How have you gone this long without knowing that, le n?

totally called that. have spent many hours making cardboard batarangs.

Oh, Tep. Oh, your heart and mine. I've had similar conversations with my dad, and I'm still, at two weeks shy of 45, having to remind myself that there are things that he will never, never get and things I just should never say to him, because I know exactly what his answer will be, his answer will never change, and he'll be jovial and chipper about it and will never, not ever, change the script he's been given. At this point, I should know better than to feed him certain cues. The script will never change, and trying to change it at this point is like making myself a shit sandwich on purpose and then complaining that I have to eat a shit sandwich.

But it's disheartening. It's hard to let go of the imaginary dad who always says the right thing and loves you precisely because of all the things you are, instead of in spite of some of the most important ones.

Oh, my god, the Wikipedia entry for batarangs:

Batgirl also uses batarangs. Nightwing, a former Robin, is known to use his own modified batarangs called Wing-Dings, which are styled after a bird. Tim Drake, the third Robin, also possesses his own 'R'-shaped shuriken.[1] In an issue of Teen Titans (Vol. 3), Drake claims that he hid the costs for shipping a Batmobile from Gotham City to San Francisco in "the batarang budget", which he tells the others is "bigger than you might think". The current version of Batwoman, who was introduced in the 52 continuity, uses a miniature batarang. Catman also uses weapons inspired by Batman's and calls them "catarangs". Like Robin, Anarky, an occasional antagonist of Batman, also makes use of shuriken formed after his own gimmick, the "circle-a".

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I must have blocked it out. That wiki entry is a scream.

In an issue of Teen Titans (Vol. 3), Drake claims that he hid the costs for shipping a Batmobile from Gotham City to San Francisco in "the batarang budget", which he tells the others is "bigger than you might think".

This is totally true and is kind of a hilarious panel, because it's drawn so that he's looking at Kid Flash's ass (or junk, maybe) when he says it.

t /loves Tim Drake forever and ever and isn't sorry

My parents are continually on 'who did you just dismiss???' alert. We pretty much have them cowed into submission. Which I do feel is kinda cool, that they cave to us.

They do accept that their reflexes are hard to overcome, but they really do know what not to say out loud. Ever since my sister's "don't make me be a lesbian just to test you" threat in high school--well, then half of my mother's family came out of the closet, and everything became pretty personal.

Holy shit, I once wasted an entire day looking through every single batcomic I (remembered that I) had for the source of that batarang budget line, and ended up concluding it must be fanon.

loves Tim Drake forever and ever and isn't sorry

t sits next to Tep

t squeezes in on the Tim Drake fangirl bench