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    Series of one-shots exploring the realisation that Tim Drake’s time as Robin was …different from the others’.

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  1. Public Bookmark 37

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    Oscar's nest is, objectively, embarrassing.

    He knows this. He's always known this. It's the kind of thing he's never let himself look at too directly, the way you don't look directly at a bruise you keep pressing anyway — the wrongness of it sits in the peripheral of his self-awareness, tender and purple-edged.

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    19 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 46

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    Max Verstappen learns early that survival is a helmet covering the softest parts of his face, a silence you don’t test, a love you earn by being compliant. Years later, the grid decides he’s too violent to be accepted, until the small wrongness of Max's actions begin to stack, and someone finally looks long enough to see what’s been hiding in plain sight. This is about the shape of a childhood you can’t outrun, and the terrifying and fragile beginning of Max being met with more instead of less.

    Ok I was inspired by the song "forwards beckon rebound" by Adrianne Lenker so I wrote this using the lyrics to illustrate the progression of Max being abused all the way into F1 before the other racers begin to notice and eventually try to help him. It has the lyrics woven throughout, and if this isn't something your interested in, just ignore the lyrics they aren't really a big part of this and it can be read entirely independently from the song.

    OR: If you relate to Max Verstappen and wonder what it was like coming into F1 as a kid with an abusive father—read this.

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    15 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 31

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    But that still doesn't mean Max is pathetic. It only means he has a few things that could be corrected, like the issue of his height being fixed by having him on his knees, or the issue of him having too much to say being fixed by preventing him from using words at all.

    Dogs don't walk on two legs. They don't talk, either. 

    Max isn't a dog. 

    Yet here he is, on his knees, collar in mouth, hiding in the hallway and wondering what would be the best way to approach George. 

    George buys a collar as a joke. Max takes it seriously.

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    27 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 59

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    Jason is going to beat up Tim. No really, he is. There's just one problem. Tim has a bunch of pet spiders and Jason has arachnophobia.

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    Jason does a character study and does not like the picture it paints.

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    27 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    “You can’t embarrass us like this, Timothy,” Mr. Drake quietly started to scold, before they were out of earshot.

    “I think we should talk to Bruce,” Jason said next to him, voice cold and eyes hard from where they were fixed on Tim’s back.

    “Yeah,” Dick said softly. “Yeah, I agree.”

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    26 Mar 2026