Duke: Why are you slowing down? It’s straight on.

Jason: I’m trying to figure out if this is the turn or if these co-ordinates are off.

Duke: It’s literally down there. Look, big sign. Can your Crime Alley ass not read?

Jason: At least we can read the street signs.

Duke: You don’t have street signs. You have arrows spray‑painted on trash cans.

Jason: Better than the Narrows. You get lost and you fucking pray Killer Croc jumps up from the sewers and fucking eats you just so you don't have to spend another second on those streets.

Duke: At least we have streets. Crime Alley is just a string potholes holding hands and one burning trashcan.

Bruce, over comms: Signal, Red Hood, table your conversation or you can get your asses back to the Cave.

Steph, over comms: Get a load of this Crest Hill bitch.

Jason: Stand your HOA ass stand down, Spoiler. Widow Creek isn't that great.

Steph: At least we have running water and flushing toilet, Park Row bitch. And before you even start Drake, your Bristol ass is on thin ice.

Imagine.......When Dick is Robin, he gets into a fight with a group of gangsters, and a civilian gets injured. Panicking, Dick runs into the nearest convenience store, looking for something to clean the wound with. Naturally, the workers are very confused as to why a little boy in a brightly coloured costume is attempting to buy a bottle of vodka. They eventually sell it to him on the grounds of "Batman would probably beat us into a pulp if we said no."

Over the years, this happens several more times, even continuing whenever there's a new Robin. Convenience store workers in Gotham have gotten so used to brightly coloured children coming in and purchasing alcohol that when a new person starts working at one of the stores, no one even thinks to explain what the hell is going on.

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Store Manager: —and last but not least, remember to ask for an ID before selling alcohol to anyone who might be underage.

New Employee: understood.

Robin: *enters, in full costume and covered in blood. walks to the back on the store, before returning and placing a bottle of vodka on the counter with a thud*

Store Manager: *immediately begins ringing him up*

Store Manager, smiling: that'll be $20.

Robin: *hands over the money and leaves with his bottle of vodka*

New Employee: ...

New Employee: ......

New Employee: ........that was a child. That was a child in a Halloween costume. You just sold alcohol to a child in a Halloween costume.

Kon: Oh, why do you think that? You told me that you two had decided to tell them little by little.

Jon: Well... judging by the gifts he's been giving me, like delivering flowers to my work at least every week, new clothes, fancy watches, trying to give me a new cell phone after seeing the cracked screen protector on mine... My friends are convinced I'm dating an old man and he's my sugar daddy!

Kon: Oh! It's a really complicated situation, but... that would only solve one of those problems, Jon.

Jon: What do you mean?

*Kon answers a call*

Bart: Hey, Tim's boy toy—

*Kon hangs up*

Jon: ...

Kon: ...

Jon: ...

Theres this thing that happens with a few too many franchises, where the constant need to one-up and raise stakes makes each entry slightly more unhinged than the last. Until you reach a point where what started as a fairly simple/grounded concept has become completely ridiculous(see Dragonball, Fast and Furious).

@hat-stack

YAY!!! I’VE BEEN WAITING TO TALK ABOUT THOSE GIF FOR AGES! Thank you so much for the ask!

(here are some examples of some glitter stuff I did)

First of all, I really think that knowledge is the best thing ever, so I am going to tech how to make those gifs in this post. BUT! If you don’t have the time or just don’t want to, my requests are open for glittering images. Without no further ado, let’s start!

TUTORIAL

In this post we will go through the steps of making this gif:

Want to make cool glitter gifs like these??

Now you can!! (Pretty easily, too!)

Step 1:

Get yourself the image you want to use! The image should have a transparent background, but if it doesn't just use this super helpful website: https://www.remove.bg/

Step 2:

Take your image and put it over a solid background color! The background color you use should NOT be present in your image!

Step 3:

Open this website and upload your image: https://www.online-image-editor.com/

Step 4:

Now that you're in the editor, click on the "Animation" tab and you should find the "Add Glitters" option!

Step 5:

From there, you can mess around with the glitters until you're happy with your result! (To apply glitter, click on the glitter you want, and then on the part of the image you want to apply it to!) Once you are done, click the "Save" icon on the left, under the "Upload New Photo" button. This is what I ended up with!

Step 6:

Now you could leave it here if you wanted to, but I want to make this transparent so I'll upload my image to this website: https://ezgif.com/remove-background (note: this may take a minute or two to upload, refreshing can help this process!)

Step 7:

Now that your image is uploaded, scroll down until you see the options for removing the background. Now this part can be very confusing, but you want to make sure you don't mess with anything and only check/select the options: "custom (HEX)" and "Transparent background".

Step 8:

Now that you have those options enabled, scroll down a bit and click the "Submit" button! Your image should appear below the "Submit" button, and if you scroll down some more you can download the finished piece by clicking the "Save" icon.

Finished!!

Now you can enjoy making glittery gifs!!

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From what I can tell, there are only three universally applicable pieces of writing advice:

Read a lot (mandatory)

Show your writing to people (mandatory)