#modern day tragedy

[hole-therapy]

Did you get that dick appointment or do I need to look for flights to Hawaii?

I was lied to, ripped off, swindled, made a fool, caught unawares, and last but certainly not least, heartbroken

#no I did not get dick #modern day tragedy #the worst thing to ever happen in my life #I am a victim #me #text #personal #gay

[queer-crusader]

So upset I didn't get Baldur's Gate 3 when it was in early access

#literally all my money is going to driving lessons/exams #i CANNOT afford a €60 game i refuse to fucking buy it full price #but the thing is. ive been watching so many youtube clips and getting low-key mildly obsessed #and today i am sad bc i failed my driving exam #i wanna play bg3 as consolation but i literally have like. €30 in my bank account #so yeah that ain't happening #modern day tragedy #anne speaks

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Worldwide Privacy Tour #EasterEggs

Harry the Lost Boy

Meghan plotted for Disney & won a "Peter Pan." It's not a coincidence that South Park compared Harry to Strat's Lost Boy character. The musical premiered in the UK (2017) & then Toronto. Meat Loaf actually relocated to London during his career and was quite happy in the UK.

"My love, I will do anything for your privacy."

Before the album Bat Out of Hell was released, Steinman worked on a musical of that storyline that was called "Neverland" at the time.

Steinman has said in interviews that a version of the Peter Pan story inspired some of the songs on the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, and that is the connection between this musical and the 1977 album.

RIP Meat Loaf - I'd do Anything for Love

I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)

"Written by Jim Steinman(1977), and recorded by Meat Loaf with Lorraine Crosby. The song was released in 1993 as the first single from the album Bat Out of Hell II.

The last six verses feature a female singer who was credited only as "Mrs. Loud" in the album notes. She was later identified as Lorraine Crosby. However, she does not appear in the video, in which her vocals are lip-synched by Dana Patrick."

"After 35 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums of all time."

"Meat Loaf promoted the single with US vocalist Patti Russo. " 

"Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday, September 27, 1947), known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide."

"Strat: the eccentric and forever (18) eighteen year old leader of 'The Lost', a group of teenagers whose DNA froze at eighteen (18) causing them to remain young forever. He falls in love with Falco's daughter, Raven. He and 'The Lost' live in abandoned subway tunnels below the city of Obsidian."

"Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (promoted as Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical) is a rock musical with music, lyrics and book by Jim Steinman, based on the Bat Out of Hell album by Meat Loaf. Steinman wrote all of the songs, most of which are from the Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums (Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose). The musical is a loose retelling of Peter Pan, set in post-apocalyptic Manhattan (now named 'Obsidian'), and follows Strat, the forever young leader of 'The Lost' who has fallen in love with Raven, daughter of Falco, the tyrannical ruler of Obsidian."

"Steinman has said in interviews that a version of the Peter Pan story inspired some of the songs on the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, and that is the connection between this musical and the 1977 album."

"Before the album Bat Out of Hell was released, Steinman worked on a musical of that storyline that was called "Neverland" at the time."

I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)

And I would do anything for love

I'd run right into hell and back

I would do anything for love

I'll never lie to you and that's a fact

But I'll never forget the way you feel right now

Oh no, no way

And I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

I won't do that

Anything for love

I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

I won't do that

Some days it don't come easy

Some days it don't come hard

Some days it don't come at all

And these are the days that never end

Some nights you're breathing fire

Some nights you're carved in ice

Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before

Or will again

Maybe I'm crazy

Oh, it's crazy and it's true

I know you can save me

No one else can save me now but you

As long as the planets are turning

As long as the stars are burning

As long as your dreams are coming true

You better believe it!

That I would do anything for love

And I'll be there till the final act

I would do anything for love

And I'll take a vow and seal a pact

But I'll never forgive myself

If we don't go all the way tonight!

I would do anything for love

Oh, I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

No, I won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of

But I just won't do that

Somedays I pray for silence

Somedays I pray for soul

Somedays I just pray to the God

Of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N' Roll

Some nights I lose the feeling

Some nights I lose control

Some nights I just lose it all

When I watch you dance and the thunder rolls

Maybe I'm lonely

And that's all I'm qualified to be

There's just one and only

The one and only promise I can keep

As long as the wheels are turning

As long as the fires are burning

As long as your prayers are coming true

You better believe it

That I would do anything for love

And you know it's true and that's a fact

I would do anything for love

And there'll never be no turning back

But I'll never do it better than I do it with you

So long, so long

And I would do anything for love

Oh, I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

No, no, no, I won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of

But I just won't do that

But I'll never stop dreaming of you

Every night of my life, no way

And I would do anything for love

Oh, I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

No, I won't do that

[Girl:] Will you raise me up?

Will you help me down?

Will you get me right out of this God-forsaken town?

Will you make it all a little less cold?

[Boy:] I can do that!

I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you hold me sacred?

Will you hold me tight?

Can you colorize my life?

I'm so sick of black and white...

Can you make it all a little less old?

[Boy:] I can do that!

Oh, oh, now I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you make me some magic

With your own two hands?

Can you build an emerald city

With these grains of sand?

Can you give me something I can take home?

[Boy:] I can do that!

Oh, oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got?

Will you hose me down with holy water

If I get too hot?

Will you take me places I've never known?

[Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got?

Will you hose me down with holy water

If I get too hot?

Will you take me places I've never known?

[Boy:] I can do that!

Oh, oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything

It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling

And you'll see that it's time to move on

[Boy:] I won't do that!

No, I won't do that!

[Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around

It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down

And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around...

[Boy:] I won't do that!

No, I won't do that!

Anything for love

Oh, I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

No, I won't do that

Anything for love

Oh, I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

No, I won't do that

#revenge #tom bower #like a spare #spare us #crazy in love #south park #worldwide privacy tour #bat out of hell the musical #easter eggs #neverland #modern day tragedy #waaagh #Youtube

[sushioutofwater]

Lost 20 of my followers. Sure, they were porn bots, but they were my porn bots.

#tragedy #modern day tragedy #feelslikepartofmysoulisgone #gone too soon

[thinkingabout-girls]

🎉🎉🎉🎉I GOT STOOD UP🎉🎉🎉🎉 (/joking)(ROTC buddy wasn’t here today and I didn’t get my chocolates absolutely TRAGIC)

glad your day was good though :D

this is so sad how are you supposed to be aro and stupid now. and eat chocolate

#modern day tragedy

[thinkershipman]

SHAUNA SHIPMAN: AN ORESTEIA

#yes everything is about greek tragedies to me what about it #shauna is literally The Epitome of Tragedy i cannot stress this enough #her whole life is drenched in grief #and shame and loss and guilt #THE DESPAIR #what's that quote by khaled hosseini?? #about if you had just opened your mouth and said something at that one pivotal moment your whole life might have turned out different?? #but you didn't say something?? you stayed silent instead?? #also richard siken's someone has to leave first quote that everyone on this hellsite should know by heart <3 #That is the Epitome of Tragedy thank u mr hosseini #thank u mr siken #the inevitability of it all. the inescapability. what if you just - #but you didn't. you didn't and that is why you suffer #anyways i was too lazy to find more quotes so these excerpts are from both anne carson's translation of the oresteia #and robert icke's extraordinary modern-day production of the greek tragedy #shauna shipman #shauna x jackie #yellowjackets #parallels #web weaving

[bisexualamy]

Your take on Power of Three is sooo good and correct! Underrated ep!

Thank you! "Power of Three" is another ep where I believe that I could Fix Her with minimal rewrites. I really think it's remembered poorly because the villain is underwhelming and underdeveloped. I think if they'd just simplified the villain, or turned the episode into a non-antagonist episode like they did with "Twice Upon a Time", more people would give it the credit it deserves. The point of "Power of Three" is not the villain.

Power of Three is an episode primarily concerned with what happens after people leave the TARDIS. Modern Who did this earlier, with Sarah Jane in "School Reunion", Jack in The Utopia Arc and later in Torchwood, and pretty much all of the farewell sequence in "End of Time." Chibnall did it later as well with the companion support group. But I think "Power of Three" is unique in that its tone is markedly more positive than previous examples. It's a lovely slice of life episode and a lovely ode to Amy and Rory, who've at that point were our companions the longest anyone's been a companion in Modern Who.

We get the Team TARDIS domesticity that many of us love. We get glimpses of Amy and Rory's friends back home, and the joy they take in "boring" things like weddings and dinner parties. It has the introduction of Kate Stewart and a lovely homage to the Brig. It has my favorite scene with Amy and Eleven by the Thames, where two people who have such difficulty being emotionally direct and genuine are able to now, after years of growing together, admit plainly that they love each other and they're terrified of losing each other. The episode is full of references to how the Doctor's fingerprints are all of Earth and its history, some good and some bad, but ultimately he is loved. His impact isn't just dramatic, be that saving the Earth or bringing about terrible tragedy. The Doctor is Amy and Rory's friend. The Brigadier's friend. Kate's friend. That's it.

I love "Power of Three" because, for the first time since the revival, we're seeing companions who grow beyond the Doctor, whose relationship grows and changes to include the Doctor less or differently, without tragedy being the catalyst. Amy and Rory aren't traumatized like Martha. They don't have their memories wiped like Donna. They aren't forcibly ripped away like Rose. They just built a life they like, and as they're growing up they're finding a lot of joy in all the different ways they can live their life.

Amy has learned to appreciate a life that is slower and simpler. Rory has grown confident both in his relationship with Amy and his career. Amy and Eleven explain the episode's point right at the beginning:

AMY: To think it's been ten years. Not for you, or for Earth, but for us. Ten years older. Ten years of you, on and off. ELEVEN: Look at you now. All grown up.

This is Amy's character arc, and Amy/Eleven's relationship arc, in a nutshell. This is the end of their story. And as much as I love "Angels Take Manhattan", I feel like really, in "Power of Three", Amy and Rory demonstrate that they're already ready to move onto the next phase of their lives. Maybe it could've ended less tragically. Maybe the Doctor could've visited them for decades and decades in the future. But they were never going to travel again like they did back in Series 5 and 6. And that can be wonderful.

#hailing frequencies open #fryferbfringefan44 #dw meta #my meta #thank u every time i receive a dw ask i get more writing inspo than i've had in days lmao #i didn't include this for the sake of staying on topic #but i think it's very telling that chibnall wrote this episode #wrote PS #and then eventually included the companion support group at the end of his era #he is the only modern dw showrunner where no companions got a tragic exit #i think that's really interesting. i think it says a lot about how his approach to dw differs from his predecessors #writing a dw season knowing the companions will eventually move on with their lives is really different than writing one ending in tragedy

[ada-barisi]

thinking so deeply about how rafael barba and sonny carisi are in love and how the svu writers damned them to be forever apart

#a modern day shakespearian tragedy #barisi #rafael barba #sonny carisi #dominick carisi #svu #law and order svu

[lunarharp]

scribbly first date type affair (continuation of my modern au stuff)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #idk when the next modern au thing will be so i'll just post this by itself. hehe #that art was one of qifrey's first drawings. it was of a creepy eye. (it was around the time he got glasses as a kid) #(and was told that he might lose his sight completely one day so he became an emo because he already wanted to be an artist #like beldaruit who ran his foster home where he encouraged kids to draw art to express their feelings.) #and an insidious deviantart group called The Brimhats idk stole it & reposted it. he never got to the bottom of who exactly did it. #but one day. they will fucking suffer. #(he believes their goal was to develop AI art as they said stuff like 'all art should belong to everyone anyway' & 'there shouldnt be rules' #but actually they were probably just regular mean ppl who have moved on to new things in life than stealing kids' art on deviantart. #who knows though.) i want people to retain their disabilities or general tragedies like beldaruit would be in a wheelchair #and coco's mum is in a coma. but its just so funny if qifrey just has regular bad eyesight #and it's so cute that he would say he doesnt think of beldaruit as a dad & is distant with him but now basically runs a foster home too #where he doesnt just encourage like he was encouraged but actively teaches kids from sad backgrounds to become wonderful artists one day #anyway i am so fucking hungry now goodbye #P.S. BELDARUIT IS NOT OLD !!!!!!! i mean if qifrey is late 20s or older in canon like i want... i guess he..but.... NO !!!!!! 😭 #*edits in some follow-up drawings* #oru: i couldn't c-c-confess my feelings bc it always seems like he's worried about something..i shouldnt bother him.. #qif: *always worried about how to confess his feelings* #ive decided meeting at 7 on da is kind of ridiculous actually. i think they probably meet at like age 10 in canon..not immediately =_= #since beru-sama is like 'he finally found a friend'. whatever... this'll be my last art post for a while probably so see ya <3

[donutdisturblivball]

i just finished loki (i usually wait for all eps to be out and then i binge) and like fuck me. i have a 16 minute video of me sobbing to the last bit of ep 6, 5 more crying photos added to my album, and 13 new ao3 bookmarks and i fear i will simply just never recover

#lokius #loki #loki season 2 #i was never a lokius shipper even in s1.. i def liked it better than sylki (bc like that was a fucked up plot point lbr) but.. wow. #this szn like changed my brain chemistry its insane. i can see it. #its the modern gay tragedy that ive always wanted like holy fuck its heartbreaking #anyway im gonna be bunkering down in the ao3 tag for the next like 12 business days contact me if u want some tissues or snacks #i may or may not respond (i will be crying) #anywayyy anyone have any good fic recs ???

[wonder-worker]

I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the death of her family name.

I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.

Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.

All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:

“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”

Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.

#(the quote is by Richard Woodville in his deathbed will; he was the last of the Woodville brothers to die) #elizabeth woodville #woodvilles #my post #to be clear I am not arguing that the death of an English gentry family name is some kind of giant tragedy (it absolutely the fuck is not) #I'm trying to put it into perspective with regards to what Elizabeth may have felt because we know her family DID feel this way #writing this kinda reminded me of how I am just not fond at all about the way Elizabeth's experiences in 1483-85 are written about #and the way lots so many of the unprecedentedly horrifying aspects are overlooked or treated so casually: #the seizure and murder of two MINOR sons and the illegal execution of another; #her sheer vulnerability in every way compared to all her queenly predecessors; how she was harassed by 'dire threats' for months; #how she had 5 very young daughters with her to look after at the time (Bridget and Katherine were literally 3 and 4 years old); #how unprecedented Richard's treatment of her was: EW was the first queen of england to be officially declared an adulteress; #and the first and ONLY queen to be officially accused of witchcraft #(Joan of Navarre was accused of her treason; she was never explicitly accused of witchcraft on an official level like EW was) #the first crowned queen of england to have her marriage annulled; and the first queen to have her children officially bastardized #what former queens endured through rumors* were turned into horrifying realities for her. #(I'm not trying to downplay the nightmare of that but this was fundamentally on a different level altogether) #nor did Elizabeth get a trial or appeal to the church. like I cannot emphasize this enough: this was not normal for queens #and not normal for depositions. ultimately what Richard did *was* unprecedented #and of course let's not forget that Elizabeth had literally just been unexpectedly widowed like 20 days before everything happened #I really don't feel like any of this is emphasized as much as it should be? #apart from the horrifying death of her sons - but most modern books never call it murder they just write that they 'disappeared' #and emphasize that ACTUALLY we don't know what happened to them (this includes Arlene Okerlund) #rather than allowing her to have that grief (at the very least) #more time is spent dealing with accusations that she was a heartless bitch or inconsistent intriguer for making a deal with Richard instead #it also feels like a waste because there's a lot that can be analyzed about queenship and R3's usurpation if this is ever explored properly #anyway - it's kinda sad that even after Henry won and her daughter became queen EW didn't really get a break #her family kept dying one by one and the Woodville name was extinguished. and she lived to see it #it's kinda heartbreaking - it was such a dramatic rise and such a slow haunting fall #makes for a great story tho

[marnz]

started reading Giovanni’s Room and I am honestly bereft, even though I haven’t even finished the first chapter. It’s so beautiful and so honest and insightful and so devastating 😭 Baldwin is such a beautiful writer!!!!!

#currently #giovanni’s room #in awe of how he is like ‘in ten pages I shall cover internalized homophobia & shame & toxic masculinity & alcoholism’ #done in such a beautiful way…it is kind of like you are sitting with the narrator at a bar late at night and he is morosely confiding in you #and it’s so realistic bc who hasn’t ruminated on their tragedies and parents late at night????? #au of Giovanni’s room modern day is like. the narrator is saying all the same stuff but he is also #laying down in the dark listening to how to save a life by the fray

[autism-activated]

Thinking about Helena and Gerard again. Hope Gerard and his family of 3 are doing well.

#varian's playlist #the forgetmenauts #it's called helena and gerard a vampire tragedy in modern day limerick mom

[classicslesbianopinions]

i love how every time i see the antigone poll on my dash antigone is steadily getting more and more votes/percentage youre doing good work here

no the most gratifying moment of my entire life was checking the post every few minutes and seeing the number tick up i won't lie... and like i literally am so tired of tumblr brackets and i don't think they matter and i think they say way more about which subsets of people 1. are active on tumblr and 2. are following the specific bracket blog but also like... i literally cannot watch my βλωρβη (greek woman blorbo) lose a most tragic poll to a character who's not even dead.*

*captain jack is exempt from the "must be dead" clause because being alive forever is also tragic because it's all about how your time isn't working right/doesn't sync up with other people's <- thing i just made up but i stand by it <- also thing i can try and elaborate on later when the next door neighbors aren't vibrating my skull into oblivion with their sound system

#mod felix #i mean in general i don't think a tragic character has to be dead i think it's about the cycles but you know #antigone is more tragic than captain jack though. although they both have the problem of watching 90% of their loved ones die #i also don't want to be like. stuck-up about what counts as 'tragedy' or a 'tragic character' but it is like. #well antigone is pretty much the blueprint. there are characters she could lose to and i wouldn't be too mad but like. #it honestly doesn't get much more tragic than her. #i mean i think anyone who's the last one standing in a tragic line is like. a good candidate for this poll #in ancient or modern-day literature #also they should put doctor who (the character) on the most tragic character poll <3 #they should put rose tyler on the most tragic character poll. okay i'm done #WAIT NO I'M NOT. THEY SHOULD PUT BUFFY ON THE MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER POLL. #i don't know if buffy is that tragic but like. there's something there about the cycles. #faith btvs would also be a good candidate although i think her arc is also something a little different #i stand by rose though. s2 of new who is a tragedy To Me #they should also put clara oswald on the most tragic character poll. #i would say i'll run my own poll but actually running a bracket was so hard i never want to do that again #okay NOW i'm done

[arctic-hands]

Ugggh it was free but I had to download an adobe program just so I could download the book I legally paid for from google (also ugh) play just so I could put it on the ancient ass e-reader that'll get here soon. There's got to be an easier way to download the shit you've legally paid for without having to deal with proprietary bullshit, right? On top of all that, amazon (uggggggh) changed their DCRM this very year to something Calibre hasn't been able to crack, so all the books I legally bought from kindle can't be put on the e-reader at all, keeping me reliant on the app on my phone.

Kobo was created by Indigo Books but is now owned by Rakuten, so the Indigo company doesn't get anything if I buy e-books from kobo, right? I wanna say kobo and Barnes and noble/nook don't have bullshit like this for the books themselves, just their proprietary e-readers only allowing books from their services onto the devices themselves, which is why I opted not to get a kobo or nook in the first place

Anyway I hate this crap lol. Someone once stated that when you purchase an e-book (or any media, really) these days you don't own the book, you just rented out the privilege to read it, and that privilege can be revoked at any time. It's so fucking dumb. I don't hate technology I just hate how it evolved into such bullshit. It didn't have to be like this

#ebook #e book #the purchase of an ancient wifi-less e-reader was less a statement on cutting the streaming cord like I've been doing #because i genuinely would have liked the ability to use apps like libby and hoopla on it and hell put kindle and Google play on #it for convenience #but getting an e-ink e-reader was paramount for my eye strain and insomnia so i wouldn't be staring at a bluelight screen reading at night #especially since I'm getting back into reading Iron Widow which i bought on google play cause i was to broke to afford the physical book #my insomnia is still kicking my ass so I'm trying to reduce screentime even in the day #the tragedy is that smartphones are seemingly perfect because you can have all this technology in one device... #... at the cost of eye strain disrupted sleep and a lack of privacy and ownership over the media you bought #society if smartphones developed from e-ink technology and without corporate and government spyware: 🌈 #also the ancient e-reader is a Sony pocket reader TRS-300 for the record #it was ten dollars. twenty with shipping. even a used and a few years old modern reader like an onyx boox or meebook was hundreds of dollars #so like

[alternis]

okay I have had thoughts percolating within my brain about tim drake and his life going to shit like as soon as he stepped out of "normal boy" and into the lives of vigilantes.

this is incredibly rambling steam of consciousness meta bc I can like. Feel the thoughts I'm trying to express but words are hard and typing on a phone is a pain in the behind.

because: Tim was introduced and intended to be a counterpoint to Bruce, as they both had similar backgrounds, and yet Tim had no great personal tragedy compelling him to help others. he simply wanted to do the right thing, in his own clumsy way

but as SOON as he got involved with Bruce he started experiencing personal tragedies at an ever increasing rate. his mother dies, his father is paralysed. he copes. his father wakes up, they have relationship issues, things improve and remain 'stable' for a long while. he gains a stepmother, and a brotherly relationship with dick. he's still the Normal Robin, with school and parents and girl troubles.

but his relationship with his father suffers because he is Robin. jack can see the shape of the secret that lies between them and every time they seem to work things out, they fall apart again. is Robin to blame for it? that one thing Tim must hold back from his father, that his father can see being held back? Jack certainly seems to think so, judging by his reaction when all Tim's obfuscation falls away and Jack discovers his costume (hidden in the closet, something that won't gain any hidden layers of meaning for a good long time)

so tim loses Robin. he does not cope well with being fully demoted to civilian. it chafes at him like outgrown clothes. and the universe punishes him for leaving his role! his schoolmate dies. his girlfriend dies. his father dies and his stepmother is hospitalised until she too dies. his best friend dies and his other best friend dies.

52 happens. he goes away for a year to leave the tragedy behind and recentre himself. he comes back and cass has been brainwashed into being evil and he almost gets a friend killed.

and then Bruce dies.

the universe itself seems to punish him when he tries to stay away from being robin. and then, when he returns to robin he gets bad shit happen to him because that's what happens to superheroes and people who put themselves in danger. danger comes to them. this is a meta thing but, also, is a narrative thread across his life.

and to me it all comes down to one panel.

batman and robin are orphans. therefore, tim drake must become an orphan. the laws of the universe bend around him to give him the motivating trauma he did not have before stepping into his role. causality runs backwards. events happen because of their consequences.

the will of the world demands tragedy.

congratulations on becoming Robin; the red will spread across your body as the blood pools underfoot.

#this is also why on a meta level I'm not as keen on fics where they ramp up the trauma and issues Tim faced in childhood #there was definite emotional neglect there but no evidence of physical or financial neglect or abuse #and to me his life falling apart when he becomes Robin and due to being Robin is just a meatier way to tackle it #because he didn't choose the tragedy and loss but he did choose Robin #without knowing what that choice would lead to #tim drake meta #tim drake #my posts #I wish I could express this better bc its been floating around my head for days at this point #and I didn't even get into recent tim stuff which I do have thoughts tying this to post n52 and modern tim comics #and why his character can't seem to move beyond a Robin mantle #but again writing sucks and typing on mobile hurts my fingers