First Day Of Ectoberhaunt 2024

First day of Ectoberhaunt 2024 👻 🎃

I don’t have a drawing for today’s prompt, but I did design the sidebar for the @ectoberhaunt blog! Good to be back for this role this year.

Excited to see everyone’s creations for this year 👀

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When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …

DPxDC Unhinged Feral Boyfriends

The whole Batfam is under the assumption that Damian is the feral child. The assassin, the wild one, the demon brat that bites and stabs. Jason usually takes the second place, what with guns, heads in the duffelbag, and being a crime lord.

But Tim? Come on, even Duke is more feral than him. Tim is a nerd, and he keeps to his own devices most of the time, and, sure, sometimes he is plenty unhinged. But he's okay. Seventh place on the unofficial List of Feral Bats.

He's got a boyfriend lately, have you heard? Tim hadn't brought him to the manor for dinner yet, but each and every Bat and Bird have already seen the guy - in person or through the surveillance cameras or background checks, doesn't matter. Either way, Daniel Fenton is quite literally a ray of sunshine.

They look very cute together.

That is, until one day, they witness Danny and Tim rip Joker's ribcage out of his chest.

Nothing could have prepared them for it. It was just another patrol, just another night of fighting crime, nothing out of the ordinary. Sure, Joker was on the loose, but so far, no one has tracked the Clown down or seen any of his goons.

But then, Red Robin's tracker went offline. The Bats started searching for him immediately - his last recorded location, his trackers, his route, everything. But when they managed to find him...

Well.

They didn't only find him in that warehouse.

They found Joker, choking on the ground and clawing at his own neck, like trying to force some air inside his lungs. Over him, Danny was squatting on the ground, his eyes thoughtful and not worried in the slightest, tapping on his chin. And, just a step behind him, Red Robin is holding a fucking ribcage in his hands, studying it with calm curiosity.

"Should we put it back now?" Tim asks, relaxed and easy, like they are speaking about whether they should or should not get another box of cereal in a store.

Danny shrugs, "I mean, if you want to. It's not like he's gonna die in the next ten or so minutes, you've got time."

And then, as Batman makes the slightest of noises, Danny's head snaps to him, and the boy smiles, cheerful and bright. Like the ray of sunshine he is.

"Hi, Bats!" Then he blinks and looks down to Joker, who is already frothing at the mouth, "Oh, don't worry about him, he won't die. Red's just putting a tracker in his manibrium."

"I figured it'd be easier to find him next time if he can't get the tracker out," Tim nods, unbothered, as he is tinkering with the ribcage in his hands before passing it back to Danny, "Okay, done. Put it back."

Danny takes the ribcage and presses it to Joker's chest. And, before they know it, the bones sink inside the man, like a hand in a bowl of sand.

Danny wipes his hands on his jeans and stands. Tim smiles at the Bats, none of whom know what to say and where to start.

The next day, Joker is back at Arkham with a tracker in his sternum, Danny is invited to dinner in the manor, and Tim takes the first place of the Feral List, with a note 'never leave unattended when Danny is nearby'.

there’s no shame in admitting that none of us have any concept of how big a whale is

WAIT

"with unexpected ferocity"

"Cat winced but kept her eyes on Jean"

I feel like I've overlooked this passage every time I see it. Did Jeremy's sibling kill themselves? Did they play exy? Did they die at the banquet?

Cat Winced BUT kept her eyes on Jean. She reacted directly to what Jeremy said. She. KNOWS WHAT IS UP.

When someone kills themselves, it has to be assumed a homicide as protocol (ask me how I know 😀) so family members or those in the immediate vicinity will be interviewed by police and any items at the scene that should be tested for fingerprints and stuff will be. That could be how Jeremy knows the police.

Suicides are so taboo still. For a rich politically affiliated macho family they'd be even more taboo, and in 2007? Christ no wonder he doesn't talk about it.

And of COURSE his mother would send him to therapy after THAT. Did he find the body of his sibling? Was he supposed to be with them but went to an exy banquet instead?

AND. Suicides totally break up families!! Christ, my family hasn't been the same for seven years. I'm basically estranged from my older brother because we were so busy trying to survive our trauma we stopped asking about each other's lives.

I'm, like, KINDA SOLD ON THIS THEORY RN.

Hello skinny tgirl. Lately you've been complaining that your tits aren't growing. In front of you is a plate of food.