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Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

The debate of all time

If you don't like brownies then this poll is not for you. Please move along

Please rb if you vote

Corner pieces are the worst pieces. I can at least understand people who want a side piece, to get a little bit of a handle like a pizza crust. A little bit of variety in the texture is fine, and maybe them being just a little bit done at the end of the brownie consumption adds a nice bit of finality.

But center cut brownies are the best, just like Granny Smith are the best apples, and the right rear burner on the stove is the best burner.

The fuck is wrong with all you people who want burnt crisp bullshit? Center is the way to go.

Look, there's always going to be corner pieces. Either that or food waste, and somebody worked too hard baking these for that. I don't care enough about brownie texture to insist on having the center pieces, and fewer people will fight me for the corner pieces. 😸

tim drake's rules brain

I did promise I'd use this account for long form analysis of Batman characters' psychological problems. Something I was talking about on twitter the other day was that to me, one of Tim's primary drivers is his sense of duty -- his need to figure out the correct action and take it. This comes out either in family/social obligations ("I have to quit Robin because my dad said so and he's my dad") or in broader obligations he takes on ("I have to become Robin because Batman needs someone, and nobody else is doing it").

This trait of his is super compelling to me because it's both a strength and something that backfires on Tim constantly -- it's a big source of crunch. On twitter I called him the world's worst utilitarian: he will identify a need and then do pretty much anything short of murder to fill it, even if it tramples over things like his happiness or other people's boundaries.

Tim: I’d kill for you-wait no you’d hate that

Cass:

Tim: I’d die for- no you’d hate that as well

Cass:

Tim:…this is hard

Cass: take your time

Tim: I’d let you steal my food again?

Cass: “let me”

Tim: let you, without complaint

Tim: i… I’ll… hm.

Cass: you’ll?

Tim: I’ll do the homework babs sets you for you

Cass: deal, done, here you go

“Ted Kord.”

“The Blue Beetle?”

“Used to be the Blue Beetle. Didn’t you get the newsletter?”

“What’s he doing here?”

“We’re friends.”

“What’s that mean?”

“Just friends, Grayson. He’s a technogeek like me.”

__________________

“In the other room, Boy Wonder.”

“No way.”

“You little—”

__________________

“Wow the Blue Beetle!”

“Not anymore.”

“Blah. Blah. Blah.”

[Birds of Prey V1 #19]

As much as I love Dick’s little jealousy bit in this issue, I’ve got to give props to Timmy for being such an annoying little shit…and most definately on purpose towards poor Dick.

(“Wow. The Blue Beetle!” You little— indeed.)

Since your phone number is one digit off from the Wizard Tech Support hotline, you get the occasional call. You know nothing of magic, but your computer skills and common sense translate real well.

First Person POV

“Is this Wizard Tech Support?” A panicked voice came from the other end of the line.

“Yes sir, how may I help you today?” I lied. The Wizard Tech Support hotline is a single digit off of mine, so at least twice a day I’ll get called for help. I’ve gotten used to it, but I’ve started attempting to fix the problem instead of telling them they called the incorrect number.

The caller speaks as fast as he can without stumbling over his words. “I have an exam coming up next week and my wand isn’t working! If my wand doesn’t work then that means I fail the exam! And if I fail then that means-” A long, loud, dramatic gasp comes from the boy. “then that means my mother will disown me! No no no no no I can’t let that happen!” His voice becomes even more distressed than before, starting to stumble over his words. “I won’t have anywhere to go if I get disowned! I’ll- I’ll have to live on the streets! I- I- I can’t get a job, I’m-”

“Please calm down sir, could you please tell me how old your wand is?”

“Um, it was a year old when I got it, and I have had it for seven years, so it should be eight years old. No- sorry, nine years old.” The boy on the line chills out a little bit.

“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

“Have I- what?”

“Turning the wand… off and back on?” I don’t know a single thing about magic, I’m just an IT guy. I really hoped that it was possible to turn a wand on and off unless I guessed it incorrectly from previous calls and you can’t.

“I haven’t tried that.” The phone picks up some noises in the background, but it’s hard to make them out. “It worked! Thank you so much!”

*click*

Man, maybe I should apply for a job there. I’m pretty good at this ‘fixing magic problems’ stuff. If only I knew the number for Wizard Tech Support. I wonder though, what if there was a wizard who’s number is one digit off of a computer tech hotline doing the same thing? There’s no way though, right?

——————————————————————

“Is this Computer Tech Support?” A panicked voice came from the other end of the line.

“Yes ma'am, how may i help you today?” The wizard lied.

like tim the strategist Is a kingmaker. sorry <3

@coffinbirds EXACTLY!!! you get it <333

help you were NOT done 💖

For the record, accidentally tapping on Tumblr live when it randomly appears every week does not count as using Tumblr live for the sake of this poll. This is only referring to purposeful use of the feature.

I'd appreciate it if people could share this for a larger sample size!

Robin!Tim throughout his run: It's rotten work. Especially to me. Especially if it's you. I'll fucking do it but christ alive

Me: i will remind everyone of sj's crimes, specially the unwarranted child abuse of multiple victims

Also me: but let's remember that he has a fucked up life so that's to blame too

Me: BUT it was his choices what damned him!

Also me: choices made bc he has a lot of unresolved trauma and the worst coping mechanisms and also he has no friends

Me: but he could be smarter about his own survival!

Also me: he's learned he's worth nothing and also his self esteem is very fragile bc of this and it fuels his poor decision making

Me: but-

Also me: FUCKING DAMNIT HE'S A COMPLEX VILLAIN THIS IS WHAT MXTX WAS WARNING US ABOUT

They came back after few days

Guess who got hit with a de-aging beam 👍🏻

Page one text:

Dick: Let’s see, you’ve met ✨me✨, Duke, Dami, Al… who else is around…

Dick: Oh hey! It’s Jason!

Jason: Uh.

Timmy: Jason………. Todd?

Dick: That’s right!! (Wow, good memory!)

Jason: Hi.

Dick: T-TIM?!

Bonus:

Jason: *on private line* Swanhead.

Tim: Red Hood. Don’t call me that. What is it?

Jason: Send me my location, I don’t know where I am.

Tim: Hold-

Dick: *batkids group channel* Hey Baby Bird.

Tim: Nightwing. Again don’t call me-you know what? Nevermind. What’s the problem?

Dick: I need you to send me my location, I got kidnapped overseas.

Tim: Red Hood too.

Jason: Hey! I didn’t get kidnapped, I was violently taken hostage for a minor drug deal that went wrong. Totally different.

Tim: Right.

Jason: Listen here you little shi-

Dick: Oh, Little Wing’s in Belarus. Coordinates: 53.6212, 27.94683 and there’s a bike nearby he can use to get to the aircraft landing space close by but he’ll have to be careful because it’s swarmed by mean-looking guards.

Tim: …..

Jason: Since when are the guards nice-looking?

Dick: Little Wing, when you get kidnapped as often as I do, you get to pick and choose who you like.

Tim: Not getting into that mess but how’d you know Jason’s coordinates?

Dick: Older Sibling’s Intuition!

Tim and Jason: Bullshit.

Tim: Anyway, I’ll send Batman to pick you up.

Dick: Wait, no, Batman will bring Robin and little D just went over to J-Superboy’s house to play video games.

Tim: ….Okay, then I’ll send Batgirl.

Dick: No Batgirl’s throwing it back at a frat party so don’t bother her. She’s winning.

Tim: Orphan.

Dick: No she’s busy dismantling an underground mercenary establishment in Shanghai.

Tim: I’ll-

Dick: Nah, enjoy your date with your golden teddy bear tonight. It’s also a bit of a distance to go from Gotham to Metropolis to pick up your other one.

Tim: OKAY HOW DO YOU KNOW EVERYONE’S LOCATION BUT YOUR OWN?!

Dick: ….Tee Hee 😋✨

Jason: *muffled* did he just “Tee Hee?”

Tim: ….where are the kidnappers, I gotta rescue them.

Dick: *in the background on Dick’s line: sobbing and nonstop muffled thank you’s*

Dick: Whaddya mean? They’re fine. Right, guys? *more crying heard*

Tim: Dick….

Jason: *on private channel* Shushhh. Just let him have this. Still send help though. For them.

Jason: MAKE ROOM PEOPLE!

Bruce: What are you doing? Why are you wearing a safety vest?

Jason: I'm the Bat-OSHA inspector

Bruce: Did Duke put you up to this?

Jason: No, I volunteered. Now if you could step aside sir, I'm trying to do my job

Bruce: I'm not going to be able to stop you, am I?

Jason: Nope. Now let's see, you've got literal bats flying around. Stalagmites and stalactites everywhere, that's a tripping hazard. Nowhere near enough handrails. No marked emergency exists. With all this moisture in the air, this place is basically a brothel for mold. I'm not sure what the proper enclosures for a cow and turkey are, but I know a cave ain't it. And it's that a child working in a box I see?

Bruce: Tim is in the "anti-villian enrichment enclosure" that you made for him!

Tim: Hi Jason!

Jason: Hi Tiny!- I hope you know keeping children in boxes is something not tolerated by Bat-OSHA.

Bruce: You put him in there not 30 minutes ago!

Jason: Always an excuse for everything.

Headcanon that when Tim first started as Robin, he promised himself that he wouldn't die like Jason, and then proceeded to live out of sheer force of will.

He gets shot in the heart or blown to smithereens, and fifteen seconds later, he is picking himself off the floor like it's another Tuesday. Won't even acknowledge it happened. The type of guy to slap a bandaid on a stab wound and walked away with a flat line on a monitor.

He lives out of spite, solely so he can look at his siblings and go "Well, at least I didn't die" whenever one of them annoys him. With the amount of improbable stunts Tim pulls, Damian doesn't even think he is human anymore.

(Bruce loves his son, but sometimes he adds holy water into the coffee maker just so he can be sure Tim did not join the demon realm. Jason is less subtle about pulling Tim into churches to see if he will burn and melt. He does it a grand total of 7 times before Dick hosts an intervention about how loving your brother means you have to stop trying to exorcise him.)

Dick: "stop trying to exorcise our brother!" Tim: "Thank you so much, Dick. You are the only one that I lo-"

Dick: "what if you succeed and we lose him???"

Tim: "forget what I said, I hate all of you"

I just wanted to point out to everybody here that the last line about Dick not wanting to exorcise Tim implies that the demon has possessed Tim for so long that Dick considers it an actual part of Tim and also, his little brother.

Honestly, I 100% believe Jack 'Steals Artifacts' Drake would give his wife a cute demon baby he found so she didn't have to deal with pregnancy.

not just ‘he would not fucking say that’ but ‘he would not, under torture, admit that’

I’d argue that for some of the events of Red Robin Tim is pretty damn close to being an anti-hero of sorts. And with the final issue in mind it does really make me wonder where he’d be if the universe didn’t reset

One thing that always stood out to me when reading it is that Tim is willing to do whatever needs to be done, even if it hurts him, even if he knows its wrong because in that headspace he was in it was a matter of action not of self preservation. Putting himself and others aside for a greater good

At the start i think it hurts him very much to be something he’s not to do things he never would of considered but by the end he feels much more numb to it. He’s been so fundamentally shaped by these experiences

Anyways yeah a lil moral ambiguity as a treat

God, yeah, Red Robin Tim was such a Time because like...younger him would be horrified. Hell, him from two years ago would be horrified. But Red Robin Tim has accepted it as this being who he Is as a result of his own actions that he made willingly, and he may not like it, but it's who he is, and he's...he's got to be okay with that.

N52 my enemy forever and ever the ending of RR was so open then they just came and...utterly wrecked it. And now Tim's back as Robin, ignoring all Red Robin did to (and for) him.

But like, Red Robin's not Tim, or at least, not the Tim he wants to be. Red Robin is the Tim he feels he has to be. Red Robin does what needs to be done, and it all circles back to Red Robin being taken on as a name Tim doesn't have to worry about sullying, a title taken on as punishment. Ideally, Tim would've grown from that, grown out of the need to punish himself in the name of heroism and achieving a goal.

Ideally, Tim would go finish his Red Robin phase, and decide hey, no, that's not who I want to be, that's not how I want to treat others or myself, I don't want to be a fucking loser like B, (the last line is basically canon in Red Robin already, godbless) and get out of it. You were right when you said Red Robin is a chrysalis of sorts, and how Tim emerges out of that is essential. He'd grow out of Red Robin and come out the other side a bit more jaded, a bit more morally ambiguous and less idealistic, but he'd be kinder to himself than others. He was more Red Robin than Tim Drake(-Wayne), and he'd have to change that, maybe even find a healthy work-life balance somewhere along the way. He'd ask himself how much am I willing to sacrifice for the greater good? and he'll answer it with not the happiness of the people I love. And he'll work on that.

He won't ever be Tim-Robin again—Tim-Robin was short in the head several, several times, and buried never to be seen again. Tim-Red Robin will always be there, a more ruthless, miserable part of himself he'll never be able to fully quiet, not once he's listened to it time and time again. He'll never be free of that part of himself, how far he went and is willing to go for some arbitrary greater good (he's been listening to Cissie again, sue him). But he'll choose daily to strike a balance; Robin's kindness and Red Robin's efficiency. Both of their smarts and both of their bravery. Robin's ability to rely on a support system and Red Robin's willingness to network in dark places. Robin's refusal to lose sight of himself and Red Robin's ability to compromise.

And, I don't know, but the ideal post-Red Robin!Tim would be an anti-hero in some ways, but out of the unhealthy mindset he was in Red Robin. I'm tired so I don't know if this is coherent? But yeah Red Robin was a Time and Stuff sure did happen and Tim made Decisions, definitely. And he'll have to reckon with what that did to his psyche someday. Current Tim could never, if Red Robin even is still canon.

But yeah, he should get to be morally ambiguous as a treat, he deserves it.