#baseball save me

[suckdickforcoin]

When she the grand on my slams till I Alliance

[stripysockxx]

Dump from my sketchbook of varying quality… been struggling with art a bit lately

[welcometogrouchland]

It's mostly the fault of poor editorial practices that B&R is so heavily misaligned continuity-wise w/ the main batman book. But walk with me for a minute:

You are Damian Wayne. You are 14 years old and have had one of the worst years of your life last year. Which is saying a lot.

Your brother, one of the people you were closest to, got shot in the head and forgot who you were. Your best friend went to space for a week and came back 3/4 years older than you, taking away your previously established dynamic and leaving you to have to bond all over again w/ a new one. You may or may not have gone wayyy too far with your new superhero team, who now all hate you, because you fucked up big time*

And worst of all, when you do try to do the right thing, you end up forced to watch Alfred, a father figure to you, the only one at your birthday that year, the person who has been so patient, loving and trusting with you, even when you probably didnt deserve it...die. you watch him die, and feel it's all your fault.

And your dad never corrects you on that last point. So you run away.

First to your mom who can tell something's up with you, she knows you don't give up that easy, you decide not to stay with her because you remembered how actually, neither of your parents are good at communicating with you despite their best efforts, so now you're 14 and flying solo.

And you do fly solo. For a while. Make new friends, new enemies. You think you're better off for it. You've got your best friend and your brother back. They're not around as much. It's fine.

And eventually your dad tells you that it's not your fault that Alfred died. Bit late but it's appreciated. Really. There's a bit of a hiccup where you get possessed by a demon and wage war against your father but after that, all in all, you two are...together again.

You start to think maybe you want to give him another chance, for the two of you to be father and son.

And in a change of pace, it works out! It's going good, mostly. He insists you go to highschool, you resist, feel like he wants you to be something that you're not (wants you to be normal), but eventually you acquiesce for your own reasons. He cheers you on at soccer and nosies around at your fundraising events with the other parents and gives you a stern talking to about your choice of girlfriend. Because he cares.

Except all the while this is going on, your dad is currently having his brain slowly taken over by an evil version of himself that he created and every time you look away he's slowly tearing your family apart (your brothers are just barely keeping it together. The ones who didn't get lobotmized that is Jesus Christ). You keep taking his side in these conflicts, for whatever reason. Maybe because he promised it would be different this time, and it isn't** and you're going to stick with him until he keeps his word for once.

But at the end of the day?

It's like your brother says. You're not the one who saves him. Broadly speaking, you've made things worse and needed others to come save you. And what else is Robin really for? You thought it was about redemption and teamwork but guess you're wrong. It's about saving your self destructive, apparently two-faced and erratic father. And you can't even do that right.

* TT (2016) by Adam Glass is a racist ooc mess, but unfortunately it's still canon so I'm referencing here, though like a lot of works authors clearly wish weren't canon but are, it's been subsequently glossed over. Win? Maybe? Or not?

** again Zdarky's characterization of Damian is so outdated as to be ooc, and considering the way he constantly and explicitly uses it to illustrate Tim's strengths as robin, I'd argue there's. Also implications there. But the batshit insanity of the main batbook compared to B&R rn is crucial for this post, so I'm attempting to justify it. This time..

[redcallisto]

Any fave of mine gets their hair played with

[c-hrona]

Vash > Woowoo tits + mistletoe prompt 6?

:3c (requests closed)

[greenbirdtrash]

suddenly i wanna hit a home run....or whatever it's called🫠

[wtfforged]

just realized that i have this on twitter but never actually reposted it to tumblr. its two years old but i still love it :o)

[gummybearstastelikesadness]

Every now and then I think about how in LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters they kinda insinuated that Tim is just like dead or something.

They somewhat establish the in universe Bat family via Robin (Damian) talking about the suit displays in the bat cave. He’s pointing out Batman, Nightwing, asking who an unknown suit belongs to. It was Jasons, it’s a Lego red hood movie after all. During this whole scene even Tim gets name dropped.

This one scene, one sentence, a handful of seconds of screen time on a suit display is the only time Tim is so much as acknowledged in the entire movie. Which would not be that bad, it’s a Jason focused movie. At most Tim would be a supporting character if he was in it. This on its own is not what insinuates that something has happened to Tim what is said later is.

The actual reason this one detail is so important is in the end portion of the movie all the Bat family cast members gather together, Batman, Red Hood, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Batwoman, and if I’m remembering right even Alfred. Barbara then proceeds to say something about how everyone is together. With extra emphasis on it being everyone, like “wow Jason’s back and now the whole Bat family is together again!” kind of scene.

Notice an alias missing from the list? There’s no Red Robin. Tim was established to exist, they emphasize everyone was there, Tim is still not there. This leads to some potential conclusions.

One Tim is dead. Two he is retired from Bat life thus not part of the Bat family. Three Babs doesn’t know about Tim (no one corrected her so unlikely). Or four Tim got the home alone/middle child treatment and everyone just forgot about him.

Personally I to imagine they just forgot about him and he’s just in the manor drinking Zesti unaware that everyone else is off saving Gotham because they didn’t wake him up before leaving.

[nutakuro]

I can’t hear you

[a-paper-fan15]

So uh... do yall like sparklecare x ii stuff..??

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[thisisvoided]

you do not i mean you do NOT understand the absolute insanity i go through whenever i listen to the message shou left for yashiki in shibito magire like akjsfhkasjd DAWG??? BRO??????? the fact that NOT ONLY did it take mashita threatening to tell his mom to make shou back off but ALSO the fact that shou actually listens to mashita, theres also the fact that MASHITA TRUSTS SHOU ENOUGH TO TELL HIM TO BE HIS AND YASHIKI'S BACKUP IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THEM. LIKE..... BRO??? AM I INSANE OR>.... and its also implied that mashita USED BASEBALL TERMS to tell him this!!!! bcus shou is way fukin into baseball!!!!!!!!!!! am i crazy???? i feel insane about them okay they make me literally crazy. AND THEN SHOU JUST GOES "haha but like thats ever gonna need to happen, you two have got this in the bag" LIEK...... BRUHHHHHH. i am unwell about them i need to be taken out back BUT I LOVE THEM OKAY THEY HAVE MY WHOLE SOUL,,,,, they are my guys, my detective duo, my gummies,,,,,,,,, i dont even know if this post makes any sense but I DONT CARE. OKAY. I LOVE THEM.

[moghedien]

finished the mushroom quest for Omeluum last night and I’m like “yeah Mr. Mindflayer imma totally drink this goo and induce a seizure so that you can go into my head and provoke the tadpole that wants to turn me into a mindflayer. Let’s kill the defenses preventing it from doing that so we can check it out, I see no issues”

and the whole time I’m just imagining my beloved girlfriend Lae’zel holding her bigass sword like a batter preparing for the pitch so that she can lob my head off the second the consequences of my actions come for my ass

[re-velogs]

so fucking busy the rest of the year. being alive is awesome :]

[gojoidyll]

[lesbiancarat]

DK is apparently being contacted by the MLB anyways here's how we can finally get that home;run performance with them all in baseball uniforms

DJFKGJF PLS I NEED IT TO HAPPEN

[realpersonfacts]

what if I told you guys one of the best fanfictions ever written was a sports au of an unpopular rpf pairing from a popular band one of whose members the test of time has now deemed Irredeemably Problematic. what would you say to me then