live fast die young batgirls do it well

of course!!<3

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ALL THIS TO SAY my favorite thing abt duke thomas pre batman and the signal (hell even during the comic) is how much of an unapologetic asshole he is to everyone indiscriminately in a bad way. He was kind but lil bro was NOT nice. he was selfish and a dickhead even to ppl who cared and were really trying to help him. I really like to think that him getting past that wasn't dc neutering him but the active choice to get better after he finally found a solid support system. that being said, he most definitely code switches and has to CONSISTENTLY hold back from poppin bitches in they mouthes bcs hes past that! he's in his healing arc! <as he'd say.

femBruce wouldn't bother defending her right to be a mother because she knows nothing she says will matter but this would create different behaviour in her kids vs Bruce's kids. Bruce's kids wouldn't need to defend his parenting to the media because it would blow over/be seen as sweet (this only works because he adopted boys, a playboy billionaire adopting a girl would be viewed very differently) but femBruce's kids would be at the forefront of constant decades long overtly sexist speculation that would really piss them off and i think we'd see higher instances of them lashing out in their civilian life than we see with Bruce

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prompt 591 (brutalia w/hijabi talia) for spinninggaround via @dcforgaza ! requests close on the 21st!

The Batman (along with it's companion piece The Penguin) is actually much, much closer to being a deliberate mediation on the core dynamic of the character and the implications thereof, in a way I personally found extremely satisfying; it manages to strike a balance between portraying Being Batman as a fundamentally juvenile and half-baked response to the problems that he's attempting to address (real) and portraying Being Batman as fundamentally really really really really cool. Any time he's shown doing Batman Shit it's framed as genuinely awesome; it falls into a vaguely similar zone as Nolan, except instead of feeling like it's trying to be as little like a comic book as it can get away with, it's trying to feel as much like a comic book as it can get away with without having someone like Clayface or Solomon Grundy show up. At the same time the story is adamant in its thesis that even if it works, you would have to be an incredibly weird person to think of, and then commit to, Being Batman. This six-foot weirdo in body armor is the biggest freak in any room that doesn't also contain The Riddler. Everyone is a little on edge when he's in the room, and consequentially a lot of the film reads like an extremely deadpan comedy- the polar opposite of the camp of Batman 66, where everyone treating this guy as perfectly normal is part of the gag. Of course, this comes back around thematically in that Bruce is afforded his eccentricities because he's incredibly rich- nobody else could get away with ignoring their own finances (and the massive graft at play) in order to go ride a motorcycle around attacking muggers, and he only solves the last puzzle because a cop who happens to be in the room has a blue-collar brother who works with a flooring tool that Bruce (who spent an extended sequence vandalizing the incredibly expensive floor of his penthouse!) can't even recognize. If you can't tell from my tone, I like this movie a lot! Anyway, In terms of how I'd do it, I think the currently unexplored option is a live-action film where due to the cranked-up four-color peak-comic-book insanity of the world around him, Batman comes across as the only sane one, despite the fact that he's dressed as a bat. This would a story about a relatively well-adjusted if somewhat taciturn and subdued guy doing a thankless job, except the thankless job is Being Batman. He'd have the same ridiculous Bat-everything overpreparation as Batman 66, deployed with significantly less verbal fanfare but without ever missing a beat. The first scene in the movie would be him getting bodied out a second story window by one of the genuinely superhuman bruisers like Grundy or Clayface before regaining his footing and squaring up, and the rest of the opening would be a montage covering a Day in the Life of Batman. Kevin Conroy's deadpan, matter-of-fact characterization translated into live action. Do You See My Vision

"batman's kids" where's cass

but it occurs to me that it is even more true on a literal, out-of-character level. in the world of the characters, jason is dead for only six months, and out of commission for . . . what, less than two years? but in real-world terms, seventeen years pass between ditf (1988) and utrh (2005). that's seventeen years of various writers reconsidering and reexamining and reconfiguring their ideas of what batman should be, what he should act like, what kinds of stories we should tell with him. there is a sense in which bruce is not just different, but radically different from the way jason remembers him, in a way that he cannot possibly explain from his position as a character in the world of dc comics.

Raisins get tucked in with smoke bombs. Crackers between batarangs. One pocket holds only granola bars. She eats in slow moments throughout the night. It’s nice, sitting high, feet dangling, knowing she always has something.

— - Ask Chris #28: Robins, Robins, Robins [Comics Alliance]