If you’re writing the dynamic between the Batgirls as “fun guuurlfriends who have sleepovers and do each other’s nails” instead of “exhausted mom tries desperately to keep her chaotic daughter and said daughter’s EVEN MORE chaotic best friend/ambiguously gay life partner from getting themselves killed”, you’re doing it wrong.
Bruce is not hiding.
He’s simply…. giving Damian an opportunity to brush up on his sleuthing skills. It’s a warm gesture of affection— one that happened to involve him slipping silently into the den with a pint of chocolate chip cookie dough clutched to his chest. He’s beyond grateful that the lights are dimmed to the lowest setting and the loud, abrasive program Steph’s watching is turned up almost all the way.
This gives him room to be a bit clumsy in his getaway— er, teaching moment.
There’s a spot beneath a side table that sits beneath the shadows of the television. With his dignity intact, he crawls in and curls himself up as much as he can.
Freedom.
He gets five minutes of peace with the precious container of stolen goods. Three hundred seconds of nothing but sweet, cold goodness on a silver spoon. No complaints or demands. No pouty mouths or sniffling noses. Just freedom.
And then, the show cuts to a commercial break. Stephanie turns to him in slow motion, sees the cargo he’s handling and grins— wide and devilish. It has him holding the perspiration slick pint closer to his chest like a distressed damsel clutching her skirt.
“Why’re you hiding?”
“Not hiding.” He shovels a spoonful into his mouth, wincing as the chill sends a jarring wave of pain through his teeth. “Training exercise.”
She nods, still smiling. “And it wouldn’t help if Spoiler gave Robin the exact details of the thief that stole his last pint of ice cream.”
“We try not to encourage homicides remember.”
“Dami—”
He’s outbof his nook and has a hand over her mouth before she can finish. “You’re evil.”
She leaves a glob of spit in his palm. He sometimes forgets the sheer immaturity teenagers could possess.
“Get me Tim’s pint of chunky monkey and I’ll stay mum.”
“You’ll spoil your dinner.”
She raises both hands, feigning surrender, but there’s a spoon in one and his ice cream in the other. “Damian’ll ruin your face.”
“I never raised you to be so evil.”
“Bruce you didn’t even raise me.”
“Hnn.”
She makes a shooing motion with the spoon. “Go execute our deal, old man. I’ll protect your contraband.”
are you ever on your phone looking at gay shit and then your parent starts coming towards you, so you keep scrolling down to try and get the gay shit off of your feed and then realise there is no escape and you’re actually scrolling through a bottomless pit of gay shit?
Probably the best SPN vid I’ve ever seen. This made me fall in love with the show all over again. Huge, amazing thanks to starstruckspnenthusiast for bringing this into my life.
Imagine if Darth Vader had raised the twins.
Darth Vader rolling in to the local PTA meeting and arguing with the moms about cookie recipes
do you ever think damian looks down at himself and thinks that he’s bad luck?
do you think he notes how each time he’s finally gotten a parental figure they’ve left or died or forgotten him? how when he finally started to bond with bruce he got catapulted away through time and left behind thinking his father was dead? then how when he and grayson were finally comfortable with each other his father returned and richard left him for the circus? or perhaps how soon after he and his father truly started to understand each other because of ducard, after richard validated their partnership as the best he died, and how when damian was resurrected by a feat of pure love from his father his mentor was dead? do you think he remembers finally building enough trust with bruce to go and leave to fix his mistakes and how when he returns he wasn’t remembered at all? how grayson joined the parliment of the owls right after they reconciled in robin war? how as they reunited later, was pushed aside for the possibility of an unborn child when shawn tsang had her pregnancy scare? then shortly after how the happy couple broke up soon after grayson confessed he had felt like a father to him? or perhaps the fact that richard became ric right after wiping away his tears in the manor library and comforting him in the kandaq desert? do you wonder how he must feel as he realizes its happened too many times over to be a coincidence, and that the one connecting variable between them all was him? do you contemplate how he must clench his fists and have his eyes well up in tears, how his chest must heave and heart break as he comes to the conclusion that it’s his fault because he’s the only factor the tragedies all share?
because i do.
The fact that Snape is one of the youngest if not THE youngest professor is fucking hilarious.
Gotham villains: yeah I was traumatized so now I'm evil
The batfam, have more trauma in their pinky finger than they've experienced in their entire lives, largely due to being heroes and are still heroes: :/