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nightwingcouldyounot:

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nightwingcouldyounot:

I know I say Tim grows up to have a personality the reeks of “protected child”, but Dick grew up to have one that reeks of “indulged child”. 

Like “oh don’t mind me, I’m just casually using Superman as a leaning-post NBD” 

(Nightwing (1996) 030)

I can imagine that a lot of that comes from Dick being the first sidekick of his generation and being pretty fearless.

Superman meets Batman’s new partner for the first time, and aside from liking the kid instantly and noting how different Bruce is when Robin’s around (He’d SWEAR he even saw Batman crack something approaching a smile, but that’s too unsettling to think about) he’s instantly treating Superman like they’re on an even footing as superheroes and he can’t do anything bur respond in kind because as non-sanctioned vigilantes, they sort of are.

But still, Superman doesn’t quite know how to react, no one has EVER just casually leaned on him like he’s a lamppost whilst standing on a rooftop, chatting and surveying a potential fight, it’s just not something people are comfortable doing around him because he’s Superman. Even Jimmy wouldn’t do that. And yet… here’s the scrappy,  5′1″ kid doing just that, a kid with an accent that’s all over the place and a voice that keeps cracking, in a costume like a carnival,  calling him “Supes” and “Big Blue” and it’s just so damned endearing he hasn’t got in in him to tell him to stop (and some of his tactical suggestions are pretty darned creative too). 

It helps that Robin knows SOME limits. He feels he can do all this with Superman, but never with Wonder Woman, who he instinctively calls “Ma’am” VERY politely every single time, even when Diana says he can use her name.

So it’s not just that Dick is indulged, it’s that no one knew how to react to him, so they were kind of bamboozled into following his lead.

Yeah that’s basically it. Robin was Batmans kid (really) who he brought with him to meetings and stuff. Like he’s a kid-kid not even an technically-kid (you know the like 16-17 yr olds who have their stuff together). And being Batman’s kid means he got really high access basically immediately. 

He throws most of them by just turning up to like a high-level meeting in Batman’s toe. And Batman is pretty indulgent to him – at least from where everyone else is standing (yeah privately he has high expectations of Dick but he does give Dick a fair bit of free reign when it comes to social interacting stuff). So he’s Batmans kid, who Batman lets just be physically close to + interact with him (he’s just as likely to just casually lean on Batman as he is Superman), is treated by Batman as a partner (again especially from where everyone else is standing, Batman takes what Dick says into consideration most of the time and treats him with a high level of respect), and is also a little social butterfly who will strike up conversation with just about anyone as if they are complete equals. 

If you’re a person looking for hope in the world to cling to while facing the horrors of it every day “cute charming kid who even The Batman is soft on” is a pretty compelling contender. And so they want to make this kid happy and that means so long as he isn’t being actively destructive (which yeah Dick does know what limits are so that rarely happens without a good reason) they tend to just let him get away with what he wants and comply with most requests he makes. 

Plus most probably end up looking at Batman for cue’s as to how to deal with Robin and, again, Batman’s pretty indulgent of Dick. So if The Batman is letting this kid just grab his hand to bring his attention to something why should they not let him be like that with them as well? 

So yeah it’s not that everyone is like “we’re indulging this child” it’s “I see no reason to say no to his request” and probably a little “try to show off to the kid”. It’s just ended up with Dick being the indulged-child and growing up to have this inherit expectation that most people will just like him and that he can be open and affectionate with them because if fucking Superman lets him why not try? 

Dick goes into situations (especially within the superhero community) with the expectation that he can just do the thing he wants to do. Because in his experience most of the time he can. 

empressreborn:

Call your reps

Most of you by now have read or heard the truth regarding the Net Neutrality comments.

Yes, it has been confirmed that the anti-NN comments last year are fraudulent, and the perpetrators all come from one location.

Russia.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/419846-fcc-chairman-acknowledges-russia-interfered-in-net-neutrality-public

This means 3 things.

1) We now have irrefutable grounds to prove that the Net Neutrality repeal is, in fact illegal, due to interference from a hostile foreign power.

2) Ajit Pai has confessed to violating the law.

3) Pai has committed treason.

The next steps now is to, ironically enough, contact all of the reps and AGs that you know that are not complicit and demand (yes, demand) the following:

1) That procedures begin to reverse the illegal repeal at once.

2) That Ajit Pai be removed from office and arrested on the charges of treason.

Signal boost!

codenamecesare:

feynites:

Alright so since some people seem to need help with these things, I’m gonna do a PSA on common fanfic turns of phrase and what they’re actually driving at:

‘Humming’, as in, when a character ‘hums in agreement’ or ‘hums happily’, isn’t them suddenly breaking out a tune. It’s referring to an inarticulate sound, usually with the lips closed. ‘Mmhmm’ for example is a hum. ‘Hummed a question’ is less common, but generally means something along the lines of ‘hmm?’

If someone ‘moans in appreciation’ of something, like food or a good massage, that is usually indicating a lower ‘mmm’ noise than ‘humming’, with the tone being defined by the context of the situation. At some point actually writing out ‘yum’ or ‘oooh’ or similar became unpopular in fic, so describing the noise took prominence. The ‘mmm’ sound is fairly indistinct, and is technically a moan. It’s not actually an inherently sexual term, even though it’s used overwhelmingly in sexual contexts. (In older stories characters would even moan in pain, though that’s less common now).

Toeing off your shoes refers to taking off your shoes without bending down and using your hands in any way. You’re using your toes instead. It’s actually more common with slippers (which are designed for this) but can apply to any footwear that doesn’t need untying or unbuckling or something in order to come loose. Related to ‘kicking off your shoes’ but less dramatic in terms of the implied action involved.

Carding your fingers through something (i.e. hair, feathers) comes from a process (carding) for disentangling cloth or wool fibers (usually a special type of card-shaped tool was used for this, hence the term). It’s got nothing to do with playing cards or shuffling, and here’s the wikipedia article on the process, just for the skeptics. It basically means ‘gently disentangle’ in the fanfic context.

Thus concludes the PSA.

I always love it when people, who apparently aren’t familiar with frankly kind of common vocabulary words and turns of phrase, make fun of writers for completely straightforward and ordinary word choices.

And if you mock them not because you think the phrases are wrong/silly but just because you see them used too often in fandom… hey, no one’s stopping you from reading stuff other than fan fiction. Knock yourself out.