#but Of Course this is about Jack

[jasperscringepit]

I loved you like the sun.

Hello tumblr!! I’m not dead, surprise! I’ve been busy with uni, and my mental health took a swift nosedive at the start of term. I’m still struggling to be honest, but I had no uni work for this weekend so I had time for indulgent newsies fanart so yippee!! I was also avoiding tumblr to prevent both bbc ghosts and ofmd season 2 spoilers, but I’m caught up on both now and am going slightly insane about both. Hopefully I’ll be a little more active from now on, but I’m still having to be gentle with myself.

#I’m back tentatively!! #still insane about them of course #back in my javid feels #thinking about their height difference #the way Jack’s head would fit in the corner of Davey’s neck #sobbing #javid #Jack Kelly #Davey Jacobs #David Jacobs #javey #newsies uk #uksies #newsies #art

[were-all-just-stories]

titanic (1997) + letterboxd reviews pt 3

pt 1.

pt 2.

#we all remember their art gallery right #RIGHT #what are you talking about of course they lived happily ever after #people on letterboxd are funnier than I will ever be #so enjoy another series of their musings on titanic #rose dewitt bukater #rose dawson #jack dawson #titanic #titanic 1997 #jack x rose

[vickyvicarious]

van Helsing: Tell your friend that when that time you suck from my wound so swiftly the poison of the gangrene from that knife that our other friend, too nervous, let slip, you did more for him when he wants my aids and you call for them than all his great fortune could do. Jack: ...I'm definitely not going to tell him that, it sounds super weird out of context. Instead, I'll keep things vague but positive. Jack's letter to Arthur: Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal reason, [...] he knows what he is talking about better than any one else. [...] he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats [...] his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy. Jack: There. That raises far fewer questions about our relationship.

#dracula daily #van helsing #jack seward #helward #lol #i had to cut the monologue just for length. tried to go for a montage thing with praise fading in and out #it's ALL wildly positive though. but in a totally normal way to talk about your former professor of course. super casual.

[karamazovanon]

controversial opinion maybe but it BEWILDERS me when people (mostly americans ime) genuinely seriously with their whole chest complain about how impossibly hard russian names are. like. do a single google search. i don't see how you can comprehend that charles = chuck and margaret = peggy but can't fathom that rodion = rodya. how is this such a huge barrier of entry for people

#and this doesnt apply to ESL ppl or any other ppl who have actual reasons like dyslexia or something #im talking about other americans who go yeah i had to stop reading bc i couldnt understand the names #how are you seeing different cultural naming conventions as an unsurpassable barrier that forces you to quit and give up on ever reading it #instead of an opportunity to learn and expand your narrow worldview?????? and over something SO SIMPLE?????????? #like i know damn well yall know a katherine that goes by katie or a john that goes by jack #and those make even less sense than something like aleksey -> alyosha! #there are general rules and patterns unlike english! like the progression from aleksey -> alyosha -> alyoshka -> alyoshechka is so easy to #comprehend i dont understand how its SUCH a common complaint #i definitely understand the struggle of keeping characters straight when they have the same first name #like katerina ivanovna and katerina ospovna in t/bk etc #and of course the names in general are something you have to adjust to if youve never encountered it before! it takes a bit of thought #but its NOT FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE and its asinine to shrug your shoulders and say welp guess im incapable of ever reading any ruslit! #like ohhh my goddd it grinds my gears so bad #bare minimum effort #anontalks #sorry for rant but i keep fucking seeing this shit and it rubs me the wrong way every time #like yeah its funny that dunya = avdotya and grushenka = agrafena #but richard = dick and elizabeth = betty so who fucking cares read the damn book

[brucewaynehater101]

Alright. I've seen a lot of posts arguing that Jack Drake was a good dad.

I do agree that he's not as bad as fandom likes to make him out to be. Tim's parents emotionally neglected him, but not criminally. He was sent off to bordering school.

As far as Jack, that man for sure was emotionally abusive to Tim. I don't think that was on purpose. I think Jack truly did love and care for his son. He was, until the end, just real shit at it.

Ripping TVs off of walls, brushing past concerns your child brings up, threatening someone your child cares about with a gun in front of the kid, allowing your anger to control your actions/reactions, enforcing rigid relationship roles ("I'm your dad. You'll respect me!") without putting work into the relationship, looming over your kid threateningly, and referring to your son as property is hella not great.

It's obvious that Jack's not a great dad, but I think he was learning to be better. Right before he died, he started listening to Tim. He was respecting his son's wishes and autonomy.

Some of his not so great actions were done out of love and fear for Tim's safety.

Some of them weren't.

The true tragedy of Jack Drake is that Tim will never know if his father would've changed for him. Tim will never know if the improvements he saw with his dad were steps towards a better relationship, or if they were a momentary interest.

Jack was finally starting to be like a father to Tim. They could've had a decent relationship.

Captain Boomerang ripped that from Tim.

#jack drake #dc comics #dc universe #dc robin #tim drake #batman #bruce wayne #jack drake loves tim #parent-child relationships are complicated #jack did want the best for his son but was a major jerk about it #jack is Tim's dad and of course his death is going to emotionally scar Tim #no wonder Tim didn't want to try a parental relationship with Bruce after this and faked an uncle #id give up on having parents if the relationship that was finally starting to work and improve got killed off #dc should've let jack and bruce coparent cause that would've been funny as hell

[paragal]

Your eyes are a thousand times deeper than the sky, and I am a tiny star falling for all time

#I’m obsessed with this song so I made him dance about it #school started for me yesterday and of course that means I have 100000 art ideas #take this guy #look at him go! silly guy #anyways. I love the over the garden wall soundtrack but ESPECIALLY this song #oh boy #you guys do NOT want to see the first draft of this #my dyslexia fucked up the words so bad I felt like I was short circuiting when I read them #let’s say the first draft was not in the least bit grammatically correct it was awful #jack manifold #jack manifold fanart #c!jack #c!jack fanart #c!jack manifold #tiny star

[mealfreak]

this is stupid

#(the redraw is a joke) #lord of the flies #lotf #jalph #lotf ralph #jack merridew #i drew all over that drawing and thats about as much as i could clean it up lol im lazy #i do not think they are actually similar as characters.. It was just this scene that i imagined with the post island jalphs in my head #if anything jack would be asuka #as a joke of course. #mine #creations #the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma... #evangelion

[the-acid-pear]

I wonder if the fact that Jack is always called out for smelling funny but Dave is never despite both being undead has to do with them rotting in different ways or if it's just because Jack has dogshit hygiene and Dave doesn't.

#luly talks #dsaf #dsaf jack #dsaf dave #dave miller #jack Kennedy #i love the idea of jack just being stinky tho and dave somehow being fucking Not it's so funny #like at the very least we know Dave took one (1) shower. we never saw Jack do that much 🙄 #i do wonder how the resurrection *but it refused #shit works bc Jack is alive bc Fredbear hyped him and shit #but we never saw Dave dying we don't know whta he saw what he heard what he felt #he never talks about it as far as i remember only Henry does #and he just says the guy didnt want to let go #maybe having a soul stuck to you just prevents the rotting which is why davetrap is so fucking gone since Dave let go? #of course jack doesn't have blackjack so he just never stopped rotting #the jack won't bathe theory is funny but i think i fancy the later more

[joseigamer]

Persona 2: Homophobia Simulator (2011)

Bonus:

#persona #persona 2 #p2 #tatsujun #tatsuya suou #jun kurosu #p2is #75% of all the demons in persona 2 are homophobic. LMAO #jack frost being homophobic is really funny to me like of course atlus's mascot is #yaoi #<- sorry. tagging purposes #while tatsujun/p2 has its flaws i think its very bold of them to give jun and tatsuya a chance to defend themselves in 1999 #(the dialogue is the same presumably) #the thing abt p4 i just couldnt stand is how its all supposed to be so funny even the player's self insert is fine with it. #also there kind of is something inherently funny about a demon saying ''so this is the modern day of sodom...'' LMAO #Lich is an ally. #Rasputin hates all human life equally #the video source link contains every demon's reaction to tatsujun's contact - though i recommend watching it on mute or at 2 times speed #(its somewhat repetitive but a good resource and provided clean footage) #games

[loving-jack-kelly]

jack and katherine dated for almost a year before breaking up extremely amicably and becoming the most chaotic besties ever. king and queen of yes anding, fully funded by a credit card stolen off of katherine's dad that she's told him would be homophobic to take back so he feels like he can't.

#i think modern au pulitzer is like. determined to prove he's not homophobic but also he is extremely classist and that's the issue #he's like of Course i don't mind that you're dating a woman. please consider breaking up with this particular woman as she is below our cla #could not care less about kat being bisexual but by god could she Please date somebody with a recognizable last name #kat has jack over for dinner when they're dating and Pulitzer is sitting there fuming. #they break up and he's like oh thank god two weeks later kat is like me and jack are going to France for fashion week #and pulitzer is like please not again. i hate that poor motherfucker. #and kat is like we are Not dating but he's my best friend. get used to it #and jack is like <3 >:) fuck you old man #newsies #jack kelly #katherine plumber

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 67

Danny is forced to revel himself at a gala.

Vlad had Danny do with him to a gala in Gotham. He threatened Jazz or something into behaving. Jack was more than ha to send Danny off with his god father.

Vlad had a plan to obviously properly take out jack. However he needs Danny out of the way. The gala was just an easy excuse to get Danny out of town. He can duplicate himself easy enough to not arouse suspicion.

He can’t simply trust Danny will stay in place. So he figured out how to reverse the ghost shield. So it keeps people in and ghosts out.

Vlad had to act that night. Maddie was going to be out of town for the night with jazz. Jack would be all alone.

It was far to easy to trap Danny with one of Wayne’s countless children. He did it as plasmius even stating he’d finally rid himself of Danny’s father.

He leaves whichever one of Bruce’s children behind as he flies off.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dp x dc #dc x dp #dp dc crossover #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #he isn’t about to let his dad be killed #of course the bat kid had comms on #so they already heard what’s going on #whoever was left behind literally escaped not even a minute after #gadgets in hand #i have a final tomorrow and i want to cry #jack is a dumb smart person #i think vlad could pull it off #he wouldn’t get Maddie even with the death #Danny could have his own coma #linked to sam and tucker. so they are already on the way to jack

[five-of-cr]

ohhhhh i relate so much to wylan despite having had very different life experiences because he's been haunted by an unshakeable fear since childhood and wears shame like a shadow. ok

#and the grief of course #this is what jack means when he says he sees so much of himself in wylan and approaches everything with fear first #me too king #i've overanalyzed the core traits all my favorite characters have in common to hell and back and i'm not sure i like what it says about me #do i think i am fundamentally unloveable? the therapist in my brain says no but the projection onto fictional characters says otherwise #anyway #six of crows #soc #shadow and bone #sab #crooked kingdom #the crows #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #jack wolfe #grishaverse

[arsenicflame]

it is so funny to be reading my izzy takes from last year where i was trying to be all moderate and shit and like 'i know hes done a lot wrong but that doesn't mean i cant like him :( ' in comparison to my more recent takes where ive babygirled the hell out of him. thats my princess. he is perfect in every way and i think he should stab stede again, as a treat :)

#izzy haters will hate you for liking izzy either way so why not have fun with it! #i can; of course be serious about my opinions with him! i have a lot of serious opinions about what hes done and what i want to see #but its way more fun for me most the time just! being silly with him!! im gonna give him stupid shirta. im gonna cradle him bridal style #im gonna joke about him pegging jack im gonna give him a super pretty and rich boyfriend who shows stede up tenfold (sam my beloved) #i think he should have done worse!!!!!!! #as i said the other day. im not his lawyer im writing his biased character letters #nyxtalks #ofmd #izzy hands #israel hands

[masterwords]

Derek + Jack

#derek morgan #jack hotchner #sometimes i think about how wonderful derek is with kids and i get a little choked up #and of course with this one kid it's a little extra special to me

[fatalism-and-villainy]

While talking to @menciemeer, something came up re: Jack’s motivations for being in Italy in season 3 that I haven’t seen discussed much - and that is that he’s explicitly there not to catch Hannibal, but to save Will. Here’s his dialogue with Pazzi in Secondo:

Jack: If he hasn’t already, Il Mostro will return to Florence. Pazzi: Come back with me. We have a chance to regain our reputations and enjoy the honours of our trade by capturing the monster. Jack: I’m not here for the monster. Not my house, not my fire. I’m here for Will Graham.

This is even more striking in light of the context for his character that the very next episode gives us - his conversation with Chilton in Aperitivo establishes that he’s been forced into retirement with the FBI, but he’s not interested in regaining his standing or reputation. (Very odd in light of the fact that come the Red Dragon plot, he seems to still have his old job in Behavioral Science). Chilton tries to get him to use Will as bait to find Hannibal:

Chilton: Will is going to lead you right to him. Jack: Oh, no, he’s not. Not to me. I’ve let them both go. I’ve let it all go. Chilton: You dangle Will Graham and now you cut bait? You’re letting Hannibal have him hook, line, and sinker. Jack: You’ll excuse me, Dr. Chilton. I like to be home in the evenings when my wife wakes.

What stands out about this exchange is Chilton’s “letting Hannibal have him” phrasing. It foregrounds not subduing Hannibal, but preventing Will from succumbing to his worst impulses, as a central motivation for Jack in 3A. It’s also significant that it’s his need to care for Bella that leads him to defer pursuing anything relating to Hannibal or Will, because her death is framed within the episode as the impetus for his investment in following Will to Europe - as he tells Will in the funeral scene, “you don’t have to die on me, too.”

So much of Jack’s character arc in the first two seasons is juggling his repeated sacrifice of others for the greater good. His guilt over what befalls both Will and Miriam features prominently in season 2, and during Will’s trial, he’s already prepared to put his career and reputation on the line to stand up for Will and atone for what he feels is his role in Will’s downfall. Both the traumatic events of Mizumono and Bella’s death bring about more of a full turnaround in that direction - Jack becomes less invested in apprehending killers in service of public safety, and more invested in saving the specific person who’s been harmed by that project.

I think this motivation doesn’t always stick in people’s minds because these exchanges get eclipsed by Jack beating Hannibal to a bloody pulp a couple episodes later, as well as his inexplicable return to working for the FBI in 3B. But even in the former altercation, his fight with Hannibal feels personal, more about venting anger and grief than actually apprehending Hannibal. In Dolce, when Will asks why Jack didn’t kill Hannibal, Jack responds “maybe I need you to” (in the same exchange, of course, as “you need to cut that part out”). That scene also establishes clearly that Will and Jack are, like Pazzi, “outside the law and alone.” As in Mizumono, they’re effectively vigilantes - and Jack’s mission is not serving justice for the FBI, but in saving Will from Hannibal’s influence.

This is why, despite the fact that Jack is once again embroiled in FBI business in season 3B, I always envision his role post-canon as being a continuation of what haunts him in the first half of the season - less about catching or killing Hannibal than about rescuing Will. It’s a lot more compelling to me, at least, than him simply continuing to be the face of law enforcement.

#hannibal meta #hannibal #jack crawford #will graham #hannibal season 3 #i think a lot about how hannibal embodies and brings out everyone's worst impulses #but will is... more of a mixed bag. and brings out both alana and jack's saviour impulses at various points #(though of course for alana that impulse was itself a double edged sword) #and how that might play out in season 4. with players both old and new #also god laurence's delivery of 'i'm not here for the monster' is sooooo good #i mean. all of his lines really #my meta #hannibal talk #queue

[smile-files]

there's something interesting to be said about how nickel's female friends have to constantly school him on how horrible he is but animationepic won't say it

#melonposting #spoof #<- kinda #ii neg #<- also kinda #i hate nickel. i need to kin balloon just so i can experience dropping nickel into that stupid cereal box pit #also y'know what to those people who think nickel loves clover... you're right he is kinda obsessed with her #in that he hates her so much for something that he wants (being a likable/good/happy person) <- according to my interpretation anyway #of course he doesn't want/know how to put in the effort to have it #suitcase screamed at him (as she should've) and that didn't go through his thick skull #only clover in her infinite gentleness and grace could let him know that perhaps he should say sorry for harassing someone all their life : #and even then it isn't sincere #like please don't tell me any of you took his 5-second bizarrely emotionally intelligent notes app apology seriously. good god #like i dunno it was just like clover said to apologize and he said 'on it boss' #or what are we just gonna believe that ae was like. y'know what? this guy just needs to say he's sorry #once #out of nowhere #and we won't have to worry about the horrible things he's done to people (cough cough suitcase) #like heck even if balloon accepts this bs it doesn't do jack for her (not like he should anyway) #this idiot's just so far in the socioemotional gutter that after doing a series of horrible things (which he's been made well aware of) #he'll only so much as acknowledge that he did them if it means he gets friendship points from ae's princess celestia #good god man you're not the leader of a stupid team anymore. get over yourself #the funny thing is that the only excuse for his writing lately is basically a headcanon on my end #i'm just reading into this nonsense. as far as i know he's just being written horribly haha #he's interesting to think about in the lens of 'guy who wants to be happy/good/likeable but does not actually care about anyone' #but if i'm being honest with myself to ae he's just 'jerk who's actually nice now. no he isn't. yes he is for real this time (believe us)' #whatever i need to go to bed