it's that most wonderful time of the year again - time for a 2025 headline wrap-up!

- You can put up fairy lights at any time and leave them up for as long as you want

- Get out if you can, while there is still light outside

- Make it as cosy for yourself as you can. Dial up the comfort and the cosy, whatever that looks like to you

- Make plans to look forward to

- More people than we sometimes realize are affected, be cosy with your friends in person, call them or have a facetime hang out with tea or a movie. Maybe go for a short walk together or meet up for coffee, so you get out a bit too.

Eat citrus regularly bc vitamins aside, you deserve bright, sweet things

Does Bruce take him on kiddie runs until he’s a little older? Maybe. Does Batman stand menacingly behind a brightly colored little bird to threaten the goons while Robin can’t see him? You know he does.

But Robin is still actually terrifying when he first appears on the scene, because he’s a teeny tiny fluttery little thing that does cartwheels and handstands and makes puns then launches himself full force to kick a man in the nose and then cackles when he bleeds. His laughter makes goons shiver, they hear it bouncing around warehouses and half of them bolt, because they learn very quickly what happens when a feral Robin appears.

The Gotham rogues all immediately have beef with a literal third grader because he took the bats attention away and also because he’s roundhouse kicked them all in the shins at some point and that shit hurt like hell, and then he laughed in their faces while making a pun about their villain name.

because how can't you be attached to this puny flipping feral child that lost everything but still manages to be sunshine incarnated and yet also a fucking menace, body overflowing with rage. ofc theyd fold fast.

also they agreed bats was for real psycho for letting a child in underpants fight against Gothams darkest villains in fucking underwear, before they met him and realized no batman had no control over this child, who was actually pretty scary if he put his mind to it, this kid who was out for bloody murder just barely held back by bruce,

and that this was actually safer for the kid than letting him sneak out on his own to do god knows what.

murder family for real

like they have thir own code yk

go easier, make sure it's a fair fight, check backup and capabilities, wheres batsy, blah blah, save him from actual probelms and villains

They knew exactly who Nightwing was the second he showed up, they respect him too, no matter how much they schemes and grumbled, and pouted and fought.

they tried following the same code for the other Robin's but it was never the same yk, especially after jason

(Except joker fuck him he can go choke, get tortured and die and get cremated so he can't be revived)