[reginalusus]

Feel like when Jason gets a bit more open around Harvey, he'll happily ramble about Jane Austen.

Inspired by the inky sort of style in this art by Sarvan_Ingen on Twitter. <3 (I failed at replicating it but it was fun at least).

[harveylikestoart]

Why would you kill him like this…

[zahri-melitor]

the thing about Dick & Jason brotherhood stuff in fandom that bothers me is that the foundational centre of the relationship is in the fact Dick was not there when Jason was Robin.

It’s his absence and distance. Dick foundationally is the potential older brother/inspiration for young Jason to look up to, not a regular presence in his life.

It’s what makes the relationship different and distinguishable!

If you want hands on brotherly bonding where they’re hanging out constantly, Dick and Tim are right there.

There’s a reason that the canon Dick & Jason hanging out as adults still has that “Hey! hey! notice me, I’m going to annoy you until you pay me attention” dynamic from Jason to Dick, because Dick has never been a regular active presence in Jason’s life.

[archive-panic]

Aside from Nightwing: Year One (which is apparently the work of the devil) and other flashbacks, there are two—arguably three—Post-Crisis interactions between Dick and Jason before the latter’s death.

Dick returning from Tamaran in NTT 1984 #18-19. LOCG lists this as Earth One Jason, so you could possibly argue this isn’t even properly canonical. I count it. Dick gets home from his girlfriend’s wedding just in time for his birthday, Bruce and Jason say happy birthday then bounce.

Jason joining Donna’s Titans a few issues later. At the end, Dick tells Jason that if Batman ever gets too annoying to call him.

Batman #416, which has some of the worst continuity ever. Even for early Post-Crisis, this is nearly incomprehensible. The story itself is fine: Jason and Dick team-up. Similar ending to the previous Titans story.

That’s it! There’s so little to work with, and that’s the tragedy! Dick and Jason were nearly strangers, really NWYO is your only in for building their relationship. And yet…

[archive-panic]

Without Nightwing: Year One or Batman #416, these two pages are about the extent of Dick and Jason’s relationship in Post-Crisis continuity.

This is discounting any minor flashbacks, or the mention of a ski trip buried somewhere in either NTT or Batman (almost certainly Batman).

This is why Jason is hard to work with; he doesn’t have a lot of relationships, and the ones he does have are roughly as shallow as this.

[justrandomspams]

if harvey dent was the prosecutor in court who do you think would be the best fit for the opposing defense attorney? (excluding bruce)

Who would actually be better at playing the lawyer part? 😚

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dick

jason

tim

steph

cass

damian

duke

babs

others(not batman, comment)

Remaining time: 12 hours 33 minutes

[kitkat5628]

How is Barbara not winning with at least a 50% of votes?!

Also how is Dick at such a low number too compared to the others?

Barbara quite literally has a law degree from Harvard

Batman: Gotham Knights #25

And a forensic psychology degree

Batgirl #3 (2011)

Dick has a degree in psychology and criminology

Who's Who in the DC Universe #14 (1990)

An advanced degree in forensics

Nightwing #43 (2016)

And like Babs, a law degree

Nightwing #80 (2016)

I can guess why Tim was voted even though Babs and Dick are the best choices, but how did the others😭🙏

I'm no expert in Jason even though I like him but how does he have a 16% of votes???

[themoonofblueside]

i was gonna write something length about how important it is to capture and maintain the color and personality of the mediterranean sea in the odyssey and how turning it into grey slop is another way christopher nolan fails the story, but tbh i don't have enough words. the first time i saw the baltic sea i couldn't look away for nearly an hour, i couldn't fathom how different it was from my sea. i hadn't seen anything other than mediterranean before. and from that point on, i felt like i could recognize the mediterranean from anywhere, despite how huge of an area it covered. i know this sounds stupid but i wish there was anyone local, anyone from mediterranean area, in the production team because they would get how precious it is to people who live there.

[chokedqwerty]

okay the odyssey has been out for a day im readyto start discourse

[ceaselessims]

KIM KITSURAGI — "I do not like women, Harry."

RHETORIC [Easy: Failure] — Kim Kitsuragi is a misogynist.

[greenbloods]

disco elysium-like: theon in winterfell, adwd

You stand over the parapet. All around you the crossbows are whistling in flight, nocking, tensing. Far off to the north was a warhorn sound.

LOGIC: Stannis. Our only hope, if we can reach him.

PERCEPTION: The cool air stings against your face. Time slows to a crawl.

ENDURANCE [medium: failure]: Look at you, thinking you could play the hero like the songs. You must be fucking insane. That's it, isn't it? The Bastard must have flayed your brain too.

SHIVERS [challenging: success]: The snows whispered in the autumn air, falling like ash. Like tears. Somewhere, deep beneath the bowels of the earth, the dead kings stand vigil over stone tombs, the swords stern and sturdy in their hands. In the heart of the woods the weirwood waits with its knowing red eyes.

SUGGESTION: Reek...reek....

INLAND EMPIRE [trivial: failure]: It rhymes with Mozambique.

ENCYCLOPEDIA [easy: success]: What the fuck is Mozambique?

A bolt passed within a foot of you, shattering the crust of frozen snow that had plugged the closest crenel. Holly and Frenya were as good as dead. There was no sign of the other spearwives.

HALF-LIGHT: If they take us alive, they will deliver us to Ramsay.

COMPOSURE [formidable: success]: You feel Jeyne in your arms. She was the only warmth in the world.

CONCEPTUALIZATION [challenging: success]: You've only seen Bran climb these walls a hundred times. It's just like that, see? Just the other way round. All you have to do is fall.

PAIN THRESHOLD : Just like Bran.

DAMAGED MORALE -1

LOGIC: There's nothing else to do.

INLAND EMPIRE: No chance, and no choice.

Jump.

Jump.

Jump.

-1 Internalized Dog Motif. -1 Missing fingers. -1 Life is not a song. +1 The old gods know your name.

⚅⚄

SUCCESS: LEGENDARY

VOLITION: Deep breath in, out.

PAIN THRESHOLD: This is going to hurt.

You grab Jeyne about the waist, and fly.

[greenbloods]

chat they're putting my posts in twitter headers

[midmith]

CACKLES OH NO I forgot people can like. read my tags

this did something absolutely crazy to my brain in 2024 I had to hall of fame it immediately

[greenbloods]

yippee i like it when people like my things

[themoonofblueside]

i have my own thoughts and feelings about max verstappen but he cooked with "if my mom had balls she'd be my dad" and also the 'bonus father" title with penelope

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[tatzelwurming]

genuinely if it becomes a film making trend to adapt 4chan/reddit posts into movies i think we should ban the moving image

[tatzelwurming]

ok one exception

[themoonofblueside]

idk if anyone said this yet but other than steve and tony's arguments in sokovia accords being highly influenced by their traumas and betrayals they've faced, in my opinion another big influence on their decision making is their jobs and class.

that is to say, i think tony wanted to be restricted with things that woulf cause harm to society, and he wanted someone to oversee avengers' actions, but i don't think he EVER believed they would be controlled. steve on the other hand believed that if someone had the power to control and restrict, they would control and restrict.

that is because tony, as a rich billionaire from a rich family who had ties to government, essentially was never forced to do something he didn't want to. he could enter any club, any private area, any meeting he wanted, whether he was allowed or not. steve on the other hand dealt with rules and boundaries he couldn't cross, first because of his health, then because of his status as a soldier.

when you are a businessman, especially one as rich as tony, if someone tells you to do something and you don't want to, you either negotiate, or refuse and pay compensations. as long as you have enough money you can opt in and opt out of anything. but when you are a soldier, if your commander tell you to shoot, you have to shoot. if you don't want to shoot you are a traitor and you are punished. I think at the end of the day tony viewed the accords as more of a business deal, where he was overseen and controlled but there would always be some wiggle room, it not for everyone, at least for him. steve on the other hand saw the accords as draftment papers.

i do believe that their experiences in age of ultron vs the winter soldier are the main reasons for their decisions, but i don't think we can dismiss tony's status as a rich businessman who had not faces any consequence of his actions until he took the mantle, and someone who was granted everything to do whatever he wanted not believing that he could actually be stopped if he wanted (or didn't want) to do something. Steve on the other hand spent a very long time where he technically had the power, but because he was still under the command of someone else, he was forced to do things he didn't want

[arch-aeology]

the jason todd death vote is so fascinating to me from a societal and political perspective

[folklorelei42]

the crumbs of jason and steph being friends add a year to my life every time it shows up in a comic

[eiraeths]

duke is implied to be immortal. duke has umbrakinesis. duke amplifies others powers when they’re close to him. jason might as well be immortal with the amount of times he’s died and implied to be dead and subsequently revived. jason has the all-blades which is essentially soul magic. the all-caste is all about metaphorical (literal? hell if i know) shadow and light. duke is the literal shadow and light. duke and jason going on a magical bonding adventure. in this essay i will—

[themoonofblueside]

i have like zero runs to prove this but i feel like the most interesting dynamic damian would have with batfam is if for him bruce was his father but dick was his batman. Yes i know bruce and him had their time as the dynamic duo later on but i have "so how would this hurt the Worst" genes in my brain so having a damian who prefers dick as the batman and both bruce and dick knowing about it would be the most delicious

[autisticrosewilson]

"Oh Steph wouldn't like Jason just because they have similar backgrounds because he kills people/is a criminal/fights the bats!!"

This is in the 90's BEFORE he even tortured her. She doesn't go through with it, but she sees the evil he's capable of and its enough for her to justify it. She only doesn't because it "goes against what Batman taught her" but well.

That's the same man who would let her dad's friends infest her house for MONTHS until BLACK CANARY came to Gotham and handled it

A grown man who would go on to verbally degrade her, withhold the tools he gave everyone else, keep her intentionally isolated and then use her lack of resources against her.

So yeah. I'm sure Steph's faith in Batman and his teachings have wavered plenty. Just because DC casually discarded the way she was treated so she could play happy family with the boys, but she has NO REASON TO. Before she was aged down there was definite tension between her and Tim, and while Babs worked to get that relationship back, Bruce did no such thing. "Oh I'm just as proud of you as I was with the boys" when he thought she was dying doesn't fucking change how he treated her.

And of course, there's her own forray into betraying the family and being a criminal in The Next Batman series.

That's without getting into how she was compared to Jason, the way she watched a murdered east end kid be toted as another violent, reckless, idiot who didn't think and got himself killed.

"Oh but he tried to kill Tim!" First of all, you didn't read that comic. Jason was TESTING him, they were 2 years apart MAXIMUM, and Tim FOUGHT BACK. Jason gave him a little cut and a nose bleed that he slapped a bandage on and was fine. Damian also started his first meeting with Tim antagonistically and even though he was actively hostile to her, Steph still formed a close sibling bond. Her first meeting with Tim she threw a brick at him. He spent a not significant amount of time belittling her and telling her she wasn't cut out for hero work when she came back. This is the same guy who hallucinated Jason just so Jason could be like "Oh I got myself killed don't be like me!" Can we be real she doesn't give a shit. I guess you could count Hush but. I know they retconned it so that was Jason but when the fuck would he have had the time to do that between death, catanoia, the All-caste, and his murder tour.

Stephanie understands better than anyone that desperate circumstances lead to desperate people who do bad things. Stephanie understands being belittled and compared to a rich white boy who never had to fight to survive like you did. She understands being isolated from the hero community. She understands the evil that exists and the ways the system is corrupt, and that the bad guy never STAYS caught. And it's not like she has any big problem with people who kill, Babs said in 90's she would fucking LOVE Joker to drop dead and Dinah has killed multiple times. She literally switched places with Lady Shiva? These are both women Steph looks up to. You don't think Steph would feel any admiration at all for someone who gave Bruce a taste of what it feels like to be shown up? Someone who made Roman's life hell? Someone who made Tim put action behind his shit talking? An alley kid who came back and refused to be another statistic, who showed everyone who spent the last decade calling him stupid and reckless EXACTLY how cunning he can be? None? At all?

I just find it a little hard to believe.