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urktola

Hello summer!

#timkon

wanderintofics

I think an interesting characterization of batman in regards to how annoyed he is when pulled out of gotham for justice league business is that he feels redundant, particularly n battle. he understands his worth as a strategist and someone who knows how to keep an organization running but in his mind that all could be an email and in battle there’s nothing he could do that some other hero couldn’t and, frankly, probably better. He is aware that in a super fight he is Just A Guy. while as in gotham there’s five seperate murder investigations happening right now that he IS irreplaceable in solving. this way it isn’t about superiority or surliness it’s about what he thinks is effective use of resources

elissagothicity

Bruce "I apologize for taking so long to analyze the autopsy of your brother's dead body, Its just that my superpowered friends wanted the pleasure of my company while they battled Deus-ex-machina number 7" Wayne

luxiomahariel

shoutout to fat nonbinary people

everyone say thank you to fat nonbinary people

shitpostingkats

Young Justice being mean to each other compilation

fallen-jpg

summer rain. redrew parts of an old drawing

BONUS:

he did that on purpose. bonus bonus:

ama-kuri

creepy tim drake you will always be famous

darsky17

oh, my obsessed little bird boy

halftonevoid

you and me both, mr. funk

gloomshroomofdoom

Y E A R N I N G

#timkon

katanahime

The fundamental problem I have with any version of "Tim Drake forms 'his own' hero identity outside of Robin", is that Tim has never had any internal motivation to feel like that's something that he should do.

His internal push-and-pull has always been about whether or not he would stay in the life at all, and any force that encouraged him away from Robin as a mantle was always external. (Although, I do want to also note that any time he quits or considers quitting, it always reinforces his decision to be a hero in the end via having that arc and continuing to make the decisions that he does, just quick sidenote.)

We also have a ton of proof, including his introduction itself, that he sees no contradiction or problem with having an adult Robin.

And thus, rather than "growing up", moving away from Robin specifically toward something else feels like "doing what other people tell you to".

It's not treating Tim as an adult with autonomy (in-universe, obviously he has no autonomy no matter what, he's a character). It's treating him like people treat children, and in a significantly worse way than even he was treated as a child on the hero side of things, since he actually had an unprecedented level of autonomy as Robin (Robin is, in fact, representative of an autonomy power fantasy in a lot of ways).

It's bending to other characters going "you don't know what's best for yourself, I do".

And while you can always write a character changing their mind (that was arguably what was done with Dick in the first place, and the idea of a universe where he just never stopped being Robin and there was only ever one is more than reasonable from the perspective of before they wrote him say the things he did later), but because of the history we do have Dick, and the specific ways Tim has been contrasted with Dick on this subject, and it being way more clear how Tim did already feel about it, doing that with Tim now would read like support of the general "you'll grow out of it" mentality that a lot of people have toward young people with strong opinions about things.

And I just loathe that as a message.

#tim drake #this is such a good meta!!!#tim loves being Robin and doesn't want to be anyone else #like dick created robin but in the same way batman is greater than bruce #robin is greater than dick #and it's a title tim really doesn't Need to ever give up to be his own autonomous usperhero

noodles-and-tea

:(

betterthanbatman1

Oh my

sinhal-deactivated20241018

We really need to return to Dick and Tim's best dynamic where Dick does insane stuff while Tim is horrified. Yes, Dick did just jump off that building to see if you could survive the fall. Yes, Dick is freaking surfing on trains. Yes, Dick did just use his acrobatic skills while playing tag in the middle of Bruce's building. In The Flash Plus Nightwing issue, Wally says that eating the "blood" to see if it was blood or just clay was a bat thing, it's not. Thats a Dick thing, he's the only one insane enough to do that