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navigation 📍(last updated: july 10, 2025)

about ⤑

hey, i'm cue!! i read/collect dc comics + write batfam fic :) pretty much everything on this blog will be related to those two things, in one way or another. feel free to send a dm or ask if you're feeling friendly (pfp tim is from tec #701)

(the robin poll has its own blog now! @therobinpoll)

tags by topic ⤑

personal: general | my meta/commentary | my fic | answered asks |current comics liveblogging | older comics liveblogging | comics log

comics: resources for getting into comics | panels | canon reference

fandom: bats/comics | ao3/writing/Fandom

misc: ask games/polls

tags by character/group ⤑

bats: bruce wayne | dick grayson | jason todd | tim drake | damian wayne | cassandra cain | stephanie brown | bruce + kid(s) | dick & jay | dick & tim | robins

titans: | donna troy | koriand'r | roy harper | wally west | garth

young justice: | kon | cassie sandsmark | bart allen

super sons

ships: timkon | dickkory

for filtering ⤑

recent comics release posts will always be tagged #wednesday spoilers. ships will be tagged with either the portmanteau or the organizational tag, i forget to do both sometimes.

[theslowesthnery]

when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like

"that guy's wrong tho"

[theslowesthnery]

you get it

[katanahime]

By the way, the questions of "Who is the biggest Tim glazer, Bruce or Dick?" and "Who is the biggest Dick glazer, Bruce or Tim?" are both rather close, like we are talking President and Vice President of the respective fanclubs.

But the question of who is the biggest Bruce glazer is Dick. And it's not close. Not remotely. He's the biggest Bruce glazer alive. And Tim doesn't even really glaze Bruce. But Tim is conversely the biggest Bruce excuser, which is like the opposite while maintaining positive feelings. So basically if Bruce actually fucks up, Tim ends up like "well what did you expect?" and Dick is like "BETTER OF HIM" which is why Dick is the one that gets angry.

[cuephrase]

i don’t know which way i would have voted back in the 80’s but if they put out a poll rn i would vote for jason to die. via as many accounts as i could.

[lokutofu]

A totally unbiased opinion!

[starbird-blue]

ORESTES: You won't shrink back? PYLADES: A friend does not shrink back.

Batman & Robin // Bruce & Tim

[zerafinacss]

Replace the AO3 Icons 2.0

A while ago, I made a site skin that replaces all of the AO3 icons with new ones. I was pretty happy with it, but I wanted more options for changing the colors. So I made a new skin with customizable colors!

Here are previews of the three example color schemes I created (default, berry/reversed blue, and pink) in comparison to the old icons:

Almost all icon background colors (and a few other ones) can be changed to any color you want!

Find instructions for adding and customizing the site skin here on AO3:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

EDIT (20 July 2025): I have added pink icons and updated this post accordingly.

[cuephrase]

how to build your own clean site skin w/ icons

finally got around to putting together a tutorial on how to make your own version of my clean pink site skin!

light mode version on the left, dark mode on the right:

also added a new sepia colorway for fun:

features, besides recoloring:

-hides “you’ve muted users” notif (ty @ao3commentoftheday for sharing how to do that!)

-changes work stat labels to icons (code from @ao3skin, specifically Tide) 

- makes buttons flat  (ty to @ao3skin again for sharing how to this!)

skin tutorial is shared here :)

if you just want the premade skin

for the sepia site skin, click here

for the light mode pink site skin, click here

for the dark mode pink site skin, click here

enjoy!!

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Helena and Dick sharing sibling-custody over Tim Drake

Shadow of the Bat #49

[cuephrase]

in a similar vein to my prev post. the urge to block the jason todd tag is strong bc i am weak and the majority of the meta i see for him makes me forget that i like him as much as i do holy crap

and like dgmw, i want everyone to play with the dolls in whichever way brings them joy. i just simply do not wish to be audience to every play

[cuephrase]

the problem for me, i fear, is that dick and damian’s relationship doesn’t even rank within dick’s top five most interesting to me

which is smth that really doesn’t change the more comics i read, pre or post-flashpoint

[sillywillyco]

yayayaya

[oneswordstyle]

Doodles from 2023

[frownyalfred]

“Bruce and Tim are the same person” actually Bruce is “I’ll down that roofied drink so I don’t spring whatever trap this is” and Tim is “THIS time when I taste the roofie I’ll be able to identify it” (he’s been wrong every single time so far) — very similar flavors of the same kind of idiot, but not quite the same

[vampirlor]

guy who has read 10 comics: bruce wayne is a good parent

guy who has read 100 comics: bruce wayne is an evil person and a terrible parent and fandom larpers who only read wayne family adventures don't actually know anything about bruce wayne and are projecting their stupid inane fantasies onto him

guy who has read 1000 comics: bruce wayne is a good parent

[cuephrase]

normally. normally i tend to enjoy the first week of the month comics wise.

today. today ik i’m going to be pissed off.

[slut4mattmurdock]

“Tim Drake liked Dick Grayson because he was the first Robin”

Wrong.

Tim Drake liked the first Robin because he was Dick Grayson