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@silverwhittlingknife / silverwhittlingknife.tumblr.com

Hi, I'm Silver. I post my fic (also on ao3) and sometimes comic rundowns. I like all the Bats, but I mostly obsess about Dick and Tim.
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this post has gotten way too long sfdsfdsfs anyway even more below the cut if you’re curious <3

#i can't actually make sense of half my tags so i've given up and made a masterpost
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Tim: *feeling kinda awkward bc people keep mistaking him for Dr Mid-Nite, would rather nobody mention how similar his suit is*

Pieter: "Red Robin looks uncomfortable, I'll try to lighten the mood with a joke :)"

I wish they teamed up during one catastrophe or other. If only for the running joke of their respective teammates constantly mistaking them for each other in the chaos.

Inspired by:

Red Robin #9
Batgirl (2009) #8
#love him <3#tim drake
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comics i like: nightwing 25

so I've never actually posted about this comic before because it's SO WELL-KNOWN - the comic that invented trainsurfing!! basically the most famous Dick & Tim comic ever!! - so it felt kinda unnecessary sdfdsfsd but look, what is the internet for if we cannot ramble.

one overall thing I love is its structure: it's a low-key "day in the life" comic. there's no big bad!! the whole comic is just "Dick & Tim hang out and chat while patrolling." but it manages to embed a whole lot of characterization and to develop their friendship along the way.

let's BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING:

#comic recs#dick&tim#dick grayson#tim drake#hoc scripsi#it's tricky trying to analyze this comic because i think actually a lot about what works best about it#is that it's very decidedly NOT flashy or show-offy in the writing#like. it's not 'artistic.' you're not meant to thrill to the glorious prose. it's casual & quick & snarky & easy to read#and so you can kinda zoom through it - which is important because the pacing mirrors the pacing of jumping around on the trains!#so it's snappy & you don't really think about what you're reading - but it's actually really nicely-done imo#it's grounded not just in dick & tim's dynamic but also tells you a lot about their other relationships#i feel like this sorta low-key dialogue is deceptively difficult to do well without making it feel generic#it's easier in comics imo to write dialogue when one character is Nice and the other is Antagonistic (a guy gardner-type)#because if you've got two characters who basically get along sometimes writers get kinda stuck#and all their characters who get along become ... nice ... but very same voice-y where you could swap them w/each other#but that's not inevitable!!! in this comic you very much can't swap dick or tim with bruce or alfred or helena or steph or babs etc etc#because the particular dynamic & issues & so on are all particular to them & to this point in their relationship#but without anybody staring out at the audience and announcing 'and Now we introduce this comic's Theme'#and that's just a really fun way to do slice-of-life imo
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i'm reading old letter columns and it turns out that the dc fan-to-comic-writer pipeline has been going since 1968 dsdfdsfsd

#hoc scripsi
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there's so many interesting things happening here with the emotional distancing and the panelling

not even gonna touch on the inherent inevitable tragedy of i never wanted this for Dick i know what the cowl does to you vs i dont want to wear your skin when you're gone but no one else could ugh whatever

#bruce & dick

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