okay so i've been wanting to read some older (pre-new 52) dick grayson stuff and i wanna know what comics are good. not like a super exhaustive read through but more just y'all's favorites! (the weird numbering is because i've read up to those points in b&r 09 and nw 93)

i've seen this done with dick and bruce but i actually think it works really well with him and cass... really proud about how this turned out!

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But There's No One Else That I Would Go To Hell For

murmur by cameron barnett // dead boy detectives (2024) // ocean vuong // dead boy detectives (2024) // to be haunted by jessie lynn mcmains // dead boy detectives (2024) // marjane satrapi // dead boy detectives (2024) // adonis, from selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa) // dead boy detectives (2024) // a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit // dead boy detectives (2024) // selected poems by leonard cohen // adonis, from selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa) // dead boy detectives (2024) // talk by hozier // dead boy detectives (2024) // everything is illuminated by jonathan safran foer

i think it would be really fucking funny if the bats ended up in the my hero universe and just... bodied both the league and the hero commission and peaced out

It's Kinda Sad, If This Is You At Your Best (1465 words) by kermit_coded Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Titans (Comics), DCU (Comics), Deathstroke the Terminator (Comics), Blue Devil (DCU Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Eddie Bloomberg/Rose Wilson Characters: Rose Wilson, Eddie Bloomberg Additional Tags: POV Eddie Bloomberg, Hypersexuality, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Chinese Rose Wilson, Rose Wilson needs a hug, Eddie Bloomberg Needs A Hug, Making Out, Consent Issues, Hurt/Comfort, Canonical Child Abuse, Underage Drug Use, Abandonment Issues, Slade Wilson's A+ Parenting, Past Sexual Abuse, They make me very very sad, eddie is a sweetheart, Trauma, Developing Relationship, Teen Titans 2003 Era, Mental Health Issues, Marijuana, Underage Smoking, Literal Sleeping Together, Bittersweet Ending Summary: Eddie and Rose making out, smoking weed, and the things they don't say out loud.

new ship name for rose and eddie: redrose

Sins Of The Father

the magnus archives // gotham war (2023) // freeway by briston maroney

once you've fucked the fire, all that's left to do is burn, baby

thinking about the part in batgirl 2000 where babs and bruce are arguing about whether or not the video of cass's first murder is real or not. the fact that bruce went directly to the source of the video (cain) and didn't ask if it was faked but rather how. the fact that cain told him to his face that it was real and bruce still refused to believe it. the fact that babs believes it's real and still loves cass and tells her that it was not her fault. the fact that bruce cannot accept that cass is a killer, because he refuses to believe that someone who has taken a life could ever be as dedicated to the mission as cass is. the fact that cass's dedication stems directly from her desire to never see anyone experience what the man she killed experienced in his last moments.

O Mother Where Art Thou?

batgirl (2000) // bethany webster, from mother wound healing: why it’s crucial for women // batgirl (2000) // enough, suzanne buffam // batgirl (2000) // h.d., from “envy” // fariha róisín, how to cure a ghost // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // james baldwin, from jimmy’s blues and other poems // janet fitch, from white oleander // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // clarice lispector, “excerpt”, collected stories (trans. katrina dodson) // batgirl (2000) // jack gilbert, “the abandoned valley” // batgirl (2000) // tomas tranströmer, tr. by robert bly, from a poem titled “track” // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // may sarton, journal of a solitude // batgirl (2000) // adonis, from selected poems; “a piece of bahlul’s sun” (tr. khaled mattawa) // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // neil hilborn, “a place where someone loves you” // batgirl (2000) // laura gibson, from “empire builder” // batgirl (2000) // anne carson, grief lessons

after reading identity crisis i am HAUNTED by the fact that doctor light was a reoccurring teen titans villain. like bro what. he rapes sue dibny and the justice league is just cool with a bunch of teenagers fighting him on the reg???? sure, zatanna essentially lobotomized him but still. even considering the whole memory wipe shenanigans, i still find it insane that the leaguers who knew were just chill with it. like WHAT?

just finished batgirl 2000. man. i am fundamentally changed as a person.

In Which The Cycle Goes On

desireé dallagiacomo, from sink; “origin story” // identity crisis (2004) // daughter, “the woods”// susanne sundfør, from “father father” // identity crisis (2004) // susanne sundfør, from “father father” // sarah kay, “hand-me-downs” // identity crisis (2004) // james baldwin, giovanni’s room // teen titans (2003) // carl phillips, “cortège” // elizabeth lindsey rogers, from “questions about the father" // teen titans (2003) // susann cokal, wounds, ruptures, and sudden space in the fiction of george bataille // identity crisis (2004) // jeanette winterson, why be happy when you could be normal? // li-young lee, from “the gift” // identity crisis (2004) // rainer maria rilke, from letters to a young poet // teen titans (2003) // nikki giovani

hug time :)

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i just think that they-