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hip stretches

#stretching #health #reference

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#100%!!! #memes #language

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tim drake high school friendships, ranked by closeness to tim at the end of post-crisis:

sebastian ives. ives, ives, NOBODY out here is doing it like ives. ives was the FIRST civilian friend ever introduced to tim & the first friend tim made upon entering public school for the very first time. ives has been there since tim's second mini-series. ives as tim's friend is so important he is one of the only high school friends to be brought back into tim's story by others after his creator, dixon, left: he makes an appearance/is referenced as a long term friend with lewis (robin), yost (red robin), & fabnic (red robin). he has at least two major health scares & a fakeout health scare. let's make one thing absolutely clear here: ives *is* tim's best civilian friendship, which has endured as a friendship through *multiple* high school transfers away from him. absolutely no contest.

danny temple. listen. danny & tim don't interact, like at all, post danny leaving brentwood but that's just because the whole kid kobra thing never took off. i'm sure if it did, tim & danny would have interacted a lot more post separation. and listen, danny is the "civilian" friend who *knows* tim is robin. they went on basically two vacations together. they're far closer than your standard high school friend.

zoanne. listen, she may have been a love interest who didn't work out, but that didn't stop them from also being friends. her friendship to tim is also referenced in yost's run in red robin. as far as tim & high school friends, since tim tends to drift apart from people once they're no longer at the same school, zo ekes through with a recency bias for tim. in an end of robin/red robin era she'd be on his current list of civilians he felt close to. she's shown to be extremely worried about him in red robin #10 indicating ongoing friendship.

kevin "hudmeister" hudman, hudson, callie evans: these lovelies were part of tim's core group and have the benefit of length of friendship going for them. hudman & hudson were a core part of tim's W&W group that made several recurring appearances through tim's initial high school years & had a significant part in his miniseries ii. only lower because ostensibly tim did lose contact with them upon going to brentwood, still higher because they played a decently important secondary/tertiary role through many years of tim's publication

darla: darla is the person at louis grieves tim actually likes, okay? he's devastated when she dies and he can't save her and she's brought back to interact with tim again as warlock's daughter & has a small but significant storyline with her friendship with tim as a result.

buzz & kip: when tim is at brentwood, he spends most of his free non-danny time hanging with buzz and kip. they both have a couple issue storylines that tim is involved in & he seems to like them pretty well. once tim leaves brentwood, however, the friendship dies away and is not mentioned again.

ali ben khadir: tim's first roommate, gets a significant storyline and then vanishes, so is below the other brentwood kids. tim likes him though, so that puts him above-

wesley: tim's second brentwood roommate is next, because they spent a significant amount of time together & again had multiple issues to showcase the development of their relationship. wes is under kip & buzz & ali though, because tim doesn't actually like him all that much despite the fact that they're nominally friends. he grows to he okayish with him. i guess.

bernard: listen *if we're talking post-crisis only* (which we are), bernard falls *solidly* at the bottom of the list as tim's least important/significant civilian friend. there's no significant story focused on tim's friendship to bernard specifically, tim is barely tolerating him most of the time & is friends with him basically only because bernard is pushy about being friends with tim & after tim leaves louis grieves he doesn't bother to keep in touch to the point where bernard doesn't even know where tim ended up, only that he's heard *from other people* tim might be in bludhaven (who apparently are in the know as to tim's location). now obviously we can't ignore the trauma of tim ghosting him, but since bernard after this is never brought up again in post-crisis, he's a pretty solid 'that friendship definitely died once they were no longer in each other's immediate vicinity & were basically only friends with each othet due to circumstances of going to school together only'

#*presses lips together and circles last point* #I'm sorry but this is one of the reasons why the introduction of their current relationship fell flat for me #where did Tim's infatuation and obsession with this guy he hadn't thought about in years and considered kinda annoying come from MFitz #where? #anyway bring back Ives #in fact bring back all of 1-4 Tim needs his supporting civilian cast #Tim Drake #DC meta #Tim Drake meta #dcu #meta

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computer make tim even younger and let jason survive the joker attack AU thanks perfect

#cute! #Jason and Tim #Jason Todd #Tim Drake #dcu #batfam

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yEaH “wHaT iF”

#hgjklkjfkls #bad Jason *grabbing a spray bottle and spritzing him with water* #Jason Todd #Dick Grayson #Tim Drake #Damian Wayne #fan animation #batfam #dcu

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there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

#stumpy!!!!! #sakura #cherry blossom tree #National Park Service #United States #Japan #history

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Tbh the problem with ship wars is that everyone tries to find a moral high ground to prove their ship is superior when actually shipping should be about making two characters kiss like a kid playing with barbie dolls

#shipping #fandom

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog

#😭😭😭 #dogs #history #ancient Rome #epitaph

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Robin (1993) #100

The fact that he's reading this cat the riot act because it just chased away the first robin of spring, distracting him enough that Bruce gets the drop on him, lmfao...

Also, thinking of those panels where he gets gassed by Luthor and passes out like a wet noodle while in the midst of attempting to clown him, too:

Superman/Batman (2003) #5

panel redraws are more fun than I thought

#look at this ridiculous dork #what a goofball #what a dummy #what a clown #insufferable #extremely extremely adorable re-draw <33333 #his smug lil face and the cat's Total Disdain lol #Tim Drake #Bruce Wayne #dcu #DC Comics panels #Lex Luthor

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#Robert LOL #Tim Drake #Kon El #dcu #Tim and Kon

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dick grayson by jerome k. moore

—edited from new teen titans #86

#oh hello is it the Most Beautiful Dick Grayson Of All Time? #yes it is #gorgeous #iconic #compelling #unforgettable #it sounds like I'm cheesing but I'm literally not #these break my heart and take my breath away every time #his expressions!!!! #unbearably evocative #Dick Grayson #dcu #Jerome K. Moore

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anyways i do think analysis of the sexism that steph faced in 90s and early 00s comics and highlighting comparison of her treatment with that of tim's as a result of the sexism inherent in the writing by the writers is important & i've done it myself.

however. however. hm. despite this, i do think it's important to remember that by *limiting* it to a 1:1 comparison of stephanie's chances to tim's, of *course* steph is going to come out on bottom & a lot of that has less to do with sexism than one would think (it does definitely have *some* to do with sexism, i won't deny it). because the problem is that steph is a *side* character. a very important one, mind you. and dixon was doing his damndest post NML to try and elevate her to a main/core character. but she has been, since her very inception, a side character. and it's that, more than anything, that truly stymies her character chances. if the third robin had, by chance, been a female character and steph had been introduced/created to foil off her, steph *still* would have come out on bottom. if the third robin had been lonnie and steph had still been created, steph would have come out on bottom. steph coming out on bottom has suprisingly little to do with tim doing well. tim does well & is given endless chances because he's a main character. steph doesn't because she's a side character in that era. if there were a 'spoiler' title written by dixon that was allowed to make her a main character, he absolutely would have had her do well & become one of the best fighters in the dcu, of course he would have. it's why he wanted to make her robin, and not just that, an absolutely amazing robin. but since dc didn't want to elevate her to main character at the time, a side character she remained. and side characters. hm. i get it. it can be tough to like side character because you want the world for them! but in the end, side character are going to be treated as side characters.

so like. if you really want to interrogate steph as a female character of the 90s it's important to compare her not just to the male main character of the work she's in, but also to the treatment of other female characters *in her position of being a side character* at the time when evaluating whether she was treated fairly as a character. was she treated with more care and thoughtfulness to her characterization than other side female characters in the 90s? was her characterization unique to her and consistent? was she the token girl or are there other girls in the narrative? did it seem like the writer cared about her as a person? was she allowed to have interiority? was she allowed to be *more* than just a love interest? was she allowed to have meaningful and complex relationships outside the love interest? she made a lot of mistakes, but was she ditzy or airheaded or dumb? there's so much sexism surrounding steph's treatment, yes. but for a 90s female side character she makes out like a bandit on so many levels, even if she's never allowed to be as good as everyone else. idk.

#yes #I always feel a bit awkward reading angry direct comparisons between Tim and Steph because of this #like yes the sexism definitely always the sexism #but even without the sexism you would be setting up a fundamentally unfair comparison #if DC had created Stephen “the Spoiler” Brown to be Tim's most frequent recurring ally/foil side character #Stephen might have a higher spin-off-to-main-character chance than Stephanie because of the sexism #but he'd still fall into a lot of the same pitfalls and failures as Stephanie when held up to Tim #who is the titular Robin #actually in this vein it might be interesting to compare Steph and Lonnie #since he is basically Tim's male foil side character #and he's limited in the same way by that side character status #100% agreed on comparing Steph to Babs and Cass though #and that Steph is actually really well fleshed out and prominent as a side character #Stephanie Brown #Tim Drake #Steph and Tim #dcu #DC meta #meta #batfam

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Just giving signs of life.

Two random sketches of Donna Troy!

Part 2

#omg CUTE #and then ELEGANT and BADASS #these are so good wow #the COLORS #Donna Troy #dcu

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On the one hand, all of those writers have written things I've liked - some of them quite a few, especially in Devin's case, where also a lot of the disproportionate reactions involve sexism.

On the other hand, "[Writer] isn't actually that bad" is too strong in the other direction because I still want to throw tomatoes at them a bit for some of their crap 🙃

#there wasn't a standout choice to me in that poll #like a hill I would die on #some things I partially agreed with #some I don't have enough context for yet #though the Clark and Kon thing being way out in the lead is 🙃 #YJ cartoon......... #Cam posts

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I feel like making waves!

(Some of these are like my Anti-Takes, so oh god please do not come raze my home to the ground and salt the earth!)

#tumblr polls #hmmmm

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I went back to the panels in Nightwing #127 (1996) and saw something I hadn’t noticed before:

The colourists, Richard and Tanya Horie, have Dick WEAR OUT HIS GLOVES digging out of the grave. His fingers are visible.

Also the man dug through tree roots to escape. Never let it be said Dick had it easy here.

#Dick Grayson #dcu #DC Comics panels

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