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if i think too hard about jason todd ill be sick ☆ any pronouns, 23 ☆ main: mikeyfuckinway

[papayafromtv]

i do love the concept of Damian being a really sheltered cult-baby that was only let out to train while he was in the League of Assassins, but i also have to say that the complete opposite is very good too, specifically if it's because Jason and him got attached to each other and so Talia couldn't separate them whenever Jason went off on missions/trips. i think it would be funny if Damian has literally been fucking everywhere, and Bruce and the others don't realise how diverse his childhood was until they ask to see baby photos and Damian returns a day later with a legitimate van's worth of boxes filled with an insane amount of photos, because Jason took photos everywhere Damian went and made sure to keep every single one.

i want it to be like fucking. Forrest Gump levels of insane connections. there's an old news report about some kind of incident like an attempted attack during a winter Olympics game held in Beijing years ago, and Damian will casually walk by like 'oh yes, i remember that game. Todd made me take a photo holding the torch after he stopped the attackers.' and then everybody has to just stare while he walks off. he's spotted briefly in the background of a nature documentary when a specialist visits a tribe in the amazon rainforest, and Tim watching it genuinely thinks he's seeing things until he shows Damian and the kid casually goes 'yeah Todd trained with the leader of their tribe, so we were there for about nine weeks. i have a box of old polaroid's taken during the stay if you wish to see them?'. Tim is losing his mind. Bruce finds an old photo of toddler-Damian in the Fortress of Solitude playing with Krypto and he's about to go into cardiac arrest about Clark lying to him until Damian tells him 'yes, Jason worked alongside Kara as the Red Hood on multiple occasions, and she always had us meet her in the Fortress of Solitude when Superman was out.'

essentially, i think Jason should have been here there and fucking everywhere while working under the League of Assassins, and i want Damian to have crazy baby photos because of it. i know he's like, 14 at most, but i still want to give him insane dad-lore.

[batfrag]

it does mean everything to me that no matter what issues jason may have with bruce and the rest of his family at any given moment he still wears the bat's emblem

[papayafromtv]

forever a supporter of the dynamic that Dick is a dickhead older brother, but only specifically to Jason.

like, i feel like Jason was the only one he got to be a proper big brother too, rather than more of a mentor/guardian figure. when Jason was around he was barely even an adult, and Jason was a little shit of a pre-teen that gave as good as he took. Dick 100% was a piece of shit to him in the brotherly sense. with all the others though? after losing Jason and growing up and being the one that had to hold everything apart every time Bruce got lost in grief/a timestream or something, he is a completely different type of brother to the others than he is to Jason, and i think it would be funny to see the others slowly start to realise how different Dick's relationship is to Jason compared to the rest of them.

like, just the little things. they're all at the manor for a weekend and Dick makes Tim and Damian breakfast, ruffling their hair and sliding pancakes onto their plates. then Jason comes in and makes himself a piece of toast and Dick instantly jabs him in the ribs before stealing the food from his plate.

he always lets the others win at mario kart, chuckling easily whenever he's beaten at any game and actually seeming more proud at them for winning than sad for losing. then Jason picks up Damian's abandoned remote and suddenly he's all focus. snatching the player 1 remote and making Jason be player 2 and the two are literally trying to shove each other off the couch with how hard they're trying to beat each other. if Dick wins, you can hear his yells of mocking from across the manor. if Jason wins and he tries to say anything at all? Dick body slams him to the ground and they're fighting for a solid half an hour.

he steals Jason's shit all the time, and yet the one time Duke saw Jason walk into Dick's bedroom to borrow a shirt, Dick clocked it from down the hall and just yelled 'FUCK OUT MY ROOM' and Jason pivoted and left without even faltering in his movement, like he'd fully expected to be denied. it's worth mentioning that that very same day Tim asked Dick if he could borrow some socks and Dick told them all sincerely that they could go in and take whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. it's just Jason that isn't allowed, apparently.

for the record i think it goes both ways, and i think Jason is also the only guy who knows how to get under Dick's skin in that Specific Little Brother Manner. like that's his big brother, his only big brother. i think the others he either views as little kids to protect or just... random guys that were adopted while he was gone that he didn't even properly meet until he was an adult and out of the house, so he never really built a proper antagonistic sibling relationship with anybody else. Dick though? he pours salt into every glass of water he sees Dick drink out of. he steals his stuff. he stands just outside the doorway of Dick's room just so that when Dick yells for him to get the fuck out he can say 'i'm not in your room, you can't make me do anything'. he snitches on him to Bruce whenever he can, and whenever he figures out Dick has a crush on anybody he relentlessly tries to embarrass Dick in front of them.

anyway i just like to think about a Dick and Jason who are the only true childhood-brother pairs, and whenever they're in the same room for more than three minutes it shows. much to Bruce's everlasting exhaustion, because seriously how are these two still as bad as they were almost a decade ago??

[searchforahero]

Your June 1st reminder that Duke Thomas is transgender

[papayafromtv]

fed up with Bruce tracking them/invading their privacy in the name of safety, i like to think the batkids pull an uno reverse and microchip Bruce while he’s passed out after a bad patrol injury. they start tracking his phone activity and texting him about wherever he is. bringing up things they know he’s searched for one his phone/people he’s been talking to, showing up at wherever he is during the day and interrupting him just to prove they always know where he is; just overall trying to annoy him the best they can.

issue is, Bruce is just so happy to see and talk to his kids at any point that he doesn’t even notice the breach of privacy, and the kids just end up feeling really awkward about how happy their dad is to see them.

Jason will bring up something in conversation with Bruce that was only privately relayed through texts between Bruce and a colleague, smirking because he knows Bruce is gonna be really paranoid about who’s watching his texts, except Bruce just smiles and happily chats with him for thirty minutes and he’s in a good mood all day because Jason willingly had a casual conversation with him, and when the JL ask why Batman’s in such a good mood at a meeting later that day Jason just goes bright red and doesn’t know what to say because he didn’t realise how much Bruce genuinely craves just catching up with him every now and then.

Dick will stalk him for weeks and wait until Bruce has a really tough busy day at work, specifically so he can wait for the evening where Bruce finally has a single moment to himself in a bar somewhere to relax, and then he busts in loudly sitting down next to Bruce and talking non-stop while ordering a drink, thinking that Bruce is going to be mad because this was his one peaceful moment and Dick ruined it by constantly tracking him. but instead the second Bruce realises Dick’s there all his exhaustion disappears. he gets a really wide genuinely pleased look on his face and happily offers to buy Dick a drink because ‘it’s so rare that they get to hang out!’ and Dick is left floundering because he was trying to be an asshole but now he just feels bad that he doesn’t spend time with Bruce outside of patrol business.

Tim keeps watching him through security cameras and updating him through text on his location in an attempt to make him tired of the constant supervision, but every time he texts Bruce like ‘you just walked into starbucks for the second time today.’ Bruce will just openly smile at his phone and respond like ‘would you like me to get you a drink? i can drop it off at your office if you’d like :)’ and Tim has to give up almost immediately.

essentially i like the idea of the batkids trying to annoy Bruce with themselves, forgetting that Bruce is just a dad who really loves his kids and can’t ever be annoyed by them.

[remysrogue]

rogue and gambit by mahmud asrar and marcio menyz (x)

[optichocolate]

I think people should read the source material periodically to avoid falling into popular fanon ideas, but that’s way too optimistic when half of the fandom hasn’t read the source material at all

[ashoss]

i miss my father and daughter

[noodles-and-tea]

:(

[cartoonfan4ever]

Amy and Diana have such a cute and heartwarming dynamic, and I love it. 🩷

[feedmecomicart]

I KNOW HOW MY FILTHY MUTANT ABILITIES UPSET YOU, SCHMIDT. DON’T WORRY–

–YOU WILL DIE PURE. NO MAGNETISM 

JUST FISTS.

[harleyismyhero-deactivated20190]

reblog Magneto punching a Nazi

you won’t get anything for it, except for a kickass photoset of Magneto punching a Nazi on your blog

[prontaentrega]

readcomicsonline getting nuked is bad for all the obvious reasons but also its insane considering those artists/writers confessions that they get sent pages with the readcomicsonline banner at the bottom bc dc and marvel dont have any kind of internal reference or register for most shit. shooting themselves in the dick

[eightfifteen]

Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

[plutojester]

[doingthewritethings]

my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time

[dizzyghoast]

i think the joker should start talking like this for real. no other character should do this only the joker. i want batman to have to deal with this

[teaboot]

Would you be comfortable with me sharing the story of how I got these scars

[fair-itself]

That would have been an incredible episode of Batman: The Animated Series, though. Joker gets out of Arkham, having convinced the psychs he's rehabilitated by speaking in fluent Therapy. Bats spends the entire episode losing his mind, because he KNOWS it's an act because NO ONE TALKS LIKE THAT and Joker reacts with total calm and understanding when he finds Batman in his pantry at 2AM. "You're violating a boundary right now, but I realize this behavior is caused by a history of trauma. Can we talk about how your inability to trust negatively affects those around you?" Meanwhile steam is just coming out of Batman's ears

[seriousfic]

Are you in the right headspace to receive information on you potentially being overserious?

[ciricearts]

rpost cus i was really proud of these that week hehe

[riddlecats]

Sorry for circling back to this a few days later but I’m still thinking about your post, especially about characters like Poison Ivy and Catwoman getting insulted by people that insist viewing them with sympathy is “fake feminism” or whatever gotcha they use to justify hating a woman in a progressive way.

no yeah it's ridiculous. while i do agree that the reason the sirens are the only batman rogues that have been allowed to not be villains for an extended period of time is misogyny (especially in catwoman's case due to how her relationship with bruce is often the determining factor on whether she's being considered a good person by the narrative), + racism due to how they're often portrayed as white women while talia al ghul is made a rapist, a tiger mom, etc, the fact that people's reaction to that is... thinking they all should be irredeemable monsters? is wild. you're just being misogynistic in a different way! the real answer to the problem is that all of the rogues should be portrayed with a similar level of moral depth, and to introduce and use more female characters of various dispositions. as it is, there's like 1 female batman villain for every 15 male ones, and only 4 of them get used.

also people need to reckon with the fact that all of them have misogynistic origins. they have always been deeply sexualized and defined by their relationships with the men around them. in ivy's case, DC has taken actually decent steps into rectifying this in the past few years, but i see fans complain because they think she should be a shallow sexual predator. i literally saw a post on a superhero confession blog that was like "i hate that DC made harlivy into antiheroes, they could have been so cool as lesbian femme fatales that seduce men for their pleasure" ...you... want DC to publish lesbophobic stereotypes...?

like idk im a villain fan, i like fictional bad people, ive actually gotten shit before for disagreeing with fanon that tries to sand down their edges. but i do think some people have gotten a bit too comfortable ignoring how villains portrayals are often rooted in bigotries. there's a fine line between writing a villain who just so happens to be gay, or mentally ill, or a woman, or all three, and writing a villain who capitalizes on caricatures and stereotypes about those traits. that line is typically a level of respect for real marginalized groups that a lot of fans and writers just dont have.

TLDR: do you actually want these women to be written as terrible people because you like them and think its more interesting, or do you just want them to stop being given any amount of focus or respect? and if it's the former, are you aware of how their evil portrayals can be based in misogyny just as much as their heroic ones?

[shatterstar]

if you didn’t hear dc pulled gretchen felker-martin’s red hood book for posting about charlie kirk on bluesky and silencing of a politically outspoken trans woman aside it’s really unbelievably sad we aren’t gonna get to read a jason todd book written by a woman who posts like this:

“big two comics can be a medium for radical politics” my ass. Grow a spine and stand up for this woman

[demonprincex]

my tme ass said openly that I enjoyed watching the video where Kirk dies and even found it exciting, and I have faced absolutely zero push back from anyone in publishing or bookselling for that.

What Gretchen said here was so much less radical than what thousands of left-leaning accounts have been memeing about the incident all week (and tbc i think that is cool!) but she's getting penalized bc she is a trans woman publishing in a market filled with reactionary thinking.

[va-nnahs]

Complicated relationships (I'm having so many feelings regarding Talia pre crisis)

Also, I need Talia attending Damian's graduation of med school