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suzukiblu · 1 month

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are any of your stories based on dcamu kon? i think you might've mentioned that you haven't watched reign of the supermen, if you haven't i think you would really enjoy it 🙏 i ADOREE kon and lois's relationship and kon's characterisation, and i'm interested in the implications of tim, cassie, bart etc not existing in that universe. anyway this is kind of rambly but i was wondering if there's anything particularly based on that universe!

I have not seen it, just read the plot synopsis and a couple reviews, but it's on my watchlist! I DID pretty strongly base the hungry!Kon WIP off of a canon-smash with that movie, that's definitely the version of Kon that I'm picturing when I work on that one. I've included elements of him in other WIPs too, I'm pretty sure, but that's the one that's most specifically rooted in the DCAMU.

( oh and also this cracky Clex fic I recently wrote is loosely based in a DCAMU canon-divergence too, though Kon's a more minor character in it. )

#anonymous #rintalk #omegaverse

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arithmeticanimaniac · 7 months

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tag someone you want to know better

tagged by @romanceyourdemons

favorite color: bright pink (also any happy color)

last song: the last song i deliberately played was either “Almost Like Being in Love” by Nat King Cole or “September in the Rain” by Dinah Washington, but the last song that came up on shuffle was “Juliet” by LMNT

last movie: either around the world in 80 days (2004) or inception (2010)

currently watching: the last season of archer (2009)

other stuff i watched this year: lmao i actually have a lot of half baked reviews in my drafts but i never posted them because i’m almost always at my queue limit so here’s my chance to do a rapid fire round of reviews (based entirely on whether i enjoyed them)

how to marry a millionaire (1953) 👍 too many people forget what a comedic genius marilyn monroe was

Love Sarah (2020) 👍 🥲 a bakery, romance, grief and healing, intergenerational bonding, what more could you want

My man Godfrey (1936) 👎 boring

bringing up baby (1938) 👎 it has its moments, blueprint for disney channel show shenanigans

memories of the sword (2015) 👍 sooooo melodramatic

The Dig (2018) 👍 haunting

the misfits (2021) 👍 it is Not Good, but inexplicably charming

Free guy (2021) 👍 responsible for the resurgence of mariah carey in my playlist

Papillon (2017) 🤷🏻‍♀️ hard to get through but not bad

Chungking Express (1994) 👍 i’m not usually an atmospheric film type, but wow

The Lost City (2022) 👍 i had fun

The French dispatch (2021) 🤷🏻‍♀️ tried watching this multiple times, fell asleep each time but the fact that i tried multiple times means it goes on this list

most of the movies in the DCAMU (2013-2020) 👍 i saw a gif from Teen Titans: the Judas contract (2017) which led me to watch 11 of these 16 movies lmao curse you tumblr

Blue crush (2002) 👎

the Batman (2022) 👎

Lost in the stars (2022) 👍 the whole thing could’ve been avoided if (spoilers) were lesbian, but anyways it made me want to visit hainan and shanghai

Dumplings (2004) 👍 i mean i can’t eat dumplings anymore without gagging but

the burning sea (2021) 🤷🏻‍♀️ i remember laughing at the cheesiness (idk how accurately they translated from norwegian), but solid disaster movie

alive (2020) 👍 korean filmmakers really know zombies, but mix in quarantine era

Palm Springs (2020) 👍 went into this blind expecting white lotus lol (very much not white lotus)

The babysitter: killer queen (2020) 👍 i can only do horror if it’s campy horror

the menu (2022) 👎 well made movie, not for me

blockers (2018) 👍

joy ride (2023) 👍

Spider-Man: across the spider-verse (2023) 👍

king arthur: legend of the sword (2017) 👍 i don’t care i enjoyed its ridiculousness

Austenland (2013) 👍 it’s so bad!! i laughed, i cringed, i awww’ed

the tuxedo (2002) 🤷🏻‍♀️ better enjoyed in highlight clips

Matilda the musical (2022) 👎 if i hadn’t seen the danny devito version i might have enjoyed this

heathers the musical (2022) 👎 the off bway actors were better

Mayhem (2017) 👍 samara weaving and steven yeun! another movie apollo threw a covid dodgeball at

Charlie Chan at the wax museum (1940) 🤷🏻‍♀️ could’ve been good, hard to watch with the yellowface and racism

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) 👍

shows i dropped this year/didn’t finish: justified (2010), killing eve (2018) , gannibal (2022), beef (2023), doom patrol (2019)

currently reading: bel canto, but mainly just a lot of medical articles

currently working on: finding a new job because hellooooo 2 year itch

current obsession: ok so if you look at english language sources, most say that pregnant onions are toxic and therefore not edible. however, the medicinal value of pregnant onions is apparently not uncommon knowledge in other cultures (fuck yeah china and south africa). so a family friend gave us a few mature plants that make into soup and i picked off the little seedlings and have been tending to them. that led to spending more time tending to my other plants (i have a lot more loquat trees than i remember) and now i’m trying to air layer some stuff. TLDR; gardening

tagging anyone who wants to do this :)

#tag game #tag me bc i’m sooo nosy about stuff people are watching #this was fun! i forgot i watched so many things so digging through my memory took a while #long post #.txt

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pandas-pandemonium · 1 year

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I've been watching the Justice League animated movies recently and it's come to my attention that aside from the batfam and some superman stuff, there's hardly anything for the others?

I understand not having anything for Flash, esp since man is taken (i think?) and Shazam (he /is/ a kid). (Cyborg, I'm also unsure of because i remember him from TT which is why I can't for the life of me see him as an adult lmao).

But none for Green Lantern? Then again, I heard his character in the War movies is slightly different from his canon self in other shows and comics, so maybe that's why hm...

Anyways, once I'm done with this DCAMU marathon, I might watch a few more DC stuff before considering writing some random drabbles for the heroes whenever inspiration hits.

#i'm still surprised at how well the dick grayson 2am brainrot drabble is doing lmao #panda: talks

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lady-stirling · 4 years

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I just watched Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. I have to say it was the best DCAMU movie I have ever seen.

I highly recommend it!

Plus: DickKory crumbs, but I'm glad anyway.

#titans #dcamu #justice league dark #justice league dark apokolips war #apokolips war #justice league dark: apokolips war #damirae #dc #dcau #dc comics #dc Universe #dickkory

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burr-ell · 3 years

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Do you think dickbabs will break up in young justice season 4? Or will the show continue with the dickbabs relationship? I would like to hear your opinion and theories about it. Personally i wish dickbabs will just break up and dickzatanna will get back together Or dickkory will happen in the show.

heh, i'm the wrong person to ask about young justice; i've never watched it. my first dc experience was teen titans, and when i found out young justice didnt have starfire in it, i just sort of shrugged and ignored it.

i mean. ngl i always hope for a db breakup, or better yet a db never-happening-in-the-first-place; it's one of my biggest notps. (i will say though, at least she's oracle. disabled women being represented and having love stories is always a good thing; i just don't want her to have this particular love story. and oracle needs better representation anyway, given what they're doing to her in the comics at the moment.)

honestly though......i hear YJ is kind of a mess altogether, and art-direction-wise it frankly looks awful. i'd hate to see how phil bourassa could make kory look any worse than she did in the dcamu movies, but i'm sure he'd pull it off. and dick is written as a playboy, so if kory were to show up i'm sure it would be in service to that more than anything else. as far as i'm concerned, kory (and raven) need to stay out of YJ for their own self-preservation.

#asks #whyj #dcu #phil is my enemy

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kuzehiko · 4 years

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My thoughts on Damirae after watching JLD: AW. Yeah, I understand how you feel Damirae fellow, you're happy because we got so many beautiful Damirae moments but on the other hand and at the same time you're sad and bitter because the DCAMU got rebooted and all of what happened was reset. It's not the writers' fault that the DCAMU continuity got rebooted but the highers up's instead. We must be grateful with the writers as they contributed so much on Damirae. They gave us so many moments that we will never be able to forget! So we better appreciate that. At the end they were gonna reboot this continuity with canon Damirae or without it anyway.

The writers really put so much effort into making our Damirae wishes come true despite other staff writers did not want Damirae, and they did it at the end. All of us Damirae fans never lost hope nor faith even when other shippers hated us and Damirae and they did not want it to happen but we never gave up and we got what we deserved. So let's not lose hope from now and wish for Damirae to also happen in the Rebirth continuity and why not in the comics too?

Friendly reminder: Raven's Damian's first official love interest in the whole franchise ( yes, that also includes the comics)

Even though the DCAMU was reset it wasn't taken out of the canon. Once when a continuity/universe is canon, it can not become non canon even if it gets rebooted. The flashpoint reboot simply means future movies will take place in other continuity and it'll be the main continuity for future movies. That's all.

DAMIRAE 4EVER. ❤

#damirae #damian wayne #rachel roth #damian x raven #damian and raven #robin and raven #dcfilms #justice league dark: apokolips war

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nightglider124 · 4 years

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Simulation

So, like most people... I was not impressed with the newest and last in the series DCAMU movie; JLD: Apokolips War.

It was honestly like some kind of awfully written fanfic. I hated it and my otp were literally tormented, so not a fan lmao.

So, I did what most writers do in these scenarios. I wrote a bit of a fix it fic. It’s cliche and similar to ‘it was all a dream’ but it felt like a bit more of a believable route. They did it in YJ so I thought why not.

Anyway, I hope this helps as some kind of comfort after watching that atrocious piece of garbage. ^.^

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The light filled the entirety of the sky, stroking licks of gold and blinding white all across the planes of existence, swelling and growing until it was suffocating everything and everyone that was within its path.

It was enveloping them by the second, growing stronger and stronger and despite how hard Damian narrowed his eyes to try and catch one last fleeting glimpse of Flash sprinting across the ocean, in an attempt to reset their fractured timeline, the struggle was becoming one he could not control.

His chest felt tight, like all the air was slowly being released from his lungs and his heart was hammering, right against his ribcage.

Casting a glance over his shoulder, he watched as Clark and Diana shielded their eyes from the onslaught of light that was swallowing them up. When he turned his head towards his father, however, he found Batman staring straight back at him, as if he knew something the others did not; something that he wanted Damian to piece together himself.

His head was filled with so many things; memories, information… emotions.

No matter how much he tried to push it away, there was a weight in his heart. He had survived this ordeal with Darkseid, as well as those who currently surrounded him, even though the numbers were a little less than he had hoped for when they began the secondary crusade at redemption for those they had lost to the Apokoliptic tyrant two years prior.

And yet, he didn’t feel like it was a victory. It felt bittersweet. They had finally won but at what cost?

Half of humanity had been eradicated from existence or molded into some kind of slave herd to do Darkseid’s bidding for him. His friends, his team, his family; all of it had been ripped away from him and there was no coming back from it. There was no way to salvage what had happened, no matter what Kent was trying to spew as a pep talk.

The morale was empty and at that moment, waiting for the effects of the flashpoint to seize control of their world and rectify the magnitude of problems felt like an eternity but they had to wait; to simply sit and wait for their absolution and for the world to restart, not that any of them would remember.

That would probably be for the best. He didn’t want to remember living in this kind of dystopian future where everywhere he looked, there was destruction and roaring flames accompanied by an unsettling silence where in its stead should have been the reverberation of crowds and people, living their lives on a day to day basis.

Damian sighed and from where he sat, he glanced at Raven, dressed in her white uniform and cloak. He wasn’t sure how they’d gotten to this point in their relationship and it felt… unusual to him, like something wasn’t right, including where his feelings were concerned in accordance to the girl beside him.

He cared for her deeply; she was a teammate, his friend but anything more? He couldn’t be certain.

Shaking his head, Damian decided not to dwell, knowing whatever he was feeling would soon be erased and he would wind up with a completely different mindset in just a few minutes.

He scanned his surroundings from beneath his mask and his eyes fell upon his former team leader and his… brother.

Swallowing the lump in his throat, Damian couldn’t stop how the weight became heavier, pulling his heart down towards his stomach like a wrecking ball was attached.

Raven was right. He had promised not to use the Lazarus Pit to revive Dick but, when everything was said and done and the dust had settled on the Titans joint demise, having tried their damndest to ensure Darkseid wouldn’t break their defenses and claim Earth, he felt cheated.

He had finally found a family who accepted him, flaws and all and he was supposed to just accept having them brutally torn away from him?

He couldn’t leave his brother there. He couldn’t just leave Dick lying there in a pool of his own blood, still trickling out from the wound in his chest.

Damian had wanted to save all of them but he knew time had been of the essence. The quicker someone can be taken to the pit, the more likely it is that they will return as themselves. Or at least, that was what his grandfather had told him once as a boy.

He hadn’t known how true it was or even if it was true at all but he had gotten Dick to the temple as quickly as he could.

Not that it had mattered in the end.

He’d gotten there too late. His heart had held hope that he would return to the living, just as he was but it wasn’t to be.

Damian exhaled through his nose and allowed the memory of that day to fade. He didn’t need to relive that as well. The straight jacket Dick constantly wore was reminder enough as to why he had immediately regretted using the pit.

There are some things worse than death. He knew that now. Too bad it was about two years too late.

His eyes wandered across Kory’s face and his brows furrowed, aghast at what Darkseid had done to her. After he had returned ‘home’ to the League of Assassins, or what was left of it at least, he hadn’t looked back; didn’t have any knowledge of what had become of his dead teammates.

Some of them remained dead whilst others had purposes that did not expire when their lives had. Darkseid had ensured the strongest were put to work amongst his ranks, whether they wanted to or not.

Kory had become one of his guards, with most of her body replaced with parts and machinery, perfecting her into a loyal, brainwashed slave; something Kory had once told him that she never wanted to be again.

Damian watched as Kory gently stroked some of Dick’s hair out of his face. His head rested on her lap whilst twitching and mumbling every now and then, his mind a warped version of what it had once been before any of this. It ticked overtime for different reasons now.

He saw the hesitation, recognised the look of someone who now viewed themself as some kind of monster. She was careful of her hands, her fingers now replaced with metal daggers that looked sharp enough to cut steel if given the chance.

Kory lowered her hand and stared down at Dick, who was yet to wake from his tormented slumber. Damian took solace in the fact he had seemed to recognize Kory, somewhat.

When he had brought him to Titans tower where, what was left of their backup plan party, decided to rendezvous, he had been manic and animalistic, hissing and trying to attack those around him who he had once called friends.

Damian hadn’t been sure if it was a good idea but his father had suggested it, to start on resolving the problems caused from this apocalyptic fallout.

When Kory had stepped forth, her lime eyes lingering on her love, Damian had seen tears; uncommon when it came to Kory considering her warrior upbringing. It caused her pain, of that he knew, if only from the way her footing faltered and she stayed back, in fear; something she had never ever felt around Dick in the life they’d shared before.

But, Dick had surprised them all, staring at her for a long moment and it gave him a strange flicker of hope that possibly, a piece of the real Dick was still in there somewhere, lost amongst all the mess in his mind.

He had still been hesitant as she offered a hand to him. He jerked back but then stepped forward until he let her lead him to where they sat now. Damian was certain that things may change when he woke up but for now, it seemed to be enough for Kory just to spend these last few minutes with him, unaware of what awaited them in the new timeline Barry was creating.

Just a few minutes of peace, sitting there with one another.

Damian looked away, suddenly feeling like he was intruding on something private to the couple, if he could even call them that anymore.

His eyes shifted to the ocean, stretching wide and untouched in front of them, mother nature clearly protecting her own. The waves were gentle, flowing and ebbing and repeating. It seeped forward, water rushing over the bed of sand at the edge of the island before it retreated back from where it came.

Suddenly, there was a resounding pulse that rocked the air around them and a ringing in his ears started growing louder with each passing moment. The sound was becoming piercing and unbearable, so much so he had to lift a hand to one of his ears and grind his teeth in an effort to make it stop.

The ground beneath their feet shook wildly as existence prepared to repair what had been damaged. That light that had been burning in the distance shone brighter, stretching over their heads now and soaring in from behind them as well, fully encompassing the last of the world’s greatest heroes and everything in the area, sentient or not.

Damian gulped again, his mind confirming that Barry had done it and reality was resetting itself.

His skin felt sharp and he felt lightheaded, unable to make out any shapes or sounds around him anymore. His arms felt like they were being pulled away from his body, like something was expanding in his chest.

Damian willingly allowed what he assumed was the erasure of his being. He let a sigh of relief slip from between his lips as he finally felt himself disappearing into nothingness, along with all the other heroes around him.

Squeezing his eyes tightly closed, he waited for their finality to come.

He was ready for it to change; go back to how it was before… before any of this.

No one deserved a fate such as this one. _______ Damian’s eyes snapped open and he gasped a haggard breath, his heart beating a mile a minute as all he could see was the blurred lights from the ceiling above his head.

His fingers dug into what felt like sheets beneath him as he struggled to control his rapid breaths.

“Damian.”

He recognized the steel tone of his father and he shot upward, moving fast enough to make his head spin.

Remembering his training since the age of two years old, he took a deep breath and exhaled through his nostrils, taking charge of his body once again.

He narrowed his eyes and pressed a hand to his temple, tiling his chin upward to see his father, wearing the cowl, sat just on the end of the little makeshift bed he appeared to be in.

“It’s alright, Damian… you’re back now. Everything is fine.” Bruce explained, nodding and giving no emotion away under the bat guise he had grown so comfortable in.

“Back?” Damian paused, “Back where?”

“In the real world. The simulation is over. The others are starting to wake up.” Batman informed him before he stood up and looked down upon his son,

Damian only just now was noticing exactly where he was.

High tech lined against the walls, the view of the solar system outside the huge glass windows and the metal paneling along the computer systems was enough to drag him straight back to reality. The watchtower wasn’t a place that a person could easily forget.

Turning his body, he watched as his friends; the Titans started to come to from their unconscious states as well.

“Ugh… Bruce, when you said… you wanted us to go through training simulation… that was a lot different than what I thought you had in mind.” Dick groaned from his place several beds over from where Damian sat,

Nightwing sat up, rubbing his forehead and shaking his head as if getting over the remnants of a bad dream. He rolled his shoulders back before checking on each and every member of their team, all of them in a similar position to how he was sat.

Donna was sitting with her legs crossed, Raven too and on the other side of them, Gar was still lying down but with an arm thrown across his face, moaning with nausea symptoms.

Kon, Jaime and Wally were already quietly murmuring between themselves over what they had just gone through and witnessed.

Dick turned his head to the left, his heart racing at some sounds he just knew belonged to Kory. He smiled softly as he watched her rub her head, fingers sliding through her long auburn hair that pooled beautifully down her back.

“Ow… that was... much more brutal than I had anticipated…” Kory grunted, stretching her arms above her head in an attempt to make her mind less muzzy.

“How are you all feeling?” Diana asked, addressing them all as she stood at the panel, clicking a few buttons to ensure the simulation had ended properly as well as making sure no one was still unconscious.

“Like I just got smacked in the head with a shovel…” Gar voiced, whining as he forced himself into a sitting position,

“That will pass in a few minutes. It took Vic a long time to figure out how to make this program without it having a lasting effect on us.” Superman told them, offering them one of his gentle smiles.

“Clark… what was this?” Dick asked, his brows furrowed as he stared at the man of steel, “I mean… now that I’m awake… I have it coming back to me that this was part of a… training exercise but after seeing… everything we just saw in there… I’d say it’s a little overboard just for mandatory training.”

Superman sighed, losing the smile and he stared up at the images now lit upon the hologram screen behind him. There were photos of Darkseid and his homeworld, with some recent footage of said tyrant moving across planets in the furthest parts of the galaxy.

“Recently, there has been movement on Apokolips and footage was retrieved of Darkseid… taking control of three planets in his own dimension. They were small and lacked much life.”

“But there was some life on those planets, right? Kory murmured, her brows knitted together in concern,

Clark nodded solemnly, “There was, Kory. To us, right now… Darkseid is not a threat. To the best of our knowledge, he isn’t considering Earth as a target to take control of. But, that could change, very quickly.”

“We don’t take his recent movements lightly and we’ve begun preparing different strategies and plans for when the time is right.” Bruce continued, his dark cape curling around his feet as he moved, “The simulations that just played out… they were completely in your mind, programmed by Vic for you to witness, as if you were there and what the possible outcomes could be, should we take the route that was created in this scenario.”

“Isn’t that… a bit overkill? To design a program simply to test possibilities that might just be… hypothetical?” Jaime queried, dragging his knee to his chin as he stared at the three Justice League members.

Superman made a small noise of apprehension before he looked back up, his eyes glossing over each and every member of the Titans, “None of you have ever had to face Darkseid… thankfully. He is… an interdimensional despot who holds immense power. He is not a criminal to be taken lightly. All the things you saw in this simulation are things he has been known to do to those planets he has already desecrated. Brutality and violence are his weapons and we need to be prepared for any situation involving him.”

“These simulations are only being tested on the Justice League and Titans when we feel we may have mapped a possibly victorious battle plan. They will be few but this was one that had been considered, early on in our knowledge of what Darkseid has been doing.” Wonder Woman elaborated,

“But that plan clearly didn’t work… so why would you show it to us?” Raven asked, her dark eyes brushing across Clark who had apparently become her travelling companion when the world went down the drain in the simulation,

“We wanted to show you so that you can help us to rectify where… we may have gone wrong in the plan.” Clark told them,

Damian folded his arms over his chest, “It was probably taking the war to Darkseid without realizing how dangerous it would be which in the simulation, you already seemed to realize once it was too late.” He paused and thought back on something from the simulation, “Oh and… there was the fact Darkseid knew the whole plan from hacking Cyborg’s cybernetic eye.”

Superman nodded his head, “Yes, we’re… talking to Victor about preventing this. It would have probably ended differently in the simulation, had Darkseid not learned everything before the plan was executed.”

“You can’t plan for what you don’t know yet.” Raven reminded them,

Clark gave her a smile, “No, but we can try in order to keep our future as far away from the possibility of what you just lived through.”

The Titans nodded amongst themselves, understanding their efforts and all secretly hoping they wouldn’t have to face anything like what they’d seen for a long time or ever, if the universe deemed them lucky.

“I can’t believe I died right at the start!” Gar complained, his playful nature reinserting some lightheartedness where it was desperately needed, “I mean… a guy plays all the video games in the world and I can’t even make it?”

Raven smirked and glanced at him, “I don’t think video games and Darkseid are exactly the same, Gar.”

He huffed and crossed his arms over his chest, “Yeah, well. I’m not happy about it! I want a redo!”

Damian rolled his eyes before raising a brow at him, “You want to live through that all again?”

Gar paused and blinked several times before grinning sheepishly, “Uh… on second thought… I’m good. Sad I went out that early but y’know what… I’m good!”

“If you’re all feeling a little more with us now, come into the hall. We want your feedback.” Batman told them, leading the way into the hall, followed by Diana and then the Titans, with Superman politely showing them the way through the watchtower.

“Feedback on this training? Hm… that would be a solid 0/10, Bruce.” Dick muttered as he helped Kory hop down from the medical bed she had been perched upon, earning a quiet giggle from her,

Clark smiled at the two as they continued after the other Titans, right on Batman’s heels to give their input into what the Justice League were planning, in case of an emergency.

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Gar’s mouth stretched wide as he lifted his arms over his head and yawned loudly, earning an elbow in the stomach from Donna as she passed him,

“Ow! Hey! What’d I do?” He grumbled, rubbing the spot she had hit,

“Do you really have to be that loud, Gar?” She laughed, shaking her head, “Just yawn like a normal person, would you?”

He smirked, flashing a fang in her direction, “Nah, there’s no fun in that.”

Kory cleared her throat before they could all escape in opposite directions to their respective bedrooms, “Titans. I need to speak with you all for a moment, please.”

The group exchanged glances between one another, curiosity washing over each of them before they shuffled towards the couch, situated just in front of the large window panes where the moonlight was already beginning to filter through.

“Are… we in trouble? Whatever it is… I didn’t do it.” Kon rebuffed, immediately holding his hands up in defense as he took a seat on the edge of the sofa,

“Me either!” Gar and Jaime added simultaneously,

Kory smiled softly and shook her head at them, walking around until she stood before them, “No. You’re not in trouble; any of you.”

“So… what do you want to talk to us about, Kory?” Raven queried, giving her leader a small smile,

“I wanted to talk to you about what happened today.”

Gar’s brows knitted together, “You mean the training over at the watchtower?”

The Princess nodded her head, her long red locks falling over her shoulder.

Damian narrowed his eyes, equally perplexed and confused as his teammates, “What about it?”

Kory took a deep breath and folded her arms over her chest, “Well… the things in the simulation that happened, that you saw… it was…” She paused and tried to grapple for the correct word,

“Pretty traumatic.” Dick interjected, aiding her and coming to stand by her side, having a feeling he knew what Kory was aiming for with this little chat, “And, it’s okay if it affected you guys. God knows… it was a lot for a training session based on possibility.”

Instead of doing what the adult Titans thought they would, the younger roster of heroes remained silent, all of them contemplating and reflecting on what they had been witness to whilst under the spell of the simulation.

Kory frowned and her brows wrinkled before she looked to Dick, who only matched her facial expression.

“I mean… I joked about being murdered by those parademon things so early on in it but… it was pretty scary. The simulation was designed differently so we didn’t wake up as soon as we died inside of it. I had to watch it all unfold… like some kind of horror movie… not so cool when it’s your friends being killed instead of fictional characters.” Gar mumbled, his jade eyes focused on the coffee table before them with his hands pressed firmly to his thighs.

Jaime nodded, “It was… espantoso. It just… went south so quickly.”

Donna made a noise of agreement and shuddered, as if gripped by a memory from the simulated battle. Wally looked off to the side, unable to speak about what he felt, just yet anyway.

Kon lifted his chin and his usual boisterous and cheeky demeanour had slipped, “I don't know if it was worse or not… living longer in that world wasn’t much fun either.” He gently reached a gloved hand to his neck and he closed his eyes, “I can still remember how… my neck…”

He coughed and shook his head, clamming up from talking through the experience of it all.

Kory looked towards Raven and tilted her head, as if encouraging her to speak about how she had felt, “Raven?”

She lifted her head and lowered the hood of her cloak from her head, “I… It was… I’ve seen terrible things before. Being the daughter of an interdimensional demon will do that but this… it was barbaric and I hope it never actually comes to pass.”

Dick nodded, “Well… this is why the league is trying to come up with a more solid plan, a way to be ready should Darkseid be a problem we need to worry about.” He paused and shrugged, “Safe to say… Clark’s plan of going head on into a war with Darkseid on his home world is no longer the plan on the table.”

“There were too many inconsistencies and problems with his plan. But, it would have been intriguing to see if it worked, had Darkseid not found out through Cyborg’s cybernetics.” Damian pointed out, looking mildly indifferent,

Nodding, Dick eyed his adoptive younger brother for a long moment, “And what about you, Damian?”

Damian looked up, his arms folded over his chest and a scowl on his face. For a moment, he did nothing more than stare at Dick before his features softened ever so slightly and he frowned, “It isn’t something that I ever wish to see again.”

Knowing that was all Damian was willing to give them, at least for tonight, Dick exhaled and nodded once, signalling that he didn’t expect more.

He glanced towards his girlfriend whose concern was almost tangible, just from the way her face was contorted. She chewed on her lip for a long time before she sighed and her shoulders fell,

“We will revisit this tomorrow. I do not want anyone to feel like this was something small. If anything, I wish the league had given us more of a warning of what we were going into.” Kory commenting, briefly locking her gaze with Dick’s who looked equally as unhappy that they had been left out of the loop,

“Yeah, I think I’ll be giving Bruce a call tomorrow.” He paused and addressed the younger Titans once more, “And… Kory and I will be arranging some therapy sessions with a league member to deal with the things you saw.”

“I don’t think we need-”

Dick cut Damian off with a raised hand, “We’re not going to force you guys into them but they will be made available to you all, should you need to talk to someone.”

Damian pressed his lips into a thin line and gave Dick one sharp nod.

“Do you guys mind if we… go to bed now? I kinda just wanna sleep it off…” Gar muttered, tapping his fingertips together,

Kory smiled and nodded, “Of course, Gar. Dick and I are going to make sure the Tower is all locked up before we go home but we will be back in the morning…” She paused and let her eyes wander across them, “And I believe morning training can be cancelled tomorrow.”

Gar suddenly perked up at that news, “Yes! I get to sleep in!”

She giggled whilst Dick smirked and rolled his eyes, “But… remember, if one of you needs us… just call us. Okay?”

They all nodded their heads in confirmation before they began trudging off towards their rooms, muttering their farewells and goodnights before they left.

Once the main room had practically emptied of Titans, only Damian remained and as he passed by the couple, he stopped and looked up at his brother,

“Apologies for… using the Lazarus Pit on you, Grayson.” He stated, something in his face telling Dick that he had hoped for a better outcome of his decision made within the simulation.

His older brother gave him a brief smile and gripped one of his shoulders with his hand, “It’s alright, Damian. Let’s just hope it never has to come to it where you have to make that kind of choice for real.”

Damian considered that and wished them goodnight before he left for his room as well.

Dick watched him go but his attention was drawn back to the woman standing beside him as she sighed heavily and closed her eyes.

“How’re you feeling, Kor?” He checked, lacing his fingers with hers,

She turned and smiled at him, exhaustion slipping into the creases of her face, “Tired… and wanting to go to bed.”

He matched her smile and lifted her hand to his mouth, dropping a kiss to the back of it, “Don’t have to tell me twice. Let’s go home.”

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Dick took a deep breath as he observed himself in the bathroom mirror, his hair still damp and water dribbling down his face after hopping out of the shower. He was trying his best to remain unaffected by the scenes that had plagued him in the simulation earlier that day but it was proving to be a challenge to just push all of it to the back of his mind.

He couldn’t pinpoint what was the worst part; knowing the world had gone up in flames, knowing his friends and family had mostly perished or been altered into husks of their true selves at the hands of Darkseid or knowing that he had potentially faced a lifetime of insanity due to a botched resurrection, unable to remember himself or those he loved.

It may not have been real but it was difficult, trying to remind himself of that. It was hard to accept that truth when it had felt so very real. Images continued to flash in his mind; memories of what had occurred in that world they had had to endure.

He gritted his teeth and tried to quell the anger bubbling in his chest at the comprehension that Bruce, as well as Diana and Clark, hadn’t felt it necessary to even run their little project by him or Kory first; instead throwing them in blind, along with the younger members of the team.

The rational part of his mind told him it was so they would become immersed within the situation handed to them so that they could act upon instinct whereas knowing ahead, would have compromised how they acted within the simulation.

Still, it was something he would be bringing up to Bruce in the morning.

Taking another deep inhale through his nose, Dick focused on his reflection again, repeating words over and over in his head as a reminder that it wasn’t real. It felt real, but it wasn’t and he had to hold onto that, whatever it took.

He shook his head and reached for the hairdryer, flicking the switch and allowing the hot air from it to fill the bathroom.

As he wandered down the hallway, from the bedroom he shared with Kory, he couldn’t help but wonder where she had disappeared to. Their apartment was only so big, meaning if she wasn’t in their room already then she had to be out in the main room.

“Kory?” He called as he stepped over the threshold between the corridor and the main living area.

Dick reached over and flicked one of the light switches, allowing the glow of the bulbs to illuminate the room; a much more welcomed atmosphere than being swallowed up by the night time darkness.

He blinked in surprise to see her standing by the far wall where the floor to ceiling window overlooked the bustling street below the building. It was still painted with bright lights and the buzz of people hanging out with friends, despite it being well past midnight.

She turned to him, as if not having heard him the first time around.

“Babe, what’re you doing all in the dark?” Dick asked, walking around the side of the couch, towards her.

Kory shook her head, as if lost in a world of her own but he knew her better than that. He knew what was haunting her mind since it was the only thing that could be the culprit.

“Hey… c’mere…” He murmured, offering her a hand to take.

She stepped closer and accepted, tangling her fingers with his until Dick gently pulled her down onto the sofa with him. He tugged her closer, using his free arm to wrap around her shoulders.

“I am sorry… I just…” She whispered, her usually bouncy personality seemingly absent for the time being,

“It’s okay… it scared me too.” He admitted,

Finally, she lifted her chin, her solid green gaze fixed on his cerulean orbs. She gave into a trembling breath before she spoke, “I have seen many merciless things, Dick. Growing up on a hostile planet such as my own, it was not uncommon to see bloodshed but… this… it was different.”

He nodded as he listened to her, gently stroking her upper arm as she talked.

“Having to watch those I love being slaughtered… to then die myself and be brought back as a… mindless slave to such a dictator…” She shook her head minutely, unsure what to make of it,

“I know it was only a simulation to test out the league’s contingency plan for if Darkseid does become a more imminent threat but… it feels as real as anything we’ve faced before.” Dick told her,

She felt tears prick her eyes for a brief moment as she thought back on the end of their virtual reality and she snuggled closer to him, feeling the rapid beating of his heart beneath her slender fingers.

“The worst part was that I no longer had you.” She confessed quietly.

He inclined his head to look at her and furrowed his brows, “You… sorta still had me.”

She pulled a face at him and glanced down to where her hand rested on his chest, “But I didn’t. It wasn’t you, anymore. Living on as… what that thing turned me into and having a shell of who you are… it is not a life I would ever wish upon myself. It would have been a fate worse than death.”

Dick swallowed the lump in his throat and pressed his cheek to hers, trying to remind her that he was here with her and they were together.

“Apparently not even being insane can take me away from you.” He mentioned, attempting to inject some kind of humor into the situation, if just to uplift the mood in some way.

She blinked at him before she laughed, just a small sound under her breath but he was happy with it nonetheless.

“You know… I wouldn’t want it either, Kory.” He paused, “In the training… after the pit… I was watching myself and living it… I couldn’t remember anything. I didn’t recognize any of my friends or family… and I don’t ever want that to happen. I never want to be brought back.”

Kory opened her mouth, as if going to question it but he cut her off,

“Ever. Even if… I die before you and you’re stricken with uncontrollable grief… please don’t ever let it happen.”

She gazed at him for a long time but soon nodded her head, vowing not to bring him back, no matter what.

After a long stretch of comfortable silence, Dick sighed and kissed her temple, murmuring, “I have a feeling sleep isn’t coming easily to either of us tonight… why don’t we watch a movie and I’ll make some popcorn?”

Kory smiled softly and nodded, brushing her fingers across his cheek, “That sounds like a good idea.”

“Glad you approve.” He grinned, gently using his free hand to cup her jaw and lead her into a kiss.

It started as something slow and easy, acting as a reaffirmation of being safe and sound with one another. But, Kory tilted her head, pressing her lips to his more firmly, enjoying the warmth that sparked wherever they met.

Dick slid his hand along her jawline, his fingers becoming knotted in her gorgeous red tresses. He ran his tongue along her lower lip, nipping and suckling the skin there.

Kory made a muffled sound and lifted both hands to place against either side of her love’s face.

When she pulled away, she smiled gently and brushed her nose against his until he rested his forehead against hers.

“I know we’ve had a hell of a day… with the training and everything but… it wasn’t real. I’m still here and so are you. We’ve got each other and I don’t plan on giving you up anytime soon, Kory.” Dick whispered, stroking his thumb against her skin.

“I know… I love you.” She breathed, nuzzling his cheek with her own,

“Love you too, babe.” He flashed her one of his boyish grins and tilted his head, “Gotta make every day count together.”

Kory nodded and smiled back at him, “Together.”

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witchofinterest · 3 years

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dcamu (dc animated movie universe) rankings/thoughts bc i am making my way through them all

superman: doomsday - ill rate it a 6/10. i watched it while on a superman kick, so i may be skewed. it was not bad, but also not great. i liked it well enough though! definitely a good movie if you like superman! would maybe rewatch.

justice league: the new frontier - 4/10. it was okay. focused too much on green lantern and i just don’t care about him. i liked seeing the other characters i liked. diana looked great, in all her 5 lines. green arrow didn’t speak a word but was there, excellent, gave them another point for that.

batman: gotham knight - 3/10. just, not for me. i didn’t like the art style, and the plot didn’t get me involved, so i never finished it. also, none of the batfam, so points deducted for that.

wonder woman - 3/10. i will hurt whoever made this movie. do not trust any steve trevor that’s not chris pine, especially if their voiced by nathan fillion. the plot was boring, diana wasn’t herself, steve was allowed to be incredibly sexist to diana, and for good measure, women who don’t want to fight are weak. added a point for the scene were diana teaches a little girl to fight, only good part of the movie.

green lantern: first flight - no rating bc i did not watch this one bc i love myself❤️.

superman/batman: public enemies - 1/10 bc i cannot for the life of me remember anything that happens in this movie. forgettable i guess.

justice league: crisis on two earths - 4/10. not a bad movie, i just didn’t care too much about the plot, and it didn’t focus on any characters to make up for that. it just needed to flesh all the characters out a little bit more, honestly maybe they should’ve cut down the lineup to make that more achievable. not bad, but needed more time or less characters.

batman: under the red hood - 8/10. i am so biased bc i love jason todd so much. the animation is very good. one point deducted for no tim drake, losing some of the nuance. another deducted for bruce beating jason up right after finding out he was alive, yes i am still bitter. anyway, i loved the rest, first movie i watched, none of the rest have measured up. to reiterate, i love jason and it’s a jason centric movie so i was happy the whole time! also, the beginning and ending scene were so painful.

#about me #leaf speaks #reviews #i’m gonna update when i watch the next one

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evilisk · 4 years

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Catching Up On The DCAMU #4

A double serving of (passable) Justice

Movie #7 Justice League vs. Teen Titans

Overview: Damian joins the Teen Titans. Also: the Justice League gets whooped by a magical threat (Trigon) yet again.

Opinion: Eh, it’s an okay film. Like, I had fun when I was watching the film, but now that I have to write about it, there’s not a lot that’s terribly memorable about the film (the most I can remember is “Damian schooling Beast Boy at DDR”).

Don’t watch it. It’s not bad, it’s actually quite competent, but it’s just whatever.

Movie #8 Justice League: Dark

Overview: It’s another day, and another magical threat, for the Justice League, but rather than angsty, super-powered teenagers, Batman works alongside Constantine, Zatana and other supernatural specialists.

Opinion: It’s not that great a film, but as someone who has always loved the magical side to the DC Universe, I couldn’t help but love this anyway. John Constantine and the unofficial “Dark” Justice League are just really fun; the well-animated action scenes help too.

Like with JL: War, I’d recommend watching if you just want fun action.

#dc animated movie universe #dcamu watch #justice league vs teen titans #justice league dark #not a reblog

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darkarfs · 4 years

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I’m currently...not doing anything with my life (except worrying that my edema not going away after two days and a 6-mile hike is serious), so I’ve been climbing through the DC Universe Animated canon. (Caution: spoilers) On the one hand, I really love how cavalier it is regarding death. When I was growing up, comics meant nobody could die unless it was like, a huge moment, and then it was someone like Gwen Stacy, or Elektra, or someone almost completely meaningless, like the first Bucky Barnes, or, the case of DC, they crushed all their continuity in the Crisis for Infinite Earths storyline, only to start anew. On the other hand, I really HATE that they’re so cavalier regarding death. Mostly because it’s really graphic and grim when they DO show it (it shows SO many civilian casualties), it’s often in hideous, painstaking detail, often to show how ruthless a murderous villain is. But after 5 movies, I wanna go, “YES, they’re all ruthless, we get it!” But then actual characters, people you might have grown attached to are often killed on a whim (Batgirl, who is in two movies as a complete character, basically makes a cameo in the last one to be descended on and ripped apart) and often, other times, they are killed OFFSCREEN. I get that not everything has to be a climactic duel, and not every villain needs an epic send-off. I know that the fundamentals of emotional investment and storylines don’t always call for that. (Says the person who was unpleasantly pissed at the 40-minute mark of No Country For Old Men, though partially because I was yelled at by the internet, saying “IT’S A DECONSTRUCTION, YOU JUST DON’T GET IT, MAAAAN!” And I wasn’t even invested in the dead character, either. Maybe the Coens are just too precious about certain things? Anyway.) And maybe, in their own roundabout way, DC’s Animated division are trying to deconstruct all of that. “Maybe you won’t get to see your favorite characters die. It’s something that just happens, and you’re not always there to see it.” Maybe. But then why touch on all the comic book milestones? Why make a whole movie about the death of Superman, or John Constantine’s deal with the devil to make sure he doesn’t die of cancer? Why flesh out SOME of the important ones, but then kill other key players...often ones within that storyline...offscreen, or in a moment you can blink and miss how it happened? I wouldn’t even care about it, except that one of my favorite cartoons since 2005, the Harley Quinn series (or the less reference-heavy Venture Bros, mostly because they’re using licensed DC properties), does a fine deconstruction all on its own. And IT only kills pivotal characters onscreen. It treats civilian and henchmen death as a punchline, but doesn’t treat us to TOO many of their gruesome dismemberments, or as many MAIN characters.. A few, yes, but arguably less than the first two Justice League: Dark (I know) movies. Parse that out as 180 minutes vs 598 minutes. I forget what my point was. And I’ve claimed over and over that I don’t care about most superhero continuities. I was famously (in my Livejournal days) one of the biggest Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita fans you could find on that website. And I still liked it, as I got older. The last volume was published in December of 1998. So I had 21 years to reconcile how I would feel about the movie adaptation, which was teased since maybe 2007, with multiple directors (if you look up James Cameron Battle Angel in Google Image, you will eventually see him directing some film with a bootleg Battle Angel shirt, it’s kinda great). And when I saw it, and it got a lot of shit wrong, I wasn’t mad. I said, to myself, in the theater, “well, that was not how it happened,” but I wasn’t MAD that they didn’t depict it correctly. But I ALSO watched the first Transformers, and said to myself “this isn’t in the spirit of the show or even the toys. The toys never peed on people.” So, again, what do I know. I lost my thread again. What I’m saying is that the DCAMU is wildly inconsistent, tonally (regarding death; it’s otherwise seriously “grim action movie” in tone otherwise), and I found it annoying and upsetting more than once. All said, though, you know what? The fights as usually very kinetic and choreographed very well to extremely excellently, tailored often to the characters’ powers and temperaments, so I can’t see any fault in that. Hang on, is Joaquim de Santos involved? Lemme look... Nah. I would call it a shame, but that means there’s someone else out there who cares as much about animated fight sequences.

#I don't have friends anymore #so this is what I do #I finally get it #I mean #how do be a doofus #way too late

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night r u as sad as iam about dk in the new dcau movie?:(

Uhh... no not really. But, I think that is because I didn’t go into watching it, naively thinking they were gonna be all happy and sparkly. I mean, I had hoped the ending would kinda make up for the shitness but... it didn’t so...

Spoilers under the cut.

I mean, the movie, in a word was fucking wild XD but in a truly laughable way; not some deep and meaningful way... like. I was constantly just like: the fuck is going on here??

Robot Kory and demented Dick is not how I ideally wanted dickkory to go in these movies lmaooo but that’s what we got. I mean... I had a bit of a hunch Damian had used the lazurus pit on Dick when they started walking down that hallway but boy oh boy shoulda heeded those warnings around the pit. Dick came back but he was pretty feral looking in his little straight jacket and padded cell, huh?

In a way... I’m still like... happy? I had been thinking it was gonna be like one of them was dead and the other lived on and felt immense angsty guilt and missing them and shit but... I didn’t expect what they actually did to my bubs.

When I say I will take dickkory in any way, I mean it so I was still like sure I will take this weird... fucked up version of my otp. I’m not happy about it but hey, at least there was no love triangle in the end, no break up (unless you count death and becoming a robot/mindless zombie thing) and at least there are no more movies of this continuity so it’s like cool we’ll put this shit to bed then.

Idk, I think I prepped myself for it not ending well for anyone a long time ago cos like I really don’t care and the nice part is, I have the previous movies to still gush over my dcamu babies XD.

Im not counting this bullshit movie as something legit like... I will take everything before this and I’ll just run with it, thanks.

And before anyone is like OMG NIGHT HOW CAN YOU BE OKAY WITH WHAT THEY DID. Lol, I’m not but I’m also not gonna froth at the mouth over something I already knew they were gonna do. If you watch DC movies or shows or... anything to do with DC and expect happiness and good times and your fave characters not to get fucked over; you don’t know DC very well at all.

They fucked over Kory and they fucked over Dick but, c’mon, who else saw it coming a mile away?

I’m just making the best out of what I was given. They weren’t separated and they weren’t both dead... so like... Ima just take it. They’re getting rebooted anyway so who cares.

I was surprised that we saw more of Kory than Dick though. We literally see Dick twice. He is there in his padded cell near the beginning and then he is being cradled in Kory’s lap at the end whereas robokory is there quite a few times.

Idk... it was just... very... shit.

But hey ho, life goes on and so does the love for dickkory XD

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Night, a couple questions about jldark apokolips? Is babs in it and ehat happens to her? Is there as much damirae as i think there is? Do a lot die?

So... obvious warning but... SPOILERS UNDER READ MORE...

First of all, don’t bother watching it and waste your time. It is honestly so bad. Like, it just felt so... out of place when you look at the actual dcamu timeline of movies. It was... ridiculously gory and violent; unnecessarily so. Like I get they wanted to make this like the big bad and yknow its darkseid which usually comes with quite a bit of bloodshed but... it was constant. And they upped the swearing which was a given considering one of the main focuses is our boy John Constantine XD. Though, it was funny to hear Raven say, “Oh for fuck sake”. Weird, obviously and just a bit ooc but it made me smirk.

It just... wasn’t good lmao.

B*bs is in it for like 30 seconds lmao. Her, Batwoman and Bat...wing? I think his name is? Are one of the teams trying to take out Darkseid minions 2 years after he basically killed everyone. How them three were still alive, I don’t fucking know but they are shortlived. B*bs in particular? She gets eaten/torn apart to the point you see one of her arms ripped off and thrown upwards. So... yeah. Not my favourite character but also, wow what a wasted opportunity to do something great with a character.

They bring in characters like B*bs and also Donna as wondergirl and this is the only real little screentime they get. Sigh, DC just make really dumbass decisions.

D*amirae? If you don’t care for this ship, then I advise you not to watch this movie since there are a lot of moments between the two. And, I’m sure someone will be straight over to bitch at me about this but holy cow, was it cringey. All of their moments felt super forced and not naturally flowing at all. Literally, every time they had a “moment” I rolled my eyes bc it just felt super melodrama... it just... wasn’t good. It really twisted both Raven’s character and even Damian’s like to an extent... It was just... meh. I wasn’t here for it at all.

Do a lot die? Lmao, yes. Literally every character from dcamu bar maybe like 15 ish die in the movie and only some live as something else at the end. Aka, Diana and Kory for example are among a few who were either murdered or injured at the start and then were turned into like slave androids for Darkseid.

All in all? I wouldn’t waste your time. It wasn’t a good movie to end on. Left a bittersweet taste in my mouth, personally. I mean, I get the way and why they have done it.

Effectively, Darkseid wins and John kinda points out to Barry that he will need to flashpoint it again, despite it not guaranteeing that it wont all happen again or that “some of the changes wont be shite” in the words of Constantine.

This basically sets the dcamu up for a reboot which is what they are planning anyway. To the point, you have Raven and Damian look at each other kinda sadly as well as Kory looking down at Dick because as someone on twitter pointed out, theres no knowing that they’ll be together in the flashpoint version that Barry sets out to do. AKA, we probs wont get these ships in the dcamu reboot which I’m fine with one of those dying in flames but the other, makes me sad.

But, glad for the domestic dickkory content that I got through the majority of the dcamu. Still gonna write fics on them bubbies and just ignore this movie... it’s a hot mess.

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