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Ollie still doesn’t seem to like Damian very much. Also given the mention of Emiko being someone who hung out with Damian in this book hopefully it means we will get a reunion between Damian and his old team at some point. We still need some closure on that storyline. Things need to be made right. At least between Damian and Emiko. I still hate how they threw away that friendship/potential funny couple storylines with Ollie getting mad about who his sister dates. It could have made for some good entertainment. Even without that aspect them not even being friends and ending it all on such bad terms just left such a bad taste when it came to this stuff.
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Bruce and Talia in today’s detective comics issue!
Playful Talia? Gentle teasing between her and Bruce? Someone at DC remembering Talia has a personality that isn’t cold and mean? In my 2024? Thank god for Ram V!
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The Bat-Man: First Knight #1 (2024)
written by Dan Jurgens art by Mike Perkins & Mike Spicer
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Green Arrow #10 - "Riders on the Storm" (2024)
written by Joshua Williamson art by Sean Izaakse, Tom Derenick, & Romulo Fajardo, Jr.
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birdybat · 2 days
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Let Damian be an obnoxious little brother, please and thank you
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birdybat · 2 days
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The batboys have a weird approach to their masks…
Like we all know that the masks are more than just a mask: they are advanced communication devices, heat sensors, cameras, lenses, etc. etc.
But different versions have different capacities: canonically Dick has mentioned that Batman’s cowl has longer range than Nightwing’s maks.
Which makes sense considering the size and weight of Batman’s gear: as Dick puts it “this weighs a ton!”
For Batman, Mr I’m ready for everything, having such a crippling gear makes sense: he adjusts his muscle strength, his movements, his fighting style to work with that weight.
But for Robins, oh it gets ridiculous!
For starters, Dick prefers agility, greater visibility and flexibility over advanced capabilities. His tech is smaller, lighter, provides necessary technological assistance without being a burden for his acrobatics.
Jason followed the same route during his both Robin and Red Hood years, with a twist… You see Red Hood’s helmet is non-technological! It doesn’t have any tech on it… Jason still relies on his mask for the tech: the helmet is expendable! It’s a last resort hand grenade for goodness sake! And because he separated from Batman, his system is pretty lowtech: Bab’s highlights that a lot saying Jason needs better encryption and tech.
Tim, however, goes back and forth with favoring advanced tech and agility. His cowl? Has all the tech Batman usually has… With all the disadvantages… Later he goes back to the Robin-style emphasis on agility. He goes through the same process with his wings. Functionality of the wing, flexibility, help with movement and agility… Those “goofy wings” from Robin War? Those were TIM wings! His struggle to balance BatTech with Robin-Batics!
Things get beyond ridiculous when we get to Damian, Mr All Authentic Martial Artist! The guy prefers to work alone, hates constant babbing, goes on undercover off the grid missions, Lazarus Island, Superboy stories… What do we end up seeing? Damn paint!!! Just two circles painted on his face!!! The guy is like “Fuck advanced weapons! I’m an advanced weapon!”
Which is sooooo funny to me…?…
Like the most lighthearted Robin is the one that favors light-tech, the darkest Robin is the one that prefers no tech, the most Bat Robin fluctuates between BatTech and Robin-Batics, and the most explosive Robin (not sorry for the pun) literally goes for explosive tech!
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birdybat · 2 days
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So, there is a version of the myths around the Iliad where Palamedes (guy who stuck Telemachus in front of a plow to get Odysseus to stop pretending he was crazy and avoid the draft--we hate this guy) (or friends of his) spread some rumors in some of the commanders' hometowns that their husbands had found and fell in love with beautiful concubines, and intended to replace their wives/queens with these concubines when they returned home.
Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, and Agialia, wife of Diomedes, both believed these rumors, and reacted accordingly. I can't account for Agamemnon's character, I don't know him all that well, but I thought, wouldn't it be hilarious if the "beautiful concubine" sneaking into Diomedes' tent was simply Odysseus, whom a lot of my friends headcanon was not really able to grow a full beard til the end of the war.
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He's pretty proud of his new disguise, I think.
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birdybat · 2 days
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Main kings: too stressed to sleep
Diomedes: won't sleep unprepared
Odysseus:
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Diomedes: You see, Odysseus and I have the kind of where we finish each other's-- Odysseus: Sentences Diomedes: Do not interrupt me
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birdybat · 2 days
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Something I find makes the life and death of Achilles far more tragic is the fact that all he is is the Trojan War. His parents’ wedding begins the conflict, and he dies before the end of the war. His entire life was spent in something he had no control over. Did he know Helen? Paris? Hektor? The Trojans became his enemies only when he reached the beaches of Troy.
Hell, if we go by the Achilleid, Achilles didn’t even know what the war was about until he was sailing to Troy. A young boy whose birth produced an unjust prophecy that dictated the rest of his life: Live long and die in obscurity, or die in war and live in the minds of the people forever. No greek man of his time could bear to die in obscurity, but it was especially impossible for Achilles to do so. His father Peleus, a legendary Argonaut whose adventures would be remembered for millenia, his mother Thetis, a towering goddess raised by the queen of the gods herself.
Their child had to be known.
At Aulis the greeks call for Achilles, a legend before he even steps into the battlefield, and he is forced to go to war. And he fights, he kills, he ravages the city of Troy. A boy who has never even seen a battle in his life, living in peaceful Pthia and later protected by mighty Chiron in Thessally, becomes a machine specifically created for one purpose: To destroy Troy.
This is the reason why Achilles refuses to fight after the taking of Briseis. Unlike Agamemnon, who lived before the Trojan War, who had a wife and family before the Trojan War, who will leave Troy. Or Odysseus who will tell his tales to his son and wife after 20 years away. Or Menelaus who after years regains his family and rules Sparta in peace. Achilles has no life, no future, he IS Troy, more than even Hektor, Paris, and Priam are. Thus, when his honor is threatened, everything he has ever lived for has been taken away from him. Realize that before the taking of Briseis, Agamemnon mentioned takingthe “bride prizes” from the other greek kings and despite this not going anywhere none of them attempted to argue. Would Odysseus attempt to kill Agamemnon if his bride prize were taken? Would Diomedes or Greater Ajax?
And yet, after Achilles lives his entire life for war. After he struggles and suffers so much at the face of adversity. At the loss of his everything, Patroklos. At the slight to his honor. He spends the rest of eternity regretting everything he had ever done. Perhaps it is a mercy to Achilles that shades forget their life on earth
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aaaaaaaaaaaa the iliad/odyssey as cat memes aaaaaaaaaaaaa
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"You preening little bushtit."
(Tec 1083, Ram V the GOAT)
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birdybat · 2 days
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just a tad sick of this ‘damian wayne was a prodigy’ narrative. i think it debases his trauma and experience in the league of assassins. damian wayne was a child - he wasn’t born a weapon. he was born to be a weapon. it almost minimizes the blame of the adults around him - like he was taught because he was so excellent so young when really he was taught despite being so young. despite being a child.
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Ras Al-Ghul's name is so silly, why would anyone's name be "Head"?
Hi Mr. Head, you're looking stunningly ghoulish today! btw, I think that your daughter and grandson are way way cooler than you
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birdybat · 3 days
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Mommy issues (they love each other)
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Ra's al Ghul: Have you finally learned to do what is necessary? Batman: I won't kill you...but I don't have to save you.
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birdybat · 3 days
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"Damian looks like his dad! " "Damian looks like his mom!" I will give you something better.
I give you: Damian looks like Ra's Al Ghul.
Yes, it is quite the package. We have Damian who has huge side burns (courtesy of a post on here that i can't find) much like a certain someone, yeah? Add with that his green eyes as a result of pit influence, a lil sprinkle of that chinese heritage he SHOULD have, and for you, my friend, I'll even add in some stress induced salt and pepper hair, as a treat.
And there you have it. A younger ra's al ghul (in the making? 😉). Enjoy your meal. The payment? Oh no, no, for you, my friend, all the angst you can write is more than enough. Fair price, yeah?
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