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i love making tumblr posts out of something i just said on discord. if i ever dm you a joke and then you see the exact same thing on tumblr worded differently know that i was using you as a test subject. you are a little rat in a sterile environment and i am a lab coated scientist recording your response to the stimuli in isolation, nodding and going I See. quirkier punctuation would elevate the joke beyond its current comedic potential, i think. run the experiment again in a broader environment igor. we must create the Perfect Joke

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I didnt do anything for tim's birthday but I wanted to at least touch this one up a bit

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(Settle our bones anon question follow up) I wonder if Tim would think that he would be thrown out into the foster system if he makes a big mistake with the Wayne’s (and by that I mean a completely normal human mistake)?

Last q from me sorry for spamming u. Thanks for your fics you’re amazingggggggg I yearn for the Tim angst have a great day 🙏

Hmmm…. I don’t know if his mind would jump to foster care necessarily, but I could definitely see him thinking the Waynes going to stop trying with him and just kinda… let him be. The same way that his parents just kind of gave up on him (in his mind) and let him live there, but stopped putting much thought or effort into looking after him.

I feel like Tim would be more likely run away (which he would consider “getting out of their hair”) than he would be to consider foster care. He’d want to remove himself as a liability from the equation

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hi, i'm bowditch now! if you came here looking for audreycritter, that's still me. no pronoun change-- just an online/socials identity one for me.

it's also been changed on ao3 -- please know all my stories are still there and nothing is being deleted or moved!

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Heyyyyyy! So, I just wanted to say all of your writing is LITERAL PERFECTION (best author I have found on ao3, no joke). I was wondering if you had any more ideas for the Settle Our Bones series with Timmy? No pressure of course!! Thank you for all your work 👏👏

You’re super sweet 🥺

I do definitely have some more ideas for that series and I’m actively working on them! The next fic should be a holiday one at the Kent farm, and then after that I’ve got a plan for introducing some other siblings to the mix (but it’ll be a long chaptered fic so it’ll take me a hot minute)

I’m also writing for The Outsiders fandom at the moment (because I got sucked down that rabbit hole yet again), but the goal is to juggle both, fic wise, which I’m pretty much doing

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Dick: Why did you just venmo Jason 3k?

Bruce: Payment

Dick: For?

Bruce: ‘Nice to dad’ bill

Dick:

Bruce: I pay him 3 thousand dollars and he’s nice to me for 30 minutes every month.

Dick: Why am I doing it for free?

Bruce: Because you have a kind heart. Also, Jason took business as his second major, and you didn’t. So.

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Does Settle Our Bones Tim have moments where he thinks his parents were right, that he will eventually be disliked or given up on by his new foster family?

(In Conference Room 2B, Jack says something about the Waynes eventually realizing that Tim is an ungrateful snot and giving up on him)

Oh absolutely. That’s one of his biggest insecurities, which is why it comes up in the fear toxin fic and also when he’s anxiety spiraling about Jason hating him in All Things to All Men. He always goes back to that fear that he’s not really wanted and that his situation is precarious because it’s “just a matter of time” before this new family gives up on him too 🥲

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Right now, i'm staying at my parents house because of uni vacations. I study abroad, so i'm living alone for the majority of the year. Naturally, as a kind of functioning adult, I can take care of cooking for myself, doing laundry, running errands, etc.

HOWEVER, the second i set a foot in my parents house, I become the MOST USELESS PERSON ALIVE. Suddendly, my rooms a mess, im forgetting to do the most stupid stuff, I HAVE ZERO SURVIVAL INSTINCTS.

(Obviously my brain is turning off because it knows it's safe and we can stop worrying about Everything)

All of this to ask: who do you think would have the hardest time with their brain going off?

First I thought it would be Tim. The latchkey kid whos been handling Everything since he's seven and now doesnt have to be responsible for every single aspect of his life.

But then obviously we have Jay who had to take care of his mother and had to worry about SURVIVING. (My bets on him rn)

And also just, Dick staying at the Manor for a long weekend and fucking up the eggs he was cooking.

Jason: How are you not dying of starvation.

Dick, confused cause he cooks breakfast everyday???: I SWEAR IM AT LEAST COMPETENT

Ohhh this is a cool concept. In the SOB universe, it’s 100% Dick. He can be a functioning adult—don’t get him wrong—he just takes every opportunity to be a kid while he still can.

I think a huge part of it is just him trying to show his younger siblings, who are also hyper competent people who grew up too fast, that it’s okay to be a kid and let others take care of you, and the best way he knows to do that is by example. Because if the grown-ass legal adult can still be silly, then the actual minors feel a little more entitled to act their age.

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Bit random but I stumbled across 'The Bucharest Project' and it made me think of Tim in your Settle in our Bones series. TLDR, about 170k children were neglected in institutions and they studied the effects on this vs being raised in a foster home / with more human interaction, and unsurprisingly the neglected children struggled more in life. Can just imagine Tim finding the scientific article and realising 'okay so my needs were met by my parents but without love people can't thrive...uh oh'

Ohhh yeah he’d definitely read that and then have to sit in the closet for a few hours just staring at the wall until Jason finds him

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Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

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Jason: Were you dropped on your head as a child?

Tim, not looking up from his case file: Bold of you to assume I was ever held.

Everyone else in the batcave:

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It’s always funny to develop an attachment to something you didn’t even like that much. Yeah I do want a tv miniseries reboot of the 2003 film “Hollywood Homicide”. No I didn’t like it that much. I contain multitudes.

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Tim: Have you ever cheated on a test or exam?

Jason: No? You just study you know?

Stephanie: You know I have

Damian: Tt, of course you have, and it is not hard to understand why Timothy is asking.

Tim: *raised eyebrow*

Damian: No, I have not cheated on an exam. Why would I need to?

Tim: I’m just asking brat

Tim & Damian: *devolve into bickering*

[In the background]

Duke: Y’know I once cheated on an eye test.

Stephanie: Don’t you have powers?

Duke: Yeah, but this was before I discovered them.

Jason: How do you cheat on an eye sight exam??

Bruce in the corner originally trying to mind his own business, ends up trying to process what he’s hearing:

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