#little redbird

[thegayneapigs]

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[best-childhood-book]

[sophisticatedpjparty]

more ms paint doodles I made while listening to videos, thought I'd share <3

[sweetsinginglittleredbird]

⠀ ⠀⠀❝Sᴡᴇᴇᴛ Sᴏɴɢʙɪʀᴅ Bᴏɴɴɪᴇ.

⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ Rᴇᴅʙɪʀᴅ.❞

[glassdecanters]

dick's nicknames for his siblings is by far my favourite thing ever.

jason gets "little bird" and "little wing" typical little brother shit. it doesn't process for dick to change these when jason ends up taller and beefier than him.

tim gets "timbers", "timbo", and "redbird". dick called him "timbers" the night they first met, the night tim watched his performance at the circus.

damian gets "babybat". he pretends to hate it. he doesn't. he does get "batbrat" from others, but dick never indulges. "little shit" also works.

cass gets "acrobat" but like.. bat. he also calls her "cassie" every now and then but she definitely hates that.

stephanie gets the usual. "steph". she thought this meant dick hated her for the longest time, until one day dick came out with "stephy" and immediately regretted it. everyone laughed. he admitted to her that he just couldn't think of anything nice enough.

and for duke, he gets "bumblebee". jason thinks it's hilarious. dick thinks it's sweet.

[mamawasatesttube]

ok i put a longer post abt tim's Emotional State in drafts for when my brain is less melted but re: tim and going to college im just gonna get a lil silly with it. hear me out.

i have this whole vague story in my mind for tim's college days moonlighting as red robin as he tries and figures out what he wants out of life. (it's a while after rr leaves off and all because he's like. Super Depressed for a hot minute and then has to drag himself through actually bothering to get his GED and applying to college, etc., but eventually lucius is like hey. you're great with gadgets, and you clearly love tinkering. i'd hire you for r&d in a heartbeat but you need at the least a bachelor's of engineering. i know you have a lot of the technical skills, but you need a degree. so tim goes ugh fine i'll get a goddamn engineering degree how hard can it possibly be.)

anyways. i think it's a universal experience that if you go to college and you hang with the STEM crowd, you will unfortunately get to know at least one Fucking Guy. it's like brentwood arc; tim does make friends, but there is just this One Fucking Guy he cannot stand and will never stand. this Fucking Guy is in the common room playing his guitar at midnight. he's drunk and yelling and laughing really loud when people have exams coming up. he's convinced everyone adores him. there's also a detective/supernatural plot going on. the subplot is just that tim hates This Fucking Guy.

at some point, there's a story beat where he as red robin has to rescue That Fucking Guy from a real dicey situation, and That Fucking Guy is really shaken and grateful to him, and he's like okay. maybe. maybe we are making progress. but then the next time he encounters This Fucking Guy as tim drake, the guy is just like. "ohhhh hey drake you missed it last night, it was AWESOME!!! i had to save red robin from a KILLER ROBOT. he's pretty cool though i guess. i bet you wish you could be more like him huh??" and tim is just. I Will Not Grind My Teeth About This. I Will Not. his life is a fucking joke. he dismantles the toaster oven in the common room kitchen to cope. it's definitely to cope and not just so that That Fucking Guy won't be able to heat up his pop tarts in the morning.

at another point, This Fucking Guy looks at street mode, lowkey, unremarkable Normal Car-looking redbird and goes, aw, dude, i thought your dad is loaded?? he only got you a generic-ass sedan?? that sucks lol, if you want we can take my car down to the game instead. and tim is just Say One More Fucking Word About My Baby I Dare You I Fucking Dare You One More Fucking Word.

(also i like to toy with the idea of this being a university in metropolis - he's out of gotham, but not too far. keeps him from getting antsy about what if he's needed because he can get right back over there. and in the meantime, he can hang out with kon and kara a lot, and occasionally enable and be enabled by lois lane and her snooping habits. there's another subplot in which tim and lois get up to shenanigans. at least once.)

it's sort of an introspective thing of him trying to come to terms with the way he no longer wants a fully normal life the way he always used to assume he would - he has the option to walk away from the cape now, like he always thought he would one day, but he just can't give it up anymore. he's fallen into the same black hole he watched dick and bruce dive headlong into. it's also about him finding joy in tinkering and working with his hands and getting to spend more time as tim drake first and foremost. and it's about him venting to kon about That Fucking Guy while they have a lil picnic on the green while kon loses his absolute shit laughing. all against the backdrop of a little mystery or something. <3

OH and also, most importantly. zoanne wilkins is there and laughing at him for assuming college would be easy. and kon gets her into wendy the werewolf stalker. My City Now.

[celaenaeiln]

It’s funny at one post you mention Robin!Dick being possibly the scariest one of them when you consider that

1) Jason literally once used a firearm to fend off some goons covering Batman

2) Tim literally has a mini Batmobile he can control with an RC radio called The Redbird

3) While Tim had a bo staff, all Dick really hand at most were two sticks plus he was the one wearing green pixie boots

Not saying Robin!Dick was in any way outclassed by the latter two but it’s funny he got that rep around Gotham’s underground as a small child

Original post in reference

Yes!!

Like Jason had used a gun and almost used the sharp end of a Batarang and Tim had a whole robotic machine at his disposal, but it's absolutely hilarious that Dick terrorized the town in little green gloves and short-shorts!

His original entrance didn't even have a weapon, his weapon was being a full on psycho!

Batman (1940) Issue #1

Guerrilla warfare at its peak. I can literally hear that "boing" through the comic panel.

This kid was a nightmare for villains - post

Later he used a sling shot of all things

Detective Comics Issue #38

LOOK AT THE WICKED GRIN ON HIS FACE!!

He's using a construction crane as a crime fighting device, no net below or anything!!

I firmly believe Dick terrorized the Gotham underworld for the sole fact that they couldn't come to terms with his insanity. When you look at some of the stuff Dick did as robin, even the Joker's madness starts making sense and then put that ball of craziness next to the gloomiest, most anti-criminal man in existence as his back up?

The criminals were right to be worried! They're fighting for their lives and he's fighting for fun!

That little blue glob there? under Dick's feet? that's a man screaming on his way down.

But Dick on the other hand?

[isfjmel-phleg]

So the context for the pages below is that Dick has called in Tim to help him with a case that requires tech expertise, and of course Tim agrees to help. But it's evident from his expression that he's not especially enthusiastic. He looks tired. A bit downcast.

At this time, there was a plotline in Tim's solo series in which the Drakes lost a lot of money and had to make some pretty significant lifestyle changes. Tim had to leave his boarding school and sell his beloved Redbird, and his family moved out of their fancy house in the suburbs to a more modest apartment in the city. The Drakes aren't destitute; they've just gone from upper-class to upper-middle-class. But it's a big change by their standards, and Tim, although he puts on an optimistic and compliant front for his dad's sake, initially panics about how the downgrade might impact his very expensive job as Robin.

Dick seems to sense that something is bothering Tim, so he puts a hand gently on his shoulder and asks--not how Tim is doing, he'd never get a straightforward answer for that, but rather "how's life in the big city treating you?"

Note that Tim does not answer that question. He makes a vague statement about how Gotham is and then changes the subject to how his dad is doing. And it's true; Jack Drake is not handling the new circumstances well. But that has nothing to do with how Tim's doing, at least not directly.

What Tim seems to be trying to say here without directly saying it is that he's worried about his dad and doesn't know how to help him. Being emotional support for depressed father-figures is normally Tim's thing, it's why he's Robin in the first place, but it's different with his dad, who isn't easy to connect with even at the best of times.

Dick offers him some fairly generic reassurance that might also be meant for Tim himself. But what really gets me here is Tim's little "Yeah..."

He wants to talk more. He wants to tell Dick all about how he's doing, what he's struggling with. But that's wading in too deep, getting too vulnerable for someone who's there to offer support, not be supported himself. So he quickly changes the subject back to the case, Dick has to move on to the next task at hand, and Tim is left alone with his feelings.

(Nightwing 1996 #68)

Just a short interaction, but it says so much about Tim's reluctance to open up about anything too personal, even with someone whom he's particularly close to, who genuinely cares about his well-being and wants to know how he's doing.

[yj-98]

oh sick a car appreciator. what cars would u have based the redbird on?

oohhh im glad u asked... to preface this btw im a car appreciator not exactly an. expert. i love old (40s-80s) cars (i grew up w/ my dream car being an aqua 1965 mustang convertible) but im not like. incredibly knowledgeable

that being said :] ! onward with redbird thoughts

shes supposed to be a rear engined sporty little coupe. modified to high hell. i would wager the rear engine is more so that tim can have weapons (missiles? grenade launcher? a fucking flamethrower?) under the hood and less actually thinking abt what a rear engine could DO for his driving experience at the ripe age of 14. its got a lowered chassis (rear-engine has a lower center of gravity, and if its a rear-wheel drive then overall its saving even More space cramped in the back, and probably has a better "grip" on the road) and apparently has pop out scoops for better airflow.. probably for the best.

its also got a bulletproof windshield! and blacked out windows! are those even legal in jersey? no! the tire shields are fine i guess

my problem with red bird is that shes just a little ugly. like there are things in the body of this car that have potential (i like the pop out scoops but they make the overall silhouette of the car look sort of . back heavy in a bad way) but ultimately fall flat.

so im gonna look at some cars that i think still sell the look they were going for!! FROM his time period even!!

the ferrari testarossa (produced from '84-'96 and im looking at the late 80s/early 90 ones here)

this is my ideal car to base redbird on. its a mid-engine, which has the best overall center of gravity, and while it limits cabin space its not like we were worried abt tht with tim. its still a 2 door sports car with a low chassis. the air scoops dont need to pop out, it has room in the back for the drag 'schute that they wanted to include, and has the room in the front too. also! she looks KILLER in red<3

the pontiac firebird trans am (1993) + chevy corvette ('90 red c4)

this is included in case we do not want to look at ferrari. sporty! red! coupe! i have less to say abt these ones honestly

i could just start naming other sporty coupes but my point being like.... theres cars of this era with the look theyre going for that look perfectly fine in the three different price ranges (general motors making pontiac as their low-tier, chevrolet as their bigger make) and ferrari at the luxury tier

ik 15 years later tim gets a new redbird (2008 i believe) and i do believe they WERE referencing real cars for redbird i simply think. it would not look like that. and didnt have to! less is more. if you want a cool looking aerodynamic sports car then she should look sleek. redbird drawn in the comics doesnt look sleek she just looks silly </3

ultimately i dont want to change her too much from being tim's (say it with me) sporty little red coupe. because thats not a bad thing for a car to be! i just dont think there was that much thought into what the car should look like aside from looking at a picture of a sports coupe and going "ok now add a flamethrower and a parachute"

[railwayhistorical]

Night into Dawn—Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington was a haven for EMD F-units back in the mid- to late-1970s. I ventured over there from Indiana several times to shoot the "covered wagons" of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio, sometimes in the dark. The GM&O was part of the Illinois Central Gulf by that time, but engines weren't painted quickly after the merger took place in 1972, which was fabulous for railroad enthusiasts. [I believe two of the F3s did make it into the orange and white scheme of the ICG.]

We begin this little sequence of images with a view of number 810B: it's an F3 built in 1947. This unit would be upgraded to pull commuters for citizens of Boston, as MBTA 1111. [In the end, a few of these charismatic F-units went to Boston, a few others to Metro North, but I believe others were scrapped within a couple of years from the time of these photos being made.]

Despite the lure of the Fs, I was also attracted to this wonderful SD40, a so-called Redbird. This one was built in September of 1966. Lastly, number 811b is an EMD F7 built in 1949.

I love the beginnings of daylight in the eastern sky in these latter two images. Three photographs by Richard Koenig; taken at dawn on November 21st 1976.

[thegayneapigs]

Unfortunately RedBird did not make the last round of Cadbury voting, but she's still the cutest piggie ever!! 💓

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[peaceloveelvis]

God took you home 46 years ago today, but I know one day I'll see you in Heaven, face-to-face, and it will be more beautiful than I can imagine. It's difficult not to be sad today, but I know you wouldn't want me to cry. In fact, I can picture you saying, "Don't cry, Honey." I also feel at peace this morning knowing you are where you want to be, and now you are finally with your little girl again.

The last few days, you have appeared to me, singing to me outside my bedroom window. This morning I woke up and again, I heard you singing your song. To feel your presence brings me such comfort and I feel so incredibly blessed.

When I visited you, the feel of your presence was the greatest gift I could have ever received. I will carry you in my heart always. I don't know why God placed you in my life, Elvis, but I thank him every day for you.

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Remember Me

"I'd like to be remembered when I'm gone from this Earthly life, for my efforts to bring joy, happiness and a time of freedom from everyday cares to other human beings... Just think of me as the redbird, in a winter worn bush on a snowy day — a bit of color in a sometimes dreary world." -Unknown

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Propaganda why Bloom Peters is insufferable:

Her sins:

1. Main character of one of the worse live action adaptions I’ve ever seen

2. Not like other girls x1000- she likes ✨reading books✨ and ✨going to vintage stores✨ and gets in a fight with her mom about how she doesn’t go to parties and have friends like a ✨basic bitch✨

3. Gets so mad at her mom that she loses control of her powers and nearly kills her parents in a fire

4. A guy told her she was going the wrong way to get to class and she accused him of “mansplaining”

5. Shitty and boring fashion sense, little to no bright colors and not a single glittery top

6. Season one “Transformation” is just a dozen different camera angles of her awkwardly floating with cgi fire around her

7. I didn’t watch season two, but a friend who did told me she develops a savior complex and has an unnecessary amount of make out scenes at random times

Bloom (and entire show) is written like the director gave a middle aged conservative man $100 to write what he thought “woke” teens would like.

Look at this image and tell me this looks like winx https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjRjMjg2MGEtMmQ1Yi00Yjc0LTlkZTItNjQzYjAwNjQ3MGU0XkEyXkFqcGdeQWRvb2xpbmhk._V1_.jpg

Propaganda why Zoey Redbird is insufferable:

Protagonist centered morality, slutshames other girls but has a lot of boys herself including one who raped someone else (I think at least)

She’s presented as being the perfect person to replace a bully character in a position of power because she’s such a good and pure person, and every book it’s nothing but her calling people the R slur, or sluts, or freaks, or various slurs against gay people, or talking out loud about how ugly her classmates are with her friends, or saying that certain people shouldn’t be allowed to breed if they’re too useless or gross, or saying gay men are basically women, or differentiating between which gay people are the good kind or the bad kind based on how annoying she thinks they are. And then after all of that is established in the first book, by the second she’s pushing two racist caricatures of black men in front of a truck and kills them and it is never brought up again. And every book ends with her getting a magical tattoo no one in history has ever gotten, confirming that she is canonically one of the best people to ever be alive even after murdering two people for annoying her

INCREDIBLY hypocritical, slut-shaming mary-sue of an idiot. She constantly calls one girl a hoe (for sucking a guy's dick without his consent (no, the thing Zoe disagrees with WASN'T the rape issue, it was the blowjob!!!)) Despite having a Harem of different guys herself. And no, she isn't even poly about it, all the dudes are constantly being aggro to each other and clearly want to be exclusive.

She also becomes a rape apologist for one of the harem guys AND the Big Bad, who is an immortal who once RAPED AN ENTIRE TRIBE OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN. But he's soooooo hot! *eyeroll*

FUCKING Pick-Me girl of all time. If mysogyny was a competetive sport then Zoey would be on the olympic team.

[arguablysomaya]

Hi! Love your fic recs, do you have any good tim and dick or bruce early relationship ones? Thanks!

Yes!

by @sohotthateveryonedied my beloved <3

The heart monitor beats, steady and unchanging, keeping time with Dick’s pulse under Tim’s grip on his wrist. Tim hasn’t left yet—not since a few hours ago when Leslie finished operating and Dick was brought here to recover. Bruce went home to change into civvies, but Tim is persistent in his vigil at Dick’s bedside.

The damage was severe, the blade slicing straight through Dick’s abdomen. It’s only thanks to pure luck that it didn’t hit anything vital, but Dick nearly died from the blood loss. Tim’s fault. All of this is Tim’s fault.

GAHHHHH SELF WORTH ISSUESSSS AGHHHH also dick spends like half this fic unconscious lmfaooo

by @coffinbirds

Dick doesn't think he'll ever get used to his little brother's idiosyncrasies. It's like whenever he thinks the kid can't get any weirder, he decides to just blow Dick out of the water with some new abnormality.

It's endearing.

it IS endearing!!! lil druggie tim

by @damthosefandoms

Tim gets mugged but is more annoyed than anything else. Dick just wants lunch (and for his brothers to stop playing musical chairs with his motorcycle).

this is so incredibly sweet and the reveal is so well done :)

by @nolongersun

The stained glass of Gotham Cathedral casts a saturated glow down onto them, painting the two brothers and the body in a golden light. It makes the blood staining the carpet look like wine.

Tim moves closer to Dick. Places a cautious hand on his brother’s back. “Dick, listen to me.”

He makes a decision.

“We need to move the body.”

How many Gotham vigilantes does it take to cover up a crime from the Batman?

Dick kills the Joker fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also no technically just a dick and tim fic but I like it so its going on the list

by anthologia

The Redbird’s navigation will tell him where he is from pretty much anywhere in the country, but that doesn’t help him with the hopeless lost feeling in his chest that sank in with the realization that he’s not sure he still has a home to judge his position by.

“You’d tell me, right?” The wrong words fall out of his mouth, and Tim hates how tiny and vulnerable he sounds right now. “If there was something… wrong with me?”

dick grayson being jack drakes number one hater will never get old

by vellaphoria

After Cass and Tim return from Paris, something seems… wrong.

Dick tries to find out what it is.

GOD whenever i read this it's like a physical hand wraps around my heartttt ahhh also this one deals with SA so be careful!

by keeptogethernow

Tim's had a lot of birthdays (well, a lot for him) but he's never really GOT why people have parties for them. Dick plans on changing that.

this fic is simultaneously so sweet and soooo sad omg

by @renecdote

There’s medical jargon and statistics and sympathies but all Tim hears is Not going to wake up. Over and over. A sickening, morbid loop that cuts through every word, every thought, every memory his brain throws up at him.

Tim has to pull the plug on his fucking dad omg. props to bruce for being there tho good on him

by @violet-witch-6

So he’s the Wednesday of Robins. No big deal. He knows what he did for Bruce and his family. He knows the role he played in creating that family. Who cares if no one else does?

The truth is, Tim’s story has never been about the masks. It’s always been about the people beneath them.

~~~

Or: Tim’s entire life so far told in one long depressing (occasionally funny) go. Strap in for some hard core character study style angst.

HOW does this not have more attention??? this one is very expansive past what you technically asked for, but I want to rec it. so.

by @lectorel

Tim knows his parents weren't the best. He just doesn't understand why it matters.

Bruce isn't necessarily the best parent in this one, but man is it sweet

[sweetsinginglittleredbird]

❝ I swear she will never know my secret. She will never have to give up the sunlight because of me. ❞ [ from novel stefan ]

Bonnie sighed softly. She didn’t think it was fair of Stefan to hide his secret, a secret of great importance attached to his identity from Elena, his beloved, even though she understood his concern. He wanted to protect Elena from his dark world, but who said that she had to give up sunlight for him? There are other ways, Bonnie thought, there has to be. She would find a way, they would find a way. True love, like the love her best friends Elena and Stefan shared was meant to last, overcoming the toughest trials; this scenario turned to be one.

“But is that fair to Elena? Don’t you think she deserves to know the truth about you? Hiding from her isn’t the solution, Stefan. Trust me, I know her ever since we were little kids. You won’t do her a favor with it. And who says that she has to give up the sunlight for you? Stefan, there are ways…we can find a solution, together with Mrs. Flowers’ aid.” Bonnie attempted to reason with Stefan, hoping she could change his mind.

[enchantedchocolatebars]

Hc: (This headcanon is canon divergent) I, personally, like to think that, when they were younger, both Caleb and Philip had a strong, loving bond with their father.

When Patience (my headcanon name for Philip and Caleb's mother) was sitting in her rocking chair, cradling a chipper Baby Caleb in her arms, a cardinal flies down and sits on the window sill.

Seeing the redbird, Baby Caleb starts to smile as he begins to babble in excitement, making grabby motions at the window.

He wants to touch that birdie so bad!

This makes Patience let out a light giggle.

Taking notice of his son's bright behavior, Cadman (my headcanon name for Philip and Caleb's father) gets an idea.

He carves and paints a small cardinal for Baby Caleb.

Later, at age 10, Caleb and Cadman carve a cuckoo clock together (it was Caleb's first ever carving) and the cardinal that Cadman carved for Caleb when he was a baby gets placed inside the clock.

When it came to Baby Philip, he loved pulling / tugging on Cadman's beard (something I'd like to mention is that I like to hc that Philip's father shared a close / similar resemblance to Beardo Philip being that he had blue eyes, a brown ponytail, brown beard. The beard started to develop around the time Caleb was born and fully grew when Philip was born), which always made him chuckle.

Later, at age 6, Cadman helped Pip practice his penmanship, which inspired Little Pip to write small stories that he'd always share with his father.

Two things that Kid Philip and Kid Caleb loved doing with Cadman was accompanying him to the forest to help gather firewood and fishing.

Both activities always made the three bond more.