"you can't go home again. and you must go on."

i get you!! tim discovered robin's identity because he was obsessed with dick grayson in the first place, even though literally nobody else (of the general public) cared about dick's acrobatic abilities. there's one comic that literally goes like: "tim drake -and tim drake alone- had grown up fascinated by the career of an obscure and forgotten child acrobat named dick grayson. when tim saw batman's partner robin perform grayson's signature gymnastic moves, something clicked in his mind." (52, issue 31).

although in the original tim drake's explanation (batman 1940, issue 441) tim is a fan of batman and robin before knowing it's dick grayson, it's more the fact that they are the heroes of his city, and it's only when he recognizes dick's quadruple somersault that he becomes obsessed with robin. as per his own words: "i knew that somersault. i knew it like i knew my own name."

it's insane the way tim drake cared first about dick grayson, and then went on to become a robin (and batman) fan. even while he's robin, his admiration for dick grayson never wavers, and there are a lot of instances in the comics where tim is like, wow, dick grayson is the best in the entire world, i wonder if i'll ever catch up to him.

i think it's very endearing the way he cared about dick first, and that in turn fueled his obsession with robin, eventually also transferring that admiration to other iterations of robin - jason's in specific, since the rest come after tim himself is robin, but also damian's and steph's if the writers weren't cowards even if in another sense of the word (maybe pride for the new robins, rather than hero-worship).

i understand why the fandom likes jason being tim's robin - there is a lot of angst potential in there for the fans to enjoy, after all (although if anybody bothered to read the comics in which jason is beating tim left and right they'd see tim being ragebaiter #1 and not exactly prime whump material, even if yes, introspection could lead you there anyway) but i feel many don't bother with where that admiration comes from in order to place more weight and impact on the scenes in which jason is beating tim up, along with all of its aftermaths (be it jason's guilt, tim's hurt, or any other you can think of). jason being tim's hero is a bit funny if you've never interacted with that side of the fandom, considering in the 90's/2000's comics that's dick's place, and i don't think tim and jason were retconned in the recent years to have that relationship instead (though i haven't read a lot of what's new from tim drake or jason todd, so i might be wrong?).

all in all, i understand the fandom's enjoyment of jason being tim's robin. it's merely that i, just like you, prefer dick being tim's hero, and i find his obsession and worship in the comics terribly endearing. he's two seconds away from blushing every time dick praises him, he went down a rabbit whole because he saw robin move the same way as dick, he found out dick's address and has never left him alone since, the faith he has in dick is even bigger than the one he has in bruce... you could tell me there is an altar in this boy's mind dedicated to dick grayson and i would just nod and go, yeah that tracks.

it's babs and renee and helena and cassandra and leslie and ivy and selina and christina and sarah

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.