So I've Had This Thought For A While. If Anyone's Seen The Suicide Squad Movie, There Was A Scene With

So I've had this thought for a while. If anyone's seen the Suicide Squad movie, there was a scene with The Joker and Harley Quinn where he exclaimed how he was an "idea".

And I can't help but think of Batman being the same. An "idea," a myth. A method of suppressing the crimes that have haunted Gotham for years. I thought of Bruce not seeing himself as a person, merely an idea utilised for "the mission."

And how this is pretty angsty for the younger bats. Age consumes everyone if accidents don't. And I can't help but imagine the kids just watching as the man that built their world, that nurtured them the only way he knew best in a world he considered surviving another day as a luxury. They'd watch him push himself to the limit, surpass it, and make new limits just to surpass them again. They'd watch, knowing he could never stop. How he grows older, white hair overtaking the black, crows feet at the edge of his eyes. And he still wears the cowl every night and breaks his limits again and again and again.

It's terrifying. Being in the sidelines of that. Knowing you'd either die trying to live up to that or live the rest of your life like a ghost once you do. And they hate it. How much Batman has shaped Gotham, how his shadow has spread so far and wide they'll never escape it. And they hate it more when they can't even seem to make themselves truly leave. Yeah they'll spend time away, years even, but they'll always come back one way or another.

And every time they do, they know they'll come back to a consumed creature more than they'll come back to their father. I just love to think they can never truly leave because they are the humanity Bruce has lost to the cowl. They come back because they're the human part of him, battered and bruised but with beating hearts more alive than he could ever dream of being again. How he used the meagre humanity he had left to raise these children before it died when they grew independent and left.

Or maybe I'm just obsessed with the trope of Bruce losing himself to the cowl. Idk. I have a test, and I'm sleep deprived.

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fractalflowers

3 weeks ago

The joke that the bats see their contingency plans as a form of love is super fucking funny, don't get me wrong but honestly they probably do see it as that cause they just forget to say the second part out loud.

"after I've taken you down, obviously I'd find whatever made you like this and then find the cure."

They come from gotham where mind altering substances are basically everywhere. One of the most profound ways a gothamite could say 'i care about you' is admitting to having a plan to disarm/capture you in the case you go off the deep end, so that they could then get you a cure.

Unfortunately for the bats, no one else thinks like that cause what the actual fucks guys

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fractalflowers

4 weeks ago

A digital DC fancomic page with two panels.
The first panel is of Jon Kent looking up at the viewer, with wide eyes and a missing front tooth. Dialogue reads:
Jon: "Mister Wayne can I look inside your head please?"
Offscreen: "What?" "Oh my God"
Jon: My dad says you have brain damage from getting hit in the head every night and that's why Damian is allowed to fight bad guys on school days I just want to see."
The second panel is of Bruce Wayne looking downwards with a dour expression. Dick Grayson is in the background, with a gleeful expression and a laser flare over one eye. Dialogue reads:
Bruce: "Hm."
Dick: "Holy shit."

babysitting your work friend's kid and he asks to look at your patchwork quilt of a skull. wyd. inspired by Super Sons #6!

A crop of a comic panel from Super Sons #6, with Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Jon Kent at a dinner table. Dialogue reads:
Clark: "Remember, back by 10 P.M. on the dot."
Jon: "Aww, c'mon, it's Friday. Damian's dad lets him stay out all night!"

A crop of a comic panel from Super Sons #6, with Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Jon Kent at a dinner table. Dialogue reads:
Clark: "Damian's dad dresses like a bat and gets hit in the head 28 times every night. So maybe not the best argument."

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fractalflowers

1 month ago

This is it, this is how the fam should be

Bruce, visibly overwhelmed by Emotions as he watches a ten-year-old Dick goofing around in the batcave: Alfred. Alfred I think I'd die if something happened to him

Alfred: *carefully doesn't say that he thought the same thing when Martha and Thomas placed a newborn Bruce in his arms for the first time because he knows that'll completely destroy the little emotional bandwidth Bruce has*

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fractalflowers

1 month ago

Robins are weird about stairs. And I think that’s a learned behavior.

(Also, I think Jason knows that his way is not effective in a fight. But, I also think he wouldn’t be able to resist trolling the other Robins.)

Based of this scene:

Robins Are Weird About Stairs. And I Think That’s A Learned Behavior.

All characters belong to DC Comics . Artwork by Meredith McClaren

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fractalflowers

1 month ago

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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fractalflowers

1 month ago

JL finding out bat secrets, but it's in the most simple ways.

Barry: how old do you think Robin is?

Oliver: you met him last week, he's like 12

Barry: yeah but like, he was 14-ish when we started the justice league

Hal: maybe he's an immortal vampire like batman

Nightwing: that's ridiculous

Hal: we have aliens and gods on this team. Why not vampires?!

Wally: can't be immortal if he was 14 then but 12 now

Barry: I've cracked it, there's more than one

Oliver: Your genius amazes and astounds

Barry: So the first Robin should be like 30 by now

Dick: WHAT

Dick: 30! IM 26

Dick now in crisis: I AM NOT THAT OLD YET

Barry: Hold on, wha-

*Wally silently laughing at Dick despite them being almost the same age*

Oliver: Were you Robin?!?!?!

Dick: I can't believe this betrayal! It's called mid 20's and you're no longer invited to Christmas Ollie!

Oliver: I was invited to your Christmas!?!

Wally: Well, not anymore you're not

Hal: Can I come?

Dick: that's up to Batman

Hal:...

Dick: Coward, this is why you aren't invited to family Christmas

Barry: YOURE RELATED TO BATMAN?!

Oliver: I WAS INVITED TO BATMANS FAMILY CHRISTMAS?!?!?!

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fractalflowers

1 month ago

So happy to be done with another ye olde af WIP.

Meme reference under cut

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fractalflowers

1 week ago

Oooh thanks. I want to read YJ but I didn’t know where to start

Young Justice 1998 Reading Guide ♪♪

here's a Compilation of All the Necessary and Recommended Comics / issues to Read if you want to get to Know the Original Young Justice team from the young justice '98 Series :-)

if you have ANY comments, Questions, concerns, etcc, or want More Content for these Guys, lmk ^_^ this may include Many of their appearances, but it's not even Close to All Of Them !!!

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fractalflowers

3 weeks ago

All images are from the webcomic Wayne Family Adventures with tumblr/twitter text posts overlayed on speech bubbles to make it look like the characters are saying the text.
Clark, Diana, and Bruce are at a table. Clark is confused, Diana questioning, Bruce is smug.
Diana: "anonymous asked: Hypothetically, if you were able to bang superman, would you top or bottom?"
Bruce: reply from firefox-official reading "boy what i would do with superman transcends top and bottom"

Batman leaning over Catwoman, both smiling and flirty. Catwoman: tweet reading "you're crazy if you think i'm gonna hold a pretty, morally gray man with unresolved trauma accountable for anything. do whatever you want beautiful"

Clark arguing with Bruce, who is stone-faced.
Clark: post that reads "stop your addiction to being right"
Bruce: reply of "good advice for everyone who isn't me"

Bruce in the Batsuit working at the Batcomputer looking exhausted. Dick, Jason, and Cass are exasperated in the background. Post from @frownyalfred over them reads:
"Batman needs Robin so he stays hopeful" actually Batman needs a Robin so he remembers to eat, shower, and talk out loud during six-day Riddler case benders

Bruce as Batman yelling with hands raised in frustration. A tweet reads:
"you never know what you have until you lose it" is amateur hour. real sufferers know exactly what they have and that they are going to lose it

Selina and Bruce in formal eveningwear, Selina is holding his arm and they are gazing at each other and smiling. Text post by @manywinged overhead reads:
"my girl so morally ambiguous idk if i should call her a good girl or bad girl in bed
having ethically debatable sex with my morally ambiguous wife"

Bruce Wayne at Gotham Academy talking to two women, one of whom is smiling but extremely annoyed. Tweet over Bruce reads:
"Thanked a rival dad at the neighborhood chili cook off for making his mild so my kids could have some."

Bruce hunched over the batcomputer typing with a clenched jaw. Alfred looks on from the foreground. Text post over Bruce's speech bubble reads:
there are literally worse things than being in a saw trap like for instance openly expressing that you have wants and needs and are a real person

wayne family adventures + text posts: batman edition

its my bisexual right to make superbat and batcat jokes in the same post. btw.

(batkids edition)

+bonus alfred (tw suicide joke)

Alfred talking to Bruce, who is looking down and saying "Um..."
Alfred: text post by @1hoverman0K reading:
"(english butler voice) Will you be making an attempt on your life this evening, sir?"

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fractalflowers

1 week ago

Okay, We are all used to it and many love the current Bruce, secretive and emotionally constipated... And I know poor communication is a trope in their life at this point...

But, man, sometimes I miss the old Bruce, when it was just Dick and him, and Bruce didn't mind telling people he loved that kid like his own son, who tells Dick that he would rather lose his arms than him, that he couldn't even think of replacing him, who played with him and that was more important than anything.