thinking about mother figures in neverafter.

(no colour version under read more)

Uhm, actually, ☝️🤓, it was both of you.

Listen (and yes I know it’s only a fraction of the actual scene but still). Can we talk about the fact that, lie detector or not, Tim could’ve just said yes? Like he didn’t have to add the I love you and yet he did.

BECAUSE HE LOVES HER. PERIOD.

Things Tim Stoker would've loved:

Reputation (Taylor's Version)

TikTok cringe channels

That sigma male face

That Sign Language interpreter at Rihannas half time superbowl show (Justina Miles)

Barbenheimer

Here’s the thing about Timothy stoker

here it is the tim post

People who say tim is an asshole are partially correct.

People who say tim is ‘toxic’ are INCORRECT.

I am very strongly about this because. listen to me. okay.

SPOILERS UP TO TMA SEASON 3 AHEAD

Imagine BEING timothy stoker. After whats probaboy the secondmost traumatizing experience of your life in which you almost die if not by the worms then by the MEDICAL EMERGENCY (respiratory acidosis is a medical emergency :3) your body was put into- plagued with nightmares and the pain of your body being covered in holes and your medical issues, you come back to the archives expecting to see your best friend, That will make it all better. It’ll be so worth it once you can see her again.

And then she acts so distant. And you dont know why.

And you have just lost your friendship. The one that’s kept you going this whole time. The one you were starting to believe might have been unbreakable. And you Don’t. Know. Why.

Eventually after many failed attempts to reconnect, you resign yourself to the fact that she just got tired of you. That you were right this whole time. That she just pitied you. You still don’t know what you did wrong and it’s eating you alive, but she won’t tell you, so you have to settle with pretending to be glad that she’s at least alive, All while your boss is literally going insane and STALKING YOU???

Only to find out after a YEAR of believing you were just unlovable that this person? The person youve been trying to ‘reconnect’ with? That isnt your best friend, Your best friend dies and you never noticed. How could you not notice? But when you see the real picture of her she feels like a stranger and you realize you have no fucking escape from your horrible, unforgivable sin of forgetting your friend. Because no matter what you do, trying to look back at your memories, that *thing* is there instead. You can’t even enjoy your memories before she died.

So you sit there, alone and afraid. Angry, grieving, everything else. What are you supposed to do but make the thing that has haunted you since the disappearance of your Brother feel the kind of pain it is making you feel?

Tim isn’t toxic. Hell I wouldn’t even say he’s that much of an asshole.

He’s a hurt child.

Mentally, especially in season three, he’s having the equivalent of a child’s breakdown. The kind they have when they don’t know how to express the emotions they’re feeling. These emotions- this grief, this anger, this pain- it’s so big, it’s so much, and he feels so small, so incapable and weak, and he cannot properly handle it. He cannot cope. Especially since he’s still somewhat trapped in who he was when his brother was taken.

Now im not saying the way he went about this is at all great, but yknow. Everyone forgives reactions to trauma until they’re personally inconvenient or ugly.

Tim lost everything, and honestly i would be pretty damn similar if I was in his position! That’s DEVASTATING.

In the end, there’s such a horrible tragedy to his entire character that goes almost entirely unnoticed unless you’re like me and you’re insane and overanalyze someone based on one word in an extra audio thats not in the podcast.

Anyways, that’s why I love Tim.

While I'm thinking about A Lonely Place of Dying and Tim being a weird gremlin right from the start, though, this panel lives rent free in my head and I think about it all the time.

Because on the one hand I think fanon has a tendency to exaggerate the level of deliberate neglect on the part of the Drakes. They didn't just leave Tim living alone in a house as a middle schooler, they put him in boarding school so he would have, you know, adult supervision to some degree, which is probably the responsible thing to do if you're going to be traveling internationally most of the time and not there yourself.

ON THE OTHER HAND. What Tim is actually saying here, in response to Alfred's very reasonable and concerned question of "Where are your parents, random child", is that apparently nobody is looking after him right now. His parents are traveling, his school is on break, and he just traveled across state lines repeatedly to track down a dude who is basically a stranger and apparently no one has noticed.

Which means, presumably, that his parents think he's at school and his school probably thinks he's with his parents and he's probably lying to both of them because he had Batman Business to attend to and that's clearly more important than any adult who's responsible for his well-being knowing where the fuck he is or what he's up to. (Chasing Batman around taking pictures, breaking into people's homes, getting into a fight with a clown, etc.)

the imperial navy: hey thrawn, you've been learning basic for a while and your grasp on the language seems pretty strong. surely you don't still need a translator?

thrawn:

Tim Drake, at 3 am: how do i make an impromptu french course for people who had horrible teachers Bernard Dowd, also at 3 am: Send them to France and they'll learn Tim: ... Tim: does Tim, only kind of lying: does it look like i have the time, money or resources for that Bernard: Tele0ort them to France Tim, half-lying again: does it look like i have the time, money or resources for that Bernard: TELEPORT Tim: I CAN'T AFFORD TELEPORTATION Bernard: magicallyyyy Tim: I knoowowwwwww Tim, actually properly lying this time: but i don't know anyone who could do that for me, and i don't have the time to dedicate myself to the arcane arts Bernard: THEN TELL PEOPLE TO FLY TO FRANCE Bernard: SWIM THEM TO FRANCE Tim: OH MY GOD, BERNARD, YOU CAN'T JUST ASK PEOPLE TO SWIM TO FRANCE Bernard: No you swim them to france Tim: what Bernard: Put them in a sac and swim the sacs to france Tim: so are you suggesting Tim: i just Tim: kidnap them Tim: and put them in a bag Bernard: Yes Tim: and just Bernard: Yes Tim: drag it?? to france?? Bernard: No swim it to france Bernard: You swim across the Atlantic Bernard: Ocean Tim: that's what i mean Bernard: Well ya but you could also drive them to Québec Tim Drake, 15 years old, has only ever driven the batmobile, does not have a driver's license: ...remind me why i come to you for problems like this again

Breaking in a new sketchbook with a ye olde comfort character

‘take a selfie with me!’

Even though I don't think Timothy would ever miss Jack per se I imagine that his death still left a void that Tim doesn't know how to fill

Because what exactly do you do when the man who essentially dictated every aspect of your life is now dead? What can you even do when you're still wearing his face? Fuck if Tim knows

Timothy Lawrence has a straight up miserable time unicorning for Jack and Nisha. Not because they are both freaks (he is into that) but because he is a classic rock enjoyer stuck in a throuple with a man who thinks white woman pop is the pinnacle of musical artistry And a country gal. He is NOT passing the aux to either of them I’ll tell you that much.

tim drake is the one person nobody is going to steal food from because the only type of meals that tim knows how to make are those five minute depression meals that looks like it could kill you if it touched your tongue.

(the rest of the batfam aren’t picky eaters and will probably eat anything but they’d rather drink paint thinner straight out of the container than ever consume anything that tim makes)

bites my thumb I know I already talked abt nicknames they’d call me but I thought about it again and got sick to my stomach (good way ) 💔💔