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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

#the 2012 live action ace attorney movie it was great #excellent video game adaptation completely bizarre so many wigs

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really wish i'd known about leagueofcomicgeeks.com back when i was reading a shitton of judge dredd in college

#trying to add everything i've read to my list #yeah those issues are gone from my memory forever #and all the dc tpbs i was checking out from the library when i was like 14

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i know that "unalive" is part of larger worrying trend of self censorship but if you really are in a situtation where you have to avoid the words "die" or "kill" the english language already has centuries worth of much better euphemisms. the iconic and perennial "six feet under"? the lovely imagery of "pushing up daisies"? "shuffle off this mortal coil"????? literally anything from the monty python dead parrot bit???? you have so many options. please try to be more creative at least

#'her metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians' #aa

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“My opinion. I used to love to give him my opinion. I was so pleased he’d take me into his confidence. But now I…well, what right do I have to tell him anything? I’m–”

–Richard Grayson on Tim Drake (Nightwing #97 – War Games: Act 2 Part 3 – Clarification)

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( bruce: i left you here as my conscience, tim. you were supposed to handle any problems. )

bruce that is a 14 year old that you left in charge of an adult man with a history of violence. just because it worked for you doesn’t mean it’ll work for jean-paul

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I don’t agree with bullfighting morally, but I’ve been looking at certain pictures of matadors and their poses for a couple of months…

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WIP of an AU Tim... guess which villain he trains under 🐍

hopefully will polish this up & add some color someday... might even go crazy and write the fic who knows

#dc comics #batman #batman fanart #tim drake #red robin #but not #coerced henchman-turned-gang leader tim drake #originally i pictured the shoulder/chest tats on the right but they felt a little too idk yakuza-y for the plot i have in mind #in which it's very important that tim is specifically chinese #damn it would hurt a shit ton to get those big pieces on your ribs tho

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I noticed something in a lot of your Dick and Tim fics. It's probably so obvious, but you always write that Tim is watching Dick. In your newest one, Tim's watching Dick, in The Return Tim's watching Dick, and you even write that Tim is always watching him. Is Tim trying to read Dick? Trying to understand? Or does he understand him by watching? What is he trying to figure out by watching Dick? What does that say about Tim? I really hope this is intentional lmao because I would be embarrassed. Maybe this is just something so obvious that I'm just getting now.

YES IT’S ON PURPOSE <333 Anon. Anon. I'm so sorry this answer took forever, but listen, this was a really delightful ask <333 I think about this a lot.  I really love origin stories—I like stories that resonate through a character’s history. 

And for me, a whole lot of what interests me about Dick and Tim is that theme of watching and being watched. Seeing and being seen.

"Watch me on the trapeze, Tim. I'm going to do my act...'specially for you." | "Timmy, don't look." | "I turned away... I couldn't watch. Then I heard you crying and I turned back... I'm sorry, Dick. I didn't want to hurt you by telling you all this." Dick's watching me. Gauging my reactions. (Tim watching Dick watching Tim!) | "I'm taking off the blindfold." "No!" | "I can't see him. You can't see him. But I know Robin. And Robin's always there when you need him." | I love that kid. Too much to let him see me like this. (But Tim spots him anyway.)

Spotlights and lighthouses and cameras and photographs. Blindness and vision and masks and detective work and trust.

I'm going to try to be coherent about this but it's gonna be incoherent sdfsf BUT I'M GOING TO TRY so. Below the cut, a really long grab-bag of my rambling on vision and watchers and watching.

Tim + watching / Dick + being watched / different dynamics

Tim's origin story

Being watched goes with vulnerability/exposure

Incomplete list of moments with Dick and Tim and vision

Tim + watching

The first time we see Tim's face in LPoD: a close-up on his eyes looking for Dick, a close-up on his eyes at the moment that he sees Dick, a pullback to his face at the moment of recognition, a pullback to his face + his camera (you could maybe even argue that Tim comes into existence at the moment that he sees Dick, like, conceptually. the act of seeing is his defining characteristic. it is the thing that makes his character happen. he is the kid who's watching.)

Tim's a very vision-centric character: he's first introduced as a camera, then as a pair of binoculars, then as a pair of eyes. His whole backstory is about watching: watching Dick's parents die, watching Dick on TV, watching Batman and Robin. I've grabbed a few panels above with Tim watching Dick but there are so many more. His major deductions are all vision-based: he sees Dick-the-acrobat and later recognizes Dick-as-Robin; he sees Bruce-in-the-past and recognizes him as Bruce-of-our-time; the climactic moment in Red Robin is about going into a dark cave with a torch so he can see what's there.

And he's a detective. He pries into secrets. He analyzes people. He's a worrywart and a fusser who always wants to understand what's going on with other people. In a lot of those panels where Tim's watching Dick, his inner monologue is busy deducing Dick's emotions and trying to psychoanalyze him. Tim's caring and watchful and intuitive... but all those qualities also make him very very intrusive.

Dick + being watched

Dick performing acrobatics for Bruce, Donna, and Tim in Detective Comics 38 (his first appearance), New Teen Titans 16, Batman 441, and Nightwing 88 (where he reflects he's glad to be back in the hot glare of the spotlight)

Dick's a detective too, of course - Tim deliberately mirrors Dick, both in-universe and out-of-universe. But also Dick's a performer who loves being watched and also wants to control how he's seen. He gets a kick out of showing off, making puns, kicking ass, taking names, and he gets a kick out of having an appreciative audience. And he's got a kind of yearning for recognition - it hurts, when Bruce won't look at him, and in fights with Bruce, Babs, Roy, he'll often bring up the past, trying to get them to acknowledge a shared history.

At the same time, he's a very private person who withdraws and hides and pushes people away when he's upset. Right before Tim shows up, Dick's just ghosted the Titans because he's having emotional turmoil and doesn't want to have it in front of them, and they're trying to respect his wishes... but that solitude doesn't last long, because then Tim tracks him down. Tim will do this again when Dick's having an emotional crisis and trying to avoid everybody in Nightwing 110.

Possible dynamics

Tim watches Dick in Robin 11, while silently analyzing Dick's anxieties about Two-Face

"The watcher and the person being watched" is a dynamic that really interests me, partly because it can be so complicated?

You can see in Dick and Tim their very first roles: enthusiastic performer and the enthusiastic audience member. Dick likes to perform and show off and entertain; Tim likes to watch; those are roles they both easily slide into and they have a lot of fun together! But also you can look at the harsher side: the crime victim and the voyeur, the amateur photographer and the guy who hates being photographed. Dick's intensely private about his vulnerabilities; Tim's intrusive and watchful and constantly trying to figure out how other people tick. Sometimes Tim's the caring friend who watches Dick closely, reads him well, understands him; sometimes he's the nosy mini-detective who pries into Dick's secrets. And that's just two different ways of describing the same thing!

One of the things that kinda fascinates me about Dick and Tim's relationship is that in a lot of ways it's built on a bunch of low-key boundary violations. A lot of their early relationship is driven by Tim's desire to know more about Dick vs. Dick's reluctance to get close to anyone from Gotham; Tim's often out-of-line, but without his pushiness, it's hard to see how they would've developed a relationship at all. Later on, their friendlier relationship is marked by Dick teasing and low-key bullying Tim; it's pretty obvious that Tim isn't actually bothered by this, but it does involve Dick ignoring whatever Tim's claiming he doesn't like ("Quit it!" "Shh").

And one of the aspects of those boundary-violations is that Tim has a habit of witnessing things that Dick would prefer that nobody see. Tim's a witness to Dick's first and most miserable tragedy; he sees the aftermath of some of Dick's fights with Bruce; he's there when Donna dies. And he's sharp and observant and analytical, and I like to imagine this as being something Dick's not entirely comfortable with.

When Dick first meets Tim, it's before he's learned to wear a mask. And Tim spends a lot of time trying to see through Dick's masks, and he's pretty good at it, and a lot of that prying comes from love and care, because one of the ways that Tim shows love and respect and admiration is by trying to absorb absolutely everything about you, like a little sponge. But there's also something unsparing and even threatening about the search for the truth of someone else. It can be comforting or threatening, to know someone's watching you.

And I love how all that complexity is wrapped up in Tim's origin story? Both the giddy childish "Watch me on the trapeze" and then the awful grim reality of what Tim actually sees as a result and then the difficult connection when Dick and Alfred finally get Tim to explain how he knows their secret identities.

Tim's origin story

Tim (recounting his origin story in LPoD): My parents held me back as the thing moved to you. I cried out to warn you. (Two panels where we see just Tim's eyes, as he watches a crying Dick. He sees Batman approach and start trying to comfort Dick.)

I think fiction sometimes presents "being understood / seen / known" as an uncomplicatedly good thing, and there's nothing wrong with that! But I like complications, and I like the way Tim's origin story frames that moment of witnessing as difficult and fraught. Tim doesn't want to tell Dick how he knows their secret identities because he thinks it'll hurt Dick to know it: I don't want to hurt you, Dick, and I'm really afraid I might. And he's not wrong. It is painful; it does hurt; it's not something Dick's happy to know.

Dick's a very private person, and there's a painful intimacy to Tim's origin story - it's not Tim's fault he was there, but at the same time, it's not like Dick chose to have the most traumatic moment of his life on stage in front of an audience of strangers, you know? It's kind of a violation. In NTT/NT/Nightwing, Dick's pretty violently hostile to photographers, and he's intensely private about trauma in general, and I like to imagine this as partly a reaction to that foundational trauma of losing the most important people in his life and also doing it publicly.

And Tim's part of that audience. And he sees the worst part, the part that Dick can't talk about. He sees the bodies and the blood. He has nightmares about it for years. He hears Dick crying and sees him holding onto his parents' bodies. Not at all the kind of first impression Dick would want to make. Not at all the kind of person he wants to be seen as. And that understanding can be painful, because it's so close to the bone, and when Tim's just a stranger, it's upsetting, because Tim knows things that Dick would never have chosen for him to know. Their few conversations about it are awkward partly because Tim's thirteen and awkward... but at the same time, it's not Tim's fault so much as the situation! There's no way for Tim to talk about what he saw that wouldn't be uncomfortable for Dick.

... And yet, and yet. Tim's also one of the last people to see the Graysons alive. He sees Dick and his parents together; he even takes a picture with them. He remembers the whole thing so vividly he'll recognize Dick's somersault years later. He sees the grief. And so I think of that connection as kind of a metaphor for witnessing. Tim sees these things and they become real; Dick can't hide from them; in the act of being seen he's caught, he's in a spotlight, all the grief made real. You can't hide, that way. And Tim's got this unforgiving memory; he won't ever forget; he won't ever stop knowing.

But then, too: Dick's seen, he's known. Even at the very beginning, when Tim doesn't know enough to understand what he knows, he knows the important things.

So that shared memory is a barrier and a bond between them. It can be a source of discomfort or a source of comfort. And that's how I think about Tim watching Dick in general - it's complicated, and sometimes Dick's glad of it, and sometimes he resents it, and also it just is, it's a fact of Tim, that Tim watches. It's notable when he's not watching, when he's turned away.

Being watched goes with vulnerability/exposure

So I'm going to talk about the fraught feeling of being watched more in a little bit, but first: I think it's fascinating that Dick likes screwing around with games where Tim can't see!

Here's Nightwing 25 - Dick's come up with the idea of trainsurfing while blindfolded:

Tim: Are you sure this is such a good idea? Dick: Shh! Listen. Tune into the changing sounds and - Tim: I'm not so - Dick: JUMP!

Here's Robin 49 - clambering through a tunnel into No Man's Land:

Dick: Hard not to think about the river. All the water above us. And bugs. This tunnels' probably full of 'em. And rats. Big ones. Big blind rats with teeth as long as -

Here's Gotham Knights 9 - ambushing Tim in a sorta game of hide-and-seek:

Dick: Gotcha! Tim: Augh!

I feel like mmm I don't want to emphasize power dynamics too much because it's easy to overplay it BUT when I think about headcanons it's interesting to me to think about how maybe when Tim can't see, Dick's more in charge / in control, and so he feels more comfortable and less vulnerable, and that's often when he's most relaxed and playing around the most?

Whereas the moments when Tim's looking at him are often a bit more fraught, as here in Lonely Place of Dying:

Tim: I'm sorry, Dick. I really am. I didn't want to hurt you by telling you all this. Dick... Dick: It's all right, Tim. No matter how old you are, there are some things you never forget. Or get over. (Silent panel: Tim's watching Dick as Dick turns away and stares into the window.)

Or here in Nightwing 6, when Tim wakes him up from a nightmare:

Dick (internally, imagining a kid falling): He shouts to me. He always shouts to me. I never hear what he says. Tim: Nightwing! Wake up!

Or here in Gotham Knights 26, when Bruce is accused of murder:

(Silent panel where Tim's watching Dick.) Tim: I'm sorry. This must be hard for you. Dick: Me? Why? Tim: Well, I mean, it'd be one thing if we really knew he was innocent, but as it is - Dick: Wait, what? Stop right there. What are you saying, Tim?

Here's Tim spotting him before he can get away in Nightwing 110:

Dick (watching Tim from a distance, internally): Still, Timmy played it through nice and clean. Disarmed the perps, protected and avoided the cops. Kept any civilians from getting shot. God, I love that kid. Too much to let him see me like this. Tim: Hey! (appearing on the roof above him, fake-cheerful) You weren't gonna leave without saying hi, were you? Dick (looking away, very quietly): Hey, Timmy. Tim: Look at you, man! Back on both feet! Think you're done stopping bullets with your body for a while? Dick: Hope springs eternal. (Silent panel with Tim watching Dick, who's turned away.) Tim: You okay, Dick? Dick: I'm fine. Tim: Well, where're you staying these days? Dick: With some people.

Of course, sometimes Tim's watchfulness is frustrating but also a comfort, as in Detective Comics 874:

Tim (watching Dick, who's looking away): Are you listening to me, Batman? I'm saying the gas the Dealer used on you was powerful stuff. Dick: I'm fine, Red Robin. Besides...you're here now. Tim: You're not fine. And with or without me, you shouldn't be out on patrol ye - Dick: Sshhh. Here they come.

(Later in the comic, Dick mentally concedes that Tim's right that he hasn't really recovered from the gas, and Tim saves him from drowning when he's hallucinating. So Dick feels kind of exposed by the scrutiny, but also... he invited Tim along, so there's trust there, too - Tim's perceptiveness can be a good thing, too, when things are serious.)

Incomplete summary of moments with Dick and Tim and vision

I think I already mentioned a lot of these but here is my LIST

almost the first thing that Dick says to Tim is "watch me on the trapeze, Tim" and then Tim does and he basically never stops watching;

Tim watches Dick's parents die and watches Dick sobbing on-stage and watches him on TV and recognizes him by seeing a particular trick because he's dreamed about Dick doing the trick in his recurring nightmares about that night;

in New Titans 65 which is their very first team-up comic after Tim's origin, Dick's training pre-Robin Tim and gives him a test about watching for details and later Tim's takeaway is "I saw how [the Titans] listened to you";

there's a moment in Showcase '93 12 which is just Tim watching Dick and analyzing what's going on with him and there's another moment in Prodigal which is the same thing;

in Nightwing 6 Tim sneaks into Dick's apartment and hides in the dark and Dick spots him and tackles him; one of their most important bonding comics is Nightwing 25, where Dick insists on blindfolding him to get him to rely less on vision; when they sneak into No Man's Land they're in the dark and Tim can't see again and Dick's teasing him;

there are multiple moments when Tim can't see Dick for a bit and panics about his safety, in Nightwing 25, in No Man's Land, in Transference, in Bruce Wayne: Murderer;

Tim's there watching when Dick's wedding to Kory falls apart and he's there watching when Bruce and Dick fight and he's there watching when Donna dies and he's watching when Dick and Bruce swing together on the night before Infinite Crisis, and when Dick goes down and almost dies in Infinite Crisis we cut to Tim watching and seeing it happen and screaming;

there are multiple moments which are just silent panels of them staring at each other trying to figure out what's going on with each other or having a stand-off - in Bruce Wayne: Murderer, in Resurrection, in Red Robin;

in the aftermath of Donna's death there's a panel where Dick's watching Tim from a distance and not approaching;

in the aftermath of Blockbuster Dick spends half the comic just staring at Tim from a distance and hiding himself because "I love that kid - too much to let him see me like this," but Tim sees him anyway and chases him down and then they lie to each other and *ranting* LISTEN TO ME the whole comic is about Dick trying to AVOID being SEEN both literally but also METAPHORICALLY AND --!!!

(the only thing i'm even as halfway obsessive about for them is the heights thing because also there are a bunch of moments involving falling or Tim being anxious about heights and worried that he'll fall or Dick will fall)

In conclusion

Consider the progression in all these moments where Tim's watching an upset Dick and worrying about him!! From reaching out instinctively-but-pointlessly when he's too far away in the LPoD flashback, to almost reaching out in LPoD but hesitating, to putting a hand on Dick's back to walk him back to the Cave in Gotham Knights 10, to physically dragging him clear of the water in Batman: Black Mirror!

In conclusion I don't have a conclusion but basically YES, "watching Dick" is a core Tim characteristic as far as I'm concerned, and Tim watches Dick a lot and that can mean all kinds of things from admiration to nosy intrusiveness to worry to care to gratitude to trying-to-figure-out-what's-going-on-with-him, and sometimes Dick's resentful and sometimes he's relieved and sometimes he's playful and sometimes it's a mix of all those feelings.

And at first it's always Tim watching Dick, but later you've got Dick watching Tim too, and there's that moment where Dick's secretly watching him fight but Tim spots him in Nightwing 110 and there's a silent panel where Dick's watching him in Resurrection and at the very end of Robin there's a scene where Dick's secretly watching him fight but Tim spots him and in the very last issue of Red Robin Dick's watching the end of the confrontation with Boomerang and in Prodigal Dick's the one who notices his face is bruised and aaaaaaah

Anyway I think they're neat <3

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Deadbeat older sister

#yeah thats me

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NEW 52 TIM DRAKE READING LIST

This is to celebrate me reading every appearance of Tim Drake in New 52 - which, by the way, don't bother!

As someone who's read a lot of New 52 Tim (and New 52 in general) I'll provide a medium-length reading list of key Tim appearances, in rough chronological order. This should be enough to get a fairly complete sense of Tim's character, his background and his character arcs through New 52, while hopefully avoiding some of the especially bad bits of the New 52 (which isn't exactly known for its stellar quality of writing).

Tim is a frequent-ish background character in some of New 52's Batfamily comics - namely Batman Eternal and Batman & Robin Eternal; he doesn't make frequent appearances in Batman or Detective Comics. Tim has main appearances in almost all of Teen Titans (2011 and 2014).

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MY READING LIST (JUST THE COMICS!)

For anyone who likes to get straight to the point.

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MY READING LIST (WITH COMMENTARY!)

Batman 2011 #0/2 (backup). A fairly short appearance, but enough to get some sense of character. New 52 Tim is a super-genius gymnast, but also a cocky little shit with an ego that desperately needs a check. Technically this is the earliest chronological Tim appearance we see in the New 52.

Teen Titans 2011 #0. This is Tim's origin story. I'm not saying it's necessarily good or interesting (especially for anyone who knew or loved postcrisis Tim), but it is key reading. (Extra credit: Secret Origins 2014 #3/3 (backup) is basically the same story, but is interesting for its focus on Tim's connection to Jason when becoming Robin).

Batman & Robin Eternal 2015 #5. So what happens to Tim's parents? This is an interesting look at his feelings towards them (and towards Dick). Chronologically, the main plot of this issue comes much later, but it's interesting character context for Tim so I'd suggest you read it sooner.

Teen Titans 2011 #1-5. Sorry, but we have to delve into New 52 Teen Titans sooner or later. I won't reccommend you necessarily read the whole series (it has many a dull, cringe or downright bizarre arc) but these first few issues are pretty crucial with Tim forming his team.

Teen Titans 2011 #7. Tim sends himself on a suicide mission. We might start to notice a pattern of him totally ignoring general team opinion when it comes to Superboy.

Red Hood and the Outlaws 2011 #8. Scroll through whatever horny Lobdell dreck is going on in the rest of the issue, and you'll find a few pages of conversation between Tim and Jason. This is an interesting look at their established friendship (notably different from postcrisis).

Batman and Robin (2011) #10. Tim has a nasty rivalry with Damian. Damian points out some of Tim's insecurities - namely that the line in the sand that stops Tim from being a killer is more fragile than Tim would like to admit.

Teen Titans 2011 #10. This is the really gay Teen Titans issue where they're all half naked for some reason. Keep an eye on Tim's developing relationship with Kon (and with Bunker).

Teen Titans 2011 #18. Tim responds with a lot of emotion to Damian's death despite their former difficulties. Also, the Teen Titans have a boat!

Teen Titans 2011 Annual #3. The end of the Teen Titans... well, if they hadn't decided to follow up with a second run. But this is sweet, character-focused writing, showing a more introspective/insecure side of Tim.

Batman Eternal 2014 #36. An interesting look at Tim from Harper's perspective (and Julia Pennyworth's). Nice art, too.

Teen Titans 2014 #1-8. The Teen Titans are back! Overall, I think TT2014 has better quality writing than TT2011, so if you want to read one of the series in full then you'll probably find TT2014 less infuriating. The first few arcs on TT2014 (focusing on Manchester Black and S.T.A.R. Labs, plus Kon's exit) is probably about as good as the series gets. Tim's dynamic with Manchester Black is really interesting.

Teen Titans 2014 Annual #1. Superboy's back! He's accused of mass murder, but Tim decides to veto the team's opinion and invite Kon back to their flat, because he can't seem to ever say no to Kon.

Teen Titans 2014 #9-12. Tim butts heads with the others over what to do with Superboy. This is where it gets REALLY gay. Like, kneeling on the ground beating on Kon's chest begging him to stay kind of gay.

We Are Robin 2015 #7. Beautifully choreographed fight scene between Tim and Jason. Tim appears throughout the Robin War event, but I wouldn't say most of those appearances are particularly interesting from a character perspective.

Teen Titans 2014 #20. Tim is frustrated with his team - as you probably would be, if you'd been "training" these guys for quite a lot of in-world time and they still can't fight their way out of a paper bag. It's an interesting look at Tim as a leader but also an outsider.

Teen Titans 2014 #24. Tim Drake Fucking Dies! (Yeah, this is responding to his death in Rebirth Detective Comics #940. No, it doesn't make sense to me either.) A sweet if somewhat generous look at Tim's character through the eyes of his friends after his funeral.

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“You’re my brother, Dick. You’ll always be there for me”

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to this day have not watched all of teen titans. titans (2018) however—

when I was like 12 I was really into danny phantom and I would go on ff.n and read a shitton of dp x teen titans (2003) crossover fics and I thought jinx was cool so I watched that one episode from season 4 and I immediately latched onto kid flash even though he’s only in like two episodes of the entire show so instead of watching the rest of tt I went and watched jlu and yj and have been obsessed with dc comics on and off ever since. and now here I am in my tim drake era, getting pissed off about all the dp x batfam content, and I gotta remind myself of my own cringe origin story

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when I was like 12 I was really into danny phantom and I would go on ff.n and read a shitton of dp x teen titans (2003) crossover fics and I thought jinx was cool so I watched that one episode from season 4 and I immediately latched onto kid flash even though he’s only in like two episodes of the entire show so instead of watching the rest of tt I went and watched jlu and yj and have been obsessed with dc comics on and off ever since. and now here I am in my tim drake era, getting pissed off about all the dp x batfam content, and I gotta remind myself of my own cringe origin story

#honestly tho the dp fics on ffn were so bad #and the dp fics on ao3 today? ehhhhh— #forgot to mention: I got into dp from a phineas and ferb crossover #wally west u r my sun and moon I love you and I have read like none of your comics rippp #I’ll get there #dc comics

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dick: *returns to gotham*

tim: *has been dropping hints about batman!dick for months like a kid drops hints about what they want for their birthday* for me??? aw bruce you shouldn't've

the fun thing about dick being cast as the prodigal son is that in knightfall/knightquest/knightsend era tim was very much presented as the *dutiful* son. it is tim who is trying to help (and expected to, by alfred, who comes over to tim's house in the middle of the night to get tim to help with the whole back breaking incident) manage bruce during bruce's breakdown era. it is tim who seeks out dick to try and tell him how bad azbats is. it is tim who is left in charge of azbats and maintaining bruce's order in bruce's absence. it is tim who bruce initially holds accountable for failing at this duty (he apologizes an issue later.). and yet unlike the dutiful son in the parable who doesn't understand the inherent joy in the prodigal son returning, tim does.

#(bc you should have just listened to me in the first place so we could have avoided this whole mess)

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the fun thing about dick being cast as the prodigal son is that in knightfall/knightquest/knightsend era tim was very much presented as the *dutiful* son. it is tim who is trying to help (and expected to, by alfred, who comes over to tim's house in the middle of the night to get tim to help with the whole back breaking incident) manage bruce during bruce's breakdown era. it is tim who seeks out dick to try and tell him how bad azbats is. it is tim who is left in charge of azbats and maintaining bruce's order in bruce's absence. it is tim who bruce initially holds accountable for failing at this duty (he apologizes an issue later.). and yet unlike the dutiful son in the parable who doesn't understand the inherent joy in the prodigal son returning, tim does.

#batman x prodigal son parable my belovedddd #dick's return IS the reward tim wanted for his faithfulness all along

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screw the father's day watch in robin #163 (not too much though, i like it), can we talk about how tim had planned on cooking bruce a wholeass dinner spread all by himself??? (although alfred...does wayne manor not have a fridge??? that stuff could have been put away until tim got home lmao it didn't need to sit out all day in wait)

and bruce refused to eat anything else because he was waiting for tim to come home and cook for him :( :(

and the ingredients might've gone bad, but tim still got to make bruce something after all. and bruce waited for him because he wanted to eat what tim made him :(

anyways, tim likes food and he can cook, sorry not sorry.

#tim suffered through (1) tuna sandwich made by bruce wayne and said we may both be rich bitches but that is Not going to be me #one narrative parallel that tim will not accept rip bruce but he's built different (knows how to read a recipe) #also? “there's almost nothing he can't deal with” aaaaa

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when i die i hope i come back as a beautiful microscopic granule of sand

#I want to sort them #spicule. sea urchin spine fragment. foram test. quartz. microcrystalline quartz. foram test. foram test. coral.