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does bruce go to extreme lengths to continue the “bruce is dating batman” charade (like changing between bruce and batman several times during a dinner bc the kids prepared it as a father’s day gift or do the batkids just continue to assume things (like bruce comes out of a shower (is there a shower? lol) in the batcave and dick is just like “why did u shower here bru—oh god. ew! i can never use that shower ever again”) and bruce just rolls with it? lmao i love your manor-dad fic so much

Anon: I love Manor-Dad lets me drive the batmobile! On “date nights”, is Bruce ever forced to change multiple times between “Bruce Wayne” and Batman for his kids’ sakes when they check to see how the romantic evening is going?

Short answer? Because the long answer is still in the works just haven’t had time to write properly because of exam times

No because Bruce is resigned to his fate but he’s not going this far to keep up his kids’ make believe once he wanted them to know

But that’s fine cause his kids don’t need to see him together with his alter ego, they know they don’t have much time together and everything runs on a strict schedule

Stuff like father’s day? Bruce gets the late mornings, moons and afternoons. Batman gets the evenings and nights and early mornings

Father’s day presents are wild. Bruce gets arts ‘n’ crafts. It’s “””forbidden””” to buy something for him

Actually Dick just set the gift bar way to high in his first year by making a cake from the recipe book of Bruce’s mother

Jason, 12 years old: “What the hell, Dick? Couldn’t you have just bought a tie? Isn’t that what you regularly do?”

Dick, 17: “You habe no idea what to get him, do you.”

Jason: “No, I’ve never done Father’s day before, but I’ll outdo you.”

Jason recited Shakespeare.

The following kids all found their own niche of gifts to give Bruce

Batman also gets handmade stuff but more along the lines of

Dick & Barbara, age 14 and 16 respectively: “We solves your case for you, Old man.”

Bruce, 28, thinking off the high profile gruesome child murders he hadn’t even told them about: “You dID WHAT?!”

Dick and Babs meant the stolen cars on Main Street case

Ever since there is a “safe case” filing system for the kids to pick cases from

Other gifts include: new gadgets, cleaning up safe houses, outshining all the other JL side kicks and making Bruce very smug.

Also dinner. They get dinner in the Batcave.

They sat on the floor in the first year because there wasn’t a table yet. The only table Bruce needed were his desk and the one to cut up bodies on

Alfred threw a fit and ever since there’s a table

That keeps getting bigger

Jason starts calling it The Round Table by the once Cass joins. He also additionally makes Batman a glittery crown together with Cass that year. It’s pink and has plastic diamonds and it usually sits on the first Batman outfit in one of the cases

Romantic evenings Bruce spends by himself sleeping or working

Bruce: “Where exactly would we go for a romantic evening? It’s Batman.”

Dick, 10 and dedicated to his new parents and also 10/10 convinced Clark should be the best man at the #BatWayne wedding: “Fortress of Solitude”

So whenever the kids make time for Bruce and Batman, Bruce goes over to Clark’s or one of the safe houses the kids don’t monitor and relaxes for a few hours

Clark: “What are you working on?”

Bruce, without looking up: “Jack the Ripper copy cat case.”

Or works the cases he doesn’t want the kids to see

And yes, the older Dick gets, the less uuuh personally invested he gets in Bruce’s and Batman’s relationship

Batman’s nocturnal. He knows that because he could always sneak into Bruce’s bed as a kid and nobody was there

But honestly? Nowadays he doesn’t want to know why Bruce looks like he ran a marathon after Batman and Robin came back from patrol

Or what he was doing in the showers

Nay, nope. No interest.

It’s gross enough when Batman smiles whenever he sees the Wayne name on some project in the city

How can two people be so in love with each other?

Barbara: “Relationship goals right there.”

Super happy to hear you like this story! Updates will have two wait a few weeks rn because I have exams coming up in the next two weeks. Joy.

love reading about the Great Rapprochement. Arthur spends 1895 to 1915 metaphorically kneeling on the ground going pspspspsps in Alfred’s general direction mostly getting ignored but occasionally getting an increasingly half-hearted “go fuck yourself” in response. it’s fantastic. look at this.

German Ambassador Bernstoff, a shrewd observer, reported in 1911, “The British efforts [to cultivate America] are meeting with a certain return of platonic affection. The old rooted dislike to England is gradually vanishing… But it is not accompanied by any wish to offer anything in return.” In hard diplomatic coin, the Americans took but they did not give. British ministries from Salisbury to Asquith made important concessions of substance and form to the United States. These statesmen gained not alliance nor even true reciprocity, but the elimination of grounds of conflict, occasional and essentially “platonic” or negative support in world politics, and above all a transformation of American attitudes which would pay immense dividends after 1914. While other factors propelled America in the same direction, British policy from 1895 to 1914 was the indispensable element.

I love it. Arthur hasn’t been this nice to Alfred since 1754 and Alfred is completely weirded out and has absolutely no idea what to do with this. so he just keeps being belligerent and Arthur just keeps being nice until eventually Alfred is sitting at a table in Arthur’s garden wondering how the fuck he came to the point where he’s having literal tea parties with the old fucker. 

meanwhile Matthew, Jack, and Eliza are just as weirded out. maybe Matthew less so than Jack and Eliza but like. it’s still really fucking weird when Alfred says things that would get Jack sent to boot camp in the most remote part of the Canadian wilderness and Arthur just smiles. Duncan, Morgan, and Erin are much less surprised, since obviously they remember how much Arthur loved Alfred as a child. on the whole, Duncan thinks it’s funny, Morgan is relieved and pleased, and Erin is utterly disgusted lol. like c’mon, Al, don’t listen to him. he’s so full of shit you know he’s full of shit. 

alas, the end of WW1 proves Erin right and Alfred goes right back to belligerent and aloof (though perhaps not near as much as pre-1895).

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It Has Begun

So it looks like the literal fascist takeover has begun (this was published July 18, 2020).

Trump's federal jackboots are testing the waters in Portland. Where is next?

The ACLU is fighting them in court, but we all need to expose this and do everything we can to stop them before it's too late.

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