One Funny Thing To Me About Across The Spiderverse Was That Like. You KNOW Hobie Doesn't Fuck With Cops.

How Aaravos is gonna get defeated (maybe)

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ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

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if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)

Reasons to Love Timber:

Crazy even for a vigilante x Most un-civilian civilian

Same trauma different trauma responses

Tim dating someone even the Bats are scared of

Buy 1 Timbern get 1 QPR with Darla Aquista free

The objective hilarity of Tim being surrounded by superpowered men in spandex punching people out without a gay awakening, but Bernard rolls up his sleeves and takes out one (1) guy and Tim's third eye is wide fucking open

One of them says something insane like "I hacked into the Pentagon once" or "My uncle Freddy taught me to drive. Now I know stuff like how to survive swerving off a bridge." and the other says some variation of "I'm so in love with you" or "Marry me" or "You wanna get a room?"

Neither of them holding back from taking potshots at each other

The fact that Tim knew Bernard before he knew Jason or Damian

MILF and DILF lover Bernard Dowd vs. Cannot-stop-collecting-parental figures Tim Drake Fight

Bruce trying to shovel-talk Bernard and him just panicking and blurting "Smash" on impulse and both Tim and Bernard dying of embarrassment while Bruce is just confused

Tim Drake, seasoned vigilante, dating a civilian who can not only whoop his ass, but will do so upon request

Bernard being the most kidnapped man in Gotham and Tim just having to deal with that every week, to the point where he just incorporates it into his schedule

The two of them being the most insane people in the room and conversing about something that seems normal to them but scares the fuck out of everyone else in the room

The two of them stargazing on the tallest gargoyle in Gotham before writing their initials into the base with Sharpie

Louis Grieve Trio being a literal love triangle (Tim was dating Steph, Darla had a thing for Tim, Bernard had a thing for Darla and also apparently for Tim, who apparently had a thing for him too. Also, Darla kissed Bernard on the cheek once.)

High school Bernard creating the wildest theories about Batman and Robin, while Tim refutes the idea that they even exist but then doing a bunch of stupid public stunts as Robin just to watch Bernard melt down the next day at school

Trying to toss popcorn into each other's mouths while watching a movie and absolutely losing their shit when they manage to land one

Both of them having to deal with a massive amount of comphet

Tim having no care for his safety or weakened immune system and Bernard still-scarred-by-Darla-dying-in-his-arms patching him up with a haunted look in his eyes that makes Tim reconsider being so reckless this time around

Best Friends Both Secretly See Each Other As the Sidekick

Both of them being skater boys but in different directions- Tim loving skateboarding and Bernard loving figure skating. They find a compromise in rollerskating and spend afternoons trying not to fall flat on their butts and pecking each other on the lips as they help each other up

"Bernard, I think I have a crush on you... What do you mean we've been dating for two months?"

"What do you mean those kisses were romantic? I thought this was a French thing? ... We were in Paris for a week, give me a break!"

Tim dating the one person Jack Drake hated with a passion

Dana laughing hysterically when Tim tells her he's going out with Bernard Dowd- yes, the same guy who used to flirt with her when he invited him over to lunch- and then fighting off laughter again when Bernard stage-whispers to her that he'd be willing to leave Tim in a heartbeat if she ever changes her mind (while Tim goes redder by the second)

Trying to summon a ghost and bickering about who will chicken out first before they get startled by a loud noise and both run out at the same time

Epic videogame battles

The Batfam gearing up to threaten Bernard because he's an ex-cultist and organ seller and being shocked when Bernard threatens them back because Bruce objectively sucks at parenting, Jason tried to murder Tim once, Damian tried to murder him more than once and listen, maybe they won't stay together forever, but Tim will always be his best friend, and anyone who messes with his friends is On Sight

"Uh, this theory seems a little crazy, even for you." "No, no, hear him out."

Bernard secretly holding a resentment toward Tim and Darla for leaving him to go be vigilantes because he never truly moved on from Louis Grieves and it hurts to know they were off doing more important things while he relived the gang war over and over again

Both Tim and Bernard being touch-starved but Tim being touch-averse (if you held him he might just fall apart) and Bernard being touchy (please hold him to keep him from falling apart)

Tim frantically trying to hide his secret identity while Bernard knows and just trolls him the whole time

Achilles and Patroclus-coded dynamic

Tim having polaroids of all his old school friends (Ives, Ariana, Danny, etc.) and then stopping by Bernard's every once in a while to run his fingertips across the edges and notice the differences in his features- not just physical aging, but how the edge of his smile used to be a lot smugger, the light in his eyes a little dimmer now

Metalhead Tim vs. ABBA enthusiast Bernard

Tim spending days poring over a case before Bernard casually walks in and looks over his shoulder at the plans. He offhandedly mentions something and then it all clicks into place for Tim, who kisses him on the lips before running out to take down the baddie

One of them going on a longwinded rant beside a conspiracy board absolutely covered in red string and photographs. Everyone in the room turns to their boyfriend with an exclamation of "Uh... Do you wanna stop him- ookaayyyy." When they find the other just staring at them with the widest heart eyes, actively adding in input every time the other stops to take a breath.

Darla finding out the two of them are dating and squawking indignantly that this better not mean that they're gonna turn her into a third wheel now before forcibly crashing all of their dates (neither of them mind because this means it'll be easier to keep her safe and keep her from dying on them again)

this was actually for me personally trust they told me in a dream

Mine eyes were swift to know thee, and my heart As swift to love. I did become at once Thine wholly, thine unalterably

.....

There, thou and I Read Kindness in our eyes and closed the match.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Bonus sketch:

Sketches while relistening to tma with a friend lol

Just finished the "Dreamer's Nightmare" graphic novel in preparation for season 7 and oooohhhh....I'm looking forward to this thematic reversal with our fav royal bros!!

Cuz King Ezran is definitely not gonna be "feeling like himself".

(Also, how many times now has Callum been frightened to tears over Ezran's mortality?? He's kind of a magnet for these things lol)

so naturally i was up at 1am the other night watching tdp related youtube videos and i figured i'd watch the 2020 comic con panel since it'd been a while and oh my god some of this shit

(also just me talking about how much i love this cast)

"IT IS I, DARK_MAGE_DAD420" i cannot believe that is real

aaravos: "if i want to do a screen call, i must perform a cosmic blood ritual. with a mortar and pestle. AND FLOATING KNIVES" you are fucking kidding me (edit: i realize that pertains to what he did in s2 but still like "cosmic" "ritual" "knives"? cmon)

jason simpson playing the ukulele. that's all.

jack: *talking about how he had a baby in quarantine* eric: i've been doing a lot of gardening... uh i haven't had a baby, but you never know! i mean if it's possible through social distancing aaron: if anybody can make that happen through social distancing it's aaravos you are F U C K I N G KIDDING ME

racquel: some fun things i did- i uhh died my own hair and burned my scalp and i would like to inform you all it's finally healed and we're good to go, i'm ready to do it again! i'm obsessed with the fact that racquel is quite literally claudia irl

the ttm read is awesome. jack came with the Rayla Voice fucking PREPARED oh my god

i don't think i've ever actually talked about the dnd sketch but it is one of my favorite things in the entire world

rayllum in this sketch is amazing particularly callum he is SO down bad like "my character is a mysterious elf assassin with two beautiful blades to match my two beautiful eyes~~ ✨" like hello that's canon idc if it's a sketch that is canon

"my character cannot help but look at her. he locks eyes with rayla's mage" "....there will be time for roleplaying later" HELLO THATS GOLD

viren in this skit is genuinely one of the funniest things i've ever seen. i cannot emphasize enough this is comedy

necromancer ezran. i think about him daily.

s: "i start swinging my sword at, uhh, idk, rayla's mage" r: "WAIT WHAT" c: "uh wait wait i take it back MY SWORDS GLEAM INTO THE LIGHT AS I LEAP TO THE DEFENCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL MAGE!" s: "hey no takebacks!" sibling ass fight i love them

"LIKE WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY DO?"

i rolled a 1 😐

i loot their corpses for blood >:D

"do elves have four toes?" "i always assumed that they would have 6 so they could learn how to count to 20" paula my love

someone get sasha some hamantaschen

i don't need arc 3 actually i just need the beta script including as many guns n roses references as possible

racquel: ok call me crazy, call me crazy... jesse: you're crazy, racquel racquel: THANK YOU FINALLY they are literally just them

"I WILL NOT BE POSTING A SINGLE THING ABOUT ICE, FOR I AM JULIA" (okay but.... venous frigoris anyone?)

paula: ugh, no one likes soren jesse: well no one likes rayla racquel: you two should fight 😈

long hard sigh

bonus: jason: literally no one likes viren so let's move on

"how old is bait?" "sasha, how old do you think bait is?" "3."

"is-is a glow toad kinda like a toad?" "................kind of"

i fucking love sasha have i ever mentioned that i fucking love sasha

"i think that he's 56." "either 3 or 56 only, apparently"

the saga announcement is great i love how everyone's is so excited they don't even know all of their characters are about to be destroyed physically and emotionally

the way aaron says it so fucking funny "is there gonna be a season 4?" "uh so i think it's really important to emphasize: yes-"

"i too want to cry" "just cry, just-" "IT'S A PANDEMIC. NO TEARS. THERE'S NO CRYING IN A PANDEMIC." "...where is this rule coming from?"

and finally there were a handful of moments that i could not do justice by transcribing in a post so here is a masterfully edited compilation i made

Another one… just endless inspiration It’s so heartbreaking