#dc red robin

[enerykai]

currently re-reading but anyways not the point here guys this panel just reminded me again wHY IS TIM STILL ROBIN BRO 💀 CAUSE AIN'T NO WAY DAMIAN'S LITERALLY BEEN GROWING UP AND DROPPING ROBIN AND SHI AND TIM'S STILL STUCK BRO— HOW LONG DOES IT HAVE TO TAKE 🙏😭

[dc-gotham-instincts-wild]

I live for this kind of stuff lol. It's beautiful.

Damian and Tim's Get Along Shirt LOL

(not my art)

[justrandomtrashes]

Tim & Jason

They are watching a baseball game!

[batataran]

Tim: Depression? Compression

Kon: *gulps* Hey uhm, Tim? I think we should-

Tim: *head in between Conner's thighs* Compression

[creek-on-mars]

listen, i hear everyones cries for timberkon, and while im an avid fan of them, i dont think it fits tims canon character.

tim is MESSY. like whatever you think abt "brucie wayne" and "richie grayson"? thats tim. you know how fandom likes to make dick a womanizing slut? thats more accurate to tim 😭. 90s tim was a PLAYER, he has multiple partners at once and was running around dating and breaking up and causing havoc. even with stephanie, he never cheated on her, but their relationship was extremely tumultuous.

which is why tim being so peaceful with bernard doesnt make sense.. of course character growth exists but i really miss player tim.

THIS BRINGS ME TO MY POINT; i LOVE timkon and i think if they were to get together in canon (which, after tims 99 attempts to clone kon, is the logical option) it would be because tim was to cheat on bernard. of course i dont want this, but i think at the end of the day tim would be emotionally cheating on bernard; maybe becsuse of a rough patch in their relationship, which'll eventually lead to kon.

i mean, thats just my idea, for it they ever make timkon canon. ("TIMKON WILL BE CANON" i yell as they strap me to the bed).

[foxgloveciara]

I gave my friends a selection of what to draw Timothy Drake in and they decided "consider your pants peed" shirt to be the better option. so there. enjoy the doodle

[momo-minomo]

Fic Fairy Friday Recs MASTERPOST

Every friday I try to recommend at least 10 fics around a central theme. Currently I'm doing Batfamily fics as that's what I'm into right now but I'll branch out eventually to include other fandoms.

I'm starting to get quite a collection of these so I though it was about time to make a masterpost linking all of them for everyone's convenience before the amount I'll have to link at once gets out of hand lol.

Batfamily Fandom

Dick and Tim Brotherhood (Tim Drake, Dick Grayson)

Tim and Jason Brotherhood (Tim Drake, Jason Todd)

Tim and Damian Brotherhood (Tim Drake, Damian Wayne)

Bruce Wayne and his Emotional Support Robin (Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne)

Batfamily Shenanigans (general Batfamily focus)

Young Justice Recs (Tim Drake, Kon-El Kent, Bart Allen, Cassandra Sandsmark, other Young Justice 98 members)

Batfam Valentines Special (romance fics centering around a Batfam member and various partners including TimKon, SuperBat, etc)

Civilian Tim Giving The Batfam Heart Attacks (Tim Drake joins the Batfam early, late, etc)

[mrmanbat]

Yk what's so fun about being a Batman fan? The fact that nothing is ever truly canon or fanon.

I'm not even talking about retcons here. I'm talking about when you're scrolling through TikTok, Tumblr, or whatever, and you come across something like this:

...

TimDrakeStan98:

Bro, why don't we ever talk about all the trauma Timmy went through? Little Bro's parents suckled, and he got kidnapped by the Joker, only to be abused by Bruce during his Robin training.

PleaseFuckMeCatwoman:

This pmo so bad. Go read the fucking comics. I hate fanon.

...

The funny thing is that all of this is Canon. Tim's dad had anger issues and wasn't really present for a good portion of his life. The Joker did kidnap him, and Bruce's Robin training was definitely... something.

See, the reason so many people think it's fanon is that in the comic, it's played off as a joke. Most of this was in the 90s, and having realistic trauma responses wasn't cool. People don't want to read that.

Fan spaces—especially in older fandoms—take these "jokes" and write fanfics exploring the potential societal implications and trauma responses that were glossed over in the original media.

So yeah. Did these things happen? Yep. Are there any actual consequences for these things? Nah. Will people still argue on its validity? Duh. No shit.

[shortbcofkoffee]

There's two of him. Sitting face to face in comfy cushioned armchairs. Tim doesn't know what he's doing here or how he got here. But he had an idea.

"We're awful people," he says to the... clone? Other? Whatever this was.

"Why? Just because we have a pension for procrastination?"

"Because we have more opportunities than others. And we squander them just so we can complain to ourselves later."

The other Tim tilted his head. "Is that what we're doing? I don't think it's just so we can complain. I don't know why we procrastinate but it can't be that."

"What else could it be? We’re the best at wallowing in self-pity."

The other Tim almost laughed. "Bruce is much better at that."

"What does that matter? My point stands, we're privileged and we never use that privilege for any good. We ignore it until it's too late."

"Well if you word it that way, we doing like the type of billionaire that hordes wealth. We help people. We want to help people. That's what we're using our privilege for."

"I dropped out of school and still became a CEO. Jason never got that choice."

"That's a stupid comparison and you know it."

"It still happened."

"Your circumstances are completely different. Jason never got a choice because he died. You dropped out because someone needed your help. That wasn't selfish. Becoming a CEO was also to help. Nothing stops us from helping people." He smiled gently.

"We're selfish in our motivations."

"Wanting Bruce not to kill himself or others is selfish? That why all this started."

"We were his stalker. We just wanted to keep our entertainment alive."

"Neither of us even almost believe that."

They were both silent. Tim's jaw tightened. Other Tim spoke again.

"Are we selfish for being with Steph during her pregnancy?"

"I almost missed the birth," Tim frowned.

"But we didn't. And we may not be dating anymore, but we still love her. She's one of the most important people in our life."

"We fight all the time."

"Everyone in our family fights all the time. That's a different problem and it doesn't effect how much we love each other," he waved a hand dismissively.

"I've killed people," Tim said through gritted teeth.

"So has Cass. Is she a bad person? Damian? Dick?"

"That's different. Cass and Damian were raised that way. Dick killed the Joker. I killed people who didn't deserve it."

"Who, Lady Shiva? We resuscitated her right away. And if you're talking about the LOA bases, they're assassins. They've killed plenty of people. They certainly didn't deserve to die but saying that they were innocent is simply untrue."

"That would make Damian and Cass bad people too." He finally caught his other in their argument.

"I never said they were innocent. I just said they weren't bad people. We can't judge them for the lives they took."

"There were definitely people our age, younger, in the League when we blew it up."

"Was that selfish, though? It is an international terrorist organization. Someone would have to do something eventually. And basically everyone made it out of the one at the cradle alive, who's to say no one made it out of the others?"

"Even if we believed in killing, those weren't our lives to take. The League hadn't wronged us, Ra's was even helping befo-"

"Don't. Even finish that thought. That's such fucking bull."

They glared at each other.

"Okay," Tim said. "You're right. But that doesn't change the root of the problem. We're a bad person."

"Only because you want us to be. We know way more, way worse people. And don't bring up selfishness again, even if we're being selfish, we're still helping people. We've saved enough lives to make up for whatever selfishness we may have."

"It'll never be enough."

The other Tim just stared. "You're a pain. If you don't want to accept you're not a bad person, that's okay. But I don't want to talk to you anymore. Not about this."

.

Tim jolted awake in the same comfy chair from the dream. Dinah was across from him in the other chair.

"How was that? Did it work?" She smiled expectantly.

Tim grimaced. Yes, it worked. But it was awful. He didn't want to do this ever again, he never wanted to face himself ever again.

"It was a little too intense, maybe. I'd hold off on using it for now."

Dinah frowned. He was being selfish again. This could help people, he was just putting off using this as long as possible.

"Are you okay?"

Tim stood up. "I'm fine."

[hidden-eyeballs]

Damian: you aren't my favorite sibling, not even close.

Dick: D: Am I at least your favorite brother?

Damian: .... sometimes

Dick: what do you mean sometimes???

Damian: he isn't always my brother. Sometimes, she's my sister.

Dick: who-

Jason: didn't you tell me they died??

Damian: irrelevant, she still visits.

Jason: ???

Dick: !?!?!?!?!??????

[luliadraws]

The implementation of Tim’s cowl

[yzur02]

Bruce, Cass: killing is bad, I will go out of my way to stop it, no matter what

Dick, Tim, Damian, Duke & Steph: I don't like killing and will go out of my way to avoid it in any circumstances, but will do it if there's no other way

Alfred and Jason: if you feel anything but recoil there might be something wrong with the gun

[daiwild]

Star Trippin' , Baby

[disastertwins9000]

bat-shenanigans

they’re the hero’s gothem deserves…?? maybe??

[sprinkleofquirk]

Tim, on his 13th attempt to sneak out of the mansion to go on patrol with the flu and walking pneumonia: I didn’t “lose” my spleen. To lose something is to imply you don’t know where it is, and I know exactly where my spleen is; it just isn’t in my body-

Alfred, tired™ and armed with a tranquilizer: Even so, Master Drake, I must insist you get back into bed.

[supine-ly]

Natural selection at its finest