Digital Magpie's Nest

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

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But unlike the adult in this strip, Calvin’s dad actually APOLOGIZED for yelling at him when he saw how guilty his kid was:

“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” – Gordon Parks

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

This is your semi frequent reminder that there is no official AO3 app

All those are unofficial and available on the Google play store as of August 13th 2025. They mirror AO3's content and insert ads, for which the developer gets paid by page impression (that's every time the ad appears in the fic you're reading) not just clicks.

No money goes to AO3, nor to the fic writer. It goes to the person who did the bare minimum.

Many of these apps have poorly worded or non existent privacy policies, so they may also be mining as much data as possible and selling that on to unknown third parties.

In Batman comics (and DC Comics in general) villains are constantly going through redemption arcs or falling back into their old ways. well maybe i think most Robins lean toward believing in rehabilitation but who do you think has the most faith in people's ability to change? Like whose conviction in that is basically unshakable? 🤔

You’re saying Robins, so that excludes Cass, who possibly believes in villain rehabilitation MORE than Bruce!

So, depending on the metric you’re using, I’d say either Tim or Dick.

Dick actively mentors people who say they’re trying to change. He teams up with villains. He hopes for and believes in PEOPLE.

Tim, however, believes in the PROCESS. He talks villains down, and offers alternatives. He reminds them of their previous statements that they would try something different, and redirects them back on track. While he was Robin, he was instrumental in both Poison Ivy and Riddler’s reforms, as well as supporting Mr. Freeze’s attempts. He ran an outreach program committed to helping kids get out of/stay out of gangs.

I’d say that Tim is probably more effective at villain rehab than Dick, but he isn’t as committed to the people he’s assisting. He does the work without necessarily having faith in the people he’s doing it for. His “success” stories tend to true neutral - not becoming heroes, but giving up their worst practices.

Meanwhile Dick believes in people so hard that they want to live up to his expectations. His success stories go on to be heroes. He holds on to a better world and a better future. But he also burns himself out. When people feel they can’t live up to his expectations, they tend to backslide straight to supervillainy. He takes this personally.

Authour: @brain0worm

Subfandom: Batfamily

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Gen (Dick Grayson & Tim Drake, Jason Todd & Tim Drake)

Year: 2025

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: None

Summary:

Can the people of Gotham manifest something from rumors and dreams — or is that just a myth? Was Tim Drake ever real, or just Gotham’s favorite rumor brought to life?

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

We have now reached the point in the timeline where characters watch home videos on cassette tapes. I am now wondering how many seconds of video a cassette could hold, if it could hold video. The video’s pretty short, it might fit, and then you could get a dream cassette player that works as a VHS player to read it, maybe?