I feel like I've complained about Tim's email situation in Gotham Knights before (edit: I have), but the truth of it is just so funny.
He's signed up for so many podcasts, video game streamers, and random news alerts; it's just a constant barrage of data going straight into his constantly whirring brain. Hell, he even floats the idea of the Batfamily having their own podcast as a way to correct misinformation about them (which Jason shoots down instantly), and it's made me realize something.
Timothy Drake would be a YouTuber.
In this universe specifically, Timothy Jackson Drake, the heir to Drake Industries and the foster son of the late Bruce Wayne would be a YouTuber.
Think about it. It'd be the perfect cover. Who would ever suspect that some 16-year-old nepo baby with a YouTube channel could ever be Red Robin? You'd have to be mad. I mean, look at him.
Red Robin just dropped out of literal thin air and garotted someone four times his size, and you expect anyone to believe that's the same kid who does 24-hour Minecraft charity streams and occasionally drops 6-hour video essays (his last one was on Lex Luthor's illegal bit mining operation on the moon)?
So...last night I was watching this video of Led Zeppelin doing "Dazed and Confused" live, and I saw something that broke my heart and made me fall in love with Jonesy even more.
It happens between 5:48 and 6:20 (right at the beginning of the proto-"Achilles Last Stand" riff). Jonesy and Bonham have this moment where Bonzo looks sad and Jonesy looks concerned and then reassuring and they have this whole beautifully candid and emotional wordless exchange and I can't even-
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(It's in the freaking thumbnail! A still from this moment is the thumbnail for the whole ass 10+ minute video asdfghjkl)
If I cannot shut the fuck up about Raise a Suilen it's probably because of this fucking solo from "7th LIVE" - worth noting that there's actually a whole 3min epic drum solo before this starts, but I cut it off so tumblr would let me post this.
As a full-time dad-prog-rock appreciator, this is one of my favorite performances from them, their skills are fucking insane and I'm not even talking about Raychell's surreal vocal skills. istg this never gets old!! <3