weird figure of the dark

break, adult, he/him. icon by wil4x.

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new pinned things:

you can call me break or b

he/him

this is a sideblog

dynamic duo 💙🖤

my ao3

[dctrfate]

i know that everyone (myself included!) loves to complain about how oversaturated the bats are in dc comic spaces but it really is disappointing how prevalent the refusal is to so much as touch as their comics, much less other, far less popular character's comics. like, there's a whole wide world out there to explore and think about and have fun with...don't you want to play dolls with me ☹️☹️☹️

[sun-moon-talia]

dc comic headquarters trying to run now that they don’t have rco and can’t remember what happened in their own comics

[sun-moon-talia]

its already begun…

[officialpenisenvy]

you know there was a kid in the 40s who did NOTTTTT play about robin. that was his bestie you couldn't raise your tongue against him during idk batman fan club meetings or he'd beat you up. and then he died and his spirit reincarnated into a tumblr user

[vintagerobin]

The issue with trying to discuss sexual violence themes is that you frequently find yourself stuck between people who believe that the very existence of those themes in fiction is problematic and depicting it is unnecessary or shouldn't be allowed and people who believe that every depiction is too important to even acknowledge the frequent issue of intense racism and queerphobia deeply ingrained in the way they were written.

[delphissoracle]

bruce wayne had to watch the world's most precious child GROW up. id go insane too

[blacksirensolo-deactivated20141]

…and a Nightwing paint sketch thing from many moons ago!

[diseasedbreeze]

Tim participating in his first pride parade and finding out that Bruce has attended Gotham Pride with the BDSM leather daddies since Dick was Robin. Bruce explains to him that there's a lot of guys in Gotham who used to commit minor crimes just to get beat up by him and he's teamed up with the Gotham BDSM community to let them know there's a way they can get that without breaking the law. Every pride he joins the BDSM float and hands out business cards to let everyone know if they want to be beaten up by Batman for sexual gratification there's a place they can go for that. The other guys on the float know he's the real Batman but they keep quiet about it and he just gives them lessons on how to do the batman growl on the side. Bruce very seriously claims this is a crime prevention measure to keep innocents from a life of crime then kisses the guy next to him on the float 'for cover' and because he's totally comfortable in his heterosexuality.

[notyournoma]

[b0rse]

I feel like brudick has the capacity to embody every kind of nuclear family pairing. they could be sisters if you think about it

[dickgraysonsptsd]

#this is also bc brudick isn't like anything else so everything is a little bit like brudick

[theconciliator]

vulnerable bruce wayne activates something evil in me

[theconciliator]

i need to coddle this grown man and treat him like the world’s most precious baby.

[dickgraysonsptsd]

happy last day of pride to matt bomer's one-page entry in the idw love is love pulse nightclub shooting charity anthology. it shows batman and nightwing in costume at a vigil for the victims.

"they were heroes ostracized by society, made to feel like outsiders. some of them probably had to create other identities in order to protect themselves and those they love. and their greatest strengths are found in what they sometimes felt they needed to conceal. they really aren't so different from you and i."

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can't sleep must think about dick grayson getting molested

[guiltfactory-moved]

this lamb keeps trying to sacrifice itself even though no one really needs or wants it to do that

[casscainmainly]

God this panel kinda drives me crazy. From Batman & the Outsiders #17, Shiva asks Duke about his suit, whether it was his choice. And how does Duke respond? He... doesn't. He parrots what is clearly something Bruce said to him, but never clarifies whether it was 'his choice' at all. Because both him and Shiva know it wasn't. And he acknowledges that his suit, with all the Batty-ness (ears, symbol), was specifically designed to make him like Batman.

Then Shiva suggests dark red, which is what Duke wore in We Are Robin and has connotations to Robin as a whole. Duke's reaction - can we let it go? - can be read in many ways, but to me it suggests Shiva's words hit home. He does miss the Robin colours. Becoming the Signal wasn't his choice, but becoming Robin was.

(And throughout this run, Shiva says both Cass and Duke are being held back by Bruce. With Cass this is a clear allusion to being Orphan over Batgirl, so it's not farfetched to read this conversation as being about how Duke was denied Robin to become Signal).

Duke-as-Signal is a symbol of 'people like Batman', but Duke-as-Robin was a symbol of youth, of community, of diversity and of choice. He was a Robin formed without Batman. I know there's no going back, but having Bruce choose the name, the suit, and the time of day that Duke goes out makes the Signal such a fraught identity. I love the yellow, the suit, and the daytime aspect, but I just wish they were Duke's choices, not Bruce's.

[bruced1ck]

nightwing 1996 summary

[artemisaa87]

ok this got me i almost choked. direct is one word for it