plz spare a crumb of dopamine

1. They still loved each other

2. Dick went after Tim after Tim stormed out of the cave. He didn't just leave it at that

3. They didn't have 0 contact, Dick called Tim back to Gotham for Blackest Night. They weren't talking because Tim didn't want to talk

4. Alfred gave Damian the Robin costume initially without Dick's knowledge, and his first mission as Robin was saving Tim's life after he got beat up by Jason (again). He apparently left this mess for Dick to clean up, and I don't think anyone ever told Tim that's how Damian ended up with the mantle

5. Dick helped in the process of bringing Bruce back to the current time, Tim presented his evidence when he got home, and Dick checked it out and solved the time puzzle in Bruce's ancestral home. Tim didn't magically pop back with Bruce after doing everything by himself, it was a coordinated effort that involved the Justice League

6. Tim and Damian started to get along. Not during Red Robin, but during Batman: Gates of Gotham

7. They were both grieving, Dick just masked it better

8. Tim didn't feel like he could ask for help because he knew sounded insane (and was feeling/acting insane). He was doing one of those 'i push away everyone i love because i hate myself' things, which he also did to Steph (who he fired as Spoiler under god knows who's authority) and Cassie. Dick wasn't special in this treatment, and he can't force Tim to stay, so he trusted Tim's judgement and let him leave. It is a "Tim's a sad boy" comic, but he's also very much a part of causing his own problems

In the Red Robin run, she breaks into his safehouse and sneaks up on him and tries to touch him without his permission or letting him know first, and he reacts like a vigilante reacts to an unknown assailant sneaking up on them, and he repeats again that he said he didn't want to see her as Spoiler anymore. Again, this is less "Tim tried to fire Steph from Spoiler with zero authority" and more "Tim is pissed at a friend who betrayed him and got him hurt him and is not in a place to repair that relationship."

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

(tec #677)

the difference between azrael and dick’s register here is making me giggle. az is trying to wax poetic while dick is this 🤏 close to calling him a ballbag

joker's last laugh #5

you know, i am all on the support waylon jones train, but also i fully support helena always ❤️ get revenge darling ❤️

And to think I even thought 'I wonder what people are saying in the comments and tags of this?' before being smacked in the face with such hot takes as 'Steph was fired for saving Bruce' and 'Steph didn't recieve any training'

I always forget what the fandom consensus is on Steph's time as robin when one of those posts come around, before being abruptly reminded…

It's so frustrating! It's such a blatant surface-level read of "these two moments look similar so they're the same thing" when they're just not.

My perpetual hot take: Steph was not held at a higher standard than the boys, but she should have been. She was the oldest and the most experienced. The boys (and Carrie, and Maps, and at least one version of Helena Wayne) all start between the ages of 10 and 13; Steph's at least 17, probably closer to 18 -- a legal adult, or close to it. She'd dropped out of high school, held down at least one civilian job, and had a baby. She'd been trained by Tim, Dinah, Cass, Babs, and Bruce before becoming Robin, and starts up a whole new intense training routine with the latter three once she gets the job.

She may not have been Trained On Arrival the way Dick or Damian was, but she had more training than Jason and more in-cape field experience than any of them. After all that, "Understands the danger she's putting herself in" feels like it should be the bare minimum to clear to continue being a superhero, period, let alone being Robin where Batman is explicitly responsible for her safety.

That post that's going around right now is particularly frustrating because it even acknowledges why Bruce was hesitant about Steph in the first place -- her recklessness and tendency not just to sometime disobey, but regularly resist and defy his orders, reminded him too much of Jason, the Robin Who Got Fucking Killed. And yet it still acts like that's just some stupid hang-up of Bruce's that doesn't really matter, as opposed to an actually pretty reasonable point that lines up with both Bruce's trauma and Steph's established character traits.

no matter what the situation is, they're always bringing the social interaction to a screeching halt with these jokes. nobody ever wants to participate in this joke with them. nobody agrees with the premise. nobody ever knows what to say afterwards, it's just an awkward moment and a subject change. but they just keep doing it.