no nuance you have to answer

i think after rose joined the team in tt03 instead of being ravager and going on missions she should’ve just continued her tradition of living in the tower but not being on the team. like yeah that’s the girl that tried to kill us a bunch of times, no she doesn’t go on missions with us she just eats all our food and gets wasted in the living room and we can’t get rid of her or nightwing will get mad

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I think about this a lot.

may I add also “butt dial” vs “booty call” vs “bottom text”

Hand job vs manual labor

Tags deserved to be seen

put rainbow laces on all my shoes recently which is fun and sexy but has the side effect that i have gotten multiple "i like your shoelaces" from strangers and like. i cant NOT "i stole them from the president" in return. just in case. but its recieved mostly awkward laughs and looks of confusion. embarrasing myself in public out here over my damn shoelaces.

unfortunately a lot of the corny self help advice turns out to be true but the thing is you have to come to those conclusions yourself otherwise it just sounds dismissive and dumb

dc fic recs where the main character is asexual and/or aromantic

happy @dc-aspec-week! to celebrate, here’s a rec list of my favorite fics where the main character is aromantic and/or asexual 🖤💜💚

our love was built outside these walls by Shenanigans Connor Hawke loves Kyle in a clean simple way, but he can't help but think it's not enough. He can see Kyle look, can feel Kyle need more than he knows how to give. He can't find the touch, the words, to make the mess Kyle needs to be.

He asks the people he trusts for help.

E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Roy Harper/Kyle Rayner/Jason Todd

your most beautiful by holyarcana
“I want this,” he says, clasps Kyle’s right hand between his own. “And this,” leans in, knocks their foreheads together, watches Kyle laugh. “Our team-ups, and movie nights, and awkward diner almost-dates— I want those still, desperately.”

Connor Hawke and the art of longing.

G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner

if I'm being honest I never thought I'd have this by Poteto
Fives times Mia doesn't talk to Connor + one time she listens to her brother.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Mia Dearden & Connor Hawke

Self-Knowledge by Beatrice_Otter
A question of Kara's makes Clark realize that some of his assumptions about Kryptonians are wrong.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships

Unsteady by withthekeyisking
Dick grew up watching Bruce take countless women to bed for the sake of the mission, and to get what he needed from different people. He watched, and he learned.

And maybe he doesn't feel the same things the people around him feel, maybe he doesn't really like sex, but it doesn't really matter. Because if sex makes people happy, then why does his opinion on everything matter? It's not their fault he's broken.

M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Dick Grayson/Various, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd

10 Things I Hate About Sex by blueyeti
Damian felt like this obsession with sex and romance was some long con being played on him by the entire school, and he was reaching an untenable level of frustration with the irrational behaviour of his supposed 'peers'.

On a Bat Family movie night, Damian finally figured out the right question to ask, to finally get answers to why all the other teenage boys at Gotham Academy were obsessed with sex.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne

Nothing Personal by firefright, Skalidra
Jason's never been that interested in sex, except as a tool to help him get what he wants and a way to please the people around him. What he does enjoy, however, is the part that comes before it (especially being treated with a firm hand). Finding someone willing to understand and respect both those aspects of himself has always seemed impossible, though. That is, until Slade comes along.

M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jason Todd/Slade Wilson

Kerosene and Flame by Sohotthateveryonedied
Jason chews his cheek. How is he supposed to explain his sexuality to an alien whose first language is touch? Part of Kori’s culture revolves around physical intimacy, sharing oneself with another as a means of connection.

“I don’t exactly…feel things the way you do, Kori,” he starts. “You’re a very tactile person. You like skin contact and connection and…you know, sex.” He blushes just saying the word. He pushes through. “But it’s not like that for me. I don’t feel sexual attraction the way you do.” He takes a breath. “I’m asexual.”

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Koriand'r & Jason Todd

enough by sparkycap
After trying to make his son relive his violent death in Ethiopia in hopes of bringing his other son back to life, it occurs to Bruce that he might, possibly, have made a questionable decision in his grief. Again. For once, he'd like to try to fix it before it's too late. Jason may have run away again, but he's still alive, so Bruce has to believe it's not too late. He goes to find him.

Finding him in bed with Roy Harper and Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran is an unexpected distraction

M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Roy Harper/Koriand'r/Jason Todd

Reciprocation (or: Sex as Violence) by Honorable_mention
Sex was a lot like violence. It was all about who held the power.

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Or: Jason's always had a complicated relationship with sex. Despite his best efforts, it might finally be time to explore it.

M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Roy Harper & Jason Todd

Hot Chocolate and Fruitcake by HermesDay
"Tim," Barbara said. "Do you know what asexual means?"

"Immaculate conception," Tim replied. "Fact: the Virgin Mary was an amoeba."

G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson

A Thin Line to Thaw by Terminallydepraved
The sound of a chamber sliding into place shouldn’t have been a soothing sound, but in the quiet stillness of the shitty motel room, Jason found it just that.

E | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jason Todd/Slade Wilson

Your Name Carved in Stone by Cirth
“Think clean thoughts, Robin.”

It was an outrageously old-fashioned choice of words, and it took Damian a few moments to realise, with creeping embarrassment, what his father meant.

T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jonathan Kent/Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne

Think of Me by Luvo
“Any…life updates?” Bruce asks hopefully.

“Like what?”

“I don’t know. Do you maybe…is there a girl?”

Jason feels his face heat. He does his best to ignore Tim, Steph, and Cass snickering as he asks, “Seriously?”

Bruce looks down. He looks back up.

“A boy?” he tries.

Jason’s fork clatters to his plate. “Dad!” he hisses.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Connor Hawke & Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Jason Todd

Thank you for stopping by by Luvo
There's really nothing like running into someone you used to love when you were a kid. Before life hit you with all that it had to hit you with, when you still loved openly and freely. You wouldn't be friends now, probably. You'll think of them all the time regardless.

Aka: the first and last time Jason sees Rena after he comes back to life.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Rena & Jason Todd, Past Rena/Jason Todd

Playdate by orphean
Damian asks Jason for a favour.

E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Damian Wayne/Jon Kent, Damian Wayne/Jon Kent/Jason Todd, Jason Todd/Jon Kent

It's Enough Just To Make Me Go Crazy by morimaitar
“Why?”

Jason laughs at the strangeness of the question, or maybe just to ease the nervous tension in his core. “Because I love you?” he offers. Then, because Dick is still silent: “That seems like a pretty good reason.”

Jason has never loved like this before.

E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Dick Grayson/Jason Todd

we show off our different scarlet letters (trust me mine is better) by lostandlonelybirds (RUNNFROMTHEAK)
He gets called things, sometimes. Slut when Mirage tricks him. Cheater when Barbara tells others about her suspicions, her doubts and feelings. Whore when it’s a villain pissed he took out their goons and they’re aiming below the belt. Playboy by magazines, and bicycle by the younger generation because “everyone gets a ride”. They hurt the way most things do, and they each hurt in a different way because he’s broken and he’s tattered and he loves but not the way you’re meant to, because it’s not nature or an inferno or something out of a Greek myth. It’s not possession or jealousy or the need to lock it down.

It’s different. It’s not supposed to be.

M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Dick Grayson/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson/Other(s)

break your throne, cut your hair by dukeaubergine
Ra’s thought he could force Tim into marriage with an ancient magical artifact. He didn’t account for the magic recognizing his daughter’s protégé as a potential alternate groom.

Tim and Jason just have to survive the one-month engagement period without getting kidnapped, killed, or outed as fakers to the press. Then survive any assassins gate-crashing the wedding. Piece of cake, right?

…This might be easier if they’d actually tell the rest of the Bats what’s really going on.

E | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Tim Drake, Batfamily Members & Jason Todd

The Gawain poet, hitting a blunt: the knight was green. But more importantly I need you to understand how hot this guy was. Like so fucking hot dude

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tags courtesy of @lefresne

do you ever re-read your own wips like 'damn the bitch that wrote this oughta finish it'

this post aged like a fine wine

In MY very specific interpretation of Dick & Cass the sacred texts are Batgirl (2000) #29 and Gates of Gotham #4 like those two issues encapsulate the Heart of their relationship in my head and maybe Nightwing (1996) #81 too. In all those issues you see they're not super close but they have a deep mutual respect for each other, and it's the combo of distance + respect that allows them to ask each other for things they might not ask other people. Add to that that their relationship often revolves around Bruce/Batman and the faith they have in him - #29 is explicitly about this (since it's Murderer/Fugitive), but Gates of Gotham is too about grappling with Bruce's shadow and the effect Batman has had on their lives (where Dick and Cass are sorting out their feelings on the Bat mantle). Anyway these issues are crises of faith, and in these crises they turn to each other. And that is the crux of my preferred Dick & Cass dynamic, that they may not be close but there is something in their shared radical faith in Bruce/Batman that brings them together in times of crisis. Therefore Cass names 'faith' as the trait she shares with Dick in Batgirl '24 #3, because that is the core of their relationship and always will be.

In an effort to avoid supporting megacorporations, I shall now be posing questions directly to tumblr that I would otherwise have googled.

If Mayonnaise is just eggs and oil, why it creamy?

Because it's also evil

Thanks!

Have scientists figured out what dark matter is yet?

Yup! It’s anything that takes up space, has mass, and is goth.

Wow!

What happens if you eat 23 packages of peeps?

You meet god

Thank goodness!

What's the correct way to eat a banana?

Whole, in one gulp.

Delicious!

Who is the Muffin Man?

Father of the Muffin Boy

Makes sense!

Why is my car making a ker-klunk noise?

Car's haunted

Uh Oh

How to fix a haunted car?

Slam into a priest in a crosswalk going at least forty miles an hour

It worked!

Where does the wax in scented candles go?

into the sky, where it turns into stars

Cool!

Why are weddings so damn expensive?

priest has to pay for medical bills related to haunted car crashing into him

....Ah