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Flock of Angry Birds

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:17:00 -0700

Title: Flock of Angry Birds
Verse: Angry Birds
Pairing: Roy/Tim
Rating: PG13
A/N: Dedicated to Ren uvu
Snippet: The line is nothing but Dick breathing before there’s a low growl, “Run, Harper. Run.”

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Web Swinging

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:41:10 -0700

snowzapped:

JayTim

R-ish? XD

Chapter 26.1 of the Stuck series… in which Jay and Tim are stuck in a different dimension. Ours. Comes after Red Team Investigation.

Note: This is in Jay’s pov. :)

Summary: Jason has a thing for bendy guys in spandex. :P

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translatingtimothy: Now we’ll be looking at “Identity Crisis”,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:07:57 -0700

Bruce: ye old grumpface.

Tim falls for it, unfortunately.

What did they put in your food

wow Jason OOC much?

translatingtimothy:

Now we’ll be looking at “Identity Crisis”, another classic early Tim story (which has now been added to Essential Reading, *sheepish grin*). It’s only three issues, but we have a lot of material to work with re: Tim’s growth. He’s been training for several months now, and his desire to become Robin is almost utterly consuming him. When Batman is going out to confront their adversary in #456, which they both know will most definitely be a trap, Tim wants to help. He feels he’s ready and that this is the perfect time to introduce him as the new Robin - Bruce thinks otherwise. Tim is crushed. He takes Bruce’s refusal to mean that despite all the effort, Tim won’t ever wear the suit or be a hero. Bruce tells him ‘no mask will ever hide you from yourself’. Tim replies sadly, ‘I don’t understand…’. Bruce says, ‘Perhaps when you do, that will be the time’.

Tim then sits alone in front of Jason’s Robin costume, desperately trying to figure out who Batman is up against. I find this bit a little strange: ‘[the suit] makes you give it everything you’ve got. It makes you a hero.’ which implies he’s thinking ‘the suit makes me Robin’, whereas before he was thinking ‘I can be Robin’, ‘I can fill Jason’s shoes’, not ‘the suit’.

Anyhow, he starts hallucinating: Dick and Jason in their costumes appear in front of him, offering ‘advice’. In quotation marks because wow Jason out of character much? To be fair, It’s not actually Jason saying those words: it’s what Tim in his worst moments (and Tim is at one of his lowest points: he’s sleep-deprived, exhausted, anxious, rejected, upset, confused, and most importantly, he’s desperate) thinks Jason would say - and it’s pretty victim-blaming, huh? We’ve already seen Tim admiring Bruce. Adding Dick’s influence, it’s not that far of a logical jump to “Jason’s death wasn’t Bruce’s fault” but instead of “it was the Joker’s fault”, Tim concludes “it was Jason’s fault” which is a pretty far cry from just a few issues ago!

The panel after this (which I haven’t uploaded) shows Jason saying to Tim, ‘Dead heroes are no use to anyone’, which actually makes Tim sit up and think more clearly, and helps him come to a definite decision about whether he’ll stay in the cave or go after Bruce. It does a very quick (and effective!) job at showing how Tim is both haunted and inspired by his predecessors.

From Batman 455-456

translatingtimothy: This is the first major interaction between...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:07:34 -0700

That's one long swig of coffee, Dick.

FAIRGROUND TIME but no fun nyah nyah.

Dick is SRS BZNZ.

translatingtimothy:

This is the first major interaction between Dick and Tim since “A Lonely Place of Dying”. I wish I could upload more pages as there’s a lot going on, but here are the three most important panels.

In the first panel, Tim is expressing his admiration for Bruce. He admires the Bat as well as the man, and it also shows how serious he is about being Robin. Considering whose shoes he’s filling, he has to be clear and focused. He is determined to prove himself not only to Bruce, but also to Dick. Their interaction is intriguing. Dick as a person is much more open and friendly than Bruce, but for the purposes of training Tim he becomes extremely serious and demanding. He keeps quiet when Tim is talking about Bruce, and only offers throwaway comments now and then. I wonder if he’s trying to be emotionally distant so that Tim can get used to being around Bruce, who is definitely not as open. It’s also notable that he doesn’t comment on Tim saying ‘Bruce is the most amazing man I’ve ever met’. Dick - and later Jason - both came to terms with the fact that Bruce was a flawed person who didn’t always know best for them. Perhaps Dick wants Tim to learn this on his own rather than being told. Anyway Tim is deeply serious and committed to the task ahead of him.

In the second panel, Tim asks, ‘Shouldn’t there be reasons for doing everything?’. Dick answers, rather coldly, ‘Only in a democracy, Tim’. The concept of obeying orders is an important one. Despite the fact that Dick and Jason could easily have made careers out of disobeying Bruce (and they did, pretty much), the same is not yet true for Tim, and he remains the Robin least likely to go against Batman’s orders.

In the third panel I’ve posted, Tim loosens up a little and says, ‘Whew, and I thought this would be a snap!’ His skills, while admirable, are still extremely raw: he initially assumed conclusions instead of admitting he didn’t know. Secondly, Tim’s thoughts show a deep seated insecurity that he has - he’ll never be good enough: he has to work hard, he has to go further than Dick to prove he’s a good partner, he has to earn this in a way that was never asked of Dick or Jason. It also seems that Tim works best with positive reinforcement, which he’s really not likely to get from Bruce, but will receive it from Dick. And lastly, Dick’s attitude towards Jason is evident, and it appears to be influencing Tim as well.

From New Titans 65

translatingtimothy: (I hope this entry will be as much of a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:34 -0700

I can haz hallucinations

BATMAN IS SAD EMO GET WITH THE PROGRAM

Insert wedding dress joke here.

translatingtimothy:

(I hope this entry will be as much of a treat for you as it was for me! Tim has a lot of awesome moments in #457)

So, Tim’s not only figured out that the villain is Scarecrow, but also where Scarecrow is hiding. He makes his way there, all the while realising that he’s disobeyed a direct order and that’s likely to be the end of his quest to be a sidekick. Nonetheless, he tries his best: he realises he’s not physically capable of engaging the henchmen outside without attracting unwanted attention, so he locks them in a nearby ammunitions shed which they can’t escape from by shooting the lock because it contains gas canisters that could blow them up.

After which, he sneaks inside and knocks out the other guards by tripping them as they’re coming down the stairs or knocking them out with a bo staff. Then, he grabs one of their masks and pulls it on himself so nobody can link him to Batman, and therefore nobody can link Batman to Bruce Wayne. You go Tim! That’s some quick thinking. Improvisation isn’t one of Tim’s strong suits, but he manages to overcome that effectively in this issue.

So he demands the Scarecrow release Batman, and one of the hostages attacks him. While he’s distracted, the Scarecrow gasses him (Oh boy. Here we go).

He sees the Obeah Man (NB: the villain who kidnapped his parents, murdered his mother, and paralysed his father in “Rites of Passage”). He also sees Dick and Jason in their Robin costumes. Strangely enough, this time Jason starts encouraging him, ‘Don’t fight it Tim! Live with it! Confront it!’ They tell Tim it’s not the mask or the suit that will make him a hero - it’s what’s inside him. And this is one of my favourite lines from comics ever: ‘It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but just because you’re afraid, doesn’t mean you can’t act!’ said by Dick and Jason (although they’re hallucinations). It’s quite fascinating that under influence of Scarecrow’s gas, Tim is much more easily inspired by his predecessors than his sleep-deprived vision in the previous issue.

So he overcomes his fear and gives the Scarecrow a taste of his own medicine (literally!) and rescues everybody, including Batman (who, while hallucinating, calls him Robin). Not bad for someone Bruce didn’t think was ready, huh?

In the second panel, he and Batman are standing next to Batmobile. Tim is extremely upset, and says that by disobeying Bruce he realises he will never be Robin, but he did it for a reason, and he did it to save Bruce. Surprisingly enough (to Tim anyway), Bruce praises his initiative, thanks him for saving everyone’s lives, and says he is the one who would be failing Tim if he expected his new partner to carry all the weight of role of Robin, and in the third panel uploaded here, hands him the new costume.

A few things about these posts so far: Oddly enough, Dick’s been the one who’s cold and distant, while Bruce is much more caring, open, and expressive with Tim. This trend will show up again - Bruce is much more comfortable sharing his thoughts and being honest about his emotions with Tim. Another thing to note: Tim is more worried about failing Dick and Jason than he is about failing Bruce as a partner. We’ll see later on if this sentiment changes or not, but for now, Tim is more concerned about living up to the legacy - not Bruce’s expectations for him as the third Robin.

From Batman 457

translatingtimothy: An ultimatum by the one of the most...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:57 -0700

translatingtimothy:

An ultimatum by the one of the most dangerous criminals the world has ever known. No Batman, no Alfred, no Gordon, no help. Just him, with the weight of Gotham’s future on his shoulders. Oh, Tim.

But even when he is at a low point, he gets up and just keeps going. That is what I love about our Robin.

(He’s talking to an unconscious Jack Drake, btw)

From Robin Series II #4

deconstructingdamian: So the first arc was all about Dick and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:33:34 -0700

deconstructingdamian:

So the first arc was all about Dick and Damian coming together as Batman and Robin and figuring out how to work together and respect each other. The time you see Batman and Robin in this issue cement this: Dick went with Damian’s judgement, even if he didn’t think it was a good idea. He would never have done that before everything that went down with Pyg. This is just one of the many signs their relationship is evolving.

deconstructingdamian: This page gets me every time I read this...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:31:15 -0700

deconstructingdamian:

This page gets me every time I read this issue. I don’t care if Damian was raised to be the toughest guy on the face of the planet, I don’t care if Damian knows that this isn’t really his father. This is a guy, with his father’s face, wearing his father’s costume… basically representing that Bruce-as-Batman-symbol that I’ve been saying all along that he admired… saying his worst nightmares out loud: That he’s the family failure, that his father will never love him. To make matters worse, we’ll find out next issue (in flashback) that someone’s already said something to make this all the more difficult for Damian to hear.

Now Damian doesn’t seem too bothered by the “deranged ramblings” of a man that looks like his father—he’s standing there patiently, holding the live wire and listening to him without comment waiting for the zombie to reach the gasoline puddle he’s already set up. Even his comment of “stepping in gasoline was your biggest mistake” screams nonchalance. But this isn’t the first time Damian hasn’t shown a visible reaction to something that rattles him, and it certainly won’t be the last.

Damian’s always had a tendency to focus solely on the misson, regardless of what’s going on around him. He has a plan and he’s going to stick to it. It’s easier to stick to the plan in his head than focus on what’s being said. It’s how he copes.

RIP Bat-bike.

(Source: Batman and Robin 09)

deconstructingdamian: And this is why Damian’s in a no-win...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:24:33 -0700

deconstructingdamian:

And this is why Damian’s in a no-win situation. Being Robin puts him at odds with his mother, and with Bruce returning he potentially has no future on that side either. So his choice’s are a. return to his mother and basically be her puppet b. stay with his father’s side and potentially prove his mother right AND be forced to give up the best thing he’s ever done.

This is also why Zombie Batman’s words had to have stung, even if Damian knew it wasn’t really his father—he doesn’t want his mother to be right. Talia’s basically telling him that they only want to keep him in line as to not taint the bloodline, and what does Zombie Batman go and tell him not only a few hours later? That he’s tainting the bloodline. He doesn’t want his mother to be right.

But getting back to the panels at hand… This is a big difference from the Damian we met back in Batman and Son and the Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul who would defy “mama” for daddy, but only because he was this cool, new, exciting thing. At the end of the day, mother would step in and Damian would listen. Not anymore. Damian’s finally gotten a good idea how a real family is supposed to work, and doesn’t want any part of this one anymore. Can you blame him? His grandfather tried to steal his body and his mother made him jump in front of a goddamn missile because she was too selfish to share her son with Bruce.

And now we learn the family is even more messed up than originally thought, as if that could be possible—Damian barely saw his mother before his eighth birthday. As a child, she was probably just like Bruce, a fairy-tale someone told him at night filled with misinformation and outright lies. Considering Damian’s first words to Bruce were “I’d imagined you taller,” he thought of Bruce like meeting a movie star too. This could also tie into why Damian doesn’t actually want to meet Bruce: look at how well getting to know Talia turned out.

This also partially explains why Damian is so cold to everyone. If you were being tossed around from mentor to mentor, tutor to tutor with no one really giving a damn about you as a human being? Yeah you probably wouldn’t try to get too attached to anyone, either. He’s not used to anyone staying in his life for any extended period of time, so he doesn’t try to get to know or care about anyone so that when they do eventually leave, it won’t hurt as bad. He’s a little boy who has been burned too many times before and doesn’t want to get burned again. With a personality like his it naturally repels people and is sort of a defense mechanism to keep him safe from rejection (again, this is just one of the many reasons Damian is who he is. He’s also an ass because he’s been raised and trained to think he’s the next Alexander). This is another reason Damian is taking Dick ignoring him so hard; he let Dick in thinking he was finally different, and here he is dumping him for Bruce in a New York minute.

And let’s look at Talia, shall we? She keeps talking about how she’s the only one with Damian’s best interests at heart, but Damian has her pegged. She’s Mother Gothel from Tangled: she only wants his hair, or in this case his legacy. Damian is leverage against the Batfamily. Look at all the delightful chaos he caused the first time in Batman and Son. He’s also her legacy as an Al Ghul. She seems him as something people can point to and go “look at this. Talia made this.”

I almost find it amusing that nearly everything she’s accusing “the circus oaf and his butler” of doing are things she herself wants to do to Damian. She’s been feeding him lies and distortions since day one. She doesn’t trust or accept him. She wants to tame and brainwash him into falling in step with her and turn him into a puppet (apparently literally).

And look at Damian. He calmly listens to his mother rambling, not saying a word—until she calls Dick incapable. That’s when Damian finally puts his foot down and tries to actually defend him, only to be cut off. This is the first time Damian’s used Dick’s first name this entire comic series. Damian really cares for Dick now, and it bothers him that his mother is badmouthing him. But not because she dislikes him, but because she called him “barely fit to wear his mentor’s mantle.” Remember what I said about Damian changing his mind on what it means to be Batman? As far as Damian’s concerned, Dick is absolutely worthy to be Batman, he is Damian’s idea of Batman, and he’s not going to let anyone insinuate otherwise.

(Source: Batman and Robin 10)

deconstructingdamian: Here’s where all this disrespect and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:24:08 -0700

deconstructingdamian:

Here’s where all this disrespect and inability to effectively communicate with one another comes to a head. The way Dick’s talking to Damian, he’s expecting another Robin. He expects Damian to be able to figure out what’s right and wrong, and what matters to the Batman operation. But he’s not talking to Tim Drake. He’s talking to a child that’s been taught over and over again for the past ten years that in order to be successful in an operation, you have to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Damian’s never been taught limits, he’s never been taught that you catch more flies with honey or that playing nice sometimes gets you what you want better than just demanding it. He’s been taught that you punch through every goddamn door until you get what you want, everyone else be damned. He’s never been taught about learning to obey a direct order, because no one’s ever ordered him around before. He’s Damian goddamn Al-Ghul-Wayne, and everyone better fucking listen to him, or else.

On the other hand you have Damian once more comparing Dick to his father, this glorious Batman ideal where he’s perfect and has no flaws. He sees Batman as the pinnacle of his training, as this protector of Gotham where he can punch the crap out of things and still be the good guy, still be the hero. It proves Dick exactly right: he has a lot to learn. However, he’s not going to learn it until the two figure out each other and learn to listen and understand each other. Him ripping off the R logo just proves he doesn’t acknowledge Dick as Batman, and he has no idea how badly Dick is already struggling with being Batman himself.

Let’s just say it doesn’t help either one of them.

Also, through all this angst let’s acknowledge that neither Dick nor Alfred saw anything wrong with bringing the Robin cycle to the Bat Bunker for Damian to use. You know, I know he can drive it but the fact that neither one find it odd to give a 10 year old a bike, even one as capable as Damian, is bad judgement. But I suppose there’s a long history of bad judgement in the Bat family, so this can just be one in a long line.

Finally, there are those skewed panels again.

cornflakepizza: deconstructingdamian: I said it a few months...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:22:26 -0700

cornflakepizza:

deconstructingdamian:

I said it a few months ago, but this scene is one of my favorite Damian moments. Not only because it’s rare to see Damian outside of work, but because Dini manages to convey a lot in such a short scene. Though Damian may have tried to side-step it, Elliot hits it right on the head when he says Damian’s using him as a means of hanging out with his father, even if Damian does fully understand that that man is a. crazy and b. most definitely not his father.

However, Damian’s at a point in his life where everything is starting to change. He’s coming to understand that pretty much everything his mother taught him was wrong, and he hasn’t quite figured out how to fit in with his new family. He’s met his father a grand total of twice now (once in Batman and Son, and again in the Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul), but Bruce was pretty much the only one who had given Damian any sort of direction. Yes, you could argue his mother gave him direction through his teachings in the league, but it wasn’t the same thing. Bruce, as well as the other members of the bat family, taught Damian in such a way that Damian learns the morals on his own. Talia and the League, on the other hand, just pounded information and lessons into him and made him get only what they wanted out of it. Add that to the fact he’s also at a point where he has begun to trust Dick, but he isn’t yet at the point where the bond has really formed between the two, and all that leads to Damian feeling very isolated in Gotham City.

This is what leads him to seek out company in one of the few people he feels comfortable with: Bruce (even if does he view Bruce as a mythical hero). The only problem is, Bruce is dead (well wandering through time thanks to a magical time bullet, but for all intents and purposes, everyone but Tim thinks he’s dead). However, conveniently enough for Damian, there’s a guy being held captive in a private penthouse at the top of Wayne Tower (aka where he just so happens to live), with the face of Bruce Wayne. Though Tommy Elliot, aka Hush, may not be Bruce Wayne, they grew up together so the man clearly would have Bruce-related stories to tell, and as Damian is only ten, I’m sure he thinks he’s clever enough to “subtly” bring up the topic and get Tommy to speak openly about his father.

But I think it also goes deeper than that. I think Damian’s not only attracted to Elliot because he looks like Bruce, but also because he’s crazy. Tommy’s morals are more closely aligned to his. His intellect is more closely aligned to his. In a city where he doesn’t feel comfortable, this man is someone he can understand and on some level hopes that he will understand him in return.

The sad thing is, it looks like he was actually getting what he wanted.

(Source: Batman: Streets of Gotham 1)

Bolded for emphasis.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:45 -0700

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Sun, 19 May 2013 19:13:37 -0700

ohmylaniaison: #i will never get over tony’s body jolt and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:13:14 -0700

ohmylaniaison:

#i will never get over tony’s body jolt and blink when she says ‘he’s thirteen.’

allofmynerd: JUSTICE LEAGUE...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:12:19 -0700

allofmynerd:

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED APPRECIATION POST

theredrubyx: Johnny Depp giving CPR to his jack Sparrow...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:09:24 -0700

theredrubyx:

Johnny Depp giving CPR to his jack Sparrow wig.

His stunt double is having the best day

jncera: hikarush: betcha dick and wally stuck refrigerator magnets on tornado every chance they...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:09:12 -0700

jncera:

hikarush:

betcha dick and wally stuck refrigerator magnets on tornado every chance they got

#spelling out questionable phrases on his back #and occasionally pinning one of supey’s 100% tests on his chest #’human customs still elude me’

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Sun, 19 May 2013 19:07:08 -0700

becauseicandrawbutts: Jay Parks from Temptation of Eve Whoops,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:06:45 -0700

becauseicandrawbutts:

Jay Parks from Temptation of Eve

Whoops, forgot this gif in the set. Tried adding it in the previous post, but even though it was the source the reblogs didn’t change with it. Ah well. Also, changed my mind about the personal watermarks. Don’t really need them. :|

theartofanimation: TangoCharlieESQ

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:05:21 -0700

theartofanimation:

TangoCharlieESQ