#zoanne

[sockich]

Tim "shows his love through food" Drake:

Steph’s got a bad cold, and I thought I would try to make some chicken soup to bring to her in the morning.

I’m headed back to the manor to make Bruce dinner.

I want to really show you how much you really mean to me. Which is why I'm giving you this. It’s supposed to say “Happy First Pride,” but it had a rough journey getting here. And I baked it myself, so it wasn’t all that pretty to begin with, to be honest.

And his boyfriend, future chef and all around food enthusiast, Bernard Dowd:

You're going to be a great chef.

The chef, Will Trench, he's been on Battle Cooks. He grew up all over, so the food is influenced by different cultures, but he's most interested in the produce of the area, so you'll notice a lot of morels on the menu.

(From Robin #102, Robin #163, DC Pride 2022 #1, and Tim Drake: Robin #7.)

#compatible love languages! #tim drake #bernard dowd #love them #stephanie brown #dana winters #bruce wayne #zoanne wilkins #batfamily #lgbtincomics #robin #dc pride 2022 #dc pride #tim drake: robin #timdrakeedit #bernarddowdedit #dc #comics #my posts

[silverwhittlingknife]

snippet: post-Batman 654

(I was reading this and wanted to write the inevitable phone call with Dick afterward sfdsfds)

Tim's calling. Dick snatches up the phone. He's been waiting impatiently for this call. Please let Bruce not have screwed it up, please -

"Hey," Tim says, voice wry.

"Hey," Dick says. And he can't be absolutely sure, because Bruce has been so weirdly nervous about this and dragging his feet, but the warmth in Tim's voice is encouraging. "Any news?"

"Well," Tim says. "Bruce says you would like me to have your room. Even though there are, like, six thousand rooms in this place."

He has to laugh. "I told him - oh, God, never mind. Please tell me he managed to spit out the rest of it."

What Dick had actually said was, Well, offer him my room, then! Bruce, you can't let him live in the stable, come on. I thought you were gonna talk to him as soon as you got back to Gotham. And Bruce said stiffly, 'Stable' is a misnomer, I've had it converted into an apartment and professionally cleaned, and Dick said, I don't care, you have a house, and Bruce said, It's what he wanted, stiffer than ever, and Dick said, Did you actually ask him, or did you psych yourself out, and Bruce was silent.

At first, Bruce's complete inability to talk to Tim about something that Tim would obviously want had been a balm over the old wound of how long it had taken Bruce to offer adoption to Dick. But it had dragged on so long that Dick was torn between amusement and exasperation. It had been several months since the cruise, when Dick had awkwardly broached the subject in private and Bruce had said he was going to offer once they got back to Gotham. Dick had assumed he meant as soon as they got back to Gotham, so it had been baffling to hear from Tim that he'd moved into the stable (the stable!!!) and was apparently planning on staying there indefinitely. So Dick called Bruce, a few times actually, and every time Bruce said that he was planning on it.

"He offered to adopt me," Tim confirms, a smile in his voice. "I mean, he said a lot of other stuff trying to work his way around to it, but, uh, yeah. That was the general point. Spill. What did you say to him?"

"We weren't talking behind your back," Dick clarifies. "I mean, okay, only temporarily. I provided moral support. But somebody had to, Tim. I've never seen him dither so much, it's like he thought you were gonna shout at him."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

It's been eye-opening in terms of all the things that Bruce never asked Dick and should have, honestly. Tim used to insist that Bruce wanted to ask Dick to be Batman after the Bane thing, and that he only didn't because he thought Dick wouldn't say yes, and Dick was never entirely sure whether to take it at face-value. But he's been reassessing the possibility that the World's Greatest Detective is genuinely just thickheaded, at least in some situations.

"Explain the room thing," Tim says. "And, um. I mean. Are you sure? Because I'm seriously fine in the stable."

"Are you dissing my generous offer of my room?" Dick says. "I offer you my own personal housing, carefully decorated by a person of the best possible taste - that's me, by the way - and you prefer to live in a stable?"

It isn't, honestly, Dick's room in any meaningful sense. The house got rebuilt from the ground up after the earthquake. Same floor plan, none of the memories. But it's still the-room-where-Dick's-room-used-to-be, second floor at the end of a corridor on the east side, the best spot for sneaking out. Alfred repopulated it with some of Dick's stuff that survived the 'quake, and it's cozy, in its own way. Dick's stayed there overnight a few times, when he visits Gotham.

It's a nice thought, if he's honest with himself. Tim there. It doesn't really matter, Tim could pick a different room if he wanted to, there are tons of them. But. Tim likes hand-me-downs.

"I mean, I'm not dissing it," Tim says.

"Better not be. Don't make me come down there."

"Yeah, yeah." Tim hesitates. "But, like. You really don't mind?"

Oh man. "Tim Drake. I formally bequeath to you my room. By the power vested in me, etcetera. Please move out of the freaking stable."

Tim's laughing. "Okay, okay."

"Now, I do require that you maintain a certain standard of care -"

"Oh my god."

Dick relents. "I'm sure you can pick whatever room you want. I'm just saying. That room is objectively the best one. Also, you didn't hear it from me, but it used to be right next to a wiring hub, so if you open a small hole in the wall you can disable some of the perimeter sensors without having to go out in the hall."

"You make a good case," Tim concedes.

"So you're gonna move in, right?"

He holds his breath. The truth is, Bruce isn't the only one who's been tentative about this. Tim's been skittish, too. And... there's probably all kinds of reasons for that, and it's not exactly Dick's fault, but... he didn't handle it well, when Tim first mentioned the idea of adoption. They've talked about it since, and he's pretty sure Tim gets that he's supportive, but... It'd be good, to be able to offer something. Tim's such a little liar himself that it can be hard to reassure him with words. Dick doesn't really have anything concrete to offer on his own behalf, not like adoption. But ... Tim likes symbols, and this is a silly one but at least it's something.

"I... you're sure?"

"I need a caretaker, Timmy. Think of my poor room, languishing, abandoned -"

Tim's giggling. Victory. "Have you ever even actually stayed there?"

"I feel a profound emotional connection," Dick says. "My room's connection to me transcends space, time, the Richter scale, and Bruce's frankly awful decision to paint all the new walls in a different shade. We're spiritually bonded. I'm counting on you. Also, I ran into Clancy again, and if I have to tell her that my honorary little brother is living in a stable, I may physically expire from shame."

Actually, wait.

"My official little brother," Dick corrects.

Shit. He should've asked that first.

"It is gonna be official, right? Please tell me you said yes." Is that too pushy? "Unless you really don't want to, which I respect, I just-"

"Dick, relax!" But there's a note in Tim's voice that's something like relief. "I said yes."

Oh, thank God. "Good."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

They're quiet for a while. It is good, so good that it doesn't quite feel real yet. Dick's been waiting for this for a few months, but in a weird way, it feels like he's been waiting for it for years. And... it's been a hard year, it really has. But there have been good moments. This is definitely one of them.

"We gotta do something," Dick says, past the lump in his throat. "To celebrate. We can go camping or something. You like camping, right?"

This is an educated guess. Tim once talked his team into a camping trip and then way, way, way overprepared for it, which was probably at least partially anxiety but also seemed to involve a lot of enthusiasm. And Dick used to go camping with his Titans, too.

"I like camping," Tim confirms.

"So I'll take you to the Adirondacks. Tell Bruce. He's gotta get his celebrations scheduled in, because next weekend, you're gonna be gone on a camping trip." Hmm. "I mean, unless you'd like to invite him?"

"No," Tim says. "That sounds perfect. I..." A long silence. "I'm really grateful. I really am. I just... I'd like to do that, Dick, really."

They haven't talked about Jack Drake. But.

It's not like Dick can read Tim's mind or anything. And the situation is different. He knows that. He has to watch himself, and actually pay attention to Tim, and not just project on him. But... he does like to think he can read Tim pretty well. And it doesn't take an expert to guess that an official new brother might be a little easier to handle, to make peace with, than an official new father.

Adoption is the right thing for Tim, the obvious thing, Dick feels sure of it. He doesn't want Tim to be left guessing for ages, the way Dick used to feel, unsure if he was really part of the family or just an incidental ally. But just because it's the right thing doesn't mean it'll be easy all the way through. So maybe Dick can ease that transition, a bit.

Plus. Selfishly. It'll just be nice. To see Tim. To have a bit of time that's just for them.

Officially brothers. At last. For real.

"See you soon," he says.

"Thanks," Tim says. "Really. I'll tell Bruce." And then, a bit impish, "And on the trip, you can tell me about you and Clancy."

Ooh, so he caught that. The best defense is a good offense. "Sure. And you can tell me about your new study buddy. What did you say her name was? Zoanne?"

"Or I can catch you up on cases," Tim pivots.

Heh. "See you soon, Boy Wonder."

#my fic #dick grayson #tim drake #dick & tim #i don't remember if tim had met zoanne by this point tim's love life is complicated let's just pretend he has #anyway doylistically i THINK the weird phrasing of what dick 'would want' is because this was written #when the writers thought dick was gonna be dead #and obviously doylistically the writers are also just ignoring that the house collapsed and got completely rebuilt #which is valid! they are valid #but i find it funny to imagine that the whole house collapsed but there's still one room that's 'dick's room' as far as bruce is concerned

[ectonurites]

The thing about ‘Tim is into blondes’ that really weirds me out is that no only has he dated more girls with dark hair but it’s that people are actively ignoring the women of colour that were love interests bc that doesn’t fit their narrative. Like Tim is shown to specifically not have a type like you said he specifically states he doesn’t care but in insisting that he likes blondes it just ends up feeling worse than just a little fanon. Idk I don’t think people are actually trying to be racist bc I don’t trust them to actually know canon but you know it’s just weird.

I might not make sense but it’s something I think about

Oh anon don't worry you 100% make sense and I absolutely have had this thought before, too.

Like I do agree that it's in large part a result of 'people not actually reading Tim's comics or being familiar with his canon' because it's not like these girls are the only big part of Tim's canon that the fanon-heavy people ignore... but the end result of them getting ignored is the same regardless of intent, and it fucking sucks!

#begging people to pay attention to Zoanne Wilkins. i think Tam gets a bit more attention just bc she's in the Red Robin era. and #to a certain extent I understand why people talk about Lynx II less because that was really just a few kisses on rooftops rather than #a relationship or a focused-on dynamic but. Zoanne was his girlfriend! she was a major supporting character in Robin for A WHILE! #yet people act like she doesn't exist and it fucking sucks!!!!!!!!!!! #also sorry the post you were responding to my tags on is like. buried at this point bc you sent it yesterday i just didn't have a #chance to answer this until Now sgdfhg

[roseandgold137]

if I was let into a dc’s writer room for even just five (5) minutes I could bring back so many civilian characters… star, Bailey, zo, ariana, Callie I’m coming darlings dw. I’ll throw Darla/Laura in as my superhero lead. Tim appears sometimes but only as their funny little brother guy

#dc hire me I’ve got good ideas promise #tim drake #star #bailey #zoanne wilkins #callie evans #ariana dzerchenko #darla aquista #laura fell #warlocks daughter

[speedforce-paradox]

I think Tim is a lot of people’s “Lacy”

#tim drake #robin #dc comics #bruce wayne #Danny temple #tam fox #Karl Ranck #stephanie brown #miguel barragan #Conner Kent #Ariana Dzerchenko #Greta Hayes #Norris #sebastian ives #Zoanne Wilkins #Shen Chi #Darla Acquista #bernard dowd #Dava Sborsc #jubilee #lynx 2 #buzz cohen #cullen row #lonnie machin #wesley thomas

[mamawasatesttube]

just remembered how megfitz made tim think about how bernard is so much better than all the other relationships he'd "settled for" and was once again briefly consumed by rage. meghan you apologize to zoanne wilkins right the fuck now

#rimi talks #like also apologize to ari and steph and all but. i specifically am a zoanne wilkins stan blog until i die. so #i can't lie. this line alone made me dislike tim/ber significantly more than i did before reading it #and the rest of tdr did Not help with that. #protip: if you have to put down women in order to prop up your m/m ship i WILL hate that m/m ship out of spite immediately #especially when you do nothing to sell me on the ship other than going HEY THEYRE PERFECT BTW. THEYRE SO PERFECT TOGETHER. like... ok #can you tell me why they even like each other tho. (she cannot bc she doesnt know how to write a mediocre romance forget a compelling one) #god i really just. that comic was a trash fire. lord. the mentions of kon in it made the kill bill sirens go off in my head #anyways. its fine tdr isnt real it cant hurt me. but meghan does still owe my girls an apology lmao

[soleminisanction]

Thoughts on Zoanne? I liked her and I’m a little disappointed because I feel like DC pushed her aside so Tim and Steph could have drama and I like to hear your opinion on things DC related :]

I liked her too. And I thought her relationship with Tim was built up nicely. I like her in the same way that I like Bernard, and to a lesser extent Ives, in that they all give Tim a nice bit of civilian normalcy to fall back on, which DC just, doesn't utilize nearly enough of these days.

The only thing I wasn't as keen about was that her story was unfolding at the same time as the Tim/Cassie storyline over in Teen Titans, and I absolutely love that pairing, so I was rooting for them, and mostly hoped Tim and Zoanne would end up as friends because I didn't want him to be painted as a two-timer.

But then, ugh, Steph came back and both Zoanne and Cassie were absolutely shoved to the side for her drama. More than that, Dixon shoved them all aside, because he just had to have his precious OTP, couldn't imagine Tim ever moving on from his beloved little princess, especially not with (gasp) a Black girl. The way Dixon writes Zoanne is just, ulgh. Homegirl deserved better.

#dc comics asks #zoanne wilkins #tim drake #ask me stuff #stephanie brown critical #chuck dixon critical

[misspickman]

pacing around the room looking very troubled: timtam could have been THE tim ship

#i dont think i need to elaborate everyone who read has red robin knows what i mean #i understand why t/msteph is the most popular out of canon but man... you know #i enjoyed all the relationships in robin btw. were they all good for the characters perhaps not! they were fun tho! #i think we should bring ariana and zoanne back #but most of all i think dc should let tim and tam interact and date again (delusional) #txt

[sockich]

Steph's got a bad cold, and I thought I would try to make some chicken soup to bring to her in the morning. / I'm headed back to the manor to make Bruce dinner. / It's supposed to say "Happy First Pride" but it had a rough journey getting here. And I baked it myself, so it wasn't all that pretty to begin with, to be honest.

Tim Drake showing his love through food from Robin #102 (by Jon Lewis, art by Pete Woods), Robin #163 (by Adam Beechen, art by Freddie E. Williams II), and DC Pride 2022 #1 (by Travis G. Moore).

Bonus:

#lgbtincomics #tim drake #love him #bernard dowd #stephanie brown #bruce wayne #love them #batfamily #dana winters #zoanne wilkins #alfred pennyworth #robin #dc pride #dc pride 2022 #timdrakeedit #dc #comics #my posts

[sonofapunk]

*taps mic* zoanne, tam, callie, hudman, darla, bernard, tim, lonnie friend group

#thank u that is all #just imagine these groups metastasizing #into one giant conglomerate friend group #tim drake #lonnie machin #sebastian ives #callie evans #kevin hudman #bernard dowd #darla aquista #zoanne wilkins #tam fox #their discord chat is insane

[alvindraperzzz]

“Tim has a thing for blondes” is Ariana Dzerchenko erasure and I will not stand for it

#tim drake #robin #ariana dzerchenko #and Zoanne Wilkins erasure too but it’s snappier to say one name #and jubilee erasure #and tam fox erasure #he has liked more dark haired people than blondes #i don’t know why it’s so annoying to me #i guess it’s like the coffee addict thing #people flattening the character to a token zinger and ignoring huge swathes of history and characterization

[mzminola]

Okay so this is funny to me. I’m only partway through the Brentwood arc but I already know some of Tim’s trajectory after that from fandom osmosis, so.

When Tim & Steph first meet, they are both living in the suburbs. Steph in Manchester, Tim in Bristol (I don’t remember if it’s after Jack woke up and moved them there, or if Tim was living with Bruce, but it’s definitely after losing Janet). There’s not really maps to show how close or far from each other these are, but Steph considers it part of her turf to investigate things at Tim’s school, Gotham Heights High, which she does not attend.

The quake results in a lot of people leaving Gotham City, and students getting shuffled around, and for some reason despite not moving, Steph is transferred from ‘City Central’ to ‘Gotham Heights’... but Tim only sees her there exactly once, when she’s coming to collect stuff because she’s temporarily homeschooling during her pregnancy. We get the name of her old school because she mentions that the girls who talked to her were from there too.

Tim’s dad yeets the family to Keystone, Tim comes back for Steph’s labor, and talks his dad into moving back to Gotham/Bristol (Jack does not take much convincing). Tim then winds up in Gotham City when it’s No Man’s Land, and then airlifted out, and since this is Tim’s third Very Worrying Running Away Incident from Jack’s perspective, he enrolls Tim in Brentwood, and makes him board despite it being close enough to attend as a day student.

Steph is presumably back at Gotham Heights High still, pregnancy done, though maybe she goes back to City Central, idk. She & her mom are still in the house we met them in, because it becomes a plot point that Arthur has his name on the mortgage (fuck that guy).

This shuffling is all during the era where Steph doesn’t know Tim’s identity. So keeping them Not At The Same School is important for the writers, but there isn’t really any reason to have her be at Gotham Heights at all except to give Tim a jump scare. The preachy convo with her classmates could’ve happened in one of her own sections, which the comics have never shied away from.

Then during the Brentwood arc, Bruce is a jackass and tells Steph Tim’s identity.

So the writers don’t need to keep them apart at school anymore, right? Presumably?

BUT THEY DO ANYWAY!

This is hysterical.

Tim leaves Brentwood because Drake Industries goes up in smoke so Jack can’t pay the private school tuition, and sells the house in Bristol and moves them back into the city, where Tim attends Louis E. Grave Memorial High, while Steph still lives out in the burbs and presumably goes to school there.

So when the writers want More Assumed Cheating Drama of having Steph see Tim’s classmate kiss him, they have to have her stalking him rather than just, like, turning down the hallway at the wrong moment. Or meeting him to study in the library after class lets out. Or anything other than Batman levels of unnecessary creepiness.

Then Steph is ‘dead’ for a bit, we’re skipping all that, Tim eventually winds up at Gotham City High, which as far as I can tell is in the city itself, and hey, Ives comes back! Yay Ives :D

The fanwiki tells me Steph graduated from Gotham City High, but I have no idea if she and Tim are actually there at the same time because her return is a clusterfuck near the end of the series, and she’s at college during Red Robin, which would’ve been his senior year if he hadn’t dropped out. Her age shifts around in canon but she’s consistently older than him.

They are NEVER at the same school I love it. Fucking hilarious.

#I could be wrong about the location of Gotham City High but it doesn't matter much for this #min reads comics #DC #Batfam #Tim Drake #and his endlessly changing school roster #Stephanie Brown #and her adventures in suburbia #hey doesn't Bruce crash one of Tim's dates with Zoanne? #Steph and Bruce really do have a lot in common huh

[roseandgold137]

Yes most of these were Tim’s love interests. And what about it

#no cass cain sorry #I prefer a sister dynamic for them bc I hc cass as about Jason’s age #stephanie brown #spoiler #cassie sandsmark #wonder girl #cissie king jones #arrowette #anita fite #empress #greta hayes #secret #zoanne wilkins #darla aquista #laura fell #ariana dzerchenko #tam fox #darcy thomas #bailey

[mayasdeluca]

Do you watch Mama Erin? She had a theory that J*ck survives (complete with a still) but has an illness that prevents him from being a firefighter. I wanted to elaborate because in that trailer still he's in a beanie and usually people with brain injuries/tumors wear beanies when they're in treatment. And because he has no family, he still hangs around the firehouse. He'll be the firehouse pet LOL.

I see some of her videos sometimes and I did see that one. I think that's pretty likely. With all of his head injuries too, it's pretty realistic that he wouldn't be cleared to be a firefighter for a while, if ever again. I think that could also be what Andy meant in the trailer when she said to Ross she doesn't want to lose 'another' firefighter, meaning that she lost Jack because he can't work anymore. But honestly if Jack and then Theo gets demoted/leaves and those two aren't at the station anymore, I will praise Peter and Zoanne for doing what should have been done seasons ago. This group was always too big and those two are the ones who should have been the first to go (along with Beckett who I still can't even believe is actually sticking around this season, I thought he'd be gone permanently last season anyway). But yeah Jack will at least still be around in some capacity it seems.

#asks #anon #peter and zoanne really seem to know what they're doing and i wish they had more than 10 episodes #it's so frustrating

[mamawasatesttube]

im going to make kon and zoanne hang out. i have the power

#rimi talks #hear me out. they could get along great #source: dude trust me #i think they're both neat and therefore i want them to hang out. i have a whole idea for this in my head. HEAR ME OUT #do i NEED to start another wip? well no. but also yes. for zoanne.

[cocopop-04]

okay so im curious...

couldn't fit them all :(

Others include: Lynx, Zoanne Wilkins, Darla Aquista, Jubilee, Barbara Gordon, Kon+Bernard, Bart+Kon, Bart+Cassie+Kon, Cissie King-Jones, Bernard+Steph, Jason+Kon, Greta Hayes, Ra's al Ghul, Damian Wayne, Roy Harper, Slobo, Match etc.

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