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How old is the Batfamily (in New Earth)?
These are my personal calculations. Comics are bad at continuity, Iâm sure weâre all aware.Â
I use Tim as my north star in my calculations because we have a couple sure fire ages for him, unlike people like Dick or Bruce whose continuity is less concrete. Tim was 3 when the Graysons died, 13 after Jason died, and he just turned 16 shortly before Jason turned 18.Â
Timâs birthday is July 19th, and Jasonâs is August 16th. Since Tim turns 16 the same year Jason would turn 18, Jason is exactly 1 year, 11 months, and 3 days older than Tim - almost 2 years. Jasonâs death certificate says he died April 27, at 15 years old; this means Jason was turning 16 that year, and it also means when Tim arrives at 13, itâs not yet summer, so Tim is turning 14 soon. Batman #436 confirms Jason was with Bruce for 2 years, making him 13-going-on-14 when Bruce adopted him, and Tim the same age when he comes in behind him.Â
Dick has multiple dates presented for his birthday, so exact age is a no go. In 1940, Dick was 8 years old when he became Robin. That is impossible now, if Tim attended Halyâs Circus when he was 3, and Jason was between them as Robin. In Final Crisis, Dickâs depicted as 12 when his parents die. This would make him about 9 years older than Tim, and 7 years older than Jason. That would mean when Jason was adopted, Dick would be 20, and heâd be 22 when Jason died, and 26 when he became Batman.Â
Tim is 9yo when he realizes Robin is Dick Grayson. That makes Dick about 18yo. Two years later, Jason is Robin for another two years, take 6 months for his training. These ages fit together nicely.Â
Bruce was 25 when he finished his Batman training. Batman: Year One is probably a full year, and The Long Halloween is DEFIANTELY a year, so letâs say Bruce adopts Dick (Dark Victory) two years after returning to Gotham - 27yo. This makes Bruce 15 years older than Dick. This works for their fuzzy awkward family dynamic, where Bruce is something between a big brother and a dad, getting more parental as Bruce gets older, and grating on Dickâs growing independence as heâs being given MORE restrictions as he ages, not less. It makes Bruce 22 years older than Jason (35yo when he adopts him), a more reasonable age gap for a parent and child, which plays into Bruceâs more immediately parental relationship with Jason (and thus Dickâs jealousy over it). It then makes Bruce 24 years older than Tim (37 after Jasonâs death and upon meeting Tim). Bruceâs birthday is Feb. 19th, early in the year, so its not as awkward to juggle months into the equation. This makes Bruce 41 at the end of New Earth; I was honestly surprised, itâs a pretty reasonable age for a fit man to be Batman-ing, if there is ANY age considered reasonable to be Batman-ing.Â
Cassandra Cain is already 18 when Jason turns 18, and her birthday is January 26, so Cass is exactly 6 months and 21 days older than Jason.Â
Early on, Stephanie says sheâs âolderâ than Tim, though I donât know how sheâd know that at the time. Later, Stephanieâs attending freshman year of college when she first becomes Batgirl, so I think itâs safe to say sheâs about 1 year older than Tim, making her 15 when they meet when Tim is 14, and 18 when Tim is 17 at the end of the New Earth run.Â
Damian⊠I feel like someone told me Damian was slightly hyper-aged as a toddler, but I canât find that information r/n, and also I donât care, so Iâm moving forward as if Damian was born naturally, and not artificially altered at all. Iâm convinced the more we see Damian drawn to look more like Thalia, the more weâre just casually being asked to kindly forget about the racist âgenetically modified to be perfect, i.e. look more like Bruceâ Thing. So Iâm gonna.Â
Since I think the fathers day comic between Tim and Bruce occurs before we meet Damian, and fatherâs day is in June, and his birthdayâs in July, Iâm going to assume Tim is 17 when he meets Damian for the first time, who is described as 10. This means Damian is 7 years younger than Tim, 9 years younger than Jason, 16 years younger than Dick, and 31 years younger than Bruce. This is particularly interesting, because Bruce and Dickâs age gap is about the same as Dick and Damianâs age gap, which draws more of a parallel between Bruce and Dickâs awkward pseudo-big-brother/actual-adopted-dad relationship and Dick and Damianâs pseudo-dad/actual-big-brother relationship.Â
And then thereâs Barbara. What to do with Barbara. Barbaraâs got de-aged over the years to make her a more palatable ship for Dick (no hatinâ, just true). Itâs cute for a teenage boy to have a widdle crush on his adult friend/big sister figure whoâs old enough to have a doctorate, and then have him fall in love with an alien girl closer to his own age, but when they decided they wanted this ship to be viable, they had to close that 8-10 year age gap, or Babs was gonna look like a creep. Detective Comics 871 aged her all the way down to Dickâs exact age, having them go to prom together, but you can make Barbara anywhere between 26 and 36+ by the end of New Earth and Iâm not sure anyone can say youâre wrong. I have Much Fear theyâre going to try to de-age her again, though, with this potential Jason romance hanging in the air.Â
And Alfred⊠look, man, I donât know, he was 18 when he joined the British military, and thatâs the extent of my understanding of how old Alfred is.Â
And, you know, Duke didnât exist in New Earth, and the Prime ages are all fucked to hell. Usually, I make Duke about a year or two younger than Tim, just because it kinda sounds right.Â
tl;dr: By the end of New Earth, the Batfam is probably: Alfred (???), Bruce (41), Babs (26-36+), Dick (26), Cass (19), Jason (19), Steph (18), Tim (17), and Damian (10).Â
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Sir, we can't call it the Enterprise. // And we're not calling it the Enterprise either!
Tony, the futurist
Buckle in folks, I've had some thoughts and I'm about to make it âševeryone'sâš problem.
Been thinking about Tony Stark, the futurist who saw the end of the world.
Tony, who in IM1 escapes kidnapping and torture and says, "I shouldn't be alive. Unless if was for a reason."
who, in The Avengers, has this exchange with Bruce Banner:
Tony: You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart. This stops it. This little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a⊠terrible privilege. Bruce: But you can control it. Tony: Because I learned how. Bruce: It's different. Tony: Hey, I've read all about your accident. That much gamma exposure should've killed you. Bruce: So you're saying that the Hulk⊠the other guy⊠saved my life? That's nice. It's a nice sentiment. Saved it for what? Tony: I guess we'll find out. Bruce: You might not like that. Tony: You just might.
Right after this, Cap tells Tony, "You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you."
And then Tony flies a nuke into a wormhole, tries to call his girlfriend because he thinks these are his last moments, did not go in there expecting to survive.
Although he survives, he witnesses an alien army so terrifying, so unbeatable, it gives him crippling PTSD nightmares and panic attacks, knowing they are not prepared to defend the earth.
I'm thinking about Tony who, in AOU, gets manipulated by Wanda into witnessing his worst nightmare.
Which, by the way, involves losing all of his newfound friends.
Later, he has this exchange with Nick Fury:
Tony: And I'm the man who killed the Avengers. I saw it. I didn't tell the team, how could I? I saw them all dead, Nick. I felt it. The whole world, too. It's because of me. I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could. Fury: The Maximoff girl, she's working you, Stark. Playing on your fear. Tony: I wasn't tricked, I was shown. It wasn't a nightmare, it was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on. Fury: You've come up with some pretty impressive inventions, Tony. War isn't one of them. Tony: I watched my friends die. You'd think that'd be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. Wasn't the worst part. Fury: The worst part is that you didn't.
Tony's worst fear is to survive in a world he's failed to save. He has to "do all [he] could" or else the future he's terrified of will happen and it will be his fault.
(Not to put too fine a point on it, but there's a reason why Tony and Peter are so compatible as mentor and mentee.)
Tony's seen what's coming, and he's willing to do whatever it takes.
Here's the thing, though:
Tony doesn't actually want to die.
In AOU, when they're arguing about why he created Ultron, Tony says this to Cap:
"Isn't that the mission? Isn't that the 'why we fight'? So we get to go home?"
He tells Bruce that the reason they should create Ultron is to have "peace in our time."
He tells Pepper that his constant tinkering, his inability to ever, ever rest is because he needs to keep her safe from the oncoming threat.
Tony has a life he wants to protect, people he wants to keep safe. And, unlike the other Avengers, he knows exactly how impossible this will be to achieve.
Tony is the only Avenger who understands how severely outmatched they are. Maybe Thor understands the threat, but he has no ability to imagine losing.
Tony tries to get them to understand:
Tony: Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing three hundred feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but, that up there? That's⊠that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that? Steve: Together. Tony: We'll lose. Steve: Then we'll do that together, too.
Well, they do lose. And they don't do it together.
And it turns out Tony was right about everything.
He was right that he would survive to face his world that he'd failed to save.
He was right that the Avengers would not be enough.
He was right that Bruce's powers would be worthwhile someday.
And, apparently,
some people think he was right that he was only alive for this reason.
Because, obviously, the only "reason" for someone like Tony Stark to be alive is to eventually sacrifice himself, right?
A character so traumatized can only find peace in death.
Right?
No.
Stop that.
Tony Stark may have been willing to risk his life for his family, but that doesn't mean he wanted that to be his end.
Remember when this happened?
Bruce: Saved it for what? Tony: I guess we'll find out. Bruce: You might not like that. Tony: You just might.
Bruce gets to live long enough to like his ending.
Remember when this happened?
All Tony ever wanted to do was make the world a better place.
And, what about this?
You're telling me that Yinsen didn't value family above all else?
That he thought Tony should die and leave them behind?
No.
Tony Stark is a futurist.
He is the Cassandra of the MCU. He warns the others constantly of the oncoming threat that only he, apparently, can see. (Even Thanos calls him "cursed with knowledge.")
No one believes him. Alone, he tries to prepare for the threat that he has witnessed. He sits with his nightmares and tries to find a way around them, constantly.
He builds a life worth living, finds people worth protecting, just like Yinsen told him to.
To protect the future, he does all he possibly can.
Tony deserved to be part of the future too.
hush little spider
by @ironâspider for @whimsicalethnographies
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Tony dreams of clouds.
No, a bubble. A bubble thatâs wispy and purple and green and heâs inside it and heâs floating and itâs hard to breathe. The world outside warps and they canât hear him. Heâs high above New York and heâs a spectacle but they still canât hear him.
He opens his eyes just the slightest bit and sees Pepper already dressed. He groans, and she laughs in that breathy way that she does and she leans over and kisses his cheek.
âNo,â he grunts, still half-asleep. âNope. Canceled. Itâs canceled, Iâm canceling it.â
âIâll be back tonight,â she laughs, kissing the corner of his mouth this time.Â
âPeteâs still here, right?â Tony asks, struggling to keep one eye open.Â
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actually the best part of an AU where Annatar simply does not revert to evil, but does eventually admit to having been evil, is if he stays on good terms with Khazad-Dum forever and one day in the mid-Third Age the dwarves palantir-call him like, âHey, Annatar, we think we found one of your old guys? Could you come get them out of our mineshaft?â
Celebrimbor, leaning over Annatarâs shoulder: âOne of his old guysâ as in a Maia, or as in an evil monster?
Dwarves: Yes. That is, it killed Durin, and the survivors of his party say it was a nightmare of fire and darkness.
Annatar: Weâll be right there.
Annatar a couple days later, peering down a deep, deep mineshaft both physically and spiritually: Holy shit, itâs Dave. [to Celebrimbor] Star-gem, stand back. Everyone else, too. [leans further down the shaft] HEY, DAVE, KNOCK IT OFF! IâM TRYING TO RUN A FAIR AND STABLE GLOBAL ECONOMY UP HERE!
objectively funny how Sauron remakes his whole aesthetic each Age tbh. First Age heâs like, âIâm the werewolf guy! I breed werewolves, turn into a werewolf, I live on the Isle of Werewolves and I kill prisoners in my dungeon there by having a giant wolf maul them to death! Rawr!â
Then he gets his ass whooped as a werewolf, and again in the War of Wrath, and every time he shows up in the Second Age itâs, âI do seduction now. ;) Iâm so beautiful and harmless and I prey on your pride and ambitions, earnest and cruel alike, to lead you to your doom. Do you want to make some magic rings with me? đ„ș Do you want to attack Valinor and take back the immortality you deserve? đ Rawr đâ
Then he gets his ass drowned and in the Third Age heâs just like, âFine, Iâm creepy and/or disembodied, are you happy? Iâm banally evil. I have dark towers and orc armies and spirits chained to my will, and [tantrum voice] I want my Ring back! Give it back and do what I say or die!!â
what a #makeoverfail
#sorry but #suddenly interested in the fic where Stiles and Lydia are siblings#the Stilinski siblings #(or martin siblings but I love the alliteration) #duking it out for valedictorian #divying up their study guides #Lydia excels at math and languages #Stiles at the more âimpreciseâ literature and history #Lydia is popular and dragging Stiles along with her #she canât have an UNPOPULAR BROTHER #GOD STILES #get your act together #meanwhile Stiles is like SORRY NOT DUMPING SCOTT. OR MY COMIC BOOKS. SO THERE #which means Lydia huffs and sighs and unbends a little #and probably joins the mathletes and idek quiz bowl #and theyâre like two peas in the pod even when Lydia is like GODDAMN IS STILES #FIX THE GODDAMN AIR CONDITIONER IN THIS GODDAMN JEEP #MY HAIR KEEPS FRIZZING LOOK AT THIS *LOOK AT THIS* #and Stiles is like ITS NOT MY FAULT YOU BROKE UP WITH JACKSON AGAIN OKAY #NOT THAT I THINK YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO THAT DICKWEED #BUT THE CAR WAS SWEET #and Lydia sighs because man wasnât it #but Jackson is going to have to get through the gauntlet that is Stiles AND the Sheriff before she goes to prom with him #idk man I just want it (via the1001cranes)
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A friend of mine got a copy of an old Dutch edition of The Hobbit. I absolutely agree with their assessment that this is the best cover art the book has ever had.
The more I look at it the more I love it. Look at it. Look at Bilbo. Heâs just a little guy
favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:
Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Woodâs âoh it hurts, babes, and I canât ride the horse, babesâ and Viggo Mortensenâs âthey can be very fragile, elves, especially theâŠMirkwood strainâŠâ)
Ian McKellen commenting that âthey never did find any suitable underwear for GandalfâŠâ
Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters âone could perhaps say something about Mr. MonaghanâsâŠproclivitiesâŠâ
Dominic Monaghanâs imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. âYou have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!â
John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying âif an elf and a dwarf are in a boatâŠandâŠthe boat goes underâŠlet us say that the blame was not placed on the elfâ while Orlando Bloom splutters âheâs a big guy, man!âÂ
Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings
Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Woodâs scale double) started telling him âif the boat tips overâŠsave yourselfâŠI canât swim.âÂ
Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other
Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, âI cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.âÂ
Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him