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Dick’s role in A Lonely Place of Dying is so massively important and good, which is why it’s so sad when it gets overlooked or erased.

In the 1990 collected edition, Dennis O’Neil (Batman editor of the time) talked about why he wanted Dick to be a central part of the third Robin’s origin. Dick needed to be there to show several key points:

Tim and Dick are deeply connected to each other (their childhood meeting at the circus, which links old Robin to new)

Dick approves of and endorses Tim as Robin (he directly tells Bruce that Tim should be Robin)

Dick cannot return to being Robin, no matter how much he tries, because he has his own new role now (this is shown through the failed Batman/Nightwing teamup against Two Face)

O’Neil’s goal was to preemptively combat any potential concerns or complaints readers might have about a third Robin. He had overseen the updates to Jason’s origins and had observed the mistakes they made and which complaints they received. In particular, the new origin for Jason 2.0 gave Dick little control over leaving the Robin mantle or passing it down. This bolstered fan complaints that Jason was usurping Dick, a feeling that O’Neil did not want to continue with the third Robin.

These considerations were the foundation of how Marv Wolfman constructed Tim’s origin and character: someone with an almost fated connection to Dick, who idealized Dick and was passionate about what the dynamic duo meant as symbols, and who explicitly had Dick’s blessing to be Robin.

So, when people remove Dick from Tim’s origin, they are removing a core part of Tim’s character and how he got the mantle.

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I’m always torn between loving when Damian is tiny and wanting his al Ghul/Wayne genes to kick in so he can be taller than everyone.

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thinking of Damian's implied passive suicidal-ness in that comic (link) where Dick is like 'if your grandparents stay here and alive you probably won't be born' and damian's like '¯_(ツ)_/¯ i've already died it's no big and at least my dad will be happy'

and like.

i really hope we get some good resolution to that in part 4 (b/c we saw Bruce heard it) and like. OK Bruce are you going to maybe address the fact that your kid thinks you'd be happier if you were dead and his parents were alive? like i know you're not allowed to be an even halfway-competent dad in main canon but this is an urban legends story.

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Dick looks so bored of being held hostage

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As Damian’s 16th birthday approaches, Tim gets more and more anxious. He spends more and more time with Damian, until they’re almost attached at the hip. Offers, with a tone of suppressed desperation that does not suffice to make Damian agree, to take Damian out of the country for his birthday. Starts to stand firmly in between Bruce and Damian every time they’re in the same room, twitching every time Bruce moves toward them.

Damian’s 16th birthday passes without incident, if you don’t count Tim hovering at his shoulder the entire time, armed, checking every present before letting Damian take it.

Tim is staring at the clock as it hits midnight, and his body goes almost limp, the constantly-held tension of weeks dropping. Then his face fills with confusion. Then goes blank. He leaves, with the party still in swing, and Damian feels the absence at his side immediately, the spot just behind him that he’s grown used to having a protective presence in finally empty.

No one sees Tim for weeks.

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I FORGOT I HAD A FINAL DUE LAST NIGHT AND I FUCKING FORGOT

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I offer the void Dick Grayson and Jason Todd drawn like Sonic characters

Dick is a Porcupine (I also considered making him a flying squirrel or an owl. I may eventually make alternative designs for that)

And Jason is a red fox because of his last name. Also because it gave me a really funny opportunity to keep that thing where he was originally ginger but dyed his hair black

It’s honestly kind of funny how well the Robin design translates to Sonic proportions

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Battinson and Dick Grayson - quick drawing

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A reminder to everyone in the fandom that batman has cannoncally turned into a mermaid

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Cuntress I mean huntress sketches from a few months ago

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comic books are so crazy because there's a guy out there writing comic books who worked for the cia and took partial credit for the us invasion of iraq and his entire catalogue of works is somehow less overtly racist, sexist, and homophobic than a single run written by a nonbinary person with multiple glaad media award nominations

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nobody will ever speak ill of my son ever again he volunteers at the HOSPITAL bless him

also one step closer to dr damian wayne bc i think there’s beautiful writing in ra’s going from a doctor to an assassin raising his grandchild to be an assassin but damian wants to be a healer 😔

put that boy in med school

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Ghost-Maker stans both Damian and Talia? I have never related to a fictional character as much as this before.

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god bless anyone who comments on ao3

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“that’s not accurate to the comics!!” I couldn’t care less, these r my dolls and I will do whatever I want to them, i’m playing house goddamnit!! lemme live in my delusions!! It’s called feeding ur inner child!!!

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so funny when batkids in fics are like “I have to go do this thing that’s tactically useless but still takes skill and/or practice but luckily Batman covered it in Robin training.” Bc its always something that has a more appropriate alternative, it insinuated that Bruce looks at a 13 yr old and goes, “Well, I could start your beginners course on batarangs with a simplified version like darts but… *pulls out red solo cups* let’s play Beer Pong instead!”, at this point, I firmly believe that he’s just trying to make up for his emo training-montage college years by teaching his kids how to pole dance and knock shots back without flinching.