#Aside from that though

[melljam]

can we see more of samuel in streetwear,..,.

he is always in a stuffy suit! because he thinks that he is a businessman ceo (and i guess he was) but now that he has betrayed workers, he isnt!!!

so he definitely shouldve worn the big deal tracksuit instead of his plain black ‘office worker attending a funeral after work’ outfit :)

[rubys-domain]

man. my lyney just dropped 70k on his skill. i think that's the highest skill pop i've ever had on record

[verflares]

(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:

"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"

[merlinaknight]

Suddenly I feel like watching Justified.

Walton Goggins and Timothy Olyphant sitting slutty across each other

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ooh, you want to know what happens at the gay bar run by ex-pirates, ooh...You'll just have to read Tiger Tiger to find out...

(Inspired by this Disco Elysium comic)

[ewwww-what]

Nobody is as excited about the preview as I am. I have paragraphs.

[churchyaoi]

learned how to draw armor solely so i could draw halo yaoi

[duskdog]

Ohhh @a-bad-case-of-the-stephs -- DC was dumb about this and I've got receipts for you that justify why you probably thought she was 17! In short, 16 doesn't make any sense with the timeline. Let's analyze!

When Steph tells Tim that she's pregnant, she estimates that she's about two months along. It's implied that a couple of days pass, at least (as she and Crystal visit with a counselor and adoption agency while exploring options, and Steph meets with Tim again on the roof on a different night), but not long -- because the very next issue, Steph talks with Crystal, and Crystal mentions that Steph is 15 years old.

So we know for a fact that Steph is 15, when she's roughly 2 months into her pregnancy. We don't know if she's newly-15, or has been 15 for a while, though.

Steph gives birth in Robin (1993) #65, with a publication date of April 28th, 1999 (remember this date, it'll be important later). We aren't given any indication that this is anything other than a full-term or close-to-full-term pregnancy. The baby's vitals are strong. Steph does, however, have some serious complications during the birth of her child, and had a C-section, which is typically about 6 weeks to fully recover from. (Maybe longer, depending on the nature of her complications other than just the baby's positioning.)

Remember, Steph spends a lot of time running around on rooftops and getting into fights later, which shouldn't have happened until after this recovery period. Steph is definitely back in costume again by Robin #74, with a publication date of January 19th, 2000. So at least 6 weeks have passed between Robin #65 and Robin #74.

So that's roughly 7 months since we learned that Steph was 15, and then another month and a half-ish before she can go running around punching people again. By the time she's in action again, she had to have been at least 15 years and 8.5 months -- but likely older, because her mom doesn't mention it being her birthday (or anywhere close to it) when she says she's 15. Even with the most conservative reading possible, she has to be getting quite close to her 16th birthday.

But here's some interesting stuff that doesn't seem immediately Steph-related, but which I think is relevant, given Steph's later presence in the Batgirl (2000) book.

Cass makes her deal with Lady Shiva in Batgirl (2000) #9, with a publication date of October 2000. That an entire year and a half of real time after Robin #65 -- though of course real time doesn't even remotely equal comic book time. The important take-away is that a year and a half of real time is plenty of time for us to deduce that Batgirl #9 wasn't occurring concurrently with Robin #65, and has to happen at some indeterminate amount of time after Steph gives birth.

Cass's deal with Shiva is that, in one year's time, they'll meet back up and fight to the death. That death-match happens in Batgirl (2000) #25 (publication date February 2002). And this happens directly after Joker's Last Laugh and directly before Bruce Wayne: Murderer/Fugitive -- which places it definitively before War Games even if we ignore everything else (which we can't).

So we know, canonically, that an entire year has passed, at the very least between the time Steph gives birth and recovers, and the other events we're about to discuss.

Batgirl #38 takes place before Steph becomes Robin (specifically, right after Batman unceremoniously dumps her as Spoiler). It also contains the infamous "never been kissed" conversation, during which Steph says she gave up her baby "last year". Now, "last year" probably means "last calendar year", but it also implies that this was a fair amount of time ago... otherwise, wouldn't she say something like "a couple of months ago" instead of "last year"? I know that when it's February and I'm telling someone about something I did in December, I don't describe it as "last year".

Steph breaks her leg in Robin #123 when she and Tim fight Johnny Warlock. The very next issue, #124, Bruce states that it's been 3 months since Tim "killed" Johnny and has been acting depressed about it. Tim goes to visit Steph, who is still in her cast, and she says she has 3 more weeks before she can get it off. (Nasty broken femur.) This is part of the storyline that leads to Tim being unmasked as Robin, and Steph debuts as Robin two issues later, in #126.

And then Steph is Robin for a total of 71 days (as stated in several places, most recently in Robins: Being Robin #1), including the time she was suspended, which still counts for our purposes because it's part of the time that passes before she's fired, and before War Games and her subsequent death.

So what do we have here?

Steph is 15 at an (estimated) 2 months into her pregnancy.

7 more months until she gives birth.

One and a half months before she's back in action, which

Takes place before Cass makes her deal with Shiva. 12 months passes.

After this, the baby's birth is referred to as being "last year".

Steph breaks her leg. 3 months+ 3 weeks and some days (we'll estimate 4 months).

Steph becomes Robin. Is Robin for 71 days (we'll round that down to 2 months just to be very conservative) 7 months + 1.5 months + 12 months + 4 months + 2 months = 26.5 months, y'all, at bare minimum.

Meaning that, even giving the most possible leeway and declaring that Crystal Brown said that Steph was fifteen literally on her fifteenth birthday, and making the near-impossible allowance that absolutely zero other time passed in between any of these stated events, and going exclusively by canonical sources where actual time/dates are stated, there is no possible way that Stephanie could have died at age 16.

It's canon, though, so to make it work we'd have to accept some compromises. Maybe if she really had only just turned 15 when she and her mom talked, and she was actually farther along in her pregnancy than she thought, and her C-section recovery was shorter, and she got pregnant when she was just 14. (Edited from the original version because my math was off and I went off on a tangent about her actually being 18, which wasn't correct if we read as conservatively as possible, but could have been correct if Steph had been upper-15 when she got pregnant.)

I sorta assumed Steph was 17 during Robin —> War Games, given she’s normally a year older than Tim and we see him turn 16. However I just reread the 2005 Secret Files and Origins and she was 16. Reread war crimes and yeah… I don’t know how I missed that in my other readings. Steph was absolutely 16.. I feel like a fake Steph fan.

Secret Files and Origins (2005) & Detective #810

Posting this despite my immense shame on the off chance anyone else was too delirious with sadness and rage while reading War Games/Crimes to read clearly and also missed this info somehow.

(Also unrelated but I know we’re meant to disagree w Arturo but fuck that noise he’s right for the wrong reasons, yes Steph was lowkey manipulated and lied to by Batman into becoming Robin and also yes we should absolutely blame Batman for her death.)

[markantonys]

THE WHEEL OF TIME | Lanfear's outfits in season 2

[shkika]

if u call me beautiful you can have my attention for 5 more minutes

[waitineedaname]

all the best stories are about

grief

homosexuality

autism

[lucabyte]

sorry loop if this looks gay to the viewers

[mellosdrawings]

You know, I was wondering. Who does Karim ends up with in your Vil/Leona/Jamil AU? Is it someone those three can feel a bit better about trusting them with babysitting duty?

I answered this question on this post some time ago but I've been thinking about it again recently since I've been dabbling with making a Magic Carpet OC. So, maybe her? I don't know yet, it's still a work in progress.

Her name's Kafiyah and she's a weaver.

[videoviolence]

MEET DAD & DOG!

[arcticclimes]

Bonus:

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Call that a Cave Story.

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