#fuck bludhaven

[gotham-memes]

Nightwings probably having a blast watching Bludhaven vs Gotham twitter drama (with randoms from metropolis how the hell did they even get here go give all your money and assets to a corrupt bald white guy in a suit or something. annoying ass)

Nightwing if u see this, I'm not sorry for objectifying u

Ur the action figure we're fighting over with our sibling city lmao

#fuck bludhaven #dc comics #asks #anonymous #mod cait #nightwing #bludhaven

[emo-batboy]

It's interesting to hear Metropolis and Gotham called twin cities because nowadays bludhaven is Gotham's sister city.

How do you think people in universe in your au think of them?

Bludhaven: Little sister city :) not as big but still influential. Gotham is the big sister that your little sister always steals clothes and makeup from. Bludhaven leaves your room without closing the door. You tease each other a lot (and would help hide the body.) Non-locals will say Bludhaven is just like Gotham—like when someone says you and your sibling look alike—and you will vehemently deny it, but deep down you know it’s true. You’re two peas in a pod :)

Metropolis: Enemy. Rival. Fuck you. See this fuckin’ line? (The River.) Cross it, and you’re dead. You’re coworkers and NOTHING ELSE! But then you have to go on a work trip, and there’s only one bed. Out of spite, you sleep on the floor, and they sleep in the tub. Both of you have back problems the next day, but it’s better than being in the same room together. (You got drunk and made out with them at a work function once. Both of you remember but refuse to mention it. It will happen again.)

#i’m right and you know it #I just fucking wrote Gotham/Metropolis fanfiction #im unhinged #Gotham #bludhaven #metropolis #batman #superman #dc universe #dc #Bruce Wayne #clark kent

[qcomicsy]

I must be so fucking annoying be Robin in Gotham because everyone fucked your dad and they cannot stop talking about the fact they fucked your dad and the ones do didn't (joker) can't stop talking about it how much they want to.

But your dad is Batman so you think, "well at least when I'm not in costume I can have peace right?" but your wrong because you dad when is out of costume is also fucking Bruce Wayne.

#like now I can see why Dick Grayson moved the fuck out to bludhaven and before that to the titans the moment he started college #can you fucking imagine the amount of drumk college kids who would step out of their line just to embarass you about how hot your father is #d how they want to Stacy's dad their way from your friendship??? #excet they're not even your friends to bein with?????? #sounds like a fuckig nightmare #me writin this post holding a megaphone 'BATMAN'S A HOE'

[apopcornkernel]

this is so funny you dont understand

#jason was giggling and kicking his feet when bludhaven blew up with dick still inside it he was literally taunting bruce about dick possibly #being dead & you expect me to think he's going to 'catch dick when he falls' PLSS LMFAO HE'S THE ONE WHO KICKED DICK OFF IN THE FIRST PLACE #'but but but' if you're going to cite rhato or some other shitty comic at me... maybe dont ♥️ i don't have a lot of respect for many red #hood jason writers. so many of them are just straight up wrong #dcposting #dc #is it safe to put my organizational tags now will it still show up bc i just want to organize this lmfao i dont want it to spread too far #well whatever fuck it i will gladly defend this i have canon on my side #batman #nightwing 2016 #dick grayson #jason todd

[puppetmaster13u]

Oh boi even more of One au in like 3 hours lol

I like to think that like how in @phoenixcatch7's Doll au there's gas versions of like cures and such in the batfam's gas masks since they don't need to breath when possessing the puppets right? I like to think there's an organic version of that with the meat puppet bodies, at least with Bruce, where the plates on his neck opens up into vents of sorts, pictured here with a few spikes removed for visibility reasons.

This gas could be some cures for like Joker venom & Fear gas and such, or it could also be sedatives, paralytics, could even vary between each member. (For example in the Cryptidverse Steph has Anesthetics on her claws, Jason has reflective powder that mimics embers/sparks, Cass has paralytics, etc). Honestly I am just brainstorming so this could definitely change lmao

I do like to think they start developing their own venom though, gotta' have those fangs & tusks for some reason lol

#meat marionette au #batman au #cryptid batman #cryptid batfam #body horror #batman #dcu #dc #Sorry Phoenix if I am spamming you lol #Honestly I feel like Bruce & Kane are the only ones with like big-ish tusks as though to show they're the fully grown ones of the group #Batwoman has set up shop in Bludhaven while Bruce usually sticks to Gotham me thinks but they still help each other out because family <3 #God I want to ramble about their language and body language and stuff so bad lol I love world building #I also totally haven't been writing a drabble for this for the past hour lmao #The caves have a favorite mortal and It's definitely Bruce lol #Okay but now I am thinking of how Bruce & Clark could meet the first time lol #Bruce can definitely sneak up on Clark if he wants to and it's probably terrifying lol #Something I will have to think about for later I suppose #What are the tunnels? Fuck if I know lol #The drabble totally isn't from Its pov tho lol (definitely not) #Tumblr don't eat my tags 2023 #Bruce definitely freaks out the first time he sees his second body #Not helped by the fact the first time he sees it he is piloting it and emerging from a flesh wall #All stumbly like a newborn deer (not helped by long limbs and body all differently proportioned & more limbs lol) #The secondary body's face is something between a human and an animal's muzzle #Dick deserves electric organs like an electric eel so he can shock people #Y'know what Cass deserves pitch black flesh & organs- like I am talking vantablack barely lets in any light black #Bruce is probably more wary about taking in kids what with the whole eldritch thing beneath the streets but really what choice does he have #All of them were already trying to do vigilante work & they'll end up killed if he doesn't help them :/ #He loves them but he *really* wishes the tunnels didn't take a liking to them as well because they're already traumatized enough #He wishes it didn't call to them like it did to him so long ago

[desos-records]

if you accept the idea that Gotham is in New Jersey, you should know that there is a city called New Haven. The existence of which heavily implies that Bludhaven is in Connecticut and you should also know that I hate everything about this

#fucking CONNECTICUT #dc #dc comics #batfam #nightwing #dick grayson #bludhaven #gotham

[hood-ex]

No because Bruce needs Dick so much.

Remember in Hush when Bruce was beating himself up over the fact that he almost killed Joker (again), and Dick was there to reassure him that he didn't end up acting on his impulse. To which Babs then interrupted their talk and was like, "Guys? If you're all through with the male bonding..."

Don't even get me started on the fact that Bruce didn't reveal his identity to Selina until Dick suggested he should. Bruce even credited Dick while talking to Selina.

Bruce: A few days ago I buried a dear friend.

Selina: I... I'm sorry.

Bruce: It's been suggested that I'm handling it well because I have you in my life.

Selina: I have a fan? Is it the little bird or the bigger one?

Bruce: Nightwing.

What's funny is that Dick told Bruce that he should shave before having that conversation with Selina, and Bruce didn't. So then Selina commented on Bruce's beard after he pulled off his cowl, and Bruce thought, Dick was right. I should have shaved...

Shit like that makes you go, "Ah, yeah, that makes sense," whenever Bruce goes absolutely ballistic after something bad happens to Dick. Like hey. That's his kid. His confidant. One of his best friends. Lay a hand on him and Bruce will have a fucking crisis over it.

#thinking back to robin dies at dawn when bruce thought dick was dead and he was literally like ''i want to die!!!'' #or another time when he thought dick was killed and he was like ''that boy meant more to me than anything in life!!'' #or when he went ballistic after two-face beat dick #or when he was like ''jason PLEASE'' because he desperately wanted to go to bludhaven to make sure dick was okay #or when dick was in that pod and bruce could not fucking chill until dick left the pod #or when he nearly killed alexander kgbeast and luthor after they tried to kill dick #Bruce Wayne #Dick Grayson #Batman: Hush

[beepboopimaproblemchild]

Y’all ever think about what could have happened to Dick after Chemo? Like the man was high key exposed, what if he got permanent damage? With what chemo was made of he could have gotten a lot of different kinds of cancer, radiation poisoning or literally so many other things. If we were still in that timeline we never really would have known if Dick was walking around with a latent disease that could have sprung up.

Im reading far too much into this, but it would be incredibly interesting to explore further.

Anybody know any fics like this??

#dick grayson #batman #dc #jason todd #batfamily #nightwing #batfam #chemo #dc comics #bludhaven #Bludhaven? #fucking Slade #aftermaths are always interesting

[dandeeliion]

one thing i absolutely admire about dick grayson as a character is the battle between his perfectionism/need-to-please and intense independence because it yields the willingness to make mistakes ONLY if someone else is trying to protect him from making them

#*makes mistakes spitefully* #bruce: withholding information from dick and using underhanded means to promote what he deems is Best for dick #dick: FUCK you i am going to do the opposite of that actually bludhaven is MY city and if it blows up in my face (😳🥶) that’s #MY decision to make!!!!! #dick grayson #dc #elle text

[gayemeralds]

pondering a titans rewrite. anyway i like the idea that jason shows up in the first season (which is dick-centered/Gotham&bludhaven-centered) like three times. first to establish dick’s strained connections and jealously over his robin mantle being taken from him, and bruce replacing him so easily after firing him. secondly for jason and dick to begin to connect as well as jason and gar to become friends since the original titans show seemed to want to imply that but then did nothing with it. and then the last time jason appears it’s because he ran away from Bruce and is looking to find his mother, sheila, but probably gets distracted in helping the titans. and then jason leaves to go find sheila and, well. i think we know what happens next

#the idea im thinking to simplify it is that shelia had jason then moved to bludhaven for a bit #then eventually moved back to Gotham and became a crony of the joker because her medical liscence had been revoked #so jason tracks her to bludhaven. fucks around with the titans. then goes back to Gotham and finds her #and reveals that he’s Robin to her #and she promptly sells him out. #and. well. he dies. #i kind of like the idea of her living tho i know originally she also does #but i like the idea of her character being forced to live with jason still trying to (and this time successfully) save her #even after she betrayed him #anyway. fucked up if true. #ANYWAY this sets up for an under the red hood arc in season two #where gar begins to try to develop his own moral code #and then has jason as a foil to him as he explores #the concept of redeemability. #what makes a person good? or bad? can anyone be redeemed? how? why? #what makes a person a monster? #jason todd speedrun

[navree]

it's fodder for excellent drama but let's admit it, hush and war games and identity crisis and under the red hood all happening in relatively close succession is insanely funny. just bruce speedrunning the worst fucking 365 days of his life. they should release a compilation book of all four and just title it 'batman and the terrible horrible no good very bad year'

#personal #can you imagine being bruce and having to explain this after the fact to literally anyone #'yeah so an old childhood friend systematically attacked me and left me even more paranoid and damaged my relationship with my gf and kids' #'and also tormented me with a fake version of my murdered son whose death i still grieve and feel responsible for' #'and then my sidekick triggered a gang war but was tortured and murdered in the process and my only mother figure is kinda responsible' #'and my allies have all been alienated from me in gotham and meanwhile my friends in the justice league kinda mindraped me and are lying' #'which is ratcheting up my paranoia and my OTHER sidekick's dad died which i failed to stop' #'oh and that dead son? he came back to life and he fucking hates me and he's a criminal now and wants me to kill his murderer' #'so that's my 2005 wrap up anyway' #also i think under the red hood is immediately followed by yet another fucking crisis event where bludhaven got blown tf up #exploded into complete smithereens which like #goddamn no wonder bruce took a year long vacation after all of this shit worst fucking year of his life probably

[starlooove]

ok I'm NOT much of a DC reader but your dukeblogging has convinced me. but do you have a reading list (DC has more crises than I do. it's intimidating) by any chance

YEAHAHSJS

Ok so like Im not a REAL dc blogger so I don’t really have my own reading list; I basically focus heavily on black characters across the board and then dive into wherever they’re from but I usually use other reading lists to do it and go at my own (slow ass) pace. For DC i started fandom only and then moved on to actually reading comics which is why my opinions are so strong there bc I KNOW WHAT YALL ARE LIKE!

Sorry but now for Duke specifically I KNOW there’s a specifc blogger who’s list I followed down to the T but I cannot remember their url rn so here’s a list/chart that has like. Listings for him specifically

That’s mostly to follow timeline but for me I think to get his character down u could do all star Batman, Batman and the signal, the outsiders, WAR and then branch out from there (but also saying this as someone who’s read most of it so like maybe I’m biased and missing or forgetting smth). I’m sorry if this isn’t helpful but as SOON as I find that reading list I’m posting it bc I swear I literally went down that list one by one.

Edit: the tags are part of the answer but I ran out of room so post tags;

- tbh when it comes down to it I personally try to absorb character by character and then put them all together at the end; it’s what I’m currently doing with green arrow (I know it’s been months y’all don’t call paw patrol I’m STUPID) and my plan for moving forward but also fully acknowledging this sucks as a way to interact with other established fans however. Other established fans have proven to be racist and misunderstand characterization and character interaction on a fundamental level SOMETIMES (BC y’all get mad) bc they’re so focused on their faves so in conclusion If I don’t find the specific lists I used I’d get them from stan blogs and then be careful cause u know everyone’s using their faves BEST comics so just remember this is what THEY think is the best or most accurate Interpretation and u don’t have to agree (RR the road home and YJ98 sorry to be shitting on them again. Not even them but how ppl read them. Diff story tho)

-but also despite me obviously shitting on certain characters runs or interpretations I think the best thing you could do is give everyone a fair chance. Blank slate in ur mind if ur JUST starting and see where u go from there but also remember to check ur biases and think about WHY certain things get included or retconned or explained away bc that’s where a lot of ppl falter in thinking their fave is just misunderstood or smth.

FOUND THE LIST sorry this has been in and out for the drafts while searching so in conclusion FR;

I hope this helped but I think I sound insane just please read these <3

#Oh I assumed u meant Duke reading list specifically #if more general Im a older era kinda man so shit like YJ….yj98. sorry yeah #i shit on it but I’m ALLOWed #NTT PLEASE READ NTT ALL OF IT LIL OUTFATED IN CERTAIN ASPECTS BUT PLEAAAAASE #sorry im so scattered on like timeline shit bc I literally just read integrate in my psyche and move on #like watching a show or smth i don’t remember episode names but I can tell you how it made me feel 💔 #Yall Im the worst to ask for anything specific for ask my mutuals my memory is SHIT #im just gonna tell u how I got into it fr #i went to like specific character fans and literally asked for their personal reading lists for that specific character #and then i read through em (slow as hell mind you) and formed MY opinion from there #pros with this is if ur character driven and wanna flesh each person out fully before u interact with their dynamics as a whole this is 👍🏾 #and u get small personal relationships that aren’t really spoken about when it’s the whole fam there (1)8 #(which is actually pretty rare like do not be fooled u don’t get the whole bat family storming in usually) #shit like tim and cass pre Jason revival fucking shit up with Helena #or steph and tim being the most toxic 13 yr olds you’ll ever find etc. #cons if ur memory’s like mine it’s GOING to fuck up timeline for u #like finding out bludhaven was being bombed and dick was having the WORST time of his life while Jason’s doing his red hood shit? changed m #‘where was bruce while tim was being tied up and almost assaulted?!’ he was dead! kind of!! #also genuinely get happy batfam outta ur head they have their moments there IS love there but going in with the view of a normal family #dynamic is gonna be worse overall. if u want happy family times honestly even more recent heinous shit like Gotham war has them more #familial than most other things even if it’s just to fuck it up. I’m never gonna Rec WFA but if ur gonna read it read smth with Duke and #Damián before that please. #ALSOOOOO as a prev fandom only remove everything from tim and Damian specifically from ur mind these bitches are lying #tim is fun and interesting when u approach him newly. finding everytime he drinks a cup of coffee is gonna drive u insane #YEAH THATS WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY don’t let what u already ‘know’ impact how u read #timeline wise dynamics wise etc. walk in with a fresh pair of eyes bc imo that’s how u get to fully appreciate characters like Duke #SMTH U DO NEED TO KEEP IN MIND IS THE BIGOTRY! there will be in world explanations for why x is not misogyny and racism. we as readers #need to be able to dissect that and discuss it genuinely. like so much of tims first meeting with Damian or all of Stephanie in Gotham war #or even killing off Orpheus has in world things that make ‘sense’ but like we do with Catalina Flores #we use our critical thinking. actually smth i ALWAYS can talk about is the racism like that’s where my memory serves me ALWAYS

[jo-does-things]

Hey quick question from someone who knows next to nothing about comics beyond the standard shit. Does Dick Grayson ever get a villain arc?

#Like apparently there was that one spinoff where Thomas Wayne became Batman and Martha was the joker #and then theres the vampire thing thats current ish??? (idk if hes evil there or not #but like is there ever a universe where Nightwing goes to the dark side? #i just keep thinking about him snapping and killing the Joker #thats LITERALLY such an interesting crossroads for a character. #like…. Bruce still revives Joker and Dick goes hey /fuck this/ /fuck you/ #for semi obvious reasons he cant take Tim in the divorce but that doesnt mean he doesnt try #granted thats more of an anti-hero route but still #any way Im just saying that under the red hood happens and Bludhavens hero uses deadly force and Jasons like huh neat #they still cant stand each other but Dick stays in Bludhaven and is like 👍 stick it to him kid. #And Jason gets to taunt bruce with the fact that both of his graduated Robins turned into killers #this got away from me #dick grayson #Nightwing

[glooooopyyyy]

Look, I love Nightwing, he my favorite character from DC comics and I think he is quite neat but maybe DC should like kill him off for a few months or sideline him because OMG.

#this post was definitely made because of the new batgirls issue #ok maybe killing him off is a bad idea but have him chained to bludhaven and the titans #DC stopped giving a fuck about Nightwings characterization since its feels like a name tag at this point #I need him to be sidelined for a few months and give attention to other underrated characters. #because it feels like DC keeps reusing him and has no idea what to do with him (outside of dark crisis i guess) #anti nightwing #kind off #idk #dc #dick grayson #nightwing

[gretahayes]

Impulse (1995) #8

Why did nobody tell me blockbuster was so fucking ugly

Edit: okay so I read a bit ahead and now I feel sort of bad about calling him ugly, it's obviously a source of insecurity for him

#my rambles #comic panel #no offense to ugly people yall have done nothing to me but god look at this man #rus reads impulse #blockbuster #<- literally just knew this guy from hearing how he fucked up dick & Bludhaven

[batfamiliar]

love it when people throw out 34 issues worth of comics because the writer gave the protagonist ONE (1) trait that they disagree with. yeah, let’s ignore the message about hope, trust and willingness to help that is quintessential to dick grayson’s character because seeley made dick have too many girlfriends. that alone makes everything dick does during those 34 issues ooc. yes, seeley’s grayson run was awful and objectified dick way too much, but how about we actually condemn seeley’s nightwing’s run for its actual sins. like for example, the vaguely leftist villian that has some points but also decides to kill puppies which means he’s evil? or abandoning dick’s plot with the run-offs by the end by making them more of shawn’s support cast? and yeah, also the plot with huntress because that was really dumb, im not defending that.

just.

if i see yet another critisism of a comic that’s basically “x character is ooc which means whole run bad” i'm going to LOSE MY GODDAMN MIND

#i dont think i have patience for this fandom #forever grateful that seeley brought back bludhaven without making dick a fucking c*p #im honestly dissapointed with his run bc it had some good ideas and it started off decently #but ive always prefered the bad stories with potential to ok stories that offer nothing new #which is why overall i prefer seeley's run to higgins' #dick grayson #dc comics #tim seeley