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TIM DRAKE! My beloved 3rd Robin. He definitely fits my character type of smart, heroic, seems straight-laced but is actually insane, with bonus lack of self-preservation skills. This boy said Batman is doing a Bad Job and I am going to fix him.

I've written fic and have 3 more Tim focused WIPs destroying my brain. I have many fic recs. I have multiple tumblr tags because at some point I gave up on trying to organize DC stuff, it's impossible: tim drake, timkon, batfam. I am forever screaming into the void about how they refuse to re-print the Red Robin trade paperbacks.

And here's a favorite vid. ( Tw for blood but it's comics/art, not hyper-realistic. )

Please yell about Tim with me ♥

Mostly I've been reading The Old Guard fic so I should probably write up some fic recs for that (so much good fic!) but I also finished a couple published things.

Finished Reading:
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. This was one of my favorite books growing up and I re-read it because I'm considering writing an AU using the forced obedience conceit. (Quick fic rec: Obedience by Sohotthateveryonedied [Gen, DCU, Tim Drake]). I'm really sad that they replaced the cover! I mean I know I shouldn't judge a book by its cover but the original cover was a really beautiful painting style. The new one is kind of cartoonish which is maybe better for the intended young audience but the original was just really nice!

Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty. This was the last book in the Daevabad trilogy and it was great. I recommend this series to anyone who likes politics and fantasy in their books.

Now Reading:
A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester. Why so many sub-titles?? A World Lit Only By Fire is a great title by itself! But as the sub-titles tell you, it's a popular history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We had to read this for one of my history classes back in high school and I kind of always meant to re-read it. Now is a good time since I'm into The Old Guard. It's interesting but I do find it sometimes confusing because the dates jump around a lot.

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch but I think this may disappear from my Kindle before I finish it again.

Failed Out:
The Passage by Justin Cronin. Good writing but didn't get to the plot stuff I was interested in quickly enough and too many characters I didn't like. Still have it because I'm not sure what's going on with the library returns.

Up Next:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen or maybe a re-read of The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. Or something else entirely.

Title: Orientation
Rating: T
Fandom: Batman, DCU, Young Justice
Characters: Tim Drake, Conner Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd
Word Count: 4582
Warnings: None
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Batfamily Feels, Tim Drake-centric
Summary: Stay alive, Jason had said, first and foremost. That is literally the bar in this family. / It’s a low bar. Tim refuses not to clear it. (Or: Tim's new family tries to keep him safe as he adjusts, but things don't quite work out that way.)

Sequel to Surveillance. But not really the sequel I intended to write so there may be a part three.

Title: Surveillance
Rating: T
Fandom: Batman, DCU, Young Justice
Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Lex Luthor, Selina Kyle
Word Count: 7037
Warnings: None
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jason Never Dies, Civilian Tim, Found Family, Batfamily Feels, Tim Drake-centric
Summary: Tim knows antagonizing Lex Luthor wasn’t exactly his safest move but the point is really driven home by the bullet to the shoulder. (Or: The AU where Jason never died and Tim is a civilian who contributes to crime fighting by taking surveillance photos and leaving them on the desktop of the Batcomputer.)


My longest running wip, finally complete!! I really think this has been in progress over a decade because I remember copying it over from back when I used MS Word and also writing it in various homes and airports. Hopefully it's not super uneven due to that but I don't think my writing style has changed hugely. Except I did manage to flesh it out a bit more which is my continuing struggle. I really wanted to hit 10,000 words but I'm just not good at longfic and I decided that was arbitrary. Maybe there will be a sequel because I do want to write more about Tim settling into the Batfam and joining Young Justice.

Also, I would like to take a moment to beg DC for my Tim Drake movie/TV series (I will take anything at this point, please, he's always skipped and he's my favorite) and to reprint the Red Robin trades now that I could afford them.