#doug thomas

[infrequentartfromnickie]

Look, it's not that many, as far as DC goes.

Poor Gnomon.

(Apologies for how bad this art is. I'm cranking out this joke as fast as possible before bed.)

#batfam #batfamily #duke thomas #the signal #bruce wayne #batman #Batdad #luke fox #batwing #doug thomas

[breadandblankets]

duke doesn't realize he's a meta for a while cause his mom can see in the dark and sure his dad needs light to see but he also needs reading glasses so clearly that's just an old man symptom

#duke thomas #elaine thomas #doug thomas #batfam #bread talk #i forgot to post this last night woops #anyway credit to my lovely snow for helping me with this

[millylotus]

I'm posting about the Thomas Family now because I can't deny the voices anymore!

Elaine has hyperlexia as one of her more dominant tism traits

You will not be able to find this woman without a book or writing in hand

Doug found it endearing at first but then he caught Elaine up at 5 am devouring a book under a bright night light when he came back home & decided it was probs not a great idea

Duke gets his reading addiction from her absolutely & his parents where trying to set up a proper bedtime but he'd always smuggle a book or puzzle book into his room at night

Doug has a big sister I'm calling Tracy short for Patricia who has a son Jay[Jay is canon although his familial relation to Duke is like just cousin with not much else said] short for Jayden

Doug is a couple years younger than his sister like im thinking 9 or so

Tracy had moved with her husband Alvin Peters & Jay to Bludhaven when Jay was little tho they would visit the rest of the family in Gotham as often as they could

Doug & Tracy's parents are Patrick & Lucinda Thomas & they are wonderful people

When Elaine runs to Gotham she gets a job as an archival assistant at a college library in Gotham, Doug is working on getting a degree in engineering & is immediately smitten with the pretty assistant who helped him get a textbook that was hidden deep in the library

In my head Elaine has Duke before she & Doug even start dating, & Duke is a a toddler when they do get married

But he's too baby to have realized that his parents hadn't been married before

That's all I got for this post but I'm definetly gonna do more, tagging this post spree #void&goldAU

#void&goldAU #millywrites #duke thomas #elaine thomas #doug thomas #dc #the signal #tracy peters #jay peters #alvin peters

[mistergreatbones]

Au where Talia gives up Damian for adoption like in son of the demon and he is adopted be Elaine and Doug Thomas

#leo says shit #batfam #damian wayne #elaine thomas #doug thomas

[strunmah-mah]

Did I miss something? The little bio section at the end of the DC Power anthology for this year listed both of Duke's parents as deceased. When did that happen? I remember Elaine was in the hospital finally recovering from the Joker venom in that one Urban Legends story and Doug was still missing I thought.

Like suddenly it makes more sense why Duke was so lost and angry in his short, but when did they die?

#dc #duke thomas #dc power 2024 #doug thomas #elaine thomas #also same blurp says the reason duke works daylight hours is because sunlight strengthens his meta abilities #which i definitly don't remeber that being the reason given in batman and the signal #but over that feels way less important then elain and doug suddenly being dead

[inamindfarfaraway]

A Batfamily fan PSA: stop portraying Duke as adopted by Bruce in fan works.

Unlike the vast majority of Batkid pre-Bruce parents, Duke’s parents are alive! They’re unfit for custody due to special persistent Joker toxin, but it hasn’t been conclusively proven they can’t be cured and Duke will always, always hold out hope that it’s possible! He will keep working to save them and bring them back to him and themselves!

Because also unlike the vast majority of Batkid parents, Doug and Elaine Thomas are good. They are really good people and really good parents. Their influences and teachings of compassion, justice and how to find the truth in a world full of darkness and corruption - with a theme of literal and figurative light - are a huge part of what makes Duke the Signal, the hero and the generally great person he is today. Elaine was a therapist who would visit patients as early in the morning as possible to try to see them before they had time to put up facades; Doug was a construction worker made to work at night to save costs and showed Duke how to see the cracks and flaws of the resulting rushed jobs in the daylight; Duke patrols in the day, embracing the sunshine as much as Batman does the shadows, and his superpower is literally seeing the world differently and with greater clarity and understanding through manipulating his perception of light. I cannot stress enough how important to his character his parents are. He loves them unconditionally and a facet of his vigilante identity is honouring them.

Furthermore, it turns out that Doug accepted and loved Duke as his own while aware they weren’t biologically related and Elaine rejected and ran from the ancient immortal superpowered entity Gnonom (basically lowkey a god), Duke’s biological father, to keep her son safe from him, the threat of his retribution nothing compared to letting him hurt or use her baby.

So he isn’t just going to forget about them to be adopted by Bruce! Fostered? Yeah, okay. I’m behind that. I love Duke living with the Wayne family. And is he emotionally Bruce’s son? Well, canon isn’t quite there yet, but it’s sweet and wholesome and I’m here for that relationship in fan works. But adoption is more serious, it is explicitly legally declaring the guardian to be your true dad. No way is Duke going that far with his parents a) alive and not ruled out of regaining his custody someday and b) unable to give their consent for it. I mean, we all agree with canon that Dick was fostered, not adopted, when he was eight, and only accepted being adopted as an adult once he’d fully come to terms with Bruce being his new dad without replacing his long-dead loving birth parents, right? So stop erasing and disrespecting Duke’s parents and their presence (even through their absence) in his life just so you can remove nuance from Bruce and Duke’s bond! He’s a Batkid, absolutely, but he is no Wayne - he’s a Thomas and rightfully proud of it.

#i am so tired of this #this is duke thomas 101 #come on #duke thomas #the signal #doug thomas #elaine thomas #thomas family #batfamily #batfam #dc comics #dc

[wolfsbanesparks]

Here's an angsty little one shot that I hope you all enjoy!

Duke Week 2022 prompt: Parents

Hosted by: @duketectivecomics

Summary: Duke visits his parents in the hospital every week, but all it does is remind him of what he's lost.

#dukeweek2022 #duke thomas #elaine thomas #doug thomas #batman #this is honestly just a sad little character study aboit Duke and his parents #i want to write a longer fic where they are actually cured and have to deal with Duke's new life #but i dont know when i'll have time

[ssa-inge]

When you wanted Aaron Hotchner back but you get the a bad Walmart version

#criminal minds #cm #cm reboot #aaron hotchner #doug bailey #cme #criminal minds evolution #thomas gibson

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I do have a job for which I am paid, but mostly what I keep wanting to do is work on the synopsis of my not-really-an-ofmd-au gay sci-fi melodrama (with gifs!).

#ofmd #taika waititi #rhys darby #green lantern #love birds #doug and thomas #it's getting to be a problem #if only someone would pay me a salary for this

[virgo-mess]

@karatekels said its "Time to rank TIG characters on where they fall on the dom/sub spectrum." So, that's what we're doing 🫣. I know I should be writing chapter 9. It's just been a busy week of kitchen renovation. So I haven't had much time to really sit down and write uninterrupted. I'm working on the rest of the outline for Chapter 9 now. Hopefully, I can get it and the epilogue to you by this weekend. I'm pushing Silver Bells out to Valentines day unfortunately but I promise the wait will be worth it!

So here is where I think these TIG characters fall on the dom/sub spectrum with little to no explanation. Feel free to dispute, though. Engagement is fun!

Evans- sub 🤭

Terry McCain- sub

Terry Silver- Dommmmmmmmmmmm

Cash - Honestly, I think he's both Dom and Sub

Valek- Also, both Dom and Sub

Neal Meekin and Max Parish- The subiest subs on this list

Gus Travis- Dom, ugh I haven't gotten around to making gifs of him yet guys sorry.

Luke Potter- Both Dom and Sub

Doug Brister-..

..... I think we know

#terry silver #thomas ian griffith #cash #terry mccain #max parrish #evans #luke potter #doug brister

[breadandblankets]

as a Normal Human Man™ surrounded on all sides by metahumans, Doug Thomas knows the dangers that metas can pose

metahumans will do dastardly things like "make puppy eyes until you bring them ice cream" "make you watch the 1936 horror film Dracula's Daughter and point out the themes for the 3rd time this week" and "squeeze the life out of you with hugs"

#doug thomas #duke thomas #elaine thomas #batfam #bread thoughts #idk shower thought time i love doug so much #he really is the Guy Ever™

[millylotus]

Another Void & Gold Post!

I'm going to cure Elaine & Doug of this weird Joker bullshit if it kills me & I'm making it a whole thing about why they're so difficult to cure

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Duke has been trying for years to both find & cure his parents, but for some reason nothing can fix them. All the other victims have made some recovery but they just wont.

His mom is doing the worst, she barely responds to outside stimuli, the only noise she makes are giggles & laughs. He can't even look her in the eyes anymore, they've gone so dull, lost that luster that Duke remembers her for.

His dad is a bit better, he reacts to more aggressive stimuli, always asking for help for his wife, begging for someone to look for his son. Asking for his sister & her family, sometimes even his long dead parents. His desperation & pain make it so hard for Duke to sit there & listen to him speak.

Duke just wants his parents back, but nothing seems to be working. He was almost going to resign himself to this being all they could be when some new information came up.

Bruce had been looking into the "why" & he stumbled upon it. There was something inherently different about Elaine's very being, she was human yes but a different kind then what would be normal on this Earth. Doug by close association with her had taken on a few of those traits.

So the theory of Elaine not being from this dimension was brought up as very feasible. There where of course some difficulties across the board.

Duke getting desperate to find some kind of information about his mother before she came to Gotham. And the only person who could have possibly known her is Gnomon, her ex [husband?] & Duke's bio dad.

So Duke's sitting in the visitation room of a meta-human prison staring down Gnomon, who looks like he doesn't give much of fuck.

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G: So you've finally come to visit, finally come to ask about me? D: Yeah no, I just wanted to ask about mom, not exactly here for your sob story. G *sighs*: Yes of course, Elaine must have kept some things from you. Especially considering how ill equipt you where when fighting me. Did she not want to talk about her past with you, even now that you know about me? D: More like she couldn't. G *eyebrow raise* D *deep breath*: Mom & Dad have been thoroughly Jokerized for a couple years now. Everyone else has made a proper recovery but they haven't. The doctors have come to the conclusion that something is fundamentally different about mom. We think it's dimensional. And you're the only person who knew her before she showed up in Gotham, so you'd know the best. *tense silence* G *mumbling*: Well you're not wrong. G: Elaine & I aren't, under a technicality, from this world. D: So you can guess what's wrong with them? G: Not with any accuracy, not unless & I see it up close. D *groan*: You aren't even set up for parole yet, & I'm not letting you out. G: Child it was never about anyone letting me out. It was always about when you & Elaine would muster up the courage to come talk to me. I can leave whenever I want. And if what you say is true, then you're Mother & Douglas are on a bit of time crunch at the moment. *D glares at G, who is smirking* D: I don't like this. G: I'm not about to hurt you Duke, I've done all I wanted on the getting your attention front. D: How do I know you're not lying G *serious*: Elaine was my first friend & love, you are my son, and you both deeply care for Douglas. Any harm I may cause to either of you three or anyone else you care for, for that matter, would only grant me your ire. And I do not want that. D *sighs*: I'll see what I can do.

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So science, not my strong suit, but a small passion of mine. Still not going to go in amazingly thought out depth of it

Gnomon is able to pinpoint the reason Elaine & Doug are taking so long is because the Joker venom used on them had traces of Nth metal

An off shoot of Elaine & Gnomon's previous home dimension of The Sphere/The Collective, so their immune systems where having a hard time differentiating between the invading Nth metal & Elaine's own energy

As is it has been a long while since Elaine had rejuvenated any of her powers

The simple fix was to reintroduce Elaine's energy still within The Collective

A whole adventure to The Sphere happens as a sort of Father-Son bonding trip for Gnomon & Duke. Something that I'll probably have fun hashing out later in another post. But in the end they get back, synthesis the cure & get it to Elaine & Doug!

Elaine snaps out of it first, quickly followed by Doug, a tearful reunion between child & parents ensues

Jay's there by his family, also getting hugs & tears

Bruce explains some of what's been going on

Gnomon's off in hall being a bit awkward

And that's how Elaine & Doug are healed! Hip-hip hooray :D!

#duke thomas #gnomon #elaine thomas #doug thomas #jay peters #kinda want doug & gnomon to be gay together #not breaking up elaine & doug #just like think about it ya know #your ex & you kinda make up & now he's dating your husband #your not confused it makes sense you both love this weird normal man who has left normality awhile ago #doug's just got that greg universe rizz #that human man making incomprehensible beings fall for him rizz #duke did not expect for this to happen #he's supportive but confused #imma make a post about this idea later i think #might not though #void&goldAU #V&G #millywrites

[mistergreatbones]

tw thanksgiving

#elaine thomas #leo says shit #batfam #barbara gordon #jim gordon #sarah essen #doug thomas #duke thomas #dick grayson #damian wayne #steph brown #cass cain #timbern #timber #tim drake #bernard dowd #jason todd #dana harlowe #tw thanksgiving #thanksgiving #look i know damian and dick don't live together just roll with it #neither do timber or jim and babs or jaydana just work with me its funny #god i hate how i pluralized thomas but whatever #harper row #cullen row #Also lmk what you think they’re making!

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@bixiebeet @spengnitzed @professorlehnsherr-almashy @inevitablemoment @janegon-forever @janeb984 @amalthea9

Harold Ramis with Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas in the premier of 'Strange Brew: The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie' (1983)

#harold ramis #dave thomas #rick moranis #strange brew #bob mckenzie #doug mckenzie

[80smovies]

#Bob & Doug McKenzie #Strange Brew #Rick Moranis #Bob McKenzie #Dave Thomas #Doug McKenzie #SCTV #80s

[starlooove]

Duke gets so terrified every time he unlocks a new aspect of his powers, changes his appearance in any way, or even picks up new hobbies bc he won’t be able to handle it if his parents get better and don’t recognize him

#and not just if they get better #they hurt but he’s not too worried about the insults his mom hurls at him #he’s not scared of the way his dad will stare at him for hours on end with that grin on his face-nothing like the way he really smiles #he’s terrified that one day he’ll go to visit and their eyes will roam right over him #he’s scared that he’ll be right there right in front of them #and elaine will still be waiting for her son to visit #Doug’s eyes will roam over him like he’s any random doctor or visitor #that they won’t even recognize him enough to hate him #Duke Thomas