#the tams

[tamsiblings]

time to talk about the tam parents!!

my feelings about them are: they are complicated.

i've seen a real tendency (particularly on platforms like reddit or in youtube reactor videos comments, but even at times in fic) to either want to 100% vilify the tam parents, or 100% justify them, and the theory that they gave up river to the academy knowing what would happen is a prevalent one. but not one i really buy.

likewise, though, i have seen (to be fair, i think often in response to the above) another tendency to more or less excuse the tam parents' actions (or inactions), and act like they had no choice.

which, not to quote another whedon property in the form of btvs but. they may not have had a good choice, but they certainly had a choice. like most of whedon's work, firefly is a text very interested in exploring existentialist themes, and one of the principle ideologies of existentialism is that we always have a choice. you might not always have many great options, but doing or at least trying to do the right thing is what gives life meaning and value.

the tams are living in an a society where, yes, the government is controlling and oppressive, but they themselves are seemingly very privileged and reap many of the rewards that the society they're living in has to offer.

i don’t think that they knew what the academy was going to do with river upon her initially going or agreed to it in any way. i think that would make them look cartoonishly evil in a way that i don’t think the text itself is trying to suggest.

instead, i think that they sent her and then were willfully ignorant to the red flags as they came up. and at some point must have realized simon was right (normally a school would have like, breaks and stuff. simon says he couldn’t get near her for two years! and ofc there are the letters) and actively chosen to ignore it, because it would upset their lives, because they didn’t want to rock the boat. yes, maybe they would have been in danger for even trying to check on her - but good parents still should. and the fact of the matter is, a LOT of emphasis is put on them caring about status and the nice lives being loyal to the alliance can buy them over their children.

they seem like they were loving and generous parents when things were easy, but when they weren’t? they ignored river’s pleas for help and abandoned her and ignored simon’s begging them to listen and treated him like a problem and disowned him.

so, like, they weren’t good parents in the grand scheme of things, they also probably weren’t outright sadistic monsters and instead complacent and passive, and also, i would fully understand if neither simon or river were able to forgive them for it. because yikes.

[gongyussy]

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[juan1dupree23]

joker song list

song list

Keep smilin keep laughing be happy from Doris day

Feels like I’m in love from Kelly marie

Two people in the world from little Anthony and the imperials

raining in my heart from buddy holly

lullaby of the leaves from Ella Fitzgerald

Trying from Lavern baker

What kind of fool do you think I am from the tams

I love you 1000 times by the platters

Brain damage from pink Floyd

psych killer from the talking heads

and of course only you from the platters

[spidertams]

Finding a new favorite fictional character is like, will you be temporary or will you become a permanent part of my personality for the next 10 years?

[jasvvy]

[official-tam-cam]

Life's too short to be responsible. Read a 200k word fanfic in a day instead

[lurukifennecfox]

Danny was in Gotham because if he wanted to be an astronaut when he's officially out of the coffin, he needed schooling damn it. he also needed that for the "being the future king and ancient of space" thing so he's tired and drinking "death wish" coffee(he loves the name and it has the amount on caffeine that should hopefully work on his half dead ass)

he did not expect to get kidnapped by a frazzled secretary and forced to do ceo work but he rolled with it. if he's forced to do paperwork might as well do it well.

Tim is confused and would be sure he's hallucinating if not the fact that half his work for today was in fact done.

"so you're 'Tim' Tam mistook me for?"

to be fair to Tam they did look at least similar not identical but that with the exhaustion black slightly longer hair and blue eyes(the he had some green in them and they were surprisingly bright for someone looking half dead)

[sreppub]

mystery

[tamdoesart]

Dreams of better days

[aestheticjunkyard]

Qun Ye by Win Tam for Elle China November 2024

[fantastic-nonsense]

insane how Red Robin is "the loner Tim Drake book" when he had friends and family just popping out of the woodwork like daisies asking him to come home and enjoy hugs like he used to 😭

[grendel-menz]

If my love were an earthly knight, as he's an elfin grey, I wad na gie my ain true love, for nae lord that ye hae.

[bluerosefox]

Striking of the Clock

BrainDead or DeadTired idea.

During Tim's BruceQuest he uncovers hidden texts/tombs of a being that controls and watches over the Time Stream and Tim knows this being will have to be his best bet of finding Bruce while also trying to figure out on his own how to get Bruce out of the Time Stream as well.

However the being doesn't have a summoning sigil due to being an Ancient.

He does find the sigil for the Ghost King however, a being that borderlines into Ancients power territory and could in theory grant Tim an audience with the Time being if Tim plays his cards right.

In the end, Tim decides it was worth a shot. He convinces Ra's to 'help' him summon the Ghost King. Ra's wanting to see if such a being could be real and to see how far Tim is willing to go to bring Bruce back, allows League resources to be used.

It takes a few weeks, with Tim also making plans to undermine not just the Council of Spiders but Ra's as well, but eventually the time to summon the Ghost King comes.

Tim honestly was expecting the large eldritch like being that showed up, he just wasn't expecting the being to be basically a formed galaxy mixed with ice and the northern lights itself.

He also really wasn't expecting when he negotiated a deal with the Ghost King, and taken into a place called the Infinite Realms when they shook hands (Tam and Prue is also taken with him, he refused to leave them with Ra's), for the being to shrink down and turn into a white haired, green eyed teen around his age who starts flirting at him.

Nor was he expecting for another being, one that apparently is able to shift aging forms, and a grandfather clock in its chest to appear next to the teen and bonk the white haired teen with a staff and tell him to stop flirting with his future new apprentice....

Wait what?

-x-x-

Danny is rarely, very rarely summoned since taking the mantle of Ghost King. Due to being a new Ancient most old sigils that was once connected to Phantom (mostly teens from Amity tired summoning him a couple of times) no longer worked and the only ones that did were the ones he gave to his friends and family or the Ghost King ones (but again rare due to how rare texts/tombs to the Ghost King is written down)

So when he felt the pull of a summoning he made sure to go in his eldritch form, mostly to see if he could scare them or at least intimidate.

Honestly he was expecting the cult, given the fact they summoned a being known as the (freaking) Ghost King, maybe not them being assassins/ninjas but still a cult.

He wasn't expecting the cute, same age as him too, guy in the room.

(CW totally paused time for a second, gave Danny a file on who and why he was summoned, discussed getting Tim Drake out of Ra's hands (and maybe allowing CW to finally have his own future apprentice because Tim is a smarty smart whose been slowly able to figure out the freaking Time Stream itself.), and then started the timeline again)

Danny decided, after striking a deal, that since he's going to be working with Tim, aka Red Robin (who Danny found out used to be Robin! From Gotham), from now on he might as well shoot his shot and flirt with him and-

"OUCH, CW REALLY?!"

"Stop flirting with my new apprentice for now My King, we have work to do."

[aitadraws]

Back to my FGO phase I guess!

[cirkinkadininutopyasi]