HC: Bernard knows Tim is Red Robin, that’s fine, but he’s absolutely useless at guessing anyone else.

Bernard: “l know Jason is Batman.”

Tim: “You who the what”

Bernard: “I know your friend Bart is Robin.”

Tim: “Bern.”

Bernard: “I know Bruce is Aquaman. I know Connor is Nightwing.”

Tim: “Babe please stop.”

Bernard: (getting manic) “I know Damian is Orphan. I know Duke is Superboy”

Tim: “Wait how would DUKE be-“

Bernard: “DICK IS CATWOMAN!”

ROUND 2: POLL #21

ROUND 2 POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Timothy "Tim" Drake/Bernard Dowd:

Propaganda by @dadthinksdoctorwhoisacrimeseries [HERE]

Tim and Bernard getting together is historical, marking a change in the direction of comics. For a long time, DC has been playing it safe, usually making background and minor characters queer, or introducing characters with their queerness as a plot point. Tim is not only a major character, but one of the most popular in the lineup, and was generally treated as VERY straight for most of his history. So putting him in a relationship with another man was a loud way of pushing comics in a more progressive direction like they were earlier in their existence. Not only that, but Bernard was NOT a love interest invented for this role, but an established character from earlier in Tim's story, one who was not only conceived of as straight, but behaved aggressively sexually towards women and only women. By stating that he had a crush on Tim at the time, it reframes what was a pretty common type of joke in the era into terms that are easier to understand and sympathize with as a queer person, woman, or any other comics reader that isn't thought of as the default. It gives the story a lot more depth, and opens possibilities of complex queer readings of earlier works through this lens.

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan:

You’ve got the world's most disaster bisexual man who cannot sit properly to save his life and you've got an omnipotent professor guy who is obsessed with him and they somehow make time to solve mysteries between longingly staring at each other

The love that crosses time, the kind of love where their souls are drawn to each other no matter what form they take. Shen Wei has loved Zhao Yunlan for 10000 years. He waited for him to be reborn for TEN THOUSAND years! [SPOILERS] and yet after all that, they still didn't get their happy ending in this life. But they'll get another chance, they'll try again, and they will end up loving each other in every lifetime.

I love DC for dealing extensively with Tim/Bernard relationship and with the homophobia the latter faces, without brushing it off. Too often characters that are part of the lgbtq+ are secondary characters, and too often them being part of the community goes like "hey, i'm x" "oh nice." and nobody ever deals with it again. Thank you, DC, for TimBer.

“Tim?” Bernard asked, and watched his boyfriend flinch in response.

Oh.

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after the events of td:r #10 bernard confronts tim

 timber week day 7: "i need you to let me protect you for once!" | meta!bernard | meeting the team / friends / family

Link To The Fic

I wrote a thing! Happy birthday Tim, have some focus on your mental health spiralling then building back up

Can't stop won't stop.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bernard Dowd/Tim Drake, Kyle Rayner/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson/Roy Harper/Koriand'r Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Duke Thomas, Alfred Pennyworth, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Underage Drinking, Drinking, passing out via drinking, Tim Drake-centric, he misses his boyfriend very much and hes very drunk, clark just wants to not have to be the sober uncle dealing w all the bat children what can u do, jason desperately trying to come out v dick passing out via drinking: fight, not pictured: bernard's life getting threatened via tim's siblings. and alfred Summary:

In a world where Bruce isn't completely fucking paranoid, he holds a Thanksgiving party of sorts for the Justice League. Tim invites Bernard. But while Bernard is assumed missing (he's getting his life threatened by Duke, Damian, Steph, Cass and Alfred), he creates a drinking game for himself. Oh, and watches Jason desperately try and work up the courage to tell a very drunk Bruce that he's dating Kyle Rayner. All while Dick passes out drunk on Superman himself!

Officer Grayson: *arrests Jason for whatever, probably annoying him on the job.* *He leads him away in handcuffs*

Jason: wait. Is that Tim?

Dick: omg it's Timmy!

Tim, on a date with Bernard:

Bernard: ... Why are that cop and the guy he arrested banging on the window and waving at us?

Tim: *dead inside*

oracle, ban this guy

(some shitpost while i work on that bernard comic)

one of those tiktok gotham university reporters approaching bernard on the way to one of his bio classes: thoughts on red robin?

bernard, mildly sleep deprived, and knowing full well what tim’s night life is like: smash [proceeds to walk away like nothing happened]

HC:

Reporter: What do you have to say to criticism that for years, the Robin role was filled solely by straight, cis white males?

Nightwing: I’m not white.

Red Hood: I’m not white.

Red Robin: I’m not… Well I’m white...

The camera lingers for an awkward moment before an offended Spoiler jumps into frame and protests girl-Robin erasure.

Later, someone puts the short close up of Red Robin’s response in slow motion with rainbow filters and dance music, and it‘s a viral joke in Gotham for two weeks.

It’s mostly forgotten for years until Red Robin goes to Pride and casually mentions that he’s already come out years ago. The clip resurfaces and people are like, “Wait, that was it??? That was real???”

Because Tim Drake has extensive media training but Red Robin is a chaotic bisexual disaster with no filter.

And that’s my headcannon of how Red Robin comes out in a way that’s so dumb, most people don’t even realise he’s done it.

(Bonus headcanon: Bernard was the creator of the original viral clip and was infuriated at the time because people thought it was a joke but it was SO OBVIOUS that Red Robin was coming out. Why couldn’t everyone see it?)

(EDIT: This recipe can also be used for gay, trans, or ace Tim - just adjust the ingredients to your personal preference.)

ROUND 3: POLL #11

ROUND 3 POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Timothy "Tim" Drake/Bernard Dowd:

Propaganda by @zorilleerrant [HERE]

Propaganda by @dadthinksdoctorwhoisacrimeseries [HERE]

Tim and Bernard getting together is historical, marking a change in the direction of comics. For a long time, DC has been playing it safe, usually making background and minor characters queer, or introducing characters with their queerness as a plot point. Tim is not only a major character, but one of the most popular in the lineup, and was generally treated as VERY straight for most of his history. So putting him in a relationship with another man was a loud way of pushing comics in a more progressive direction like they were earlier in their existence. Not only that, but Bernard was NOT a love interest invented for this role, but an established character from earlier in Tim's story, one who was not only conceived of as straight, but behaved aggressively sexually towards women and only women. By stating that he had a crush on Tim at the time, it reframes what was a pretty common type of joke in the era into terms that are easier to understand and sympathize with as a queer person, woman, or any other comics reader that isn't thought of as the default. It gives the story a lot more depth, and opens possibilities of complex queer readings of earlier works through this lens.

Tulio/Miguel:

Inspired by a stupid twitter meme 😂 but this is basically how their first meeting went like

putting the bi in Robin

this one's been a wip longer than your typical alcoholic dad's marriage and i prolly wont finish it any time soon so have this ig.