[greelin]

to you this is the torture labyrinth but to me it is just the labyrinth. where torture often occurs

[dustorange]

[getthembees]

happy batgirl omnibus to all who celebrate

[ataraxidentally]

Everyone who has ever met dickie g be like...

[masochistdickgrayson]

[masochistdickgrayson]

does cute count?

[three-semicolons]

I LOVE THE DICHOTOMY OF THE COWL AGING DICK BUT THE BATSUIT IN ISOLATION HIGHLIGHTING HIS YOUTH

With cowl on: Pulling straight 40-year old man

But then Dick tugs it off to reveal the saddest, eternally teary face known to man.

So long as Dick can hide his face, he can maintain the facade of Batman. He is physically and intellectually capable of doing so. But as soon as you reveal the eyes, as soon as emotional vulnerability is possible, it immediately gives away how lost and unwell he is in the position.

(Note: it also it worth mentioning that this is not a single artstyle choice. The images above were pulled from a Rebirth comic, but the post-Final Crisis Dickbats run had the same dynamic.) See:

With Cowl

Without

[thelolaveart]

I drew dickkory but this time with chalk (everyone is shocked)

PEOPLE GO OUTSIDE AND DRAW WITH CHALK ITS SO MUCH FUN‼️‼️‼️

[crowkip]

☆ metropolis kid!

[hood-ex]

"He's growing on me."

Bruce still doesn't like this kid.

Batman #12

"I love you BUT..."

Detective Comics #1032

[getanshi]

people act like damian is so stoic and serious and ignorant of anything fun. you fool you fell for the mask. he's drawing pictures of fluttershy in a notebook under the covers with a flashlight

[witchstone]

your weird obsession with having a fully formed white picket fence found family who all speak like they've inhaled their therapist who you subconsciously want to be adopted into is ruining your ability to interact with the source material

[toddsolondz]

duke and tim are so exactly the time period that they were written, duke is very much a gen z hero as tim is so incredibly gen x, but dick was written in 1940 with the understanding that one day millennials will come to exist and he will be one

[three-semicolons]

Sometimes I’m like “I don’t get why people make a big deal out of Discowing’s V-neck when it isn’t even exceptional compared to other heroes of the era”.

Most of the time this is true. But there are moments.

[kazumscale]

[zer0-hunter]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Me, finishing my cocktail: “Man, I should make that post. Really kick the hornet’s nest.”

Pip: “You should. Drinky post time!”

Me: “It’s gonna make people really mad.”

Pip: “Time to hurt some 🎶feeeeeeeliiiiiings🎵~!”

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

They gotta stop aging Robin up I swear to god. He’s like fully an adult man half the time and it fucking sucks. Make him recognizably a child or don’t bother including him at all. “But it makes people uncomfortable” yeah dude! Because it is! You’re never going to make it okay so make it interesting! Make it mean something! Like Robin is fully just a grooming story. I don’t mean sexually but it’s a narrative about a man convincing himself that his relationship with a kid is so special and unique that the normal boundaries between child and adult can be suspended, that the child’s circumstances and capabilities and needs are so extraordinary that they are rendered a kind of un-child, and that the scale of their eagerness and want counts as consent. Robin’s already traumatized, so what is there to lose?

Everyone wants Batman to be morally complicated so they make him a huge douchebag for no reason but flinch away from the actual parts of his character that are really troubling. The “is it wrong to have Robin?” question is always brought up and then neatly solved in a way that absolves Batman. But like. One of Batman’s most consistent character traits is that he’s able to convince himself of anything no matter how stupid.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Batman is a hyper-intelligent, hyper-powerful Sherlock Holmes character piloted by the ghost of a lonely child. He’s a genius who uses his intelligence to justify acting upon the emotional impulses of an 8 year old with horrific trauma and unmet needs. He uses children for his own emotional gratification and convinces himself that, while it might not be right, it’s not wrong enough to stop doing it.

And, well, many such cases!

Honestly I think the cognitive dissonance of like a 9 a year old Robin does so much more to establish Bruce as a psychologically complicated and morally gray character than any amount of the pointless assholery people just keep piling on to his personality.

[batmancurated]

bruce meeting dick and jason in dan mora’s au batman: the brave and the bold story, ‘heroes of tomorrow’

[starsapphire]

if anything batman is ROBIN'S assistant

[starsapphire]

manages robin's schedule ✅️

drives robin to work and back every night ✅️

takes all phone calls made to their mutual workplace ✅️

dating life depends on robin's whims ✅️

work hours depend on robin's schedule (bedtime) ✅️

carries robin's stuff in his own purse (belt) ✅️

organizes pay for robin's staff (butler) ✅️

sounds like an assistant to me

[casscainmainly]

It's just that David didn't chase her. He didn't look for her he stayed put in that house & watched her tapes & always believed somewhere in the pit of his soul that she'd come back to him. And the first time he sees her in years & years is through the scope of a gun and he can't bring himself to pull the trigger. And the first word she says to him is "stop." He never wanted her to speak, but he cries anyway. He loved her so much & misunderstood her so completely that he never truly believed she'd run away forever. He always expected her - maybe still expects her - to run right back into his arms.