Icarus Had The Right Idea

river || she/her || 20 || hello there ; ) || i quite like comic books || also on @apronbunny || writing tag: scribbles from the swamp || ao3: 061828

[exitwound]

Youre a mollusk and something potentially bad or scary gets inside you what do you do. Make a pearl around it. Okay. okay

[mapsontheweb]

The Mississippi river and its tributaries

[salaciouscrumbb]

[stars-bean]

Bend It Like Beckham (2002) dir. Gurinder Chadha

[monocromatia]

[filmgifs]

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001) dir. Rob Cohen

[fuyunoakegata]

I laugh, every single time :P

by http://bizarrocomics.com/ 

[cuntylestat]

being obsessed with captain america: the winter soldier in 2014 is something that will always be inside of you

[gondorosi]

One of the most distressing outcomes of the push to re-categorize the whole Robin scenario into a stereotypical "Robin = Batman's child" box; is the gradual erosion of the concept of Batman and Robin as a complete relationship in itself.

There's no question of creating an analogy to that relationship because there is none. Batman and Robin is unlike anything there ever was before, and it didn't build on any existing social/family dynamics as much as it created a brand new one.

[frownyalfred]

“Look what you did. You snapped them right down the power cell. I mean, they’re actually sparking. Do you know how crazy that is? You couldn’t have done that if you’d tried. And now I have to go explain to Batman why his tech is busted. AGAIN. Do you know what he does when I bring broken escrima sticks back? He doesn’t say what the fuck happened, Nightwing? Or why don’t you take better care of my stuff, Nightwing? That would be easier. At least then I know he’s just mad. No, let me paint a picture for you. Batman just sits there. He doesn’t even examine them because he knows that shit’s busted. And he acts all aloof even though I know deep down, he isn’t angry. He’s disappointed. And sure, your first thought might be — well Nightwing, I’m sure he’s not disappointed in YOU! That would also be too easy. No. He’s disappointed in his tech. He thinks he didn’t work hard enough to make it durable and safe. As soon as I leave these sticks with him he’s gonna pull an all nighter and invent a version of these that could probably electrocute a whole ocean. Just because he doesn’t want this to happen again. And he’ll never admit that, okay? I could be standing right there watching him fix these and he’ll just grunt and say something about optimization. Optimization? They’re fucking broken. So I hope you understand what you’ve just condemned me to. You just had to wave around plasma guns as if they’re anything like real guns. No! If they’re busting Batman’s tech, they could do that to you. Do you not understand that?”

Terrified goon, holding onto his fellow goon with trembling hands: “So you’re gonna let us…go?”

Dick Grayson, dropping his escrima sticks on the ground: “Oh no, man, I’m still gonna beat the shit out of you.”

[frownyalfred]

imagine how smart Bruce would be if he didn't get hit in the head all the time. "Lex Luthor is the smartest man on Earth--" "Tony Stark is--" right but if Bruce is holding his own up there AND he's been playing fast and loose with TBIs for a few years, that ranking is flawed.

[starsapphire]

if lonely place of dying were written in the smartphone era tim's lockscreen would have been a candid photo of dick grayson just like minding his business absolutely none the wiser and obviously (while tim is pulling up the google drive app to show alfred and dick his organized megafolder of photography/footage/illegally-downloaded gcpd reports/articles/statistical analyses of batman) both alfred and dick would see this but none of them would acknowledge it least of all tim who at this point still has not explained how he knows dick literally at all

[wesandresons]

are you ready to die white boy

[n0tabadday]

Leaving the Suit Behind? You Are Invited to Fill Out the Robin Exit Interview

OPEN

[saryasy]

[animusrox]

Holiday Knights The New Batman Adventures

[robs-your-robins]

There’s something inately precious about having Dick as an eight year old when he becomes Robin. Yes, I get why most modern tellings have him at like 12 and that is understandable but little eight year old Dick becoming Robin will always be superior. Mainly because it is funny because Bruce Wayne, billionaire and businessman and Batman, the most fear entity in Gotham, gets bullied by a rabid eight year old with murder and vengeance coursing through his veins, into letting him beat up criminals dressed like a traffic light. Mainly because thematically, lonely Bruce seeing this little boy the same age as him when he lost his own parents and he has never understood a human being so much in his entire life and he must protect him, he has to, even if he must throw him into danger. Mainly because, it is fucking adorable and little Dickbin in his little yellow cape looking like a walking triangle with little green boots and a smile that makes any victim assured and a laugh that echoes in the nightmares of many a rogue or goon, in his family colours, with his mother and father’s pet names echoing in his ears when he tumbles into the fight to protect those who need a hero and being like an entire two and a half foot shorter than the great shadow that is the Bat, stood at his side like the Dark Knight’s conscience made flesh, a reminder that even the big scary Bat has a heart.