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spite-and-waffles · 5 days

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This part is so important and heartbreaking and real

Good people make mistakes, good people make bad things. But good people tries to get better. They try to learn and improve. They try to be better next time

#kat?? reblogging my baby blorbos??#'we're all human. we make mistakes' -- dick 'if i'm not perfect everyone will die' grayson #classic parentified older sibling imparting lessons no one ever taught them and now can't internalize themselves #dick and damian #wayne family adventures #dick grayson #damian wayne

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spite-and-waffles · 17 days

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[mid-argument]

Clark: listen Bruce, I don’t doubt that you’ve done your best raising your kids but you haven’t really given them a clear set of morals beyond the “no killing” rule

Bruce: [annoyed] Dick, come over here and tell Clark that I’ve always taught you to be honest and kind

Dick: Bruce has always told me that honesty is the best policy. And that it’s important to treat people like you want to be treated

Clark: [pleasantly surprised] really?

Bruce: I’ve always had a clear set of rules in place for my children. Frankly, I’m insulted that you would think otherwise

-years earlier-

Bruce: There are two rules in this house that are absolute

Dick Grayson: [9 years old] ok

Bruce: one; no killing

Bruce: two; always lie to Clark if I tell you to

#incorrect batfamily quotes

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spite-and-waffles · 17 days

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[on patrol]

Red Robin: [sitting on a rooftop, drinking hot cocoa]

Red Hood: [lands next to him and sits down, pulling out a sandwich]

Red Robin: [holds out a thermos] want some cocoa?

Red Hood: [takes the thermos] yeah, thanks. [offers his sandwich] Want a bite? I baked the bread

Red Robin: hell yes

Red Hood: quiet night tonight

Red Robin: [humms in agreement]

Red Robin and Red Hood: [watches the skyline in silence]

[Nightwing, covered in a slimy substance, flies past them through the air as though he’s been catapulted from a great distance]

Red Hood:

Red Robin:

Red Hood: do you think he saw us?

Red Robin: I don’t think so

Red Hood:

Red Robin:

Red Hood: we can’t all be fighting Ivy, there wouldn’t be anyone left to fight the other criminals

Red Robin: that’s a sound argument. Say while we were helping him someone robbed the mayor, then where would we be?

Red Hood: he definitely came from over by the library, that’s way outside both our routes

Red Robin: so we agree that we wouldn’t be doing our job if we left our post to help with whatever that goop was

Red Hood: definitely

Red Robin: the mayor will thank us

Red Hood:

Red Robin: [sips his cocoa]

Red Hood: cards on the table- I already robbed the mayor earlier tonight

#incorrect batfamily quotes

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spite-and-waffles · 17 days

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Jason: what are you giggling about Replacement?

Tim: Steph just sent me a tweet. "Ever go to therapy just to flex on your Dad?"

Dick and Jason: *snort*

Damian: that doesn't even make sense Drake

Jason: yeah it does, demon-

Jason:

Jason:...actually

Jason:

Jason: *leaves*

Dick:

Tim:

Dick: it could NOT have been that easy all along

#incorrect batfamily quotes #spite waffle

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spite-and-waffles · 17 days

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It's private information

Dick: What are you writing?

Jason: The government wants to know what kind of weapons we have in the house. I'm letting them know it's private information.

Dick, looking over Jason's shoulder: This just says 'fuck around and find out' in calligraphy.

#incorrect batfamily quotes

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spite-and-waffles · 25 days

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plotting out the timeline of some of the horrible things that happen to Tim and my god the 2000's fucking had it out for him

Batman #618, Oct '03 - Jason comes back and slits Tim's throat

Identity Crisis #6, Jan '05 - His dad dies

NIGHTWING #110, Jan '05 - Bruce tells him Stephanie's died

Teen Titans #29, Dec '05 - Jason beats him up again in Titans Tower

Infinite Crisis #6/7, May/June '06 - Conner dies

Batman #657, Nov '06 - Damian shows up and tries to kill him

Flash The Fastest Man Alive #13, Aug '07 - Bart dies

Final Crisis #6, Jan '09 - Batman dies

Red Robin #1, Aug '09 - Dick makes Damian Robin

Over the course of 6 years irl, and almost certainly way less time within the comics, Tim just absolutely gets his shit rocked and I'm positive theres stuff that I've left out or forgotten

#Tim Drake: Even His Houseplants Die #if nothing else i love the fact that i was on scans_daily following this shit along in real time

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spite-and-waffles · 25 days

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ALSO the fact that tim drake canonically watches bruce get stabbed, spies on the titans tower, knows all of the titans schedules, spies on dick’s apartment with kori, breaks into dick’s old apartment, follows him to the circus, has kept newspaper clippings of batman and robin since he was able to read, knows what art bruce wayne collects, had dreams about being saved by batman and robin and y’all REDUCE his stalker tendencies to just he followed them and took pictures….. no. no, we need him crazier.

#crazy thing is that stalking and taking pictures for years isn't canon (much as i love it) but all the other stuff is #tim drake meta

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spite-and-waffles · 25 days

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one of those "Tim gets sent to another world where everyone is a lot more emotionally intelligent and affectionate" fics, except he finds it so unnerving and hates it so much he goes out of his way to start fights and get them mad at each other before he leaves, and when he gets home damian stabs him and he's like "oh thank GOD everyone is normal here"

#lmfaooo #crack meta #tim drake

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spite-and-waffles · 25 days

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the thing about ‘power hungry janet drake’ is that it could actually serve as a good prompt on how a woman in power during the 80s/90s was perceived by her business associates and acting accordingly to not have her authority undermined but they just use it to abuse ‘poor little meow meow tim’ and how ‘brucie is so much better than the evil drakes that lock him in the basement and force feed him shrimps’. powersuit, cutthroat janet but just as a facade for a woman desperate to cling onto her identity and yet still being perceived as ‘socialite jack drake’s wife’ and how that reflects on parenting tim, constantly being away from the trips and the duality of wanting to be a mother next to your son but also providing to him a safe future / loving your husband dearly but also feeling the pressure of the world on your shoulders and the underlying jealousy towards him for having everything she cannot simply for being a woman in the 80s

#what do you mean '80s and '90s #that's still what it's like #janet drake #legitimately so tired of Bad Janet Drake #and Bad Parent Drakes and woobie Tim in general #tim drake meta #fandom wank #misogyny

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spite-and-waffles · 1 month

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neither “that’s not canon” nor “fuck canon we made this all up” but a secret third thing (canon shouldn’t be taken as gospel but is useful as a reference point for building upon and recontextualizing characters and details. if you worship the source material as unchangeable then fandom in general probably isn’t for you. if you have complete disdain for the source material you would probably enjoy yourself more in a different fandom)

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spite-and-waffles · 1 month

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arcade night 🕹️🦇

#reblogging for tim's spoiler plushie #and the titus plushie #and jason's guns #he alone must always have the right to bare arms #batfamily shenanigans #fanart

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spite-and-waffles · 1 month

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i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

#FUCK YEAH THIS IS MY FAVOURITE!!#LED ASTRAY BY EMPATHY!! BECAUSE EMPATHY IS A NEUTRAL EMOTION!!#DEEPLY KIND PEOPLE PERPETRATING ATROCITIES OUT OF HORRIFYING MORAL CONVICTION!!#look idk sometimes a bitch has to stay sane by committing terrorism #is this Jason Todd? yes it is Jason Todd. my kind sweet homicidal murder baby #when a world has no justice in it all that's left is vengeance #tropes #archetypes #villains #anti heroes #storytelling

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spite-and-waffles · 2 months

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Jsyk DC is fairly pro israel and pro military and probably not a company you want to support.

I'm assuming you mean DC Comics. Lucky for me, I have never supported DC in my life, financially, promotionally, mentally, emotionally or spiritually. In fact, Ive spent most of my time telling everyone who will listen to never to read anything about the characters this piece of shit company is holding hostage that's been published by said company and read fanfic about them instead. Piracy is financial compensation for twenty years of severe emotional damage, and I have spent most of it eviscerating almost everything they've ever put out. Although that might be just being a comic book fan and a queer woman of colour at that.

The thought of you telling me that DC is part of military entertainment complex, something I've been shouting into the white void of fandom for nearly as long as I've been in it is cracking me up. How anyone could read their comics and not understand that they're a fundamentally conservative, racist, pro-establishment entity that hates women and minorities is beyond me. If you think people's hyperfixations and special interests are based on support and endorsement instead of emotional dysregulation you are profoundly mistaken. And just as mistaken to think being fandom translates to financial support. If it did, those of us in the Global South would either go broke or not be fans of anything produced in the English language.

#fuck you dc #asks #which of us is in the fandom because they like the fucking company. raise your hand. stay right there we'll call an ambulance

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spite-and-waffles · 3 months

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spite-and-waffles · 3 months

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steph sketch

#my baby #art #stephanie brown #steph robin

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spite-and-waffles · 3 months

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today marks day 111 of the genocide in gaza.

and i need you all to keep in mind just how dire the situation in gaza is right now. and to keep talking about it. now is not the time to turn away.

today i want to talk about khalil again. yesterday, khalil posted about how his aunt passed away and they went to the graveyard to bury her, only to find thousands of tents in the cemetery. the people living as refugees in rafah have been so jam packed that they’ve started sheltering at the cemetery.

in a heartbreaking sentence, khalil says “they are living in the cemetery, waiting for their time to be buried”. can you imagine the situation one has to be in to say something like that?

not only do the gazans not have a safe place to live, they are also starving and suffering from diseases and lack of medication. in fact, that’s the cause of khalil’s aunt’s death—bad food and no medicine.

the people of gaza barely have food to eat. the children have to clean dirt and insects off animal feed before milling it to make food. medicine isn’t coming into the gaza strip. there are pharmacies all around but none can help because they do not have the means to. why?

because israel consistently denies shipments of vital aid. in fact, according to the UN, israel recently added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into gaza. this list also includes other medicines for chronic illnesses are also not allowed [here is the full press conference for anyone who’s interested].

this claim is also backed by the report journalist motaz azaiza was making as he was evacuating gaza of a plethora of aid trucks waiting at the border to enter gaza. and for the little bit of aid that is available to gazans? yesterday the israeli military opened fire at starving citizens who were queueing to get aid in northern gaza.

there are too many heartbreaking stories coming out of gaza; there is at least one per person, in a population of 2.2M people. i urge you to not turn away from hearing their stories and facing the reality of the crimes being committed against them by israeli occupation forces.

whatever anyone else might say, whatever the verdict of tomorrow’s hearing may be… i want you to remember that what’s happening in gaza is nothing short of a genocide—a collective total of 33,360 deaths, and 64,150 injured. don’t let them just be numbers. these are people.

people who are not just being killed in cold blood, but are also being starved. they are being tortured physically and psychologically. they are being subjected to illnesses with no treatment given. they are being subjected to eating things like grass, immature food, expired food. read the euro med monitor report for the full picture of the destruction happening in gaza at the hands of the israeli occupation forces.

this is a genocide. this is one of, if not the deadliest war crimes we’ve seen in the 21st century.

i am so heartbroken i barely have the energy to type today. please call for an end to all of this, for a permanent ceasefire. and subsequently an end to the israeli occupation.

we cannot leave the palestinians to fend for themselves and continue being oppressed directly or indirectly by their oppressors and colonisers. this occupation must end. palestine must be freed in its entirety.

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please especially send donations to help supply aid and food to gazans. especially to the organisations working within gaza. it’s not like there isn’t any food at all. gaza is not a barren land. the food is just inaccessible and very expensive and unaffordable for most gazans (if you follow journalist muhammad smiry, you’ll see he posts a lot about the atrocious prices of food in gaza). so your donations help people purchase food in bulk within gaza and supply to the civilians.

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spite-and-waffles · 3 months

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—Lois and Clark, “We Have a Lot to Talk About” + The Flash “Grodd Lives”

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