got harassed by the cops (which happened a lot in these smaller towns with no foreigners) or anything like that.

And to this day, no omurice has ever compared.

[not-so-terrible]

@temari-i-i

[wonderwomansbiceps]

[polmcarts]

@violetscythe and anon.

i hope i’m not too late. I tried to make a little silly comic about Dami going back in time and meeting Robin Dick.

[kaylabeemarie]

Damian! :D

[catsncomics]

Batman’s first reaction to Robin’s uniform:

Priceless.

[ejharts]

This is for the “redraw one of your friends artwork” challenge thing. I picked @barflybart drawing you can see HERE

[chicafinal]

i’m undestanding this thing a little better

made with emofuri

[laquilasse]

I was looking at your art and got this image in my head, so I feel like I should share it with you: I just imagine Dick, once he has his baby, to be absurdly happy about it. Like, he has the baby strapped to his chest everywhere he goes (except work), he’s always kissing and cuddling them, whenever someone exclaims over how cute they are he just beams ridiculously. He’s always got a kind of “look at this! I MADE this” happiness about his kid.

hi anon i don’t know if you know this but you’re a perfect human being and you’ve added 16 years to my lifespan

he MADE this!!! (shhh Babs he helped with the fun part just let him have this)

[clearbluewaters]

Okay, so here’s the thing:

Superheroes in general tend to be pretty good with kids, right? But still, within the Justice League, there are definitive tiers of who’s best with kids. 

Wonder Woman is the Best. Kids of all ages adore her, teenagers stop angsting, babies stop crying, you name it. Nobody expected anything else. But surprisingly — or maybe not surprisingly — Batman is also the Best. He just knows how to talk to kids, how to interact with them, so that they feel absolutely respected as people, instead of being talked down to as children. Kids always gravitate to him. Those aren’t even his babies hiding under his cape (this time), but you bet your ass he’s gonna act like they are. 

Black Canary is the second best. Superman generally is too (unless the kid in question is a relative of his that appeared out of the blue, in which case he gets bumped down to like, twentieth).

Most of the younger Leaguers are good with little kids, since so many have younger relatives and/or little kids of their own. Starfire and Cyborg are aces with teenagers, for obvious reasons. Blue Beetle and Booster Gold delight the hell out of toddlers. Flash’s positive attitude endears him to everyone. And you wouldn’t expect it, but Big Barda’s notorious temper evaporates when small children want to play tag or hang off her massive shoulders.

Older Leaguers with kids of their own or sidekicks are generally pretty good, at least. Older Leaguers with no kids or sidekicks nearly always shunt kid-duty off to Canary or one of the Trinity. But nearly everyone can be eventually coaxed into holding a cute baby or telling a ten-year-old how excellent their Magic Marker artwork is. 

Green Arrow and Green Lantern are the Worst. Hal lets the kids get away with everything. Ollie just has no clue what the fuck he’s doing.