#but welcome back Robin!!

[rizz07]

Wait, Robin is in the car!!

[qweenofurheart]

Immediately after the photo was taken, photographer Stephanie Brown remarked that she “had never seen him serve cunt this hard,” prompting Drake to flee the scene, stating that he was “going home to change.”

[goobstergoo]

bruce wayne encountering cat noir somehow and clocking that he’s:

✅a silly little guy

✅does flips and whatnot

✅dressed like a cat

and is immediately like I’ve Got To Adopt This Kid. He Would Fit Right In With All My Other Little Freaks.

Alfred is reminding him as he gets home that he can’t adopt every kid he sees, some still have parents!!!

[ryllen]

this PSA is brought to u, by first year farmer ・゚ *✧

[remarcely]

Non-Human Tim Drake Prompt

The Drakes were unable to bear a child, so they made one.

They used clay from their dig sites, having come across grounds so imbued with magic that it was pouring out of the material in waves, and shaped a child- a little boy. He had Janet's smile, Jacks eyes, and a chunk of ruby, chipped off from an artifact the couple had found years ago, in place of a heart. They'd dried the clay child for thirty days and thirty nights, carefully checking him for cracks and crumbling patches. On the morning of the thirty-first day he opened his eyes and Timothy Drake was ‘born’.

He had once asked what power created him. Tim had heard of the tales of a puppet boy, so loved by his father that a fairy bestowed him with life, and asked his mother if the same fairy had blessed him. Janet had laughed, not taking him seriously, and patted his cheek.

“Oh, my darling, you weren’t made for no reason. You are the heir to the Drake name, a perfect little creation.” She stood from where she’d been crouched and began to leave the room, not bothering to look over her shoulder “Fairies are not real, Timothy, and neither is ‘true love’. There is only us and our requisites. You will placate our plans in a way flesh and blood never could.”

Tim understands the words his mother isn’t saying. That Love had nothing to do with it, only necessity for a child to keep something so arbitrary as a family name alive.

He wasn’t their son, he was a vessel, and if he wanted to remain a Drake then he’d need to serve his purpose;

Perfection.

[smolljester]

look im just saying that itd be really funny if Miss Lera Abova also played Nico Olvia in the live action. wed have every version of Robin (dub/sub/live action) also play her mum and the meme potential for that is ungodly.

[peachie-wren13]

yk what's cheaper than medication for my mental illnesses or therapy?

cutting and dying my hair to look like my two favorite robins.

Tim Drake cut with the Jason Todd color, this is the hottest I have ever looked and felt in my 21 years of life.

the blonde is yellower than it should be but purple shampoo should fix that tomorrow. I am endlessly pleased with how it came out.

This is so gender and I will be absolutely insufferable about this for the forseeable future.

[envyenvys]

Stobin Mandalorian AU part 1

(aka s3 stobin accidentally acquire a magic baby)

[You Are Here] [2] [3] [4]

It’s Robin that first hears the baby crying. She insists it’s coming from the vents on her right side — Steve’s left — but the concussion’s left everything kind of soupy so it takes him a few minutes to pick it out from the ever-present hum of the gate-laser and the rush of blood through his own ears. Once he notices it though, it’s hard to stop.

It’s a sad, lonely sort of crying that makes his heart ache. Robin makes a dubious sort of noise when he mentions this and insists that it’s probably just hungry — which Steve has to admit is likely, none of the Russians they’ve met so far can really be described as ‘nurturing’ — but something in his gut tells him that’s not it.

He doesn’t get the chance to say anything before the Russians come back with the doctor, and then they have a whole new set of problems to worry about.

The mysterious blue goop makes everything a million times soupier and having pliers around his fingernail is not great, but then Dustin and Erica are there and everything’s great again. Super great, even.

“Can you two hurry up?” Dustin hisses, pulling Steve upright when he starts to list to the side.

It’s a little difficult to navigate when your head is soup and your bones are blue and goopy and you’re bleeding from at least three places you weren’t bleeding from this morning, and Steve makes a valiant attempt to tell Dustin this because it’s important information he needs to know. He starts, then stops because he can barely hear himself over the siren and honestly this is just like earlier when he was trying to hear the— oh right.

“Baby,” Steve says, and Robin whips her head around in slow motion to stare at the vent.

“Did you just call me a baby?” Dustin demands, shoving them into the hallway.

“Nooo, no, no,” Steve insists. He takes two steps in the direction Dustin is going, then checks to see where the vent leads. It’s going in the other direction. He turns around. “Baby. The baby. Gotta get the baby.”

“It’s hungry,” Robin says decisively, even though Steve’s almost positive that’s not the problem.

“I don’t know why these two idiots are so focused on it but I did hear a baby,” Erica says, and Dustin groans.

“And you didn’t say anything?”

“I didn’t think I was the only one around here with working ears,” she says scathingly. “Clearly I was wrong.”

Steve and Robin are already halfway down the hall. Robin stops, cocking her head like a bird, and gasps.

“I hear it! This way!”

She books it around a corner, and she might be only going half as fast as she usually does but she’s still a lot faster than Steve. He stumbles after her, clutching at the weird tubes on the wall for support.

“Get back here!” Dustin hisses, tugging at Steve’s arm. “We have to go!”

“Steve!” Robin shouts at the top of her lungs. “I found the baby!”

Steve manages to drag both himself and Dustin around the corner and into a small room with a metal door. Clearly he needs to start making Dustin exercise because he should not be weaker than Steve is when his bones are soup. Dustin should have solid bones — he drinks a lot of milk, and it’s like, scientifically proven that milk makes your bones stronger. It’s that vitamin — or is it a mineral? Ca— Cancer? No, wrong one. Ca-something. Robin would know.

Anyway Dustin has strong bones so obviously it’s a muscle thing that’s the reason why his arms are really weak and Steve should make him play basketball about it.

Robin’s holding a baby.

“Put that down,” Dustin insists, letting go of Steve to gesture at Robin. She pouts and cuddles the baby closer.

It’s such a cute, perfect baby too. Steve stumbles closer so he can look at the perfect baby. It has soft wisps of brown hair and squishy pink cheeks, and when Robin smooths a thumb over those squishy baby cheeks it stops crying and opens its big brown eyes.

“Steve,” Robin says, staring at him with her own wide eyes, “it’s a girl baby.”

“She’s perfect,” Steve whispers, and he wants to hold her so so bad but he can’t even hold himself up right now and the only thing worse than not holding her is dropping her so he has to leave her with Robin even though it kind of makes him want to cry.

He’s always wanted a baby.

“Okay,” he turns back to Dustin, who’s looking very stressed. “Now we can go.”

“What do you mean ‘now we can go’?”

“We have the baby, let’s go!”

“We can’t just steal a baby!”

“Yes we can,” Robin says, and starts walking out the door. “See? We’re stealing her. Easy peasy.”

“But—!”

“Let’s go, nerd!” Erica says, shoving them all out of the room. “Cry about it later, we need to leave!”

Steve stops to grab a few baby things, though there isn’t much. A white blanket, a few cloth diapers, and a thick stack of folders — the last of which aren’t baby things, but he assumes they’ll be important anyway. The stitching on the corner of the blanket reads ‘Два’, the same as the label on her metal crib.

“Aba,” he mutters, following them to the weird red car. “Like the band?”

Well, it’s probably a beautiful name for a baby girl. In Russian.

[Next]

[1000sunnygo]

Do you ship lawbin?

I don't exactly ship them but I don't hate the ship either.. Just neutral, I guess? It's such a harmless ship but massively hated for no reason lmao.

I discovered it was a thing only after Sawyer7mage talked about them in a chapter review (good reviewer btw! some sarcasms he made here reminded me that he's a professional therapist pfff) Initially I didn't like the idea but some valid points have been raised in favor of the ship by him and others. Law/Robin don't have a lot going together so far, but public opinion can be easily swayed if Oda lets them interact more. Given the recent developments in late Wano, the chance is quite high.

Only problem is that these two seem to be drawn towards the type of people that are opposite of each other. Robin had flirted with larger and older men who aren't "conventionally attractive", and Law's buddies are all silly little fellows with little pride who like to pamper him all the time. But fanarts like this by @/takara_op did a great job convincing me that they'd be pretty fun to follow as a duo 👍🏼

Oda's depiction of Law and love and his character dynamic with women is an entirely different topic and I have a year old draft meta on this,,,,maybe I should post it some day 🫠 doesn't have much Lawbin in it though

[batcavescolony]

Death's in comics just don't do anything for me. Why would I be sad, they'll come back? Like what you're telling me a big character is done? Dead? Never coming back? Bffr give it a few months.

[gay-pirate-anime]

SHUT UPPPP NO WAY BROOK CUT ROBIN'S HAIR THAT'S SO FUCKING CUTE AND WHOLESOME TT^TT

[notmoreflippingelves]

Obsessed with the dynamic (not romantic, not platonic, but a secret third thing--both and yet neither) between two characters who knew and cared about each deeply years ago when they were both younger and life was much less complicated.

But then, tragic, transformative circumstances separated them. Assuming that this separation was certainly permanent, because how could it not be?

And yet, somehow finding each other again years later, and sometimes they aren't sure whether the reunion that they once longed for with every fiber of their beings is a blessing, a curse, a joke, or a punishment.

Because they've both changed in the intervening years--largely because of the hellish circumstances that caused their separation. They've both changed completely and irrevocably, even if one of them has changed much more noticeably and dramatically than the other to the point of seeming a complete stranger. It is about leaning to see and appreciate all the things that have changed about the other and all the things that have not changed. It's about learning to reconcile beloved, often rose-tinted memories with the complex, yet-equally-compelling reality of the person those memories are about.

[speaching]

"This is going to hurt you a lot more than it does me"

[milkqndrem]

The straw hats at a water park

Robin: at least you guys had fun and Luffy didn’t do anything stupid

Usopp: well… everything was fine until he snuck behind Zoro in the pool and dunked his head underwater

Franky: how was that stupid?

Nami: it wasn’t Zoro

[isfjmel-phleg]

Some interesting info from interviews with Flash and Impulse writer Mark Waid, as quoted in The Flash Companion:

The previous Flash writers had established Wally's parents as awful, and Waid drew from his own experiences to develop "the notion of feeling trapped as a boy, feeling very held-down by parents who weren't terribly affectionate or weren't terribly good at giving guidance, and sort of being trapped in a small town and feeling like there were bigger things out there." He drew from his own mother in writing Iris in her relationship with Wally.

The earliest version of the character now known as Max Mercury was called Quicksilver and had no known civilian name or backstory. Waid really liked the character and brought him back into the series and gave him a name and story and development because they needed a Speed Force guru and neither Jay Garrick nor Johnny Quick were a good fit for that role.

When asked if he ever felt "like you were defying convention with this sort of optimistic viewpoint," Waid's reply was, "Oh, constantly. [...] You cannot count the number of times people came down the hall at DC Comics to ask us when somebody's legs were getting shattered [...] or when something horrible or grotesque was going to happen to Flash. But that character, that book, is not about tragedy. It's never been about tragedy. It's been about hope, and and it's been about movement, and it's been about freedom."

Max's "voice and cadence and delivery" comes from that of editor Brian Augustyn.

"It's hard for me to write a guy without a sense of compassion to him."

Waid liked writing Jesse Quick, "because she was so good at yelling at Wally." His characterization of her came from "every overcompensating businessperson I have ever met in my life, that sense of everything's by the schedule, everything is by the book, and romance is just another thing to be filled in the Day Planner."

"I built a family around a character who is essentially a loner who lives inside his own head. I was clearly, inadvertently trying to recreate the Superman family of the Silver Age. There was never any doubt in my mind that Wally was still unique and still interesting and that I never thought that having the other speedsters around diminished him in any way."

Iris's biography of her husband was a major plot element in a particular Flash issue, and a fan at a convention suggested to Waid that he make The Life Story of the Flash an actual book--so he did! It required a lot of research--reading every single comic ever featuring Barry and taking extensive notes, then developing it all into a narrative, including every minute piece of trivia found in that research.

Writing Barry was significantly different from writing Wally because he's "a great guy, no question, but he's a complete stiff. He was Joe Suburban Guy. He's fondly remembered, especially by me, but there's not a whole lot of 'there' there. And that's not a condemnation of the character, he's just not terribly complex. There's nothing wrong with that. But he was all surface, and any attempt on our part to add some modern complexity to him just felt wrong and off-key."

Waid chose not to give Wally a day job or a secret identity or focus on his personal life because "his personal life is being the Flash." Wally has the job he has dreamed of since childhood, and his whole identity is wrapped up in it. This is something drawn from Waid's own attitude toward landing his childhood dream job to work in comics.

He put a lot of autobiographical elements into Wally in general. The story in which Wally time-travels to his childhood and offers his younger self some encouraging words was inspired by Waid's returning to his childhood home in Alabama and realizing that he "wanted nothing more--nothing in the universe more--than to walk around the side of the house and find ten-year-old Mark Waid just sitting there playing, so I could talk to him. So I could tell him that I knew life was going to be tough for him and that it would be a while before it got easier, but that he shouldn't spend so much time being afraid of what tomorrow might bring because when he grows up, every wish he ever had was going to come true."

Waid was approached to write the series in which Bart is the Flash but editorial didn't like his ideas and he got turned down. They approached him later to write Wally after Bart got killed off, and Waid agreed because he "didn't want anybody else to screw it up" by making it overly dark and tragic.

The Incredibles was an inspiration for the approach to writing Wally with a family.

Bart was created as a twist on the formula of the Flash's relationship with Kid Flash; Barry and Wally got along very well, but Wally's "sidekick" drives him crazy.

The creators of Impulse weren't initially sure who the mentor figure in the series would be. Jay Garrick was considered, but Waid felt that Jay and his wife Joan wouldn't have brought anything to the series "that wouldn't have been Ma and Pa Kent." Max was chosen because of the comedic potential in his being such an opposite to Bart.

Waid and Augustyn wanted Impulse to be "not a super-hero book but a sitcom disguised as a super-hero book," and there was very vehement opposition to this creative choice.

Manchester is based on Birmingham and Prattville, Alabama, where Waid lived as a teenager. He took pictures of his house there so that penciller Humberto Ramos could use it as a model for Max's house.

Why does Bart have images in his thought balloons rather than words? "He just doesn't think. If you have Bart with an actual thought balloon over his head, you're writing him wrong."

Bart's friend Preston is named after Waid's best friend in high school. Carol Bucklen's name comes from those of girls he knew as a child. Waid was proud of the fact that "the entire time we did that book [...] her and Bart's relationship was emphatically not a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship."

"One of the key notes to Bart, at least in the two years that Humberto and I did his book, was that Bart didn't have a single surging hormone in his body anywhere. It wasn't that he didn't like girls. He didn't like anybody! [...] Okay, that's not true. But Bart doesn't think beyond his own immediate sphere of influence. It's not that he doesn't care about people, it's just that he doesn't think about other people. And he doesn't have any use for romance because he's still, developmentally, a three-year-old boy at that point."

Bart's mother, Meloni, was created around the time Waid's mother was dying of cancer and is modeled after her. Meloni's pet name for Bart, "Sunshine," is something Waid's mother used to call him.

Apparently the decision to have Bart abandon his Impulse identity and become Kid Flash in the 2003 series was not the idea of that series' writer but of "an editor that never got the character and has made it his mission to purge DC of anything even remotely fun and light-hearted." Waid was very critical of the eventual choice to have Bart become the Flash and fought it but was overruled. When he was informed that Bart was going to be killed off, he "figured that Bart would be better off dead than misunderstood and mishandled."

[smolljester]

Miss All Sunday showing up for her ten minutes of screentime in OPLAS2 gonna be like: