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SUBMISSIONS FOR THE IMPROVED AND BETTER DC KING YAOI TOURNAMENT ARE NOW OPEN.

MAY THE BEST SHIP WIN.

RULES:

SUBMIT AN ASK CONTAINING THE NAMES OF YOUR CANDIDATES AND A PICTURE.

THERE IS NO FAIRNESS.

NO SHIPS WILL BE REJECTED, AS THIS ADMIN IS NO BUBBLE BLOWING BLUBBERING BABY. NO DOXXING, OR ABUSE OF ANY KIND, WILL BE TOLERATED. VIOLENCE AND INSECURITY ARE UNBECOMING OF A KING. 💙🩵👑🩵💙

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE ONCE SHIPS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE BRACKET. WHO THE FUCK HAS TIME FOR 48?

'It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

'The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him'. - Niccolo Machiavelli

‘He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli ‘Never was anything great achieved without danger.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

'It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.' - Niccolo Machiavelli

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu

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Key Differences in Prime Earth (PE)/New Earth (NE) Jason's

Jason's own cognizance and awareness as a whole has been canned within PE. Jason worked in NE because of his metatextual awareness of the never-ending slaughter of victims. People created specifically to be statistics, to brush aside. That's why he confused some people who read the story—it's a Batman comic where nameless people die all the time, it's a part of the genre. Why are you challenging the genre?

This is obviously absent from PE Jason, down to Jason having fully lost his greater awareness or purpose as a character. He's nearly aimless. He's more like Dick than he has ever been, in that he is a complacent yes-man; sure he'll kick his feet or argue or get beat-on when times are tough and Bruce needs to let some steam off, but he does capitulate. His attitude about Bruce has also shifted more towards Dick's as well—he does not recognize what Bruce does as abusive at all. He does criticize Bruces actions but he's so quick to forgive/forget that nothing sticks.

Jason NE's entire purpose as a character was to actively challenge The Batman and Bruce, in what was one of the most brilliant decisions to be made with character resurrections—he wasn't just some ally who came back, he was Bruce and Batmans fucking son. He was Robin. Now he's Batmans antagonist.

Jason PE has lost that greater purpose. It's why he is so aimless and a part of what makes people so sick of him, enough so to get blisteringly vitriolic as to crow on and on about him. He is toothless, he is fangless, he does not challenge Bruce in a way that matters. He fakes Cobblepots death, Bruce puts him into a coma, and Jason and Bruce hug it out later. Zero emotional resonance. No meat at all to this story. Bouts of tonal whiplash delivered with the kind of writing that bores you to sleep.

Jason NE was disruptive to the Pro Status Quo propaganda comics churns out all the time, Jason actively centered the so-called 'collateral' damage, the statistics, the never-changing cyclical nature of Gotham. How he died 18 years ago real-time, and 3 years ago in-universe time, and nothing at all has changed—and in fact there's a new lamb for the slaughter.

Jason PE is now part of the pro status-quo propaganda. Just as Dick always has been. The capitulator. The same as everyone else. His sparkle is gone </3

Jason PE is defanged and devoid of any sort of real politics; internally he rarely delves into the quandaries and thoughts that Jason NE did. He doesn't even have the core of Jason NE's concerns—child sex trafficking, rape, drug rings, the structure of organized crime and the desire to control it, Jason PE has no greater goals. Genuinely honest to fucking god it's like he's never wanted anything a day in his damn life other than Bruce to be niceys to him. Jason NE also wanted the niceys but he had more conviction than that god damnit xD

Jason NE was refusing to squander his own morals, his own ethics, his own convictions, in chase of some false magnanimous makeup. He knew it wasn't going to happen and he didn't care to neuter himself to get it. He tried reaching out when he could. He was strangely respectful to them, even when making disparaging comments his high regard shone through. His disregard for the bats comes from a philosophical standpoint far more than a personal one. The personal issues he has with Bruce are part of it, yes, but it's bigger than that and always has been. His Robin tenure was rife with his views! He was doubtful and unhappy with Bruce AS ROBIN because he did not feel Bruce was accomplishing enough or doing enough.

Jason PE seems to just… He hasn't killed in the better part of a decade. He killed that one singular abusive dad and that's… about it really. His attitude towards death and the act of killing is (un)shockingly unexplored.

Jason PE doesn't have a super explored philosophy. Because RHATO is a hackjob. Other writers have touched on it, briefly, like the one who wrote about Jason PE pondering desk-murderers, or how Jason PE is in Task force Z, or elseworlds like the Boy Wonder one. Beastworld, too. Though none of these, not a single one, is reminiscent of Jason NE. All of them try to psychoanalyze Jason PE. Boy Wonder and Beastworld especially were reductive lenses on Jason as a whole.

Broadly speaking, Jason has just been victim to the corporate-sloppification, enshittification, sludge that has been rebirth for the bat-colony. Everyone knows what Tom Taylor's done to Dick's characterization. The superficiality, the even less-than-skin-deep writing. That. That is where Jason PE is at. Just with more whump/angst material, instead of happy go lucky drivel. They're like two sides of the same shit coin at the moment.

Speaking of Rebirth as a whole, there is also an acute risk-aversion evident. There hasn't been a single damn thing in DC like NML since it came out. A year long arc that effects literally fucking everything in Gotham. I cannot even begin to imagine DC publishing something like that current day. Can you imagine someone trying to get that story greenlit?

Jason NE was written by taking a huge fucking risk. The UTH story ends with Bruce being wrong. Having failed. There is no third option. He just failed this time, and he is culpable. Bruce died (yet another fake out but still) for a long time. Dick was fucking Batman. They switched Robins. Tim got a new Identity and kept it. BFTC was a huge risk to take as a story. It sucked fucking shit, but that's because Tony Daniels wrote it. And then Morrison took another risk and went back to fucking Camp-Batman but used Jason NE as the vehicle for that.

Even when Jason NE was being narratively… pummeled for existing, he was still being written with teeth. Jason PE can't leave tooth marks or claw marks on anything. He does not have the implements to do so. He just has scramble to hold on while he's always slipping away. All Jason PE is, is soft-underbelly.

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https://www.tumblr.com/convictsinterim/771172621120323584/jaydickdickjay-comic-panel-enjoy

Hi! I saw this post of yours while faded asf and the song The Days - NOTION Remix by Chrystal was on and I think it fits the vibes veryyyy well very much giving making out in the corner of the clubs ok byeee

I'm so happy to hear that :D Also congrats on being my first ask on this blog! The song's definitely got the late-night devil may care vibe and I think it suits the colour palette of the comic I made too. Thank you for the ask!

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jaydick/dickjay comic panel :) enjoy!

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Jason painting i started in November when I was aimlessly trying to figure out forms with a study. I have since somewhat improved. Figured I'd finish it and add colours so....yippee!

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slip of the tongue

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Jason Todd Week 2025 - January

Rules | Playlist | Playlist Guide | AO3 Collection

Jason Todd Week 2025 will run January 6th - 12th this January!

There will be two aspects to this event:

The main part is the prompt challenges. There are three prompts per day. The first is a word prompt, the second is a general trope, and the last is a fandom-specific prompt. You can use one, two, or three of them—it's up to you! Each prompt also has a prompt corresponding to it in the playlist. A playlist guide will be out shortly so that you can know what songs there are if you don't use Spotify.

If you post on Tumblr, you can use the tag #jasontoddweek2025. There's also an AO3 collection (Jason_Todd_Week_2025).

The secondary aspect is another opportunity to participate if you don't feel comfortable creating art, writing, or other media. Each day of the week, there will be a be an open-ended question about your opinions/ideas related to Jason Todd that you can respond to. For example, "What is your favorite Jason Todd headcanon?"

Prompts Day 1: Drive | Time Travel | The Batmobile Tires Day 2: Joker | Chronic Pain | Fear Toxin Day 3: Monster | Supernatural AU | League of Assassins Day 4: Grave | Buried Alive | Immortal Jason Todd Day 5: Family | No Capes AU | Jason is a Literature Nerd Day 6: Scars | Enemy to Caretaker | Red Hood and the Outlaws Day 7: Return | Outsider POV | Crime Alley Substitute Prompts: Lifeline, Royalty AU, Reverse Robins

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Jason is a cycle breaker, in that he is not a "Good" one but he is cognizant of it and also someone who does direct action about it. Not only is he someone actively aware of the cyclical and never-ending pileup of bodies in the attempts to uphold the emotionally invested rule of one man—he confronts the selfishness surrounding that decision and how it's affected so many people, especially him personally.

Dick does recognize some of the tells of manipulation and of imbalance in his relationship with Bruce, but he does not connect the physical abuse/domestic abuse he sees as a cop in Blüdhaven to the physical abuse Bruce doles out to him. He doesn't connect that he's being emotionally abused, the psychological stranglehold Bruce has on him, the paranoia that spawns out of that.

Bruce never even has to be around for Dick to be burdened by what his father thinks of him—the pater familias. Jason, though? Jason stepped out of that cage and is dancing outside of it. The shackles that bind Dick have always been unlocked. All Dick has to do is step outside the cage. It's why Jason triggered Dick so much in New Earth and why Dick was so antagonistic towards him, mean and even seemingly apathetic.

Seeing someone freely express their loud and turbulent displeasure, list their grievances and not back down to bury the hatchet, gnash their teeth and demand something more and something better incenses someone like Dick. Dick has argued, he has fought, he has yelled, but at the end of the day he will still go back to Bruce. Jason though? He cannot lie down. He will bite at the hand that beats every single time, and strike at the eyes that watch. Jason can forgive, and he can move on—it's literally all he wanted to do—but he couldn't without proper answers and he couldn't just 'move on' when Bruce continued making the same mistake ad nauseam with no change. Jason cannot be complacent.

Additionally, from Dick and Jason's shared kinship, Jason can get at the CORE of why Dick is so complacent, where others cannot. Jason knows the complacence is because Dick doesn't want to lose yet another parent. Jason would know, because he's lost all fucking four of his. One after the other, after the other, after the other. Dick holds onto things with his teeth, too, after all.

Dick is someone suffocated under the black tar Bruce has buried him into. Jason crawled out of the tar. He's still poisoned, but he's making it work!

This is why forcing Dick to interact more with Jason is like catnip to me xD

Jason's own cognizance and awareness as a whole is why crashing Jason into a character like Dick, someone great at self-delusion, is literally the most interesting thing you could do relationship wise—especially romantically.

Jason poses such a narrative and internal challenge for characters, he makes character arcs essentially requisite! He makes plots spin by stepping onto center stage. That is how a long term in-character Jason works. He forces change in some capacity, he addresses complacence. (It's why DC wasn't able to keep him up and full strength, he got diluted into… puddle sludge, mostly through Prime Earth and less so through Daniels and Morrison. Because even with Morrison, Jason still had more fucking teeth.)

Needless to say, transformative fiction also disrupts the status quo so push it in that direction of transformation—of change! I love challenging characters, ESPECIALLY basket-cases, and making them actually change or evolve as people and exploring them in ways that otherwise wouldn't ever get published.

Jason really does far more for Dick's character than Dick does for Jason's, when speaking from a developmental point of view. Speaking from a personal view, I do not want Dick to die beholden to the Batman and his black hole ego that leeches Dicks sanity away from him at every turn.

What Dick offers to Jason is this: loyalty once earned, respect, trust, and genuine unconditional love. A chance to be accepted by someone he really respects and looked up to, a chance to help someone help themself, a chance to foundationally have a profound effect on someone and that effect be positive!

What Jason offers to Dick is this: everything aforementioned, and freedom. Genuine freedom, under no pretenses or expectations that need to be met. There's no 'failing' to meet a quota, there's no forcing Dick into roles that Dick doesn't want but will take anyway because Dick cannot easily say no. And great exposure therapy to help Dick stop pathologizing/moralizing every single one of his actions against a nonexistent jury filled with Batmen.

And so I offer to you, an incredibly complicated and interesting endeavour with many conquests!

actually can any dickjay shippers explain to me what the appeal is. i want to understand your vision please

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whats up. opening this blog up with a nice jason post! i think this genuinely might be the first jason todd/onyx adams fanart (PLEASE tell me if theres others, my asks are open!) which. NO PRESSURE LOL

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whats up. opening this blog up with a nice jason post! i think this genuinely might be the first jason todd/onyx adams fanart (PLEASE tell me if theres others, my asks are open!) which. NO PRESSURE LOL