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EATING THIS UPPPP

It blows my mind the parallels that aren’t fully utilized in Tim angst fanfic

When Jason died Bruce became careless. He didn’t care about his own life. He was passively suicidal and it was because Tim forced his way in that Bruce improved at all.

But Tim wasn’t chosen by Bruce. Tim was a partner not a son, but goddamn was Tim going to pretend for as long as he could. And people hated on Tim. Tim was the perfect Robin after all. Apparently he could do not wrong, and they’re right.

Tim couldn’t do wrong because he was Batman’s partner not his son. All the other Robin’s got more leniency because they were Bruce’s son. Tim didn’t get that luxury. Tim was perfect out of necessity.

Tim was as close to being a Batman replica as could be and that’s not a good thing.

Because after Bruce “dies” Tim becomes reckless. He doesn’t care much for his life outside of finding Bruce. He’s been fired from Robin and kicked out of the family and after he brings Bruce back he doesn’t have much else to live for. Dick may have saved him from hitting the ground after he was thrown off a building, but Tim wouldn’t have cared either way.

The roles have been reversed, but who’s going to play the Robin to Tim’s Batman? Who’s going to save Tim from himself if anyone who should have noticed hasn’t?

behind the scenes (art process)

I tried out a different shading method!! Had so much fun with it. Usually I draw each shadow placement but this time I wanted the lighting to be more dramatic and have more dark areas.

So I started with everything shaded then erased the parts where I wanted the light to hit.

I loveeeee the lighting test sketch, so simple, pure vibes, just nice contrast lighting hehehe

Had to use more brain power thinking of where the highlights would be for overhead lighting.

Plus almost lost my mind trying to figure out how to invert the selection of pixels to the transparent pixels, played around with mask layers and eventually searched online (should’ve done this in the first place)

This is where I learnt a nice little trick called CTRL+click on the layer thumbnail (thank god for the past csp artists who struggled with the same thing, I learn from your passed down wisdom)

Eventually I was able to add more highlights and oomph for the non shaded parts

Also I struggled with Tim’s left arm quite a bit, there was a weird gap between Cass’ cheek, Tim’s shoulder, and Cass’ arm wrapping from behind. Played around with different poses to see which worked anatomically!

Also using a reference really helped for the crying faces!! My initial sketches made Tim look like a meme and I was struggling lmao

I’m back. With more art for Banshee in a Well!!!!!

(on ao3 by @liverobinreaction / @bugbeee)

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Firstly, my favourite dynamic in the fic was Tim & Cass

Best siblings ever, the last chapter gave me so much healing. She really was there for Tim and comforted him.

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Arms wrap around him, warm and familiar, a head of black hair tucking into his neck as he freezes. Cassandra has always been the strongest of them all, and he can feel it in the way she’s gripping him like he’ll disappear any moment now, body trembling and face wet from where it’s pressed against his skin.

Carefully, Tim brings his arms up to hold Cass back. She’s always cried loudly, almost out of spite for the silence beaten into her as a child. But right now, she weeps without a sound. He swallows, his own eyes burning as he buries his face into her collarbone, fingers twisting into the sweater he recognises as his own.

Neither of them says a word for a while. They just hold onto one another and try to breathe.

“I am not leaving. Not again. Not anymore.”

“Cass,” he says, voice dangerously close to cracking, but she just squeezes his wrists gently.

“It is not okay,” she whispers brokenly, but with a kindness he hates and loves in equal measure, “and that is alright.”

“Cry, stupid,” she says, voice trembling.

And Tim-

Tim breathes.

And he finally breaks.

He collapses forward into his sister, chest heaving with sobs that practically tear their way out of his throat, and it hurts more than any death he’s died before. Cass is crying with him, loud and open, but she doesn’t stop holding him, she doesn’t let him go for a second.

(God I eat up all these quotes from the fic. THE AUTHOR IS AMAZING I LOVE THEIR WRITING SO MUCH) *proceeds to ugly cry during every reread*

Timelapse:

titans of tomorrow

aftermath:

ok so the animators went completely balls to the wall with this scene and it was making me do backflips so i kinda had 2 draw it,,,

he's barbie he's just ken