Tim/Tam headcanon: Unfortunate Comparisons

The first time Tim takes Tam to the Watchtower on a special anniversary date, because he wants to show her the view of Earth from space, one of the older Justice League members compares the happy couple to Ralph and Sue Dibny, back when they were alive and well.

Though neither Tim nor Tam heard the remark, as they were too caught up in a romantic moment, Batman was there and did.

The withering glare Bruce shot the gossips sent them all scattering to the far ends of the Watchtower.

That comment, though, sent Bruce into a fit of quiet brooding. Until that moment, he’d been relatively oblivious to how close Tim and Tam had become, and how happy they were together.

The thought of the two sharing the same fate as the Dibnys made Bruce’s stomach twist into knots.

} Date Posted: 15 / 05
in-lovino-veritas: 2econdp2iioniic: shavemeinthemorning: operamatic: ukeaco: I would just like to point out that the beginning and end of Spirited Away creep me out in the most delicious way possible. I’ve always been a fan of fairy tales, and not just the Grimm and Anderson stuff, almost all my life. Like the honestly faerie court stories. Themes you see in those reflect strongly in this movie, and comparing them side by side just makes it that much more stark. Often times you hear that if you get sucked into the fairy realm, you shouldn’t eat their food. It gives them power over you. More often than not, heroes finally escape the fairy realm after what they perceive to be a very short time (a night or a week)… …only to find that seasons or years have passed. ‘Hey, it’s all dusty in here. Is this someone’s idea of a joke?’ CRAPPING SHIT I WHY HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THIS This always freaked me out a little as a kid. Like the OP, I couldn’t help but wonder how long REALLY passed. I always pretended it was something like a week but… Judging by that moss, I can’t say for sure. A week? Try much MUCH /MUCH/ longer. The plants are a good indicator but a better one is the statue. We’re seeing it from the same angle in each shot. Look in the first one before she enters, it’s not NEW but you can tell what it is. Now look at the second frame. It’s so eroded it’s just a dull, flat stone. That thing is solid stone, that must have taken up to, if not more than, a DECADE to wear down that much. Not to mention that there are new trees next to the car. Just remember how long it actually takes for trees to grow real quick. Evidence is suggesting they were in there for maybe around 20-30 years. And when they arrived it was cobblestones they parked on, but when they leave it’s all grown over with grass holy SHIT Wow…This never even occurred to me…Just…WOW!

in-lovino-veritas:

2econdp2iioniic:

shavemeinthemorning:

operamatic:

ukeaco:

I would just like to point out that the beginning and end of Spirited Away creep me out in the most delicious way possible. I’ve always been a fan of fairy tales, and not just the Grimm and Anderson stuff, almost all my life. Like the honestly faerie court stories.

Themes you see in those reflect strongly in this movie, and comparing them side by side just makes it that much more stark.

Often times you hear that if you get sucked into the fairy realm, you shouldn’t eat their food. It gives them power over you. More often than not, heroes finally escape the fairy realm after what they perceive to be a very short time (a night or a week)…

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…only to find that seasons or years have passed.

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‘Hey, it’s all dusty in here. Is this someone’s idea of a joke?’

CRAPPING SHIT I WHY HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THIS

This always freaked me out a little as a kid. Like the OP, I couldn’t help but wonder how long REALLY passed. I always pretended it was something like a week but… Judging by that moss, I can’t say for sure.

A week? Try much MUCH /MUCH/ longer. The plants are a good indicator but a better one is the statue. We’re seeing it from the same angle in each shot. Look in the first one before she enters, it’s not NEW but you can tell what it is.

Now look at the second frame. It’s so eroded it’s just a dull, flat stone.

That thing is solid stone, that must have taken up to, if not more than, a DECADE to wear down that much.

Not to mention that there are new trees next to the car. Just remember how long it actually takes for trees to grow real quick.

Evidence is suggesting they were in there for maybe around 20-30 years.

And when they arrived it was cobblestones they parked on, but when they leave it’s all grown over with grass

holy SHIT

Wow…

This never even occurred to me…

Just…

WOW!

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Reblogged from ukeaco
} Date Posted: 15 / 05
If somehow I waste all our timeAnd if by some chance these stars won’t alignIf these walls never cease to close inDon’t let me turn cold, don’t let me turn cold

If somehow I waste all our time
And if by some chance these stars won’t align
If these walls never cease to close in
Don’t let me turn cold, don’t let me turn cold

Reblogged from percstiel
} Date Posted: 15 / 05

punk-princess-93:

Can I just like, have long brown hair again and walk around in my trench coat all the time and pretend I’m actually Stephanie Edgley aka Valkyrie Cain and I secretly run around killing baddies with Skulduggery Pleasant?

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No?
Okay… :(

Just finished reading the first “Skulduggery Pleasant” book to Eden last night. It was such an awesome read. I cant wait to get started on Book 2.

There is something insanely awesome about a book where the protagonist is a 12-year old girl partnered up with a skeleton detective, both of whom have a serious case of insufferable sass-mouth.

Reblogged from punk-princess-93
} Date Posted: 15 / 05
My most recent drawing from my art journal, as I’m now calling it. Last night, my husband asked me why I was drawing so much abstract stuff (this pic took me almost six days to finish). It took me a few hours of mulling over the question to figure out the answer. These abstract images are reflective of the state of my mind. Like this one… It’s busy and cluttered and tries to make order out if chaos. It struggles for symmetry, but can’t quite make it. This is a visual representation of how I’ve been feeling the last few days. High-res

My most recent drawing from my art journal, as I’m now calling it. Last night, my husband asked me why I was drawing so much abstract stuff (this pic took me almost six days to finish).

It took me a few hours of mulling over the question to figure out the answer.

These abstract images are reflective of the state of my mind.

Like this one… It’s busy and cluttered and tries to make order out if chaos. It struggles for symmetry, but can’t quite make it.

This is a visual representation of how I’ve been feeling the last few days.

} Date Posted: 15 / 05
Sometimes Tam looks at Tim from across her desk and notes how... established he seems. Talking about the company. He seems invested. But she knows she could blink and he'll be gone. It scares her, but she's seen how easy it is. One bit of breaking news or a word from Bruce and he could be in Mumbai, using a different name, hidden in a sea of people doing what he REALLY does best. It shakes her and gnaws at her until she remembers. She's found him before. She could do it again. If she needed to.

Oh!

What a wonderful thing to find in my inbox!

I like this line of reasoning from Tam. It fits so well.

Thank you!

asked by angel-gidget
} Date Posted: 14 / 05

Oy…

Finished writing and sending off an Independent Contractor Agreement to my former employer for a thing they want me to do.

Ugh…

I forgot how much I hated drawing those things up.

So many freaking details to cover to make sure neither one of us gets screwed in the long run. Doesn’t matter if I used to work for this company. Doesn’t matter if, as individuals, the folks running the show are fairly decent people.

It’s nothing personal. It’s just business.

And the company has already proven that I can’t trust them.

So ironclad contracts ahoy.

However…

Not even sure, after childcare costs and taxes are factored in, if the job is even worth it.

Spent half the night debating whether or not to decline the job.

Made the unsurprising realization that I’m still extremely unhappy with the company for laying me off in the first place.

…if I don’t end up backsliding into depression again after this job, I’ll be very surprised.

But it is a job.

It’s a paycheck.

And it makes me feel like a dog limping back to an owner who had already kicked it hard enough to send it to the vet once for surgery.

I suppose I could still decline the job…

Nothing’s official until both signatures are on the contract, after all…

But……………

} Date Posted: 14 / 05

Tim/Tam headcanons: Children

Belated list of headcanons in honor of Mother’s Day:

- They have three children, all girls, two of whom are twins

- The kids grow upseeing Dad occassionally bare-chested, and assume all men have scars like that on their bodies. The first time his eldest questions him about that, it unnerves him considerably. By the third, it’s a question he has come to expect and can handle quite eloquently

- To their partial relief, only one of their children expresses a desire to try her hand at being either Robin or Batgirl

- For the one who wants to try the “family business”, her final exam before going on patrol with her uncles or aunts is do defeat her father in one-on-one combat with her weapon of choice. She was expecting to face down her Grandfather Bruce. Seeing her father was a shock.

- Before that moment, none of the girls had ever seen their father fight before.

- Tim retires from field work when he becomes a father. He takes on a combo Oracle/Alfred role in the family, providing support from the computers remotely while also developing upgrades to their weapons and armor and vehicles.

- Tam and Tim usually provide a unified front in whatever they do, or when the girls are in trouble or need paternal help. However, all the girls know that when push comes to shove in the household, Mom is the boss.

- Tim will call Tam “Boss” as a term of teasing affection.

- Tam likes being called “Boss”.

- Grandpa Bruce has no defense against the loving adoration of his granddaughters, no matter the parents. He is putty in their hands, which always amuse his sons.

- It also amuses Clark and Diana. They never let him live it down.

- Truth be told… Bruce has a big soft spot for his grandsons too…

- Surprisingly, he’s a good grandpa.

} Date Posted: 13 / 05

Free Writing: My stream of consciousness

Start of the third week of being unemployed.

Do I continue trying to find full-time work in a graphic design field, when it has caused me little but grief over the past two years?

Should I settle for a part-time job as an assistant in a local library, in preparation and hopes of starting a career path change that will lead me to an MLS degree and the opportunity to become a librarian?

Should I give up relying on working for anyone except myself, and turn my focus to spending the rest of my year writing and working towards getting published?

Should I just look for some clerical job that’s boring/tedious as hell, but pays well and is easy for me to do, just for the stability of a regular paycheck?

Should I be practical?

Should I continue to struggle down a path I started over a decade ago that has thus far led me nowhere?

Should I do something that would give me the opportunity to be happy with my career?

Should I give up working for other people?

I really don’t know what to do.

I don’t have any answers.

} Date Posted: 12 / 05

A Few Novel Ideas: Long Distance

angel-gidget:

afewnovelideas:

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

Your ship is currently in a long distance relationship and suddenly one character stops calling the other. How does the person react? Why has the other stopped calling?

Tim/Tam:

When it happens to Tim, it’s while he’s overseas on a business trip for WE without…

The investigators start side-eyeing Tam when she demands to know exactly how much blood it was, and what percentage was specifically Tim’s,

She’s memorized how much blood loss her boy can withstand.

Of course investigators don’t give Tam a straight answer.

Oracle does later, though.

A significant amount of the blood was Tim’s, but not enought to be fatal. No clue as to who was responsible.

Reblogged from fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment
} Date Posted: 12 / 05