in your batkids series where Jason and Damian met in the league, do you have any headcanons about the two interacting with other shadows?
ik some people like to make Jason a league general and give him his own shadows and i just think it would be so funny if your red hood had both goons and shadows doing his bidding in gotham
especially in your one post where just hearing ra’s voice over facetime was enough to silence the cave.
could you imagine bruce finding out his son has a bunch of league operatives?
i think in one of my fics i mentioned him being the 'league general' which i find so funny. like the idea of jason having a really high up placement in the league hierarchy really pleases me. he's literally ra's oldest grandchild now, and he's fucking powerful as fuck, there's no way ra's wouldn't end up promoting him to SOMETHING important, even if it's a very begrudging promotion because he fucking KNOWS jason's going to abuse that power.
i imagine jason as a league general being kind of like dazai osamu from bungo stray dogs? if anybody gets that? like he just fucks around 24/7 messing with damian or pissing ra's off and generally ACTING incompetent, but the second ra's starts yelling at jason to stop being useless two of his personal guards will walk in with a failed coup leader and it turns out jason's 'fucking around' has actually just been his own genius method of saving ra's and the entire league from an uprising and ra's just never noticed what was going on.
the thing is jason canonically managed to pretty much take over and rule the entire Gotham underground within like, the space of a few weeks. we KNOW he's a good strategist and a hell of a leader. i think he would be 100% like that within whatever position he has at the league, he would just also make it his mission to fuck around as much as possible while doing so because What The Fuck Else Is There To Do At The League
I just woke up and somehow the only thought in my head was Jason Todd as an Etsy witch but he only sells ‘violent spells’ and instead of doing spell work he just personally goes out and beats the shit out of whoever you choose
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Just days since paying for the spell, and my creepy stalker hasn't come near me! It totally worked, someone told me he got hit by a truck in a drive-by last week! Will definitely use again if I need more magical help.
GothamGirlyGuy / Purchased item: Bad Luck Spell for Exes, Stalkers, etc
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This protection spell has been so affective. It's like I have a big, scary guardian angel looking after me.
newtotown / Purchased item: Summoning Spell for Protective Spirits
⭐️☆☆☆☆ Would give 0 stars if I could. Not only did this spell not work, a bunch of other stuff has gone missing from my room since the payment went through. I swear, it almost feels like he cast a vanishing spell on my favorite hoodie, ALL of my left shoes, and my first edition copy of Hound of the Baskervilles.
Alvin Draper / Purchased item: Finding Spell for Lost Items
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So I was a little sceptical about stuff like healing crystals and warding spells and that, and I've seen a lot of obvious scams on here. But this witch took the time to explain to me that while the crystals and stones he uses for his work might seem a bit 'rough', they're really effective at warding off negative forces in my life because he picks the ones best suited for each job. I don't even mind that it basically looks like a chunk of brick he picked up in a construction site, ever since I bought it, the gross peeping tom hasn't been seen in our neighborhood. And the red details on the corner look really cool!
Patty / Purchased item: Warding Stones Sent After Spell
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One of my new friends told me about this witch and I finally broke down and bought a spell because I've been having so much trouble sleeping lately (wheee, trauma!) and my parents cut me off financially (yaaay conservative assholes!) and it just feels like I'm floundering. SO happy I did. The very. Next. Day. My bf told me his brother was taking over his shifts for a while so we could spend more time together, I got a scholarship for school I didn't even know I qualified for, the restaurant I've been interning at got bought and the new owner tripled everyone's salaries and included the interns on the pay sheet, AND someone broke my father's kneecap with a crowbar! This guy's the real deal.
B Dowd / Purchased item: Stress Release Spell
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Not sure what I was expecting, but I've got to admit this spell has been effective. The guy that used to hit on me every night is convinced there's some kind of demon in the hospital parking garage and now he doesn't follow me to my car. Maybe that Draper person had some bad vibes, because I also found a really nice hoodie and a bunch of left shoes? No book, though.
Caroline Hill / Purchased item: Guardian Spell
Considering how calculating Jason is with his comically complicated plans and many backup plans and probably practiced speeches, and how starved he is for social interaction, and how he wasn't exactly socialised properly for a chunk of his childhood and like all of his teenage years- do you ever wonder if he rehearses interactions before getting into them? If he bites his tongue and spends all that time pondering how to best convey what he actually means to say, calculates strategies to get the reaction he's looking for?
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal g
TLDR:
ending home delivery and converting the remaining four million addresses that still receive it to community mailboxes (with some limited home mail service for disabled and mobility-limited individuals)
lifting the 1994 moratorium on closing rural post offices that covers nearly 4,000 locations (government argues that many of these locations are no longer rural)
reviewing the process for how it increases the price of stamps to make it more flexible and quicker
government argues that domestic letter delivery has declined from 5.5million to 2.2 million in the last 17 years, and current volume cannot support existing infrastructure
CUPW declared a strike in response to the announcement
I am begging any Canadians who follow me to msg their MPs, or local politicians and obvs complain to Canada Post about the corporation and not the workers.
They are trying to lay off from 30,000 to 15,000 in Vancouver alone.
They are making it harder for people to grieve (as in report) work safety, sexual/race harassment, breaking labour codes.
They are trying to remove a lot of safety nets financially.
If you live in a rural area or are just disabled, this will GREATLY affect you!
They will make things that were generally lost cost or free away because it no longer needs to be a Crown Corporation.
Passport mailing/shipping will spike.
8 heads in a dufflebag this, beating up Robin that, why has no one mentioned that the best part of Jason coming back in Under the Red Hood is him using Talia's money to become the majority shareholder of Kord Industries, which Bruce is using for Batman R&D, and giving himself access to all of Batman's toys while undercutting Bruce's operation. That shit was brilliant, and he was like 17
I can't get over how delightfully competent Jason is and how funny it makes his early Red Hood days. This 18 year old who literally died once is so good at being a criminal that criminals on the other side of the country that have been doing this for years feel threatened by his gun smuggling operation. What an icon
After coming out of the timestream, Jason does not have sympathy for Bruce “coming back from the dead” and seeing how people got on without him. If Bruce’s takeaway is that Dick is a better father to Damian and that Tim is better at running his company, Jason is absolutely the last shoulder he’s allowed to cry on. And tells him as much.
Because when Bruce came back, he tried to tell Jason that he understood what it was like. Returning to a life that had moved on without him.
And Jason laughs in his face.
“Let’s start with the obvious: you didn’t die.”
“Jason-“
“No, you wanna do this? Fine. But I’m talking and you’re listening.”
“…”
“An actual equivalent of what it would be like huh? Sure.”
“You’re 15 and Alfred thinks you pushed a pickpocket into traffic. And the pickpocket dies. And you can’t convince him that you didn’t push the guy because he does that thing where he lets you talk and talk and talk but doesn’t really respond. So you’re upset he doesn’t believe you and you’re cleaning the attic or tearing it apart in your teen angst - take your pick. When you’re done, you find some of your Mom’s old letters and you realize that Thomas wasn’t your father, not biologically. And your Dad? He’s not dead. He’s out there somewhere doing relief work or something else charitable.”
“So you leave Alf a note and bounce. Sure, it’s another continent, but you know what you’re doing. You meet up with your bio-dad, who signed away his parental rights, and it doesn’t even occur to you that maybe there was a good reason for him doing that. You’re relieved, even for a moment, at the idea there’s an adult that would give a fuck about you. Like they’re supposed to. But your dad’s in trouble and when you go to help him, you realize he sold you out and watches as one of his buddies kicks your teeth in. Really goes for it. And maybe it’s not planned, but there’s a gas leak or bad building codes and the places goes up in flames. You can’t move your broken arms and legs but your lungs work long enough to let you choke to death on smoke. And you know Alfred isn’t coming for you.”
Jason flicks ash into the tray on his balcony and his eyes toward Bruce, who is doing his best Greek statue pose with his back to Jason. But that’s alright.
“So you wake up in your coffin. And you can’t breathe. You break all ten of your fingers digging yourself out. While fighting the hypoxia. Are you still 15? Who knows. It’s only been about six months.”
“It’s raining and dark and you stumble away from the grave you dug yourself out of. And you’re hypoxic. So you get hit by a car, because this is Gotham. And when you’re aware enough in the future to realize where you dug yourself out of, you look down to see you’re buried next to your bio-dad. Alfred didn’t stick you next to the people who raised you.”
“And maybe Alfred has some old SAS buddies who got up to some less than legal government experimentation work. So they dump you into some chemical bath while you’re catatonic and homeless and starving and suddenly you’re you. The you right now that fits in the damn batsuit.”
“And you’re angry. Maybe some of it’s the chemicals fucking with your hormones, but you don’t know that. All you feel is anger.”
“But when you finally have the presence of mind to ask about Alfred, his buddy shows you some headlines. Turns out, while you were gone Alfred took in Dick Grayson. I’m compressing some time here, but suffice to say that Alfred and Dick are living in the manor and there’s a few photos of the kid smiling, even with both his parents freshly dead.”
“Now, tell me this, Bruce. Has anything changed?”
Jason’s turned fully away from the balcony. Bruce might be a statue, but he still caught the movement. Can’t deny the spatial awareness training.
“Alfred is still at Wayne manor, taking care of a young orphan.”
“And that buddy of your bio-dad’s? Let’s say maybe his involvement was pieced together enough to land him in a psych ward. One he can check himself out of. Or maybe just a short stint in low-security lock up. And he’s out in a year or two. Does he keep winding up back inside? Sure, but never for long.”
Jason squints at the line of Bruce’s shoulders. Not much to be learned from them since they’re regularly taut.
“Here’s the real kicker: do you go home?”
Jason lets the silence sit for a bit. Debates continuing the “conversation” if he can call it that. But Bruce really doesn’t seem to be moving one way or another.
“I don’t believe you know how it feels. I don’t think you’re capable of it. What’s that quote about wheels that tread the same paths until they can no longer be turned down a different road? I think that’s how you’re stuck in your own head. I think if you died tomorrow your ghost would still put on the suit for patrol. You are the immovable object forcing the water to flow around you.”
“I don’t think you care about Dick having taken over your mantle or Tim running the company or however the fuck Damian’s doing. Definitely not enough to talk to them about it without blaming them for changing. Because it’s something you’re incapable of.”
“You’re mad that they found a way to move on.”
Bruce still wasn’t moving, but then Jason knew how this would end anyway.
“You can’t move on, Bruce. It’s why you started this whole thing. I was forgotten, ignored, meaningless. I died for nothing because when I came back nothing had changed. You didn’t want it to change. You prevent people from changing. The more things stay the same the more you’re the only one who can fix it. Even if all you’re doing is duct taping a broken system.”
“Do you know how much better Damian has done without you? Do you know how much worse it was for Dick to step into your shoes? Do you know what Tim went through to get you back?”
Jason sighs and closes the door to the balcony behind him. He does his best to maneuver around Bruce, more than an arm’s length away if possible.
“As much fun as this conversation has been, I’ve got better things to do than yell at statues. I texted Dick that we “talked” so if you say something to any of them unprompted they’ll know it’s not their fault, because you’ll damn well tell them it is. I’m the one you’re upset with because I don’t know if you ever figured out how to be upset with yourself. I’ll admit I’m surprised you managed to get this far without the screaming match, but then it would mean admitting you have feelings.”
If Bruce was looking at him, Jason ignored it. He wandered over towards the kitchen and turned on the stove.
“Do I need to kick you out or can you show yourself the door?”
By the time Jason had the pan over the burner, he was alone in his apartment.
Ok so heres my take: look at his face from the text-less gif on, thats…slightly more upset than anyone should be at a girl noticing your friend and not you.
Shame and self-blaming are incredibly common parts of PTSD, and you can just imagine how Bucky felt getting captured, and after everything he went through (unlike the other Howling Commandos you see all drinking together while hes isolating himself), he’s probably blaming himself for not being smart enough, strong enough, quick enough etc.
And who saves him? His tiny little friend, the one with the huge heart, but the one that always got his ass kicked and needed Bucky to come to his rescue. Now hes this huge super soldier saving him.
I think “im turning into you” doesn’t mean “usually im the hot one and girls dont notice ur skinny ass”, i think it quite literally means, sure, he’s got a big heart, buuut hopefully his big tough bff is around or hes going to get his ass handed to him.
@bloodyneptune I noticed in retrospect that Bucky is not totally okay at any point after Zola first tortured him. Here he is, as you say, drinking by himself in the corner, not with the other guys. He’s not even wearing his uniform tie. I think you’re right that his self confidence was shaken by his experience as a POW. For instance, I think in the train, later they were going after Bucky’s torturer on that mission. He ran out of bullets and he was clearly sick with fear right before Steve tossed him the new gun. I think he was under a lot of strain trying to hold it together in those moments. Bucky saying he had them on the ropes, was trying to reassure himself.
Then he falls off the train and wakes up to Dr. Zola standing over him again, and his life becomes a nightmare of continuous physical and mental abuse from then on. Poor Bucky.
@ blueeyeslaughingintherain Oh man, whats amazing about that (I essayed a whole thing the other day because Im batshit like that) is that Bucky has his own entire storyline going on that you only see through his expressions.
Like, instead of taking up the time to have him talk about it, they just let Seb act it out along side and in the main plot. Like, that small look of total disrepair after “lets hear it for Captain America” which is clearly a victory scene, he’s got his own side story going on. The awesome montage of the Howling Commandos being badass and fun, his little sniper bit? Tucked right between fun, and Steve jovially saluting and back to the kickassery, he looks a lot like the Winter Solder; dead eyed and focusing on the mission, loading another bullet to put in another head.
I mean, you can seen he’s repeating his name and number over and over when Steve finds him, he was clearly already in the process of brainwashing. You’re taught to repeat those things when you’re being interrogated, not experimented on. The best explanation is that he’s trying to keep a hold of his identity. So really, the Bucky we see after he’s rescued is one that already got his toes wet in the Winter Soldier project.
Even when he says he wont follow Captain America, just that ‘little guy from Brooklyn”, I think you can interpret that differently too. The last time he remembers being the big guy, the guy in control, the guy that wasn’t fucked up and was needed to protect someone was with pre-serum Steve. He’ll follow that guy back into the one place he does not want to do because thats whats going to make him feel like he’s tough enough to do it again.
I contend that he held out until they told him Steve ‘died’. He was already going through PTSD, already thinking he was weak and self-blaming for getting himself caught and nearly brainwashed the first time, his last hope had to be “of course Steve will come again, just hold out till then”. If his self confidence and sense of being able to fight was already in pieces, it must have been sort of easy once he knew nobody was actually coming to save him.
A+ analysis
It’s interesting that the movie definitely doesn’t spoon feed the story to us. But it’s there all the time. Bucky’s not in First Avenger much and hasn’t got many lines but watching it after WS and CW, wow I saw so much more going on with Sergeant Barnes. I agree that the name, rank and serial number thing showed he repeated it until he put himself into a trance or dissociative state. Then he asked if it hurt when they experimented on Steve to make him a super soldier. Not something I’d think to ask necessarily- does it reflect on the fact that they were already “conditioning” Bucky? Then there’s a great post someone did about Bucky’s and Zola’s expressions when they ran into each other with Red Skull and Cap. I reblogged it a while ago and can find and link you if you want, but the basic idea was Bucky is terrified of Zola and looks right at him, not Red Skull, while Zola stares at Bucky like he’s checking the effects of his experiments, like a scientist looking at a lab specimen. That’s a great example you gave of Bucky’s grim expression when sniping and right after. There’s a wealth of foreshadowing in that first movie and a lot of it is through Sebastian’s acting.
Uggh I know right?? Theres no way they could have fit in scenes of Bucky talking about what he’s going through and keep within the time frame and pacing, really. I think its totally fascinating that instead of just cutting the whole thing, they just let him go through his own plot right along side the main one.
And you don’t really notice unless you’re specifically paying attention to Bucky, because so many of his scenes after he’s captured are within fun, kickass, or silly moments like the Peggy/Steve scene. In the middle of the fun and joking, he’s acting like the mood and tone of the scenes are completely contrary to what’s being presented by everyone elses lines, actions and the way the music and scenes play out.
Actually, I hadn’t considered how oddly out of place “did it hurt” was. I think it would be a question that came long after “what the mother fuck”, “no but what” and “you need to explain this right the hell now because what the everloving shit is happening”.
But duuuude, what they did to him was basically a Hybrid ripoff of the super soldier project, “did it hurt” and “is it permanent” just took on some terrifyingly upsetting alternative meanings. Especially when we know Bucky gets those questions answered.
See what I mean?? They slip in this entirely separate narrative in making it seem like jokes and fun moments, and you almost would miss it if it weren’t for Sebs supernatural acting abilities. It just blows my mind that this shits in Captain America movies.
Have you read about the sounds/music in Winter Soldier? I’ll find it, that shit blew my everloving mind.
I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.
Exactly! It's freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.
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