Black Skimmer & Chick

Photographer: Thomas C

A young man stands in his living room. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2019, is the day of his friends' wedding.

“The Spanish Fan” by Elizabeth Finley Thomas, c. 1905

DC Comics Incorrect Quotes Pt 238

[At a Chinese restaurant]

Jason, reading fortune: "You will commit a crime in three minutes."

Tim: That's pretty direct.

Jason: Right?

Jason: What does yours say?

Duke: Mine says "you will witness a crime in three minutes."

Jason: Tim, what does yours...?

Tim: "You will die in three minutes."

Duke: Jay, I think you're going to kill Tim.

Jason: No, I'm not. Why would I do that?

Tim:, standing up: I got to get out of here.

Polaroids on the set of "The Outsiders" 1983 dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Red Robin gets hit with a love spell during battle that knocks him out and will make him fall in love with the first person he sees when he wakes up.

The Bats takes him back to the Cave and while they wait for Bruce to get Zatanna or some other magic user to come help break the spell they all agree Red Hood should be who Red Robin sees and he can deal with a lovestruck Red Robin.

Since he'd be the one best able to handle that without the awkwardness of being his ex.

(Steph is his ex, Dick is in Bludhaven, Cass is in Hong Kong and Duke has a girlfriend. Which leaves Bruce. (He refused.) Barbara. (She laughed.) Or Damian. (Everyone agreed it was best not to.) So, Jason is what's left.)

Only, when Tim wakes up and sees Jason, he doesn't act any differently. He just gets up and demands a mission report and tries to go about business as usual, much to everyone's confusion.

(And to the disappointment of Stephanie, who had her phone out ready to record.)

They explain the love spell and wonder why nothing happened and Tim just says that obviously it didn't work and to not worry too much about it.

The spell did work it's just that Tim was already in love with Jason so nothing actually changed outwardly.

Bruce manages to get Zatanna there a few days later and examines Tim, and is also confused because there's definitely a love spell on him and there's no reason it shouldn't be working. To prevent her from looking further into it and making a big deal, Tim, in private, hints at why there might not be any effects.

Zatanna gets it and agrees to remove the spell and say that it just wasn't that strong after all.

Everybody seems to accept that explanation and move on, except for Jason, who knows Tim is hiding something and he's determined to find out what.

(Bruce also realizes that something is up but wants to respect Tim's privacy.)

Inspired by This SuperBat Post with some edits for JayTim.

women in art: titania

good night everyone

Francis Ford Coppola’s THE OUTSIDERS (1983)

realised i forgot to include any inazuma romance last time so i am remedying that :)

I didn't do it. I didn't do any of it. I'm not gonna shoot anybody. I'm not a killer. This morning this guy tried to kill me. He's been following me ever since. I don't know why.

C. THOMAS HOWELL as JIM HALSEY THE HITCHER (1986) dir. Robert Harmon

Remus: Can you pass the salt…?

Roman: Can I what?

Remus: Uh, I said can you pass the salt?

Roman: I’m sorry, are you serious right now?

Remus: It’s a simple request.

Roman: You’re eating cereal.

Remus: And?

Roman: You. Don’t put salt in cereal.

Remus: I’m a grown ass man, let me live my life

"To my dear self,"

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Even the darkest, most repressed pieces of yourself deserve to feel loved.

c!Thomas and Remus hug when...... when...?

Text based on this poem that I couldn't find the source of.

photo of The Outsiders (1983) cast before and after enhancement

What do you need?

I've got half a pouch for my last smoke. That will do for me.

IMO the fanon interpretation of the Dark Sides’ dynamic ignores the fascinating canon implications that they’re more like forced family than anything resembling found family. These are three characters who genuinely do not seem to get along— at the very least, Virgil has made it clear that his function as a Side does not mesh well with either Janus or Remus’s functions, and the moment he saw an opportunity to be accepted by the others he ditched them with absolutely no remorse or lingering attachment. Meanwhile the dubiously canon interactions Janus has with Remus come off as him putting up with Remus’s antics simply because what else is he going to do? The most friendly the two of them ever get is when they’re collaborating to screw with c!Thomas— it’s like they’re coworkers who have nothing else in common besides their overlapping goals. The three currently introduced ‘Dark Side’ characters are united only in the fact that they were all outcasts. ‘The Dark Sides’ isn’t even a meaningful phrase, it’s something Roman came up with on the spot to lump together all the Sides that were too complicated and ambiguous to be part of the OG triad. Virgil doesn’t even use the phrase ‘Dark Sides’, he specifically made the point to call Remus and Janus ‘the others’ instead. He knows he used to be part of That group but it wasn’t because he actually identified with them, it’s because everyone else grouped him with them and until AA—maybe even until Fitting In— he thought his only option was to double down on being an antagonist and collaborate with the other ‘antagonist’ Sides no matter how uneasy they made him.

The Dark Sides are those roommates with no prior history who weren’t able to change their contract in time. They’re the students who got put in a group project together and have wildly different ideas on how to approach the material. They’re the only remaining members of a dying club trying desperately to find some reason to keep hanging out together so the club doesn’t die. They’re the kids who all got detention on the same day and figured talking to each other was better than complete solitude. They’re the inhabitants of that one abandoned lunch table in the back of the cafeteria because no other table will take them.