#Tim Gaze

[strawberricakeandpie]

Laios faces greatest hits

[marcogiovenale]

tnpl / 'asemic writing: the new post-literate' is 15 y.o. and has now more than 27000 members

https://m.facebook.com/groups/76178850228/ ASEMIC WRITING: THE NEW POST-LITERATE, the biggest facebook group dealing with asemic writing, is now 15 years old and has more than 27000 members. (and counting). thanks to Michael Jacobson for having created and strenuously improved it. long live The New Post-Literate! this image is the current header photo of the group and comes from a book by…

[maria-ruta]

"what if chilchuck was a butch?" we thought

and Ryoko said - "say no more!" - and made Meijack, can you believe it???

anyway I'm surprised nobody's done it before, you can have it!

original panels under read more

p.s. - she just doodled chilchuck genderbend once and couldnt let go of the design and BAM Meijack was born lol its so funnt tbh. but fucking valid

[fountoflight]

from Tim Gaze's “Cascade”

[soleminisanction]

So a while back I ran the numbers to confirm a suspicion that fandom trends towards a trans Tim Drake, and there's a lot of bits and pieces around his canon material that I think contributes to that interest. But there's a particular, subtle one that's been poking at my mind a lot because I think it might actually be a pretty significant factor that nobody really notices:

His costumes.

The original Robin costume, the one Dick and Jason wore, is childish but exposing. It's innocent enough when they're being drawn as spunky children, but during the period when Dick's still wearing it into his late teens and early 20s, it's practically as revealing as a lot of the women's costumes (and, in retrospect, almost certainly laid some of the groundwork for him sometimes being sexualized by the art and writing the way female characters normally are -- George Pérez, at least, absolutely put him on display every bit as much as he did Starfire and Donna).

Damian's costumes, meanwhile, lean more into archaic/fantasy armor designs and are thus largely genderless outside some vague allusions to the codename's Robin Hood roots. And Steph's is, well, a minidress, and one designed to show off her figure, drawing explicit attention to her femininity.

But then you have Tim's most iconic costume, his original one, which is not only fully covering in a way the original look isn't, it also, by virtue of being designed in the 90s, sports a very specific feature: molded body armor shaped to look like pectoral and abdominal muscles. In other words -- an idealized male body.

Not every artist always included that detail, but it was an explicit part of the design that you don't see as much these days, at least not for teen heroes. Which means it's inadvertently the perfect costume for a trans masculine Boy Wonder. It's got built-in body shaping. The cape and tunic layers even help to make his shoulders look wider.

Tim's second costume, the OYL later suit, doesn't explicitly have this body shaping element, but some artists still hint at it in the same way that Dick's Nightwing suits do (ie, we assume they're not showing off their real muscles with skintight suits for safety reasons, but who knows). Plus it comes with the bonus gay longing of changing the colors to mourn the dead crush he's too deep in the closet to recognize.

And then you've got his modern Robin look which has the same kind of shaping going on in a sleaker, more subtle way, though it can vary from artist to artist how much the red part of his suit is drawn as a breast plate vs. a part of the bodysuit.

As a bonus, the design also has a tendency to make him look lean and lithe, in an interesting contrast to Damian who, despite being physically smaller than Tim, tends to have a presence that makes him come across as stockier and more solid, possibly because he's more heavily armored.

You even see this with some of Tim'snon-Robin looks. I've mentioned this elsewhere but, the original Red Robin look making him look older when the cowl was up honestly makes a lot of sense. That suit was originally designed for a Dick Grayson who was pushing 60 to conceal the extent of his age while still communicating his maturity and development. It makes sense that it'd work the other way, to make 17 year old Tim look like he's in his late 20s/early 30s.

It's tunic over a body suit design is also just aesthetically pleasing in terms of forming an elegant male body type, the same way a well-cut suit can be. Again, it does especially nice things for the shoulders, which is why I personally prefer it to the fully bodysuit redesign they give him in the latter part of the series. Although as we can see from the details in Marcus To's art, even that body suit has seams strategically placed to suggest muscles.

And then of course there's the 2016 Rebirth era Red Robin costume, which is just a more heavily-armored version of his classic Robin look that's trying really hard to make him look masculine and mature, which means... exaggerated muscles.

And the thing is, it's not that this doesn't happen with other characters' costumes. But for various reasons it specifically didn't happen with the other Robin costumes, like I described at the start.

Which is not something I think people consciously notice. But I do know that, when I was writing my transmasc Tim fanfic a few years before realizing that I myself was also transmasc, one of the images that solidified the story for me was how good it would've felt the first time a transmasc Tim put on his new Robin costume and saw the Boy Wonder looking back at him. And I remember specifically thinking about how nice the shaped armor would be for that sort of thing.

It's kinda funny how an obvious attempt to enforce gender norms wound up, for lack of a better term, backfiring, at least in my opinion. There's just something about exaggerating the masculinity of Robin, a role designed to contrast and foil the already exaggerated masculine ideal of Batman, that makes it feel like a performance.

[wintvies]

this could be us but you’re trying to act chill and nonchalant

[flyingmintbunny0]

That feel when your boss and his boyfriend don't know how to entertain guests, so you ask your best friend/coworker what is wrong with them

[astatine-17]

Gunpowder Tim vs The Thousand Yard Stare

[hyperblue]

jason: hey sunny boy if you break timmy's heart I'll hunt you down with a kryptonite gun

kon: ...you've literally tried to kill him a few years ago

jason: so? it's called having brothers

tim: relax. he doesn't give a fuck

jason: actually yeah, not a single one

[jesuis-assez]

↠ Tim & Lucy scenes ↳ 5x10 - The List

[aspenlovesmedia]

There is a part of me that really, really wants to keep Tim and Sasha as friends and not have them end up as a romantic couple.

I’m torn, because I like both options a lot. I know most people prefer romance but platonic relationships can be just as strong. Maybe it’s because I might be on the aro spectrum somewhere, but I do often prefer friendships in media to romantic pairings. For example I personally really like Daisy and Basira being platonic because I think it works better for their story and again, I fully believe a platonic relationship is just as strong as a romantic one and I think Daisy and Basira are a great example (although they don’t have yhe healthiest dynamic lol). Also I really like the aro Sasha headcannon, especially since you don’t have to be ace to be aro and I think people often forget that.

Alternatively, something I do love is building and having a really solid platonic bond that turns romantic. I love Jmart so much because you see the journey of them getting closer (I know Martin had a crush on Jon the whole time but you see the platonic build up first if that makes sense).

I don’t know which way I’m going to go with it. I don’t really need to know atm so I’ll think on it.

If anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear them, and sorry if this post is phrased really I am really tired at the moment lol.

[vaguely-concerned]

I don't know what I love more, the fact that as rook you can make a statement in NO uncertain terms that you are NOT responsible one way or the other for the theological implications of the shit you're discovering in the 'regrets of the dread wolf' memories. not my jurisdiction. quite simply none of my business. not my chantry circus not my chantry monkeys. irrelevant to the matter at hand here we'll kill that god if we get to him he can get in line. or if the best thing about it is seeing the lone little 'lucanis approves' that pops up right after choosing it. corvid with a knife about to commit deicide keeping it real and sensibly, pragmatically, wilfully agnostic with me here in this magical lighthouse today

[marcogiovenale]

sam woolfe's interview to tim gaze

https://www.samwoolfe.com/2023/01/interview-tim-gaze-asemic-writing.html

[livejournallegacy]

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005) 12. Ever Fallen in Love - Thursday "Every so often it's good to get back in touch with one of the reasons that you play music, and obviously we play music because we love music. And [Buzzcocks is] one of the bands that we really love."

[zombie-bait]

The way I have spent so long yearning for a queer character who fucks around with gender and is also written to be unbelievably desirable…. Frank-N-Furter where have you been all my life. Modern media will go “here’s a non-binary person! They exist to teach you a lesson” meanwhile nonbinary and gnc ppl irl are weird and hot and cool as fuck. Give me handsome butches, give my genderfluid baddies, give me gender fuckery with a mix of actual fuckery, I beg of you

[ellickalways]

two people that have had sex.

two people that have seen each other naked.

two people that woke up in the same bed as each other.

two people in love.