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Damian, handing Bruce a piece of paper with a very neat calendar on it: father, I will be taking a step back from my participation in our nightly patrols. I have carefully considered factors such as, but not limited to, school tests, most likely days for breakouts and when other people will be available. Here is my schedule.

Bruce: any particular reason you are stepping back from Robin?

Damian: I have reached an acceptable age and am by far mature enough, so I will be participating in Ramadan this year, father. Afterwards I will pick my duties up as normal, but with changed sleeping and eating patterns, this is the most logical step for now.

Bruce, who grew up with a jewish mother and christian father who were intent to raise him on some weird mix of the two, then a second father who was atheist, proceeded to lose his entire way in any form of religion due to losing himself in his teen years, took in Jewish boy, then a catholic one with religious trauma, then an atheist one who had no idea how to even approach the idea of religion, followed up by a pagan girl and already making seven different mental lists of things he will need to research, how to add aspects of Islam into their weird family holidays and trying desperately to show his support for his son: ....hnn

Damian: thank you father

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A little walk in the heights

un pequeño paseo en las alturas

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If I read a post and it's very obviously referencing something but in a vague enough way that I can't recognize or figure it out I just assume it's a Homestuck thing

#me me post

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What if...after Deadpool and Wolverine get past the events of their own movie...they settle down in an MCU-adjacent universe to have goofy team-up adventures?

The perfect time to take the Bendis run on a Bendis run.

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A Quick class doodle. I'm trying to draw bigger noses (or noses in general) because I avoid them waaay too much (because I hate the last snotlout that I posted with his tiny ass nose)

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Bruce Wayne, squinting at the annual bat-tech budget: Hey Tim, has our manufacturer increased the price for the batarangs? I swear the cost is higher than last year.

Tim Drake, who just embezzled an entire Batmobile: ... Yeah.

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Zuko having a connection to the spirit world but instead of it being something deep and profound, it’s just because he spent three years pre-finding the avatar running towards the first weird magical shit he saw.

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I think about Moon Knight a lot. Specifically about the fact that gods speak through their avatars when needed. But the way Khonsu speaks through Mark/Steven/Jake tells me they haven’t been an avatar for very long, as the body isn’t used to the possession.

So I got to thinking: Billy became intertwined with magic at a young age, even younger than most DC mages. Sometimes it’s ten, sometimes it’s seven(personally I like to go with seven). It’s basically part of him. So, the whole possession thing like in MK would be much easier for him.

For other avatars, it still takes time. They were chosen at older ages. Even the more experienced ones still twitch uncomfortably or raise their head too high. It’s always erratic.

No matter how many gods are speaking through Billy, though, his body always moves smoothly. His body can walk and eat and move however he wants, without issue. Even that odd, powerful echo in his voice isn’t an issue.

For Billy, it’s normal.

For the JL, though, it’s just another reminder that their teammate had to go through so many changes at a young age.

MK teams up with the JL once, and Khonsu can’t help but use his avatar to speak. Everyone is instantly worried because MK keeps jerking and looking up. His eyes glow. His voice is hoarse and his body looks like it’s locking up.

The only person who doesn’t look worried is Captain Marvel. Before they know it, his eyes are glowing too.

“Your avatar looks pathetic,” the gods say through their champion, and everyone immediately steps back because the echo is so all encompassing and tempermental.

MK jerks as his god says “yours is handling it perfectly. I wonder why.”

“Do not spin this on us, Khonsu.”

“I do wonder, are there any child labor laws on Olympus?”

The gods of Olympus and the god of the night sky are at each other’s throats.

That is, until Billy decides to intervene and take control of his body, halting the conversation because the gods have big mouths.

“That’s enough of that today.” He loos at MK. “No one likes a bully, Khonsu. Even if they were asking for it.”

That day sticks with the JL. It reminds them that their teammate is something entirely different from them. Younger, for one. But also that his life is dedicated in service to those who blessed him. He is completely integrated into a world of myths and gods and magic.

If they’re being honest, it scares them.

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Requests

I’ve been lacking on making art lately so send me some doodle suggestions

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Happy Liberation Day to my fellow Italians!

E vaffanculo al fascismo sempre!

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DPxDC Prompt where when Danny experiences his portal accident, instead of falling back into the basement, he's instead dumped unceremoniously into the streets of Gotham through a natural portal.

In Amity, Sam, Tucker, and Jazz are mourning their presumably-vaporized friend/brother, while the Fenton parents are facing legal action for their negligence.

In Gotham, Batman is trying to figure out what to do with a meta child who is freaking the fuck out.

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redraw of

but with a design intermediate between GSC and HGSS

(longer notes after the cut for whoever is into character design analysis and early 2000s fashion)

fluffy hair from GSC - I took some hints about the shape from HGSS, but keeping it longer. He is after all "the boy with the long red hair"

a version of the suit jacket from HGSS. I think that in GSC he's supposed to be wearing one of those hoodies that everyone had in the early 2000s, with the massive kangaroo front pocket, but mistakes were made and in GSC it was drawn simultaneously as a zipper jacket and a front pocket hoodie.

Anyway, I like that HGSS gave him something that looks a bit like a suit jacket, to visually strengthen his relation to Giovanni

is that button on the shirt in the GSC design the Game Freak logo? :)

pants from the GSC design (the HGSS ones are similar though). I think they might be cargo pants, though without the awesome big pockets?

shoes from the GSC design but a bit more specific. clarified that the heel has the bubble that was all the rage back then and recently came back in style. otherwise kept them velcro and tall-ankle type, which is an unusual combination, but sure, why not? very Dragon Ball inspired.

face closer to the HGSS design. red eyes because why not. I appreciate that HGSS gave him a very distinctive face.

last note touching briefly on something that maybe could become an essay in the future - the more I look at Silver's original GSC design and storyline, the more I wonder if rather than the son of Giovanni, he was at some point meant to be the son of Lance. Red hair, similar outfit design as Gen 1 Lance (black and red with the tall boots), and that would explain why there's that whole scene where Lance tells him something offscreen that we never get to hear but seems to change him forever. Naturally this is definitely no longer a thing if it ever was, but I wonder.

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Anyway, I'm back.

Billy headcannon 2

Billy is really smart, he's just also ten and has no formal education past age seven because of homelessness. He's not been in school for three years, and if you put him back in a classroom he would struggle. He's not a Robin, or anything, he can't plan a battle or a stealth mission.

But he is street smart. He could tell the difference between two drugs in a glance and has a brilliant judge of character. He knows how long it's safe to eat foods for once they go mouldy, and he can patch a stab wound with virtually nothing.

If he had gotten to stay in school, I say he would have been a humanities kids. Let this boy write essays on books, and history, and religion. You cannot convince me of anything else.

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silver is not normal and you won't convince me he is

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2 versions of this bc they’re both silly

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I remembered seeing on tiktok that some kid has the same backpack and it was to hold a skateboard to it. I haven't been able to find the video again and every skateboard-holding backpack I can find online has the straps horizontally 😭

But this is the only explanation that makes a crumb of sense

I love clothing- it's fun to draw it's great.

But when I look at cartoons, I'm sobbing trying to figure out what fabric am I looking at