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Just in case any of you are confused, TikTok being banned and coming back not even 24 hours later with a giant "we thank President Trump" message is NOT a win. It's a huge red flag and a sign that this was a thousand percent planned.

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i think it's absolutely valid to be critical of Devin Grayson but I also think the amount of vitriol the fandom throws at her is baffling compared to what Wolfman gets (which is basically nothing) for doing the same thing.

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ACHIEVEMENT: new Tim Drake descriptor unlocked

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Bruce, sighing dreamily: I miss times when little Jason wanted to be like me. He was so cute.

Dick, frowning: Man, be fr, you were his dad, yes, but not the role model. Me, from the other side? Yep, yep.

Bruce, murmuring under his breath: I find it hard to believe that any teenager would want to be more like a guy who wore the Discowing suit.

Dick, gasping: What did you say?!

Jason, sitting between them on the coach: It was Alfred.

Bruce and Dick: What.

Jason: I said, my role model was Alfred.

Bruce: But-

Jason: He taught me how to shoot. And gave me his recipe book. And I was desperate to get his sympathy, so I cleaned all the manor myself. I mean. You two were fine, but you were ridiculous — I never wanted to be like you when I grew up.

Dick: Ouch.

Alfred, smiling: The last time I rested well was when Master Jason was Robin. Needless to say, I definitely approve his attempts to make me proud.

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Wait, I love this. They do it specifically during really slow stakeouts lmao

Batkids play a game called "Never have you ever" where Duke gazes into their timelines in the multiverse and tells them two made-up things and one that happened in an else-word and they have to guess which is real

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This came to me in a vision

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Some might say that writing a 15 part fic killing Jason Todd over and over again in different ways is psychological torture. I call it a fun way to pass time instead of getting therapy.

They call me the Scarecrow the way I'm using my psychology degree to torture Jason Todd

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The ONLY accurate Tim Drake take that I've seen in a while

i know for a fACt that baby tim would’ve voted to kill jason off that kid was an absolute menace

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Thinking about how some modern comics writers (Tom Taylor) write the batfam and why it doesn't sit right (this post centers around the robins because of their training but some of that reflexion would definitely fit for Barbara and Cass as well.)

The thing with writing a team of people with similar training and strength is you can't take the easy route of "well this one is the smart one! And this one is the flexible one! And this one is the strong one!" .... which is obviously reductive to all of their characters. Obviously, they have interpersonal differences; Dick, being raised as an acrobat, is the most flexible, but that doesn't mean that every single one of these little fuckers doesn't like to bend, twist and somersault to dodge bullets like an annoying worm on a string being flung around in the sky. They're Robins. Obviously, Jason is the bulkiest, but that doesn't mean they don't all go through hardcore conditioning -Tim is only considered "frail" when you put him between Bruce and Jason, this guy would bench-press you any day, come on. (And DC editorial can lie to us about the girls' weights and heights and make them at the limit of ed-territory even though they're doing parkour and hardcore martial arts every day but I know the truth, Steph's strong as hell, homegirl's got bazooka-level guns). Obviously Damian was raised in the League and is proficient in a bunch of martial arts, but they all received training from a bunch of different experts, including, for all of them, the same guy (that they are all so normal and chill about.) Obviously, Tim is the one who used detective work to figure out everyone's identity but you're kidding yourself if you think he's the only intelligent/detective one amongst the robins. Being smart and a detective is a defining part of all of their characterization, and so is being a leader and a strategist. And then of course with that kind of simplified characterization we end up with Steph being "the girl robin" and Damian "the assassin one/stabby one" and Duke "the meta one" (yes this post counts Duke as a Robin. They trained him and also just cause I wanted to. I love him.)

And even if we make an effort and try to dissect it "this one is the detective smart one! And this one is the strategist! and this one is smart in a more techy-way! And this one is the leader! And this one- hey what kind of intelligence do we have left..." obviously doesn't work either. Duke was a exhilarating strategist in WaR already, Jason's strategic work in UTH and detective in Lost Days is thrilling, Damian is a fucking child surgeon (do I need to develop how intelligent that kid is), Dick was the first leader of the Titans and is always doing detective work like, that's an inherent part of his character, Duke was a cute-ass baby doing puzzles and planning to defeat the Riddler himself, Steph literally became Spoiler to stop Cluemaster (girl knows to solve riddles that would make Nygma shit his pants), they've almost all lead a team at some point, etc, etc. All of this is great and cool and a character being great doesn't take away from the skills of another character! Stark contrasts cannot possibly be the only interesting team dynamics, especially since they already have their own teams of contrasting skillset and personalities.

Imo, best robin team-up dynamics is them stepping on eachother's toes with their plans, getting into rapid-fire brainstorming sessions where they're all finishing eachother's sentences, reaching a conclusion and saying it out loud at the same time, one of them having a crazy ass plan and suggesting it to the other and the other saying "i like the way you think" to that person who thinks exactly like them, getting mad at eachother for being stubborn while also being a stubborn little shit, pulling complicated acrobatics together, and just thriving solving a good old complicated mystery with other people who are just as competent and enthusiastic about detective work as them but not a carbon copy, with extremely specific strength and weaknesses and quirks (like Dick's ability to recognise heroin by putting it in his mouth, Damian's uncanny voice imitation ability, etc.)

Of course, this doesn't even begin to touch the family drama, but honestly we get so much family drama angst with no real consequence rn, I'd really love just a robin team-up, relatively low-stakes (aka nothing taking over the city, the world, no past traumas unearthed to haunt them or parental abuse or secret cults etc etc.) Just a very elaborate murder mystery and a good excuse for all the robins to be there and a story that works with their similarities and their potential (both comedic and in terms of plot) rather than erasing it. It would be so much fun!

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I want Bruce struggling to determine how to treat Jason’s body:

-Bruce is Jewish. His immediate thought is to sit shiva, but Jason’s body is at a point where that is not viable. He opts for a direct burial and tries to shut it out of his mind.

-Dick can’t stand the thought of his little brother rotting in the ground. He advocates for a cremation.

-Jason was Catholic :/

-it’s a shitshow and ends up making Dick and Bruce (and Selina by proxy) more estranged

Anyway I love the idea of this broken dysfunctional multi-faith multi-cultural vigilante family trying to navigate through the grief process but it just ends up pushing them apart because they’re a mess

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thinking of the “which kid would bruce sacrifice” poll and how a lot of people were like bruce &jason are just abraham&isaac and at first glance i was like so true but then i was sat on it and . actually on a overarching scale abraham&isaac is bruce&dick but the ram that was ACTUALLY slaughtered for sacrifice is jason. does this even mean anything

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Batman, Nightwing & Jason Robin Commission by @jackhawksmoor

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by 28644950

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PLS PLS PLS PLSSSSSS

If Damian manages to one up both of his parents and all of his siblings by actually finishing school and becoming a doctor and rejecting both the Bat path and the League path I think that might be one of the best character development decisions ever

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absolutely loving this for Damian

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Stumbled across this kid named Jonas Connor on TikTok, and he’s my new Robin!Jason fancast. He’s a singer/songwriter, but he’s 15 looking like he’s 12,

(Also listen to his songs, a decent amount of them are going onto my Jason Todd playlist)

(Also, I know we don’t like the Titans live action in general, but Curran Walter’s has reposted at least two of this kid’s TikTok’s)

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Hmmmmm

I think this deserves some Miraculous Ladybug type love Square shenanigans. Neither of them know each others secret identities. The Red Hood absolutely hates Green Lanterns guts, while Jason has a crush on Kyle Rayner. Meanwhile Kyle is rivaling with Jason for like unassigned assigned seat in some of their lectures, or fuck it, make them like suit mates or some shit, and is ogling over the Red Hood

I think love square at UCLA would make it silllllyyyy

JayKyle AU where Kyle decides to go to university to get an art degree. He ends up meeting an obnoxious classic lit student in an art history class. That student? Jason Todd.

Cue obnoxious art kid vs. equally obnoxious classic lit kid. It would be academic rivals to lovers.

But in the background Kyle is still going around as Green Lantern taking care of whatever off missions the League needs help with since all the other Lanterns are off in space most of the time. And who does he meet? Red Hood. Kyle does not know that Red Hood and Jason are the same person— but now not only is he crushing on his nerdy bookworm study partner, but also the asshole that keeps shooting him with rubber bullets! And unknown to him, it’s the same guy!

This could take place in Gotham— obviously. Gotham has a university. But it would be so much funnier in my head if it takes place in UCLA.

I think it should take place in a SoCal university because that makes it so much funnier for some reason.