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give tim back his skateboard

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children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people

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tim standing up…. that’s his Brother guys

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No, no, you don’t understand. Tim Drake shouldn’t be the one with a caffeine addiction; he has his Zesti drinks. BILLY BATSON should have a caffeine addiction.

I mean seriously, how else is he supposed to deal with tricky fae, rogue mages, and bucket fulls of magic paperwork? And his whiz radio gig? And his school work? And his JL reports?

Yall are letting caffeine addicted!Billy Batson pass you by 😞.

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old timkon sketch <3 22

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I'm still not over how the DCEU fumbled the character of Captain Marvel/ Shazam. I mean, I like the first movie quite a lot, but it really didn't do him justice.

Shazam has one of the coolest concepts in superhero media, an absolutely awesome and unique villain roster, and is literally one of the most powerful heroes within the DC Universe. If done correctly, his fight scenes could be some of the coolest moments in all superhero media.

His relationship dynamics with other charcaters, especially heroes like Superman could be so interesting to explore and Billy Batson is just such a charming character in general.

I really hope he'll someday get a second shot with James Gunn.

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Interesting that Stephanie Brown reminds Dick of a young Barbara Gordon but reminds Bruce of a young Dick Grayson. So much to read into there.

Batgirl (2009) #7 & Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Batgirl

They’re both projecting. They’re impressed by what they see in Steph so they liken her to the person they hold in the highest of regards; for Dick that’s Babs and for Bruce that’s Dick.

On the other hand, Stephanie, current Batgirl and former Robin, does in fact draw parallels to both Babs and Dick; the first Batgirl and Robin!! And Dick and Bruce recognise this. Her spirit is relentless and fucking unbreakable and she’s independent to a fault; qualities associated with Babs’ strong character. More technically, she’s light-footed, agile and always pinging around the battlefield, and she’s also cunning, always using her words to throw off her opponents; skills and techniques particularly associated with how Dick operates.

Another important thing to note is that that Dick, now Batman, has come to know Stephanie as the Batgirl, and so likens her to the original Batgirl, while Bruce still remembers Stephanie as his Robin, and so likens her to the original Robin.

Nevertheless, despite what a lot of the bat fandom may tell you, people can be more than just one thing.

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i've been chewing over the tcf!tim au a lot these past few days and this is what my brain came up with: 1. jack and janet aren't really present in tim's life- not out of choice, but out of necessity: see tim had been affected with a curse (similar to that on the tcf protagonist) that made it so that he would eventually lose anything precious to him

2. after they find out, jack and janet decide to physically distance themselves from him (though they can't bring themselves to do so emotionally) while at the same time going on archaelogical trips in hopes to find a way to solve the curse. this way they would hopefully live long enough for tim to be old enough to take care of himself before the curse took them away from him

3. in the meantime, they plopped him in gotham to hopefully slow down / weaken the curse (due to how cursed the city already is, it probably acts like fighting fire with fire or poison with poison, also you can't convince me that as rich as they were they wouldn't have chosen to settle down in any other city if they had other options) and hire a revolving door of nannies (the good ones tim gets attached to often experience unfortunate circumstances that made them have to leave their post, while the bad ones get found out and fired by his parents)

4. tim still gets attached to dick at the circus (and then dick's parents died, and tim lost dick's smile that he liked)

5. tim gets attached to batman and robin -> dick and bruce fight and the og dynamic duo fall apart

6. tim gets attached to jason -> jason gets murdered

7. tim pulls batman out of his spiral and ironically, bruce's prickliness delayed tim getting attached to him, which meant he got to stick around (until he got better, then he ended up being yeeted through time)

8. that whole lead-up to brucequest where he lost a whole bunch of loved ones in quick succession? yeah, the curses of gotham are struggling against his (quantity vs quality)

i just think this idea is neat. and tim's guilt would be growing out of control once he finds out about the curse (why didn't anyone else notice before? because everyone assumed gotham folks are just cursed in general)

it also means he gets a fun (angsty) new motivation to avoid his family post-regression: he doesn't know if the curse is still active and would target them, so he plays the asshole to ward them off so that nothing worse would happen

Well, fuck.

I do love the Good!Parents Jack and Janet in this. It's a bit hard to make Jack or Janet decent parents to Tim while also affording him the independency his character typically has.

The curse is a cool addition to the tcf!Tim au that adds more reason to Tim being an asshole. Him not knowing if he's cursed or not is a great angst plot point, especially because it would be very easy for him to find out. He knows countless magic people that could tell him. Constantine would do it quietly for a quick buck. If Tim continues to not know despite his ability to, that's because he simply didn't want to find out. Dealer's choice on whether that's because he was scared or he wanted an excuse to self-destruct (i.e. cut himself off from his support groups).

The real shitty part about curses that seem like bad luck (or that cause bad luck) is that you can't be sure what is the curse and what is life being shit. Tim will probably blame himself for every horrid thing that has happened to someone after he entered their life.

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honestly there's a lot of sophie's choice questions within the batfam for tim that are super interesting to me because. while tim would hate himself for having to make a sophie's choice and have to sacrifice someone, he has a very clear cut priority order imo that's like dick -> bruce -> steph -> helena -> babs -> damian...so on and so forth that wouldn't make the decision as difficult as it could be.

however. to me tim's most *interesting* sophie's choice scenerios would come from the idea of a batfam vs his dad. what if something happened while his dad were still alive and he had to choice between saving dick or jack. or bruce and jack. what if. what if.

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It's really sad to see Batgirl (2009) basically be forgotten media in DC fandom now, because back in the day on ye olde Tumblr, you literally could not escape those panels. That series had it all.

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How Tim lies to Batman without lying

Three cookies are missing from Bruce's plate. He starts interrogating Tim about it.

Tim: "I ate one."

This is true. He did, in fact, eat one of the cookies. He also ate the other two.

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I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

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also i do think that the pervasive idea where "canon doesn't bother to respect itself, why should i respect canon" wrt comics is like. hm. the idea that the many different iterations of characters due to a variety of writers seeing them a variety different ways isn't a bonus actually....the variety means there are many different ways and opportunities for a character to vibe with you in a certain story or under a writer. rather than decry it all as useless because it's so inconsistent therefore you can do whatever you want because the characters don't matter, there is probably *more* opportunity than most within comics as a medium to find a characterization thay works for you. but in order to do so, you do have to interact with the canon to find it. because there's a difference between personal interpretation of characterization and just making stuff up.

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Actual Dork Tim Drake

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Hey guys do you remember when Tim “died” and he sacrificed himself at like 17 to save Gotham and his family. Do you remember this bc I can’t stop thinking about it

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Okay but Bruce going to the kitchen and telling Alfred that he’s going to go on patrol and Alfred just looking him up and down like “and what did Master Timothy say about that?” and Bruce just pouting like “he said no” and Alfred nodding like “exactly.If you choose to leave it will be without my permission and with the knowledge that I will not be hiding your little excursion from him.” and bruce huffing before going back to his room to rest cuz of his broken bones.

My gods, I legit chuckled out loud at work about this. Alfred and Tim coparenting Bruce while the man is oblivious to the very obvious signs is hilarious. He's acting like a child in this which makes the need for parenting even more obvious.

It's also humorous that your version has Bruce trying to pit his parents against each other and Alfred shutting that down quick. The fact that Bruce accepts Tim finding out as a bad enough consequences to not go out? Cherry on top.

I would also love to see the batkids start to notice that Bruce asks Tim for permission. It's not always a verbal response, so they miss it at first. Eventually, they start seeing that Bruce makes eye contact with Tim before doing certain actions. Tim will either narrow his eyes, not react, or very slightly smile. A few times he has even nodded.

This could be misconstrued at first as Tim being trusted the most out of all the batkids when it's really that Tim will make Bruce's life a living hell if he's not behaving. Tim worked hard for Bruce to (unknowingly) respect Tim as authority figure in his life

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Ok but Tim seeing Bruce as his kid kinda makes the whole Brucequest thing make sense bc there’s nothing like a determined parent on the warpath to go save their kid.

And if the JL knows that Tim is the parent in the situation well they saw how much of a wreck Bruce was when he lost Jason so to them Tim is just a grief stricken father that is just mourning weirdly.

Yes. The JL saw Bruce beat muggers into the ground and nearly die himself. Tim isn't doing that despite losing his kid. Instead, they think he's slowly losing himself to conspiracy theories as a form of denial and self-destruction.

In this hc/au, Tim would probably be a bit more snappy and easy to anger. Ra's al Ghul is out here playing mind games when Tim just wants to save his son. No wonder he blows up all of Ra's bases.

Tim will stop at nothing until Bruce is at home, stuffed with Alfred's cooking, and wrapped in three blankets. If Tim has to face down Darkseid by himself to accomplish it, he will.

When Tim reappears with evidence of Bruce's continued existence, the JL gain new levels of fear for him. Tim's protective dad instincts are terrifying and extremely productive/effective.