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since there are some more of y'all here I feel I should say: I'm an adult who regularly posts content intended for adults! in addition to a lot of comics and my cat I also sometimes post about things like sex and violence and taxes. i try to operate in good faith so feel free to say hi but I will not be getting into fandom arguments via my inbox 👍
Dick Grayson commission for @sreppub !! I had such a good time drawing her thank youuu <3
I finished the last constellation tonight. All 40 of them are now done! Went through and double checked and every stitch is in place for them and all the beads are in place. Which just leaves the milky way part to do.
Started stitching the Milky Way in. Slowly making progress on it as I am hiding the travelling thread so the back will look nice.
Looks pretty cool and keeps the readability of the other stitches. Very happy with it. Just a thousand or so to do. As they are in a grid roughly every centimetre apart.
Update on the constellation quilt. I have gotten the last Milky Way stitch done now. Which means the quilting part of this project is done. My next step will be to baste the edges down, remove the pattern, trim the quilt square, and lastly attach the binding.
Progress on the constellation quilt has come along quite a lot now. Finished the binding on the quilt over the weekend. I prefer to machine stitch the binding to the front then hand stitch the back side. It gives such a nice finish to the quilt. Took the time to measure it also and it ended up being 72" by 72" (183cm by 183cm).
With that done I could finally start removing the pattern. Which is taking both less time and more time that I thought it would. As it rips really easily so that goes fast, but the tiny corners and removing it under the beads is slow. You can now see the difference in the glow effect with it against the dark front of the quilt instead of the pattern.
Behold the stars of the constellations of the northern sky! I love how this quilt has turned out. It was a lot of fun to work on and the effect is so cool in person. Overall I would estimate it took about 90-100 hours to complete. Give or take 10 hours if you want to count the time I spent custom dying the fabric.
I made sure to get a nice photo of it in daylight. For once I also remembered to get a quilt label on it. The back really shows the difference in readability of the quilting on the ice dyed fabric compared to the solid front. Thank you everyone that has followed this. I am glad you all found joy in it.
Those that are interested, here is the pattern I used by Haptic Lab. I made the large northern hemisphere version, and plan to make the matching southern hemisphere one next year. I also got your back for the less crafty people. Haptic Lab sells finished quilts in this pattern, both as a large quilt and a small one.
I looove when food is in a bowl. Frequently plates are being brought out and I'm thinking this could've been a bowl meal but nobody gets it
“A Good Soldier”
I wanna think about Jason’s memorial.
First of all, Jason’s memorial first appears in Frank Miller’s 1986 Dark Knight #2 - The Dark Knight Triumphant. So, it’s actually one of those instances where apocrypha retroactively enters canon - Jason’s memorial predates Jason’s death in 1988.
This memorial, interestingly, is shown not to have an epitaph at all, and we’ll off and on see versions of the memorial that continue not to have a plaque.
However, the phrase “a good soldier” still comes from The Dark Knight Returns series.
I think this is important to consider, because this Bruce Wayne and New Earth’s Bruce Wayne were not the same people. Miller’s 1986 series doesn’t just predate Jason’s death, it predates Jason’s life - Jason Todd as we know him today was not revamped until 1987. Miller’s Dark Knight’s Jason Todd is an alternate universe version of pre-crisis Jason Todd.
So I went looking for the first instance of Jason’s memorial in New Earth.
(Side bar, this panel from Batman 432 of Bruce looking at Jason’s photo in his pocket, I’m gonna cry)
There’s no sign of Jason’s memorial in Batman 436 when Dick goes to visit the cave. What we do see is that Bruce has removed every memento of the last two years with Jason.
I find it interesting that Dick goes to Bruce’s room, but not Jason’s. We don’t get to see what Bruce has done with Jason’s bedroom during this stage in his grief. If I were to assume, I would guess it was locked, but I find it a weird choice not to demonstrate that. Now, there is a case in A Lonely Place of Dying…
But this is pretty clearly Dick’s uniform, so there’s still no indication that there’s a memorial in the Batcave.
Then we suddenly see this case in the background during the Penguin Affair, Batman 449.
Now, we don’t know for sure this is Jason’s memorial. It seems really odd that we wouldn’t get a scene of Bruce putting the suit up, or even the other characters reacting to it. This could very well be Dick’s suit in the regular suit lineup, there is no plaque and we can’t tell for sure if it’s a stand-alone case or one of many without seeing its left side, but it could also be the first depiction of the memorial.
The monument is for sure installed by Batman 451 in May of 1990. It is a stand alone case and it’s obvious from the dialog that it’s Jason’s. This is, to my knowledge, the OFFICIAL first depiction of Jason’s memorial in New Earth.
But there’s still no plaque.
So where’s the first appearance of the plaque?
Rite of Passage immediately opens on it, a nice big close up of In Memory of Jason Todd - Robin - A Good Soldier.
The memorial plays a big part in Tim’s arc. It’s a heavy reminder why he’s there, what he has to live up to, and what he has to surpass. Jason wasn’t Tim’s brother at this point, he’s a stranger, an idol, a hero… a good soldier in Batman’s crusade, fallen in battle.
I - oh?
It’s gone. Oh - ?
It’s back.
It’s weird? Because the epitaph is almost entirely for Tim’s benefit. It’s a symbol for Tim, almost what Tim would have imagined it would say, rather than what Bruce would write.
And the comics Do Not show us Bruce putting up the monument - which you would think they would have at some point, given the number of times the thing’s been smashed.
We, the audience, are left wondering when exactly Bruce set up the memorial, why he set up the memorial, why he wrote the plaque the way he did, because none of this is shown to us. It’s this weird set piece that just got stuck in there one day and created this strange void in the narrative - how we got from Bruce unable to bear the sight of Jason’s trophies to erecting an extremely morbid monument to him.
I can think of three potential triggers:
Lady Clayface taking Jason’s form
Bruce accidentally injuring Lonnie Machin
And Bruce failing to save this random civilian child.
But that’s just me trying to retroactively make sense of it. I don’t even know what to do with “a good soldier.” Because this IS NOT Miller’s Bruce, and NOT Miller’s Jason.
Jason isn’t a good soldier. He’s a terrible soldier. He was a good son. Bruce’s youngest child. His baby.
I can maybe twist it into Bruce trying to distance himself emotionally from the whole thing, but… it just doesn’t… work. What headspace was Bruce in when he chose that? Was he punishing himself? Was he trying to honor Jason? Was he trying to make peace with it? How does “a good soldier” fit into his mental narrative of events almost a year after Jason died? Jason died in APRIL. We see the memorial for the first time not long before Tim’s mother dies, and her funeral is on CHRISTMAS EVE.
I am out of thoughts on the matter. But I felt like sharing.
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child.
I have spent many hours with those cats, and still I am amazed at how perfectly they reject everything it means to be in prison. They are playful and unselfconscious, curious and silly, soft and cuddly.
Sometimes it is even more interesting to watch my fellow prisoners interact with our cats. All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees, and when they make toys to entice the cats to play with them.
I don’t think about the past when a cat hops in my lap. I don’t think of what I should or could have done. I don’t think about courts or life sentences or parole boards. What comes to mind is peace, and a sense that everything is going to be OK. What’s in the past needs to stay there if I want to have a future, if I want to be grateful for today and for the fact that I am no longer the person I once was.
The cats, of course, already know this. They are gracious enough to spend their time with us so that we might learn, and so that we can enjoy a few quiet moments of warmth, softness, non judgment, and freedom."
tags from: @theamazinggrayson
[ID: Tags that read "#it's stories like this that remind the power and need for prison abolition #i was listening to a story about the power of ttrpgs in prisons #and it wasn't like 'oh wow.. the power of fun while in prison!' though it did bring that up #the gut punch for me was that the prisoners would rp being adults... like having relationships with people... paying rent.... living a life #because some of these inmates were incarcerated before they were 18 and had never lived by themselves as an adult #and with a 30 yo or even death sentence #none of these people would ever get the chance to experience that chance again #the story focused on a death sentence case #it was really fucking impactful for me". /end ID]
thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago
this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3
now i don't think dick would be like, a drug dealer in the "deals drugs" sense but i do think he would have a cupboard full of every migraine medication known to man and i don't just mean your regular advil extra strength or some bootleg excedrin i'm talking medications you can only find in post-soviet splinter nations and they're not legal there either. bottle of pure phenacetin. jar of something he stole from ra's al ghul he doesn't even know what's in it but it worked when he got that concussion. and if he likes you he lets you have a sample
Enikő Katalin Eged (Hungarian, b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary) - Bodega Cat's, Paintings: Digital Arts
i am so undertattooed
YOU WILL FIND A WAY!!!! YOU WILL FIND A WAY . You will find a WAY ….. you WILL find a way . You will find a way you will find a way……!! YOU WILL FIND A WAY YOU WILL FIND A WAY you will find a Way you will (find) a way you will find. a way you will find a way YOU WILL FIND A WAY!!!!!!!
Imagine being one of the parents for the kids in the Magic School Bus class. Getting those field trip permission slips home every single night.
Like what, another one? Doesn’t she teach? This just says Inside a Dog
obviously I'm sad I can't make it to dyke march for another year because it's always a rejuvenating joyful experience. however the knowledge that it's 90 degrees out does soften the blow
at my job we have to go through a training program that teaches us the library of congress classification system, and when i was first being trained my boss started to boot it up and she gave me a really anxious and guilty look and said “listen, i’m really sorry in advance, there’s nothing i can do about this, just…. just try to get through it” and i was like lol what’s she talking about and then the program loaded and i was greeted with a deliriously funny-looking photoshopped wizard with glowing eyes pointing at some intro message like “AH YES, JUST AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD… APPRENTICE, YOU COME AT A TIME OF MOST DIRE NEED… YOU MUST LEARN OUR WAYS” and my boss just looked at me helplessly and was like “i’m so sorry. it’s like two hours long.”
thankfully it wasn’t an elaborate fever dream and i have found screenshots
Image description: [Screenshots of the library of congress wizard training game. The first image has a wizard standing in a lake. The second image has a wizard standing in front of a bookshelf.]
[ID: Text on first image: “Greetings! I am a Knowledge Keeper. Some call me a Librarian. Your presence here was foretold to me and you have arrived just in time. Though I have trained many before you, I am always happy to have a new apprentice.” (Continue button)
Text on second image: “As you see, our need is great. All must be put in order and maintained. It is time to begin your lessons—listen closely. Please click Continue.”
(Note that the wizard in question is just about the most stereotypical bearded, robed, pointy-hatted old man wizard you can imagine, carrying a wooden staff). END ID]
beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way
man, batman #409 is such a trip. ma gun trains an entire school of boys for a museum heist, boys who are all arguably around the same age and same social demographic/circumstances as jason, and jason repeatedly emphasizes how bad the cops and social services are for kids, only for bruce to adopt.....just him.....because he acted like a vigilante and stopped the heist (ideal robin candidate). there isn't even a mention of "bruce wayne" doing something for those other kids, but batman picks jason to ride off into the sunset with him, because jason acted in a way that set him apart from those other boys. even though jason is just like the other boys (poor), he acted like a vigilante would, which allows bruce to instantly project onto him and bring him into the vigilante life. bruce had already started projecting onto jason after learning about catherine and willis, but somehow, the ma gunn heist ends up being an audition for the role, an audition jason didn't know he was even giving. there's this intriguing review by @/cybernex on leagueofcomicgeeks about how lowkey tragic it is that the only way jason can escape his unfortunate circumstances is by turning into a crimefighter, and although i do think bruce & robin!jason's relationship is often so very sweet, it is also a story of how a young boy is ultimately shaped by the destiny his father wrote for him.
but what's interesting to me is how #409 is in conversation with #408. i've seen very few people mention this, but bruce doesn't instantly adopt jason after the tire meet-cute for a few reasons, the biggest reason of all being that he's in a phase where he's really questioning his impact as batman. dick's "death" in the media leads to a public outcry against batman, an outcry that vicki vale supports ("who better than bruce wayne to understand -- and take a stand against -- the violence of a batman? violence which can only lead to more violence.") bruce himself begins to wonder why he returns to crime alley as batman on his parents' anniversary, only to never visit again for the rest of the year. this is why he entrusts ma gun with jason. he outright says she's doing more for crime alley than he is (lol). bruce does not actually have any hubris in #408 and acknowledges that robin might be a dangerous job for little kids (heck, he even thought it was dangerous for dick, who was in his twenties atp).
but #409 undoes all of the developments in #408 through the reveal that ma gunn was secretly a villain this whole time. and this ends up accidentally becoming a sort of,,,,,fate thing for bruce. there's a world's finest issue (#7, i think?) where bruce says he was destined to meet dick and jason, and i think that mentality applies here as well. bruce thought he was going about things the wrong way, but when ma gunn is proven to be a villain and jason once again stumbles into his life at around the same time, it can't be anything else but fate that brought them together. bruce tried to hand jason off to someone else, to do things the non-batman way, but in the end, TO HIM, it feels like a sign that jason is back in batman's life. that they took ma gun down together. combine this with his empty nest syndrome post-dick and the craving he has as an orphan to create bonds and families, it must have all connected in bruce's mind like a puzzle. jason was meant for this life.
BUT THEN. the garzonas case happens, and ethiopia happens, and now bruce....once again begins questioning destiny, questioning himself, wondering if he fated jason to his death or if jason was doomed from the beginning. and then UTRH happens, and the "fate" aspect of it amplifies even more. now the question is - was jason always destined to become the red hood? which is just,,,,,so exemplative of how pattern-brained bruce is. everything has to fit a narrative; if something happens, there must always have been clues that led up to it. everything has got to be a part of a larger puzzle that he doesn't have the pieces to, because he doesn't know how to make sense of his own world without all of it having meaning. he can't fathom chance or acts of randomness. it's all about manifestation and destiny. there has to be a reason for everything, a clue he just hasn't found yet, because even at his grown age, bruce still hasn't made peace with the unknown and that things can just,,,,happen, even to the people we thought it would never happen to.
