Peanutbutter and Jellyfish

Roy meets Jason after the whole resurrection thing and they both hit it off but it's nothing romantic at first. They're friends. That is Dick's kid brother. I repeat. Dick's. Little. Brother. Who for some reason came back looking like an entire buffet and Roy is starving. Roy who keeps trying to distance himself from Jason because 1) Roy doesn't like men 2) he's nearly sure Jason isn't gay either 3) that's Dick's brother.

And then there's Jason who always had a crush on Roy that he chalked down to admiration when he was a kid but nope, Jason has had a crush on him since he was 12. And it's really weird for the both of them, Jason is pining after Roy like a Victorian tragic widow and Roy keeps getting this stitch in his chest when Jason plays with Lian and he misses him whenever he's not around.

Eventually, after a night on the town, they end up hooking up and neither can look at each other for the longest while. Until Dick finds out and he's yelling and screaming and both of them are like, "you know what? Screw him, I'm getting me some of that".

Neither of them label themselves as gay or bi, they don't even like dudes. They're just in love and sleeping together.

They've discussed having more kids, Jason wants to give up the vigilante life if they do and be a stay at home dad and Roy wants to move out of the city but they don't feel ready yet

They don't like the idea of a wedding but marriage? They're sorta married already aren't they? They get Babs to knock up a marriage certificate and they wear wedding bands.

Damian: I'm going to stop you right there. Jason is clearly a rough thirty-eight.

Jason: I'm twenty-six!

Damian: You are?

Jon whistled shocked. Jason took offense to that.

Jason: Don’t do that! I do not—

They started dating in secret not because they were worried about how it would he precieved, they just wanted to try out dating without the pressure

Jon made the first effort from friends to sonething more but Damian fell first

Damian is a forehead, hand and cheek kisser but isn't mad into PDA. Jon loves PDA because he wants everybody to know Damian is with him and he's so happy about it

Jon learns Arabic for Damian who is already fluent in Kryptonian by the time they start dating. But they eventually create a language for the both of them to talk so neither of their dads understand them.

Unironically whatever makes him happiest. Romance in isolation means nothing to me.

I should preface this by saying I’m asexual and don’t experience attraction. I don’t really talk about it (ironically, my asexuality also makes me completely uninterested in discussing my asexuality), but it also impacts how I consume media, because I legitimately cannot understand romance from certain lenses.

I cannot ship two characters that have only appeared once or twice together, let alone ships built on sexual attraction. If you follow this page, you know relationships mean everything to me. How characters interact, how important they are to each other, etc. Likewise, a “ship” only works for me if they’ve already proven to be important to one another regardless of sexual tension (which, again, I have a hard time grasping to begin with). And if they are that important to each other, whether or not they’re romantically involved is immaterial. It makes no difference. Who cares.

Like, I love Dick and Barbara as characters, and I love how important they are to each other. In many instances, some of their best exchanges occurred when they showed this while not being together in the late 90s-2000s. The fact that they weren’t dating did not impact how much I enjoyed those exchanges, and them dating later on did not improve any interaction compared to if they weren’t. In that sense, I love seeing them together, but if they maintained that closeness while Barbara got with, like, Dinah or whatever, it would be no sweat off my back, so long as they stayed as close as they were.

I love Dick and Kory together, but frankly, their exchange in Nightwing #138 far surpassed a lot of exchanges in NTT. Not that they didn’t have amazing moments in NTT, but this goes to show that I love their interactions no matter the relationship status. I love them together, but they don’t have to be together to be together. If Kory developed another love interest during whatever they have planned for her next, and that allowed editorial to finally let Dick and Kory have more meaningful exchanges (as opposed to how they are now, where’s it either complete separation or shallow ship bait), I’d love that too.

Hell, with non-canon ships, with Roy, or with Wally in the Teen Titans era, or with any number of others, the reason they work is because they have such a fundamental, complex, important, good relationship already going on that it wouldn’t be significantly modified if they were boning. I don’t care about the intimate part of romance, and what remains is very hard for me to delineate from other kinds of intimate bromances, I suppose.

The thing about ships is that I love both characters involved as individuals, and I love how they interact with each other on a page. I love THEM, whether that’s as a couple or as a bromance or as some other inexplicable thing, so I tend to like ships that give me more of those two characters interacting. That’s why I got on such a Dickroy kick for a while; because their interactions and care for each other were just so, so good, and for whatever reason it is very hard to identify fans of two characters’ relationships without it being a romantic ship. But I don’t need it to be romantic in nature. It just so happens that most content of two characters together online is usually with them together in a romantic capacity.

This is also why most of my fixations are on non-romantic relationships. And, damn it, Dick has so many good ones. It’s funny, because people perceive Dick as some kind of lover boy, but he arguably has some of the greatest roster of other connections. Dick has like a billion soulmates and most of them are not necessarily (or even explicitly not) romantic. I love people who fundamentally care about each other so damn much that it supersedes any sort of definition. I love that he cares too much, to the point of codependency and downright feral behavior, and I love how that caring too much is expressed with his closest people. It makes me feel things, aghhhhh.

Dick sometimes asks for the keys to get away for a while. Sometimes it's just him and Haley. He's been there on dates too or with his friends. But it's never the same as that one summer Bruce and he went, when Bruce and he swam in the lake every day, ate the fish they caught and hiked. Dick still remembers how sad he was when he woke up in the car at the end of the weekend in the car on the way home.

Jason rarely asks for the keys but sometimes he bikes up there to crash for a few days, sometimes to heal up or just to get away. He likes to read out on the dock or wander in the woods. But it's never the same as the first few summers by the lake when Bruce taught him how to swim and they went fishing.

Tim's used it a few times with the Titans and he's taken dates their for the weekend. His first proper kiss with Kon was at the end of the dock on 4th July weekend. Bruce stopped going up to the lake house after Jason died and Dick left. It was too hard sometimes so Bruce never really took Tim up there but he did go up there once to help Tim fix something and Bruce stayed for a few days. Tim thinks it's one of the first times he bonded with Bruce, not Batman.

Cass has been up there with the girls a few times but prefers to go up alone. She likes how peaceful it is, how she can drop her guard. But her favourite time was that first time when Bruce brought her up, when they filled the house with what she might need and left her with his number. It was the first time she was trusted to be by herself and do whatever she wanted. The lakehouse is a symbol of possibility for her.

Duke didn't want to go to the lakehouse at first, he's a city kid and there's fucking bugs everywhere on the lake and he wasn't sure about being around Bruce with nobody else to talk to. But it turns out the lakehouse is cool and Bruce is a lot easier to be around. The lakehouse is where Duke learns more about his powers and comes to term with what happened his parents. Some time outdoors, a long walk and words of somebody who lost his parents didn't heal him straight away but it helped.

Damian never wanted to go to some cabin in the woods. He's seen American horror movies and besides what so special about a hovel owned by his father? But Grayson takes him, much to his annoyance. Damian wants to escape, go follow the trail of some rogue but this seems to matter to Grayson. Damian loves walking through the woods, seeing the wildlife, learning about the medicinal plants. But it's never quite like the first time or the first time when Bruce came back, when Bruce spent the morning tossing him into the lake and pretending Damian could do the same.

The two greatest trained detectives, legendary minds of their own right, fused together to form a single, malignant brain cell

Also, “the old bump-the-baddies”, the “pulverize-the-penguin”, the hiding behind the door… aghghghghhhhh they’re so STUPIDDDDDDDDD

Whatever

The two greatest trained detectives, legendary minds of their own right, fused together to form a single, malignant brain cell

Also, “the old bump-the-baddies”, the “pulverize-the-penguin”, the hiding behind the door… aghghghghhhhh they’re so STUPIDDDDDDDDD

I bought some patterns online and I didn’t realize how hard it is to put the patterns together. Not cutting the fabric out, putting the pattern together. I have to trim every piece of paper (over 120 together) and tape them together.

I’ve for sure spent over 12 hours on just this part.

definitely been woken in the middle of the night to be told by one of the kids saying m that they threw up or had an accident

been told something disturbing like "you're old and going to die soon" or "there's a lady standing in that corner who says she knows you" while the kid is falling asleep in their dark, very empty room.

held a tissue while one of the kids blew their nose

stepped on discarded toys or tripped on sneakers left on the stairs.