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✩Weekly Fic Round-Up✩ / a general Jason Todd Fic Rec List

A WAY TO WIN. by lazarus (zabiume)

Black mercy is back, this time as a drug on the streets of Gotham. When Jason gets drugged with it, he sees, what he believes, is a perfect fantasy. (Inspired by Superman Annual #11, 'For the Man Who Has Everything').

I want a word for the almost-home by RedWritingHood

Jason hadn't intended on running into the Bat so soon after his arrival in Gotham, but when he catches sight of Batman stumbling out of a maze of vines, presumably having just gotten a good dose of Ivy's pollen... well. Jason's never been known for turning down an opportunity.

Did You Know? Did You Know? Have You Heard The News? by KezAHex

Lanterns gossip. It is a universal truth. How else could all the Corps keep track of everything going on within their sectors? And, well, a romance between a Red and a Star Sapphire is gossip-worthy. Birdwatchers 365: #95 -Listen

A Brother Born for Adversity by PatronSaintOfGotham

One-shot. Dick Grayson and Jason Todd navigate the trials of brotherhood.

sentimental by spiritsglade

Jason wasn't expecting the phone call. Well, he didn't expect phone calls in general, since his friends amounted to two guys who sat with him at lunch and talked to each other. He had forgotten one of their names, and at this point it was really, really too late to ask. It was either Michael or Mitchell. Probably.

the shadow of violence by shipyrds

“It's really this simple," Jason said. "You can feel however you want to feel about it. I'm not letting another kid get sacrificed on the altar of your principles." It was to Bruce's credit, maybe, that he didn’t flinch. It still made Jason mad as hell, though. That he could stand here, the resurrected prodigal son, and Bruce still wouldn’t— — Jason shoots someone to protect Damian. Bruce, as usual, has opinions.

Be Careful by VermilionFlame

Somehow, in the nine months, four days, two hours, and thirty-six minutes between Jason’s death and Tim hitting the streets of Gotham as the newest Robin, be careful had turned from stay safe to don’t end up like Jason. Or: Bruce deals with the changing meanings of the words be careful throughout the years.

not a laughing matter by thetiniestteapot

I saw that post (art on Tumblr) about Jason knowing how Dick behaved when he was younger, and treating Dick accordingly - and all the younger batkids going 'stop bullying him!' It is funny. But also...some of the implications you can take from it, aren't.

Invasion of Privacy by KangaRou

Jason flicked on the light and cast his eyes over the living room. It was empty, suspiciously so for the sense of wrongness. The couch pillows were fluffed, there was no dust on any surfaces, and the usual tell-tale smell of gone-off food wasn’t there. Which was weird in the fact that he’d been off-world for over a month. Someone had been in his house. Someone had cleaned his safe house. A shiver ran down his spine. 5 times that the Bat-family forgot what privacy and boundaries were. And 1 time someone remembered.

the bridge to nowhere by evanescent

He’s moving to the shoulder when he senses they’re not alone anymore. Jason looks up to find Batman at the opening of the alley and has to stop himself from automatically reaching for his gun. The man’s stance isn’t fighting or hostile per se, but there’s certain intensity and rigidness in it that puts Jason on edge. Belatedly, he realizes that Red Hood and a hurt Robin isn’t a novelty. (Then again, Batman never bothered to show up and deal with the fallout.) ... Jason and Bruce take care of an injured Damian. It forces Jason to reflect on some... unpleasant things.

> VISCERA by vfx_batman

“Don’t run.” Jason reels back. That guttural voice could only belong to one person. A fraying gauntlet clamps down on his shoulder. “Did you have a justifiable cause when you murdered that man?” Of course it’s an accusation. He wants to join the worms in their chorus of laughter. As it is, he swallows his elation and grinds the morsel to dust. “Your city is falling apart and you want to waste your time worrying about whether or not I had a legitimate reason for slicing up that rabies-infested piece of meat? What kind of a protector are you?” The Batman grunts in lieu of a response. Earth-51 Bruce + New Earth Jason reunite at the end of the world. Day 4: "No one's coming." | The Batarang Incident | Loss

Jason Todd Week 2025 by GalaxyOwl13

Jason Todd Week Summer 2025 by Milky_Almond

Jason Todd Week (2): Summer Boogaloo by Quillfox

Jason Todd Week 2025 by spiritsglade

Jason Todd Week Summer 2025 by uncorrectgrammar

Jason Todd Week Summer 2025 by thetiniestteapot

Grey's JTW Summer 2025 by mushygreybrainmatter

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Classic Aedyran and/or Dyrwoodan love story archetypes (and which gods they do and/or REALLY REALLY DO NOT invoke or involve)?

This went extremely sideways and also has no internally consistent organization, but that’s why it’s a series of bullet points and not an essay.

So Aedyrans are pretty obviously into three things: duty, tragedy, and Drama. Like on the surface it’s all austere dutiful piousness but go like, an inch below that and the dramatics just start pouring out.

-I’m not saying Aloth isn’t like, legit anxious about the very real trouble he’s about to be or currently in, I’m just saying a solid chunk of that is rooted in a culture that takes ancestor worship to really weird places, among other things, and literally none of it is as big a problem as literally anybody is making it out to be.

—the appearance of not even wrongdoing but just.... not enough virtue signaling is *just as bad* as actual wrongdoing. (They blackmail that one kid with his mom’s probably-fictional indiscretions? To the point where it kills him even.) Like ‘I saw Goody Proctor vent’ is actually the name of the game here.(1)

That being said, and given soap operas have not been invented, we’ve probably got three major schools of art:

-high brow morality plays in which either our poor ill fated couple, torn apart by (unscrupulous relatives? That hussy down the street? A wild misunderstanding involving a stolen baby who was swapped for another stolen baby? Somebody’s being tempted away from true love here, to whatever end) fate, dutifully come back to each other and are deliriously respectably happy together, or fall into despair and die over their bad choices. Think extra-overwrought Victorian ‘modernists’(which I heartily don’t recommend.), crossed with the soapiest tellanovellas you can imagine (which if you’re into that style of drama, I do)

-fantasy Shakespeare, where all the dick jokes are so old nobody recognizes them any more, possibly with a moral stapled to the end

-eyebrow raising, too much for today’s delicate stomachs, fucking wild shit presented as ‘educational’, with worse shit underground(2), because the veneer is more important than the reality of the thing.

But the major tropes you’re going to see like.... overall, not just in theater, are probably more community based? Like, you fall in love with your neighbor’s kid, she falls in love with you, so you both go to your mothers and they’ll determine whether it’s a good match or not, you technically don’t really get a say in the matter.(3) There’s also probably a lot of superstition involved? Like, if the omens are bad you’re not getting married, but if they’re just okay you may have to wait six months.

-also there’s a lot of hideously complex contract work over who’s marrying into what, among other things.

—divorce isn’t an option! Better hope your relatives pick wisely!

—- more accurately divorce is even more hideously complex and expensive, so unless your spouse is actively trying to kill you it’s probably not worth it, and even then you’d probably have serious second thoughts.

In terms of like, the Ideal Romantic Partner (not necessarily romantic partner, but given you’ve got to be married if you want to(socially acceptably) have sex or have kids, because Aedyrans are wild), you’re probably looking at someone dutiful, who will put their own comfort second to keeping their word, cultured but not smug about it, efficient but thorough, graceful and always perfectly composed no matter what happens, soft spoken without being servile, and the whole package should come across as effortless.

We’re attempting to ignore all the work I’ve done re: shitty Protestants, so we’ve canonically got nobody actually in charge of marriage anywhere, so probably you’re praying to Woedica (to keep your contract) and Hylea (if you need this marriage to be fruitful), and maybe even Ondra (to ensure everybody remains faithful, because Aedyrans are Dramatic, and the fucking moon bedroom is a thing)

As for the Dyrwodans:

Less repression + more inversion ceremonies mean they’re way less dramatic in general, but obviously that means they’re still Really Dramatic, given they’re into swearing eternal feuds over literally nothing every other day. They place a much stronger importance on soul lineages than blood lineages, but whether you take that into consideration re: romance probably depends on what current feuds your family and/or community is currently embroiled in, and how serious they are. And if you have the cash/local cipher to get said lineage traced.

-Theater tropes are going to tend towards the comedic (think 27 dresses, or some other friendshippy romcom) and bawdy, and also fantasy Shakespeare, now with added dick jokes, because the existing ones are still too old to be recognizable, and probably some of the less overwrought Aedyran and Vailian plays, maybe. Also the whole theater plot, because that is a thing, even if they’ve had to bury it both deeper and shallower than Aedyr.

As a general thing, marriage is still mostly a practical thing, and while your families are definitely involved, they’ve generally got much less of a say in it. Outside of high society weddings, which are obviously more alliances than anything else, there’s generally not a contract so to speak; because children belong to their mothers, and nobody much cares where she got them unless she’s already married, when and if she does get married, it’s socially expected that her new spouse will join her household, and splitting up a household is so socially unacceptable murder is a neater, less fraught solution than divorce(4).

Your Ideal Romantic Partner (who probably is romantic, unless you need an extra pair of hands all the time that badly) is clever without being supercilious, with an easy disposition and a good sense of humor, willing to take life as it comes, but also to defend what they’ve got to their last breath, generous and community minded, but still independent enough not to need looking after, forthright but not unkind, and you should be able to tell how hard they work for whatever it is they want.

As for gods: pre everything, you’re probably looking to Abydon, to build your disparate members into a household, and Eothas, to make that household into a home. Post everything, it’s just Abydon, maybe Magran to ask that whatever trials you face make you stronger together. I don’t know, there isn’t a really good option there re: canon.

1: the Readcerans somehow take this even further but in an even weirder direction, this shit is wild, babes, but we’re not talking about them today

2: I’ve got a specific horrible irl example in mind but we’ll go with the theater quest in PoE, turned up to 11, because that lot hasn’t had nearly as much time to get established as Aedyran equivalents have.

3: congrats this is why Aloth is so hard to romance I guess. Nobody has approached his mother about him/he hasn’t asked his mother to approach anyone. Also I have extensive thoughts on the vagaries of social class re: marriage, so like, who exactly does the approaching is probably equally complex!

4: look I didn’t put that quest in there, what the fuck else am I intended to think? ....I mean Obsidian definitely definitely didn’t expect me to come up with polyamory gone wrong but like I’m not reaching when I say that’s the conclusion I came to. Hooray for weddings?

#thank you for meming me!!!#it’s shitty three am nonsense essay time yay #pillars of eternity #some of this is like... inspired but most of it is drivel #and all of it is uncited and unreferenced #also like look there’s a bunch of stuff I didn’t put in canon but I really don’t know what obsidian expected me to get out of it #except Not That #like I didn’t have it be a whole thing Aloth is Extremely Popular and Everyone Wants to Marry Him #and I didn’t have at least three separate characters go on about how Edér is The Ideal Romantic Partner #nor did I make him the romantic lead of both games no matter who you actually romanced #idk???? idk #please insert a solid helping of gender =/= sex in here is is Late I am Tired #and I talked about social roles already #if you’ve read The Importance of Being Ernest (which I recommend it’s hysterical)#I need you to know Wilde was poking fun at an extremely specific trope with the lost baby backstory #it’s in so many plays from the period #So Many #if they could shoehorn it in they did #goodnight I love you thanks for playing #if you would like a Terrible Bulletpoint Essag of your very own hit me up

i need some research topic suggestions?

the topic can be anything in the world but it has to be interasting and researchable. i have absolutely no idea what to do so does anyone have some cool research topics?

#maybe something with social psychology #or just something weird #like what the fuck is wrong with nicolas cage #except not that