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Trying to figure out a reasonable age difference for the Robins is like the worst math word problem except you measure the answer with your heart

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i am highly amused by the fanon idea that bruce never gave tim any love/attention/time of day because their dynamic in comics (when bruce wasn't being an asshole) was basically

bruce: tim, i'm going to pay for you to get special around the world training

bruce: tim, i made you a sandwich

bruce: tim, i made you a special robin car

bruce: tim, i've paid for an entire vacation for your school so you can check out something out for me

bruce: tim, i heard your girlfriend was leaving town and i didn't want you to be sad so i bought out the whole block of stores and now she can stay and go to school with you

bruce: tim, i have made new gadgets for us

bruce: tim, i hear you're going to boarding school. here, have my personal valet.

bruce: tim, of course you and dick can come visit me at work, behave yourself, and when i have amnesia i'm going to call you the boys and lucius fox is going to know exactly who i am talking about so i clearly must talk about the two of you at work a lot

bruce: tim, let's listen to the clash together

bruce: tim, of course you can build your nest where my parents died

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as a pantser, coming back to a longfic i haven’t wrestled with in weeks and seeing my brain vomit “guide” is like…i appreciate the effort past me, i do, but babes what are you even talking about

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Which of these fanon misconceptions or tropes irritate you more?

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clean pink dark mode ao3 site skin

made a dark mode of this skin!!

-hides “you’ve muted users” notif (ty @ao3commentoftheday for sharing how to do that!)

-changes work stat labels to icons (code from @ao3skin, specifically Tide) 

- makes buttons flat  (ty to @ao3skin again for sharing how to this!)

skin is shared here with installation instructions :)

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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Saw a post where someone wasn't sure if Tim being good at computers was a fanon thing or not and friend I am happy to inform you that he's been a computer/tech guy from some of his earliest appearances in the comics.

Detective Comics (Vol. 1) #620 (Rite of Passage part 4) - immersed in the ~web~

Robin II: The Joker's Wild #3 - tabletop roleplaying games and spending hours in the basement on the computer - not beating the geek allegations on these fronts, Timmy

Detective Comics (Vol. 1) #676 - Dick was more into traditional detective work and tended to outsource the computer stuff in these days

Batman (Vol. 1) #514 (Prodigal part 10) - hackin' through all the garbage and garble

Robin (1993) #33 - Robin sneaking in and connecting Oracle with the baddies' mainframe so she can do her thing and steal all their data >:)

Nightwing (1996) #6 - "no you're really talented and well suited to be Robin." "no, you." "no, YOU!"

Tim is definitely not as good as Babs/Oracle, but he's certainly her back-up for computer work in the 90's batfam. They're tech buddies and Robin!Tim is her little assistant sometimes, it's super cute:

Birds of Prey (1999) #19 - happy to play with big sister's fancy high-powered toys

Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #125 - real cute kid

And Dick will hand off computer jobs to his little brother when he doesn't want to bother Babs 😂 (that outsourcing I mentioned):

Nightwing (1996) #68 - examine them pixel by pixel, eh? welp, sounds like a job only you can do, Timbo, you got this buddy, byyyyeeeee

And then when he'd grown up and been doing this for years, he leveled up accordingly, and did stuff like use his access to the League of Assassins computers to overload the generators in every base he could find, etc. etc.

Red Robin (2009) #8 - yeah that was pretty dumb of you Ra's :)

So yeah, it was a bit of a specialty of Tim's, in large part because he was introduced just at the turn into the 90's, when personal computers were really starting to take off and become widespread. (Robins gotta be cutting edge and all)

Of course, by no means does it follow that the other Bats suck at computers (there is no 'smart one' they are all incredibly smart and capable). This is especially true as reboots and the sliding timescale of comics have moved the DC characters into modern times, where computers run the world and everyone grows up with one in their pocket. The baseline familiarity and expertise that everyone can be expected to have is just much, much higher these days.

It gets exaggerated in fanon as all character traits do, but computer guy Tim is definitely not something just made up out of whole cloth :)b

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you’re one of the best friends i ever had.

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Robin (1993-2009) #13

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dc is releasing a sequel to the alternate ending where jason lives and it comes out in july nobody talk to me nobody touch me i’m going to be sick SICK I TELL YOU look at this preview i’m not okay

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little doodle of tiny Tim and his big brother Jason, I've been reading so many baby Tim fics lately and they mean the world to me<3

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alfred pennyworth has been dead since 2018 and it's great actually and he should stay dead. send tweet

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i'm not going to really dig into all my thoughts on batman #146 just because i'd end up having to unpack all my thoughts on the zdarsky run and a) there's a lot to unpack, and b) i don't wanna rn, BUT!

i did think this section was interesting:

dialogue transcript (idk why the pic refuses to load w/o the blur):

zur-batman: harley did you really think i'd allow you to go unpunished for all the lives you helped end, working with the joker?

harley: i-i'm a hero now...you s-said

zur-batman: that was then and this is now. justice has come to gotham.

-end transcript-

i don't think damian is dumb enough to actually trust zur, okay so, either he's just being written super-ooc here or dami's playing a long game but all of that aside, hearing zur say that could not have been fun. idk, i've tried to wrestle my thoughts into coherent form but they're resisting and i don't have the energy to wrangle them, but bottom-line i feel like what zur says to harley echoes a fear of damian's..idk

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