I'm Morgan

and I'm too old to die young

[hunting-ataraxia]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[solitairedeere]

ever since i was a child i knew i wanted to get overinvested in "bad victims" in every form of media and get my heart broken by their endings over and over and over again

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[seethenight]

???????????????????

(Me when fanon gives Jason the J scar, an autopsy scar, a thousand other scars,,, but not the fucking batarang scar?!?!???)

[system-coded-skirmish]

some people are taking "doomed" to mean "dead". this is actually a misconception! you can be doomed even if you don't die! it's sometimes worse if you don't die!

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[mikakuna]

jaybin copying everything his dad does and thinking he's being so subtle about it!!

bruce wears quarter zips and collared shirts? jason is begging alfred to take him shopping and buys the exact same outfits but tinier. bruce has to literally bite his lip to keep from laughing whenever jason comes downstairs for breakfast looking like a mini bruce in his cute little outfits, so dead serious about it. it doesn't help that jason also brings his magazines to the dining table so that it looks like he's scrolling through a newspaper in the same way bruce is a seat away. (the image of his too-small son, who still sits on a cushion to boost his height, dressed in such a formal outfit while reading a teen magazine with a straight face makes him want to fall to the ground and clutch his heart a little.)

bruce almost breaks when he says no thank you to alfred, who offers syrup for his french toast, and then two seconds later, jason-- his syrup loving sweetheart (seriously, it's a little concerning)-- chirps a very serious "no thank you, alfred" when the syrup is offered to him next. he ends up having to pour himself some when jason doesn't stop yearningly glancing at the bottle just so his little boy can enjoy his regularly-scheduled syrup-drenched french toast rather than suffering through the dry version to be like his dad

[mikakuna]

guys

[c0nstel]

i loveee 80s comics like theres just so many reasons to like them:

jaybin

koriand’r :D

no tim drake

new teen titans

stories that are compelling without being excessively gritty

no tim drake

theyre still rife with misogyny but its somehow better than stuff from the 2000s? (question mark)

lots of experimenting within comic books at the time, so you can find anything from silly episodic shenanigans to gory psychological horror

no tim drake

kory anders :D

batman soap opera !!

did i mention no tim drake?

[nighterwriter]

Unfortunately, I don't play about Jaybin. I don't care if it's a joke, I don't care if you meant well, I will take it personally and see to your eradication.

"It was Jaybin's fault he died!" Pilloried and tomatoed 🤷🏻‍♀️

"If Jason didn't die, we wouldn't have gotten Red Hood!" Tarred and feathered 🤷🏻‍♀️

"There's too many Robins, maybe Jason should die again lol" Dunce cap and sat in the corner 🤷🏻‍♀️

[c0nstel]

as much as jasons robin run is fun there is this horrible sort of dread that comes with reading it because we see this sweet little kid grow up, truly start to come into his own as a hero, and he has so so much fun. he is so so loved.

we see him so happy and so fulfilled, and then we see as that gets taken away little by little again and again, and we see that sweet little kid get worse and worse. more jaded, more depressed, more self-destructive…and then that’s it—and then he dies. he never gets to get better.

its just always in the back of my head that one day this little boy will get sad, and he will never feel better. he’ll just die.

[vicmillen]

Genuinely insane that Jason's death isn't seen as a lesson in how miscommunication and lackluster parenting on top of continuous exposure to violence and scenes of trauma can compound over time to deadly consequences.

[normalbrothers]

[d-xs]

You know the worst part about Bruce not knowing what really happened in the warehouse, and so blaming Jason for his death, and as a result, Sheila's? It's knowing that if it were anyone else with Sheila in that warehouse, Bruce would not have rested until he figured out what really happened.

He would put on his "World Greatest Detective™️" hat and investigate the shit out of everything. No stone would be left unturned. Somehow, some way, he would uncover the exact details of exactly what went down.

But it's Jason, so he runs home to Alfred, and Alfred, forever Bruce's number one enabler goes "Welp, can't say I'm surprised. I could have told you he would get himself killed." and for Bruce, that's all he needs.

[gece-misin-nesin]

#i've said it before and i'll say it again#bruce didn't need to hide the truth of jason's murder to protect his secret identity#he had to frame the joker for the murder of jason todd and do it so well not even the joker could wiggle out of it#if he was going to tamper with evidence he should have done it for justice instead of against it#but the fact remains that through their relationship bruce prioritized himself over jason#his comfort over jason's safety#so that would've been too much work because what he cares about is to keep batman going. his son was secondary to that#and this is the same. he already knows who did it and that's the important thing

[byjove]

I love asking people how their parents met. You always get an interesting reply. My best friend’s parents met on the relatively new internet in 1999. My other friend’s parents met at Burger King when one was the manager and the other was a regular customer. My parents met at the beach because they were neighbors in their rental houses, mom was on a church trip and dad was getting blackout drunk every night with his friends next door.

Tell me how your parents met in the tags.

[hunting-ataraxia]

This is the fastest I’ve written a chapter in a long time. I started it a week ago and I’m 5k words in. Two scenes and some edits left. I think I will have to reorder some parts of a conversation, but I have been super productive. Let’s hope it keeps flowing.

[nevion]

We need more crybaby Jason Todd.

That boy is a crybaby and nothing will change my mind

[stockholmgf]

think i wanna get beat up w/ aftercare so i can experience someone feeling remorse for treating me badly

[iconicname]