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Hello!

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pure blinder of a poim

Reminding everyone again of Batman’s Aff His Nut by Robert Florence—the most poem ever.

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Ughhhhhhhh

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

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Bring back Dana Winters. Giving Tim Drake a young hot step mom was the funniest thing they ever did to him

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A pretty good Lonnie I found while reading YJ :)

An absolutely A+ Lonnie!

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Jaaaaaaa

I really wish Jack drake got to know Tim as Robin for a little longer. I think it would have been really sweet to see Tim get more comfortable with his secret identity around his dad.

Jack wakes up early in the morning and sees Tim training in the yard. Watching Tim practice the same move over and over again.

Tim and Jack getting back from a night out and Jack realizes he lost the house keys. Tim expertly scales up the side of the building and up to the unlocked top floor window to let his dad in.

Tim leaves papers for a case out on the dining room table. Jack not knowing Tim’s organizing system gathers them up in a neat stack to Tim’s horror when he returns.

Dana asking Jack where Tim is, and Jack knowing Tim is going to be away on a mission for the next few days panics and makes up an elaborate story.

We were robbed of extremely proud but extremely stressed out cause his son is literally a superhero Jack drake!

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"alpod tim drake is just a self-insert :/" and is it illegal for an ordinary thirteen-year-old to want to be robin...... i miss the days when he was just a bright, enthusiastic kid living the dream of children everywhere and not whatever the fuck he's doing these days. he doesn't even fanboy over dick's ability to do basic tasks anymore he's forgotten his roots

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Yeap.

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Also, I'm thinking of writing tonight after a short hiatus. Who's down for that "Tim is Bruce's biological son and nobody is happy about it" fic idea? 🤔

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Community: what are your feelings, in one sentence or so, at seeing so many people wholesale embrace the use of generative AI?

I just feel deeply grimmed out by it.

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Artists of DC and Batman fandom! Someone please recreate this with Tim and Steph?

(she kicks him in case that isn't clear)

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😭

He just woke up and now he is the only one left to save the world.

Also he's very tiny 🤏

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Cover for Nightwing #126 by Vasco Georgiev

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Tim said :-|

WFA once again has me on the floorrrrrrrrrr

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They’re just two very good boys 😭 ❤️

i think writing about tim drake’s inherent, unbreakable awe of dick grayson and robin as a mantle and his views of heroism and selflessness that, even a decade on, are still so fundamentally shaped by what dick achieved despite his grief is making me mentally ill, actually

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I admire so many creators in the reblogs, including OP, but I have to respectfully put an alternative perspective here, more or less amounting to:

Writers, do whatever you want with these characters.

Not only because there are 19 year old boys who read Orwell or watch the A-Team or listen to Fats Domino or engage in whatever other anachronistic media but also because, to me, fandom is at its heart a transformative space. It’s fair to dislike writers projecting this or that but I don’t at all think it’s an incorrect way to engage with canon or have fun or find meaning creatively. There are works I’ve read that are so far beyond what I see for a particular character but the rendering is so exquisite I’m able to enjoy it—even if it deviates from my personal interpretation.

There’s also an argument to be made for “this character was a teenager in the 90s so perhaps this now out of date media is what they’d be into.” Or indeed, the expectation that writers should “how do you do fellow kids” by accurately depicting what a median teenager is into now is just unnecessarily limiting imo.

Anyway, like I say: no disrespect intended but I want to put another perspective out there for people who DO want to project and freely play but are perhaps too shy or scared to do so 🫡

EDIT: thanks to a comment from a kind mutual, I just want to stress I don’t at all want to sound scoldy. Just want to make a case for the freedom to sandbox x

do you ever read a fic where they mention some other piece of media and go. these are just your opinions. come on, girl. i don't even know you but i know that these are just your opinions. these are not the media opinions of a nineteen-year-old boy. these are the media opinions of a thirty-five year old woman who had a livejournal account in 2007. these are the media opinions of someone who was in supernatural fandom

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Lads…

Lads…

Things will be altogether more comfortable if you let writers and artists project whatever they want onto fictional characters. Be it their own contemporary media preferences or anything else.

Also, more fandom banter disparaging the tastes of older female creators is just… Are we truly doing this? Still?

Are we creating an environment where people feel free and uninhibited in their creating or one where people are looking over their shoulders to make sure they’re not going to get laughed at or maligned? With a lot of people limiting their love of comics/cartoons/fan works to online—shy to broadcast it in the “real world”—does it serve our community to make the fandom space an explicitly judgemental one?