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He's jawstruck by both guys being half naked and the way Tim is straddling Bernard's hips.

Tim (maintaining eye contact with Bruce): ...

Bernard (not knowing where to keep his hands so now they're just hovering over Tim's waist, where the other is straddling him): ...

Bruce (halfway into the room, his eyes fixed on Tim's): ...

Tim: I can explain.

Bruce: Then explain.

Tim (quickly): We were talking.

Bruce (equally as fast): About what exactly?

Tim: Life.

Bruce (clearly not convinced): And you both just happened to lose your shirts in the process of... what? Deep philosophical discussion?

Tim (probably fighting for his life to not actually will himself to disappear): ...

Bernard (who looks about seconds away from actually melting down into the fabric of the bed and is currently stopping himself from making a sex joke out of what Bruce just said): ...

Bruce (genuinely confused cause when Tim was a teenager, that idiot was obnoxiously against romantic intimacy): ???

Damian (walking by): Father, do you know where-

Damian glances inside Tim's room and instantly snaps his head away and walks away, muttering under his breath.

Damian: I can't get a fucking break from Dowd and Dowd's boytoy even in my own house.

Like I feel people don’t understand that Bernard being the person he is works wonders in Tim’s favor and that Tim knows that Bernard deserves better than him which I never knew the outbursts complains of “why would Tim take a break from Robin for Bernard” because even if Bernard was the main reason it was he deserves. He deserves Tim’s full attention and care after always putting Tim first in the relationship.

im tired of people pretending that damian al ghul wayne isn't absolutely hilarious

Batman is breaking into your landlord's apartment and and saying they would be seeing Batman EVERY NIGHT until they got running water in the apartment building, there are literal plague rats running around

Batman is solving crimes the police ignore due to sexism and racism, finding the perpetrators, and dangling them off a roof, promising if they ever do that again, he will also dangle them off a roof again

Batman is breaking into mafioso bedrooms, tying them up, gluing 500 individual feathers onto them, then taking pictures and sending them to every big newspaper chain in the country to remind people that the ones they're afraid of are still only men

Then he finds police officers on the take and glues feathers to all their uniforms so they can't walk around without everyone knowing they are also associated with the chicken mafia, what a loser.

He is seeing violent crime happen on the streets and swooping in to get in the way as it is happening. Extortion, assault, murders-- get good, assholes, your crime is witnessed and you have been punched in the face, AND he's going to tip off the police commissioner who last year started listening. He is blowing up a mobster weapons depot so they have fewer guns on the street.

HELLO TIMBERKON FANS

Happy pride month I redrew my timberkon fanart from last year. I did my best to try to mimic the art style of the art style in the comic where they first reintroduce Bernard but I lowkey gave up after the faces and went back to my usual style.

Full context for the nosy

"Unnecessary superpowers"

"Origin tied to a joker event"

"We have Tim Drake at home"

"Dukes powers don't help him solve mysteries, don't make for interesting fights, and are actually a detriment to act attempt at at stealthing"

"There really isn't a Duke story you couldn't have told using Tim"

"Speaking of representation, if that's so important--"

Alright, Mr. @lucas-deziderio, let me stop you right there.

It is beyond cool for you to not be into a character. If Duke Thomas doesn’t hit for you, fine. If you want to love Superboy Prime, go live your truth. Nobody is forcing you to care about Duke.

But you are not just saying “Duke isn’t for me.” You are making things up about a character you clearly do not understand so you can dress up your disinterest as objective criticism.

“Unnecessary superpowers” is already a wild place to start, because Duke’s powers are extremely useful for both detective work and stealth. Light manipulation, invisibility/camouflage, enhanced perception, and psychometry are not random useless add-ons. They are literally investigative and tactical abilities. Saying they “don’t help him solve mysteries” or “don’t make for interesting fights” does not tell me anything about Duke. It tells me you don’t know what his powers are.

Then we get to “Tim Drake at home,” which is just lazy.

Duke is not “smart funny Gotham boy sidekick.” Duke’s entire arc is about being a kid from Gotham proper (Which Tim is not) who lived through the city’s failures, organized with other disenfranchised youth, challenged the idea that Batman’s system was enough, and became a hero from the margins instead of from inside the Wayne Manor machine.

That is not Tim Drake’s story.

Tim comes from a completely different social position, a completely different origin, and a completely different relationship to Batman and Gotham. Tim is not the character whose story is about championing the people Gotham leaves behind. Tim is not the character whose heroism is rooted in collective action with neglected kids on the street. Tim is not the character whose existence critiques the limits of Batman’s approach from the perspective of someone Batman’s world repeatedly failed.

So no, there really are Duke stories you could not just tell with Tim. The fact that they both have brains and jokes does not make them interchangeable. That is not analysis. That is skimming a wiki and deciding you found the whole character.

And speaking of representation, “just make other Bat-family members Black” is not the sage answer you seem to think it is. Black lego (LEGO!) Batgirls and a truly mediocre-to-bad Black Tim Drake adaptation in a bad-to-unbearable Titans show, are not the same thing as having a Black character whose story, community, politics, and position in Gotham actually inform who he is.

Duke being Black is not a palette swap. It matters to the shape of his story. It matters that his arc is about Gotham’s neglected kids, civic failure, survival, organizing, and being failed by the very heroic infrastructure that supposedly exists to protect people like him.

So when you flatten all of that into “boring,” then turn around and say representation can just be solved by making somebody else Black in an adaptation, yes, that reads a certain way. And the way it reads is not flattering.

You can dislike Duke. That is your prerogative.

But “I personally don’t care about this character” is not the same thing as “this character has no purpose.” And if your argument requires ignoring his actual powers, ignoring his actual arc, ignoring his actual social context, and pretending Tim Drake can be dropped into his place with no meaningful loss, then your argument is not based in the reality of the fiction.

It is based in your lack of desire to engage with experiences that were not catered toward you.

And just to avoid misunderstanding: when your response to a Black character being defended is “well, if representation matters so much, just make other characters Black,” while also dismissing the actual Black character as boring, replaceable, unnecessary, and not worth understanding?

That is not good-faith criticism.

That is you telling on yourself.

So yes. You can like Superboy Prime. You can dislike Duke. You can think Prime is more interesting. Have fun.

But do not pretend this was some thoughtful literary argument when it was really just you adding your two centavos to a conversation you did not bother to understand.

Calling Superboy Prime lame was not an attack on you.

This is.

This post is an attack on you.

This post is me calling you racist and intellectually dishonest.

Dick and Damian Week 2026: Day 1 - Adoption! my excuse to draw them domestic lol @dickanddamianweek

bottom left was inspired by this bit from Batman 80-Page Giant (2010)

(lowkey nsfw, be careful lol, it's mainly Tim being a freak)

He drags Tim along for a random university fest and Tim can't stop looking at Bernard's mouth.

He's almost consistently looking at the way the piece of metal glints on Bernard's tongue as the other opens his mouth to speak.