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When I walk into a doomed by the narrative competition and my opponent is Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala

Dazai would be 10x hotter as a woman.

Have I pretty much stopped caring about Bungou Stray Dogs? Yes. Yes I have. Will Soukoku forever be that one ship that I adore and changed the trajectory of my life? Yes. Yes it will. Will I continue consuming Soukoku fanfic, art and edits? Yes. Yes I will.

I was comparing and contrasting the plot points of AFTG and Die Free or Die a Failure to my roomate and they just looked at me and said:

“What even goes on in these books”

And then I realized how crazy “Yeah so his father is a serial killer and he’s on the run and plays a made up sport and then he gets involved in a mafia war and there’s gay people” must sound.

funniest indicator of neil’s exy progression (& his development into his bitch self) is him going from ”nicky and aaron are sooo good! i can’t believe I get to play exy with them!” in tfc to being like ”nicky fucking sucks at exy and if i ever have to see aaron again it will be too soon” in tkm

Otome isekai mc be like

we did it! we beat the yuri on ice allegations!!

no but imagine being the Palmetto State track team coach and learning about this kid who can run a mile in four minutes and so you go and check it out but surprise surprise the exy coach from the shit exy team has him already so you try to negotiate for the player because he might be the fastest kid you’ve ever seen but the exy coach keeps saying no and no and so you watch this kid that can RUN THE MILE IN FOUR MINUTES become the fastest exy player in history and you’re sobbing falling to your knees because you could’ve had him in the track team winning you gold medals in the olympics but instead you just stare from your campus office as this redhead short exy obsessed kid runs laps around the entire uni campus for hours on end without getting tired and just wishes all hell on exy

I think I recall Nora saying that Andrew and Neil wouldn’t get married but imagine this. They get married at a courthouse with Kevin as their witness. They don’t keep it a secret or anything, it just never got brought up.

Matt: Are you and Andrew planning on getting married anytime soon?

Neil: We’re already married.

Matt: haha funny, I’m serious

Neil: Me too, we got married last August at the courthouse. Kevin was our witness.

Matt: WAIT WHAT?????? WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL US

Neil: You never asked.

If comfort show, why not comfort shaped?

can’t believe i sold my soul to the gay not gay firefighter show every thursday from 8 to 9 pm. oh well maybe they will kiss this time

any thoughts on dick haunting the narrative despite being very much alive ?

See my favorite part about this is that Dick doesn’t haunt the entire narrative. Usually when he’s mentioned in other people’s comics (roy,Wally etc) it’s something like “thank god for dick Grayson” or “gee I sure liked working with nightwing” or even “damn I hate the fact I have to do this but nightwing asked and like he doesn’t do that” the same way all the titans reference each other.

You might get a bit more reverence out of like raven? Or Clark? Casually saying Dick Grayson is their favorite or something

But Dick Grayson specifically haunts things that are literally in anyway related to Bruce Wayne (including Bruce) and it’s entirely their fault.

Bc to haunt a narrative one must not be accessible in the narrative imo. And every single one of the bats is too chicken shit to have a normal human conversation.

Bc like Dick does show up in other characters comics, he helps out in the birds of prey, most of the fab 5 have mentioned that he stops by whenever they’re lucky enough to have a solo run -DC GIVE DONNA TROY A SOLO RUN- he helps a lot of the younger teams, he works with the league.

Now GOD FORBID BRUCE CALL HIS SON WHEN HES MENTAL BREAKDOWNING.

Bc yeah he does haunt the Batman narrative. If I had a nickel for every time I turned the page on a Batman solo comic to suddenly get 2 pages of “dick Grayson, my ward the first Robin. My greatest achievement” spat at me I would have enough nickels to buy the comic bookstore

Or in a Robin comic “dick Grayson, the first Robin, he was the blueprint” like if yall wanna act like this pick up the phone and call the man.

Like despite what I and the fandom will tell you. There has never been a time where Dick and the bats weren’t on speaking terms (Jason excluded for reasons of murder and general bitterness) but even when Dick and Bruce hated being near each other -post Jason death- they could still work together.

They just decide to go “ah yes nightwing he’s great and he could probably help wish he was here anyway I’m not gonna call him”

People will bring up Red Robin but him and Tim were solid for like 99% of that so be so fr

Anyway all I’m saying is that Batman and his Russian nesting doll collection of ever shrinking robins need therapy and maybe medication but it’s okay I love them anyway

God forbid they ever kill off Dick Grayson because he haunts the narrative while still being a part of it. Imagine if he died? Oh lord.

Fuck it. Bruce Wayne x Elon Musk enemies to lovers no capes AU where Bruce Wayne radicalizes Elon Musk.

maysilee donner really said if i have to fight to the death im gonna serve rupaul levels of cunt while doing so and i just think that's really cool of her

Part of me wonders if Merrilee avoided the mirror after Maysilee’s death? Too afraid to see her sister’s face staring right back at her. Did she avoid the color purple? Too afraid to look any more like her sister than she had to. Did people in town continue to call her Maysilee at times before realizing their mistake? Leaving her with a stark reminder that while she’d always be a twin she was no longer a part of a pair.

Roy: It's so unfair

Wally: What's unfair?

Roy: How so damn pretty Dick is!

Kori: *Positively smug* Of course he is beautiful. I tell him every day. Sometimes twice. Sometimes all night

Gar: *annoyed* It's so unfair! The guy could literally commit a crime and just smile his way out of it!

Wally: On that note, sometimes it's a good thing.

Roy: What?

Wally: One time, we got pulled over for speeding, and the cop let him go because he "looked trustworthy".

Gar: So?

Wally: I was driving.

my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

I love thinking that Dick has merch for every hero he can find. Most of his t-shirts and hoodies are superhero merch.

As a civilian, people know perfectly well that Dick Grayson is a fan of superheroes, he doesn't care in the least about this, obviously, he's not the only one.

As you might expect, he doesn't actually have much of his own merch, it's not like he's his own fan. He just has bracelets or necklaces that he wears most of the time, simply because it would be too strange if, being a fan of heroes, he was not a fan of his own city's hero. So, when he appears in interviews and is asked about Nightwing merch, he shows off a bracelet or a pendant, even an anklet. Something more discreet, but something he can wear every day.

Like Nightwing, all the heroes know he likes to wear merch. He's been spotted wearing other heroes' hoodies and jackets over his costume several times.

If Nightwing appears in public wearing another hero's merch, it will boost that hero's ego for the rest of the week. He mainly wears Titans, Superman, or his family merch (not all the time tho, they get unbearable sometimes).

What Nightwing doesn't know... Is that there isn't a single hero who doesn't have Nightwing merch, even with how difficult it is to get shipments outside of Blüdhaven.

He only knows that his friends have his merch, and he always jokes about it, since he still thinks it's just to playfully annoy him... He can't believe how fanatical they are about him.

If I only knew...

Oh? Dick's heart stopped and he had to be given adrenaline to restart it?

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #124

Sounds awfully familiar 😌...

Forever Evil #7

Beauty is subjective... Unless you're Dick Grayson.

Literally the most acclaimed character in all of DC, the most noted for his beauty, and there's absolutely no one who doesn't consider his less than gorgeous... It's crazy.

And as a curious fact, he's also the character who has been most praised for his appearance, to the point that even villains have pointed it out...

And canonically he has no idea how attractive he is... Which is also impressive considering all the comments he gets-

Bruce has always masked his worry as anger, especially back in the 90s/early 2000s. I saw that moment as both him giving Dick some tough love but also him being extremely concerned about Dick and didn’t know how to express or even process it really. I suppose it’s easier to be pissed then to think “Oh shit, I’ve watched my son go through a depressive spiral for months and I haven’t done anything and now he almost got himself killed”

If only Bruce knew how to healthily process emotions 😔

Dick Grayson really gets the OC treatment in Nightwing (1996) and what I mean by the OC treatment is: “Just how much trauma can I put this character through”

Let’s go through the list

- First he decides to become a cop to take down the corruption of the police force; he basically swears off of sleep. He’s fighting crime during the day, he’s fighting crime at night. There is no time for this man to sleep.

- He actually ends up loving this job and even though he planned on quitting once the BPD got fixed, he stays. Just when he’s happy BAM! He gets fired after his boss and former partner learns about his identity

- Barbara breaks up with him

- Blockbuster learns his secret identity and decides to make his life a living hell

- He burns down Haly’s circus

- He blows up Dick’s apartment building, killing a good chunk of the supporting cast

- He’s pretty much homeless after this and sleeps on a fire escape using newspapers as a blanket and pillow

- Blockbuster threatens to kill everyone he knows. Literally. He says that if Dick so much as shakes someone’s hand, he’ll kill them

- He’s so severely fucked up about this he lets Tarantula kill Blockbuster

- She then SAs him (and it’s literally NEVER addressed??)

- Dick can’t handle the guilt and pretty much becomes passively suicidal.

- He has so much trauma and PTSD from this entire thing that Tim, Alfred and Barbara all mention something about him losing his spark

- He turns himself in but his former boss/partner gets himself out by saying he’s undercover

- Then he joins the mob???

- He pretty much pushes everyone away

- Then Death Stroke drops a chemo bomb on Blüdhaven

- Despite knowing that it’ll kill him, Nightwing continues to go into the wreckage to save as many ppl as he can.

- He passes out and is saved by Batman who takes him back to the Cave. He then gives him some tough love and talks to him about his suicidal tendencies

And that’s all I got because I haven’t finished the run yet but JESUS they put this poor guy through the wringer.

Oh that’s perfect

Idk why fandom decided that Tim was the coffee addict insomniac in the family when this is a legit quote from Nightwing (1996)

“Anyone who says there aren’t enough hours in a day aren’t using all 24”

Throughout almost the entirety of this run, he’s running on nothing but caffeine and justice.

Furthermore idk why some people in the fandom decided that Dick was the mentally stable one either because he’s pretty insane throughout this run. And man does he get put through the wringer, Blockbuster essentially psychologically tortured him throughout a period of weeks and pretty much destroyed his life.

I present to you: Karaoke night with the Batfamily

Steph drags Cass to do a duet of “Take on Me” Steph is jumping around on stage out of breath while Cass surprisingly demolishes that high note

Dick blackmails convinces Jason to do a duet of “Bring me to life” by Evanescence where they spend the entire song duration competing with each other, both absolutely devouring the song. They’ll pretend like they didn’t just perform the most iconic duet but Steph and Babs have it on video. (They end up winning best performance, tied with Duke’s cover of Shut up and Dance)

Tim tries to get out of singing but Stephanie somehow forces him into performing “I want it that way” by the Backstreet Boys. He pretends to be unenthused at first but gets way too into it and eventually he ends up hogging the mic for half the night

Duke is the ultimate hype man, and when he isn’t hyping people up he’s singing the FUNNEST songs. His cover of Shut up and Dance? The entire family was cheering him on, even Damian couldn’t pretend that Duke didn’t just kill that song. (He ends up tied with Jason and Dick for best performance)

Neither of them can really sing and end up performing a competitive duet of Smooth Criminal which was extremely off key . They had a blast but they would never admit it.

Damian gets really competitive with Tim and he and Tim end up having a singing contest. Remember how I said Tim ends up hogging the mic? Well whenever Tim isn’t hogging the mic, Damian is trying to prove how his superior karaoke skills surpass Tim

Bruce was enjoying himself but then Dick decided to do a beautiful cover of Slipping Through my Fingers by ABBA and no Bruce wasn’t crying! He just had something in his eye! He then decided to leave early in order to work on a case

Jason sings Staying Alive for irony purposes because he would never miss the opportunity to make a death joke!

Steph, Cass, Babs and Duke perform the frattiest rendition of Boyfriend by Big Time Rush

Babs and Dick scream Mr. Brightside at the top of their lungs, which frustrates everyone because they both can fucking sing.

Alfred refuses to sing at first but after the entire family insists he sings “My way” by Frank Sinatra and everyone’s jaw dropped.

Sometimes I think I’m a little insane because I’m so sick of pretending like Jason Todd isn’t fine as fuck but I’m such a huge Nightwing fan I feel like I’m betraying him…AS IF HE ISN’T A LITERAL DRAWING HELLO??!????!!???

Today as homework for my playwriting class, I had to map out a scenario for my play (which is like discerning the tactics my characters will use to further their goal) I said fuck that and just did an outline instead. To explain myself I said

“In an effort to stop myself from going insane, I’m doing an outline yuhhhhh”

I spent 4 hours on it, then I panicked because I didn’t want my professor to be mad at me so I did the scenario as well and turned it in with the words

Pls don’t b mad at me, I’ll cry, thanks

-Quinn

So in conclusion, I did more work than I needed and then begged my professor not to be mad at me. This sums up my college career pretty well I think.

“I hate writing”

- I an aspiring playwright says, staring at the blinking cursor on a blank screen.

(Someone put me down before I crash out)

Andrew Minyard better than me fr because if my blue eyed situationship said "thank you, you were amazing" to me after I gave 110% at a fucking stickball game and then immediately gets kidnapped by his serial killer dad he conveniently forgot to tell me about, and I had to learn that my codependent worstie knew the whole time through "gentle persuasion"...

I'd be on the news.

he’s a fictional character to you, i know him personally

Big fan of the Reverse Robins AU because not only does Dick Grayson deserve a break from his eldest daughter syndrome but also imagine Dick Grayson as the baby of the family? He’d have them all wrapped around his finger.