Tim Drake’s parents are Owls, the elite members of Gotham’s secret society. It’s difficult being parents while also running an entire city from the shadows, though the Drakes do their best to make it work.
They take their young son to the circus. Though such common activities are beneath them, Tim desperately wanted to go.
While there, Tim becomes infatuated with the young performer Dick Grayson. Tim is so excited about his new friend, he’s not even that traumatized after watching those two acrobats fall to their deaths!
The Drakes realize they need to give Tim a bodyguard while they’re out on their missions.
Tim, who has no idea what his parents actually do, wakes up one morning to his mother introducing him to Tim’s new bodyguard: a dark haired acrobat named Talon.
Tim is horrified to see what’s been done to Dick Grayson.
Simon: no need to navagate a maze of walls, no tight passages to squeeze down, this map automatically shows me where I am…
Grace: yeah, driving in tight spaces isn’t fun.
Simon: I can just LOOK with my eyes and see where I’m at!
Grace: wait a second
Simon: there’s not a bunch of blood everywhere
Grace: um
Simon: and there’s no giant monsters trying to eat me out here! Man, things are great.
Grace: when you said you had prior experience with piloting, I thought you meant flying planes for fun. But apparently that isn’t the case?
Rocky: GIANT MONSTERS NORMAL ON EARTH, QUESTION?
Grace: no, giant monsters aren’t normal. My new hypothesis is that nothing about Simon is normal, and I will continue having a mental breakdown every time we have a conversation.
dick makes people mentally ill. dick havers, dick wannabes and dick lovers are all insane. it's like toxoplasmosis, you have compulsive need to defend and push and worship dicks all the time and spead your dick mania to everywhere you go.
this seems rational and grounded in empirical evidence
I haven’t even watched Project Hail Mary yet, and I’m already obsessed with the lil characters.
I made the executive decision that I’d read the book first (after purchasing the book on impulse), and that I’d read that book as soon as I’m done with the book I’m currently reading… long story short it’s gonna be a month before I actually watch that movie.
I’ve already read some fanfic tho. I have no impulse control.
Watched pmh recently and briefly thought about crocheting Rocky and making him weighted, but then I watched iron lung and now I want to make a weighted blood eel
(Appreciates the beauty of your art for 0.2 seconds before being cursed with new ideas.)
Something about the colors of this reminds me of the show Game Changer, and isn’t that just a terrible fic concept right there!
Sam Reich, with the Eldrich powers that he has, summons Simon Ironlung, Rocky, and Grace into the studio for an episode of Game Changer.
The gimmick of this episode is making Simon and Grace get together romantically, and having Rocky third wheel the whole time.
Simon is fresh from the blood ocean. The man is actively coated in blood the whole time. He’s terrified at first, fairly certain that he’s in the afterlife, and playing along so that he isn’t immediately put back into the blood ocean.
Grace is confused. The situation is weird, that’s for sure. He goes along with it, mostly because Rocky is having the best time.
Rocky has heard of Sam Reich before, a host of a popular game show. Rocky is so happy to be here, on the show.
Iron Lung features the backstory of “the stars going out” and funky enough, you know what movie also features the main character trying to prevent the stars from going out???
That’s right, Barbie Starlight Adventure.
Now there’s an Iron Lung crossover concept no one actually wanted.
So what’s kind of funny about this comic is that in a weird way, the fandom is the god that Grace is talking about.
Consider: the fandom picks up the sad man from the movie, and shoves him into Ryan Goslings arms.
We look into the eyes of our sad little meow meows, and whisper that they deserve to be saved and loved. And then sometimes, we put them in a blender a lil bit.
Fandom is a cruel god and a caring one. We want the guys to go through the horrors, we want them to have fluffy times, times of humor, times of hurt/comfort, times of angst, times of pure smut, times to look at the world and appreciate how complicated it is.
It’s finally here, at the very end of Pride Month. I intended to post this on May 17th, but I didn’t finish in time.
Thank you to those who contributed. I’d like to do something like this again with maybe the Cowardly Lion or another media such as Rock Dog or Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared or The Tick
@brainless-and-wise Thank you for giving me this idea and the designs for Sawyer and Nick Chopper (The ‘You’)
@rainbott Thank you for your wonderful designs on ‘Don’t Tell Me You’re Not The Same Person’. I’m sorry I couldn’t get the headcanons on them, but I hate discord dms so damn much because I feel so unsafe on that platform.
@ballzofsteele Thank you for your designs as well. Your Scarecrow is a cutie patootie and your Tin, I love her so much.
@bunnieswithknives Thank you for letting me use your designs! I can never pass up an opportunity to draw button eyes!
@c0comay Thank you for allowing me to use your deigns too. I love reading the stories on them. Your design of the Tinman is amazing because of the little amount of emotion he shows, but you can still tell. I love it!
@yellowbrickramble I don’t think you knew about this, but I do want to see if you like it. I personally really like your webcomic and I’m thankful to @gravityfallsgirl13 for introducing it to me.
Thank you all for giving me this opportunity. I hope to find another idea like this that I
My beloved ship, who in all universes become at the very least friends, and were very gay coded before it was cool.
My beloved Oz, which has always been a little queer, a little camp, and a bit about being accepted and loved for who you are regardless of who and what you are.
My beloved Oz, which is reimagined over and over because it’s iconic, in public domain, has so much potential, but is just the right amount of terrible that you feel the need to make it your own.
We do not speak of what the musical Wicked has done to my precious bois.
Tim Drake and Red Robin have exactly the opposite secret identity relationship that Batman and Brucie Wayne have.
Tim Drake? It’s a good thing Bruce adopted someone competent to run the company. The kid is a genius, very formal, very polite. He doesn’t make headlines often, because he’s honestly kind of boring compared to the rest of the family. You kind of forget he’s in a room until he’s giving suggestions on the project that makes everything better and more efficient.
Red Robin? Fucking menace. Cryptid. Runs around stealing peoples things, very outgoing and friendly. Unhinged.
Tim’s parents baked his socialite persona into him early. He’s not risking his public reputation, he knows how to act and what to say to make things work.
Red Robin started as mimicking Dick and early Jason, but ended up more insane over time as Tim grew up. Red Robin is scarier than Damian Robin. Red Robin has killed far more people than Red Hood, and hardly anyone knows this fact. Red Robin doesn’t kill because that would be boring.
