goodness gracious i've been bamboozled

dick grayson and survival

(could have, wisława szymborska trans. stanisław barańczak)

Halloween's been over for 2 months ? don't care personnally. I made some brushes to help me painting intricate architectural details with minimum effort, and at first this painting was just to try them out but I got carried away... I didn't planned anything here, just pure experimentation, testing things out, having fun, intuitively building details in, I really enjoy working a bit mindlessly like that. would love to dive more into dark fantasy aesthetic, been drawing that a lot, I need to world build a bit more I think !

like. having his kind of mindset means you are either perfect or the worst, no in between

its pretty black and white thinking yes but its towards oneself only, not towards any other individuals irl

Reading a comic with Robin Jason feeling insecure about Dick being the perfect golden boy, and then going back and reading a Chuck Dixon Nightwing comic with Dick's internal voice showing how utterly worthless Bruce had made him feel when he was only amazing instead of perfect, will make you want to sit down and stare at the wall while quietly plotting Bruce's death

If I'm going to pretend there was a deliberate character arc in their relationship I'd say the turning point was when Dick went from passively suicidal after Blockbuster died to actively suicidal after Bludhaven got nuked and Dick was running around saving people in the irradiated rubble just like "dying of radiation poisoning by tomorrow sounds good to me."

Just a smols