#nonbinary octopus

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I have! I've actually had multiple dreams over the years that included some sort of Gt element... in many of them I'm the smol, though sometimes the size changes throughout the dream. Sometimes my brain will even borrow characters, especially from @neonthebright- I recall having a dream about a smol version of Colfax getting kidnapped by orcs one time, and another time I had a dream where I was Bowman and, as such, sprite-sized. Other times, however, the dream is just full of Gt Vibes and nothing worth really relating in the morning.

Charlie?

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Carefully lol

Hm, my takes are rarely hot. I guess my hottest take about Gt is that it's fantasy, so there should just be in general less policing amongst the community about what people write/draw. I'm all for critical thinking and critical interpretation of media and such, but that's really something for an audience to engage itself with, not for creators to be limited by. I completely get discussing dehumanization elements in stories with appropriate gravity, but at the same time, I think it's perfectly reasonable for people to write and draw things with dehumanization and other immoral elements. If we can't engage with unhealthy power dynamics in fantasy, where the hell can we? A reader can always heed trigger warnings, unfollow, plain old Not Read, but to try to shame creators into not writing specific kinds of stories just seems authoritarian to me.

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Good question! My favorite range in general is the standard Lilliputian ratio (does the Gt fandom still use that phrase? Probably outing myself here as chronically on dA in the 2010s) where one foot = one inch. It just makes the math so easy no matter which direction you're scaling things in, plus it fits my basic preference for how smol the smols are. I will rarely go off of this ration for tinies- too much smaller and I just get anxiety about the situation. I'll sometimes go a bit larger if a unique situation calls for it.

Something that your character’s different sized friends do that annoys them?

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Everything that springs to mind at first is less size-related and really just. Sawyer. XD Sawyer does many things, smol tol or anywhere in between, that annoy the heck out of Charlie. Would you stop being so reckless (no Sawyer will not).

viri Sawyer?

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Thanks for the asks!!

For the most part, viri!Sawyer enjoys his size difference with others. He's such a tactile person by nature that being able to be hold is just *chef's kiss*. Plus life is so adventurous as a smol. He's also not really prone to much fear or anxiety, so being around humans – aside from a nerve-wracking first encounter or two – is usually just fine for him.

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Oh man I was not expecting another ask for the title game so when I saw this pop up I was like. Huh? You gave yourself amnesia? Are you okay? And then clocked that it was MY fic. 🤭

Anyway so this one is kinda messy!!! It sorta has two aspects to it which is like, in a lot of "Tim is adopted early" fics I see lines where Tim worries Batman will wipe his memory. And I so dearly wanted to actually see that. So it started off as "hey how would you write that", vaguely based off a line in this fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13422138/chapters/31181259#workskin <- with an extra function of Jason/Dick are pissed about it and keep hanging around him and Knowing Things about him, which is VERY confusing for poor tim🤭 (and may be written as a shorter Jay-or-Dick POV drabble at some point)

But THEN when I was writing it, what ended up happening was way more of like, Dick knowing him as a person and thus not being able to control instinctive reactions (calling him Tim before Tim introduces himself, making jokes and references that Tim doesn't get) and Tim struggling to understand a constant feeling of deja vu. It's very casually a mystery-fic from Tim's POV but wildly an agony from the audience POV because as the audience we already/basically know what's going on 🤭

Also I thought it would be interesting to do an actual think-piece esque on Jack and Janet in relation to Tim 'cause I have some really complicated headcanons about his relationship to them! And having him be Robin but also not be Robin felt like a super fun way of having them realise he was pulling away from them, but they don't actually know their kid so they don't know what to do.

Anyway the title for this one is wildly descriptive so I could remember it in my gdocs, but it is, quite literally: Tim going to Batman and saying "hey I need J'onn to wipe my memory of being Robin until this person goes away because I think they have mind reading capabilities". 'cause they're not a Good Person and Tim's pretty sure that they're manipulating his parents and while he doesn't want that, more important is the fact that Batman lives next door. He does NOT want this mind reader to find out and blackmail BATMAN. Tim having to trust that Bruce will restore his memories after, having to trust they'll figure out how to get the mind reader away from him and his family, but also way too Tim for his own good and still attempting to solve the mystery 🤭

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“I saw you on the train, before I ended up in the river, I know I did, but you act like you've never met me before,” thud, thud, thud, goes his heart, steady but present, like the beats are counting out each point of evidence. “You keep pretending that you don't know me, but you do - I know you do.”

“Tim-”

“And that! No-one calls me that!” Tim's hands fist at his side, and his body's thrumming. “Nobody ever calls me Tim.” No matter how much he'd like them to. It's Timothy or Mr. Drake, both a title, both with a reason to be used. Tim is just- preference. Courtesy.

And who wants to do him the courtesy of Tim when it's been made very clear he's nothing so common as a simple 'Tim'?