actually the idea that Dick, the eldest, the only one who ever wore the cowl long term, the only one who raised a Robin on his own, is also the only one who can successfully, perfectly replicate that barked ROBIN! in Bruce's voice? the only one who can pull that exact tone from the depths of his soul, to the point where his voice is identical, so identical that old Robins like Jason are obeying before their minds even realize their bodies are moving? that Dick is the only one, has always been the only one, who can channel Bruce's voice? can channel Batman himself? I am going feral

Extra points if Dick didn't realize he was doing it because ever since his voice dropped when he was 13 that's the tone he's been using to yell at the Titans whenever they did something stupid. One day Tim does something during training, Dick snaps 'ROBIN' and Bruce drops his drink

his little thumbs up means everything to me

Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Issue #29 (1994)

MLK assassin's name on CIA list

There's an intriguing name that pops up in the thousands of pages of JFK-related documents released last week.

It's buried in a lengthy document apparently produced in response to a request from the House Select Commission on Assassinations in 1978. The document contains page after page of cryptonyms and aliases for people and operations. Most no doubt are familiar to serious JFK researchers.

The name that jumps out belongs not to Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, or any of the other major players in the saga, however. Instead, it's James Earl Ray, the man who pleaded guilty to shooting Martin Luther King. His name appears on a list with eight other people, but it's what's below the list that is eye-opening:

"were above employees agents or informants"

Ray later recanted his confession but spent the rest of his life in jail. Many people, including some of King's surviving family members, have said they believe Ray was either part of a conspiracy or didn't do the shooting at all. 

Source: MLK assassin's name on CIA list

Me, a history nerd with an interest in people of the civil rights/hippie era who definitely absolutely super duper weren't killed by the government, reading the list of names:

...you know, if they had daemons in DC comics, it would make absolutely perfect sense for Dick's to settle as an owl. Because of course a Flying Grayson's daemon would fly, and owls are as purpose-built for being night hunters as bats are, incredibly agile and silent in the air. It fits perfectly with 'Nightwing' as a name, and even has the bonus of an owl being a soft-looking, beautiful bird. The 'cute, non-creepy' kind of dangerous animal, a daemon that seems to signal 'normal person'. Until it swivels its head around 180 degrees and starts chittering, then gulps down an entire mouse corpse before puking the skull back up. It's a creepy fucking cryptid, but you wouldn't always know it right away. An animal totally perfect for Dick.

And the second Dick learned about the Court of Owls being part of his family history and 'his destiny' Dick would have a nervous breakdown over it.

anyways dc reboot never happened, steph is still batgirl she just has a cooler costume

Last night, Elon Musk went on Fox News and said "...when they attack DOGE, they never attack any of the specifics." Well here are some specifics that I, and many others, have been attacking for months.

BATMAN AS: AND THE CHILD IS RIGHT

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness.

The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

― Tzvi Freeman, Wisdom to Heal the Earth - Meditations and Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Detective Comics (2016) Issue #999

reds and blues

does any body want to ttalk about the character

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

I just have to reblog because it makes me laugh EVERY TIME

I'm OBSESSED with the Council of Nicaea. It's spring of 325. Christianity has been legal for 12 years. Constantine wants a unified religion for the Empire but the church has already schismed three different ways in the 3 centuries since the death of Christ, and legalization ITSELF causes a schism. They don't even all agree that being a legal religion is good. Now they're schisming about the nature of Christ. He can't persecute them into agreeing and Lord knows he's tried.

So Constantine calls all the bishops to his fucking summer resort, on the imperial dime. 280-318 bishops are going to argue about if the Logos (Christ) was "eternally begotten" or the first creation of God. Santa Claus is going to punch Arius in the face for saying the Logos was created. While we're here, let's set a date for Easter, which we also never pinned down. And we have to decide if eunuchs can be ordained because EVERYTHING HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY.

I've been to church conferences. I lose it every time I think about this. Bishops coming into Nicaea tired from the road (travel's a curse). Rural bishops coming to the seat of power for the first time. There's one guy who doesn't understand Robert's Rules and another guy who won't stop bringing up points of order. Someone's sleeping through all the speeches; he's just happy to be on vacation at the emperor's summer resort. The decision made here will form the closest thing Christianity has to a universal declaration of faith for the next 1700 years and it's going to take THREE MONTHS and we have to do it again in 6 years

I'm fancasting my Nicaea movie as we speak

i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

here is a little bat to banish your sadness

This nice little bat reminds me of this other nice little bat who was drawn in the 1200s:

This is the only website where I routinely see people say things like “oh this reminds me of something I recently saw from the 1200s”

to be fair, this is also the website where we routinely mock Sumerian copper merchants

100% dog thinks it is a big cat

Does he also sit in a box? :O

what's the problem? He's doing as the Romans do.

I'd be more worried if the cats started to bark, frankly.

– Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne

🌻 comm for gee! thank you 💖

Objectively

the best

of the

Star Trek

movies.

The best bit of the “nuclear wessels” scene, is that Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig literally went out and asked passerby. Not extras; genuine strangers on the street.

I want to emphasize: in 1986, during the Cold War, they had a man with a Russian accent thick enough to walk on wander the streets asking random people about nuclear technology. I’m amazed that people were (vaguely) helpful.

A WHOLESOME AND INSANE MOVIE :D

C I N E M A

Not my father.  Not my son.

These two sometimes. I like to think of it this way:

(Green Arrow/Black Canary #5)

“He’s not my son. He’s more than that.”

Aside from Bruce being afraid of getting close to people, I wonder if he is so cautious about “replacing” Dick’s dad because Bruce so reveres his own father. Bruce often doesn’t acknowledge that Alfred is a father to him, perhaps because Bruce, out of loyalty and sentiment, can’t give the name father to anyone else. Bruce seems to treat his father, and the memory of his father, as sacred. Sometimes I feel as though Thomas Wayne has reached demi-god proportions. Maybe Bruce believes Dick thinks the same way and is afraid of usurping the hallowed name of “father.”

Oh well. It can be difficult to put a label on love. Maybe Dick said it best back in 1970 (World’s Finest #195):

“I love him as I loved my own father.”

These two, indeed.

The interpretation of not wanting to replace John Grayson is definitely there, and is explicitly brought up in Year Three.  (Though I suppose it’s slightly different than what you’re saying in that it’s Dick expressing the sentiment rather than Bruce.)

But yeah, we’re talking about Mr. Bruce “I nearly bled to death on that nice chair in the study waiting for an omen and yes, father I shall become a bat” Wayne, here.  So yes, I think saying that he views his father in this almost godlike manner is pretty accurate.  I also agree about how this factors into why he distances Alfred in the way he does.

And I’ll raise you a Batman #20 from Bruce’s side of things. ;)