Just a small octopus

BUT THEN MY MAN, HEATHCLIFF MARLEAU, LAID SHANE HOLLANDER SMOOOOOV OUT WITH HIS BIG BEAUTIFUL BODY AND BROKE HIS COLLARBONE AND CANCELLED THEM PLANS AND SENT THAT COFFIN STRAIGHT TO THE WOODCHIPPER

I knew the gist of the Spyral reunion from fandom stuff, but reading the pages and seeing the illustrations really homed in what a G Damian was.

Like, compare the reunions:

1.) Jason and Tim

The whole third page is some Eldest Daughter shit. And I can’t get too mad at either brother for their reaction (unlike #2) since Dick frames his entry into Spyral as a mutual decision, but their deflections at his attempts to explain really are rough. At the very beginning, it seems like he’s trying to elaborate, but they just fucking shut him down.

Again, not mad at them, because it’s a fucked situation all around and their actions aren’t too extreme given what they know, but the Bats of all people should know how rare it is for a story to be simple. They probably should have been able to try to understand what was going on a little better instead of defaulting to “you’re supposed to be better than Batman” and refusing to budge further. Like, YES DUDE. YOU’RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK. THIS IS SOMETHING ONLY BRUCE WOULD DO, NOT DICK. MAYBE QUESTION THAT A BIT? MAYBE SEE THAT DICK IS TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT BRUCE DID DO IT????

2.) Barbara

Okay, I am actually pissed about this one. Because unlike when Dick approached his brothers and framed the decision between him and Bruce as mutual, he explicitly tells Barbara here that he didn’t want to go. And she still has the gall to call him an endless disappointment. Fuck that.

I’ve read too much of Taylor and Dixon to hate her solely for this, but it’s a bad character moment to be sure.

3.) Damian

What is there to say? They both see each other unexpectedly alive, and the first instinct isn’t to fight or to get angry. It’s to hug. I damn near cried reaching this, especially after making it through the first two groups’ reactions.

I have never been so drunk in my life. it was 1 pint of madri and it was just all the bad parts of being drunk, and I needed to sleep it off and couldn't get dinner

so shane has to post the photo himself to prove that no, boston captain ilya rozanov does not have any evidence or incriminating documents on shane hollander

I love you, fanbases for indie cartoons with only a single youtube pilot

I love you, fanbases for shows and movies that were never made and we only have concept art

I love you, fanart of deleted scenes/scrapped characters from existing shows and movies

I've just been thinking.