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Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
GAWD.
Assign one of the following to a member/members of the Batfam together with an explanation of why it would be the worst thing to happen to them:
- telepathy
- telekinesis
- precognition
- super strength
- time travel
- durability/impenetrability
- fire/ice powers
- invisibility
- shapeshifting
- flight
- speed
Goofiness or seriousness. All is welcome!
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Sending cooling vibes!
How would you see things playing out in Tim's Robin (or otherwise) had Jack survived and had the universe not reset?
Cool front has finally arrived hallelujah, now to cool the entire house by >10°C via wind tunnel.
I'm going to be a bit contrary here in terms of Jack's use as a character; I think they were running out of stories for him rapidly, particularly as Tim was aging out of needing to work around Jack.
The core of the Jack-Tim relationship is that Tim is in the closet in two senses; he has to conceal who he is from his father, both as a vigilante and as a queer kid.
And look yes, like everyone else, the idea of that multilayered coming out scene where Jack thinks Tim is concealing one truth from him but is actually wanting to talk about the other? Or only comes out as one and interprets the rejection he gets there onto the other secret he still has hidden? Catnip. I get it.
But Tim at 16 was getting closer and closer to an adult, and independence, and inevitably getting moved out of home so that 'where were you' wasn't an obstacle that needed to be worked around anymore. 18 year old Tim with Jack is occasional fights about "you didn't call to say what time you were getting in tonight" and about Tim going to university or not. Even as a 16-17 year old character, he's still more independent and in the mid 2000s is less and less needing to deal with the 'how do I sneak out' aspect of the story.
You only get to do that coming out revelation once (or if you manage it very carefully, twice, one for each aspect of Tim's secrets). And once it's done it's done.
And as said, the importance on Tim to keep up the masquerade over The Secret around Jack was shrinking over time; 21 year old Tim who lives at the Marina on a boat with his boyfriend hiding that he's a vigilante from his father is not nearly the conflict that 15 year old Tim lying to his father that he sneaks out at night to fight crime is.
Damian's arrival in a universe where Jack's still alive and around is far more focused on the possession of the costume as the conflict point, rather than the bilateral 'you are standing directly on the intersection of my deepest insecurities about my place in this family' that canon has. And I think it's both more boring, and more petty, and more likely to actually run like a lot of Tim Wuz Betrayed By Dick As He Now Has a Real Brother stories go.
Now, what I do think we would have eventually got, with a living Jack, is that 1. Willingham wouldn't have been allowed the reveal; and 2. by the mid 2010s the temptation to do that double layered reveal, where Tim has to tell Jack he's a vigilante, and Jack thinks Tim is trying to come out to him as queer, and not dealing well with it, would be way too tempting to pass up.
Happy some cooler air blew through!
Thanks for the thinky thoughts, Z.
I do wonder how a bi Tim would have played out were it baked into 89'/93'*. It's a fun thought experiment to run through all kinds of scenarios and arcs from that time, and imagine Tim's thought bubbles going off.
Likewise, Jack with his various ideas around manhood and boyhood... The double reveal. Yes yesss. I'm not nearly awake enough to articulate what I'm feeling around potentialities in storytelling vs contemporary context, but somewhere in an alternate universe there's a groundbreaking and potentially commercially ruinous (contemporary context!) run about a teenage hero–indeed a hero in the pantheon of legendary teen heroes–explicitly, in-text, learning about himself and his sexuality.
I might have to go back and read some of those heavyweight Jack Drake fics this week XD
Thanks again!
*With the multitude contingencies, assumptions and so on (e.g. there is of course a queer reading of Tim's early run already to be had, etc. etc.)
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Which robin is this?
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yknow when you can tell that someones opinion on the homeless is dictacted by the fact they seem to imagine every homeless person just like. spawned in the back alleys of a city as a fully grown scruffy hobo with no life goals other than scrounging enough pocket change for a hit of Drugs™ . like you suggest that perhaps a homeless person was not always homeless and probably had a life and a childhood like the rest of us and they blank like they genuinely didnt consider it. like they forgot thats a human being too.
When I was moving from my last city, I made a point of saying good bye to the woman who was often standing at the supermarket entrance to get a bit of money from passersby. She was always friendly and we'd often have a little natter in our respective broken German.
After saying good bye, I felt this grief about leaving the city that I hadn't felt prior to that: probably because I knew I'd see friends again, but this lady was such a part of my week-to-week life that realistically I'd probably never meet again. Anyway, I relayed this to a colleague of mine in passing who immediately responded with, "Oh, you're such an activist (?) making friends with all the druggies, refugees and homeless."
And it was such a stark illustration of not only the level of dehumanisation encountered by homeless people, but also how anyone deemed distasteful is lumped into a big bucket of "otherness" together. My supermarket neighbour is a Roma lady. Is she using drugs? I don't fucking know; it's none of my business. But my colleague just chucked her into the big tub of apparent undesirables.
Also, it's worth saying that this is colleague is someone who would consider themselves politically evolved: goes to Pride/CSD, does the occasional charity run, lambasts Trump/Brexit/AfD, etc. etc.
Also also worth saying, is that any show of basic civility towards someone deemed "unworthy" was seen as "activism" rather than just being a fellow fucking human.
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No one can hurt you now Come morning light You and I'll be safe and sound
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