#tbh gotham is the best I’ve seen in a while

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Good Mom Talia Headcanons

Because Talia al-Ghūl is a Good Mom Screw You

DC – Gotham Knights, specifically – is back on their evil Talia al-Ghūl BS, and they’re also back on their “the less white she appears, the more evil she is” BS and I am. So tired.

So, out of raw spite, here are happy headcanons revolving mainly around Talia being a good mom and generally kicking butt!

This is from my Remained AU, named that because it’s the AU where Jason remained with Talia and Damian after coming back to life. You don’t need to know it to understand this, but if you haven’t seen this AU before, you can find the original post here, or the tag for it here.

CW: Swearing and uhhh I think that’s it but PLEASE do lmk if I missed anything

+ One of the first things Talia did when Ra's was removed from the picture following Death and the Maidens (a batman comic in which Ra’s dies. He eventually came back) was buy Damian the biggest, most ridiculous art set in existence, and about 400 glitter pens. He loves it.

+ Jason and Talia will often have tea and chat while they play strategy games, such as chess, Stratego, and Shogi. She always kicks his ass.

+ Nobody is sure when she sleeps. Maybe she just doesn't.

Multiple members of the League of Assassins claim she has the ability to be in two places at the same time. No one is sure how she does it.

+ Talia calls Damian and Jason lots of affectionate nicknames. She only does this when they're alone prior to leaving the League, or with her few most trusted people, but once they're in Gotham she does it all the time. Some of the nicknames are beloved, habibi (Arabic, basically translates to "my love," I'm stealing it from the thousands of fanfics I've seen her use it in), sweetheart, darling, etc.

+ Absolute fashion icon. Owns the most gorgeous dresses, saris, and pantsuits. As CEO of LexCorp and later when she moves to Gotham, she absolutely redefines what is fashionable by virtue of being the best-looking person in the room. (For context, when Lex Luthor was president, he made Talia CEO of LexCorp, for about a year, I think. She spent most of it trying to give evidence to the Daily Planet about Lex’s criminal activity.)

However Jason makes fun of her for The Pink Jumpsuit relentlessly.

+ Talia almost always wears her hair in a braid or bun; the only time she doesn't is for business meetings and parties and whatnot. If she's just around a League base or fighting, it's tied back. This has nothing to do with the fact that it affects her fighting skill and everything to do with the fact that she finds hair in her face very annoying. Talia is far too good to be affected by whether or not her hair is in her face – she just gets tired of it falling in her eyes when she’s trying to read.

+ Doesn’t wear heels much; she’s an athlete and a fighter, and heels literally deform your feet. Will wear heels when meeting with Ra’s because she enjoys the look on his face when she’s taller than him. She’s also been known to do this to Lex Luthor and many others. She once walked into a LexCorp board meeting wearing eight-inch heels and towered over all the white men’s heads. Just because she doesn’t wear heels much doesn’t mean she can’t walk in them flawlessly.

+ (Tbh everything Talia al-Ghūl does is flawless.)

+ In canon, when Bruce and Talia met, she was studying for a medical degree at Cairo University. She now has that medical degree.

“Ms. Al-Ghūl—” “That is Doctor Al-Ghūl to you.”

Jason: When did even you do your residency???

Talia, drinking tea: Mmm.

Jason, exasperated: Mom.

+ She also got a business degree at some point, and no one is totally sure when or how. It does make explaining why Lex Luthor made the CEO of LexCorp much easier, though.

+ While she prefers tea, Talia did not get through medical school or a whole year of dealing with Lex Luthor’s bullshit without copious amounts of coffee.

+ Jason got her a “HBIC” mug as a joke partway during her year with LexCorp. It promptly became her favorite mug and can always be seen on her desk filled with coffee or tea. 

+ After moving to Gotham, she spends most of her free time spoiling her kids or working on social reform. She's also working on a law degree.

"Mom, a medical degree, a business degree, and a law degree seems like overkill?" "It is, I just want the law degree because it will help me make Lex Luthor's life a living hell." "In that case, understandable have a nice day."

She and Barbara are both “yes I have far too many degrees just so I can wave them in the face of annoying white men what about it” energy and are also both very determined to enact social reform, so they get along quite well. Possibly too well. However, the only people who need to be afraid of their combined might are those who probably deserve it, so the rest of the Batfam has elected to simply get out of the way.

+ Talia owns a private jet, but don’t worry it’s eco-friendly. No ridiculous carbon emissions for this billionaire. She’s an al-Ghūl. Of course, it’s eco-friendly. (She’s also sensible.) Jason proceeds to use it to bounce back and forth between Australia and Gotham, and Talia is. So. Tired. Jason my darling I love you so, so very much, but that is a terrible idea for your education and your sleep schedule please—

For the record, all of Bruce’s vehicles are also electric.

+ Damian wasn't allowed to have pets with the League because Talia didn't trust Ra's not to kill anything Damian showed affection towards. Once Damian lives in Gotham, however, Talia 100% enables his animal-loving tendencies.

Like… maybe a little too much.

Bruce: I’m going to have to build an animal sanctuary in my backyard at this rate.

Talia: I think that would be wonderful, don’t you? It’s not like you don’t have the space.

Tim: *Wheezing*

+ The last name she uses is “Kareem.” Assuming my sources are correct (and admittedly they may not be; my faith in the internet is shaky, at best, though I checked a handful of different sites and they all seem to say the same thing), it is a name of Arabic origin that means generous, honorable, and noble, and is also one of the 99 names of God given in the Quran. It is also the name Jason and Damian use.

When the knowledge that Jason and Damian were Bruce and Talia’s kids becomes public, they both wanted to be Kareem-Waynes. Talia, who wanted to avoid any potential media conflict, pointed out (correctly) that somehow the media would find a way to make a mess out of that and added that she loves them both dearly and they will always be her sons whether or not they use her name. So in the name of Less Media Attention they were going to go with Wayne-Kareem, since it's normal to put the father's name first.

Two hours after they agreed on this, Bruce found out from one of the other batkids and went "WE'RE GOING WITH KAREEM-WAYNE THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY SCREW SEXISM”

Jason and Damian think it’s fantastic. Talia laughs so hard.

The media does try to make a thing out of it, and Bruce literally says “This is the 21st century. Consider it a statement. Also go fuck yourself.”

On a related note, when he marries Selina he becomes Bruce Kyle-Wayne and she becomes Selina Kyle-Wayne and his kids have never loved him more. We stan a feminist!

+ Talia loves animals as much as Damian, and they both get along with Selina because of it.

+ Selina and Talia can often be seen together at galas whispering to one another and generally making everyone else feel like they aren’t worthy to be in the same room.

+ Selina introduces Talia to Ivy and they immediately get along, since they’re both very passionate about environmental reform. Talia does networking and works on policy improvements, while Selina breaks into places for evidence and files, Barbara helps with political wrangling and gathers intelligence, and Ivy and Harley fuck shit up when all else fails. Ivy’s sense for where pollution is coming from is unparalleled, as well, so she can also help gather data to point Talia in the right direction to publicly destroy corrupt companies. Selina’s mostly here to steal things and protect endangered cats.

YEAH I SAID WOMEN IN HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS NOT DEFINED BY THEIR RELATION TO A MAN

WHAT ABOUT IT

For the record, Bruce is very impressed by what they're doing and also absolutely terrified.

(Oh sidenote HarlIvy canon.) (Didn’t even occur to me to say that because I deadass assumed it was a given.)

+ Talia’s initial feelings towards Harley were pretty hostile, given everything the Joker did to Jason, but she comes to understand what Harley went through. Harley and Jason actually bond quite a bit in this AU.

+ Also, not totally on topic with the general theme of this post, I’m going to Own Up to a mistake I made on the last post: I completely forgot the Wayne family is Jewish and was like “yeah, they celebrate Christmas??? Right???” So. Hannukah! They do celebrate Christmas – Tim and Steph grew up celebrating Christmas – they just also celebrate Literally Everything Else.

+ It’s canon in DC that Talia made Damian ox blood soup when he was a kid, so presumably she made it for Jason too. Jason asked her to teach him how to make it. Damian's a vegetarian now, so they're trying to figure out how to replicate the taste.

Talia, affectionately and teasingly: Damian, habibi, I love you dearly, but you are making cooking for you incredibly hard.

Damian: :)

+ She, Jason, and Alfred have been learning how to make a bunch of dishes Damian already likes with tofu and other alternatives, as well as trying out new vegetarian recipes. He’s a growing boy, he needs protein, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be meat.

+ Talia and Alfred go to the farmer’s market every Saturday. Jason often comes with, and the other kids sometimes tag along.

+ Talia bought a cashmere blanket and to this day it is one of the best purchases she's ever made.

She kind of wishes her kids would stop fighting over it, though.

The problem is usually solved by yoinking both children into a cuddle pile.

“Just buy another one—” She has. She owns like six of them, now. It’s this one specific one they want for some reason.

(It’s because it’s Mom’s.)

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when will good bruce wayne representation return from the war

#batsy #batman #dc #Bruce Wayne #bruce wayne #dc batman #batman comics #batman movies #tbh gotham is the best I’ve seen in a while #and he’s like nine for most of it #bruce wayne is a good person 2k20

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Yeah I don't like brutalia either primarily because talia is out of his league no pun intended (and ahem she's my wife piss off bruce lol) i love that the impact of thier story is Damian!!!hahaaa

I dont ship babs with anyone really I wouldn't mind DinahBabs but I'm not fussed I just don't like her with bruce or any of his kids, they squished her into a relationship with dick and then in animated movie she was with bruce 😨 and I'm not sure if her and jason ever actually got together but he left her a note confessing his love which she never read so? Also Jay kid going after his big bros ex 😅

I dont really like WonderBat for no reason other than it feels so freakin weird to look at like my brain refuses to process it

I'd die for supes/lois harlivy and alfred/tea 😊 I like that you sent spideypool to superhell hahaa

Dickkory is supreme imo they should get married and let live in peace with thier chaotic super kids

Platonic stucky & SuperBat the brotp feels!!!! Just choosing someone and being like that idiot right there is my brother my family and I'd die for them is just ahhhh you're right platonic ships are the best ❤ohh whose your fav ships/otps ? I mean Lee and Ed yeah? I love ed he's such a poor disaster honestly bless him

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LMAO at Talia being out of his league, the pun fits way too much tho 🤣👏🏻"piss off bruce" lmfaoo, get it!😂 I just dont like that some versions have dub con with her and Bruce, puts a yucky taste in my mouth and kinda tainted the whole ship for me tbh. I like versions of her where she isnt like evil lol. Honestly I dont really ship Bruce with anyone, I like the Ace!Bruce headcanon tbh! But lmao yeah that's exactly where I was going going the impact of the ship being damian ahahaha

Yeah I feel like I just dont know Babs well enough (well in canon, I feel like I know Fanon her way more xD she never seems to be in the stuff I watch and read too much) to go full out shipping her with someone, I dont oppose to DickBabs tho and love a good childhood friend to lovers trope, I just havent seen them in canon much. And yeah never actually heard of DinahBabs, again I'm not opposed to it but I honestly dont know Dinah well enough to ship her with anyone other than canon tbh. Wait which animated movie with babs with bruce?! I for some reason dont remember that?! I know she was Jim's wife in Gotham by Gaslight (hate that but like the movie, especially the street rat Robin's all together omg). But like I can actually see her and Jason a bit, I need to look into that more. Omg he did? Which comics???he is so dramatic tho, he freaking would leave a damn love letter 🤣that's so jason tho to go after his brother's ex too😂👏🏻

Omg SAME ABOUT WONDERBAT, omg, like that's my EXACT feelings towards it! For some weird reason it makes me brain go Huh? But I cant pinpoint why! I mean, she also is too good for him/out of his league lmao

So confession, I've never liked Supes that much at all and only recently started to come around after diving so deep into the Bat and titans world xD So I dont have a huge connection/seen Supes/Lois in much but I do think they are very cute, I just need to watch and read more of them! And Harlivy is iconic man. And are you even a batfan if you dont love Alfred and tea?! Gosh I would die for alfred tbh, he is too freaking pure for this world. That bats would be NOWHERE without alfred man

Lmao about me sending spideypool to superhell 🤣 like listen,there arent too many pop ships I would send there but they are one of them man xD On top of the fact I think of Peter as a high schooler and Wade way older, not to mention wade would corrupt that poor child, the whole ship just gives off Cursed vibes to me man🤣🤣🤣

Bro I need to read more of Dickkory cause while I dont like oppose, i just feel pretty neutral! What makes them supreme to you? Win me over Batanon!! Like I wanna go hard for it but again I guess I just havent read enough of them?(tho again, I LOVE the IG Teen Titans version of the ship!)

Dude YES to platonic stucky and sueprbats!!!! I rarely see them get platonic love in the fandoms!(tho platonic superbats gets more than platonic stucky it seems). But YES! Amen to what you said! I also am an only child so I kinda love any found family sibling vibes, especially bros.

Lmao you know me so well, def Nygmakins (Lee x Ed) is like my otp(he truly is a mess and needs her to stay in line man, Oswald is too much of a mess as well xD ) and I love how she is helping him fight his inner demons type trope and they are both like morally grey at that point in time and the chemistry and ah!

But also, Bbrae (Beast Boy x Raven (in all forms), DamiRae(Damian x Raven(especially in Justice Leauge Dark Apokalypse war), YJ Artemis x Wally (cant think of the ship name at the moment ), and most recently Jaytemis(Jason x Artemis, dif Artemis, this one is an Amazonian Bi queeeen )

#i love you batanon #batanon #dc #batman #ships #meredith thoughts #meredith gets an ask #dc ships #ask #asks

[prince-septimus]

When the first suicide sqaud movie dropped I was just so happy to get Harley content (props to Margot she kills it) and there's a lot I like about that movie. Although looking back I can't help but see that they did Harley dirty? and honestly did not seem to value her, at least to me it seemed she was just there as jokers shadow like thats all a backdrop to the joker

I get her origin/creation in the animated series and that originally her character is tied to his purely because of that, but there's literally no reason the movie had to use that. her backstory simply could have been she saw a lot of shit as a therapist in ARKHAM and ending up trying to give treatment to the joker was just the icing on the cake so she decides screw it I'm gonna go have fun in Gotham and embrace a little bit of the crazy. Orgins and comic storys change in slight ways all the time. because of Ayer Sqaud BOP had to try break her away from joker (love bop no complaints about it) but Ayer Squad she's jokers shadow/backdrop/doll/thing then bop have to try break her away from his character so that she stand on her own as a character and then we get tss (yayy) and harley is finally 'free' to use as her own character and portray her own stories she's not all wrapped up in the jokers story. DC/Warner Bros don't seem to have much planning and thought into what way they're gonna lay future movies out and that's fine they don't need to have thier version of an mcu and dc movie directors get to put thier own spin on it and be creative without really having to worry about long term continuity but it seems like they maybe get over excited and end up not listening to fans/caring about anyone elses view of the character except their own and yeah it's thier project but the characters are important to everyone not just them

And I can't even with her 'suit/costume' in the Ayer Sqaud, jokers property plastered all over her, I liked her hair and the bat and the jacket was okay i guess, I really don't think costume wise it was a decision of 'oh harley would think the tiny sparkly shorts are cool and that's why she's wearing them' it blatantly seemed like 'harley is jokers trash and hey everyone let's look at her ass cuz she ain't worth much else in the movie and she doesn't have much else to offer'? It just sucks to me that Harleys first movie appearance was primarily Jokers accessorie and the sex appeal of the movie

Sorry for this unasked for rant but I am so grateful for BOP and TSS and her costumes/suits in those movies felt way more like harley is wearing that cuz she thinks it's cool compared to Ayer squad where it felt like harley is wearing that so we can attempt to get more views on the movie via harleys backside

I mean for all I've said there i dont hate the ayer suicide sqaud it sounds like I do but I don't 😅 and I don't hate DC movies tbh DC is my favourite just cuz I care more about their characters cuz of the cartoons I watched as a kid and comics and I've only literally read one marvel comic so because of that I do have more of an attachment to DC this is so long winded opps

To summarise my bullshit I like dc I like all the movies even ayer sqaud but Harleys character was handled poorly in the beginning

im putting this under the cut bc i also made a long rant djgsgjsg

i think harley quinn in the dc movies is the best example of male gaze vs female gaze, while also showing what it's like when you let the actor themselves have a say in the character.

david ayer is a great director and i would love to see what he had truly set out to do with suicide squad by seeing his cut of it, but there was so much i disliked about harley's story in that movie. at the end of the day i've come to accept it because it leads into the character she becomes in bop and tss, but this was definitely harley being seen in the male gaze, something that her character has all-too-long dealt with in the comics.

bop was directed by cathy yates, a woman of color, and this immediately meant there was going to be a change in harley's character and her design. this is the female gaze and it meant that harley is actually going to be seen as a character that we love bc we can tell she was written by a woman (christina hodson) and directed by a woman. (this can also be seen by the small action of canary putting her hair up in the middle of the big fight scene at the end). overall bop was very much meant to be the opposite of suicide squad in terms of how they deal with harley. it's basically the recovery stage for her character.

and tss. my dear sweet tss. i love how james gunn handles her character and i love that he gave margot some creative control with some of it, like the removal of her rotten tattoo. i think tss is great in those moments where we see harley being her usual self (when she has sex with the dictator) but james gunn doesn't just focus on harley like that, he gives us scenes like when joel kinnaman is found shirtless and sweaty or when john cena is straight up in his underwear and takes up half the screen. where david ayer spent half the time focusing on sexualizing harley quinn, james gunn switches it up. and i love that.

and im in the same boat - i love suicide squad. i think its a decent set up to bop and tss and i would love to see the ayer cut, but in terms of harley's character, it sucked. but when bop was released and started to kind of fix harley and put her on this path of recovery, it made what ayer did in suicide squad work better. i still dont like how harley was sexualized in suicide squad, but im not as mad anymore now that it can be explained better with 2 other movies backing it up.

this is a long way to say that you're absolutely correct.

#the former film student really pops out of me when i get asks like this #like i have so many feelings about these certain things #how characters are written. how costumes are chosen for those characters. etc #i love talking about it all #jess says dumb shit

[b-rainlet]

That bitch Ecco

*insert John Mulaney’s ‘She’s a bitch and I love her so much!’ here*

Why I like Them/Why I don’t

Her introduction is her punching Jerome in the face, how can someone not love her, omg. 

I mean, we know nothing about her which maybe makes it harder to relate to her but I just think it makes her more intriguing. Like, what about her parents? Her Father apparently left when she was little, but what about her Mum?? When did she meet Jeremiah? Why the fuck did she pledge her life to him? Please, she’s a badass, why is she hanging around with him???

(Also where the fuck did she learn to fight, did she teach herself? Was she doing some kind of martial arts? Was she trained as a spy or something?? What is her past?????)

And then we have her going from a proxy to being Harley and like....once again, there’s no explanation as to why. I just enjoy thinking scenarios for her, wondering why she turned out the way she did and I am going through her tag daily, looking for some Ecco centric stuff - or even Eccomiah stuff that focuses on her a little (but she’s part of the female characters who get sidelined for Wayleska, just like Selina, which...I ship too! It’s nice! But sometimes I wanna have her tagged in a fic where she actually has a role aside from being mentioned once). 

(Also I am a hypocrite and I hate when Selina is being pushed aside or forgotten when other Bruce ships come to play but I have some Selina/Jeremiah wips where I’m like ‘Bruce who????’ ahkdhaskjd, sue me for loving girls). 

Also, Ecco is simply adorable and I saw her shake her head to rattle the bullet inside it and was like: Baby

(If Jeremiah won’t treat her right, I definitely will). 

Favourite Episode/Favourite Season

She has so little episodes where she features, but she’s a delight in every scene she features in. 

Favourite Season would probably be Season 5 because she has a bigger portion of screentime there and she’s Harley instead of Proxy or Mummer and while both of those personas are awesome (and fear-inducing), she’s a lot of fun crazy and unhinged. 

Favourite Episode is Ace Chemicals, I’d say. Not that she has a big role in it (that would probably the scene where she fights Selina) but she’s interacting with Jervis there and that scene not only is my header but also made me ship them (and caters to my bisexuality alsjsadnln). 

Also I have a fanfic in the works based on that scene because you cannot tell me that Jervis isn’t all heart-eyes over her. 

(In my heart, every single villain adores Ecco and hates Jeremiah and they put up with him for her - but they’re all just quietly waiting for her to leave him lmao, they got the chocolate and roses ready, just in case). 

Favourite Line

The only Ecco lines I have in my head are ‘Our cover is blownski’ and ‘She got me, Daddy’ and the last one made me fucking nauseous to listen to within the circumstances (I mean, deep fry Jeremiah? Really? No.) so I don’t have a favourite line I think. 

But she also doesn’t talk much ashkhks, she either doesn’t talk at all as the mummer or let’s Jeremiah monologue. 

(She’s probably more of a ‘Do it’ instead of talking about it girl and I stan her). 

Favourite Outfit

ALL OF THEM

They’re all beautiful, props to the costume department

(also sorry you can't see them well, I used gifs from old edits that where still on my phone)

OTP

You would think it’s Eccomiah - and I do love them a lot - but I would give an arm and a leg for some Ecco/Jervis or Ecco/Selina content. 

(Also Ecco/Bruce could be adorable and fucking hilarious at the same time, I love them). 

Ecco is very much shippable with everyone and I’d read anything about her (pls I’m desperate). 

(Also she deserves to be treated like a queen by someone to make up for the awful way Miah treats her in canon, so am I gleefully imagining scenarios of her leaving him and finding someone who treats her right while he’s cursing everything and feels miserable? Maybe). 

Brotp

All the girls! Like Ecco and Ivy and Bridgit having meetups where Ivy and Bridgit keep telling her to dump her trash boyfriend askhjafbska 

(But tbh, I can see every duo I’ve listed as an OTP as a Brotp too and vice versa. I mean...., you should like your spouse as a friend too askdkjdbkb). 

Idk why, but I can’t really warm up to Ivy/Ecco (which is basically Harley/Ivy), but maybe that’s precisely because it would be like Harley/Ivy and I’m not really a fan of those two. 

(I also have to admit that I enjoy Ecco a lot more than Margot Robbie’s version of Harley Quinn). 

Headcanon

Umm...idk? I kinda thought about her being russian? But I think that’s quite a popular thought, I saw some people mention it before! 

My headcanons usually change to adapt the current au I am thinking about but a hc I keep in most of them is that Ecco was pretty straight to the point before she became Harley and that she isn’t one for social cues. She’s blunt. 

(Which for me mostly means that Jeremiah pre-spray tried to flirt with her and she just. Didn’t respond to any of it. Not because she isn’t interested but because she doesn’t think much about Miah offering her things like sleeping in the guest bedroom. Makes sense, he works late and she’s within reach in case he needs anything, while he overthinks everything and basically offered her to move in with him lmao). 

Unpopular Opionion

Idk if that’s unpopular but she’s a really good Harley Quinn version (I think all their villain versions are very good? Like, they also have the best joker version(s), Gotham knows how to entertain me). 

A wish

Please, whoever’s in charge, drop what the writers would’ve done with her if Gotham wouldn’t have been cancelled, I am curious. 

Was she meant to die and be replaced at one point to show how Miah is actually looking for the ‘finished’ Harley version, like it’s alluded to in the finale? If she’s not his forever companion, would she have betrayed him at some point? Or if she is supposed to be Harley, would she have teamed up with Ivy at some point?

Would we have gotten more scenes of her interacting with other villains? Would we have seen a bit more of her past or maybe a flashback scene of the shooting? 

(I don’t think so, they probably would’ve kept her an insignificant side character but an enby can dream). 

Also, if I’m already wishing, someone release the cut scenes involving her. 

An oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen

Finale? Which Finale? Gotham ends with Bruce leaving and nothing happens after that :)

5 words to best describe them

I’ll give you four ;)

Endearing

Cuckoo

Consecrated (to sth.)

Overlooked

My nickname for them

WIFEY

#Ecco

[cryptocism]

A while ago you have some comic rec... Which where amazing I read the weed storyline high and it was a unique experience do you have any adaptions you like...Be they live action or animated... Currently airing or from the 60's I need to know!

Sounds wild omg. And yeah sure! 

Aight so the Teen Titans show from 2003 was basically my introduction to anything DC related. Like I knew about Batman and the Justice League and all that but I’d never read a comic or watched any of the shows or anything, until of course cartoon network blew my tiny mind with this one. Like I still have this memory of watching the episode The End in my friend’s basement, and we were in the first grade and just enthralled by that shit. I’d never seen a cartoon be so intense and cool. But also it’s wonderful and lighthearted and weird and I love it a lot. Did any of yall use the website Toonsurfer back in the day? Because I watched all of Teen Titans on that thing, front to back. And it took me like three months because after 72 minutes of watching the browser would just stop loading videos and tell you to go outside. I still remember the rainbow toonsurfer logo gaah that was over a decade ago time is weird.

Batman Beyond and Batman the Animated Series and tbh basically any of the Bruce Timm animated shows are very very good. I only ever saw the odd episode as a kid but I remembered liking them and then started watching online a few years ago as something to listen to while I draw.

Speaking of listening music, Holy Musical B@man is a masterpiece and that’s all there really is to say on the matter.

Much more recently - that new Pennyworth show? Good. I’ve only seen the pilot so far, and I’m still probably gonna watch the whole thing even if it ends up bad because Alfred is my favourite, but yeah I like the look of it. I like how they’ve “gothamized” London with the zeppelins and smokestacks and criminals in like, hanging cages and pillory stocks. I love how Alfred is portrayed, I’m interested in whatever the fuck Thomas Wayne’s deal is, I’m hoping Martha shows up at some point, I like that Ezme didn’t get fridged in the first episode like I worried she might, and I love that one bitter evil woman and how bitter and evil she is.

Oh shit, on the topic of newer tv shows: Doom Patrol. Never before have I witnessed a show that perfectly encapsulates the absolute shitbrained insanity of comic books. I like to describe the joy of reading comics as this wonderful melting pot of creativity - not all of them are good, in fact most of them are quite bad, but the medium is perfectly suited to a universe of wild ideas. Every episode feels like the writers are just throwing creativity-spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks. It’s phenomenal.

Also I still maintain that the Lego Batman movie is the most faithful and best Batman adaptation ever made.

#anonymous #asks

[littlehollyleaf]

Name ten favourite characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.) 

Then tag ten people

Tagged (ages ago, whoops!) by @castiel-saved-me-from-myself 

(I’m sorry, I got distracted!)

1.Supernatural. Castiel.

Obviously. I may be out of the fandom now, but I’ve never loved a character as much as Cas, and probably never will.

2. Good Omens. Aziraphale.

Thought I’d put both my darling angels at the top :) I suspect that without Zira there to pave the way Castiel may not even have existed, so I love him double - for himself and for Cas as well :p 

While really quite different when it comes to their personalities (just think how Zira would SHUDDER at Cas’ trenchcoat), they share a lot of character traits and tropes (mini-series!Zira anyway, maybe less so in the book, or less obviously anyway), so, no surprise that I should adore them both. I’ve also said before, and I stand by it, that Aziraphale is sort of a combination of my favourite aspects of both Cas and Dean in one, with Cas’ struggle with Heaven/god and trying to be a good angel and finding he loves humanity/earth more, plus Dean’s whole ‘performing Dean’ thing and repression of queer feelings he is scared to admit to (out loud) because he believes they are somehow ‘wrong.’ 

...just to give a little insight into my feelings about these two that was neither needed nor asked for...

4. Hellblazer. NBC Constantine. Legends of Tomorrow. John Constantine. 

Aaaand the other guy I love twice because Cas, and indeed spn in general, kinda owe their existence to him. Though in turn his fabulous live action portrayal by Matt Ryan probably owes its existence to spn and Castiel’s popularity. So... there’s a weird ouroboros situation happening with my favs here that makes my head spin whenever I think about it, but I love it - stories within stories built on stories feeding off stories, which connects to wider themes of story and storytelling being vital and intrinsic to life and stuff.

Anyway, despite his wardrobe, Johnny is NOTHING LIKE CAS. He is, in fact, a lot like Dean. But I like him more. Maybe because he’s British :p He has the whole ‘repressing his feelings’ things, a bit like Zira, but it’s not because he thinks they are wrong, it’s more of a coping mechanism to deal with the constant tragedy/trauma his life/lifestyle/fate causes him to suffer. But whatever the reason, I like my characters facing that struggle :) (actually the British element is probably way more significant to my enjoyment of him than I’ve been fully aware of... that’s probably why I loved Zira so fast as well... obviously they are both a completely different class of British, literally, but the fact they ARE British is INTRINSIC to both their characters, and I guess a little, vaguely patriotic part of me is excited by that... :p)

4. Gotham. Edward Nygma.

Since I’ve started giving explanations - I love Eddie because he’s also got the whole ‘emotionally repressed’ / out of touch with (his) emotions thing going on (as seen in Zira and Cas), but with the addition of various geeky / ‘tech guy’ character traits that I also love.

5. Doctor Who (Classic). Vislor Turlough.

I waxed poetic once about how I liked Gotham’s Edward Nygma because he reminded me a bit of Turlough. That was early on in my Gotham days though and given how Eddie developed I don’t see as many similarities now. Turlough shares some of Eddie’s ‘dark’ traits however - self-centered, often lacking in empathy for others and nonplussed (sometimes even happy) to see them get into trouble or hurt. But ultimately his attempts to be self-serving and cowardly end up thwarted by him developing feelings for specific individuals despite his best efforts, which is what I enjoy about him (and actually that’s a lot like Eddie still, huh... their endgame’s are opposing though ofc - while Eddie goes on to embrace being a villain, Turlough gives up on villainy and even becomes a bit of a hero, now and then). Plus, Turlough is the ONLY Companion (IIRC?) to have joined the Doctor specifically in order to MURDER him and... idk, I just think that’s cool :P

6. Doctor Who (New). Donna Noble.

(I’m trying not to double up on fandoms/shows so I can cover more, but New and Classic Who count as different things, kinda, right...?)

Donna doesn’t really fit any of the character traits I’ve talked about above, though I guess her low self-esteem is something that all my other favs share in various ways (though it’s not such an EXPLICIT aspect of their characters and story arcs as it was for Donna I’d say). What I first loved about her was that after YEARS of New companions (and other randoms) being literally in love with the Doctor, she had a strictly platonic relationship with him. Yeah, I think maybe the show was a bit heavy-handed about it, but even so it came as a huge breath of fresh air and frankly a RELIEF to me. Not that I’m opposed to the Doctor having romantic/sexual  relationships, it was just that... coming from a childhood love of the Classic series where that just... didn’t happen (save a fleeting kiss in the TV Movie - which I actually enjoyed fyi!), it just... idk, was starting to stretch my credulity that EVERYONE seemed to be falling for him maybe? Or at least for me it was growing tiresome. So the fact she didn’t have that element to her character/story was a plus. Then I just adore how loud and brash she is when calling anyone, including the Doctor, out on their shit (I envy her that maybe). Plus I like the way she isn’t... traditional TV pretty, you know? (ie. young and slim, like a lot of other companions).

...or maybe I just like redheads *shrug emoji* 

7. Spartacus. Naevia.

(she has two actresses okay? and they both deserve kudos!)

Truth is I love FUCKING EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE IN THIS SHOW. Spartacus is like... my PERFECT SHOW. There isn’t a single moment, a single plotline, a single character that I don’t enjoy. I have never even CONSIDERED looking up or writing fic because the finished product is completely satisfying exactly as it is. God. But I wanted it represented in this list so I had to pick someone!

Considering the time period there couldn’t really BE a ‘geeky, emotionally repressed with low self-esteem’ character :p BUT nearly ALL of the characters have the whole ‘struggle to understand/discover who they are’ thing and the ‘who I am and want to be is counter to who I’ve been told I am / should be’ arc, on account of the main cast being rebelling slaves (though the other characters are equally complex and compelling and I love them too - Lucy Lawless in particular is incredible!). Anyone who’s seen me blog about the show before might have thought I’d pick either Agron or Nasir as my favs, since I do like to squee over their romance. But whenever I think about the show it’s usually Naevia who I remember first, because her character arc/development just BLEW ME AWAY. She went from someone I’d kinda dismissed at first as a typical het love interest to a WARRIOR GODDESS and you SEE all the key moments of that growth, you FEEL it, it makes ALL THE SENSE. And her romance with Crixus, which again I was initially a bit dismissive of as a typical, sudden, weak het romance, grows into, imo, one of the deepest, most developed, most believable love stories in the show. So yeah. Naevia. Amazing.

8. Due South. Ray Vecchio. 

(he’s the guy not the dog - gifs were limited! ...also the dog is actually a wolf, it’s a whole thing... that doesn’t need exploring at this juncture)

Ray was my first TV crush :P He had a bit of a sidekick vibe to him I guess, which I like (lead characters tend not to interest me as much). He wasn’t ‘geeky’ exactly, but he def had the ‘trying to look/act cooler than I am’ thing going on... also an obsessive attachment to his vintage car... meanwhile his partner Benny was the stoic, ‘British, stiff upper lip, keep emotions in check’ one who was always trying to live up to the ideal persona dictated by his people/employers, in this case the Royal Canadian Mounted Police... HUH, so... it’s actually SUPER WEIRD that I ended up loving Cas and Zira over Dean and Crowley when it seems pretty clear suddenly that my first big fictional fav was CLEARLY the Dean-Crowley to Benny’s Cas-Zira......?? Ray was FUNNY in a way Dean and Crowley aren’t though, I think? He def filled a ‘comic relief’ slot on the regular and I liked that a lot (it also made his serious, angsty moments EXTRA serious and angsty, and extra angst is something I always love!)

9. The Librarians. Eve Baird.

Remember this little show? It was... is... sorta ridiculous. Not amazing. Based on some... very cheap, very OBVIOUS Indiana Jones rip-off films, that were also ridiculous and... not... great (the third one is the best, with an awesome performance by Stana Katic aka Kate Beckett as a vampire, but I digress). But... idek, I am EXTREMELY FOND of the series for some reason :p

There are a WHOLE BUNCH of characters that fit my ‘type’ more than Eve tbh... in fact... probably every.single.other.main.cast.member (save perhaps Jenkins?) shares the traits above that typically make a character my fav. But... EVE! I just... think she’s neat! ...maybe it’s BECAUSE all the others are main/lead characters that makes me gravitate towards her? In a cast where ‘geeky, socially awkward, struggles with emotions’ is the norm, Eve being the no-nonsense, socially competent, badass soldier type therefore becomes different and thus more interesting to me? Also, much like with Donna, I appreciate that she’s an older woman who gets to have a full character and plot of her own. There’s also something about her romance with Flynn that... makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jonathan Levinson.

(tumblr gif search failed me so I had to grab from elsewhere...)

Listen. Look. Okay. Buffy is pretty old school these days so, for anyone not in the know, as a character, originally, Jonathan... he wasn’t even a side character, he wasn’t even REOCCURRING, he was barely a background character. For several episodes he didn’t have a name and it wasn’t until several seasons after he became ‘Jonathan’ that he actually got a surname. Danny Strong was just an actor who happened to be occasionally on-hand when the script called for a random to have a line, until eventually that happened often enough for Joss to think ‘hey, you know what, let’s make this guy an actual part of the show...’ 

He got a couple of episodes focused on him in S03 and S04 respectively, but didn’t become a regular until S06 (and wasn’t in S05 AT ALL). Other than that he had a HANDFUL of ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moments here and there, not even full scenes for the most part, usually lasting no longer than the above gif.

I tell you all this so that when I say childhood me (well... somewhere between 12 and 14 years anyway) was OBSESSED with this character in the show, and I mean O B S E S S E D (to the point of spending hours painstakingly making VHS recordings purely of the episodes he was in), you understand how UTTERLY BIZARRE that was. Because this obsession pre-dated S06. Was, in fact, in full swing during the airing of his S04 episode - which was, like, a fucking DREAM COME TRUE for freakily obsessed me fyi, because the whole episode was constructed with him as the LEAD CHARACTER, because he’d performed a spell to make him super awesome. They even changed the title sequence to read ‘Jonathan’ instead of Buffy! And while other fans were no doubt just lol-ing at the random I was bouncing about on my sofa all ‘MY TIME HAS COME!’ and fucking SWOONING over seeing MY CHARACTER suddenly in the spotlight and getting to do crazy fun OOC shit like this -

Then when S06 rolled around and HE WAS A LEGIT REGULAR, omg, I was in HEAVEN! First TV boxset I ever bought that - Buffy S06 :P

So... yeah. A bit of a fav. Geeky. Outcast. Slowly grows more morally grey, what with that spell I mentioned and also the fact he was teamed with the ANTAGONISTS in S06. I guess you could say he was the beginning of a lot of my fav fictional character traits/tropes (though looking back - I think his ‘villainous’ teammates in S06, Andrew and Warren, are more my ‘type’ these days, and I did end up loving Andrew especially a whole damn lot, but at the time I’d been a Jonathan fangirl for so.fucking.long. there was just no chance anyone else in the show was ever gonna come close to my heart!)

THE END.

Sorry not sorry for the tmi. I got a bit too into this one.

Actually sorry I have so few women on the list :( Internalised misogyny/sexism is a real thing and I spent a lot of my life being... somewhat unfairly dismissive of female characters or at least prioritising male ones over them. I’m working on it.

Ten people is SO.MANY. to tag. But I might as well do this right this time, since I’ve come so far. But if you’d rather not play, no worries! <3

@enchantersnight @momecat @bold-sartorial-statement @vampirebillionaire @edwardnashtons @miss-olivia-cellophane @knightinpinkunderwear @supes9 @leaper182 @hamburgergod

Honourable mentions (because I CAN):

Gotham. Lucius Fox.

Gotham. Fish Mooney.

Gotham. Tabitha Galavan.

Doctor Who. The Doctor.

Doctor Who. The Master/Missy.

Supernatural. Hannah.

Supernatural. Naomi.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Andrew Wells.

#about me #a true but boring story #well this was a fun nostalgia fest for me! #apologies to the rest of you.............

[bigskydreaming]

Pet peeve in Batfics or comics: jokes about Dick’s horrible sense of fashion, based on his original Robin or Nightwing costumes. ESPECIALLY jokes made by his family, the other Robins most of all.

.......gee, why would a grieving circus orphan design his superhero costumes to look like....something worn by circus performers?

Like, no shit those designs look ‘terrible’ by most characters’ or fans’ fashion standards, but they were never MEANT to be conventionally fashionable from an in character OR behind the scenes perspective. ‘Conventional’ fashion standards could disapprove all they want, they were irrelevant to the aims of the kid designing the costumes as something that would look and feel like the best and happiest times of his life. Dick was never TRYING to design something that would look ‘fashionable,’ he was trying to design something that looked like what he’d worn and would have kept wearing all his life as a circus performer. If he’d ever been given the OPTION of staying as one, of having control over which direction his life took, instead of being ripped away from it whether he liked it or not. Which, y’know. He did not.

Tbh, this is a pretty big blindspot in most writings about Dick’s character IMO, because like, his ‘terrible fashion sense’ is basically both a canon and fanon trope at this point.....but.....he doesn’t have a terrible fashion sense? There’s literally NO other instance in the comics of him not being able to dress fashionably? In fact, in both canon AND fanon, Dick’s civilian persona, his version of Bruce’s ‘Brucie’ act, is him being a pretty famous celebrity socialite in his teenage years and early twenties? One who was constantly in the papers while dating Starfire - a famous superheroine slash supermodel - in his civilian persona?

......ummm....but sure, the famous supermodel dating celebrity doesn’t know how to dress himself or what looks good. That makes sense.

Dick’s never had a bad fashion sense, his first, self-designed costumes as both Robin and Nightwing were only ever ‘unfashionable’ because HE DIDN’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THEM BEING FASHIONABLE LOL THAT WASN’T REMOTELY HIS PRIORITY. HE WAS HOLDING ONTO HIS HERITAGE AND TYING IT TO HIS SUPERHEROICS IN DEFIANCE OF AN UNCARING SYSTEM AND SOCIETY WHO HAD NO RESPECT FOR IT OR WHAT IT MEANT TO HIM.

So, making his brothers guilty of the exact same thing, for an easy laugh that doesn’t actually make sense given literally ANYTHING else about his character, feels....meh. Always pulls me out of a story and throws me into headcanons about how shitty it must make Dick feel that later Robins gave no fucks before altering the designs to their own preferences without ever bother asking or caring WHY Dick would have designed them with ‘short pants and pixie boots’ in the first place. Why do those interpretations of those characters care so much about being ROBIN if you don’t have them ever care about what being Robin MEANT to the guy who conceived of it and made it what it was - something they aspired to be themselves - in the first place?

Also I know a lot of people point to the mullet Dick had in the 80′s as their other proof of his terrible fashion sense, and like, I know it is by modern standards, and it doesn’t transition well to writing a modern Dick who was only 18 or 19 five years ago or so, our time, but uh....it WAS fashionable according to the sensibilities of the time he was shown having it....which was like....kinda why he was drawn having it. Yeah, it doesn’t make sense for him to have had one five years ago, but if its only ever brought up now as something he had five years ago in order to prove how unfashionable he is, again, it just....doesn’t fit? Sometimes things in comics can’t hold up over time, and that’s just one of those things. 

My point with this post is kinda like.....literally EVERY superhero has had shitty, unfashionable costume designs at some point in history, when judged by modern standards, but ONLY Dick’s costumes have a time-honored tradition of being called out and laughed at - usually by his own successors - when the irony is, ONLY Dick’s costumes have an origin and explanation for how they look that DOES manage to stand the test of time and changing fashion trends.....BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T DESIGNED TO FIT A SPECIFIC ERA’S FASHION STANDARDS LOLOL.

Ngl, this one bugs me a lot, because I will never not be annoyed by how entitled most people make the later Robins towards the mantle and its legacy, and how rarely they’re written as giving a shit about Dick’s feelings on the matter or the history and heritage and traditions the Robin persona was meant to embody when Dick first made it, with no expectation that anyone BUT him would ever hold it.

It ESPECIALLY annoys, given how much deference most writers and fans give towards Jason, Tim and Damian’s origins, and how respectful and protective they are of where each of them come from and their early lives and histories.

Like, if you’ve got Jason bristling over insults about him growing up in the poor parts of Gotham, you shouldn’t be unironically writing Jason mocking his older brother’s origins, y’know? I’ve read so many fics that are like “poor Jason, who had it so rough at fancy galas growing up with Bruce, where everybody looked down on him, unlike Dick who everybody loved” and its kinda like.....dudes, think about how you all write Dick’s own FAMILY treating his circus origins and upbringing, and then ask yourself seriously. Is it REALLY likely that all those rich Gotham snobs at those events didn’t look down their noses at Dick every bit as much? That they weren’t laughing WITH him so much as AT him, and that Dick, who grew up in a circus that traveled the world and brought him into contact with so many people, probably always knew damn well how to tell the difference between people genuinely entertained by him and people just entertained by the amusing anecdote of his existence, ‘that adorable little circus boy Wayne took in?’ 

Yeah, Dick probably always knew how to work a crowd at those events and make it LOOK like he was having a good time, but that’s because that used to be his JOB, even as a kid. Doesn’t mean he ever actually enjoyed it when stuck attending events where he knew damn well how little respect people had for him or where he came from.

(Tbh, I consider this to be one more thing Dick and Jason have in common with each other more than the others, and I also headcanon its why Jason never tried to change the Robin costume or even thought about it as far as we ever saw. And its also why I will always always write Dick as having told Jason stuff about the circus and why he made Robin the way he did, after he first gave Jason his own costume, and why I always write Jason as having seen Dick as an ally and someone to vent to about that stuff, knowing he’d get it where Bruce wouldn’t have a clue. Because it doesn’t make SENSE for Jason not to know or understand this about Dick, and for Dick not to have seen this common ground between them after he already extended the olive branch of giving Jason his blessing as Robin. Jason Todd is many things, but entitled is NOT one of them, and IMO he would never ever ever stomp all over someone else’s humble origins in the same ways he’s used to people doing with him. I headcanon that Jason was the Robin who altered the Robin persona as little as possible, because he knew what it was like to have so little left to hold onto, and he wanted to honor and respect what Robin meant to Dick, as much as what it’d come to mean to him. I will always always see it being more natural for Dick and Jason to be natural allies against the wealthy of Gotham and even Bruce’s own entitlement issues.)

[whiparoundandcry]

Earbuds dump

someone wanted me to go through all the questions so //cracks knuckles

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

dunno what ‘this way’ specifically means, but I tried reenacting the way a lot of my fav fics have been, in way of word count per chapter, character interaction, plot balanced w/ the ship, ect

2: What scene did you first put down?

Maaan, it’s hard to remember what came first now. I have a doc thats like, 20 pages of just notes & me outlining the plot and world building. The first scene written on that doc is lloyd revealing his identity to the team, which actually happens about a year before the start of the story!

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

hmmmm, I’m a sucker for when the narration contradicts the dialogue- I just think it’s really funny, pfft. can’t think of any large scenes I do that in rn, but I also really like this bit, during the city hall meeting The woman sitting at the corner chair closest to the ninja shifted in her seat, and stared pointedly at Kai and Jay. Kai tried not to shift under her stare, but he could feel Jay stiffen next to him. “You two saved Satoshi the night King’s was attacked, right?” Kai’s mouth was immediately dry and his brain cut out. Her voice wasn’t loud, but compared to the silence before, she might as well have fired a gun. The question itself was straightforward enough, but Kai hesitated to answer - first, because Green ordered them not to speak, and second, he had no idea what she was talking about. I try to keep Kai a reliable narrator (aka I project a lot) and I feel like this part is funny for first-time readers, bc you get the feeling of “do I know who that is??? Did I forget?” then kai confirms it like “who tf”

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

Kai looked up from their hands to meet Jay’s eyes, all warmth and kindness. “I dunno. I’ve only know you for a month, but I still feel as close to you as I do any of them.”

ouch!!!! 

5: What part was hardest to write?

GOD ALL OF THE FIGHT SCENES,,, this fic was so ambitious oh my god. That’s part of why the final chapter is taking a lot longer than normal- big fight scene ;v; also the meeting with the mayor was difficult to write bc like, I dont know shit about how city government works. My search history for the time I was writing that scene looked like I was researching for an essay, christ. 

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

I’m finishing it :,3

7: Where did the title come from?

real honesty hours: I thre in the bit about Kai giving Jay his earbuds on impulse. I never planned for them to be a reoccurring symbolic plot device or for them to even exist but damn, here we are.

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

My relationship with my brother def inspires how I write Kai & Nya. I say that I project onto kai a lot, but I project all of my ‘trans younger sibling’ energy onto Nya. ngl, most everything I’ve done in this fic was inspired by batman tho

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Yeah, I have around 3 scrapped scenes. I’ll probably never release them, bc they were scrapped for a reason :,3

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

Kai & Jay are the most boring out of the four boys :, ) so I figure’d it’d be easiest to fit their charters into the plot I had in mind, I couldn’t think of any way to fit in the “zane’s a robot” or “cole literally died” plot into it without making the entire story about those things. If I was made out of time tho, you bet earbuds would be a polyninja story.

11: What do you like best about this fic?

I honestly just like that I’ve gotten as far as I have into it, and the perception that its gotten has been so incredible //sobs. Aside from that, my favorite parts about it are probably Kai & Nya/Lloyd’s relationship, and also that Nya is trans. I hadn’t seen any fics where she was trans before, and tbfh its my favorite headcanon. I’ll never write a cis nya in my life

12: What do you like least about this fic?

The relationship build up seems kinda... eh? I definitely should've put more into it, but at the same time I feel like I did as much as I could with it, just bc I’m so inexperienced with that stuff. I also with I could do a better job of conveying the vibe that I want this version of ninjago to give off (gritty, rough, gotham) but without being super edgy about it?  Also I’m really upset that Cole & Zane are getting shafted in Earbuds. I should’ve come up with more stuff to include them, but everything I came up with just felt forced, so they ended up just being background characters- which is was more than they deserve, bc they’re honestly my favorite boys on the team.

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

Well, there’s always the 8tracks playlist I made a while back (should transfer that onto spotify sometime) but theres a couple songs that I think fit the characters super well that aren’t on the list • “Fresh Eyes” is a super great Kai&Jay song QwQ “so suddenly I’m in love with a stranger / I can’t believe she’s mine / now all I see is you with fresh eyes” From Kai’s pov @ jay??? hell • “Better days” was a song rec sent in by my good bud hedley-ramsay anon, and it’s perfect for Kai’s POV, as he’s trying to stay optimistic about all the shit thats happening around him “Guess I didn't break it, but I bent it / I know I didn't say it, but I meant it / I shoulda had a little more heart and soul” • “Miss Atomic Bomb” is very very good for Lloyd & Harumi. tbh its a good song for them in canon too, but the dark city vibe it gives off fits so well with the Earbuds AU. “I was new in town, the boy with the eager eyes / I never was a quitter, oblivious to schoolgirls' lies” • “Be Still” is also a super great song for lloyd, in this au and just in general. “Be still / wild and young / long may your innocence reign” DONT CALL ME OUT I REALLY LIKE THE KILLERS

14. Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

not... really? its a fanfiction about legos, I dunno if there’s any lesson to be learned from it. Be gay & do crimes

15. What did you learn from writing this fic?

writing fanfic is super rewarding & fun!! It’s a pretty pig time sink sometimes, but damn if yall don’t make it worth it. 

thanks so much for your continued support everyone!!! The last chapter has 2 scenes to go and is currently over 10k words 💪

#earbuds #long post #woof

[robinmagik]

Not A Minute Wasted (part 2)

A/N: HA-HA! I’m back with this story! I’m like in a love hate relationship with this story tbh. Anyway, thank you guys for waiting!!! There is going to be a third part of Not A Minute Wasted, so I hope you guys enjoy this one. I’ll post the other part later at nite or soon. Dunno but it WILL be posted today. If you want to be tagged just comment in the thingy, yknow :) 

Part One  Part Three  Final

Tags: @poemfreak306 

Recap: Y/n looks down the darkness and takes one step in and the clock closes. She cusses. Great, Bruce Wayne is like a low-key dungeon freak or worse he murders people and this is his murder dungeon. The worst thoughts were running through her mind. She got down the long stair case and to her surprise she sees a whole lotta shit; Robin costumes, old Batman costumes, bat-mobiles, and weapons. Then she sees the bat-computer. Okay so, Bruce is a huge Batman fan or Batman lives in Bruce’s basement, what? “Alfred, are you there?” It was Bruce’s voice but more deeper and rougher. 

“What the fu—’’

“Oh dear,” Alfred gasps. 

Y/n turns around, looking at him with wide eyes and a gaped mouth. 

“Alfred.” Batman repeats. 

“Miss Y/n, there is a perfectly good explication for this.”

“I don’t think so,” She says. “OooooooooooohhhhhmyGod! Ohhohohohoho God!”

“If you give me a moment, I will try my best to answer your questions.” He rushes to the bat computer. There was no way out of this. It was practically too late to drug her and make her believe it was a dream. He responds. “Yes, Master Bruce?”

“Prepare some chamomile tea and sandwiches.”

“I take it patrol went well?”

“Yes, it did.” He says. “Y/n is still sleeping?”

“Oh no, she is very much wide awake.” Alfred emphasizes. He glances at her to see that Y/n is still with the face of shock. “I must apologize, Master Bruce but she knows.”

“Knows what, Pennyworth? You have to be less vague.” Damian says. 

“What’s Damian doing there?!” Y/n finally spoke—more like shouted. 

Silence. 

“Hello?!” Y/n slams her fist on the button. “No me vas a respondar o que?!”

“Alfr—“

“Oh, no, papi! He’s soooo not gonna save you now!” She laughs a little bit too manically. She is practically loosing her mind. How wouldn’t?! 

Batman grunts, he clears his throat, knowing that he very much fucked up or at least the universe did but he didn’t believe in that type of stuff. He fucked up. Somehow. And this fuck up does not benefit him at all.

“We’ll talk when we get home.” He says, his voice didn’t show how rattled he was. He hangs up and she tries to get him back but nothing. 

She sighs, dropping her head in defeat. “I wanna go for a ride.” 

“Miss Y/n why don’t we go into the kitchen. I’ll make you some lavender tea, yes?”

She looks up and crosses her arms across her chest. For a moment she hesitates and then agrees with a nod. Alfred was still Alfred, nothing has changed. Bruce is Batman and Damian…who was—Robin. That makes sense. It all started making sense. She didn’t know what to think but she knew what she felt; turned on and a little bit worried for Bruce’s well being, not only that but Damian too. He’s just a kid after all. 

She sits on the counter, Alfred doesn’t tell her to sit on a chair this time, and she just watches him prepare tea and sandwiches. 

“Isn’t it bad to eat late at night?” She asks. 

She is a bit more calmer now. He smiles softly and nods; “Yes but you know how Master Bruce is. Quiet stubborn.”

“Very.” She chuckles. 

There was silence again. The scent of chamomile and lavender help ease the tension. 

“Is—being Batman is…dangerous business, huh?” She asks. “No wonder he’s got all those scars on that body of his. Idiot told me that he’s had ridiculous accidents like golfing accidents and that he’s just clumsy.”

Alfred hands her the cup of lavender tea. 

“Thanks. And I guess him being Batman makes sense. His eyes are too intense to be a dumb, playboy billionaire. They give him away.” She continues talking. “I’m not mad at him. I still like him as Bruce Wayne or Batman or whoever he is. I like him.”

“And here I thought you would’ve broken up with him, Miss Y/n.”

She gasps dramatically and pretends to be offended. “Alfred! Then you don’t know me that well!” Then she giggles. “Hey, I have my own secret nights in Gotham too. Except that…Bruce knows those nights. He even came to watch.”

“Then you should ask him to watch those nights of his. Behind the scenes, of course.”

“Of course. If he lets me stay, y’know, now that I know.” 

The roar of the engine bounces off the walls of the cave. Surprisingly enough to Y/n the bats didn’t stir. Now, when Batman got off that bat mobile, she came this close to pounce on him and dragging him to the bedroom in cowl and all. Dear God, she began, thank you? Her voice cracks within her thoughts. Then there was Damian, the cutest Robin of them all, glaring a hole into her head, boy, did that kid hate her. She shrugs to herself and turns back to Batman who was walking towards her getting ready to explain himself but she rushed up to him and kissed his lips. 

“I’ll be upstairs, Batman.” She grins. 

When she was gone, he glances at Alfred who smiles at him. 

“It is rude to keep a lady waiting, Master Bruce. Have I taught you nothing?”

That was a fateful night. He didn’t eat his sandwich but he sure as shit ate her pussy. After that they had a long conversation, well, not too long. Bruce may invade your privacy but not the other way around. There was a whole Bat-family behind him despite the fact that he says; ‘I work alone,’ in that Batman voice. He’s a loner who can’t deal with loneliness. 

Y/n loves this man who is full of contradictions. Though, he knows that such a happy relationship doesn’t last, at least not for him. Bruce is always prepared for the bad things to come, always kept an eye on her whenever she went out late at night or when she worked at the club. This overwhelmed Y/n so she would lash out at him like a child and then break up with him and then the next day or so she’d run back to him. And much to his displeasure, he waited. He didn’t know why he waited. Bruce didn’t like to be pulled back and forth. It was either black or white. We’re done or we’re together. That’s it. But with her, he wanted to see where this ended because it seemed like it would never end. He was never going to say it—he is bad at communication—but he could feel himself fall for her more and more everyday and he even tried his best to hide it from himself. Though she is complicated and he does love a challenge. 

There were those moments when he has those grouchy asshole days—its everyday but there are worse days—and it made the tension between them hot and ugly. A day like that would be hell at the manor. 

She wasn’t living with him despite the fact that he asked her to. She said no and that was that. Though she stayed over mostly even on his bad days. Y/n would make sure that if an argument was going to start, Damian was nowhere to be found. She couldn’t argue with Bruce with Damian there. Her parents never fought in front of her so why would she do that to his kid? 

She came into his office and sat on his desk with her legs crossed over and a magazine in her hand. 

“According to this survey, most people agree you are, in fact, a gigantic asshole.” Y/n said. 

Bruce grunted. There was glaring but a sexual tension that could be felt a mile away. He took her right then and there and she’d giggle, knowing that she riled him up. 

Angry sex was common yet he was delicate somehow. He would sneak in a soft kiss or two before hungrily eating her up. Either way, she’d take him away from whatever was troubling his mind and make him take a bubble bath with her. He’d rest on her chest as she washed his hair.

“Why do you put up with me?” She hums as gently massages his scalp. “I’m a horrible mess. If you were like any other man, you’d be crying by now because I’m so horrible. I’m so mean.”

“I’ve seen horrible every night, Y/n. You don’t begin to measure up to it.”

“Yeah, I know but I mean like horrible girl standard? I guess?” She didn’t know how to put it. 

“Hmm, yeah, I’d say you’re a pretty horrible girl.” 

“Hey! You’re not supposed to agree.” She pouts. 

He chuckles. “And you know, I’m not like any other man but even so, no one can handle you.”

“Guess you hate that. After all, you are a bit of a control freak.” She paused and then glanced at him with a mischievous grin. “Do I scare you?” 

“No.” 

“Liar.” She whispers into his hair.

He kissed her hand and they rest there for a while until it was time to get out because their skin would get wrinkly. There were mornings where she laid in bed naked and he was in a suit getting ready for a meeting after his last nights work. There was no point in begging him to stay, to stop overworking himself because then both of their tempers would get the best of them. It was obvious they didn’t work well together but they made it work. Y/n was as frustrating as he was but not as naive. Bruce would kiss her bare shoulder and she’d kiss his chin and then he left. She looks at the time on her phone, two hours before work, she’ll take his motorcycle and make it in time. 

Except, this was a bad morning though. Her emotions were everywhere and if you’d look at her in anyway type of way, she’d cry. Bruce left. Y/n was on the bed, naked, the warm sunlight danced across her skin, and she sniffled. She didn’t want to go to work. Maybe becoming his wife wouldn’t be so bad, she thought. No, that’d be a horrible marriage because I’m a horrible girl. And he’s a good person. He’s such a good person. Y/n began to touch herself. Bruce is so good. Oh, Bruce. Please, punish me. I’ve been a bad girl. Her fingers slipped in and she began to pump her fingers in and out of her wet pussy. I love y—Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she came. She moaned into the pillow, her body went limp, and she fell asleep for twenty minutes. Y/n was still sad. Masterbating didn’t take away that sadness that was bubbling in the pit of her stomach. 

She drags herself out of bed, took a shower, got dressed, and slowly walked down the long halls. 

Damian is in a black turtle neck and gray slacks. He looked a lot like his father but way more adorable. 

“Morning.” She says softly. 

“L/n.” He states. “We have to speak.”

“Hm? ‘Bout?” She walks into the kitchen and pours herself a cup of orange juice.

“My father clearly likes you and you him.”

“Yes, we do.”

“Yet you and him fight a lot. I do not think that is good for father nor for you.” He is slowly getting to the point. “It’s not my business what happens but because my father’s well being—oh.”

He stops dead in his tracks when he sees tears forming in her eyes. They rolled down her cheeks and she begins to cry.

“What?” She whispers. “Y-you’ve heard us fight?”

“Y-yes…the manor may be large but it isn’t difficult to avoid you both.” 

“I’m so sorry, Damian. I didn’t mean for you to hear us,”

“That’s not…please stop crying, L/n.” He didn’t know what to do.

“Excuse me.” She sniffles. “W-we’ll continue this conversation…I just gotta…go.” 

Tim was going to greet her but she passes by quickly. He turns to glare at Damian who was confused himself.

“What did you do?”

“Nothing, Drake. Excuse me.” 

Tim is left alone in the kitchen with an empty cup in his hand. 

“What in the hell?”

*Kill Bill sirens play* What will happen? Will Damian make her cry even more? Will his father aka Bruce Wayne aka Batman beat his ass for making his girlfriend cry? Will Tim Drake have his cup of coffee in peace for once? Who knows? Until next time....which will be soon.

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[ntshastark]

so, the batman

positives

loved that it was a detective movie, can’t believe it took Detective Comics Comics this long to make a fucking detective movie with their character World’s Greatest Detective

loved how they characterised gotham, they nailed the Feel of the city

loved their batman. he’s still traumatised, he’s clearly fucked up, he deeply cares about his city and you can see how much he equates gotham to his parents. they nailed the “prince of gotham” aspect of bruce basically having inherited ‘trying to save the city’ from his parents when they died (which tdk also did, but then they forgot to make bruce care about gotham lmao)

loved how closely batman works with the police (being present at crime scenes and all) despite him not trusting them (except for gordon) and them not trusting him (except for gordon). tbh probably my favourite on-screen gordon ever

loved that they actually gave selina a storyline! AND A GIRLFRIEND!!!!!!!!!!! and then killed the girlfriend which was less nice

(i’ve seen people criticising her for not caring enough about annika bc she immediately moves on to bruce, but almost everything she does through the movie is motivated by annika having gone missing/dying. she attempts murder for her ffs. bruce was clearly just a rebound)

loved the early-on batcat vibes, it’s not some deep everlasting love (yet) but they work together well and get along well despite some conflicting morals (also zoë kravitz hot)

i liked that he made mistakes. a girl that also stayed behind for the kind-of-post-credits-scene was talking about how she didn’t like how weak they made him, but it’s just year two. he may know how to do things in theory, but he hasn’t figured all of them out in practice yet, and that’s ok! he doesn’t have to be hypercompetent from the start!

(i’ll admit his hypercompetence was one of the few things i genuinely enjoyed in batman begins, but that trilogy was very much about fanboy wish-fulfillment, while this universe seems focused on humanising him, and i actually enjoy both approaches even if for different reasons)

loved that we were very much in bruce’s head and first-hand witnesses to how fucking unhinged his mind is

someone said they’ve never seen a batman so desperately ready for/in need of a robin and i very much agree. really hope dick is in the sequel

negatives

didn’t understand why they changed martha’s surname from kane to arkham????????? it had no purpose and it was just confusing since anyone who knows anything about batman hears arkham and immediately thinks of the asylum. thought it was gonna be a plot point or something, but no

don’t think working in the waynes into the riddler’s plan worked at all tbh. as the arkham thing, it was confusing and led nowhere. like ‘omg they were corrupt! no wait they’re not. omg maroni killed them! no it was falcone! no wait we don’t actually know. omg the riddler knows bruce is batman! no wait he actually doesn’t’. even alfred and the bomb had 0 narrative impact. he was totally fine in the end, his absence didn’t hinder batman in any way, and it didn’t lead to any emotional payoff with bruce (he should’ve called him a great father on the hospital scene and i will die mad about it). even the manor was fine i guess bc there was some random lady who also worked there??? (i’m not used to seeing other staff at the manor so it was a bit of a whiplash when she first appeared ngl)

bruce not knowing spanish annoyed me a bit, but it was lampshaded by the penguin so i’m gonna let it pass (edit: this post made me more ok with it)

if their batman was great, their bruce wayne was mediocre at best. he doesn’t even make an effort with wayne enterprises, and he doesn’t fucking do any philanthropy??????? hello??????????? whose mans is this???????? you literally gave twitter bluechecks the material they always wanted to base their lukewarm ‘uhh has bruce wayne tried to invest in the city lol’ takes on!!!!!!!!!

AND WHERE WAS BRUCIE, I DEMAND TO SEE THE BATMAN PRETENDING TO BE A HIMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!! if balebats was way too far on the playboy end of the scale, battinson is way over on the other side (batfleck and gotham!bruce were the perfect balance and i miss them SO MUCH). like, i very much agree bruce is an emo weirdo, but he doesn’t let it show! his public persona is as important as his actual mask, and he’s smart enough to know this since his early years! he doesn’t go around (or not go around, as it is) looking like he’s in danger of saying “in case you haven’t noticed, i’m weird. i’m a weirdo. i don’t fit in, and i don’t want to fit in. have you ever seen me without this stupid raccoon makeup on? that’s weird!” at any given moment

(also his hair was ugly and when he appeared shirtless both me and my aunt laughed bc god that man is a twig. they bulked him up so much in the costume it’s honestly hilarious)

and i absolutely didn’t enjoy the ?fourth? act of the film. it should’ve ended with the vans exploding and left the rest for the sequel. or at least figured out a less drastic result for the riddler’s plans, i mean, they started a no man’s land thing and then cut it halfway through???? like, hate to praise tdk, but at least they had the sense to make their nml-inspired plot 1. not happen in the first film 2. be the central disaster to be solved in the third act

and that scene with the road flare was so weirdly paced. all that slow motion and dramatic staring and For What. like, i know what it was supposed to mean in theory (hears the incel shooter use his ‘i’m vengeance’ line and realises he’s sending the wrong message, so he goes down to help rescue the people because that’s what batman should be about!!1!), and it was visually beautiful and all, but. again, SO weirdly paced.

(plus, the 'you’re sending the wrong message’ thing had already gone through in that scene in arkham where eddie boy is going on about how We’re Not So Different You And I - and even the ‘i’m vengeance’ line could’ve easily been included there - so i really don’t know why they felt the need to double down with the incel shooter)

(but i appreciate mr matt reeves paying an homage to the greatest teen wolf episode ever, 3x06: motel california, and even going as far as casting the twins in this film, what a dedicated fan)

also i hate that robert pattinson looks SO MUCH like a friend of mine, whom i’ve known since i was 4, and i have to put up with the entire internet thirsting after him. again.

final thoughts

great batman, meh bruce, good movie. definitely would’ve been better with batfleck and i will never forgive joss whedon for (among a lot of other things) taking this from me. my aunt joked that in the end zoë left to go after aquaman so he could help with the flood and i haven’t stopped laughing since.

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[that-thing-that-feeling]

Aw that’s too bad abt Critics Choice. I think it’s just while Sp2 is a fantastic movie that clearly spoke to many critics, it wasn’t widely popular enough to gather a nomination. Plus tbh I think a big part of it was the messy release schedule. I’m sure a24 did the best they could with so much competition, but I feel like there were so many ppl and critics who never got a chance to see the movie bc they weren’t even sure when/if the movie would show at a theater near them. Plus it’s not even coming out until Feb in the UK, so I feel like that must have been a factor in their BIFA main category losses as well. I agree Independent Spirit awards are gonna be stacked this year, but I think since the first one was nominated in 2020, there’s a good chance this one will be too. Also, Sp2 has been nominated for another Cinema Eye Honors award, which they won back in 2019 for the first one, so that feels like a good chance as well.

As for London Critics Circle Film Awards, I think that’s a safe bet as well. Back in 2022 the first film won British/Irish Film of the Year and Honor won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year. Nominations are announced in January, and I’d be shocked if they don’t get nominated. And re the BAFTAs, yes they will be packed as well but I think Sp2 still has a good chance. After all the criticism they faced in 2019 and 2021 for lack of diversity, I think they’re gonna try to make their noms as diverse as possible this year – and out of all of the many diff Best British Film predictions I’ve seen online by critics, only about two to three of the films in contention have been directed by women. I think this leaves a good chance for Sp2 to wiggle in.

It didn’t get a spirit nom, but it’s cool it at least had that Gotham nom, NBR, etc. I’m def most curious of what’s left to see London critics circle. Ah I forgot the BAFTAS had a Best British film category but that makes sense lol. Would obv be amazing if it got a nom. And yeah agreed that A24’s rollout has been weird and they’re not pushing it for anything on the US side. Imo best supporting actor is an open enough category this year they honestly could have tried to get a nom for Richard. Anyway, regardless of award noms, hopefully the picturehouse rollout will be better. Also curious when it comes to VOD in the US.

[thejokersenigma]

Christmas Fan Fiction Advent Calendar 2017 - Day 20 - Joker x Reader x Bruce Wayne - Plan B(ruce) Part 2

Ok, so this is the second part to a new series I’ve just started writing which was a request given to me here on tumblr! Tbh it’s not very Chrtistmassy - other than it’s happening at Christmas, but oh well - feel free to check out the first part if you like it (or want to read that first). It is quite a bit shorter just because I only had a few hours to write it!

Hope you enjoy it!

MASTERLIST

J had been right. This was the best room in the house. This was probably the best room in the whole city. It was situated at the very top of the Wayne Enterprise Tower and the room took up the whole floor, the walls on my left and right made completely of glass that showed the breath-taking view over the city on either side. Not only was the view gorgeous, but the room itself had been lavishly decorated with expensive festive decorations – a large, extravagant tree next to the small stage which had been decked in tinsel and lights where a live Jazz band played upbeat Christmas songs, wreaths on each window, golden embroidered table cloths, mistletoe on the pillars, candles in brackets that gave off a distinctly Christmassy smell.

It was beautiful and made me feel like I’d just won the lottery.

I’d made J buy my dress for me – knowing he could afford it - and I hadn’t held back on the price label.

That would teach him to use me like this.

But then, I couldn’t help thinking as I looked around, this night didn’t look like it was going to be complete torture. Everyone looked just as stunning, all making the most of the free open bar and the dainty canapes handed out by servers whilst they gossiped away, or swayed to the tunes performed on the stage.

But who was it I was supposed to be talking to again?

I helped myself to one of the glasses of champagne that were being handed out at the entrance, then stepped my way delicately to the side of the room, trying to look like I belonged there. I sipped at the alcohol as I wandered the perimeter of the room, surveying the room and the company that milled noisily in the centre, occasionally unable to help my glancing out the tall windows at the city that way laid out before me.

Most people in the room seemed to have paired up – whether because they arrived that way, or that was the way these socialites just gathered, I wasn’t sure – and I couldn’t help but wish that J was with me, so I didn’t appear so lost on my own.

Despite this, I made sure to enjoy myself amongst the riches none the less – after all how often was it that I would be able to pretend to be an aristocrat and all the perks that came with it? I made sure though, to keep an eye out for my target – the infamous Bruce Wayne. I had seen him in enough news reports and newspaper articles to know vaguely what he looked like, but I wasn’t sure how easy it would be to pick him out amongst all these other men business men in their identical suits.

Ok, enough of being on the outskirts of this part, it was time to dive into it now that I’d had a bit of liquid courage. I placed my empty glass on a cloth covered table in one of the corners of the room, then confidently sashayed my way into the middle of the room. I could feel the eyes on me, the stranger amongst them all, but I didn’t falter in my strides, walking like I outranked them all, like I had important matter to attend to - though I actually had no idea where I was going or what I was doing.

Despite my upturned nose and important air, I kept my eyes on the people I passed, scanning for a face that matched the picture in my head. When I finally neared the other side of the room my eyes fell on the large balcony lit with fairy lights. I headed for this.

A group of 4 people entered back into the room as I left it, none of them bothering to hold the door open for me and I scowled out into the darkness at this - clearly manners did cost something, and these people weren’t willing to pay it.

I was the only one out here now, and I understood why, the balcony had been built slightly into the building to lessen the strength of the wind at this height, but it was still freezing out here. I wrapped my arms around my chest against the cold and walked up to the railing, leaning my arms on it and looking out at the lights of the city. I could see the windows of office buildings where late night workers were still at their desks, the bright advertisement bill boards that stood tall and garish against the dark sky and the streets below were lined with tacky lit names of casinos and clubs.

“Quite a view isn’t it?” Came a voice from behind me, the tone of the voice deep and soft.

I played it cool, not bothering to turn, my eyes on the landscape before me. “Yes it is.” I agreed.

The man came up next to me then, but I still didn’t bother to turn. He copied my position, leaning over and resting his elbows on the balcony railing. “Bit cold though isn’t? Especially in a dress like that.” He said, and I saw him glance me up and down.

I turned to look at him now, crossing my arms and leaning my hip into the barrier, shooting him an unimpressed raised eyebrow at his last statement. The light behind the man threw his face into shadow, but the more I listened to his voice, the more familiar it was. “And just what is that supposed to mean, Mr Wayne?”

“Oh nothing.” Bruce Wayne defended quickly, realising his mistake and turning to face me as well, “Only that your dress doesn’t really protect your arms against this wind.” He said gesturing to the sky.

I laughed at how nervous I had made him – clearly, he wasn’t a man that was often poked fun at. “Don’t worry.” I brushed it off, “I’m only teasing.” I smirked, and he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. “I’m [Y/N].” I said, holding out a hand in a sign of peace.

Bruce took it gratefully, “I guess you already know who I am.”

His hand was strong, and surprisingly rough for a business man. “Of course, Mr Wayne.” I smiled at him warmly. He had a nice feel to him.

“Call me Bruce.” He insisted.

“Ok, Bruce.” I nodded, releasing his hand. “I do have to ask though, why are you out here, when the party is in there?” I asked, gesturing back towards the door.

“Honestly I’m not one for parties…” He admitted rather sheepishly, “But it kind of comes with the job.”

“Of being the owner of a multi-million-dollar company, or of being a billionaire bachelor?” I teased.

“Both.” He laughed, and I laughed with him.

“What about you?” He asked, “Parties your scene?”

I considered this for a moment. “Not really.” I said truthfully. “I’m more of an all work, no play kinda gal.”

“Might explain why I’ve never seen you around.” He said.

I knew my lines well and didn’t even hesitated before I said, “Well I’m new to Gotham, first event I’ve been invited to.” I explained. “So, I appear to be the stranger that everyone gawks at.”

“I’m sure that’s not the only reason they’re gawking.” Said Bruce and I couldn’t help but blush at his smooth flirtation.

We chatted a bit longer about this and that. I stuck as close to the truth as possible, so I didn’t get too lost in a web of lies – I told him I ran a highly successful line of restaurants and was hoping to start one up on Gotham. He seemed genuinely interested and it almost made me feel bad. He seemed a nice bloke, but also quite simple. Getting information from him shouldn’t be too hard.

It wasn’t long before he was offering his jacket for my shoulders – which I gratefully accepted – and then eventually he led me back to dance for a while – under the promise that it was to ‘warm up’.

Bruce was such good company, in fact, that I almost forgot the reason I was there in the first place – happily chatting away about anything and everything – the things I didn’t need to lie about like my dream holiday, favourite colour and other silly details that we somehow got onto.

Yes, I had almost forgot why I was at the party, that was until Bruce asked about my love-life. I was sure he was wondering if he could put the moves on me, but I was promptly reminded of J and the original plan for the evening. Shit. I muttered something about it being complicated – because it honestly was. I didn’t know what I was to J – a stress release? An easy fuck? Or something more? And I didn’t know what I was to J – did I love him? I felt like I could do, maybe, but did I right now? It was complicated.

Bruce didn’t push the question any further, but now I had been reminded I changed my head back to business and knew I needed to start asking the man a few more specific questions I had runover with J earlier that day.

“So, what –“

Bruce glanced down at his watch that flashed something – maybe an alarm? Then snapped his gaze back to mine. “I’m really sorry, [Y/N], I hate to suddenly run, but I’ve got an important meeting in the morning that I need to be slightly coherent for.” Bruce said with a small apologetic smile.

I smiled back in understanding at this, though inwardly I cursed at the shit timing and my lack of concentration on my job all evening. J wasn’t going to be impressed if I went back to him empty handed, especially when I made him fork out so much for this night. I had to pull this back somehow.

“Bruce, I –“ I started.

“Would it –“ Bruce said at the same time.

“Sorry.” We both apologised, like a cheesy chick flick couple.

I gestured at him, “Go for it.”

“I just wanted to know if I’ll see you again soon?” Bruce asked, with a raised eyebrow.

“Uh –“ That took me by surprise, “Yeah, sure. That would be nice.” That hadn’t even been a lie just to see him again to gain some information - it would actually be nice to see him again.

He smiled at me, then glanced at his watch again. “Ok, now I really have to leave.” He said, though he seemed reluctant.

“Go.” I said.

He wavered.

“Go!” I laughed, shoving at him playfully, and he exaggerated the movement, leaning further away from me than I could ever hope to have pushed him. I smirked at his good humour until he then swung back and planted a surprising kiss on my cheek.

My eyes widened momentarily, but then I quickly gathered myself back together again. “Smooth.” I mocked with a smug smile. “Now go!” I cried with a laugh, shoving him again, making sure this time that I pushed him solidly in the back toward the exit.

“Ok…” He sighed dramatically and headed off with a last wave in my direction.

I gave him a small wave back, unable to help myself smiling after him. It was nice to talk to a guy that I wasn’t always trying to second guess the meaning behind his words or actions like I was with J. J never did anything without a reason. But Bruce was more of an open book - I doubted there was anything hidden behind what he did.

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[ahostandaghost]

Questions post

A, affliction: Was there a quality about your f/o that held you back from starting a relationship?

Nope !! I’m an all-in type. If I say I’m interested then I will do my best to get there so there is no resistance from me

B, barren: Has there ever been a rough patch in the relationship?

HMMM Can’t imagine it. I just see us as such mutually supportive people

C, confined: Was the relationship between you and your f/o your first? Was it their first?

Not my first, but his. He’s v inexperienced which is okay

D, draining: What’s something your f/o does that you object to?

Gun + bby do not mix

E, endanger: How would your f/o protect or save you from a threat?

Attacking the threat. If anything it turns their attention from me to him so

F, future: How will your relationship work out? What would hinder it?

We get married and have kids so I’d say it works out wonderfully asdfghjkl

The only thing that hinders it is his own anxiety about intimacy at first

G, gone: What would happen if your f/o changed drastically for you?

I’d tell him he didn’t have to and that I loved him as he was, but I’ll love who he is now just as much

H, held: Has your f/o ever needed reassurance from you about your relationship?

God yes. He’s so nervous about letting someone close 😩 but a bitch gonna give all the reassurance he needs

I, indifferent: Is there something you think your f/o cares way too much about?

Gotham and Batman. It’s just a city. Just a man. Let’s move out of America this place sucks anyway

J, jaded: How cynical are you and your f/o about things? (Not necessarily about the relationship)

HMM He’s very cynical, practical. He has to think things trough. I do my best to stay positive, but I’m cynical of people. I don’t trust them much

K, kind: How different are your and your f/o’s personalities?

So different. I’m hugely affectionate and loving, I talk a lot and make silly/gross jokes with friends. I’m more serious with him, but we communicate with others very differently.

L, longing: Was your relationship a slow burn?

Yes 😭

M, mine: How jealous can your f/o get?

He trusts me. He doesn’t get very jealous, he knows everyone is something else to one another and wouldn’t be upset if I communicated interest in having us accept another partner. I consider Anarky to be a kind of less serious F/O rn

I think he’d only get jealous if he really felt our relationship was very seriously threatened, which of course it would never be I love him too much

N, new: How are you and your f/o different from other couples, if you are at all?

HMM. I don’t know, I only really have my own relationships to base this on

People probably think that we’re strange if that’s an answer

O, open: Do you always say what’s on your mind? Does your f/o always say what’s on their mind? (Whether it be about each other or not)

I say what’s on my mind, but I’d never put him down or try to start a fight. I’ve had enough fights in my life, and my parents fought all of the time. I’m too tired for it.

He’d feel the same, I think, though maybe more anxious at first to mention anything that bothers him. Trying to keep things going smoothly. He gets better at communicating his needs though !

P, parting: Has there ever been a time where you were apart for a while?

Any time he gets sent back to arkham and it Sucks

Q, quantity: How many things do you disagree on?

Not much tbh. I see us as being very converging people. I may have to teach him more about what being trans means in experience and how my autistic symptoms effect my ability to take certain things, but I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a disagreement.

We’re both too calm for it really

R, rage: How does your f/o control their anger (not necessarily toward you)?

Scarecrow sometimes uses me as an outlet (in the sexy way) so 👀 that’s fun

Jonathan may steam a bit, but a kiss on his head and a little love and care softens him back up

S, saved: Have you learned from each other? Does your f/o or you feel you’ve gotten better since you’ve met?

He’s seen the most change tbh ? And yes he’s recovered quite a bit from religious trauma ect

T, truth: Have you ever lied to protect your f/o?

PFFT yeah. Not to him, but to others 

U, ungrateful: Do you feel you don’t deserve each other?

Scarecrow/Jonathan feel at times they don’t deserve the love and care I give simply because they never received it before in their life so they feel very confused

To me it’s never about deserving, only the loving exchange of support and affection between two people who want to share it !

V, vice: What are the common disagreements between you?

Again, we don’t fight much tbh

W, why: Has your f/o ever done something regrettable that it was difficult for you to recover from? Have you done something similar?

Nope

X, xenon: How far of a distance would your f/o go to see you?

THE distance.

I don’t know how to answer this, I really believe he’d do anything

Y, yell: Have you ever had to protect your relationship from others?

Nope !

Z, zap: What would your f/o do if you weren’t theirs anymore?

;;

This question is the saddest ! Because I know he’d be a huge wreck

Just the thought of it makes me wanna hold him

[stolligaseptember]

let’s talk justice league

OKAY so first of, because it has been what everyone has been arguing about over the last couple of days anyway

the amazon outfits

okay so here’s the deal;

the amazon warriors are still wearing, at least to my very untrained eye, the same armor as they wore in wonder woman

ad rem; they were not wearing any more revealing clothes

now, the point of discussion is rather the guards of the motherbox

there were about 6 or 8 of them, that guarded the temple where the motherbox was being kept, and they are the ones wearing the outfits that you can see in the pictures floating around social media lately

and i’m not going to defend that, because it’s still an objectifying decision, even if i guess you could argue your way around that the temple guards doesn’t need as extensive armor as the warriors, seeing how they don’t actually take part in any actual battle, but w/e

the amazon warriors are still wearing their original armor from wonder woman though, and they are still kicking ass

and like

the way they kick ass

ngl, the amazon section of the movie was my absolute favorite

the way they just kept sending the motherbox forward, refusing to let anyone stop them was just

argh

i’m so empowered and also kinda gay

i also really enjoyed the atlantean portion of the movie, short as it was, and my darling mera, i can’t wait to see more of you in the aquaman movie next year

but the actual movie justice league?

i... enjoyed it

but it isn’t... solid

like, you can tell that it was a very fractured mess of a production

because it has the heart, i think it has the basic storyline, and the actors have the chemistry, which is what i think is you need to produce a solid movie

but it never quite succeeds in tying it all together

like, it doesn’t really feel like a movie

it just feels like snapshots stacked on top of each other, trying to tell a story

which doesn’t make for the best cinematic experience

and it makes me so sad, because this movie had so much more potential, like i said; it has the heart, it has the story, it has the chemistry

but it just never quite succeeded in tying it all together

it’s also too short

i haven’t really kept updated with the production news, but they’ve been forced to cut it down??

which is very sad

it’s just this side of a little too rushed, and i really missed some key scenes from the trailers

most notably diana and bruce being the Literal Mom And Dad of the league down in the batcave, alfred’s “i hope you’re not too late” (because who was that even supposed to be addressing???) and then clark’s “i’ll take that as a yes”

this also ties back to how the movie feels like just snapshots stacked on top of one another; you don’t really get the storytelling in between, which really builds a story from the core

i was also not a fan of the superman resurrection plot

superbat is real, and bruce is so in love and so heartbroken, but i just

idk, it just didn’t sit right with me

like, don’t get me wrong, i adore our clark, and i like superman

but i would have really, really enjoyed getting to see the league, as they were advertised, trying to save the world on their own

because their sequence fighting steppenwolf before clark showed up was magical, and some really hecking cool teamwork

and then superman just felt like an unnecessary deus ex machina, and just

no

nah

and like, while bruce’s “he was a better man than i am” was very gay and very much appreciated, i wasn’t really a fan of the insistence that what the team really needed was clark

like, let bruce take that responsibility, no matter how reluctantly it might be, and let him build that with diana

i also guess it’s because this wasn’t how i expected clark to come back

like

i guess it’s because i wanted it to be of clark’s own volition??

because dawn of justice built that up!! clark’s heartbeat was there!!! he wasn’t really dead!!!!!! we knew he was coming back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and yeah, idk, that whole plot point just didn’t sit right with me

i also feel like all that time they spent on that plot could have been spent in so much better ways

and yeah

just not a fan

i also really wished they would have given lois more space

like, i know, she isn’t really a part of the story, but she really, really lost a lot of her agency

she was really just superman’s love interest in this, and i’m not a fan of that

batfleck is growing on me though

i’m slowly coming around to his whole aesthetic

the batmobile is very cool my brother-in-law is going to enjoy this one

and the whole detail of him using a petty criminal to lure out a parademon, and then just leaving him tied up and abandoned on a gotham rooftop was so spot on

but just let him have his batfam already

like, when bruce asked for the nightcrawler, my brain shortcircuited, and for just the tiniest little moment, i thought he said nightwing and i just went !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! until i realized what was actually going on

i know people have been uncertain of ray fisher’s and his performance

BUT OH MY GOD

he’s truly the cyborg we deserve

oh my gosh

i’m really looking forward for them to get the time and space to really flesh out his backstory in his solo movie and for him to grow even more as a character

because wow

it was so good

ezra miller as the flash was everything i never knew i needed

oh, the sweetheart

he’s a dorky jewish boy who’s possibly autistic?? who just wants to save people and make friends

and he brought both the humor and the depth, and i’m so in love

also, what even was his running my darling

i’ve been so PUMPED for jason momoa’s interpretation of aquaman

and oh man, was i not disappointed

he just wants to rock n’ roll, and oh my god, i can’t blame him

it was just

so much fun

and i feel like he really got the short straw in the backstory section, but that may be because of his movie coming up already next year

because i was really intrigued by atlantis, and arthur’s place there, and his entire relationship to it

and even though i’m not really a fan of his animosity with mera, it’s gonna be pretty exciting to see them grow into the power couple we all know them to be

i’m not even ashamed of this; i cried during diana’s introduction

i just love her

so

much

and one of my biggest fears before the movie was that diana was going to lose some of her agency

but she’s still the wonder woman we know and love, keeping her faith in love while kicking guys asses

i also love how they dealt with her leadership role, because it really placed her on equal ground with batman and superman

and this is the holy trinity we deserve

i would have so absolutely adored diana and arthur’s teamup against steppenwolf, if the events of the flashpoint paradox didn’t leave a sour taste in my mouth every time i see them standing next to each other

and why is dc like this

AND SPEAKING OF i literally screamed at that one lantern sighting, and just give us hal you fuckers

i really, really loved how easily clark took to both victor and barry though

because he already kind of knew bruce and diana, but he opened up so quickly to both victor and barry, took them under his wing and joked around

and he really is, as my favorite trash can once put it; america’s dad

and please, please, can i get dinah in the dceu PLEASE

but the most logical opening for that would be in the batgirl movie that joss “motherfucker” whedon is directing and NO NOPE GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY GIRLS YOU CREEP

you could tell that the fucker had rubbed his disgusting little hands all over certain parts of the movie

and i want to cry

it deserved so much better

another one of the controversies that i’ve seen playing out all over social media, even though this was some time ago, was the mass destruction

which is very valid criticism, because it was such a huge part of both man of steel and dawn of justice

but they actually thought that through

yes, they completely destroy almost an entire city

but they have that city be a mostly abandoned nuclear power site, with very limited civilians around, and they do make a huge deal out of getting everyone out before someone gets hurt

and how it in the end becomes a kind of alien garden was kinda sweet

and speaking of “just this side of a little too rushed”; i actually can’t remember the end of the movie??

like???

did they become a proper team?? is the justice league an established force to reckon with now??? do they have team meetups??????????

OH NO WAIT I REMEMBER NOW

bruce is making a hall of justice

that was kinda sweet tbh

BUT I ALMOST FORGOT

that opening was so beautiful, and i cried, and i really do love the dceu after all

#justice league #justice league spoilers #jl movie #jl spoilers #dc #tw: swearing

[lizartgurl]

Regrets (Young Justice Spitfire)

Word Count: 1600+ Characters: Wally West/Kid Flash, Artemis Crock/Artemis, M’gann M’orzz/Miss Martian (briefly), Richard Grayson/Robin (briefly) Author’s Note: @icanhearyouglaring wanted a Spitfire fic so I hope this lives up to her standards. (I definitely write SuperMartian better than Spitfire, tbh). A sort-of AU taking place after the season one episode “Insecurity”. As usual, Robin is “Rick” due to personal preference.

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Wally paced his room back and forth. How could she do this to him? Right after he gave her his trust- after months of fighting- she went around and betrayed it, trying to make Roy look bad.

"You are a real archer." Really? That was the best he could come up with?

"You don't need to prove yourself, not to me."

"And...Wally? It sounded just fine out loud."

She had smiled. Artemis had smiled at him! It was a pretty cute smile too, one that made him melt inside and feel all squishy-

What was he thinking? Artemis wasn't the enemy, she was his teammate. And a pretty good one at that. How had it taken him this long to figure it out?

She hadn't wanted to take Roy's place, she just wanted to be on the team. Who wouldn't? They were pretty awesome.

Wally grinned to himself.

"Hey dad?" He yelled downstairs.

"What is it, son?" Rudolph asked.

"Where are those flowers you got for mom? I need to borrow one."

"They're in the kitch- Hey! Where are you going?" Wally's dad spun to see a red streak at the door.

Wally had a rose in his mouth as he opened the door "IjustgottagotothecaveandapologizetoArtemisIllberightbaaaack!" In a flash, he was gone.

Rudy shook his head as he turned off the lights. Wally had made it back late enough plenty of times before to be able to make his way around without the lights. He'd gone on and on about this "Artemis" girl before as well. Barry, the scientist, said that there definitely was chemistry between the two. If Rudy had any good parenting skills, he might be meeting this mysterious archer soon enough.

Wally carefully held the rose in his hands, trying not to lose any petals as he ran. As the zeta-tubes scanned him, he thought about what he wanted to say.

"Artemis, I was stupid-" No, that would give her something to use against him later.

"Hey, where's that sai-" That sounded too demanding.

By the time he re-materialized in the mission room of Mount Justice, Wally decided that a simple "I'm sorry." and the rose was enough.

He took off too fast for anyone to see the big, dumb, grin on his face as he took off for the training room. She was usually there, shooting an arrow or two. When she wasn't there, Wally didn't worry.

He should have.

Artemis wasn't in the lounge or the garage, and he hadn't seen her in the mission room when he first got there. Finally, he stopped outside Artemis' cave bedroom. His last hope.

Wally took a deep breath and knocked.

Amazingly, the door slid open, only to reveal the empty room within.

"Wait, wha-" Wally had been in there before, planting many a prank for the girl he proclaimed to loathe, and this room was severely devoid of all Arty-ness.

"Looking for Artemis?" Wally heard a sniffle, and saw M'gann standing next to him, the green skin around her eyes a puffy pinkish-red.

"Y-yeah, where is she, I...I need to say I'm sorry." He mumbled.

Megan laughed humorlessly, wiping away her tears. "Ironically, you're too late.

"She's gone."

Wally's world seemed to fall apart and come back together in one second.

"She's what?"

"Not dead-gone, she left the team." M'gann said bitterly.

Wally looked at the rose in his hand, then at the empty room.

He hit his head against the doorframe. "I'm such an idiot."

M'gann nodded. "Yeah, I guess you are." She whispered.

Wally stared into the room, completely silent and still for once while M'gann walked away.

"Find your own Spitfire, one that won't let you get away with nothin'."

If only he couldn't have let her get away.

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"You're sure she goes here?"

"I have the picture to prove it."

"Dude, how does she not know who you are yet?"

Rick shrugged. "She isn't looking for the immature computer genius in the ward of a billionaire-playboy-philanthropist."

Wally's best friend was being unusually cold to him. Aside from Roy, the team in general was being short with him. They blamed him for Artemis leaving.

He blamed himself.

Wally looked at the rose in his hand. The petals were a little browner around the edges, but he was a broke teenager with no job, he couldn't afford a newer one.

Rick elbowed him in the gut, pointing to the girl they were looking for across the courtyard. "Well, Romeo, here's your second chance."

"Wait, you're not coming with me?"

Rick shook his head. "I gotta meet up with Barbra before class. Besides, this is your mission, not mine."

Wally could have sworn that Rick backflipped away just to annoy him, leaving that irritating cackle in his wake.

Well aware of the looks that the uniformed Academy students were giving him, Wally marched across the courtyard with his eyes on his goal. Artemis was talking with another girl who had blonde curls and a laugh like M'gann's. He could see it in Artemis's face. She was trying to smile and tell her friend that she was alright, but the light in her eyes, that fiery spark was dull. She slouched. She didn't look confident. She didn't have that sass she always did.

He'd done that to her.

He felt absolutely horrible.

He decided to wait until Artemis was alone, but her friend didn't share his sentiment.

"Artemiiiis, someone's watching you~!" she sang with a giggle.

Artemis turned around, curious, but glared when she saw familiar red hair and freckles.

"Just hear me out-" She slapped him across the face.

"Go away," She said, her voice brimming with hate, "I've left your precious team. You've got Roy now. Congratulations." She spun on her heels and started to run.

That was a mistake on her part.

"Artemis, wait," Once they left the courtyard and the sight of the other students, Wally dashed in front of her, holding out the rose at arms length so that if she tried to hit him again, he could run away.

"I'm an idiot. I'm a jerk. I meant what I said on the bioship last night but I didn't mean it back at the cave. I am so sorry that I've been a huge jerk and I was gonna apologize after last night but you'd already moved out.

"Artemis, I am so, so, sorry. I know that doesn't cut it but even if you won't forgive me will you just join the team again?"

Artemis stared at him for a long, cold, hard, minute. Then she snatched away the rose, meticulously tearing away the brown.

"Well, you took your sweet time, Baywatch," She sighed, but she didn't answer the question.

"Walk with me." She commanded.

"Um, don't you have school?" Wally pointed out as the bell rang.

Artemis scoffed. "As if I haven't skipped class before."

She started walking away, and Wally quickly followed after her.

They walked through the nicer part of Gotham. The sun was shining, and people seemed happier for some reason.

"So...does this mean you're not mad at me?" Wally ventured.

Artemis tucked the stem of the rose under the cover of her textbook, so that the blossom stuck out.

"West, I am seething with fury all directed at you." She admitted.

Wally winced, hanging his head shamefully.

"But I don't hate you. Not anymore, at least."

That was a step, hopefully in the right direction.

"I'm really, really sorry-"

Artemis held up her hand, "You said that already, now stop before you make me hate you again."

The two were silent. Now that they were walking together, within a foot of each other, and Wally realized that they weren't arguing. It was actually quite nice. Huh, who knew he'd be enjoying the company of Artemis of all people?

"Roy's right about one thing about me," Artemis said at last.

Wally looked at her in surprise.

"There is a reason for you to suspect me being the mole."

"R-really?"

Artemis nodded, staring down at her books, still clutched in her arms.

"Cheshire is...my sister."

Wally stopped, frozen in shock.

Artemis continued. "Sportsmaster is our dad, and my mom is Huntress, an ex-convict. She's the only one I live with.

"Last night, my dad snuck into my bedroom without my mom knowing. Because I'd quit, he wanted me to go with him and train with Jade- Cheshire, be a shadow."

"But you said no, right?" Wally asked.

Artemis bit her bottom lip. "I wanted...some part of me, at least, wanted to say yes so badly. I swore when my mom got out of prison that I'd never lead that life. I hate my dad, and my sister left me with him when I was six and mom was still serving her time. But...if I could be with my family, be with people who accepted me, who didn't hate me because I have different skin or because I "dye my hair" to fit in, or try to replace their boyfriend-" Wally winced.

"...Maybe that life wouldn't be so bad."

Wally grabbed Artemis by her shoulders and shook her. "You are not a bad guy. I've seen what you can do: you're a hero."

Artemis stared down at the ground, not saying a word.

"Can I carry your books?" Wally asked. He took them from her despite whether she was going to say yes or no.

He slid his arm around her shoulder as they continued to walk.

"Hey Baywatch?"

"Huh?"

Artemis smiled, and Wally thought that he saw a bit of spark returning.

"I'm not mad at you anymore."

#spitfire #young justice #wally west #artemis crock #artemis #kid flash #glad i'm not the only one who still ships them #they were never my otp like most people #but i really liked how they made each other happy #lizart writes #srsly how do u do under the dang cut #????