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the cosmic mistakes.

#comics #dc #cosmic mistakes #donna troy #jason todd #kyle rayner #photo #queued

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maybe if i was more normal abt bruce i would’ve enjoyed batman: nightwalker fully 😔

#physically mentally logically technically: this is an elseworlds story. he will not be the same person. obviously #spiritually: he would NOT fucking DO THAT #he in this case being both bruce AND gotham #sorreeeee im weird about this boy and his city sorreeeeeee idc about the romantic sub plots whateverrrrr [explodes] [blows up] #lit #dc #dc icons #batman: nightwalker #bruce wayne #text #tais toi lys

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somebody has GOT to get bruce away from morally questionable potential love interests

#reading batman: nightwalker (the novel). not good. but marie lu has some lines in her #i do think it’s so funny that bruce encounters a single girl his age in arkham and is just [agonized debby ryan hair tuck] #lit #dc #batman: nightwalker #bruce wayne #text #tais toi lys

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the lasers really bring out the red in my outfit.

#comics #dc #jason todd #red hood #graphic #photo #queued

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batman: odyssey (2011) #6

remember only one of them actually went to med school and got their degree and it is NOT the man dressed as a giant bat !!!

#GET HIS ASS TALIA #HEHEHEHEHE #actually obsessed with them so deeply. #comics #dc #batman: odyssey #batman: odyssey 86 #brutalia #bruce wayne #batman #talia al ghul #photo

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i need to reread the grayson comics for this but noting this down for future me: second person pov fic for dick as agent 37 smth smth loss of identity smth smth he can’t even be himself so it’s always You (narrator, reader) being somebody else smth smth intercut actual spy scenes with third person but never mention dick’s name in the narration

#one thing i love about spies . is everything. thank u #idc if this doesn’t make sense to anyone else this is for ME #comics #dc #dick grayson #grayson comics #text #tais toi lys

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Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.

Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.

He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.

Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.

But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.

Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.

Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.

So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?

Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.

Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.

Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.

Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.

Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.

Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.

But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?

Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.

Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.

So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.

Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.

At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.

The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.

Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.

All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.

Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.

But by GOD is he trying.

#HEHEHEHEHE #comics #dc #bruce wayne #wayne enterprises #text

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Smallville | “Tempest” 1x21

#they were frens :( #shows #dc #dctv #clex #clark kent #lex luthor #smallville #smallville s1 #smallville 1x21 #gif #queued

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“Not a whispered word is said, or they’ll send the Talon for your head.” 🪶

#oh WOW #comics #dc #dick grayson #talon dick #fanart #photo

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10 year old tim drake leaving hate comments on every single robin jason post ever saying shit like "i hope this fucker kills himself so the first one comes back "

#SOBBING!!!!!! #where were u all in 2022 when i was fighting the deepest wars in fanon jason & tim hell #comics #dc #batfam #batkids #batboys #dick & tim #jason & tim #tim drake #jason todd #humor #text

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i keep beating the giant bat-horse™ but so many characterisation problems are caused by fanon suffering from moral absolutism — that either a character is absolutely right (and has been wronged) or a character is wrong and commits nothing but harm. we see that with tim and jason especially because a lot of that content refuses to engage with those characters flaws. jason having an internally hypocritical world view or sincerely hurting others is brushed off so bruce and dick are then demonised. tim is condescending and dismissive to the people in his life and struggles to keep his ego in check, but he’s transformed into a martyr to make damian look bad.

idk like as a dick grayson fan i like to think im relatively cognisant of the fact that like…. he’s historically mistreated his romantic partners, he’s bitchy and untrusting and isn’t afraid to hurt his friends despite being a fundamentally good person, and he can be very difficult. it’s what annoys me so much about taylors version — where’s his complexity!! being good doesn’t mean u can’t make bad decisions!!

#comics #dc #batfam #text

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Cass has THE most complicated relationship with femininity in my opinion. It wasn't a factor in her life at all until it was a smokescreen. Cain had her keep her hair long. He put her in pigtails and a red frilly dress. The cute little girl appearance was integral to her first kill-- it was literally weaponized femininity that got her sitting on her victims lap, close enough to rip his throat out. Appearing childlike and harmless and innocent was wrapped up with girliness for her and it was wrapped up with violence. She literally wore it like she wears masks in the future. In her everyday life, she wore skin tight all black-- assassin clothes, nothing loose that can be grabbed, nothing colorful that can be seen. That was her standard. That was a habit she kept even in designing her Batgirl uniform. Because the dress with the bright loose skirt was for killing. Her long hair disappeared as soon as she ran away. In her intro, she gets blood on her hands and freaks out, and the next time she's seen, her hands are clean and her nails are painted. Something that Barbara had to have done, to comfort her, to show her something different and create a new association. And down the line Cass does ballet. And the bright loose skirt is for twirls and telling a story with motion.

#comics #dc #cassandra cain #meta #text

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Talia al Ghul in Robin Vol. 1 (2022), art by Gleb Melnikov.

#save me talia...... #comics #dc #robin comics #talia al ghul #edit #photo

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I hate Bruce's "I don't kill because once I start, I wouldn't be able to stop"

Like I simply do not buy it. Murder is not a potato chip Bruce. I think he is full of shit and a messy bitch who lives for the drama. I am certain Bruce has some kind of valid reason for not killing, but I don't believe that this is it.

#comics #dc #bruce wayne #batman #jason todd #red hood #joker #meta #text

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we r all just the tim drakes of this world….

#PREV -> #fanboy losers who love dick grayson #SAY THAT #comics #dc #batfam #batkids #batboys #dick & tim #dick grayson #tim drake #text

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"[blank] is the best robin" please be serious

#PLEASE BE SERIOUS #comics #dc #batfam #batkids #robins #robin #dick grayson #robin i #jason todd #robin ii #tim drake #robin iii #stephanie brown #robin iv #damian wayne #robin v #fanart #photo

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sometimes a family isn’t even a haunted house passed down for generations so that dried blood are now part of the foundation. sometimes a family is just three ouroboroses inextricably linked when they each started eating themselves—tail winding tighter and tighter around the others—and in order to stop destroying themselves, they would have to convince the others to stop too.

#op's tags ................. #bruce & dick & cass #FOR SURE. #exploding u into a million pieces. whatever #ouroboros #tragedy circle #dynamics #not dc #batfam #batfam vibes #<- i need a better tag for these freaks #text