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Timber / timsteph? (I personally hate them, with good reason, of course! but I'd like to know ur opinion on them.)

I'm gonna do these two together! But this time I won't tag the ships as I don't want 🐜 interacting plus I don't really think it would be nice to put my hate on their tag lmao 🤣

TimBer:

Hate it. Loathe it. Rather than not ship it I'd say I want to destroy it.

1. Why don't you ship it?

It's terribly written. It's an ooc Tim with a self insert of the author and not even the most bland straight ship writing of DC is at this level of awful. It has done nothing but make Tim a terrible character and ruin him; currently Tim is a no one at DC and I blame this ship 100%. Amazing that what Slade's comics did so easily with Jericho was something impossible for Batman editorial.

2. What would have made you like it?

It would have to be written by another author. Someone who understood Tim completely, someone who wasn't afraid of real queer experience, someone who wasn't sexist as hell, and someone who didn't destroy years of a character's legacy.

B would have to be the old, original version. And his messiness should be kept, because that's literally the only interesting thing he had going on.

3. Do you have anything positive to say about it?

Sadly no. B current character sucks, which is a shame because his old version was kinda funny and definetely had the vibes of "mean, rude boyfriend". This B is nothing but a self insert and is closer to a woman than to an actual queer man, which also sucks. Tim has been made something he isn't, and it's horrible.

The fandom is disgusting. It's full of sexism, racism, and most people have zero media literacy which means they spend their time harassing people who create content for other Tim ships.

I really hope DC buries this ship down on the grave.

TimSteph:

Huh, 50/50?

1. This is a complex ship for me. I think my problem is that I was very satisfied with their situation at the end of New Earth: I see them dating, caring for each other deeply, and eventually going their own ways but still being friends. Not even as bitter exes, no, I genuinely enjoyed Tim & Steph still trusting the other and being friends. I do enjoy them as two teenagers who feel attraction to the other and try it out. Now, this is usual verse. As you know, I play with Tim's gender quite often, and when I write Timothea/Thea, I really enjoy TimSteph more and feel like it's a sad but real romance.

Perhaps my feelings are too complicated for a single post. I see Tim as a queer person who loves strongly and not always in conventional ways. I think he loves Steph and Tam and Pru in different yet similar ways, and with the first two there was an attraction. It's just that it wasn't meant to be. That being said, I would really prefer Tim to be dating Steph or Tam in current canon (as long as it didn't do the girls any disservice) rather than his current love interest, but if it were up to me, Tim wouldn't have a canon love interest and Steph and Tim would be friends (not to be confused with family).

Plus I think a deep part of me was really confident Steph was gonna come out as bi or lesbian before Tim did because her story resonates a lot with wlw people who stay in the closet for different reasons (such as her past pregnancy) so... 😅

Idk! I don't want them to get married or anything like that but I think them dating is and can always be part of their story and something they look at with a smile. No need to ruin their friendship or push any of them as "evil".

2. If Tim were Timothea in canon I would be definitely obsessed with TimSteph. Something something make them the DC version of the manga NANA and have them reject heteronormativity.

3. Steph is a character unfairly hated most of the time and I think it goes hand on hand with people's own sexism and DC's awful writing for her. It makes me mad that we have so few moments where Steph actually shines and is allowed to be a more complex character. This is why I say I really would prefer if she and Tim had been allowed to stay single and as friends, because both of them deserve better than current DC.

Ship bingo! I couldn't find any that fit my preferences so I made my own. Feel free to reblog/repost!

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Ask game: unpopular opinion edition <3

❤: Which character do you think is the most egregiously mischaracterized by the fandom?

🧡: What is a popular (serious) theory you disagree with?

💛: What is a popular ship you just can't get behind, and why?

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

💙: Which character is not as hot as everyone else seems to think?

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think?

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

📖: If you had to remove one book from the series, which would you choose?

🏳️‍🌈: Which character who is commonly headcanoned as queer doesn't seem queer to you?

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose?

Aww I love this 🥺 thank you so much!!! So well thought out!! 😱❤️

Hi doll!! I love the twist you have on the ship ask game!! I would be so grateful to hear who you ship me with 🤗 a little about me, I’m an INFP Gemini 3w4 history teacher. I come from a huge family, all of whom I’m very close to! I’m Scots-Irish and was raised very no nonsense, work hard play hard. My sense of humor is verry dry and I often use humor to deflect. I do have a bit of a temper and can be quite blunt, but I’d say I’m a rather nurturing person. I adore my students, my friends, and family and hope to have lots of kids some day (biological, foster, adoptive, however they come to me). I definitely need to work on my patience and sometimes set unfair standards for people— we’re working on that😅. But I think I’m good at being there for people, especially when the going gets tough. I’m good to have in a crisis. Thank you 😙😙

Hi, thank you so much! Glad to see you in my inbox. 🥰

I ship you with... Bill Guarnere!

He also comes from a fairly large family that he's quite close to, so you both totally get each other in that regard.

He's pretty protective but he's been working on knowing when to back down because you are more than capable of handling yourself.

He sees a lot of that work-hard, play-hard upbringing in his friend Joe Toye, so when he introduces you two and you hit it off, becoming the best of friends, he never fails to remind you with a smug smile that he's the one who introduced you two. In turn, you tease him that he sounds proud of his matchmaking prowess, and he loves to remind you that no, no, no, you're with him (and for good reason).

His sense of humor is pretty similar to your own and so you get along splendidly in that regard. This also means he's good at noticing when you're joking to hide or deflect something, which, when he calls you out on it, usually results in a healthy discussion of the underlying issue.

He will absolutely help you with lesson plans, specifically if they mention anything to do with Philly. Even if it's the slightest passing reference, he gets so excited that you'll be mentioning his city. It's pretty cute. Good thing you're the only person he's okay with being cute with.

Would definitely be up to visit your students (if they're appropriately old enough) to discuss the treatment of veterans in the country. Also to talk about Philly. Probably both.

He has seen your temper in action a few times (always towards someone who totally deserved it) and would absolutely hate to be on the receiving end of it. So the first time he is, he nearly cries. Not because you're being mean, and he has tough skin, but because it's you. He doesn't want to fight, not with you. Never with you. Luckily you two only get into serious arguments once in a blue moon (teasing ones more often, but that's a different matter).

Bill is delighted when he finds out you want a big family because he does too. That's one of the biggest things that seals the deal for him, believing wholeheartedly that you are at the center of his future.

He's not a very patient person either, but you've found ways to work on that together. 

Once or twice, he's been afraid he won't rise to your high standards for him, but then you checked yourself and brought those expectations to a more realistic level, and he was so happy and relieved to realize he needn't have worried in the first place.

He struggles, after the war, with the loss of his leg, his friends, and PTS. He will never, ever let you forget how you were there for him the whole time, and have been ever since, and will be forever after. 

He's so grateful for you and so in love with you, it still blows him away sometimes.