hello! i'm spiritsglade, and you can find all my names and pronouns here. mix 'em up, or stick to one, i don't mind!
i write fic on ao3. occasionally i post sneak peeks here.
i also draw things sometimes, and you can find all my ask answers under this tag. my ask box is pretty much always open, and i love talking about my interests + my fics but it may take me a while to respond.
current relevant interests are primarily dc comics, moon knight, and wings of fire.
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Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
i want to draw jason with the aro flag but the problem is (beyond my complete inability to draw things even when i really really want to) he wojld not do that. he would not know.
i want to draw jason with the aro flag but the problem is (beyond my complete inability to draw things even when i really really want to) he wojld not do that. he would not know.
The no kill rule exists because the bats absolutelyy could not be trusted. Have you seen these guys. They think theyve pinned the culprit and its the wrong person all the time. Jason would be dead so many times over if they were fine with active killing. Which doesn't work as an argument because that's actively what Jason wants. Is the no kill rule excuses in canon stupid? Am I absolutely still on Jason's side? Yes to both. But like. Bruce? I would not trust Bruce to kill. I do not think he's good at gathering all the proof before making his judgements. Honestly it'd work better in his favor if the explanation "I can't be trusted with that" rather than "I'll kill literally everyone ever" "Killing even once makes you evil and irredeemable forever". It especially is good because it fits in with the fact Bruce Absolutely used to kill. Like not even just in the golden age with a gun or whatever I mean in like the literal 80s comics where Jason was Robin featured Bruce killing people and had killed people before which hurts ALOT of arguments for the no killing ever rule and the weird untainted murder virginity thing they're on about
The Joker should still die though. Like. Despite that. He's not Some Guy killed due to jumped conclusions. He is the Joker. Except of course if this ever happened it'd be revealed the Joker they killed Actually Was Just Some Guy who was forced into thinking he WAS the Joker and he actually was a doctor with a wife and five children and two dogs and he'd been a saint who'd been making leaps and bounds on work to destroy cancer. Still stupid to argue you can't kill Joker to Jason with that in mind though. He has in fact killed several Jokers. Joker natural predator. And we all agree of course that this is comics and making them kill The Wrong Guy is a stupid cop out and plot and I hate it forever. Anyway. Where was I going with this.
under the hood & lost days jason killing people is ultimately less about whether they "deserve it" & more... would killing this person be useful/beneficial? killing ego stops him from trafficking children, killing the drug lords' lieutenants is an extremely effective & convincing demonstration that get them to heel, killing black mask's henchmen puts pressure on him that ultimately leads to him decimating his own empire.
in under the hood you can argue it's because jason is focused on a goal; of course he's not going out of his way to kill people who "deserve it," he doesn't have time for that. but in lost days it's primarily to prevent future harm. that trainer would have killed her family if jason didn't stop her, & that dealer selling poisoned drugs can't continue doing so because he's dead.
the joker's the only person that jason really seems to argue deserves to die for what he has done in the past, & even then it's less "the joker deserves to die" and more "you (bruce) should have killed him." & even then the conversation carried the implication of "the joker kept killing people after i died. why wasn't i enough for you to care?"
"i thought killing me--that i'd be the last person you'd ever let him hurt."
everything with the joker is personal, in a way that jason killing other people isn't.
i digress. this all makes me think back to what jason says about egon: "i didn't 'murder' him. you murder people. i... put this reptile down." it's a very dehumanizing thing to say! this reminds me of the practice of euthanizing animals that attack humans, both wild & domesticated. it's not the animal's "fault" and it's not a punishment because they "deserve it," it's merely because if they've attacked a human before there's a higher chance they will again.
if that's the mindset jason's running around with, then it makes sense that "this is a bad person who deserves to die" does not enter his thought process at all. punishment is not part of the equation.
eventually i need to write a proper coherent post on how [to me] jason does not operate under the belief that people "deserve" to die, & how fascinatingly dehumanizing the angle he takes instead is. but alas. now i just get mildly irked whenever someone references the idea that jason is suicidal because he thinks he deserves to die. when it is clearly for other reasons.
Jason Todd Week 2026 will run August 16th (Jason's birthday!) to August 22nd!
Prompts and more information below the cut.
Prompts
Day 1: Competent Jason Todd | Star Sapphire/Lantern Jason | Promise
Day 2: Dimension Travel | Different Mentor AU | Pre-Crisis Jason Todd
Day 3: “Do you even like me? Like, as a person?” | Truth Serum/Spell | Undercover
Day 4: Someone Kills Joker for Jason | Theater Kid Jason Todd | Funeral
Day 5: Batarang Scar Reveal | The All-Blades | Jason Todd’s (Many) Parents
Day 6: Jason Todd is Good with Kids | Jason Lives AU | Choice
Day 7: Crime Alley Loves Jason/Red Hood | Fantasy AU | FREE PROMPT
Substitute Prompts: “What, so Batman’s evil now?” / “Has been for a while, thanks for noticing.”* | Jason Todd Kills the Joker | “This Jason Todd is an unknown entity. We do not know what force has returned him from beyond.” | Survival
*Here, the "/" indicates the separation between two characters' dialogue.
There will be three aspects to this event:
The main part is the prompt challenge, where you create a fanwork for a day. You can use one, two, or three of a day's prompts—it's up to you! If you don't like any of the given prompts for a day, you can substitute one of the Substitute Prompts. In general, you can interpret each prompt however loosely you want, and for quote prompts, you definitely don't have to use the exact quote. If you want make something for Jason Todd Week that doesn't fit any of the prompts, don't panic! You can use the "FREE PROMPT" on the final day to post any Jason Todd work you want. Each prompt also has a song corresponding to it in the playlist. There is also a playlist guide so that you can know what songs there are if you don't use Spotify or YouTube.
The secondary aspect is another opportunity to participate if you don't feel comfortable creating art, writing, or other media. Each day of the week, there will be a be an open-ended question about your opinions/ideas related to Jason Todd that you can respond to. For example, "What is your favorite Jason Todd headcanon?"
Finally, based on the results of the poll on the suggestion form, each day there will be a (completely optional!) commenting scavenger hunt to encourage interaction and finding new people/fanworks. See this post for more details!
If you post on Tumblr, you can use the tag #jasontoddweek2026 or @ this blog (@jason-todd-week). There's also an AO3 collection (JasonToddWeek2026).
For your filtering, this blog will tag reblogs with #reblogs, the day, the prompt(s), media type, any non-Jason characters, any romantic or sexual ships (with full character name/full character name as well as ship name if I know it), and any warnings. Anything explicit will be tagged #explicit. Example: #reblogs #day 6 #scars #enemy to caretaker #fic #tim drake #gun violence. Please filter out tags you don’t want to see.
Because I am not able to read/see every work posted (due to time constraints and personal boundaries), some warnings or characters may be untagged if they are not in the original post’s tags.
I am certain that DC would snipe me for this but I'm of the opinion that Jason was the best Robin at being Robin. I don't care how iconic Tim was or how much influence he had on the modern perception of the character, I think Jason was the best Robin Bruce has ever had in terms of their actual partnership
