JpegDotJpeg

fic writer, tim drake stan, and amateur artist | open to suggestions and prompts | all fics available on ao3 at JpegDotJpeg | https://ko-fi.com/jpegdotjpeg

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i have a Ko-fi now in case anyone wants to give me money just because i'm the cutest most specialest person on the planet

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jtodd and crowbar on the opposite sides of the locket. he gets hit every time you close it

spam open and close that thing

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i hope dg at the loves lives forever and shows up as backstory in random fic and becomes so ubiquitous in fanon that it bleeds into canon. i will be happy with this legacy.

[polybatcest]

all conversations about bruce being responsible for jason's death drive me insane not even necessarily in a like "this is a bad point" way but in a like. everything about this in a meta sense makes me crazyyyy way.

what if you lived in a universe where child sidekicks could not die because child sidekicks were intended to be a marketing ploy to attract child readers by presenting a child's power fantasy of "what if i could be the teammate to my favorite superhero (and not get grievously hurt/killed)". so you have a child sidekick because, in a meta sense, there's no actual serious risk of them dying and thus this doesn't really pose any serious ethical questions.

and then changing social norms and a changing media landscape lead to the universe you exist in getting tonally darker; your beloved ward who you've always had a great relationship with is suddenly someone you're arguing with constantly, the crimes are getting more real and less cartoony, the world is becoming scarier and more dangerous. and one day the people who control your universe decide that they want to really drive home this new tonal shift by undoing that most fundamental rule, that child sidekicks cannot die, and they kill your son.

this is not something that was supposed to happen. this was not supposed to ever be a possibility. you took on a child sidekick in a universe where child sidekicks could not die, and now you are being framed retroactively as a horrible person for doing something that is only now a questionable decision because the rules have changed. and, oh, by the way? child sidekicks are still necessary for marketing purposes. so you are fated to always continuously have a child sidekick even though you are now famous for the fact that your second child sidekick (who is also, again, your beloved son) died. and everyone blames you for this. and everyone hates you for this. and everyone in universe and out mocks you for your son's death and tells you it's your fault. because some comic writers decided to make a Dark Edgy Decision that retroactively made you culpable for child endangerment.

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listen i know fanon had latched onto the idea of jason todd as a classic lit romance girlie (thanks wfa) which is fine whatever. but listen. regardless of any roots in actually comics jason todd would be in that gothic horror shit be real. just because a story is set in the regency era and has a female protagonist that does not make a romance!! jason todd would be eating Up the dark stuff. the plot twist of Jane Eyre is Jane finding the first wife locked in the attack totally bonkers (jt vibes). frankenstein is largely driven by how the creature justifies his actions bc of his makers rejection (jt vibes). wuthering heights is about two morally bankrupt people who are so obsessed with each other they make the lives of everyone around them worse (jt vibes). catch 22 is about the absurdity and neverending nature of war (jt vibes). THERE IS SO MUCH GOOD SHIT. escapism is cool, but cooler if its about revenge. not to be a hating hater who hates but sometimes i think people who eat fanon for breakfast lunch and dinner forget to read real actual books.

[brucewayneglazer]

alfred unironically did the "my child is normal"💀

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interweaving comic book crossovers are the funniest thing ever. Infinite Crisis happens, threatening the entire multiverse, rewriting lives, canon is collapsing, major disasters all over the planet, a nuclear explosion annihilates bludhaven. meanwhile batman is duking it out with his teenage son in gotham.

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me when someone accuses me of reading a random comic for jason

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dick grayson should have brown eyes. jason todd should have brown eyes. damian wayne should have brown eyes. tim drake should still have blue eyes because he's like that jeff the killer dog staring at you through the porch door.

[renviary]

boo

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having binge read Batgirl (2000) i can now say 1) WHY IS THERE NOT MORE. and 2) Cassandra Cain is truly Character Of All Time. she has two extremely fucked up dads who are basically the same person except for their stance on killing. she's the best fighter of all time. everyone wants to fuck her. she loves mosh pits. her mom murdered her then brought her back to life. she can't read. the only friend she ever had faked her own death. she has her own personal batcave. she's never been to school. she was murdered AGAIN then her mom brought her back AGAIN. SHE HAS DIED TWICE. she's a cocky asshole and scarier than the actually batman and she has so much love for humanity. she cares about everyone. she genuinely believes everyone deserves a chance to change. she's bruce but better. i love her so much.

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if ever there was a panel to sum up cassandra's whole existence, its this.

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reminder that stephanie never actually died. this is fully a hallucination on cassandra's part.

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interesting choices here, Garza and Delperdang

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which could mean nothing

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cassandra truly has astronomical levels of rizz

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she should be at the club!!