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IF Question who do you tend to romance?

Toxic male ROs

Toxic female ROs

Non toxic male ROs

Non toxic female ROs

None of the above

Voting ended onFeb 24

#the polls #the stats #if stuff #if question

Even More of a Disaster vs. Little Brother AU

Even More of a Disaster

Little Brother AU

Voting ended onJun 14, 2024

Even More of a Disaster - @evenmoreofadisaster

Little Brother AU - @sharkfinn

#emd #little brother #the polls #lonely idiots fight #orange round

The Cruel Joke of Jason Todd And the Fans Who Let Him Die

What’s funny about the death of Jason Todd is that DC never meant it to be taken as seriously as it is now—not in terms of judging the characters, anyway.

I had a conversation with my dad recently (someone who grew up around the time he was Robin and when they killed him off) and it opened my eyes to a couple of things.

The real tragedy? His death by telephone poll eerily mirrors the comic itself. Jason follows a woman he believes will give him the answers he’s been aching for, that woman being his very own biological mother, Sheila Haywood—only to be betrayed.

We were that woman. We were his mother who pretended to care.

We led him to the Joker.

We betrayed him, too.

And the funniest part? Most fans didn’t see him, didn’t want him, until he was already gone. Until he came back as the worst and saddest version of himself—broken, violent, and vengeful.

Just like Bruce. He didn’t really see Jason until he was dead.

Nobody cared about him—not really—until he became Red Hood. Until he became Joker’s twisted mirror.

And even beyond that, the edgy romanticized antihero.

In a way, DC made his death reflect us, the very fans who claim to love him now. Because like Batman, where were we when Jason needed us most?

Where were we when we were given the choice to let Jason live or die? Because most of us… chose to let him die.

We called him “the lame Robin.” “The Robin who wasn’t enough.” “The one who’d never live up to Dick.”

My dad? He remembered Jason as brash, annoying—‘not as cool as Dick.’ But talking to him made me realize how Jason’s story wasn’t meant to be neat. It was meant to be forgotten. And that’s what makes it tragic.

The hard truth is one most people aren’t willing to accept.

That the Joker never really killed Jason Todd. DC didn’t either. We did.

And that beautiful part of him—the raw, messy, “problem child” who challenged everything we wanted our heroes to be that we could never accept? Possibly the part of him that represents those like Joker in society (who are broken down and ridiculed for things they never could control about themselves whether that’s mental illness, race, sexuality, gender identity, etc. until they finally have the final “one bad day” where they break or are broken completely)—that part died too.

And it’s never coming back.

So the question is: If we really love Jason Todd as much as we claim to now... Would we have ever let him die in the first place?

Maybe that’s why it’s kind of genius that it’s the Joker who kills him. Because Jason’s death? It was a joke. A cruel one.

His pain was the punchline.

“You know… maybe it was all a joke. Just a horrible joke.” – Joker, The Killing Joke by Alan Moore

Sidenote: As a Joker fan who just found out that if Jason had lived, Joker would have died instead, I know this truth hurts—but if one of them had to die, I’m not surprised Jason did and can’t say I wouldn’t have been more upset had it been Joker instead. I just wish the price of keeping Joker wasn’t the soul of an innocent boy no one wanted.

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do you have or want to make friends at work?

Yes

im bald (share in the tags pls)

Voting ended onFeb 28, 2025

#the polls #work #friends #afgshsks idk how to tag this #my polls #I decidedly DO NOT want to have friends at work and i want to know how many of you think im a narcissist bc of that lol #bc more and more it seems to be an unacceptable stance #+

i will draw the 2 most voted for in maid dresses because both eclipse fed and 3 heart trio went onto the third round of the @mcyt-trios bracket !!! yippieee

vote.

scar

grian

martyn

smajor

docm77

joe hills

zombiecleo

mythicalsausage

etho

itzsubz

slimecicle

princezam idfk ran out of ideas

Voting ended onOct 8, 2023

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can you bed wed behead "Bed Wed Behead"ing from this blog

I don’t see why not

Bed Wed or Behead the Polls from This Blog.

Bed

Wed

Behead

Voting ended onFeb 3, 2025

#bed wed behead #The polls #Tumblr #bed-Wed-behead-your-fave

The Cruel Joke of Jason Todd And the Fans Who Let Him Die

What’s funny about the death of Jason Todd is that DC never meant it to be taken as seriously as it is now—not in terms of judging the characters, anyway.

I had a conversation with my dad recently (someone who grew up around the time he was Robin and when they killed him off) and it opened my eyes to a couple of things.

We were that woman. We were his mother who pretended to care.

We led him to the Joker.

We betrayed him, too.

And the funniest part? Most fans didn’t see him, didn’t want him, until he was already gone. Until he came back as the worst and saddest version of himself—broken, violent, and vengeful.

Just like Bruce. He didn’t really see Jason until he was dead.

Nobody cared about him—not really—until he became Red Hood. Until he became Joker’s twisted mirror.

And even beyond that, the edgy romanticized antihero.

In a way, DC made his death reflect us, the very fans who claim to love him now. Because like Batman, where were we when Jason needed us most?

Where were we when we were given the choice to let Jason live or die? Because most of us… chose to let him die.

We called him “the lame Robin.” “The Robin who wasn’t enough.” “The one who’d never live up to Dick.”

The hard truth is one most people aren’t willing to accept.

That the Joker never really killed Jason Todd. DC didn’t either. We did.

And it’s never coming back.

So the question is: If we really love Jason Todd as much as we claim to now... Would we have ever let him die in the first place?

Maybe that’s why it’s kind of genius that it’s the Joker who kills him. Because Jason’s death? It was a joke. A cruel one.

His pain was the punchline.

“You know… maybe it was all a joke. Just a horrible joke.” – Joker, The Killing Joke by Alan Moore

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