#[god bless bruce]

[honeyrins]

[Batman] 💛 Father - Daughter Ballet Practice 🖤

#bruce wayne #cassandra cain #batman #batfam #dc #i could hear the voice of my ballerina best friend telling me off for the pose accuracy #anyways guess who ive been obsessed with (its bruce wayne yea) #bruce being a supportive dad to cass is so important to me god bless #my man has 287383 back injuries but he gotta stay in shape im a truther for bruce being focused on agility #congrats to them for being the first of my 827393 dc wips i actually finished #psssst follow me on my rb blog weimitsu i rb dc stuff there

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 193

Once again I put forth cryptid batfam. But with a Marvel crossover. Because why not. 

See Gotham isn’t really talked about by the others in the US. The other cities ignore, ignore, ignore as best they can manage, pretending that if they don’t see it, it doesn’t exist. 

That being said, they aren’t completely oblivious to it either. Oh they don’t believe the tales and whispers that come out of the place, because if they were true surely someone would have done something. But they are aware of things like Wayne Industries or Drake Enterprises, right up there with Stark’s. 

Both of which are based within Gotham, though have plenty of things outside the dreadful city as well. Now the Drake couple were constantly seen at galas outside of New Jersey before their tragic demise, but the Waynes? Never once have they been seen outside their city for a single Gala. 

Which makes this invite that one Tony Stark get to one of the Gotham Galas incredibly surprising. Suspiciously so actually, but he has the option for a couple plus ones. His team might be interested- Shield definitely would, seeing as Gotham is a complete blackout on their files. And from his hacking he’s discovered that any information gathering attempts of theirs have failed. 

But really, how bad can it be, it’d only be a couple days after all.

…

Okay what is that fucking thing on top of the building-

#Prompts #DCU #DC #Cryptid Batfam #Cryptid Batman #Cryptid Batfamily #Marvel #DC x Marvel #Marvel x DC #Something to think about is how the Avengers are directly working for the US government while the JL are all volunteers #Bruce is in his own information gathering state #But has also given his kids permission to go all out on the cryptidness #Gotham doesn’t like outsiders and the small avengers team is struggling #They meet a Mr Kent at one of the cafes and have a nice conversation- and he even gave them a bit of information #But uh what the Fuck are the Bats and Birds?? #*Probably* not gods or demons? You don’t sound sure about that- aaand he’s gone #The batclan are blessed/cursed by Gotham #This is why they do not die or don’t die permanently- and why they don’t seem to age either #For funsies #Eldritch Batfam #batman #avengers #stark industries #wayne enterprises #The team spots a Signal booi and are immediately befuddled about wtf they just saw

[nat-ter]

there's smth that just feels right about pre identity reveal bruce believing superman lives in the fortress of solitude. idk how to explain it

#and then bruce makes the 'pikachu's shock face' when he realises that #superman actually has a civillian identity #and he's not superman like 24/7 #whoever writes this in in their fic #thank u and may god bless u #ure making the world a happy place just by adding it in #superbat #bruce wayne

[thedrunknextdoor]

everyone: so what happened on ur journey to find bruce

tim:

[ID: Shane Madej grinning and saying, "I did meet some of the most insufferable people. But, they also met me." End ID]

#he got so many hoes in that run god bless #tim drake #red robin #batman #batfam #dc comics #bruce wayne

[violent138]

Guys, if you ever feel down, find a mirror/unsuspecting sibling/mannequin (that's Alfred now by the way), make a little "c" shape with your hand, and say (with feeling and elaborate hand gestures):

"I don't talk about feelings, Alfred. I don't have any, I've never seen one. I'm a night-stalking, crime-fighting vigilante, and a heavy metal rapping machine. I don't feel anything emotionally, except for rage. 24/7, 365, at a million percent. And if you think that there's something behind that, then you're crazy. Good night, Alfred."

#batffirmations #god bless the lego batman movie #lego batman #the lego batman movie #thee movie of all time istg #batman #bruce wayne #you're welcome for the tip #personal

[batlantern-abyss]

I have lots of thoughts about batlantern but ultimately it boils down to "unstoppable ADHD (hal) vs immovable autism (bruce)". That and "Spooky" is the cutest nickname ever

#“Spooky” say you want to kiss that man on the lips already #Shirt that says ask me what I think about Batlantern #God bless the ability to edit tags #hal jordan #bruhal #bruce wayne #batman #dc comics #sudden random activity on this post cuz of the queen of batlantern fabularasa <3

[rocker-socks]

I see your Bruce adopts Billy au and raise you Diana adopts Billy while Bruce hovers on the sidelines playing godfather who has the adoption papers ready if something bad happens. Jon also gets this treatment.

#batman #look i get his name is BATson but you have a little guy with the blessings of multiple gods and one of his patrons daughter Right There #she'd call him her ward though #bc she'd respect he had loving parents and that he has taken care of himself for so long. like going from no mom/dead mom for 6 years #diana originally meeting captain marvel was like a cousin situation. shes like oh cool you are family now you get no choice #then billy gets aged revealed and shes like oh you are now immediate family. #diana and clark are touched that bruce has their back with their kids #theyd extend the offer as well if bruce didnt have 100 kids and half were already fully grown adult's #clark was super ready to step in during dicks younger years tho if smth happened to bruce #billy batson #wonder woman #shazam #bruce wayne #captain marvel #diana prince

[not-another-robin]

On the dami train tonight

#also i know nothing abt talia but im manifesting an amicable divorce for her and bruce god bless #narsposting #dc comics #batman #alfred pennyworth #damian wayne #robin #batfam #batfamily

[rmbunnie]

Red Hood Characterization

This is really long so I'm putting a cut here, I've been thinking about Jason Todd's character motivations and the question of whether or not his actions are based in a Moral Code (I don't think so, not to say he's without any morality) and I talk about that in more depth here.

I saw someone say on here that Titans: Beast World: Gotham City was some of the best Jason Todd internal writing they'd seen in a while, and I've been a Red Hood fan for 8 years or so now? pretty much since I read comics for the first time, so I went and checked out and I thought it was good! The way the person I saw talking about it as if it was rare and unusual made me wonder though, because as well-written as i thought his stances on crime were, there wasn't really anything in it that went against the way I conceptualize Jason?

This kinda plays into a larger question I've been thinking about for a while with Jason though, which is that, do people think that the killing is part of a fundamental worldview that motivates him a la batman, and that worldview is the reason he does the things he does?? Because 8 years ago i was a middle schooler engaging with fiction on the level that a middle schooler does, so I simply did not put much thought into it beyond "poor guy :(" but ever since I actually started trying to understand consistent characterization, I don't really see Jason as someone who's motivated by a moral code in his actions the way batman or superman is!

tbh my personal read is that he's a very socially-motivated guy, his actions from resurrection to his Joker-Batman ultimatum in utrh always seemed to me like every choice made leading up to his identity reveal was either a. to give him the leverage and skill necessary to pull off his identity reveal successfully, or b. to twist the knife that little bit more when he does let Bruce find out who he is. Like iirc there's a Judd Winick tweet like "yeah tldr he chose Red Hood as his identity because it's the lowest blow he could think of." And I think that's awesome, I think character motivations rooted so deeply in character's relationships and emotions are really fun to read! I also think it's where the stagnation/flatness of his character comes from in certain comics, because if his main motivation is one event in one relationship that passes, and he is not particularly attached to anything in his life or the world by the time that comes to pass, it's a little harder to come up with a direction to go with the character after that, because there isn't much of a direction that aligns with something the character would reasonably want? But I do think solving this by saying "all of the morally-off emotionally driven cruelty he did on his way to spite Batman was actually reflective of his own version of Batman's stance that's exactly the same except he thinks it's GOOD to kill people" isn't ideal. To be fully honest, it seems to me like he never particularly cared one way or the other about killing people to "clean Gotham of crime," he just did everything he could to get the power necessary to pull off his personal plans, and took out any particularly heinous people he encountered along the way (like in Lost Days.) Not to say I think the fact he killed people keeps him up at night anymore than everything else in his life events, I just never really thought he was out there wholeheartedly kneecapping some dude selling weed or random guy robbing a tv store for justice.

Looping wayyy back to my question, Is this (^) contradictory to the way he's written/the overall average perception of the character? Because like I enjoyed his writing in Beast World i have zero significant issue with anything there, I just didn't believe it would be a hot take, like yeah, that is Jason. It's been a while since I've read utrh and lost days, but I don't think my takeaway directly contradicts either of those too bad iirc. Idk all this to say I think Jason killing and being alright with killing is an obvious and objective fact, but i guess i've always seen it as more of a practical tactic than a moral belief, and I think taking the actions made during the lowest points of a character's life where he is obsessively focused on this ONEEEE thing and trying to apply it as a Motivating Stance to everything he's done after that, doesn't really follow logically for me.

#edit: i am so so open to discussion and disagreement on this but please try to have something substantial to say. god bless! #like ofc jason kills but to me it was less “everyone I've ever killed deserves death objectively” #and more “when people are dead they stop doing things like heinous atrocities and trying to kill me" #i don't even think he wanted the joker dead (only) because he thinks he objectively morally deserves death #although the joker is one of the most extreme cases possible and he if does think that he's VERY justified #i really do think it was just about bruce #and wanting bruce to avenge him to show he loved him and he mattered and wanting his dad to give him security #all the killing was about the clown and everything with the clown was about bruce #i've NEVER forgotten the bit in lost days where he has the joker tied up at gunpoint and doesn't kill him #i think if it was only about a moral greater good situation he would have taken him out then and there #if you disagree i'd love to hear why provided you can be civil and not an jerk #also if you disagree PLEASE PLEASE put screenshots and comic issues if possible #i'd love to check them out and form my own stance on them #just know that if you say like. battle for the cowl. or the Tom King batman annual or something i probably won't care too much #comic characterization is ever-changing and inconsistent i truly believe that the best thing to do is just read the important stuff #and try to form your own stances from there #because there's never gonna be 100% of comics involving a character that align with each other perfectly and that's just a given #jason todd #red hood #dc comics

[hawkzeyes]

jfc Bruce you are the most exhausting person…

Outsiders #21 (2003)

#literally bless all of your children and their god tier level patience #tw Bruce Wayne #Bruce Wayne #dick Grayson #Nightwing #Batman #dc #dc comics #comic panels

[80ramiens]

shoulder devil n angel trope ft finney

#tbp #the black phone #finney blake #vance hopper #bruce yamada #brance #vinney #vanney #brunney #brinney #vanbrunney #I've been in a vanbrunney mood lately teehee #also i keep hearing ppl tell me 'thanks for keeping the fandom alive!' like girl #idgaf I'm drawing and writing for ME and ME only. #u r all just caught up in my silliness god bless

[starrycomics]

It’s ironic that the Bat fandom likes to play up Tim’s parents (largely imagined) neglect, when Bruce canonically leaves him alone in Gotham to babysit a violent nutcase who tries to strangle him in the Batcave and commit murder in the name of justice

Like I’m sorry Bruce but why are you trusting the man who added claws to the batsuit with an unsupervised child

#as you can tell I’ve started reading knightfall #appros of nothing I think of that post that calls young justice ‘the most unsupervised teens in america’ constantly #god bless Bruce and his inability to manage children #Tim drake #Robin #Bruce Wayne #Batman #jean paul valley

[martyrbat]

detective comics #470

[ID: Jim Gordon in a hospital bed as he impassively watches Alfred Pennyworth and Batman talk. Alfred worriedly asks, “Beg pardon, Batman — but are those bulges I see under your cowl?” Batman dismisses, “Bandages, Alfred! I got burned this morning.” He doesn't elaborate that it's radiation burns. END ID]

#live gordon reaction #honestly this arc was so funny bruce went with radiation burns for several weeks because he was too focused on fucking his new girlfriend #BUT ALSO. if you take into meta-ness. the writer said he wanted to MAKE SURE everyone knew bruce was finally fucking #like he made the character silver st cloud to give him a girlfriend and leave absolutely NO DOUBT he was having sex #literally Steve Englehart said that and its so funny if you take that in universe too. #the man has sex in his late 30s for the first time and forgets he has radiation burns. god bless this whore. #c: detective comics | i: 470 #crypt's panels #batman #alfred pennyworth #jim gordon

[abba-enthusiast]

Me at the Juke Box

#some old men gave me 5.- to use on the juke box and baby we’re gonna listen to ABBA! #drunk men are the best. they were having a fight over how old this bar is and then asked me how many years it’s been since 1947 and then #gave me money to spend on the jukebox god bless #any bruce Springsteen requests? i already got badlands promise land darkness on the edge of town and dancing in the dark but couldn’t decide #on the last one

[starlooove]

This is all because someone said that tim being wealthy DOES impact his character. Like the ppl in the screenshot are defending the idea that tim should be written as middle class and even claimed that plot points about/made possible or exacerbated by his wealth have nothing to do with his characterization bc they’re plot points and not character traits. They also previously said there’s little to no mention of his wealth whilst also trying to say his wealth doesn’t matter because it’s just “new money” (which I’d argue adds a LOT of context to the drakes vs the Waynes but that’s into analysis territory and I’m not getting into with someone who said plot points don’t impact the character 💀)

Anyways the main point of the post isn’t just to clown on them I just want y’all to take that final tweet into account; “They come and take only what they want, they don’t like to delve into the great character that is Tim.” On a post saying Tim being rich doesn’t matter and has nothing to do with his character. Tim Stans I’m not saying this is all of you, but this group of y’all is sooooo. Let’s be nice and say weird. That it makes y’all look bad. When they’re saying “they pick and choose to ignore his character” in order to defend picking and choosing to ignore his character…have a group meeting or smth yall. This is crazy.

#this lowk made me appreciate tumblr tim stans #like Ik y’all wouldn’t say shit like this God Bless #dc should rewrite tim as middle class 💀 #just say you have 0 understanding of why certain details were added to Tim’s character post Jason Todd #and like even if you think it has nothing to do from an in comic standpoint #are u gonna sit there and tell me his being rich doesn’t impact his writers at all? his fans at all? #the way tim has been so accepted and subsequently flanderized (not even flanderized bc some of the traits y’all boil him down to are traits #he doesn’t have) has a lot to do with him being a rich white teen #and i specify teen because the way y’all baby him has to do with his class and race #y’all make it so when you say ‘he’s socially anxious bc he was so secluded at home 🥺🥺🥺’ #and tbh let’s get down to it this is another way for y’all to make him ‘special’ or more likeable without thinking about it #if you think his wealth hasn’t impacted his character why do you want him to be middle class so bad? y’all just wanna relate more #it’s like when u hc him as a poc but refuse to acknowledge that him being white may impact his character #like u don’t know shit and I don’t trust u with subjects like race or class #back to the drawing board sweetheart #im not even tagging this anti tim Drake this is just who he is lmao #anti tim Drake Twitter fans #anti Thomas and Kyle #OH and the “why Is him being rich relevant’ you don’t even know how plot points impact character you wouldn’t know #OOOH and if you mention how it might’ve impacted Bruce’s view of him they’ll call it fanon #like no thats just point A to point B #to be fair they’d prolly call Tim’s mistreatment of Steph being misogyny fanon too #craaaazy #nothing is real it all exists in a void where social issues don’t exist #Ur so so smart

[redrobin-detective]

Duke Reminder for when you get back from your run or whatever you’re doing (probably actually running but idk 🤷‍♂️)

Im sorry friend this is so late, it got buried in my ask and I forgot.

I've obviously lost most of the energy of the rant but I'll sum it up with: Duke's origin with the We Are Robin (WAR) movement marked DC doing something different with the Robin title. These weren't specially picked Chosen Ones. These are kids of Gotham trying to take back the city, being inspired by the heroes to do what they can to spread their own light in the darkness.

Duke being a leader of that movement, having met Batman early on (Zero Year) and making his own way apart of but still adjacent to the Batfam. In my mind, Duke would be like cousin Kate, in that he's absolutely a Bat, but he's not like beholden to Bruce and he kinda does his own thing. The idea of the WAR being almost like Baker Street Irregulars, like street level heroes to do good and if it gets too big, you call in the OG Bats. This is the perfect space for characters like Harper/Cullen Row, Maps Mizoguchi etc to fit in. They could have their own separate stories that occasionally link up with the Bats.

Duke is serving as a leader/Oracle like figure watching out for and organizing the Robins. When Bruce realizes he can't stop Duke or the others, he ropes Duke in and gives him equipment, training and generally helps the kids. Because Bruce is looking to the future, the future he won't always be able to save but if he can save these kids and empower them... then they can save themselves and Gotham. So Duke is a Bat, no questions. Its a joke amongst the WAR that Duke knows the Bats personally, sees them outside of costume. He and Jason vibe really well and Dami respects him for the good hard work he's doing.

Idk, I like Duke as a character but I will admit it eats at me that this kind of exciting, bold, progressive new character was kind of tosses aside for the same old 'nice kid, dead/unavailable parents, becomes Bruce's ward, slap him in a costume and fight crime'. It doesn't matter that oh! He's dayshift or Oh! He has powers!!! It's still the same formula. I love making jokes about Bruce's revolving door of kids but at some point it's gotta stop. Duke being his own dude, alongside the Bats making real change in Gotham. God that would have been So interesting guys and I'll forever be upset about it.

#like the we are robin stories are themselves bad #but the concept guys #do you KNOW how weepy eyed I got at the idea of gotham kids looking up to Robin and saying 'that could be me?' #and not waiting for Batman to magic them away and Choose them #they ARE Robin #even if theyre only Robin for a block of Gotham #they're filling in the cracks the big guns miss #and form a cohesive network of kids who are sick of the city failing them #Duke being charming charismatic bold and decisive as a leader #like hes a Bat but he has the freedom of not being a son #Bruce tells him No at something and Duke is like whatever #He has his own people! his own responsibility! Bruce and co are just there as support and backup! #Im sorry thats one reason I cant get into canon Duke #because they stripped him of his parents and his home built community #and threw him at bruce as a sad orphan who Chose him and made him a hero #its just............ its just the same thing #and sometimes god bless I want something different