I write bad Dick Grayson and TMA fanfiction on ao3 follow me @imtired_likerllytiredI literally keep creating and deleting accounts on this hellsite lurker since age 8
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Op I have 0.23 dollars would u like them? To make this show? Please? I have never needed anything more
I think Grayson would make an incredibly good 10 ep TV series but only if they leaned into making it extremely trippy. use Spyral's hypnos technology to mess with the viewer and create a 'who is who' mystery. it's only revealed that Agent 37 is Dick Grayson episode 3 and all of a sudden you're like "why is 37 talking to Bruce Wayne? is Batman in this universe?" 50/50 campy spy action and psychological thriller, culminating in a narrative arc about how Dick is using his funny persona to cope with extreme trauma. themes of perception and persona. aesthetically, it would draw on 70s/80s spy chic, flamboyant colors, music videos. lots of eye candy objectification of Grayson but then make it about his sexual trauma in the finale. strong first person narration where Grayson tells you he's everyone, he's no one, he's whoever you want him to be.
friend: so i heard you like batman
me:
me: are you sure you’re ready for this conversation
Dick is always 1 second away from a breakdown
And everyone around him falls into 2 groups
Group 1: you precious stupid man please let me help you I could help you so well. I’ll fight everything for you and get you so so much therapy please let me help you please
Group 2: bro that’s nightwing he’s fine literally perfect knows exactly what to do and when to do it. He doesn’t need our help we need his help
I love how in fanon Dick is all uwu jaybird has done nothing wrong I will do anything to bring him home and Jason is all fuck off you don’t love me, whereas in the comics it’s Jason who keeps trying to get DIck to join him and Dick keeps being like no, fuck off? You’re a murderous criminal why would I do that?
This art is my proof that no one would canonically notice how bad dicks fashion choices are until Bruce puts discowing in the case bc he rocks every thing he wears
a request i got for older dick grayson in his og robin suit
Okay listen I adore batsibling content in fanon but each group gets a different type
Gossipy more like friends 80% of the time. will shit talk each other but if anyone says shit they’re getting decked. It’s fluffy but in the “you know I love you right?” Is said really awkwardly after the other sibling is surprised you’re on their side way Jay and Dick
Sweet and fluffy I don’t like angst in this at all give me a very healthy very wholesome soft relationship that’s just good all the way through Tim and Dick
So sweet it hurts tooth rotting fluff needs the same taste as cotton candy with the weight of a brick Dick and Damian
Bratty younger sibling and anger issues older sibling get into fist fight and are hugging 30 secs later. Will punch each other in the face and then defend the other one against their parents without blinking. Damian and Steph
Very very awkward affection like I love you and would die for you but we’ve had like 3 whole conversations. Damian and Jason (on Jason’s end Damian’s a lil shit)
You know when your little sibling is finally no longer insufferable and you can finally chill together at family events and you’re like. Fuck wait you’re growing up stop that’s illegal. Damian and Tim
“I broke your laptop”
“Yeah well I put nair in your shampoo”
“I should’ve killed you at the tower”
“Don’t be a lil bitch bc you couldn’t handle the gig”
Jason and Tim
Supportive big brother who brags about his sisters achievements while being a lil worried she’ll beat him and no one will ever need him again and baby sister who tries so hard and does so well and hopes she’s living up to their expectations (dick and cass)
I’m friends with your ex now and so sometimes I’ll bring it up to fuck with you bc I think it’s funny energy like Steph tells Cass about what Tim has done during their relationship and Cass who loves Tim but also women has to affectionately beat him up now (Tim and Cass)
Cass and Damian? I don’t think I’ve ever seen these too interact in a fic where Cass can speak actually…. Fuck we need more baby Assassins squared content in this fandom
Let us commiserate on the absolute cringe of everyone else here without acknowledging we are just as bad (dick and Steph)
Cass doesn’t like Jason and so I will leave them out
Remember these aren’t their canon relationships these are just what I like to read in fanon (inspired by their canon relationships in most cases but also fully canon with dick and Tim we ignore any authors who say otherwise my babies)
dick grayson to bruce wayne
Bats on Christmas (where are they?)
Dick: with the titans, has been pleasantly buzzed since 8 am. Phone has been off since midnight. Ate his weight in Christmas dinner and candy. Will meet each of his siblings one on one every day after (Jason and him get shitfaced on new years) but currently his head is on Donna’s lap and his legs are on Roy’s and he’s in a constant state of almost sleepy bliss (no one is dead shush)
Jason: binging Xmas movies him and mom used to watch at his apartment. Alfred sent him a full spread (listen in my country we do turkey and fix ins for Xmas idk what Americans do on Xmas) and he’s just been enjoying a quiet day in a nice apartment (bc I refuse to acknowledge or accept anyone being ok with Jay not having a nice warm apartment. If Dick Gave him a safe house he bought with mob money or he actually kept his drug lord money idc he has a very pretty apartment idcidc)
Tim: with Steph and Bernard, they’re shit talking him to bond, him and dick will meet and exchange presents the day after Xmas and he’s panicking bc he completely forgot to buy dick a gift so the three of them are at the mall while Tim gets increasingly worried
Damian: mad he’s not with Dick, at the Kent’s instead. Got the most presents bc all his siblings gave him stuff and both Dick and Bruce bought way too much stuff
Bruce: doesn’t do anything for Xmas and hasn’t since Jason died. His mom was Jewish so until the kids it just wasn’t a good time for him (for obvious reasons) and now his kids don’t really come home so he had a very peaceful night in and unlike literally any other time Christmas is surprisingly quiet in Gotham.
Steph: has collected a bunch of embarrassing Tim photos and is showing and telling Bernard info Tim wouldn’t let be known on his death bed while Tim is panicking over dicks gift. She spent Xmas eve with her mom so now she’s just chilling bc she already bought Dick, Cass, Damian and Tim gifts so she’s safe.
Cass: with babs since her dad has to work they’re having a very small and quaint Xmas together but it’s nice and them
Alfred: actually goes to mass
Listen my moms Muslim my dads Christian I was raised agnostic but still it doesn’t matter everyone can use the capitalist holiday to eat a fuck ton of food and day drink
Merry winter time
Tim Drake fans who shit on Dick Grayson are just as baffling like that’s his emotional support hyperfixation turned sibling excuse me
dick grayson fans who shit on tim drake are so baffling 2 me like that's his little guy excuse me
Hermes, a god: No mortal eyes can comprehend me, I am beyond their abilities to-- Wally, a human, coming in with snacks: o hi Hermes a;sdlkfj; I love it when comics gently make fun of trying to take themselves too seriously.
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I feel like there are 10 flavors of shippers in this fandom
- no you can’t ship that ship?? It’s so problematic (there is a 2 year age gap)
- yeah Bruce prolly fucks his kids who also fuck each other
- why are you shipping fanon?? Why does everything have to be gay?? Enough with the gay stuff
- problematic non incest ships (slade Wilson and Dick, Talia and Jason, Tim and Ra’s) I call this one the Freud would sell his soul to interview you tier
- stuck on one ship that hasn’t been canon in years or only happened in a tv show or else world story
- Batkids x miraculous ladybug or Danny phantom
- why love triangle when they can all hold hands (everything is a polycule)
-why love triangle when the women can just date each other and abandon the mediocre man (gayyay subgenre exists where the women leave their boyfriends to date each other and then the boyfriends also date each other)
- quietly ships current canon and lives their lives
-all queer ships, canon! Fanon! Who cares? Two bisexuals of opposite genders is fine but it has to have pizzaz
Tag yourself or add anything that I missed!
I’m about to dox myself but I started reading comics in 2018 bc I had realized teen titans robin my first crush was the same robin as young justice robin my second crush (i then found out that this robin was part of the Batman animated series that i watched in poorly dubbed Arabic at my grandmas thank you spacetoon) so I started looking for fanon content by reading fanfiction and then I found out they had comic books much later and started going “what’s the comic where character did this” and then proceeded to read as much of that until I got bored or find out it was fanon and and then went back to fanfiction until I found something new to hyper fixate on.
Here are some examples
“What was the comic where Jason came back to life”
“What comic did Dick Grayson become nightwing”
“Does dick canonically hate Jason Todd Reddit”
“Comic where Tim plays baseball to save a planet”
“Comic with mirage introduction”
“Comic with tarantula”
“Best comic to start nightwing”
“Is redhood better than nightwing in a fight Reddit”
“Does Artemis crock exist in comics”
“Why is nightwing on every pride cover but he won’t kiss Wally west” (this I didn’t search im just mad about it)
Also thank you Reddit assholes with a need to be hyper specific when arguing these dudes weren’t just naming issues they were like “obviously you didn’t read page 12 of Batman #571 where is states”
Anyway all of this to say there is no correct way to start reading if you only wanna read redhood or new 52 or pre-crisis
If you wanna stick to one character or hop from person to person
Or avoid the bats entirely (good luck it’s impossible they r everywhere unless it’s a female bat)
(Instead of fixing this we should just add Steph into every comic book forever she deserves it)
It’s fine
It’s really not the stressful as long as we all agree that DCs animated content is way better than the live action stuff
Being a Bruce Wayne good dad truther is so hard when you love angst and also canon.
Bc I ignore bad canon
But the angst potential of RHAO? Of Tim’s 16th birthday? Of HOW HE SPOKE TO DAMIAN POST ALFRED? CAN I COME HOME BRUCE PLEASE? Dick and Bruce post Jays death “leave your keys with Alfred”
Yeah so so so so good I fear
So fun
Much pain
But also
I love Bruce so much and he loves his kids so so so much and so one part of me is ready to ignore it way I ignore nightwing cheating on Kori with babs, babs character during Devin Graysons run, Jason’s first costume and Tim’s cowl. By going MY BABY WOULD NEVER STOP TJE SLANDER
but also
It’s just
So good
I draw the line at Batman and Robin all star that shits just weird btw wtf was going on with Bruce that run??
Full on groomer allegations
Random headcanon number 20207483927
-Dick doesn’t spy on his families teams
Because he doesn’t need too
They’ll either tell him what’s happening
Or their teammates will
He’s friends with 80% of them anyway
Jason Todd was honest to god on a team with Dicks Ex who still adores him and starfire /j
No but really Roy and Kori 100% have doxxed Jason’s entire life to Dick Grayson
A) bc I will ignore any canon where these 3 aren’t close
B) Kori has never had a filter ever
C) Dick absolutely has indoctrinated the fab 5 into mission reports and now they feel weird without a debrief
D) Roy would find giving Dick and ulcer over the stupid shit his brother does hilarious
E) Roy would find giving dick and ulcer over the stupid shit HE does so so so fulfilling (revenge)
Damian is on the Titans.
No matter what titans generation of titans it is they’re responding to Nightwings status report request, fully detailed in MLA format with a reference list following APA 7 guidelines
Dick does not have to worry about young justice despite the fact they are very much NOT snitches bc Tim absolutely calls Dick and Doxxes his entire life story to him once a week minimum
(See Tim telling Dick random shit in the comics causing him to lose his balance and fall a compilation Im sure exists)
Both Clark and Wally are on the justice league. Bruce’s every dangerous move is reported to Dick via Clark and all his stupid ones are reported to Dick via Wally.
No matter how weird Dick and Babs relationship (on again, besties, off again, not talking etc) is she’s absolutely telling him either via concise email or 7 hour long sip and bitch session every single thing that happens not for help but bc ughhh wtf is happening.
Now frustratingly the same is not reciprocated
Bc
“Donna or Garth would kill me” -Roy
“*graphic details of sexcapades to distract from question*”-Kori
“Nightwing is busy” -oracle (babs just leaves when asked as a civilian)
“I’m sorry it’s just so hard to not talk to him okay?? He’s so nice” -Jon during supersons
“He’s my friend too, I can tell him what I want” current jon
“Listen he barely talks to me as it is I’d rather he still come to me with issues and insecurities without worrying his father will hear it” -Clark
“If you think I’m saying shit to you, you’re in idiot, if anything was wrong and I told you you’d make it worse go fuck yourself” -Wally
(OG Bruce Wayne hater of titans. him and Roy do fight over this title at the titans new years. Wally thinks Roy lost his place bc he found a new bird to be mad at the bat over so his timeline should shrink. Roy thinks this is bullshit bc now he hates Bruce for reasons of bird^2)
Damian Wayne is canonically an artsy animal loving nerd with mild to moderate anger issues expected of a 10 year of child or divorce.
Like I’m supposed to believe he’s cruel bc he has a sword? I’m pretty sure at age 10 sword was also on my Christmas list okay I don’t judge?
And honestly who hasn’t tried to kill Tim Drake (except dick) it’s their love language
He’s also like 15 now (which is crazy) so obviously he’s not as wild as when he first hopped on the scene.
Avid Damian Wayne haters must be SEETHING rn.
Like imagine mischaracterizing this character as angry, ‘feral’, evil, the worst, and then finding out one of their hobbies (outside of literally saving and helping people as a vigilante) is VOLUNTEERING AT A HOSPITAL.
The eternal dichotomy of hating how Alfred pennyworth spoke about and to a young Dick Grayson
Vs
Loving how he talks about adult Dick Grayson and all forms of Damian Wayne
Dick now the same age Bruce was when he was adopted, now executing 20 perfect backflips in a row:
Jason, 6 years younger than him with actual magic unable to stand up without joint pain: …what the fuck
Bruce: mhm
Jason: this is so unfair
Bruce: finally we agree on something my boy
Jason tearing up: shut the fuck up
Dick on his hands:
Alfred, grabbing an ice pack: "Honestly Master Bruce, what were you thinking trying to keep up with a ten year old?"
Battinson, impatiently batting away the icepack: "Alfred I'm in my prime--" *all joints crack as he stands up*
Dick, completer of ten back flips in a row: "That didn't sound good."
Nvm I’ve somehow clutched a pass I will learn nothing from this stressful lesson
Who let me reread outsiders (2003) instead of studying for my finals. I’m crying all over my laptop
Dick Grayson absolutely pulled off the mullet and the suit and we all know it stop lying to yourselves
Things I think about late at night
-discowing was Dicks dads costume
-the mullet everyone cracks jokes about (same) was given to him my mirage
- the OG Robin costume was based on his parents and his circus costumes and now it’s black, gray and orange
- Jason Todd’s biggest fear is not living up to Dick Grayson (in Bruce’s eyes)
- Damian Wayne’s biggest fear is disappointing Dick Grayson
- DC tried to make Dick and Donna a thing (no..just no)
-Dick and Damian both have a compulsive need to pick up strays (is this Bruce’s fault or did they bond over this?)
- Tim Drake is so cool in the comics and I wasted so many years hating him cuz fanon Tim is a lil bitch boy
-Jason Todd is such a loser in canon but it works so well on him god damn
-I’m actually rlly annoyed that Steph is never a contender for nightwing I think she’d do rlly well tbh
- Steph’s backstory is way sadder than Tim’s we should absolutely talk about it more
-Lian Harper :(
-Tim is so funny when he’s just some dude who ADHD hyperfixationed his way into a “I got adopted by my favorite band” y/n self insert fic except the band was a collection of deeply unstable people who fight crime and also happens to have an IQ of 180
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- the fact that Bruce and Dick/Damian/Tim have a deeply dysfunctional relationship and I need them in family therapy
- Cass isn’t actually Bruce’s favorite she’s just the one that should be.
- the fact that Jason Todd canonically likes Dick Grayson and doesn’t like Nightwing
- the fact that Donna and Stephanie Brown aren’t friends and have never had a run together in canon (they should be- give me mentor-mentee vibes fr ong)
- Damian wants to become a doctor like his grandfathers and his mom <3
-the fact that Dick missed a solid portion of Damian’s development if you consider both spryal and the Ric arc to have happened in the same timeline
- Dick stole Bruce,babs and Damian’s super
- Garth, Dick and Donna are a sliding scale of blue to black costumes (they come in a set!!!)
- the fact I don’t have enough Dick and Garth fanon and canon content
- Jason/ Red hood needs an iconic establishing story like Nightwing year 1. I feel like Dixons Grayson is so easy to reference as like the “standard Grayson” before you add all the other (imo better) stuff from other future runs and tbh I don’t think Jason has any (if you disagree gimmie some recs)
- the fab 5 are called that in canon
- Garth didn’t have any friends pre joining the OG titans
- nightwing is on every Pride cover every damn year and he hasn’t kissed Roy or Wally yet? Sir? Plz
- Wally lost his wife and children multiple times in canon
- young Roy was bitter and wanted to compete with Robin!Dick but adult Roy wants to punch Bruce in the face bc he realizes bby Grayson was so abnormal
I regret all my descions someone tell me what every single thing in the brain does bc I have a neurology exam and all I can think about is my mentally unstable king and he’s equally mentally unstable boyfriend who spent too much energy trying to keep a broken man together goddamn
Who let me reread outsiders (2003) instead of studying for my finals. I’m crying all over my laptop
“Dude you totally just combined our color schemes LMFAO…”
“Oh come on! I had a new adult identity before EITHER of you!!!”
“Yeah and that’s not the outfit you first had! Where’s discowing! Where is he!”
“Oh come on…you KNOW he had to retire it because America wasn’t ready for THAT much cunt to be served…”
“True…I have to admit you ate…no crumbs…”
Baby
I can’t write romance for the life of me but I go on break soon and trust me I will write so much DickRoy DickKori and birdflash fanfiction because I am in my feels
I already have like 9 dick and Donna (platonic) fics in the works
(Also listen I get the whole red blue thing that fuels JayDick but how about you consider the fact DickRoy does the same thing but so much better and without the incest?)
1.-Dick Grayson/Jason Todd (8685)
2.-Dick Grayson/Wally West (4201)
3.-Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne (3092)
4.-Dick Grayson/Koriand'r (3084)
5.-Dick Grayson/Barbara Gordon (2820)
6.-Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson (2700)
7.-Dick Grayson/Tim Drake (1691 fics)
8.-Dick Grayson/Damian Wayne (1400)
9.-Dick Grayson/Roy Harper (932)
10.-Dick Grayson/Raven (560)
This list doesn't include fanfics tagged with Dick Grayson/Reader.
Please don't comment hate messages, this post is purely informative. I don't want my notifications to be filled with ship wars/hate in general :ccc
Who let me reread outsiders (2003) instead of studying for my finals. I’m crying all over my laptop
Wally West and Roy Harper are both in love with Dick Grayson
Send tweet -oh shit this is the wrong website
With Wally don’t forget that’s crucial here
Polytitans they call kiss on the lips (dick and Donna excluded)
he wants to be under Dick