monarch

a young cryptid with a thought once every few weeks

[only-cat-memes]

[monarchbychoice]

scandalous

[yooo-lets-go]

how’s roach holding up

The COUNTRY, Sanderson

[monarchbychoice]

that's MY bestfriend, y'all

[papayafromtv]

fed up with Bruce tracking them/invading their privacy in the name of safety, i like to think the batkids pull an uno reverse and microchip Bruce while he’s passed out after a bad patrol injury. they start tracking his phone activity and texting him about wherever he is. bringing up things they know he’s searched for one his phone/people he’s been talking to, showing up at wherever he is during the day and interrupting him just to prove they always know where he is; just overall trying to annoy him the best they can.

issue is, Bruce is just so happy to see and talk to his kids at any point that he doesn’t even notice the breach of privacy, and the kids just end up feeling really awkward about how happy their dad is to see them.

Jason will bring up something in conversation with Bruce that was only privately relayed through texts between Bruce and a colleague, smirking because he knows Bruce is gonna be really paranoid about who’s watching his texts, except Bruce just smiles and happily chats with him for thirty minutes and he’s in a good mood all day because Jason willingly had a casual conversation with him, and when the JL ask why Batman’s in such a good mood at a meeting later that day Jason just goes bright red and doesn’t know what to say because he didn’t realise how much Bruce genuinely craves just catching up with him every now and then.

Dick will stalk him for weeks and wait until Bruce has a really tough busy day at work, specifically so he can wait for the evening where Bruce finally has a single moment to himself in a bar somewhere to relax, and then he busts in loudly sitting down next to Bruce and talking non-stop while ordering a drink, thinking that Bruce is going to be mad because this was his one peaceful moment and Dick ruined it by constantly tracking him. but instead the second Bruce realises Dick’s there all his exhaustion disappears. he gets a really wide genuinely pleased look on his face and happily offers to buy Dick a drink because ‘it’s so rare that they get to hang out!’ and Dick is left floundering because he was trying to be an asshole but now he just feels bad that he doesn’t spend time with Bruce outside of patrol business.

Tim keeps watching him through security cameras and updating him through text on his location in an attempt to make him tired of the constant supervision, but every time he texts Bruce like ‘you just walked into starbucks for the second time today.’ Bruce will just openly smile at his phone and respond like ‘would you like me to get you a drink? i can drop it off at your office if you’d like :)’ and Tim has to give up almost immediately.

essentially i like the idea of the batkids trying to annoy Bruce with themselves, forgetting that Bruce is just a dad who really loves his kids and can’t ever be annoyed by them.

[monarchbychoice]

okay okay so get this. when dick tries to irritate bruce by "invading his alone, brooding time" and gets an excited papabat instead, he kind of... stops in his tracks. why? because suddenly, this man, whom he's loved and hated so much throughout his life, suddenly looks so many years younger. he looks like the first time dick had ever seen him-- hopeful, fierce and driven by the desire to make Gotham a better place. He sees bruce 20 years younger when he geared up, not with a detached, cold precision but smiling and joking with an eight-year-old orphan boy fluttering around his ankles in his new cape. he realizes suddenly how much has changed, how much time has passed. how Gotham's playboy now has a family of eight bright children who are more than just the billionaire's kids. but one thing is for sure-- they're bruce's and bruce has no idea how to display his love but loves them so fiercely that it burns him again and again. dick never talks about this with any of the other batkids but one can see, in the way dick would smile wide and soft when he talk gently with bruce, that, to him, this thing about "Pester B with All You Got" was no longer a game but a real show of his love.

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

If you take the time to leave comments on every single chapter of a multi-chapter fic, I can guarantee you that there's at least one author out there who thinks you are the greatest person in the history of people.

[an0neemouse]

Facts

[monarchbychoice]

no cap

[homenecromancer]

laughing on mama

[monarchbychoice]

cheeto 1 (has been trying to tell a joke for 15 min) : okay, mom, seriously tho *snort* why did th— *giggle* why did—

cheetah: *long-suffering sigh*

cheeto 2: i cannot bear to grace him even with a singular, most pitiful glance, mother.

cheeto 1: MINDY! i'm trying, ok? *more cackling*

cheeto 2: *squint* not hard enough, brother...

cheetah: *taking deep calming breaths* iamluckytobeamotheriamluckytobeamotheriamlu—

[monarchbychoice]

welp. guess its time to go weep face down in my dear friend's garden about the fact that my english teacher said my rather long short story was rather long for a short story.

[monarchbychoice]

you know what? the batfam things and the general DC things i see here on tumblr are just so intricately thought about and so gorgeously written like ??? where were you, oh great commander of words and ideas. when the canon was ripping our asses to shreds of indignant weeping and second hand embarrassment when it could have been THIS????

please like.... DO something about your ideas, make them canon, make bruce a better dad, make clark and kon banter more, give them everything you have imagined in your darling little blog-corners of warmth and hope.

[monarchbychoice]

man i just love it with my best friend. when one of us goes like "oh, holy hell are you seeing what's in my head rn?" and the other is like "watcha mean?" and the other says like one word and the person listening is like "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and there's a bunch of mad, clownish giggles that sound sweet and teenager-y and mad over a video call because we're still just bad little kids finding our fun in everything in the world

[unspeakablearchives]

[monarchbychoice]

imagine having to write as an obligation. imagine having to put down certain words— and only certain words— on paper because if you don't, you face the dangers of a higher authority taking that one thing of happiness away from you.

repulsive fiction? nothing is truly repulsive. someone out there likes it wants to read it.

therefore, yes, protect every piece of fiction you have with everything you've got. don't let the suits decide what gets to be read.

[robs-your-robins]

I keep thinking of Bruce being a panicked parent at first, like yes, he gets that Dick is not a baby and doesn't need coddling but Bruce has taken responsibility for him and he wants him to feel as if somebody is caring for him like a parent. So Bruce starts thinking of ways to do so, because he doesn't want him feeling as though he's missing out. So Bruce starts doing stuff that he associates with parents. He reads bedtime stories if Dick wants. He cuts the crusts of his sandwiches. He lets Dick hold his hand when crossing the street. He teaches him how to tie his shoelaces. And Bruce thinks he's doing terribly because he can't do 'the voices', he never gets the crusts off perfectly and Alfred apparently does it better and Dick has a habit of dashing across streets while Bruce tries to hurry after him, and everybody is judging him. He admits to Alfred that he doesn't think he can parent Dick, that he isn't being a good enough parent and Alfred has to sit him down and explain that he was in the same situation over twenty years ago when Bruce was a small boy the same age as Dick is. Bruce suddenly remembers crooked imitations of smiley faces carved by Martha on Bruce's toast, of Alfred taking Bruce on trips to Gotham University to visit the library like Thomas did and Alfred often looking stressed whenever Bruce was hurt or sick and clearly wanting his mom and dad in that moment of pain and illness and Alfred not being enough.

[lokutofu]

Bruce hitting an atrocious pose to accommodate for Robin's shenanigans 😔

[liyaara]

clingy superman!

[lgbtranswoman]

Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:

Men are not inherently Evil

Everyone has the capacity for evil

Transgender Men are men

Transgender Women are women

Excluding Cisgender Men from your spaces requires Transgender Men to out themselves if they want to engage (Same for Women)

Anyone can be Non-Binary, there is no "look" or requirement

Non-binary masculine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces, many are just treated as men and predators

Non-binary feminine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces without being seen as "Woman-Lite"

Edited the wording on the first point because too many terfs keep thinking I'm their friend.

[monarchbychoice]

this. this a thousand times.

[thecatscan]

Lana❤

[monarchbychoice]

squishy

[monarchbychoice]

you know what a good bonding experience with your classmates would be? TEACHER CATCHPHRASE BINGO COMPETITION

the rules are ridiculously simple:

take a piece of paper and make 16 boxes

in each box, write a very common phrase word or gesture the teacher says or makes. it's an individual task!

wait for the poor individual to come and say the magic words

screech manically with your classmates each time something matches

if the teacher catches on, giggle at them while they stare in disbelief at the little papers you produce at that point of the class

nah, i'm not lying this is so fun. i did this with my classmates today during our math lecture and poor guy was genuinely staring at the papers like D: i think i won. results out tomorrow!

[non-binary-lil-star]

Tim, age 14, hanging out with his civilian friends as their school day ends when he sees Dick coming to pick him up

Tim: Oh, shoot- Guys my brothers here, I gotta go

Ariana: Who is he?

Callie: You have a brother?

Tim: Yeah hes just coming up on his bike, there

Ives: THAT'S your brother?? Dude that bike is so fucking cool!!!

Tim: Yeah, hes also a gymnast, he can pull some pretty sick moves!

Callie: How did we not know you had a brother??

Ariana: Do you think he'd teach us gymnastics? My aunt always says i should try ballet, gymnastics pair well with it

Tim: Maybe! I'll talk to him. He's super chill tho, im sure he'd teach us. He's like cool, but chill

Callie: No, but really, weren't you an only child??

Tim: Okay, bye guys, see you tomorrow!

Dick: Oh were those your friends?

Tim: Yeah! They thought your bike was cool. Don't worry, i told them you're actually super lame :)

Dick:

[imjunebitch]