#unternet

🔍🌙♥️ here’s the tim sticker sheet i designed for the @timdrakeflipzine , with all sorts of alternative media and universe robins and red robins and—

🫶 if you’re interested in the exhaustive list of tim’s included…

lego minifig that doesnt exist but i desperately wish it did

inspired by the adorable art here by @colbycheeseslice <3

Tam is competent as hell. She’s nineteen, in college, working/interning at Wayne Enterprises, and when we first meet her she’s making business deals overseas. Yes, she’s the CEO’s daughter, but that’s still a huge amount of responsibility for someone so young. And Lucius Fox does not seem like the kind of guy who places nepotism over competence.

Tam is smart and highly capable. That’s why she’s drawn into the plot! Lucius trusts her to find Tim when no one else can, pulling her away from her original task.

She successfully tracks down Tim...

And is immediately in over her head, quite possibly for the first time in her life.

Kidnapped by the League of Assassins? Trying desperately to figure out what’s going on, and if Tim is really someone she can trust? Attacked by super assassins, some of whom are metas?

None of this is anything Tam is prepared for! And when they get home, she meets a reporter not in a curated press conference, who hounds her for information even while they’re running from more assassins. Tam panics, and the resulting cover (“We’re engaged!”) winds up in the papers. Her dad frames the headline and her sister teases her for it, neither of them knowing the full story.

Tam has never been involved in the superhero world before. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. It’s terrifying and exciting, and it’s making her doubt herself.

Tam gets sucked into the Unternet alongside Tim, while they’re combining WE work and vigilante work. Tam’s avatar is a toddler. A baby just old enough to waddle by herself.

That’s how she’s feeling! She doesn’t feel like the kick-ass college gal & businesswoman, she feels like a total newbie who can’t look after herself, is easily overwhelmed, and needs help even getting out of the dang car.

Which is a contrast to how Tim thinks of her; Tam was on the ball during an attack earlier and rescued their USB stick, hiding their hacking trail, and Tim thinks she’s doing great!

Once Tam get conscious control, she morphs herself into an adult again, in a retro action-thriller style.

It’s the Unternet costume! Worn by Tim for 2(?) issues while in a silly VR internet stand-in, this costume gets a square on my quilt because I love it. Tim’s subconscious thinks that looking like Dick is The Coolest! This is very embarrassing for him and makes me smile.

Both the black background and red V with little wing notches are made from old camisoles. Because of course using stretchy fabric when I didn’t need to was a reasonable choice!

I decided to use negative space, rather than more fabric, to define the central logo circle. Which meant I had to cut out 3/4 of a circle out of the centre of my V somehow. Making round shapes with fabric? Still not easy.

The borders for the V and logo are buttonhole stitch. I love how it gives a thick, chunky edge to the V. Both looks, and feels, nice. The logo is gold, and I wove a different shade of gold through the buttonhole stitch to make a thick, solid border. My Very Little Sister was quite sad that I needed to add a logo to the centre - she loved how the textured border switched to smooth fabric. But its not the costume without the logo, so I used a light satin stitch in the two shades of gold to outline the Red Robin bird, and then loosely fill it in.

I’m really satisfied with this one. Textures are great, and the shiny thread against the very matte fabrics looks really good in person.