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jason

[id: a drawing of jason todd from dc comics. he is pale, with short black hair and white streak in front. hes wearing black pants and black combat boots. hes shirtless, and heavily scarred, including an autopsy scar and top surgery scars. he is sitting back with one leg propped, resting an arm on his red helmet. he is glaring up and to the right. the background is grey, with rough, rocky textures. /end id]

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I read on here a while back that Jason Todd deserves someone who’s also a little codependent and I couldn’t agree more.

Whether that’s a civilian, vigilante, or hero (whatever floats your boat) (my x readers will always be civilians unless someone asked for something else cause I like the concept lol) (quit pairing Jason with Dicks women!!!)

LOL anyway, I think Jason deserves to be loved the way HE loves in return. Some people characterize him in different ways, but I think we can mostly agree on the fact that he loves deeply (I hope we do please don’t bully me). The whole plot of utrh was because Jason thought everyone moved on and Bruce didn’t avenge him. Just like Jason stated, he’d scour the earth to find joker and take him out if he ever so much as laid a finger on Bruce. That’s not word for word what he said but you get the picture!

He definitely wasn’t the full on angry robin, but he definitely is intense with how he shows his love and care. I could get in a whole tangent on how he still would have trauma and a little anger before he died but this isn’t the post lol.

I feel like if Jason was in love with you he’d be pretty obsessed. He would scour the ends of the earth for you🩷

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yeah me too

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How fandom portrays the Batfam's reaction to Bruce not murdering the Joker after Jason's death:

Bruce: I can't do it. I just can't.

Alfred: Kill the Joker.

Barbara: Kill the Joker.

Tim: Don't, but my mind can be changed.

Dick: Kill the Joker.

How it is actually in the comics:

Bruce: I really want to kill the Joker, but I shouldn't and I will not.

Alfred: Don't.

Leslie: Don't.

Barbara: Don't.

Jim: Don't.

Tim: Don't.

Jean-Paul: If you had killed him, your son wouldn't be dead.

Dick: Don't, and I'm going to beat that blond bitch that thinks he's a better Batman than you.

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Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

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B was disappointed, but not surprised

[Prompt] by @lili-home-to-embraces-and-hugs

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Please please please

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*blowing out my little bedside tealight, putting away my phone, and drifting off to sleep with one last dozzy thought of gratitude to blue light screen filters, only to jolt awake because wait shit did humans evolve that way because of candles???

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“My child is completely fine” your child’s favorite batman character is Jason Todd

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"hoverboard" and it's just a motorized skateboard. "evil AI supercomputer" and it's just algorithmic plagiarism. "self-driving car" and it's a fucking tesla

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each year congress people should be required to go on a field trip where they each get dumped in the middle of a random u.s. town & handed a phone with google maps & forced to find their way back to washington solely through the use of local public transportation systems.

to be clear i don't think this would improve our political reality in any way, but it would be fun to watch

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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

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dad bod jason heheh

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let him sleep well!!

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maybe dressing like that wasn't a good idea

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Reading DC comics from back in the day and having other characters casually call up Oracle on the regular when they needed information is just making me sad man. Barbara Gordon used to be at the center of the goddamn universe. She used to be the go-to gal for everybody in the cape and cowl community. She was the glue that held the world together. The freaking JSA went to her whenever they were in a jam for christ's sake. Now what the hell does she have? She lost just as much as Cass and Stephanie did in the N52 if we're being honest.