okay i’m sorry for double tim drake posting but u people desperately need to learn to be normal about bisexual people.

no, tim is not “more comparable to being a womanizing slut that people say dick is” he was a 14 year old in a messy relationship. and, he was going to break up with his 14 year old girlfriend, because—again—he was 14, to be with the other girl he liked because he Didn’t want it to be messy. then the whole issue with zo & cassie was literally just editorial not to mention tim and cassie acknowledged that their relationship was about the shared grief of kon??

so much of the shit people reference to say he’s a cheater or whatever is just standard teenage drama that’s turned up to 11 because of the extra layer of superhero drama.

whatever it is that makes people think it’s okay to get on this app and twist canon events to say that a canonically bi character is actually a serial cheater has got to stop or i am going to start mauling u motherfuckers.

Tokyo Drift Batgirl

Rating Tim's bi awakening "it should've been [ ]"s

1) ives ★★☆☆☆

i think whoever wrote them would ruin their perfect friendship dynamic, some ships are best when they stay non canon. (I love the fan works and the community of this ship, shout out to timives fans)

2) danny ★★★★★

literally shouldve been him fitzmartin just didnt wanna deal with kobra and made up her own cult instead (btw birdsnake real. Source: trust me bro)

3) kon ★★★☆☆

so much potential... for horrendous writing and character asassination. I think the comic introduction for it would be widely hated and everyone would cry. Would also send yet another wave of people who hasnt read any superboy comics into his tag.

4) lonnie ★☆☆☆☆

Literally no way of happening, hes gone through 5 stages of atrocious characterization already since red robin. Also you think they would handle any political subjects ever in modern comics? Hah. Plus isn't he dead or something? (I want my son back.)

And lastly, why it was bernard

Willingham's take on robin is widely NOT LOVED and bernard is only the second best thing to come out of it. (The first best thing being darla) Dc wanted a blank white slate to gain diversity brownie points and writers wanted as little work as possible to do it. Make up a cult for a shitty plot, strip the character out of everything he had except for his name, put the bi flag on it and ta daaa.

With this formula you can impose the popular 2020s teen tropes onto the teen ever, tim drake. You can adapt him into screen (do videogames count as screen?) and make him hang a flag up on a belfry wall and mention a boy by name and not get backlash because he already has so little content and his 15.2 fans will devour any crumbs. You can make up yet another character sharing only his name for a failing tv show and use him to erase half of tim's character.

(Its really unfortunate that im obsessed with this man but here we are.)

Tim showing up to Wayne Manor aged 13 wearing a t shirt saying "I'm not the step Robin I'm the Robin that stepped up"

ok i drew it

We all know why people have designated Damian the bitey and stabby Robin and Jason the violent one. (To my knowledge Damian has never bitten anyone it's literally just the racism) but what amuses me is that Steph, despite her short tenure as Robin, actually threw her hat in the ring for most ferocious. Like miss sunshine and waffles in fanon is the only Robin I can think of that quite literally just started biting her enemies as a last resort.

And unlike Jason who's Robin run was mostly him being pretty similar temper wise to his predecessor with the one exception of the rapist he may or may not have let fall to his death, Steph started day one of working with the bats literally attempting to murder her father.

And as Robin? Yeah fuck that "if we kill we're no better than them bullshit." If she's up against a serial killer she's going to use EVERY advantage to not die, including potentially lethal moves.

And honestly I think it rules. I know they were trying to show her as a less good Robin than perfect Tim but honestly they just made her more interesting because she's not actually wrong for fighting to save herself even if it means her attacker could die lmao. Let Steph have her anger and violence, she deserves it.

I am now contemplating a social media au where it's people talking about how problematic Bruce was for calling Dick his "ward" and referring to the later kids as his adopted children and Dick has to go on Twitter like, "listen, I was eight and the word ward was so much cooler than any other option, you gotta stop dragging my dad like this, he already gets so much shit for the other decisions tiny child me made affecting the rest of his life," and people think he means stuff like the time Brucie accidentally called a chandelier a "7-pointer" because of Dickie's insane scoring system for how much fun it would be to climb on and it became a meme, but actually Dick means Batman accidentally calling it the Batmobile in front of the GCPD because Dickie thought it sounded cool, and now he's committed to it for life.

[Image shows Bruce holding Dick’s backpack as the kid hops in a puddle. They’re both smiling. End ID.]

the idea of jason hitting his head on doorways and tripping on his own feet because he got so big so fast is devastating btw

he doesnt fit in old hide aways, his hands can cover whole book pages.

he never got to experience puberty in a way that made his body feel like his

Fics where Batman's identity gets revealed with his death and the robins just keep on doing their shit are so funny.

Tim Drake at his CEO job like: yes, our father Bruce Wayne was batman. No, none of us know the identities of his associates that have our exact built and haircuts. No further questions.

Tim: I hate you with every inch of my body!

Jason: That’s not a lot of inches.

also even though I posted something on his birthday, I'm also giving a day-after-Tim's-birthday art offering of: my piece from the @timdrakeflipzine !!! took me a bit to track down which external hard drive I had the file stored on 😅 but this is my little ode to the Brentwood era of Tim's solo <3

There be devils at work here

That happens in every American city, it's called an American downtown

Why is everything else squares?

That's a good old fashioned American Grid System

although fanon always makes me laugh a little when tim trudges sadly home through the caves to his lonely manor, because in a world where harold does not exist how does he get cave access from his cellar. boy should be sadly trudging home across the lawn <3

harold i won't forget the super cool secret entrance you made tim just because he asked you to.

although, wait a minute. hold on. 2 minute run from the cellar of drake manor to the main chamber of the batcave in a straight tunnel bored through. how many acres does wayne manor have. how many acres do the drakes have. you've gotta assume there's like. at *least* a half mile distance between properties given all the shit in the caves under wayne manor, if not more, right? a 2 minute 800m is not a slow pace. how fast are you running, tim?

tim drake childhood living situations

#1 robinson park penthouse apartment

the first named downtown apartment, the robinson park penthouse is the home that jack wanted to move into with tim following his coma. given that my guess would be that this was jack's personal favorite of their places given this is where he wanted to go

#2 the city apartment in mooney towers

now, this one isn't necessarily a *confirmed* childhood home--honestly the way he calls it his dad's city apartment could also maybe imply that it's an apartment jack got to following their move out to bristol (as he notoriously had a lot of trepidation about the idea moving out to the country/bristol/drake manor, as detailed in batman #481--seriously them moving out to the house in bristol was enough of a plot point it got an issue where it explicitly happened. jack gets swooped by a bat immediately. ~symbolism~) so that he had another place down in the city to stay in if he had stay overnight there for whatever reason after moving out to bristol. but that's also not confirmed, so it's fair to include this also as a possible tim drake childhood apartment location. as for where in the city it is, i believe it's never specified but he explicitly mentions it's closer to ariana who at the time is living in little odessa. my best guess would be that little odessa is a bit adjacent to the upper east side, given the connection with helena & her presence there in cry of the huntress. therefore i'm inclined to place mooney towers somewhere in the upper east side/coventry vicinity.

#3 the downtown condo

the condo that jack, dana, and tim end up in following drake industries going bankrupt is stated to be one of their previous properties, and the only one they keep after selling everything else. we know this was a childhood stop of tim, as he mentions they wouldn't go their often, but they'd use their downtown place when they had certain plans in the city where the condo would be closest--mentioning art, galleries, operas, etc. so he likely didn't live here a ton but it is a possible place. it just says location downtown, but given it's within walking distance of those places and the opera house is on the southwest part of the city per the NML map in the area it says is the upper west side, i would assume the condo is there.

#4 boarding school

unnamed, but there are implied to be various. (fernwood is the one in metropolis that jack wants to send tim for a bit, but he obviously never goes).

and that's it for confirmed/named places. as far as any other places they may or may not have had, the sky is almost the limit tbh. tim mentions moving around a lot as a kid, so you certainly don't have to limit yourself to these 3, but you're far more likely to find him in gotham proper vs anywhere else. drake manor is out as they explicitly buy it in batman #481 after tim is robin. during jack's coma era, tim is fostered with bruce.

“Why didn’t Dick and Cassie Sandsmark believe Tim about Bruce being alive?”

Red Robin follows so clearly from Tim’s grief from losing Jack Drake and everyone else. DCU Halloween Special ‘09: “Our Father’s Sins” made this even more obvious by showing Red Robin Tim reflecting on his grief over Jack while he’s searching for Bruce.

Of course his friends and family think he’s grieving! He is! He just also happens to be right. Nobody is completely unjustified here.

Timmy Drake 🏃‍♂️

hes skatin hes skatin