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Dick: Lol ok lil baby

#aww cute #dick grayson #tim drake #video #TikTok

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he can suck an egg

#stephanie brown #you tell him #art

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#timkon #art #‘brutally so’ ha

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What are your thoughts on "Catherine/Willis and Odysseus/Penelope"? This sounds incredibly interesting👀👀

You are Penelope, quick witted and strong willed, barely 18 when you sail from your home land in Sparta. Your husband is strong and clever and the baby he gives you is a healthy, protective thing.

You only get a scant few happy years before he's called Away to war. You are patient in his absence, tending to your people and your son. But still it aches, every moment spent away from your lover is a widening hole in your chest.

The war ends and you wait for his return. One by one the other soldiers reach their homelands, all but his fleet. You wait. And wait. And wait. You have to tell your son his father may never come home.

There are suitors at the door, and they are hungry, and wanting and you let them in because you have no choice.

Every day you mourn your lover and every night you unspool the thread. The men in your halls are impatient, but your boy keeps them at bay.

You do not hide, because there is war in your blood, you are Spartan first. But this is not Sparta and it is a man's world. Hands start wandering, gaze stuck to your skin. You are running out of time.

You are Catherine Todd, forgiving and endlessly loyal, returning to the city that birthed you to care for your mother, she is sick and your sisters refuse to care for her. There is only you and her in this musty old apartment.

Until it's not, until in the wake of her final appointment there is a man, a rock in the current. He's too smart for his own good, with an awful penchant for pissing people off, but he loves you and you cannot help but return it. The boy is not your blood, but he is beautiful and he is yours.

You are happy until you're not, until the disease in your bones breaks them down but by bit, until the gaunt face that stares at you in the mirror is that of a ghost. You always looked the most like your mother.

Your husband is gone and you do not know when he will be back. You are strong, but you can only live without your heart for so long. Your beautiful, strong boy stays close through each appointment and crying fit.

Your husband's trial comes. You never hear back. The seasons change and so do the locks on the door. The cold is hell on your broken body, the frost seeps through the cracks in the walls.

There is a man at your door, in his hands is the key to your salvation, you are so very tired. Your stomach growls and you know the cabinets are empty.

It has been 20 long years, and Telemachus is grown now. The suitors are done waiting, they storm your castle and your room but they do not succeed. Odysseus is home, your prayers have been answered.

You are cold in the ground, an unmarked grave in the sea of thousands, a statistic to all but one. Your son is no longer a boy, but he is still yours. He is a king of his own now, and at his side is your husband. There is no home to go back to, but your suffering has ended.

#Catherine Todd

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the way you never see Azrael fans complaining about Jason stans for making Jason catholic so we can have a 200 word post on tumblr dot com, but you got some people throwing tantrums because how dare we use a religion for a character who was depicted as a literal priest in licensed DC media, like my bad I didn't know y'all had copyrighted catholicism and nobody but your fav is allowed to be associated with it, should we cancel the Bible? should we tell the Vatican?

#fandom salt

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(New Titans #55)

Bruce isn't a great listener. This exchange is right after he punches Dick in the face (with the gauntlets on) for "daring" (Bruce specifically uses the words "don't you dare blame me") to point out that Bruce was negligent with Jason's safety. Noteworthy is that this is the first discussion the two have about Jason's passing. Bruce told Alfred that he would tell Dick himself. He did not. Dick had to find out by hacking into the bat-computer's database. When he confronts Bruce, Bruce acts like Dick should know already. Calls him out for not attending the funeral of a boy that he did not know was dead. While he was in space.

Bruce invited three people to Jason's funeral: Alfred Pennyworth, Jim Gordon, Barbara Gordon. Five people were present when you add Bruce and the priest. He kept it extremely private because "That's the way it has to remain, if I want to maintain a secret identity" (Batman (1940) #428). Alfred offers to tell Dick. Bruce says no. He says he'll handle it. Again, he does not do this. He told Alfred that he'd handle talking to Dick during the funeral and then asks Dick why he wasn't at the funeral where Bruce openly acknowledged that no one had told him yet. Parental figure who criticizes you for something you didn't have any way to know was happening. How typical.

Seriously. Can't stress enough how little Dick knew about Jason's death. Bruce seems to just expect him to figure it out himself as if it was just another case and he can't be bothered to fill Dick in on it.

#god he sucks so bad #anti Bruce Wayne #bruce waynes c+ parenting #I have to change that tag at some point #I came up with it when I was more neutral about Batman #Bruce and Dick

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I've read a bunch of fics, especially some crossovers, where Red Hood is or was on the FBI's most wanted list. A couple where he's on like the CIA's or Interpol's or something. But do you know what I'd find hilarious?

He's on absolutely none of them.

A big fanon thing, and sometimes canon (looking at you, No Man's Land), is that the federal government just kind of... doesn't get involved in Gotham? It's just left to it's own devices.

So combine that with both Gothamites-hate-outsiders and the idea that there are so many more/worse people to deal with than the crime boss who's somehow been bringing crime down, and, well. Sure, they have a file on the guy, but it's bare bones and nowhere near the top priority list.

Even funnier is if this is pre-reveal, so Batman doesn't know it's Jason that's running around taking over crime and whatever, he's just busy trying to find out who this guy who put a bunch of heads in a duffel bag is. He makes some small comment about it at some JL meeting and everyone is like, whomst?

Like sure, people outside of Gotham who do hear about Red Hood are horrified, but also it's... normal? Isn't that normal for Gotham? They all hear so many crazy stories coming out of Gotham that who knows what's exaggerated or not, but that's not even... that weird? Like, gory, sure, but... it's Gotham.

Just every outsider's views of Gotham being so skewed and/or biased that hardly anyone blinks an eye at some rising crime boss in the most crime-ridden city on the planet.

#lmao #Gotham #prompt #Jason and Bruce #red hood

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So Jason died and Bruce mourned, falling into a depressive state and overall not doing well. Then Tim came into the picture to help him like he did and eventually became Robin. Then Jason was resurrected.

But imagine if Bruce was finally getting better, Tim has been taking over the role of robin and Bruce wasn’t as depressed as he was at the beginning, it wasn’t great but it was manageable, and then Bruce gets a phone call,

“Hey Bruce, I-I don’t know what’s happening and I’m scared, can you come get me?” To which Bruce asks who it is, getting the response “It’s Jason, Bruce. I don’t know where I am or how I got here, and everything hurts. I just want to go home.” And Bruce hangs up. His son is dead, he can’t be calling.

Jason calls again, more insist and desperate, leaving voicemails when Bruce stopped picking up. Bruce tells Tim, who thinks it is a prank caller, a messed up one at that, so Bruce blocks the number.

Jason, confused and scared, gets convinced if he can just find Bruce, get to him, everything will be ok. He gets to Gotham, only to find quite a bit of time has passed. How did that happen? Bruce probably thought he went missing! He has to find him. But as he is roaming the streets of Gotham, he comes across tvs showing the news, Batman and Robin arrested a criminal last night, but how could that be? He was Robin! Then it dawns on him, he had been replaced. Bruce wanted nothing to do with him. He had blocked his calls and he had gotten a new robin, how much clearer does he need to get? Something in him broke, and suddenly his vision was as white as the streak that had formed in his hair, he lost control, didn’t come to until he was at the boy’s throat, Tim, his replacement

He had to get out. Eventually he formed the outlaws, he got away. Slowly but surely the severed ties started to mend, trust started to get rebuilt, and sure there were still sore spots (i.e. killing the joker) but it was getting better between Jason and Bruce.

Then Jason is hurt, in trouble. Bruce went into a desperate panic searching for him, he couldn’t lose Jason, not again. Finally the Justice league tracked them, and Bruce was the first ready to go. The justice league was gonna have him stay behind because he hadn’t slept well in days and he was hardly in a good enough place to be out in the field, but this was his kid, he demanded to be part of the ground crew. When he finally reached Jason, he was livid, cradling his 6’4” hurt child, trying not to get upset when he asked “Jason, why didn’t you call me?” It wasn’t so much a real question as a plea, ‘Jason, all I wanted was for you to call me, I wish you called me, I wish you let me protect you.’

And Jason, probably slightly delirious, whimpers out “I called you, I called you so many times, but you kept hanging up. I needed your help and you just kept hanging up. Why don’t you love me anymore? I promise I’m the same. I know you think the pit changed me, that I’m broken now, but I promise it’s still me, so why did you have to hang up? I know you have Tim now, but I still need you. You’re still supposed to protect me.” And bruce is so confused, until for the first time in years he thinks about that prank caller, but it wasn’t a prank caller, was it?

#hey-ow OUCH #ficlet #Jason Todd angst

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Colour coding the Robins is just interesting to me, because Dick obviously has to be blue, Jason obviously has to be red, Damian obviously is green, and Tim... well, he can't be Red because Jason is Red, so Tim is just kind of whatever is left over. Yellow, I guess. Or Orange, sometimes.

#Tim doesn’t even get Yellow after Duke enters the picture 💀 #Tim Drake #I like yellow for him though .. like a duck 🐤 #I guess brown would work given his Drake costume #but ehhhh

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Artemis: Are you really planning to shoot the demon? Jason: Don't worry, it's a holy gun. Roy: How so? Jason: It makes holes.

#legitimately an idea I love so much: Jason magic guns!! #antique guns!!! #with beads of blood for bullets! #the inherent novelty of a modern weapon in a supernatural context! #the visual similarity between a revolver’s cylinder and a prayer wheel??!! #GAHH #Jason Todd #going nuts with my Tibetan All-caste headcanon again #isn’t that so perfect for a character as seemingly contradictory as Red Hood?

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I will always be a Jason Todd defender, he had every right to become a villain, and every right to kill Batman. Instead, he becomes an antihero who protects those who deserve it but utilizes his darkness to stop the bad guys.

#batsalt

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I go insane every time I remember that Jason’s big plan to ~punish~ Bruce was to do a better job protecting Gotham than Bruce.

I will always be a Jason Todd defender, he had every right to become a villain, and every right to kill Batman. Instead, he becomes an antihero who protects those who deserve it but utilizes his darkness to stop the bad guys.

#your honor I love him #Jason Todd love

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Jason’s angst is always going to be about Bruce and Batman I’m sorry but the other batboys don’t factor in nearly as much as fanon likes to think it does.

#Tim isn’t special if he was then why did Jason pull the same shit with Mia #exact same messaging in both fights #why would Jason consider Dick having temporarily killed the Joker any different than Bruce sending him off to Arkham to be temporarily held #can we remember that being replaced isn’t Jason’s defining problem with Bruce it’s FANON #jason todd #Tim drake

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oh hey btw i’m the lazarus pit religious symbolism anon and forgive my confusing wording initially because i specifically had this thought of “huh that’s eerily like a really fucked up version of baptism” and then “wow my beloved tumblr idol would love this”

'my beloved tumblr idol' no one has ever referred to me as anything more flattering on this website, i actually love you anon. and ur right i do love this idea

but also most definitely it's really just a fucked up version of baptism depending on how you look at it. i think it works really well considering jason's experience with the lazarus pits. however it's a bit harder of an idea to push if you look outside of that, in general + with ra's' usage specifically. i don't see the same connections in that as i do with jason.

i'm very intrigued by the ex-catholic jason todd headcanons that occasionally pop up on my dash, which make me appreciate the religious symbolism in lazarus pits even more for him.

the whole 'cleansing of sin' aspect of baptism sticks out to me, with the lazarus pit correlation being the state jason came back in, unscathed and replenished. just as one exits a baptism ridded of previous sins, jason had every physical reminder of his mistakes removed. as one's baptism is a commitment to being 'a cleansed man', jason's revival was his commitment to this new version of himself, so different from anyone he's ever been.

i also enjoy the contrast between baptism essentially being a public declaration of one's connection to christ, and jason's dunk in the lazarus pit being the exact point in time in which he severs his connection to bruce as a son, and stops seeing him as a role model. he leaves his robin identity behind, as well as the child he was before, everything about him that had ever admired any part of bruce.

there's a lot of fucked up (/pos) connections people make between a god and bruce, in jason's eyes (this post comes to mind), so there's also that. specifically i really enjoy the concept of jason always seeing bruce as this 'all-knowing, all-powerful god of the night', until he lets him down for the first time, in death. i'd like to say after that he sees him as more of a mortal, but i honestly don't think he does. he sees himself with more mortality, and pushes that idea even further away from bruce, because anyone who's even a tenth of the human jason is would be a better man.

so yeah. lazarus pits + religious imagery in the closest but also furthest way possible. i also have very complicated thoughts about similarities between jason and lazarus himself, as well as sylvia plath's 'lady lazarus', but that's for another post...

#Jason Todd meta #Lazarus water womb #the thing about rebirth is that you can’t go back to your old life

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the fact that a lot of people in the fandom think that all Jason does and talks is about his death, when this happens because HIS trauma is being used as way to emphasize your favs struggles and aggrandize them as character's, since DiTF, Jason's death was all about other characters and their grief and them constantly trash talking and victim blaming his dead body, his death is not about him, most of the time they don't even mention that he got ambushed and betrayed for god's sake

#batsalt

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Remembering the panel of Gordon commenting on Robin having hit a “growth spurt” after Tim replaced Jason and I’m thinking, wouldn’t it be fucked up if Gotham had no idea the second Robin died?

#mushu: how could you have missed?! #well godamm folks it's canon #Jason todd

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What I love about Jason Todd is that he's angry about his trauma. Life fucked him over and he's rightfully pissed off. We already have "healed from their anger" Dick Grayson and "ignores their emotions" Bruce Wayne. Thank you DC for giving us "hurt and upset and lashing out" Jason Todd.

#there’s just something so refreshing about it #and so empowering when you’ve had to take shit and turn the other cheek over and over again in life #set the world on fire jason #we can watch it burn together #<prev tags #his core appeal!! #Jason todd