#reply to my dumbass posts

[ew-selfish-art]

DpxDc AU: Tim as a child was never given a lot of information regarding the scribbling messy handwriting that appeared over night all over his arms- naturally he came to his own conclusions.

Tim Drake was home entirely alone at 9 years old and was about to go out for the night to test his brand new long exposure camera lens when he sees the writing on his arm. It’s not English, like he assumed it was at first, but it was using the alphabet to represent… Tim isn’t bad at math but this formula is complex for his little genius brain.

Looking at his camera, he decides he can spare a moment to look it up, solve it, and get back out into old town Gotham in time for Batman and Robin’s final patrol lap. He does just that, finding the problem to relate to some aerospace engineering and then quickly deduces what laws and theorems need to be applied. He finds a pen, writes down his findings in much neater handwriting onto his arm, and goes out. It’s barely a remarkable night at all. He gets a much more memorable photo of Robin roundhouse kicking a hench person.

Things just continued on that way. Tim would find some complex math, physics or chemistry prompt on his arm (surrounded by various question marks or notes or sad faces)- he’d answer it as best he could and move on with his life. Perhaps his parents were manifesting these pop quizzes? Perhaps his subconscious felt guilty about abandoning his studies for more Bat related pursuits? Tim really didn’t care to think much about it once he became Robin- there was too much on his plate and too many peoples problems for him to fix.

Notably, however, after the attack at the Tower, the pop quiz appeared and Tim wrote back that he wouldn’t be able to find an answer to this one. It was the only time Tim questioned the markings appearance and it was because the next thing that appeared was “Hope you feel better soon.”

… his parents wouldn’t include that on a pop quiz. Cursed then. Tim decided it must be a curse, whatever, he’d deal with the implications later in life.

Tim then has the worst year of his life, hes 15, no longer Robin and the questions from his curse are getting less math oriented and more… philosophical. A lot of mentions of death that, in hindsight helped him actually grieve, and a lot of theories about dark matter and souls. Tim answers back as best he can but he’s drained and his answers aren’t very good in his opinion. He gets minimal feedback.

It all comes to a point that he’s at a family dinner, Bruce is at the head of the table, Jason has promised just to stay for dessert, Damian hasn’t thrown a single insult his way and Steph was laughing at him- when a new theoretical model appears on his arm.

“You’re just as bad as Bruce, Timberly. Hiding a soulmate from all of us, how fucking typical.” Jason points out, while watching Tim scribble back some math with a question mark onto his arm.

“A what? No, this is just a curse. I get pop quizzes every now and then.” Tim bats away Steph who rapidly approaches and began to analyze his arm (the rest of the family isn’t far behind).

“Drake. Explain how you came to this conclusion.” Damian seems more curious than anything, if his lack of insults was anything to go off of.

“Since I was young I’ve had at least weekly math check ins, I never had a parent or anyone else around so I assumed my parents had me cursed to ensure I stayed on top of my studies. Sometimes it’s physics or chemistry, for a while there it was a ton of philosophy and behavioral psychology.” He shrugs his shoulders.

“Master Tim, I believe the lack of adults in your life has led you towards a false conclusion. That is most certainly a soulmate mark. The individual to whom you are responding is undoubtedly your other half.” Alfred attempts to calm the room before explaining to Tim. Tim isnt sure if he believes the butler, though Alfred only very rarely lied, so he grabs the pen once more. He writes his first question back: “Who am I to you?”

The room waits in anticipation and within moments a brand new line appears on Tim’s arm and he is vindicated: “We do math together???”

——

The reason Danny is failing English is because his built in homework helper sucks ass at metaphors and has apparently never read any classic literature. The tutor on his arm is great at puzzles and math tho.

Danny gets a reply back one night that he wasn’t expecting (Who am I to you?) and he mentions it to Jazz. Who goes insane that Danny didn’t even question it and just went with “meh, probably haunted” as his explanation for the phenomenon for all these years.

Apparently, if Jazz was right, he had a soulmate who was uh, super fucking smart. That was an overwhelming thought.

The next day Danny is in crisis mode and writes back “Wait, WHAT AM I TO YOU??? Can I help on your homework??”

Danny gets vindicated when the writing on his arm presents a shit ton of dates and information for an unsolved Gotham cold case. See, Haunted.

———

Eventually between Danny becoming the top candidate for astrophysics at Wayne Enterprises and Tim Drake being outed as having contributed tips to the GCPD that solved cold cases- they meet and realize just how dumb they’ve been.

[utilitycaster]

I'm still thinking about that post about how female characters and especially wlw and f/f ships are treated in fandoms because I got a reply that I deleted on my post about how all the Nein were big shippers on deck for Beau and Yasha that boiled down to "haha Caleb making a tower so the useless lesbians would admit they liked each other!" and it's like. He made the tower to Beau's orders. She had already asked out Yasha, who in turn had of her own volition written Beau a phenomenal, beautiful letter instead of a poem as recommended by Jester. This is factually incorrect and obnoxiously dismissive of a genuinely great dynamic and attributes all agency to a man. When you say shit like this you sound like you are Chat GPT. No new thoughts no time actually spent analyzing a relationship dynamic just "ooh i see a woman in fiction what is the phrase most associated with this ok done onto the next task".

[bonnboncake]

madotsuki has a happy dream where she is partying with animals

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

you will get nigerian prince scams in your inbox

[rabbiteclair]

if that quark post escapes containment how long do you think before I get a 'lmao scientists don't invent new kinds of quarks sweetie 😂😂' response

[sydmarch]

post: simply acknowledges the realities of canon

dumbasses: SHUT THE FUCK UP!! DO YOU HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE HAVE FUN???

[oysterie]

i do acknowledge i need to watch what i say wrt gender women men cis ppl etc just augh.

[seximal]

why are transmascs and transfems fighting over intracommunity discourse when we should be beating each other to death with hammers and mallets and maces and shovels and chopping each others limbs off with knives and swords and machetes and hatchets

[sevikasenby]

lesbian possum‼️ cute

but it was a pic for you 😿 i'll try without parentheses

https://pin.it/2QTGQxz

pls work

-⭐️

pinterest does not like you today im sorry 😭😭😭 i’ve even tried it on my computer to no avail 😔

[stealingyourbones]

If you’re still looking for pet pictures, here is my five month old kitten in a candy bowl (she fits so she sits)

WHAT A BABEY A LITTLE PALLL A LITTLE LADY IM LOVE HEERFHSELFKSDJKFHBSD

[system-of-a-feather]

Options you have when you get a deranged anon

Take it seriously and be offended and serious

Take it with a LARGE giraffe length stick of humor and invite an opportunity for not only yourself but everyone who reads it to feel free to clown and have fun with it

#2 but you also use it to promote your chicken propaganda and overall evil totalitarian bird agenda

[inutaffy]

very sorry for your loss (a post getting to the worst possible audiences) but you are so funny and based all the time 💙💙 don’t let it get to you

THANK YOU ANON. i will try !!!✌🏼✌🏼

[lady-tortilla-chip]

I think what bothers me about continued discourse on characterizations is honestly how much there is to consume. BSD isn’t just ONE linear story which is easily and readily accessible it’s got multiple branches! There’s novels! There’s the manga! There’s spin off manga! There’s a movie! There’s a 3 season anime with a fourth on the way! There are PLAYS! There is an entire canon AU! Which also has a manga! AND a live action movie! AND a play!! There’s a lot to dissect and read and go off of for characterization!

Not even to mention that a lot of what gets complained about is the remnants of older characterizations which were a product of how much content we had at the time! I see people complaining about shit I haven’t seen be actively pushed for a year or two and it’s like yALL pls remember this story is not actually new. It’s been around for a WHILE and just because YOU are new to it doesn’t mean it’s a new story. Ive only been here for HALF as long as BSD has existed so there’s plenty that I don’t even know cuz I just wasn’t THERE anyway I’m done now lmao

[literalclownfuckery]

Ahhh immm sooo madd at myself bc i meant to reblog the post, about the fic. And i drafted up a whole huge ramble mess of a post with embedded links and long ass tags and then proceeded to /save the draft to the wrong blog/. Like. Thank FUCK i didnt post it in said blog lol but AHHH i, dont think i can switch it back now that i saved it and. GAH basically spoiled my whole mood 😔😔😔

[lizard-dumbass]

Trying to avoid spoilers is becoming very exhausting

[sunflowersolace]