i was possessed by the yuri devil.

duke thomas 😄

& him hanging out with the waynes :)

jason todd musings

Jason is trying his best to make him look vicious ; )'

There should be a guide for if you like fanon [x] you’d like canon [y] like

If you like fanon Jason Todd, you’d like canon Helena Bertinelli (morally grey with coherent characterization) or* canon Oliver Queen (I’m guessing in terms of socialist Ollie from his earlier comics)

If you like fanon Tim Drake, you’d like NTT era Dick Grayson (sleepless bi disaster), or alternatively Birds of Prey (1998) Barbara Gordon (coffee obsessed hacker)

If you like fanon batfam, you’d like canon flashfam or* canon arrowfam

Idk i see things sprinkled out here and there but i think collecting them would be helpful to bridge people into good comics. Because if you like Tim Drake and the first actual comic you picked up was Robin 1993, I’d stop reading comics too

*edit additions from the notes, I’ll keep adding as i see them or think of more (some additions are up in the top list marked as *)

If you like fanon Dick Grayson, you’d like canon Roy (flirtatious, dad shaped) or Donna Troy (mother hen)

If you like fanon Bruce, you’d like canon Ollie (a dad who occasionally messes up but is always trying and makes sure to tell his kids he loves them)

If you like fanon Duke (you’d likely like canon Duke better but) you might like the adventures of Supergirl (based of the cw show)

If you like fanon Gotham rogues, you’d like canon Flashfam rogues (I’ve heard they’re sympathetic and like pretty chill with the flashfam)

him 🤲

first one based on this

sometimes your only common language is violence

Mirror Traps, Hera Lindsay Bird // Batgirl (2000) #73 // Eat Your Young, Hozier // Batgirl (2000) #68 // WIRE MOTHER ENERGY DRINK, Daniel Lavery // Batgirl (2000) #25 // @/honeytuesday // Batgirl (2000) #72 // Night Terrors, Hannah Green // Batgirl (2000) #73 // On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Therapy dog Cass is an abomination but Cass absolutely would be that friend who notices whenever someone's going through it and wants to do something to help. The issue being she's really bad at this so she just thinks of what always makes her happy and winds up shoving a chocolate ice cream cone in their face and blurting out, "hey, feel better. Okay?" in a way that sounds a lot more like a threat than a reassurance before quickly grappling away to avoid further awkwardness.

young justice has taken over my brain and theyre all i can draw lately <3 also i highly recommend clicking to view the middle 2 bc tumblr cropped then bad in the format </3

Sparring Partners

can i say something. i am kind of scared to say something bc dick ship wars kind of scare me even though i have absolutely no preference and care extremely little about dick ships. but. hm. the thinking about 80s and 90s medias as products of their time got me thinking a bit.

so. the interesting thing to me about dick-kory in the 70s and 80s vs dick-babs in the 90s and early 00s os how much each of those couples was entrenched in the media ideals of the time and what people were looking for in a ship.

so like, if you look at dick-kory, theirs is a larger than life love that is destined from the moment she kissed him to learn human language. and theirs is a dynamic and relationship dripping in the popular soap opera tropes that were very pervasive a the time. you can't actually divorce their tribulations (dick being kind of condescending to kory as the Man of the relationship, she's a princess who has to get married for political reasons and dick gets mad, kory gets mad at him for supposedly cheating when he was raped by mirage, the epic wedding that gets literally blown up by raven to name a few) from the media norms that were very popular. they fight passionately and make up passionately very frequently. this is a very common dynamic in the 80s, where soap operas were topping the charts. everyone was watching general hospital. *30 million* people tuned in to see luke and laura get married and their relationship started with him raping her (which was later turned into "seduction") and they were considered like THE couple ever. everyone was watching dynasty. dallas was hugely popular. falcon crest. knots landing. dick and kory's relationship mirrors a lot of what people were eating up back then in the soap opera type media the new titans was emulating. luke and laura. gary and valene. bo and hope. bobby and pam. dick and kory. can you really talk about dick and kory if you don't know what was going on with "bope" back then? for reference, here's what was going on with bo and hope:

anyways. enter the 90s and the soap opera fervor died down in a massive way. soap operas were no longer prime time material and their popularity died down in a massive way & actually people started more making fun of the overwrought storylines and soaps in general. the ideas of destined, one true love was suddenly far more unappealing to people who thought it was cheesy & tired. what people in the 90s were looking for was not true love that is constantly tested and put through the wringer--what was gaining in popularity was UST and will they won't they dynamics. enter dick-babs. and while i wholly disagree with the idea of diminishing kory's importance in dick's life just to uplift babs, i don't entirely disagree with the notion that kory probably wouldn't have really worked in batbooks, so i understand why batbooks wanted to focus on a loveline for dick for a character they had full control of and could work into the stories. and, hm. moving dick away from the destined one true love at the time that was kory allowed them to put him in the romantic situations that 90s audiences were vibing with instead. because you can't suddenly do a will they won't they with a couple who's been solidly dating for *years*. so with dick and babs you're able to do that. he's interested while she's dating someone else. he flirts with someone else for a bit while she's single. while the entire time they're still good working partners while circling around each other. will they? or won't they? and this was super common in late 90s/early 00s sitcom shows that people loved and were at the top of the charts. the x-files with scully and mulder. friends with rachel and ross. fran and mr. sheffield from the nanny. it's still very much playing to what people wanted to see back then.

anyways as someone who truly has no horse in this race i do think media norms of the time around couplings are interesting to dissect.

timsteph tuesday! this time with these sdv-inspired busts that i drew on way too small a canvas, so above are screenshots of my zoomed in canvas, below are the originals lmao.

edit to mention that i did not entirely come up with steph and and tim's designs here myself, especially not steph, i used these pictures (which i made with the stardew valley portrait maker) as a base and worked from there to make them closer to how i think of steph and tim.

Hi guys, sorry for the hiatus. Been going thru some changes in life so I was trying to adjust to that >.< So please have Steph and Cass as pokemon trainers as compensations!! I had so much fun doing this in Pokemon's artstyle, such a fun and distinctive style to do.

Who do you guys wanna see next?

The Fandom: Tim is okay with murder.

Tim:

- Red Robin

"It's numbing to think about it. Life means nothing to these killers. Is it irony? That a man so desperate to live forever [Ra's Al Ghul] surrounds himself with death? That the greatest killers in the world are now being killed themselves? Part of me says they deserve it. They're reaping what they sow. But I push the thought aside. If that's how we worked, the Joker would be dead a thousand times over. That's the rule, and I hold on to it. I'm going to hold on to it forever, no matter what."

(He isn't okay with murder actually)

The Fandom: Tim is okay with murder.

Tim:

- Red Robin

"It's numbing to think about it. Life means nothing to these killers. Is it irony? That a man so desperate to live forever [Ra's Al Ghul] surrounds himself with death? That the greatest killers in the world are now being killed themselves? Part of me says they deserve it. They're reaping what they sow. But I push the thought aside. If that's how we worked, the Joker would be dead a thousand times over. That's the rule, and I hold on to it. I'm going to hold on to it forever, no matter what."

(He isn't okay with murder actually)

mirror imagery + identity issues i loooooveee youuuuu