Hello.

Bruce and Hal break up temporarily and the kids are now working together to parent trap them back together.

They think they're both being stupid

“Bruce Wayne slowly falling in love with Hal Jordan as he watches Hal successfully win over and lowkey start parenting his children one by one whilst Hal remains entirely oblivious to how much the batkids like him to the point where they end up giving BRUCE a shovel talk not letting their new dad go”

HAHAHA and Carol, too, a strong contender right there, I fear

Once in a while, Sinestro joins the table, and everyone has to give up their spot for the week

It's the scarcity that makes him undefeated still in that matter lol

Also, if you really think about it, Hal has broken every single one of those billionaires' hearts, one way or another, AND they still want him

What an icon

He has done more for the fight against Capitalism than all of us combined

#HalagainstCapitalism2025

An intrusive thought came to me after reading a 2022 fic on Ao3...

most (not all) that i've read, smeore is the batboys/Batgirl being protective of Bruce.... But what if it was the troops who were protective and jealous of Hal? Kyle wanting to keep Batman away from his mentor (mommy).

John wanting to keep my friend (sister) away from the grumpy family man... and his honda of children.

Guy who had almost had a heart attack when he saw Batman flirting with Hal (Jordan didn't notice)... How did Batman do that? He was just mumbling about Hal's ideas, but not letting anyone interrupt (his wife).

Now... the Bataclan... looking at their leader/father circling the pilot like a panther looking to eat the proud and brave bambi...

Sorry if this doesn't reflect their true personality, just my head thinking about a (not) married couple.

Pookie you got me at "Mommy" like half of my BruHal reputation is built on mommy Hal

Logically I think the Corps would not (dare to) have any problems with Hal dating whom, they are all adults, and they all have difficult relationships, partners, and traumas before.

BUT-

It's just funny to think that they would be fine with anyone

ANYONE BUT BATMAN

Keep in mind that during Hal's evil mother era, Bruce was the harshest person in the League, he was straight up a mean girl bullying Hal (rightfully but still) John even had to punch him for chewing out Hal after he was proven to be not as guilty as before (like, only 80% guilty, not 100% guilty yk)

Bruce (and many more, but not as much as Bruce) openly hated Kyle (the baby) for trying to replace Hal as the last Green Lantern. He was SO MEAN to Kyle like he just wanted to help.

At some point, hating on Bruce has become the favourite gossip of the Corps. Even Carol joined in at some point because loving Bruce is hard but hating him is easy.

And who always likes to do the hard thing around here? Hal.

I bet they are LIVID, just like us when we hear our friends getting back to her dickhead boyfriend. So they make working with them as hard as possible, also keeping Hal away as far as possible. It's a group effort that at some point, they just call the other evil ex-boyfriend, Sinestro to cause some problems right before a date.

Carol would be passive agressive af to Bruce.

John would always volunteer for the League's work instead of Hal.

Guy would be his normal self.

Kyle would lure Hal away from Batman with his big green eyes and "pwease help me (mommy)" facade. (He's a veteran at this point lol)

Like Bruce would see Hal in the Watchtower, fix himself up, walk over and Kyle would appear out of thin air, hugging Hal and luring him to get lunch instead of standing in the middle of the hallway being a Bat magnet.

Bruce, of course, is mad. He wants to launch some countermeasure plans but even the kids aren't on his side at all. No kids want to involve themselves in their dad's love journey ahaha (also half of them just straight up want to see him suffer in love, a little just because)

(Dick can be convinced, though) (But it's because Hal used to be his idol and he would very much like to have Hal in the family)

I have read many fics that the kids are protective of Bruce but honestly, with his records, I think they'll be glad it's not some super evil person that belongs to the Arkham Asylum. A little simplified but you get the idea. Also, they're very AWARE that their dad is, in fact, a very, very flawed, very mentally ill person, and if someone who's normal in the head wants him at all, it's a miracle.

(It's not like Hal's not a flawed, mentally-ill person; it's just that he looks like he keeps it together well enough on a daily basis)

(Good enough)

(also do you even know how many people want that cookie?)

if not friend why friend sha—

never mind

Minhkhoa Khan x Bruce Wayne x Hal Jordan

Like there's potential. Or I just read too many fanfics of both ghostbat and batlantern that I just mushed them together for my main au ideas.

Minhkhoa Khan x Bruce Wayne x Hal Jordan

Like there's potential. Or I just read too many fanfics of both ghostbat and batlantern that I just mushed them together for my main au ideas.

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) + TUMBLR REACTIONS

(I also do not want to imagine how many people would contact us to yell at us the second they got a 'bad' recommended fic. "I can't believe that you recommended this to me, you monsters!")

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Elizabeth MacDonough doesn’t give fiery speeches on the Senate floor. She doesn’t pound podiums, tweet clapbacks, or beg for airtime on cable news. Most people couldn’t pick her out of a photo lineup. But this week, she did more to derail Donald Trump’s legislative fever dream than any Democrat in Congress. With nothing but a binder, a brain, and a spine forged from 230 years of procedural precedent, she calmly gutted the “Big, Beautiful Bill” — and sent the Republican Party into a frothing, incandescent rage.

Here’s the part that should terrify the GOP: she’s not even elected. She’s the Senate Parliamentarian, the nonpartisan referee responsible for interpreting the arcane rulebook that governs the world’s most dysfunctional deliberative body. She doesn’t write laws. She doesn’t vote. She doesn’t grandstand. Her job is simple: enforce the rules, no matter who’s in charge. And when Republicans tried to use reconciliation — a fast-track process meant for tweaking budgets — to shove through a far-right wishlist of land seizures, healthcare rollbacks, and anti-trans cruelty, she read the fine print and dropped the hammer.

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” was supposed to be Trump’s magnum opus: a tax-slashing, Medicaid-burning, land-devouring beast of a bill that would reshape America in his image. It included everything from selling off millions of acres of federal public land to states and private developers, to gutting Medicaid for low-income families, immigrants, and trans people, to defunding Planned Parenthood and hacking away at environmental protections like they were weeds in a billionaire’s backyard. It was grotesque. It was rushed. And it was entirely dependent on sliding past Senate rules without a fight.

Elizabeth MacDonough was the fight. She reviewed the bill’s contents and ruled — piece by piece — that major provisions violated the Byrd Rule, which bars unrelated ideological junk from hitching a ride on budget bills. The land sell-off? Not budgetary. Out. The Medicaid provider tax cap? Out. The bans on gender-affirming care, immigrant coverage, and ACA subsidies? Out. The GOP was left holding a gutted husk, their legislative trophy reduced to a few tax cuts and a pile of redacted dreams.

This wasn’t sabotage. This was MacDonough doing her job — the job she’s held since 2012, appointed under a Democratic majority, and respected by both parties until it became inconvenient. She is the Senate’s quiet guardian of process, a civil servant who doesn’t answer to polls, Super PACs, or social media mobs. Her loyalty is to the rules — even as the people around her treat those rules like a hotel minibar. She doesn’t flinch. She doesn’t yield. She simply reads the law and applies it, with the precision of a scalpel and the force of a freight train.

And oh, how the GOP hates her for it.

Mike Lee, who tried to shove his public lands fire sale into the bill like it was a foreclosure listing, is already scrambling to rewrite the language and sneak it back in. Trump, fuming from whatever taxpayer-funded golf course he’s currently defiling, is screaming about “deep state rule tyrants.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune is getting asked uncomfortable questions about whether it’s time to “review” the Parliamentarian’s role — a polite way of saying, “Can we fire her for being smarter than us?”

Because that’s the rub. They didn’t lose because the Democrats outmaneuvered them. They didn’t lose because of public pressure or media backlash. They lost because a woman they barely understand said, quite plainly, “You can’t do that.” And when they asked why, she handed them the rulebook. And when they tried to argue, she pointed to precedent. And when they blustered, she didn’t even blink.

Elizabeth MacDonough has no political agenda. That’s what makes her so dangerous to people who do. She exists outside their theater. She answers to no party. And yet, she is currently one of the most powerful people in Washington — not because she makes the laws, but because she refuses to let anyone break them.

So no, she didn’t kill the Big, Beautiful Bill. The GOP killed it themselves — by trying to use budget procedure as a battering ram for authoritarian fantasy. MacDonough simply told the truth. And in 2025, that might be the most radical thing anyone in government can do.

Let the Republicans rant. Let them plot her removal. Let them rewrite their monstrosities and try again. But remember this: when the bulldozers were revving, when the Medicaid cuts were inked, and when Trump’s wrecking ball of a bill was barreling toward the American people — it wasn’t a senator who stopped it. It wasn’t a protest. It was a woman with a binder and a backbone.

Also when praising her it's important to note that she is not striking ANYTHING from the bill for political reasons. Her position is nonpartisan. She is just looking at "passes the Byrd rule, yeah or nah?" and we also owe credit to the Democrats who have to challenge every single clause that's gone before her to get it before her in the first place.

Also as of 6am EST on 6/30/25 she's STILL reviewing things because the GOP is STILL changing language. One thing she's having to look at is the new CBO score which the Dems are claiming means the ENTIRE BILL (or at least the tax portion, which is most of it) violates the Byrd Rule now.