#when Dick was a good brother during the era and y'all ignore those bits

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Honestly, I don’t even care if Tim drinks coffee or not, but at this point coffee addict Tim has become so synonymous with tropes i hate in fanfic if i see him drinking that stuff i just leave. 

Like a good 75% of the time if Tim’s drinking coffee the fic is also going to contain (rant under cut):

1. Character bashing Dick for taking away Robin and kicking Tim out of the family without acknowledging any of Tim’s faults (ie physically throwing Dick over his shoulder and demanding he be left alone before going off to find Bruce)

2. Character bashing Damian for making uwu little boi Tim feel so unsafe in his home again without acknowledging any of Tim’s faults (ie punching Damian in the face after he finds out Damian is Robin) 

3. Some combination of either Damian and/or Dick apologizing to Tim for things the author has clearly not read the source material for.

4. Cass doesn’t exist and instead the person to find Tim while searching for Bruce is Jason for some reason. Bonus points if Cass is there only to point out how sad a character is and basically be a therapy dog.

5. If Young Justice is there to sweep Tim off his feet into the arms his loving friends, it’s only Core Four and we ignore Greta, Anita, and Cissie because they aren’t core despite Cissie and Greta being there for almost the entire comic and Anita being an absolutely wonderfully kind person who was there for at least half the run

6. Tim is the smartest one of all, bow before his intelligence, he wasn’t grasping at straws he was just right the entire time, everyone is mean and terrible for not believing him.

7. Tim is the most sad, most traumatized member of the family, and this justifies all his behavior, no one else (except maybe jason) is allowed to have trauma that may have influenced their behavior. Jack and Janet are the worst parents in existence and Tim was always so lonely why did no one notice (companied with we’ve made Tim’s backstory even sadder for dramatic effect, growing up in boarding schools is not traumatic enough)? Everyone is terrible for not recognizing his trauma, they have no excuses for not doing so. 

8. I haven’t stumbled into any of these fics with Steph but i’m gonna guess since you clearly didn’t read the comics your about to either ignore their entire relationship, or not admit that Tim infantized her a ton (you can’t be a hero but i can, stay where you’re safe, etc.). Maybe she’s just here to throw bricks at Tim or smth idk.

9. Tim never apologizes, ever. For anything that happened in RR. Every mistake that other characters made is still canon in this fic, but none of the things Tim canonically did are.

10. There’s no way in hell Duke is going to make an appearance in this fic - we don’t have to include him because he wasn’t in this timeline. Okay but nice!Jason wasn’t here either so... where’s Duke? Cass?? Cass was in the comic but she’s not here either? And Damian’s a demon too? Huh. Wonder why the only “caring” person is Jason, who was a serial killer at this point in the comics. Maybe like reflect on what makes Jason different in comparison to the others.

I literally have no issues with Tim being a depressed coffee addict it’s just why do people use that as an excuse to bash characters for things they did (taken completely out of context) or things they never did? Or belittle the role of Cass in his life. Idk if you’re gonna “fix” a comic, maybe read the source material?

#had to get the fanon hate out of my system after reblogging that last post sorry #negativity #fanon critical #coffee tim is harmless it just comes with so much baggage i hate it #at this point its just a red flag for me #the tim characterization that comes with it isn't even that bothersome it's just like... #why the hell is jason the only person allowed to be a good brother in this fic #when Dick was a good brother during the era and y'all ignore those bits #and Damian would have been better if Tim didn't PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE #in the first issue #and ALSO CASS IS RIGHT THERE #but smh cass isn't allowed to be a human in this fandom #i legit hate therapy dog Cass so much like wtf is wrong with y'all why would you write her like that #just make a therapist character or OC use someone else cuz that aint it #anti tim drake #tagging anti just in case #i literally don't even hate canon tim i just read his comics and was like there are more interesting characters #canon tim's fine he's literally just a dork he's got some cute scenes #he plays video games with Barbara and locks Dick in her simulation room #but like fanon tim is just so annoying at this point #mostly because every other character is butchered into oblivion #i don't think i've ever seen legitimate criticism of any character on this website other than like Jason and Bruce #because the people writing criticism haven't actually... read the source material #so you're criticizing the character based on things other people said they've done with zero context for any reason they did it #i swear if i ever see someone call duke boring cuz he's the sane one i think i'll lose my goddamn mind #yall made him boring 😤 #he's perfectly not boring in the comics 😤 #rant post