I know the brain rot is real when my sister sent me this meme and my first thought was Dick Grayson
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Hate fanon pit-madness. not only bc it’s just a method to excuse your fav white boi blorbo’s active flaws, but also because I like that he killed people. let him kill those people. he did that. he’s a rapid dog and i love him. He killed once, he’ll kill again and his actions are his own.
#yes he did those things your honour#yeah I’m not a fan of pit madness as a trope#just let him commit murder without a Batman approved pg get out of jail free card of an excuse#I love Jason being part of the Batfam but I also think the murder is important to the character#let him commit a little homicide as a treat
In a way, it’s kind of hilarious how Dick became a bird-themed vigilante twice-over, since birds are considered unlucky in gypsy tradition. (at least in the UK, I would be super interested to hear if this is the case abroad too!)
Like, my family won’t even have bird themed ornaments or bedding etc in the home. If a bird ever flew in the window of your trailer/chalet, you’d sell it/burn it down - no exaggeration!
So the fact that Dick became Robin after his parents’ deaths, and Nightwing after the row with Bruce which caused him to lose his home again is kind of fitting in a weird way.
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Right so I might have some time this weekend, what do people want to see:
K so the results were ridiculously close so guess I’ll do my best to write the top two this weekend
Update: so I probably won’t have time to type up my reread summary (expect that some time next week), but I’ll try to get the Travelling Homes guide on here this weekend.
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The idea of Haley’s Circus being international is so funny to me bc imagine you spend your whole life traveling to all of these cool places only to have the worst day ever and then be stuck in New Jersey
What makes this funnier is the level of paperwork needed for anything international. It’s a nightmare nowadays that genuinely like 99.99999% of people I know refuse, and those who do go international only go to one country. So imagine you’ve put in all this time, effort, money; you’ve basically bled into that paperwork; you’ve worked your arse off to make sure it actually makes a return to make it worth it… and then you end up in fucking Jersey.
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that batfam circus headcanon that lives rent-free in my mind
okay so you know how dick grayson was literally born into the circus life? how he grew up surrounded by the lights and music and applause? how it was his WHOLE WORLD until that tragic night?
well my headcanon is that the entire batfamily secretly LOVES the idea of going to the circus. jason even checks the tour dates whenever a new circus comes to gotham. tim has notifications set up. damian pretends to be above it all but has sketched circus performers in his notebook.
but none of them ever suggest actually GOING.
because they're all terrified it would trigger dick's trauma. they've seen him on the anniversary dates, seen how he gets quiet and distant when certain music plays or when he catches glimpses of circus posters. they're protective af and would rather miss out than risk hurting him.
and the thing is? dick has NO IDEA they're all doing this.
he actually misses the circus sometimes. sure, there are complicated feelings, but he still loves the art form, the community, the magic of it all. he'd probably be the first one in line for tickets if anyone ever brought it up.
but no one does. so they all just... don't go. ever.
bruce probably has a file somewhere with "circus contingency plans" that includes emergency exits and distraction techniques just in case they ever do attend one as a family.
and if someone ever finally broke the silence and asked dick directly? he'd probably be touched they were so concerned, but also be like "guys, i literally still practice trapeze in the batcave, i think i can handle a circus"
anyway this is the kind of soft batfamily angst with potential for healing that keeps me up at night
Always annoyed me that at the end of Nightwing 1996 (I think it’s issue #153?) when Dick is listing lost loved ones who came back to life, he mentions Clark, Hal, Barry, and Ollie, but not Jason. Like I know that they’re not exactly getting on at the time, but I still feel that your adoptive brother/successor should spring to mind😂
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Your honor, I see no lies here.
#same goes for how the siblings treat each other#doing a reread of Nightwing 1996 lately and the number of times dick’s like:#‘didn’t you fucking die again?’#‘god I wish that bastard had just stayed dead’#they literally see each other in a crowd and start throwing hands#dick gives as good as he gets#and yes this is accurate brother behaviour
Doing a reread of Nightwing and honestly, I kinda forgot that whole thing at the start of Wolfman’s run with Raptor where Dick got buried alive and had to dig his way out and now I’m just imagining it coming up in conversation with Jason
Jason: yeah digging myself out was no fun at all. You start to feel all weird because of the lack of oxygen, and combine that with the mud under your fingers - a sensory nightmare. I still can’t touch mud.
Dick: oh yeah I get that totally. When I had to dig my way out, I remember looking at my hands and -
Jason: wait, dig your way out - when the fuck did that happen?!
Dick: yeah, it was just after that time you came to New York!
Jason: *bluescreening*
Dick: you steal my suit, I steal your shtick
So somehow I’d never read Dixon’s Nightwing: Year One (Nightwing 1996 #101-107) and I’ve just read it on my lunch break and wtf?
It’s so good? Not just from a story perspective (ok so angry gremlin Jaybin annoyed the fuck out of me at first as a Jason Todd fan, but the numerous instances of foreshadowing did have me screaming crying throwing up) but it’s low-key the best depiction of life as a showman/carny gypsy on the fairground/circus I’ve seen in a Nightwing comic, which is hilarious because it’s Dixon and smack bang in the middle of Grayson’s run.
But anyway just had to come on here and gush about it because I loved it
