duke thomas 😄

& him hanging out with the waynes :)

oracle, ban this guy

(some shitpost while i work on that bernard comic)

“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

since this is on my dash again another two steps, a little harder this time

“who do i hurt when i do this?” and “could i look them in the eye, validate and acknowledge that hurt, and then keep doing it anyway?”

feels like a good day for another two.

“whose voice is missing from this story” and then “how do i seek out those voices/how does a story i think i know change when i add new perspectives”

Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

tumblr is great because no matter how many followers i get it doesn't stop me from being really fucking annoying. other places i will perhaps think before i post. Not here. not here

ryan💕(and aisha and oliver too🫶)

#What a year this week has been

🦇 My Top 25 Batfam Fics of 2023 🦇

I try to maintain an annual tradition of shouting out some of my top fanfics of the year so that new/current writers can get some love and appreciation. This year I got really into Batfam and read literally hundreds of fics, so here is my first ever Batfam fic rec list! I read so many incredible fics, and these are just a few of my fav to come out in 2023. Most of these are Tim Drake-centric because he’s my fav, but there’s also a lot of Jason, Dick, Damian, and Bruce. If you like any of these fics, make sure to show the author some love! And from the bottom of my heart, thank you to all fic writers for making the world a bit more beautiful. Happy new year ❤️

Ordered by word count:

+10 WIPs I hope to see more of in 2024!

eddie making buck chris’ legal guardian if he dies is still so funny to me years later because like. bro if this was for normal reasons you would have picked someone with less than a 70% chance of being taken the fuck out right there with you

I love how Bruce tells Duke to guard the Cave & Duke goes "Yes, sir. You got it. Not a single goddamm person is getting into this Cave." Like he takes it so seriously that when the GREEN LANTERN shows up, Duke doesn't think "Hm. He probably has a good reason for being here. Maybe I should ask him?"

No.

He DROPKICKS HIS ASS.

NOT HIM GETTING PUT IN FUCKING AIR JAIL

Just saying Dick’s tendency to put random evidence in his mouth to determine what it is must've been such a pain for Bruce when he was a baby Robin. It probably prompted many panicked calls to Leslie about whether Dick was going to die.

Gordon: "I've sent a sample to the crime lab, do you want one? Hopefully, we can figure it--"

Dick: "It's Drops. Cut with dexamisole."

Gordon, staring at the bag again: "Oh. Thanks, how do you know that?"

Bruce: "Spit it out. Right now."

Years later

Gordan: "Got something new tonight, I'll let you know what it is when we get the results back from forensics"

Dick, now nightwing with several younger siblings: "It's weed, cut with some of Ivy's pollen"

Gordan, eying him suspiciously: "how do you-"

Bruce, still desperately trying to get Dick to stop being feral: "spit that out. Spit it out now."

Woman murders man in broad daylight

Sorry but your sexual fantasy has a plot hole in it. Orgasm denied.

Annabeth cannonly told monument facts to all her friends can we include this in the fandom please

Annabeth gets caught off her guard by something someone says and just spouts

“construction on the gateway arch was completed on the 28th of October 1965”

She never lives it down

I want less of "the Drakes were terrible people and parents and Bruce rescues poor sad Timmy" (not knocking the trope it just got old for me)

And more of Bruce suffering a hell of his own creation as he tries to figure out how to parent Timothy "latchkey kid" Drake, who doesn't respect the concept of having parental supervision in general and more specifically Bruce's authority as his new guardian at all, because Tim was basically his caretaker for the entire beginning of his tenure as Robin

Any kind of Parental Action would have Bruce choking in his own hypocrisy. Like... imagine trying to get your teenage son to go to bed when he's been putting your ass down for naps for like, years, by that point. Imagine telling him to eat healthier when at 13 years old he was helping your butler with designing your meal plan 'cause you were too depressed to eat

Bruce gently tries to get him to stop working on a case to take a break, and Tim raises a single withering eyebrow (he learned this from Alfred) and Bruce immediately shuts up. Tim only listens to Bruce when he wants to and being legally adopted by the man hasn't changed that

(And I want fics of the rest of the batfam reacting to this dynamic soooooooo bad)

this is the ONLY damian wayne design i accept by the way. brown skin, a crooked nose, dark green eyes and thick eyebrows. keep that white-washed monstrosity away from me