Ao3 Turns 15 Today

I am obsessed with Soren Dragon Prince. You mean to tell me that the comic relief is also one of the most deeply tragic characters in the entire series? Hello?!?

Duke Thomas: What’s your biggest fear?

Jason Todd: That I’ll never be good enough for anyone.

Tim Drake: Everyone hates me and talks about me behind my back.

Dick Grayson: Vampires.

Jason Todd: ...

Tim Drake: ...

Dick Grayson: I got turned into one once and nearly killed peoples. It's a bloodlust, you never know when you'll be fully quenched and every non-vampire is a succulent vessel... But I'm not a vampire anymore and that is in my past.

*silence*

Duke Thomas: Holy crap stick, Batman.

Tim: Can I change my option to Dick Grayson?

Jason: Same.

DONT use glasses, youll become dependent on them to see!!!! #WARONDRUGS #OVERPRESCRIPTION #CORRECTIVELENSADDICTION

Sometimes it feels like everyone around me is speaking in a secret language and I'm the only one who doesn't know it.

Yeah... text to speech has kinda saved my life in that area

My hands hurt a lot too. So like. Limited ability to be on my phone and type or to even play games. Thanks ehlers danlos and fucked up joints.

A Timeline of Dick Grayson's Unrelenting Trauma Era (circa 2004-2006 in comics)

So as I was coincidentally reading the Outsiders (2003) and Teen Titans (2003) runs, I became gradually aware that some of the events were overlapping timeline with the Batfamily "War Games" arc. As I had previously become aware that "War Games" overlapped both the Blockbuster + Tarantula arc (Nightwing) AND Under the Red Hood, I became shocking aware of how many new traumas were rapidly piling onto Dick Grayson in very quick succession across multiple ongoing series.

So I did a lot of reading of both specific comics that I had read--and summaries of a few that I hadn't-- to do my best to make a definitive timeline of this absurdly stressful period in Dick Grayson's life. (Most of which seems to have occurred with around 6 months or less).

Google Docs

Dick Grayson Trauma Timeline

Dick Grayson’s Unrelenting Trauma Era Please bear in mind that unless otherwise indicated, each event (in the sections on Blockbuster + Tara

(I am no expert so feel free to add/clarify anything that I may have overlooked or misinterpreted).

Dumbasses? Idk

Use your own judgement on the line between a nickname and a cutesy version of their name

WHAT

NOBODY FUCKING MOVE.