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the way ppl talk about bart like he's not a person but an event that happens is so funny to me

wally why r u wrought with PTSD over ur 15 yr old cousin . there is a larger crisis going on my guy

wally when bart exists anywhere in any dimension ever during the 90's:

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“Lois should get you pregnant Clark” and other things Perry white has said

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also please tell me more about specific artists/songs in the tags or replies

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Tim DID want to be adopted, actually

Sometimes people take canon facts out of context and use them to build a narrative that's not true to the full context of those facts, and while there's a certain degree to which that's fine (I firmly believe people in fanfiction and stuff can alter details however they want to build a narrative that pleases them), where it annoys me is where these beliefs extend into people thinking this altered narrative is true beyond the scope of an alternate fandom exploration, and in particular it hits me hard when it comes to topics related to found family and adoption because I'm just so tired of blood tie narratives.

So

Facts: Tim Drake invented wholesale a fake uncle "Eddie Drake" and hired an actor to play him rather than accept Bruce's (first) offer to adopt him following Jack Drake's death.

And out of context, wow, he sure went pretty far to avoid getting adopted by Bruce. I get why people who didn't read the source comics think he didn't want it, I get it.

But here's Tim's actual thoughts in Robin #134 on the page following Bruce's offer:

Wow! Wow! I was like - I couldn't speak! I was totally speechless! It never occurred to me that Bruce would want to - He wants me to be his son? Real and legal? I mean - Wow! Of course, eventually, when I got my voice back, I had to tell him I needed time to think about it. This is nothing like I ever imagined might happen, way back when I became Robin for the first time. Okay, it wasn't so long ago - but it seems like a million years.

(Also look at Tim immediately calling the idea of this making him Bruce's son "real", thank you, Tim, for having more sense than so many words more recently that I've had to read with my own eyes.)

So if you haven't personally read this before, you must be asking the question, well, why didn't he accept? Why did he go to such lengths to avoid something he apparently had some degree of excitement about?

Well

In Hindsight, I should have handled lots of things better. I kept putting Bruce off, even though he deserved an answer to his incredibly generous offer. But I only had a week to get things ready for the reading of Dad's will. Only time will tell if I did the right thing.

During my visit, it took every bit of discipline I could conjure to keep from asking Bruce that one terrible question I'm stone cold certain that our relationship can't survive. "What happened in those last moments between you and Stephanie, and why did you keep me from being there?"

Like the proverbial bell that can't be un-rung, once asked, it can't be taken back.

Better for us to be apart for a while, even if it means I have to run away to a crummy hole like the 'haven.

Or, in other words, he knew if he lived with Bruce he couldn't keep himself from asking about what happened with Steph. And he felt like the answer would ruin their relationship forever. (Tim often has problems with catastrophizing and fatalism of this nature.) Something Tim desperately did not want to happen.

So he temporarily separates himself so he can get distance from the emotions that revolve around that question. However, he only had a week and he kind of panicked into something that he didn't necessarily think was the best decision.

By the way, once he DOES get adopted later, after Bruce's SECOND offer to do so, we get his thoughts again (Robin #159):

It is pretty weird, I guess... No, I know it's pretty weird. My parents will always be my parents... ...But Bruce was a father figure to me in lots of ways before both my parents died... ...So having him adopt me, when everything was going so lousy in my life...mostly, it just made me feel wanted...made me feel good.

Tim not only affirming that he likes having been adopted, but also reconfirming that Bruce was basically another dad to him long before that was even legally viable.

Which is honestly also just stating out loud what was already very painfully obvious for an extremely long time.

The uniqueness of Tim's situation in the 90's and early 00's was not that he wasn't Bruce's family, but that Tim had more than one. And the push and pull with an odd situation wherein Tim had two dads but in a way that you don't think about when you usually hear that someone has two dads. Especially here on tumblr dot com.

(Personally I loathe Jack Drake, as he's very clearly emotionally abusive [I think the moments he is "better" with Tim are intended to humanize him and tell you that he's not so bad, but it's literally an abusive cycle, because he always goes back to being shitty. Until he couldn't anymore because he died], but I also respect the fact that Tim loved him and still wanted him to be his dad, because people and family are complicated like that. And I could see this thought turning into another essay so I'll leave it at that for now. And I still haven't really discussed Tim and Bruce's actual relationship, either, which I hinted at doing in my other post. I'll get to it...another day.)

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i can’t stop thinking about bald bart

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if ur idea of the superfamily is just clark, kon and jon, i'm dumping aquarium rocks into ur shoes.

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"your faves would hate x" my faves are fictional characters with no autonomy of their own and written by 1 william people all with different biases 💀

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late night/early morning stakeout

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listen this is not my area of expertise but the fanon of alfred being such a nice grandpa figure is really funny. specifically for dick grayson ive seen stuff about him being alfreds favourite but i think its infinitely funnier how in that one panel (i think its somewhere in nightwing 96. not sure tho) where alfred is driving dick around he so clearly does not give a shit and even dick is like 'damn i guess you don't like kids do you'

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DC fanfiction writers be like:

For some reason

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Superman says fuck ICE. Be like Superman

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been reading green lantern comics recently heres stuff

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thinking about the character in peril or perhaps some sort of pain...

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Actually speaking of Tim's favorite color being green, and how its relative absence is thematically representative of depression for him, something I've been really appreciative of the colorists for in various comics since he's been Back

Tim is green

Tim is green

Tim is green

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One of my favourite comic fights is The Huntress’ raw, single-handed, unarmed takedown of Killer Croc as she “realises” Tim Drake is dead.

Joker: The Last Laugh #5

Talk about a big sister.

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i need more joy and whimsy in my life, so here are some of my favorite low quality cass screenshots!!! (plus bonus steph)