mysterycitrus

[mysterycitrus]

I love you Black lesbians. love you Native and Indigenous lesbians. many kisses for my Hispanic and Latino lesbians. lots of love for every Asian lesbian out there. i love every lesbian poc you're all amazing and deserve to be acknowledged this lesbian week of visibility<3

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why does jason use the elephant to represent himself? i assumed it was to represent dick until i think you mentioned somewhere that it was him as robin, which i was kind of confused about. is it because he was fulfilling dick's old role as robin? or a callback to his original origin? i reread wolf king and got really curious

the elephant is for dick — jason constructed the altar in remembrance of himself as robin by honouring those he thinks grieved his passing. u are remembered by the people who knew u, and all that, so the reasons for the altar are less linear and more nebulous;

although jason can’t quite vocalise the significance of the elephant, even in his own head —

i thought how everyone subconsciously associating dick with elephants to the point of emotionally spiralling was fun. then in turn, jason gives the elephant to a freshly seventeen year old dick grayson, a sign of mourning for a boy who no longer exists. etc etc.

the altar was originally gonna stick to just the people at the funeral (babs and jim, particularly) but then it broadened a little to include more people jason knew in his first life. there were some people i cut for simplicities sake (nocturna and rena as examples) but yeah. bruce is excluded for obvious reasons. it also means that when dick gives jason a bluejay figurine in return, it’s literal a call and answer.

like, a small token representing dick’s own grief. and jason, in return, cannot bare to look at it for long

#persephone meta!!!!! wehehehehehe #dick grayson #dc comics #the ask and the answer #persephone tag

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it burns like fire

#gosh. GOSH!!! #outsiders 2003 u will always be famous 2 me

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lucky last

when i finish my deaged!dick grayson fic that engages with the traumatic legacy of the robin mantle…… and the ghost of mary grayson….. and bruce waynes violent relationship with loss…… then my vision shall be realised

#it’s interesting looking at the art progression #doing lil illustrations is fun! esp reflecting on how the story has developed #persephone tag

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add some visual distinction between the wonderfam by having them embrace specific mythological motifs — donna should lean into the moon + stars and cassie should have some sky and lightning symbolism. diana is more grounded comparatively to reflect her commitment to love and the people of the world

#thinking about hades ii and cassies run of terrible redesigns

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sometimes you have to search up a character on your own blog just to see what a real one is saying about them

#me trying to navigate my meta posts that are untagged and frequently misspelt

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it’s soooo interesting how dick graysons oversexualisation coincides with the retcon that he’s now a romani man — a demographic that has always been oversexualised and dehumanised. it’s soooo crazy the thrice survivor of sexual assault keeps getting ugly covers all about his ass. its wiiiiild how bruce wayne— a character whose alter ego is purposely sexualised — is never treated this way. damn, can’t imagine why

#i am going. to McLose it #dick grayson #dc comics

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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tim drake trying to explain something complex but he keeps changing the subject mid sentence and taking ages to circle back to his original point and the only ones who can follow the conversation are kon (used to bart), dick (used to wally), bart (used to tim), steph (also yaps), and babs (autism)

#sorry im thinking about bat neurosis #tim drake #dc comics

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while dick grayson is notoriously hyperfocused on work and will stay at a computer terminal for days at a time (re titans 99) i do think in his civilian life he’d be a bit too fidgety to sit and be like…. a voracious reader. like he definitely enjoys it but there’s always something else to do. his leg goes to sleep and he takes a walk around the apartment and then gets distracted reorganising his gear, etc. with that in mind i feel he’d be super into audiobooks. he’d use the shit outta libby. he’s a huge fan of those big cast performances, like they did for sandman or any graphicaudio production. i do feel he is a calvin and hobbes fiend, however

#i believe he referred to damian in his head as calvin for their first six months on the job #dick grayson #dc comics #spokes #he’d probs be into like… terry pratchett. i feel like he’d gravitate to discworlds inherent absurdity

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my arc as a nightwing fan is complete (got blocked by tom taylor on twitter)

#pop the bottles #me and my twitter account with two spam bot followers is a threat to professional writers everywhere

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also thinking about dickroy as two people with absolute faith in the other + dick being allowed to step back from the spotlight around roy + roy trusting that someone will always be at his back my beloveds

#ooooh they make me insane #the roy pov fic when ur finally done…… #dickroy #dc comics #spokes #dick grayson #roy harper

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if given the chance bruce and talia could have such an incredible dynamic in comics if only writers stopped being incredibly racist to talia

if dc somehow refrained from being racist about talia for a single second and embraced the fact that bruce waynes autistic swag is like catnip to hot women with complicated pasts we would literally witness the love story of a generation

#bruce wayne struggles to make eye contact and stims under the cape #every beautiful woman in a 200 mile radius: well i can’t not fuck him #but in all seriousness brutalia actually parenting their son together. im doing the lil grabby hands #brutalia #bruce wayne #talia al ghul #dc comics

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bruce and talia’s relationship defined by distance — distance between their goals, their philosophy, their conversation, the physical distance between gotham and the rest of the world. their son is a bridge of conversation, with talia’s smile and bruce’s nose. when they speak, it is of constructed metaphor several layers thick. her blade is sharp, her gaze gentle. when they meet he presses a kiss to the centre of her palm. she cups a hand to his neck, his cheekbone, his eyelid. then she leaves, and does not turn back.

#sorry ill stop being weird about them now #brutalia #dc comics

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#alright

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detective comics (1937) #725 // the great believers, rebecca makkai // hesitate to call, louise glück // batman: battle for the cowl (2009) #1 // titans (2008) #21 // the aftermath, caitlin conlon // superman/batman (2003) #76 // i built the walls myself, arch budzar // batman: battle for the cowl (2009) #1 // titans (2008) #15 // detective comics (1937) #874 // postcolonial love poem, natalie díaz // batman (1940) #687 // batman and robin (2009) #1 // i can tell it's aquarius season because my knuckles are splitting, caitlin conlon // superman/batman (2003) #76 // u.k. // batman and robin (2009) #2 // titans (2008) #23 // u.k. // batman (1940) #681 // coded signals, caitlin conlon // titans (2008) #15 // batman and robin (2009) #1 // against silence, frank bidart

dick + being batman

#this is relevant to me. currently

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happy lesbian visibility week

#lebians #lebsians #lesibans