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havensins · 2 years

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bruce wayne (patman) x top!male reader

cw . sub!bruce, dom!m!reader, blowjobs, aftercare, mirror sex, the reader is taller and kinda buff? only slight mentions of that, a whole ass cafe au (i got carried away), strangers to friends to lovers, really long 😭. basically fluff with a smidge of porn at the end 🤭.

note . really just some self indulgent hcs 🫡 this might be a little ooc, but i’m trying 🥲. was not joking when i said this was long-

bruce was so adorably awkward and anxious that it was cute

you owned a small cafe in gotham. the location was a bit weird, your small and otherwise stubby cafe out of place besides such tall and striking buildings

despite the unusual outward differences between your cafe and the buildings it was smushed between, you had a steady business

people coming in an out and ordering your sweets and coffee, you prided yourself on being authentic in your craft

bruce had been curious about your cafe, finding humor in the fact that it was nearly covered by the larger buildings

he was pleasantly surprised upon his entry though

the place smelled of fresh cookies and pastries, but also of coffee yet it didn’t smell bitter

he was surprised to see you over the counter, taking orders with a small smile

if bruce were to see you anywhere else than the shop, you’d easily intimidate him with your tall stature and toned & slightly buff build

he couldn’t help but slightly oogle at your arms in the white tee you wore, but he passed it off as glancing around the place as a newcomer

“welcome to the cafe,”

i vern your voice made bruce want to talk to you on hours on end, just so he could hear it more

he hadn’t felt this way about someone in such a long time, the feeling was foreign as it weighed on his mind

he gives you a small nod and a nervous smile before taking a seat at the counter

you recognized who he was the moment you’d notice him step into your cafe though, the infamous bruce wayne

he wasn’t like the media portrayed him at all, if anything he seemed to be the opposite

timid, shy, even a little anxious but you could tell that behind his eyes that he was observant and a little withdrawn

“what may i get for you?” you ask, standing in front of the wayne from behind the counter

“what do you recommend? i haven’t been here before…” he softly says, voice barely carrying over the loud yet comfortable sound of the rest of the customers

“i’m not sure what you’d like. mr wayne, but everything on the menu comes from one of my recipes so im sure you’ll enjoy it,” you grinned, pushing a menu towards him

he returns your grin, looking over the menu quickly. “may i get a chocolate chip cookie with a. cup of coffee?” he settles, sliding the menu back to you

“of course,” you reply, and begin to make his order personally.

his order was done in no time and you even stayed a moment to watch his reaction as he tasted a cookie created from your own recipe

it tastes oddly like nostalgia to bruce, a childhood he’d never had but always wanted. warm and soft, just perfect all around.

to make this whole “crush at first sight” thing that bruce has going on worse, he could swear his heart sprouts wings and flutters in his chest at the smile that spread across your face at his reaction to the cookie

bruce knows he’s utterly fucked at that moment.

from then on, bruce becomes a regular. he frequents your cafe often, and the both of you even build a sort of bond

he tries to pass it off to alfred as if he only goes because he fell in love with the sweets and coffee

(which, wasn’t a complete lie seeing as he felt like he melted in his seat everytime he bit into a cookie of yours)

but alfred could see through him, he knew it was something more but he wouldn’t press the issue, he was only glad bruce was actually socializing - for whatever the reason may be

the more bruce came to the bar, the more the both of you interacted

your interactions consisted of mostly you flirting with bruce and the male awkwardly trying to hide his blush and sputtering slightly through a reply

it was all cute to you, the way he’d just smile and look down with a blush whenever you shamelessly flirted with him

the way he listened intently to your rambles

the slight tugging feeling in your heart whenever he had to leave

and eventually that bond grew into something more

he stayed for longer periods of time, sometimes coming in after a hard day of whatever he did in his spare time just to be in your presence.

it had been a few weeks of bruce steadily coming into the cafe, and you’d finally worked up the courage to ask him out

you’d chosen to ask him while serving him his usual, the same as his very first order

“bruce, would you like to go on a date with me? you could pick the place if you’d like..”

he seems slightly stunned for a moment, and for a split second you’re anxious about his response

until he nods his head, “yes, i’d like that a lot, i think i know a place..”

bruce picks a place quiet, somewhere you’d never seen in gotham in the short years you’d lived there

of course, the date goes smoothly, you and bruce having a good time and enjoying each other’s company

you spend more and more time together outside of the bakery

more dates occur, and the both of you grow closer romantically

you weren’t sure when you and bruce became ‘official’

but the both of you went from fleeting touches and nervous rambled conversation to soft kisses in greeting and silent conversations in mutual understanding with each other

he’d shown you his identity a few months into the relationship

he didn’t have any doubts that the both of you would last, nor did he think you’d betray his trust; it was more of a safety precaution

you’d come to make a joke out of the whole thing

“oh how the big & bad batman enjoys my pastries from a small diner…”

he doesn’t find it all that amusing but seeing the smile on your face everytime you sad a variation of the joke made his heart dance in his chest

he introduced you to alfred too, and alfred immediately took a liking to you

because wow!!! you’re the reason bruce has been going around the manor happier than usual, more compliant, even even willing to socialize????

everything with bruce was all so tender and sweet and gentle, despite how he’s depicted had batman, every single moment with him was as valuable as glass

your first time with bruce was the same as all other moments you shared together.

the softness of your kisses along his collarbone, the way his hair framed his face messily as he was on his back beneath you

even in the way his mouth parted with soft sounds whenever you did something he liked

nothing would top the face he made when he was about to cum, the way he would diene and his hands would move, sort of frantically to try and ground himself through the earth shattering feeling

the way he’d clench around you & his mouth would drop with quiet whispers and urges of your name

those moments are equally as soft as the rest of the moments you spend with bruce

there are times that aren’t as soft but tender all the same

looking up at you through wet lashes with his blue eyes, silently pleading at you to do something

cock leaking with his arousal, doing his very best to be good for you

loves watching himself in the mirror, watching as you handle him so roughly

brining him up to your chest by his hair, one hand on his hip to keep him into place while you fuck into him

your chin on his shoulder when the hand moves from his hips to his swollen cock, teasing it while it twitches in sensitivity

bruce begs, so prettily that you can’t help but to praise him and give him what he craves.

his kink for your voice only intensified during this moment, listening to you tell him how pathetic he’d look if all of gotham saw cockslut bruce wayne, the protector of gotham, getting fucked by a cafe owner

he could cum on the spot.

and then the aftercare afterwards is gentle. helping him drink water and eat a small snack, drawing a bath for him while you wash him softly

bruce wayne was everything all at once, and everything you’d ever needed and more.

okay i’m FINALLY finished, im so sorry you had to read all of that- 🫡

#dom!reader #dom male reader #top male reader #batman x reader #batman x male reader #batman #patman #battinson #bruce wayne x reader #bruce wayne x male reader #dc x male reader #x male reader #x reader #robert pattinson

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laroppie · 2 years

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hold it in my arms and know it’s mine

#riddlebat #the batman #batman #bruce wayne #edward nashton #the riddler #paul dano riddler #patman

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gwasgy · 2 years

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#the batman #kk post #battinson #patman #batman #batcat #im dying bleeding killing for these to look good and not bad #tcbc

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hilal-gnc · 2 years

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the batman storyboard illustration 🦇✨

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ye-olde-fandom-playlists · 2 years

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“I am vengeance.”

#Spotify #best thing to come out of 2022 #I’m soooo excited for the sequel 😭😭#the batman #the batman 2022 #patman #battinson #bruce wayne #the batman Spotify playlist #bruce Wayne Spotify playlist #the batman music #character playlist

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therealmrsobi-wankenobi · 2 years

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Ive been walking around whispering "I'm Vengeance" all day. This is the best but also the worst.

#the batman #the batman 2022 #batman 2022 #battinson #the batman movie #patman #bruce wayne #loml

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ultr4k4tty · 2 years

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sorry i havent posted much

drew this while sick ☹️☹️

pls ignore how bad the shading is i havent shaded in soo long

#art #bruce wayne #batman #the batman #batman 2022 #battinson #patman #hehehe #i love he #billy’s art

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores

Across America, rural communities and big cities alike are passing ordinances limiting the expansion of dollar stores, which use a mix of illegal predatory tactics, labor abuse, and monopoly consolidation to destroy the few community grocery stores that survived the Walmart plague and turn poor places into food deserts.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes

"The Dollar Store Invasion," is a new Institute For Local Self Reliance (ILSR) report by Stacy Mitchell, Kennedy Smith and Susan Holmberg. It paints a detailed, infuriating portrait of the dollar store playback, and sets out a roadmap of tactics that work and have been proven in dozens of places, rural and urban:

https://cdn.ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ILSR-Report-The-Dollar-Store-Invasion-2023.pdf

The impact of dollar stores is plainly stated in the introduction: "dollar stores drive grocery stores and other retailers out of business, leave more people without access to fresh food, extract wealth from local economies, sow crime and violence, and further erode the prospects of the communities they target."

This new report builds on ILSR's longstanding and excellent case-studies, augmenting them with the work of academic geographers who are just starting to literally map out the dollar store playbook, identifying the way that a dollar stores will target, say, the last grocery store in a Black neighborhood and literally surround it, like hyenas cornering weakened prey. This tactic is repeated whenever a new grocer opens in the neighborhood: dollar stores "carpet bomb" the surrounding blocks, ensuring that the new store closes as quickly as it opens.

One important observation is the relationship between these precarious neighborhood grocers and Walmart and its other big-box competitors. Deregulation allowed Walmart to ring cities with giant stores that relied on "predatory buying" (wholesale terms that allowed Walmart to sell goods more cheaply than its competitors bought them, and also rendered its suppliers brittle and sickly, and forced down the wages of those suppliers' workers). This was the high cost of low prices: neighborhoods lost their local grocers, and community dollars ceased to circulate in the community, flowing to Walmart and its billionaire owners, who spent it on union busting and political campaigns for far-right causes, including the defunding of public schools.

This is the landscape where the dollar stores took root: a nation already sickened by an apex predator, which left a productive niche for jackals to pick off the weakened survivors. Wall Street loved the look of this: the Private equity giant KKR took over Dollar General in 2007 and went on a acquisition and expansion bonanza. Even after KKR formally divested itself of Dollar General, the company's hit-man Michael M Calbert stayed on the board, rising to chairman.

The dollar store market is a duopoly. Dollar General's rival is Dollar Tree, another gelatinous cube of a company that grew by absorbing many of its competitors, using Wall Street's money. These acquisitions are now notorious for the weaknesses they exposed in antitrust practice. For example, when Dollar Tree bought Family Dollar, growing to 14,000 stores, the FTC waved the merger through on condition that the new business sell off 330 of them. These ineffectual and pointless merger conditions are emblematic of the inadequacy of antitrust as it was practiced from the Reagan administration until the sea-change under Biden, and Dollar Tree/Family Dollar is the poster child for more muscular enforcement.

The duopoly has only grown since then. Today, Dollar General and Dollar Tree have more than 34,000 US outlets - more than Starbucks, #Walmart, McDonalds and Target - combined.

Destroying a community's grocery store rips out its heart. Neighborhoods without decent access to groceries impose a tax on their already-struggling residents, forcing them to spend hours traveling to more affluent places, or living off the highly processed, deceptively priced (more on this later) goods for sale on the dollar store shelves.

Take Cleveland, once served by a small family chain called Dave's Market that had served its communities since the 1920s. Dave's store in the Collinwood neighborhood was targeted by Family Dollar and Dollar General, which opened seven stores within two miles of the Dave's outlet. The dollar stores targeted the only profitable part of Dave's business - the packaged goods (fresh produce is a money-loser, subsidized by packaged good).

The dollar stores used a mix of predatory buying and "cheater sizes" (packaged goods that are 10-20% smaller than those sold in regular outlets, which are not available to other retailers) to sell goods at prices that Dave's couldn't match, driving Dave's out of business.

Typical dollar stores stock no fresh produce or meat. If your only grocer is a dollar store, your only groceries are highly processed, packaged foods, often sold in deceptive single-serving sizes that actually cost more per ounce than the products that the defunct neighborhood grocer once sold.

Dollar stores don't just target existing food deserts - they create them. Dollar stores preferentially target Black and brown neighborhoods with just a single grocer and then they use predatory pricing (subsidizing the cost of goods and selling them at a loss) and predatory buying to force that grocery store under and tip the neighborhood into food desert status.

Dollar stores don't just target Black and brown urban centers; they also go after rural communities. The commonality here is that both places are likely to be served by independent grocers, not chains, and these indies can't afford a pricing war with the Wall Street-backed dollar store duopoly.

As mentioned, the "predatory buying" of dollar stores is illegal - it was outlawed in 1936 under the Robinson-Patman Act, which required wholesalers to offer goods to all merchants on the same terms. 40 years ago, we stopped enforcing those laws, leading the rise and rise of big box stores and the destruction of the American Main Street.

The lawmakers who passed Robinson-Patman knew what they were doing. They were aware of what contemporary economists call "the waterbed effect," where wholesalers cover the losses from their massive discounts to major retailers by hiking prices on smaller stores, making them even less competitive and driving more market consolidation.

When dollar stores invade your town or neighborhood, they don't just destroy the food choices, they also come for neighborhood jobs. Where a community grocer typically employs 12 or more people, Dollar General employs about 8 per store. Those workers are paid less, too: 92% of Dollar General's workers earn less than $15/h, making Dollar General the worst employer of the 66 large service-sector firms.

Dollar stores also lean heavily into the tactic of turning nearly every role at its store into a "management" job, because managers aren't entitled to overtime pay. That's how you can be the "manger" of a dollar store and take home $40,000 a year while working more than 40 hours every single week.

Understaffing stores turns them into crime magnets. Shootings at dollar stores are routine. Between 2014-21, 485 people were shot at dollar stores - 156 of them died. Understaffed warehouses are vermin magnets. In the Eastern District of Arkansas, Family Dollar was subpoenaed after a rat infestation at its distribution centers that contaminated the food, medicines and cosmetics at 400 stores.

The ILSR doesn't just document the collapse of American communities - it fights back, so this report ends with a lengthy section on proven tactics and future directions for repelling the dollar store invasion. Since 2019, 75 communities have blocked proposals for new dollar stores - more than 50 of those cases happened in 2021/22.

54 towns, from Birmingham, AB to Fort Worth, TX to Kansas City, KS, have passed laws to "sharply restrict new dollar stores, typically by barring them from opening within one to two miles of an existing dollar store."

To build on this momentum, the authors call for a "reinvigoration of antitrust laws," especially the Robinson-Patman Act. Banning predatory buying would go far to creating a level playing field for independent grocers hoping to fight off a dollar store infestation.

Further, we need the FTC and Department of Justice Antitrust Divition to block mergers between dollar-store chains and unwind the anticompetitve mergers that were negligently waved through under previous administrations (thankfully, top enforcers like Jonathan Kantor and Lina Khan are on top of this!).

We need to free up capital for community banks that will back community grocers. That means rolling back the bank deregulation of the 1980s/90s that allowed for bank consolidation and preferential treatment for large corporations, while reducing lending to small businesses and destroying regional banks. Congress should cap the market share any bank can hold, break up the biggest banks, and require banks to preference loans for community businesses. We also need to end private equity and Wall Street's rollup bonanza.

All of that sounds like a tall order - and it is! But the good news is that it's not just groceries at stake here. Every kind of community business, from pet groomers to hairdressers to funeral homes, falls into the antitrust "Twilight Zone," of acquisitions under $101m. With 60% of Boomer-owned businesses expected to sell in the coming decade, 2.9m businesses employing 32m American workers are slated to be gobbled up by private equity:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken

Whether you're burying a loved one, getting dialysis, getting your cat fixed or having your dog's nails trimmed, you are already likely to be patronizing a business that has been captured by private equity, where the service is worse, the prices are higher and the workers earn less for harder jobs. Everyone has a stake in financial regulation. We are all in this fight, except for the eminently guillotineable PE barons, and you know, fuck those guys

At the state level, the authors propose new muscular enforcement regimes and new laws to protect small businesses from unfair competition. They also call on states to increase the power of local governments to reject new dollar store applications, amending land use guidelines to require "cultivating net economic growth, ensuring that everyone has access to healthy food, and protecting environmental resources.

If all of this has you as fired up as it got me this morning, check out ILSR's "How to Stop Dollar Stores in Your Community" resources:

http://ilsr.org/dollar-stores

I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

Image: Mike McBey (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/158652122@N02/38893547595/

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[Image ID: A ghost town; it is towered over by a haunted castle with a Dollar General sign on it, with the shadow of Count Orlock cast over its tower. One of its turrets is being struck by lightning.]

#pluralistic #shrinkflation #institute for local self reliance #ilsr #dollar tree #dollar general #dollar stores #groceries #food deserts #kkr #pe #private equity #predatory buying #predatory pricing #Robinson-Patman Act #consolidation #monopoly #monopsony #care labor

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noahlivingston · 2 years

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Robert Pattinson's batman and Shazam should be in the same universe send tweet

#i still havent seen the patman movie yet but thats my hot take #batman #shazam #Robert Pattinson #billy batson #dc movies #i dont even like dc that much <3 but i feel strongly about this

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uncommonincorrectquotes · 3 months

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A: dude. beans. B: bean assault rifle. shoots beans. C: Mmmm....beans. How delicious, delectable, and delightful. Every night I cherish the 3 hour before bedtime I spend sucking each bean one by one through my bendy straw, trying my hardest to propel the beans down my throat in one swift slurp. The way the beans travel through the twisting straw remind me of Willy Wonka’s factory, and how it makes me wonder. Can you imagine? Imagine if Willy had a bean factory... constantly in motion, constantly producing those sweet beans, packing them into cans where they marinate in the finest of bean nectar. If only things were that way, how happier the Oompa Loompas would be to constantly be surrounded by the erotic bean aroma. Unfortunately, Willy Wonka isn’t real, and neither is that dreamy bean factory. Sometimes I can’t sleep because of that. I wake up and realize “there’s no bean factory” and I cry for the remainder of the night. I hate those dreaded nights, and I keep a can of beans at my bedside to pray to when the times get dark. It’s difficult, you know? Living in a family of those who can’t respect beans on the same level as you... which is why I devised my ode to beans, consisting of 26 arguments for the divinity of beans. They are recited as follows: C: Beans cannot die. Even the digestive system deals virtually no damage to them. Holy water is just bean water that never had beans in it. If you throw a bean up in the air, it always comes back down to you because it loves you so much. The origin of the word “bean” comes from the point in history when they were discovered by an Italian explorer, who exclaimed “look a him-a-bein so good!” The concept of the “return address” in the mailing system was not intended for returning mail. Rather, it required to use a return address so that if a person receives beans from an anonymous sender, they can at least send back a thank you note. The first prototype of a gun used beans as ammunition, but the beans possessed such a sacred conscience that they would stop midair, refusing to kill soldiers on the enemy line. Studies show that 98% of those who starved to death had not eaten beans in the past week. The effort of beans to end racism was the largest effort ever made concerning race. However, the effort was ineffective, due to the beans’ inability to speak. Can you prove God is real? No. Can you prove beans are real? Yes. C: The lack of bean flavored products is due to the divine flavor that cannot be manufactured. If someone is allergic to beans, do not trust them. Run away. Fast. Millennials use the slang word “beaned” to describe someone who has been gotten. Specifically, someone who has been gotten so bad that they can only turn to beans as their solace. Bean-head, the greatest compliment of the English language, is misunderstood by heretics as an insult. Sometimes I put a smiley face on a can of beans and leave it on my pillow so my parents think I’m sleeping when I’m actually eating beans. To become a saint under the bean church, you must use beans in place of tears, and shed beans at the sight of harrowing mistreatment of beans. Beans are the only beings to be simultaneously lawful, neutral, and chaotic. Beans are everything. For every bean you put in your mouth there is one more bean in your mouth than there was before you put the bean in your mouth. Mmm..... beans. Beans will never betray you. Unless you ask the beans to betray you, and then you can organize a plan with the beans so that they can do what you want without accidentally making you sad. Beans are soul essence. Beans are the 4th subatomic particle, and beans are constantly in their own state of matter. Beans are the holy material on which we will build our future society, and no figure from any religious group has dared to deny this fact. B: A: B: are you okay C: b e A n S

#uncommon quotes #source: bean assault rifle mod for starbound by patman #incorrect quote #cant wait to see this posted in the queue what a lovely surprise to be

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