Ofc You Have Permission! I Am Currently Struggling With Writers Block So I Cant :(

screaming crying throwing up my favorite author just followed me i feel blessed is this what it's like to be chosen by the gods?

@theresamouseinmyhouse hi :)

hey. hi. so.

might be a little obsessed with Tim Drake. this is not new. what is new, however, is the idea of timothy jackson drake being raised as a shield.

you know how some children are raised as weapons? that sucks. but weapons have a use. they're sharp, they're dangerous. sometimes they're respected in some capacity. some people have emotional attachments to their weapons. a weapon is valued for the threat that it is simply by being. a weapon is valued for the damage it can do. and that sucks. but a weapon is valued, pretty much automatically, because a weapon has a purpose.

but shields? their entire purpose is someone else. a shield is worthless without someone to shield. a shield is used until it breaks, and then it's immediately replaced. a shield is valued as long as it's stable, as long as it takes the hits meant for someone else. a shield is valued until it takes too many hits and it breaks. no one will repair that broken shield. it's never going to be as stable as it used to be. better to just get a new one.

anyways. tim drake is a shield, not a sword. at first he was shielding his parents reputation. then he was shielding Batman, both his reputation and his health- mental and physical. and he never stopped. he spent a year with the league of assassins to protect batman. to rescue him.

and when he gets back from that year? he's shielding Bruce by taking the brunt of work at WE.

to conclude: tim was raised as a shield instead of a child and i can't stop thinking about it.

i despise when people say that tim is boring

because, no???

people have just decided that all of tim's character traits are just favoritism.

literally had this exact fucking conversation with someone a few days ago:

"i don't like tim because he's boring."

"oh, why?"

"he doesn't have any character traits."

"yes he does. he sees himself as a sentient tool, consistently chooses others over himself, is one of the few characters who actually understands the symbols of batman and robin separate from the people in the suits, is a detective equal to and sometimes better than batman, he's great at hacking, he constantly makes new allies and is a big part of the reason batman has a support network."

"no, that's just from runs where tim was unfairly favored."

"ohhh. i see. you decided that tim doesn't have any character traits because when he is respected as a human being and not just a Tool for the characters you like better and can, you know, show his character traits, you have decided it is favoritism and doesn't count. let's not think about the 10~ years when tim was a fucking background character and basically Didn't Matter in comparison to the more popular characters. that wasn't favoritism towards anyone at all."

UPDATE: I FUCKING FOUND IT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"how's it go again" by timdrakesuperspy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51354226/chapters/129765949

there's this one tim drake dimension travel fic where he gets yeeted to a dimension with a better batfam by mr. mxypltzk (how tf do you spell that) and bart and kon come with him. i remember specifically there's this one scene where tim is practicing in the batcave and the alternate batfam are just... appalled by the amount of force he's using. because they Don't Do That in their dimension.

AND I CAN'T FUCKING FIND IT. I CAN'T FIND THE FIC. IT BRINGS ME GREAT PAIN.

reboggg

writing is kicking my ass rn because what do you mean i have to actually live up to my promise. like that time i saw a cool hc and asked "hey what if i wrote a fic abt this" i didnt mean ACTUALLY WRITE A FIC ABT IT.

so now i am sitting here staring at my empty, empty google doc and wondering how to make tim and jason psychologists. like what????

or, how the fuck do i characterize any of the JL? literally what? i said id write a fic where JL interacts with the batkids but its like. what who how when-

anyways. writing is kicking my ass rn.

forever pissed that dc made tim's coming out about steph for some stupid reason. like. how. why. and i don't think anyone wanted that.

it wasn't to appease steph fans, because afaik most of them don't like it anyway. so what was the point. what was the point of making tim coming out about steph???

i just. why, dc? why.

"forfrodo"

wise words, very wise words

TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of “tobacco angina” exacerbated by nicotine . He was known to smoke up to twenty cigars a day.

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better question: do you NOT want to be a fugitive that loves fucking with the police from your house hidden in the woods? cause if so, you’re wrong

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