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  1. Public Bookmark 55

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    “You’re laughing. You’re actually—” Dick inhaled and exhaled deeply. “Y’know what? You’re a lost cause and I will not fall to your ragebait. I’m not even going to bother.”

    “Dickie,” Tim said.

    “No.” Dick made a face at Tim before looking at Bruce. “I officially give up. He’s your responsibility now.”

    “Dick,” Tim tried again.

    “Don’t look at me like that,” Bruce said to Dick. “I already talked with him.”

    “Did you?” Dick feigned surprise, still ignoring Tim. “Wow. And here I thought you were incapable of forming a sensitive thought.”

    It was Bruce’s turn to make a face.

     

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    Tim was famously known for preferring to take matters into his own hands.

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    16 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 38

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    Tim needs advice. Unfortunately Jason Todd is the only person Tim can go to for said advice. Double-unfortunate he also hates Tim on account of how Tim stole Robin and has been avoiding Tim for the last year.

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    12 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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    Have you ever seen someone outside the place you normally know them and just… not recognised them? Like spotting a teacher in the supermarket, or your doctor out walking their dog, and your brain takes a second to catch up? Psychologists even have a name for it; the “butcher-on-the-bus” effect. Out of context, even the people closest to us can look like strangers. And sometimes, it’s not their face that brings them back to you at all, but their voice, their laugh, or the way they still crack a joke when they really shouldn’t.

    When you hear a deep rumbling voice emanating from something that seems more shadow than man you don’t question who is speaking. That’s obviously Batman.
    The thing is, this time, Bernard couldn’t actually see Batman.

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    11 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    Officer Dick Grayson is selected at the last minute to give the students of Gotham Academy their annual Stranger Danger presentation.

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    03 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 84

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    Bruce does not love Timothy Drake. There are times when it’s much harder to remind himself of that: that no matter how many small and large acts of kindness the 11-year-old performs for no reason other than he’s a kind young man, Bruce does not love him.

    Sometimes, it’s a little easier to remember that. Such as now, as his groggy, mildly encrusted eyes crack open to the notification that Tim has input his specific security code to enter the manor through the side door, uninvited. Not that coming over uninvited is itself an offense. Bruce (and more forcefully, Alfred) had let him know he is welcome whenever he wants for whatever reason (or lack thereof entirely). However, seeing that it is 2:42 A.M. during the middle of a hailstorm on a Saturday morning, which would be annoying on any weekend anyhow but quickly escalates Tim’s behavior from quirky to irresponsible considering it is the Saturday of Tim’s placement exam into Gotham Academy, Bruce allowed himself a level of indignation.

    In which Tim brings a wagon full of ingredients to Wayne Manor in the middle of the night/morning to cook breakfast and make a birthday cake for one Alfred Pennyworth

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    29 Jan 2026