#We will see if i can keep up with it

[adoracora-elizabeth]

But Papa! Why? Chapter 38

"Mama!" Robert said with a very stern voice. "Can you please let Cora talk?"

Cora gave him a soft smile and looked back at Violet and Patrick, her future parents-in-law. Rosamund was planning on telling them the news about Marmaduke and the wedding today. But Marmaduke got a nasty cough and they needed to go to the hospital. She had asked Cora and Robert to tell them about the wedding. Cora had protested because they needed to tell this themselves. But at the same time, she understood that time was of the essence.

"Robert maybe you should tell them," Cora said in a soft voice.

Robert opened his mouth, but Patrick interrupted him. "I think that my darling wife will need to learn how to listen to you if she ever wants to see Downton being rebuilt."

"But this is not about Downton." Cora said slightly shocked.

"It does not matter love. You are part of our family now and your voice needs to be heard too."

Robert was thankful for his father. It was amazing to see, how hard he and Rosamund were trying to show Cora how much she was loved and that she was welcome.

"Rosamund and Marmaduke asked us," She looked briefly at Robert. "To tell you about their wedding. Some things have changed." Cora paused again; Robert nodded that she should go on. "They have changed the date."

"What?" Violet exclaimed. "And why are they not here to tell us that themselves?"

"Mama," Robert said calmly. "Rosamund asked us to tell you because she had to go to the hospital with Marmaduke."

"She could have come after that visit."

"No, Mama. She could not have. The thing is. Marmaduke is ill, they found cancer, and it has spread. The doctors say he will only have a couple more months to live. Cora and I helped them to move the wedding date forward. There is too much risk Marmaduke will be too ill in October, or worse. We managed to get the SkyGarden next Friday. We have an officiant, a wedding photographer, the cake will be ready on that day, and we also found a florist who will decorate the place."

Cora loved how much details Robert remembered. He was truly investigated in this wedding. She could not wait to start and plan their own day together.

"My darling girl," Patrick said softly. "Oh, my darling girl. How is she holding up?"

Robert turned towards his father. "You know Rosamund. She is pretending to be strong."

"She is my daughter. She does not pretend; we are strong woman."

"There is nothing wrong in showing your emotions when you are going to lose the man you love when you are only in your twenties," Patrick said. "How is Marmaduke at the moment?"

"Rosamund took him to the hospital because he had developed a nasty cough. I do not know what the cause of that is yet. Rosamund has not called or texted yet." Cora answered. "But overall, he is doing amazingly well."

"You see, there is no reason to change the wedding date." Violet sneered.

"He is doing well at the moment, the fact they are in hospital at the moment, should tell you enough about how ill he is and why they want to get married right away."

"Darling." Patrick rested his hand on Violet’s arm. A gesture Cora saw him rarely do. "I am asking you to support them in this choice, but most of all support them in this hour of need. They need us more than ever." He looked at Cora. "What can we do to make that day their special day?"

"I have some ideas." Cora said.

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Robert scooted next to Cora in bed. They went back to her apartment, tomorrow they would not go into the office and Robert had started to like the calm that was surrounding her apartment building. Cora put her book down and slid further under the covers.

"How was Marmaduke?" She asked. After dinner, Robert went to Rosamund’s place to see if they needed anything.

"He has an upcoming pneumonia, but the doctor said they were early and could start treatment right away. The chances that it will develop further are small. So, he was allowed to go home. Rosamund needs to pay close attention if his breathing gets laboured, they need to go to A&E immediately. But they were glad to be home together."

Cora put her hand on Robert’s arm. "I can only imagine how they must feel."

They lay a couple of minutes in silence next to each other when Cora suddenly said. "I forgot to thank your father for sticking up for me."

Robert brushed with his finger over Cora’s cheekbone. "You do not have to. As I said before, my father likes you and is happy to have you in our family."

"I cannot express how grateful I am for him. I am not sure if I would have been brave enough to endure your mother without his support."

Robert moved a bit closer. "Is my support not enough?"

Cora smiled. "Of course it is. But it would have been so incredibly hard without your father's support. Your love alone would maybe not have been enough."

Robert kissed the bridge of Cora’s nose. "I think, I can understand that. Especially since your own family is so far away."

"My father would have loved having you as his son-in-law."

"And your mother?"

"My mother likes you. Simply because you have an English title, Milord." She said jokingly.

Robert moved his hand over Cora’s shoulder and arm, down to her abdomen. "We should start thinking about making sure that title will continue."

"Should we not wait with that for after the wedding?"

"Cora? We did not have protected sex, how are you so sure we did not already start our little family?"

"First, because I am on my period at the moment, there is 100% certain, no baby growing in me. And second, I use the pill, so the chance of becoming pregnant is very small at the moment."

"You never told me you were using birth control."

"We did not have a real talk about starting a family. We only said that we both would like it in the future. But that's it. Maybe I should have told you I was using birth control, but it never crossed my mind. I am sorry."

Robert kissed her forehead. "It is alright. Probably it is better this way”.

"I am going to stop soon because they say it can take a while before you get pregnant."

"What if you do not take a while and get pregnant right away? Then you will have a big belly on our wedding day, or a little one to take care of. We could wait a little longer, we did not talk about a date yet. We should start planning our day." His hand was resting on her hip.

"What about the 16th of February?"

Roberts's fingers had started softly massaging her side, but now he stopped. "Why the 16th? What is special about that day?"

Cora brushed her lips over Robert’s. "It was the day that you saved me from that creep in the pub."

Robert frowned, but then he remembered. "The day I let another guy hit me, to protect you from his dirty hands. I remember. It was the night I started to realise that I liked you. You were more than just a pretty face."

"Miss Pretty," Cora said kissing him, her fingers playing with his hair.

"My miss Pretty." He kissed her back.

[aroaceleovaldez]

the dynamic of demigods thinking which other demigod is the most powerful is always amusing to me because. like, we know the big 3 kids are all the most powerful. That's just a fact of their universe. And then we know nearly every character views Percy as the strongest demigod, and most people are very rightfully intimidated by him.

and you look at the powers of the Big 3 kids and there's Percy, but then you realize Nico is just kind of objectively more powerful than him but simply chooses to hang out in Percy's shadow like he's Percy's scary dog privileges. Like, the two of them are pretty equally capable of causing multiple different apocalypses. Nico just also has like four different instakill powers and it's not like he doesn't use them. He very much uses them! Not infrequently, even! And they don't seem to take a significant amount of energy from him! And other demigods are pretty intimidated by both of them! But Nico makes a conscious point to keep his cards close to his chest and not let on exactly how dangerous and scary he can be if he wants to. People are already scared enough of him without knowing anything about him and he doesn't like that. Percy doesn't think about that nearly as much, and so usually just goes in guns blazing and that's part of why he's considered a wildcard. And then Nico himself puts Percy on a pedestal, so those who do know more about Nico's abilities then presume Nico knows something they don't about Percy that implies Percy is even stronger than him.

And even on a meta level Nico's narrative role requires him to be functionally more powerful than Percy, because he very often serves the purpose of getting Percy out of situations he can't handle on his own. That's just part of his function as a character! But also narratively he can't overshadow Percy so he just takes a backseat of his own accord and that's very amusing to me.

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

Watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron again as an adult is so great because not only do you appreciate the nostalgia and joy of it, the stunning 2D animation mixed with early 3D techonology and well written tight story with a main character that never speaks.

But also you appreciate that the plot relies on horses, despite not being typical talking horses in cartoons, being extremely intelligent to the point that they are aware of their captivity and exploitation. And it involves a hyper intelligent horse dismantling (or, at the very least significantly delaying) American colonialism's expansion into the west.

This horse also very likely killed many colonialists when they were either launched at high speeds from his back, kicked in the head or blown up in a train explosion.

Good for him.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good morning, Sleepyhead.

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[sharp-fanged13]

What a wonderful occassion to remember this happened and is canon af:

[turtleblogatlast]

Was thinking about this again haha

Anyway I adore Hueso and Leo’s dynamic and wanted to include Hueso Jr in it because I like to think Leo can be shockingly good with kids

[cubbihue]

Peri was very upset about a lot of things that happened. Within a span of a week, he felt like his entire life has changed for the worst!! He had a dumb bulb on his wand, Timmy was still moving away, and he had to go to a school far from everyone he knew!!!

Of course, the cause and trigger of those emotions was Timmy. But Peri can’t blame his older brother for any of that. So the next logical conclusion for a small child to reach was to blame his parents instead!!! And boy did he blame a lot on his parents.

Many of Peri’s actions in his childhood stems from misplaced grief and anger. By the time he was old enough to know better, Peri got a mixture of stubbornness and a bruised ego to admit he was wrong for how he reacted.

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[royaltea000]

I love Bai Long Ma he truly don’t gaf

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️

[juniemunie]

If we're not giving up, don't give up wherever you are.

That's a promise.

[here-comes-the-moose]

Okay but imagine being Hunter during the Clone Wars Bad Batch arc (in my and some others’ headcanons at least)- you have this closed-off, bratty little brother who hates most clones, is constantly bitching and picking fights with the clones assigned to your mission, and did not care about this mission in the first place, and all of a sudden he’s imprinted like a duckling on this crazy ARC trooper who was cracking jokes and fighting after just being rescued from being a POW and asking you with big puppy eyes if you can keep him before you yourself trust said ARC trooper yet.

[filthystarboy]

I hardly see his breakdowns OR when him n Logan had that tussle so I doodled em , and also ofc the first ones from the calendar

[skellydun]

I'm curious because in my head you still look like you did in your videos. Do you have any recent photos of yourself?

i don't take selfies but please enjoy these pictures snipped by one of my coworkers as we tested out things for our summer program

[silverwhittlingknife]

So you're a go to source for all things Dick&Tim bros and you tend to write primarily from Dick's POV. So, odd question, but if you were to summarize their relationship from his POV in FIVE panels which panels would you pick? Keeping in mind that one specific aspect of their relationship that you love needs to be clearly represented by each panel (loyalty, trust etc). I hope this is a fun challenge and not an annoying question so if you don't want to answer that's cool! Have a wonderful day!

No more talk. The same thoughts run through two minds... (SotB 29) / You're my equal. My closest ally. (RR 1) / I can't stop thinking how much I rely on him. (GoG 3)

25 Feelings Dick Has About Tim

This was such a kind ask & a cool challenge which I totally failed; here are TWENTY-five panels of Dick's POV on Tim sdfdsfds Look, I got carried away! Marcia and Cindy! The boys!!

OKAY SO BEFORE I GET TO THE PANELS A FEW NOTES:

WARNING THAT THERE ARE SOME NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN HERE because I love conflict but but but you gotta remember those are not the final word!! They are complicated people and sometimes they get mad at each other BUT ultimately their relationship is so hugely important in both their lives & they love each other and rely on each other so much -!!! <3

Also I have CONCLUDING THOUGHTS at the end about what Dick's POV leaves out (mostly: a lot of Dick defending & protecting & supporting Tim, which Dick does instinctively but isn't very self-aware about most of the time)

I have loosely organized my list into 5^5 format (5 categories with 5 examples each!), so if you want to skip to a relevant one, here are the categories!!

Below the cut:

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1-5)

On second thought, he's endearing & fun (#6-10)

Grief is complicated & he's all tangled up in mine (#11-15)

I love him & think highly of him (#16-20)

I rely on him & though it's hard for me, I trust him (#21-25)

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1 - 5)

1) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze me and Bruce, but he doesn’t know me at all, he should get lost (New Titans 61)

2) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze Bruce but he doesn’t know Bruce at all, he should get lost (Gotham Knights 26)

3) He is so nosy about stuff that is MY business (Robin 0)

4) He sounds like an insincere suck-up half the time... but okay, fine, if you push him he's got a sense of humor about it (New Titans 65)

5) I'm sure he's a better vigilante than me. It's my fault for being a failure, but I resent him anyway. (Nightwing 9 - Dick's having a nightmare)

On second thought, he's kinda endearing (#6-10)

6) He worries too much and gets anxious so easily, but it makes him fun to tease (Robin 67)

7) I'm not that competitive - okay, so maybe I'm a little competitive, I gotta make sure he doesn't get a swelled head (Prodigal)

8) I'm supposed to be his favorite! It is not cool for him to be fanboying over my not-girlfriend's not-boyfriend!! (Birds of Prey 19)

9) We have fun together. I can kick back and relax when it's just the two of us. Plus I get to boss him around a bit. (Prodigal)

10) He’s always trying to reassure me, and I guess it's a little comforting, but also he doesn’t really get it. Or me. He makes excuses that he shouldn't, because he doesn't understand that I suck. (Nightwing 64)

Grief is complicated and he's all tangled up in mine (#11 - 15)

11) He reminds me of everything I try not to think about. Sometimes the memories are so strong it hurts to look at him. (Batman 441)

12) WHY IS HE BEING IMPOSSIBLE ALL OF A SUDDEN??? THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING (Nightwing 139)

13) We're the same. He says all the things I don't let myself think about. It's like arguing with myself. (Nightwing 139)

14) He thinks he gets to tell me what to do but he doesn’t, fuck him (Battle for the Cowl)

15) Life sucks, so what. I sucked it up so he should too (RR 1)

I love him and think highly of him (#16 - 20)

16) He’s the closest thing to a brother I’ll ever have.  If someone hurts him I will hurt them harder. (Nightwing 6)

17) I can't handle the idea of losing him. (Nightwing 97)

17) He’s so good and I’m not. I'm afraid I’m bad for him. (Nightwing 110)

18) He’s better than me, and it’s kind of a relief because I know no matter what he’ll be okay. (Gates of Gotham 3)

19) In my head he’s the responsible one.  (Gotham Knights 10)

I rely on him, and though it's hard for me, I trust him (#20-25)

20) I know I have to trust him but I'm afraid he'll make the wrong choices and get hurt (Nightwing 139)

21) I'm sure I know what he should do because I see myself in him - not that I can take my own advice, but he should (Blackest Night 3)

22) I trust him.  When I’m losing my grip on things, he pulls me back. (Gotham Knights 10)

23) I want him to trust me (Red Robin 12)

24) He can tell when I'm lying. Sometimes he sees my weaknesses better than I wish he did. (Detective Comics 874)

25) He’s always there when I need him. (Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files)

Final rambling thoughts:

TIM: Uhh, okay, so I'm just skimming this list - do you really trust me? you're not just saying that? - but anyway, I'm confused because you left some stuff out? Like some stuff that's kinda important? DICK: No? I think I got everything? TIM (starts counting on his fingers): The time I was having a bad day but then I called you. The time I got captured by Two-Face but then you saved me. The time I fell off a train but then you saved me. The time I fell off a building but then you saved me. The time I fell off a different building - DICK: I feel like you're trying to make some kind of point but I'm not sure what it could be.

SO THE THING IS, I put 25 panels in here and not a single one has Dick catching Tim when he’s falling!!! But I think that's a central motif of their relationship from Tim’s POV, not Dick’s. I love Dick, but in some ways I think he is spectacularly un-self-aware.

And I think he especially has a lot of blind spots about Tim. He kinda intermittently gets that Tim admires him, and he enjoys it in a playful I-get-to-boss-you-around way. But Dick tends to consistently underestimate all of his own good qualities & skills, and he meets Tim at a point in his life when he's especially down on himself & his abilities. And so he's unable to see his own influence on Tim, & therefore unable to fully understand a lot of Tim's priorities and loyalties and motivations, because you can't actually understand Tim without understanding Dick's impact on him. There's a fascinating moment in Bruce Wayne: Murderer when Dick's completely blindsided & upset to discover that Tim doesn't entirely trust Bruce, even though this has been a definitive fact of Tim's whole thing ever since he showed up with his Batman needs Robin theory, and Barbara has to actively remind Dick of the obvious-to-everyone-except-Dick fact that a lot of Tim's loyalty is to Dick, and Tim loves Bruce but feels free to be more wary of him. (And to give Bruce credit: this is not something he ever begrudges.) But anyway Babs points this out, and Dick manages to sorta process it for about five seconds, but he cannot actually accept it into his worldview so instead he discards it at the speed of light and goes off and has an argument with Tim instead sdfsfdsf

All of Dick's virtues - Dick's kindness at the circus and Dick's determination to fight through grief and Dick's rigid sense of morals and Dick's vigilante skills and every time Dick has ever backed Tim up or listened to him or protected him or saved him from something or just been casually kind to a stranger in Tim's presence etc etc etc - all these things loom really large in Tim's mental story of Who Dick Is, and What Dick And Tim's Relationship Is. Tim meets Dick before he meets Bruce, trusts Dick more than Bruce, aspires to be Robin instead of Batman. And so in Tim's default version of the story, Dick is the super-special and admirable hero and Tim is... nobody in particular, a tagalong outsider who's barely managing to be a hero, not part of Dick and Bruce's family and not part of their story, who, if he's VERY LUCKY and tries REALLY HARD, might be able to fight his way to proving himself and offering something to Dick that Dick will value, if Dick doesn't get fed up with him first.

But that's not Dick's version of the story!!!

Dick's version of the story is almost the exact opposite, a story where Dick's an outcast failure black sheep who's screwing up everything he tries, and meanwhile Tim is The Sudden New Perfect Robin Who's Better Than Me And Probably Bruce Loves Him More And Probably They Gossip About What A Loser I Am, mixed with a complicated edge of Tim Thinks He's So Smart But He Doesn't Know Me/Us At All. Dick gets much more attached to Tim over time, and Tim gets unnervingly better at the know-it-all psychoanalysis so then Dick gets to have complicated feelings about him being right instead of just annoyance at him for being wrong, plus Dick's relationship with Bruce improves a lot, so Tim stops feeling so threatening. But Dick never fundamentally changes his basic theory of their relationship in which Tim is highly impressive and capable, and Dick is not so much.

And so asking Dick about Tim is kinda like if you asked George Bailey to tell you about Harry Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life; like, you'll be there for five hours while he tells you how great Harry is, and how accomplished Harry is, and how he doesn't really get how or why Harry does the things he does, and maybe George does feel a little resentful or jealous sometimes, but that pales in comparison to all his admiration and trust for Harry who he loves so much, who's better than him in so many ways, and he's not gonna openly gripe but secretly he can't help but feel sometimes like he's such a failure in comparison to Harry, a perfect person who emerged fully formed from Zeus's head with all the virtues and also all the accomplishments, etc. etc. etc. --

-- and he will not actually remember the part where he changed and saved Harry's whole entire life unless you literally send him to an alternate timeline in order to force him to remember it. <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

[shower-phantom-ideas]

Danny is just a kid ya know? Like he is just a little guy. A baby really. 14? Tiny child! Look at him, he needs to be protected. Someone has to help this poor little dude. I mean he forgets to use his own powers to avoid attacks all the time.

Anyway cut to Batfam not knowing all of Dannys power set cause the lil dingus keeps forgetting he can do that stuff in the heat of battle.

Danny uses his invisibility all the time… to avoid being followed. But in a fight? Oopsies hes too busy thinking of funny one liners to realise he could do that.

Intangibility? Give the guy a break. I mean who calls themselves condiment king. Even he was stunned.

He so rarely actually uses his biggest advantage powers that the League doubt he actually has them. He, like any naive child, trusts them and reported fully on his power set. Instead of just asking him to demonstrate his powers they instead start watching him and try to find evidence of his powers.

At least they know duplication was true since they watched him make a copy of himself to go to the bathroom and not miss any of his fav tv show.