#goddammit bruce you got a hundred kids stop taking in more

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I posted 377 times in 2022

That's 294 more posts than 2021!

41 posts created (11%)

336 posts reblogged (89%)

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I tagged 126 of my posts in 2022

#batman - 17 posts

#jason todd - 16 posts

#for future syren - 14 posts

#tim drake - 13 posts

#batfam - 12 posts

#dick grayson - 12 posts

#damian wayne - 8 posts

#robin - 6 posts

#dcu - 5 posts

#damian al ghul - 5 posts

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#i dont know if i worded this right but i saw old pictures of myself in third grade and felt both of these things

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Everytime I envision Jason interacting with drug use, I get the impression that he just... doesn’t.

Like yeah, he smokes, but he’s 19 and it’s legal, so that’s fine. He doesn’t care if Dick drinks, same with anyone he knows who’s over 21 as long as they’re safe about it.

But one time he walks in on Tim and Connor smoking weed and he just. Calmly walks over and plucks the joint out of Tim’s hand. They’re both thinking something like oh he probably wants a hit, but Jason just goes, opens the window, and chucks it out. Then he holds out his hand for the rest of it, and Connor hands it over because why hasn’t he spoken why is he so calm. Jason then proceeds to give them the longest lecture of their lives about how using weed isn’t a good coping strategy and if they’re stressed they should get therapy. And then he leaves to chuck the weed.

Once, when Damian was 11, he convinced Bruce to let him have a small glass of wine with his dinner on Christmas. Jason sees it next to his plate, takes it, and pours it down the sink. No glares, no yelling. Dinner then becomes an unofficial TED Talk as Jason educates them all--because he’s fucking smart, and when he lived with his parents he filled his head with everything he could learn about substances and addiction and recovery, and he was heartbroken when he tried to help his mom and she still used because he loved her and knew what to do and why wasn’t it enough?--on how Damian’s brain isn’t fully developed and alcohol could really fuck with him, and how no one there should be drinking before they’re 21 or preferably 25 because that’s when the brain stops developing.

Jason is fine with reasonable, safe, legal substance use, but he’ll freeze hell himself before he lets another family member die to it.

158 notes - Posted June 29, 2022

#4

Can you imagine if the batbros got sent to our dimension?

Like, aside from the whole ‘jesus christ our lives have been recorded there is no privacy’ thing, how would they feel when they saw people’s thoughts on them?

How would Dick feel seeing the oldest siblings who look at him and said, he’s angry, and he deserves to be, and all the younger ones who look up to him and think, I wish I had him for a brother. The kids who imagined he was their family to get through tough times. The ones who asked ‘what would Dick Grayson do’ and decided to be kind.

How would Jason feel when he saw the hundreds who would go to war with Batman for him? The kids who weren’t what their parents envisioned, the ones who were used, the ones considered fuck-ups and troubled children, who yell that he deserved better? If he saw the kids who fought and fell and got back up because the Red Hood would do it too?

How would Tim feel about the gifted children, the neurodivergent ones who went so long without understanding why they were how they were, the ones whose parents never hit them so nothing was wrong, but it’d be nice if they ever even glanced at them? The people who look at him and say he worked so hard and he is valuable, who see.everything that he is and love him all the more for it? The people who will never stop trying because Tim Drake tried, and goddammit they would do him proud.

And Damian? How would he feel if he looked at everyone who was just a kid trying to survive? Who became whatever they had to only to find out later that it wasn’t what the world wanted from them? These people who fight for him to get chance after chance and cry, he deserves to be loved, not shunned for doing what he had to. The ones who love so fiercely and so loyally because Damian deserved a chance and so did these kids.

How would they feel?

167 notes - Posted August 5, 2022

#3

So Jason’s just died. Bruce is back in Gotham, he’s sad and grieving and Dick is in Bludhaven because he left right after the funeral. It’s hard. But Bruce Wayne has to go to a social event. So, with great difficulty, he gets dressed and goes out to a party with all of Gotham’s elite. He’s not being Brucie tonight, though. He doesn’t have energy for it. Instead, he’s just walking around. People who were there described him later as a shadow. If you weren’t looking at him, he just seemed to disappear into the darkness.

But then he hears someone talking about Jason. About that ‘street kid’. It’s a man who looks like he’d try to explain periods to a woman. Expression pleasant, as if he’s discussing the mayoral race, he talks about Jason like he was a piece of dirt on his shoe. He says that the kid was on borrowed time, anyway. That he didn’t deserve Bruce’s kindness. How kind Bruce was, really, for tolerating him. 

And Bruce, of course, feels rage. But before he can go himself to fight this guy(and even if he wasn’t Batman, he’d win), there’s a loud shout. A child who looks like he’s ten(even though he’s thirteen) flies out of the crowd.

Bruce’s first thought is that it’s Jason. The black hair, the eyes, the way his face is creased with fury all remind him of his son when he was angry. But it’s not Jason, because Jason is dead, and even if he wasn’t he had about twice the muscle this kid did.

This is Tim Drake, child of Jack and Janet, heir to one of Gotham’s biggest fortunes. He has currently already broken the disrespectful man’s nose and knocked out a tooth. Though Bruce is tempted to let him keep going, he pulls the boy off, trapping him in a bear hug like he did when Jason lost control.

Tim is fighting him, practically spitting. His parents are nowhere to be seen.

“He deserves it!” Tim yells. Tears are running down his face. His eyes, Bruce realizes, are a puffy red that can only come from sleeplessness or crying, both for a long time. “He doesn’t know anything about Jason!”

An interesting thing to say, coming from someone who never even met the kid himself.

Bruce loosens his grip, putting his hands on Tim’s shoulders to coax him around to face him. He gets on one knee, looking into the kid’s eyes.

“Do you want to tell me what you knew about Jason?”

Tim’s eyes go wide with panic mixed with dwindling rage. He’s so tense Bruce is surprised he isn’s shaking. Really, Bruce would expect him to be running. But Tim takes a deep breath. He looks Bruce in the eyes.

“He had magic.”

Ice fills Bruce’s lungs, because jesus this kid knows. Not just the identities. He knows them. He knows Jason’s old belief, one held in mischevious grins and bloody knuckles. He knows them.

“I think we should have a conversation.”

170 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

#2

my batman hyperfixation is gonna be the only reason i graduate high school cause everytime i consider just not doing an assignmen my brain goes ‘jason todd would have loved to go to college you know’ and what am i supposed to do throw away the opportunity jason would have loved fuck no its all for the little nerd now

362 notes - Posted October 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

‘I don’t read fanfic’ what do you mean your main source of joy isn’t watching the same people fall in love over and over again, in every imaginable way, in every possible style, because people saw them and cared so much that they built them world after world in which to love each other?

632 notes - Posted April 24, 2022

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