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He ain't afraid of death!

FC credit: @onehandonmycamera

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People who say Denton and Katherine are the same thing, or Denton is more important are so bad at basic media literacy.

When Denton wrote the story about the newsies, his punishment was getting sent to report overseas. When Katherine wrote about the newsies, she was blacklisted from every paper(she was not allowed to write ANYTHING). Not only that she was blacklisted, but she was blacklisted by her own father, not a boss. She had to deal with her father betraying her and find a way around his blacklist.

If Katherine hadn’t kept fighting and kept her hopes up, the newsies would have lost. Denton accepted his fate and decided he would just go so he could keep his job. Katherine didn't choose her job over telling the newsies' story. Denton could have been replaced by another reporter, but Katherine had connections to Darcy and Bill, she was willing to fight for the newsies, who she barely knew.

She also took time during the fight in Seize the Day to check on Specs. It's a short cut, but she is still there as the fighting is happening. She didn't run away, she stayed to support them. Not only that, but she went likely out of her way to cheer them up by bringing the paper. She already knew she was blacklisted. She knew she couldn't write anything more about the strike. She still came anyways. She also kept up hope for them, even when Jack doubted their efforts would do anything. She had more faith in the strike than Jack did throught the story.

So don't say that Katherine is a bad character, or she is only there to serve as Jack's love interest. She is integral to the plot in a way Denton just isn't.

go one day without undermining the female characters in newsies challenge! you start <3

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i've been wanting to draw this scene for forever

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My parents: Back when we were kids, nobody was autistic or had ADHD.

Me: Yea because people like YOU TWO never got diagnosed.

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What would posess someone to go to a live theatre show and talk during it. Like genuinely why would you spend so much money on tickets and then not even pay attention? You bought the ability to see one of the greatest shows of the century and yet you refuse to give the actors the courtesy of your attention.

In other news, I can hear someone's shoes squeaking from up in the top balcony over the singing so that's fun. Also, Nicholas Christopher(Burr) has really expressive eyebrows and I love him for that. He did a great job.

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Man I hate when I don't get to bed before my dad who snores like a foghorn's older(and much louder) brother. I would try to suffocate him but he has my Hamilton/Outsiders tickets so I can't.

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floyd collins might be jer’s sassiest role to date

and yk what

he has all the right, poor fella was trapped in a cave might as well let his sassafras out

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Jason: *walks into the manor* Tim: *on the couch* hey Jason, how’s it—wait Jason: *looks over at him* yeah? Tim: is that a DOG Jason: *clearly holding a puppy* no. It’s an extraterrestrial eldrich being. Tim: BRO Jason: *walks into the kitchen, still acting like there is no dog* Alfred: *raises brows* have you adopted a puppy, Master Jason? Unfortunately, there is a rule about animals in the kitchen. As you are aware. Jason: she isn’t an animal. She’s an extraterrestrial eldrich being. Alfred: *stares down at the dog* she looks like a regular dog to me. Jason: fine. I’ll take me and my baby outside. Tim: baby???? He adopted a dog before a child???? I owe Steph ten bucks *from outside* Duke: WHAT IS THAT Jason: a puppy Duke: THAT IS CLEARLY NOT FROM EARTH Tim: Alfred:

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Do you think Dick ever, in his early days as Robin, scared a criminal that punched him, by using the fact that he still had baby teeth?

Just, imagine the situation:

Dick has a baby tooth that is about to fall, which is normal considering he is still a small child.

He's outside as Robin, in the middle of a fight.

So, a thief, thug, or any helper of a villain, is in a fight with him, the guy is still hesitant to hit a child, even if said child is just beating him up.

Then, out of pure luck, he lands a blow to the boy's jaw.

Dick immediately steps back, more than because of the punch, it is simply to get distance, but then, he feels his baby tooth come loose, and he immediately spits it out, with a little blood, of course.

For less than half a second, Dick considers just throwing it away and moving on, but notices just in time the horrified face of the guy he's fighting.

And Dick just knows he simply can't miss the opportunity.

What does he do? He starts crying.

And the poor guy who was fighting him knows he's extremely screwed when he doesn't even need to turn around to know he's got bat-dad behind him.

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Bruce, Cass and Duke: killing is bad, I will go out of my way to stop it, no matter what

Dick, Tim, Damian & Steph: I don't like killing and will go out of my way to avoid it in any circumstances, but will do it if there's no other way

Alfred and Jason: if you feel anything but recoil there might be something wrong with the gun

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Including these tags because all of yall have problems with leaving great stuff down in the tags.

Jason: *eyes narrowed* so how’s your much’s it gonna be? Steph: *filing her nails* hmm . . . A steep . . . Two batches of cookies and one chocolate cake. Jason: done. Steph: *raises brows* so soon? No haggling? Jason: I’m kind of in a rush here. Steph: okay. I gotchu. *across the manor* Tim: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH F%*&$ WHAT THE F*%#@$& HELLL Jason: *winces* Steph: you’d better get out of here. And I expect my baked goods tomorrow, 10 pm at the latest. Jason: *salutes and jumps out the window*

Tim: *runs in* STEPH HAVE TOU SEEN JASON? Steph: *not looking up from her nails* I think he’s in Canada right now. Why?

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The Signal Incorrect Quotes Pt 6

[Duke got badly hurt on patrol]

Duke: Where's Damian?

Damian: I'm here, Duke.

Duke: Take my hand.

Damian: *holds his hands*

Duke: There's something I have to tell you. If I die-

Damian: I'm not gonna let that happen.

Duke: No, listen to me. If I die, I want you to know... even when I'm dead...

Damian: Duke-

Duke: And I'm just a pile of bones...

Damian: *getting choked up*

Duke: I'll still be taller than you.

Damian: Gah! *drops his hands and gets up*

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So I just finished reading "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first off: it is NOTHING like the musical but I love it just the same. The book doesn't come right out the gate with telling the audience that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person, but knowing the twist from the start just makes some earlier dialogue funny(even when it really shouldn't be). It's a good read, and there is an abridged audio book narrated by Christopher Lee, and he brings the world to life.

The second thing was that(as I am in the trenches of a batfam obsession) it reminds me of the whole concept of Jason's 'pit madness' that is featured in many fics. Just the whole concept that a magic liquid has permanently altered a person into the personification of their evil attributes, while the other person, at first indulges the evil side, but slowly becomes intrenched in it, unable to control the more violent side. I think that since Jason is a reader, notably of classic literature, he would be familiar with the book or one of it's many movie/musical adaptations. I feel like that part of him isn't referenced enough, like there is only passing mention of how Jason reads. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would be a perfect book to reference throughout a Jason Todd/Red Hood fic.

Like maybe it is a book he read before he died and he is seeing how Jekyll felt. He understands the urge to quench the insatiable urge for vengance, and is cautious towards it, trying to not get so roped in like Jekyll had. Maybe he started reading it before and it was the first book he got after coming back to Gotham. He is still learning the story as he lives the double life, getting too entrenched in his 'double life' by the time he reads the end. Maybe he hadn’t read it at all, and it was the first thing he picked up. He gets to see the mystery unfold through his new eyes. He reads the words, perhaps comparing the characters to people in real life. By the end he sees himself in Jekyll/Hyde, and the resemblance is uncomfortable. He sees where it led Jekyll and he wishes to do better. Or maybe it pushes him to the same fate as Jekyll.

Just a thought...

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YJ inspired Jason I stare at you

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*phone call*

Jason; I’m sorry, Talia. I can’t kill Bruce.

Talia: You asked me yesterday if I could “break Bruce out of the afterlife so I can kill him over and over.”

Jason: Yeah…that would have been fun. But he’s given me an offer I can’t refuse.

Talia: He killed the clown?

Jason: He gave me a first edition Pride and Prejudice book. It says by a lady instead of Jane Austen.

Talia: You are sacrificing months of training and planning for a book?

Jason: I’m weak, Talia. I’m weak.

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Bruce has to spend a day working an important mission with the league at the watchtower but the kids are bored so he tells them as long as they don’t disrupt the JL’s work they can hang around the watchtower and then get takeout on the way home. they succeed in keeping themselves to themselves but don’t quite manage not being disrupting. this is because Tim convinced them to do a tiktok trend.

*the league, pouring over case files in serene silence*

*heard faintly from three rooms away*

Tim, Damian, and Jason: we listen and we don’t judge,

Jason: my original plan for terrorising B after coming back to Gotham was to start leaving him a bunch of creepy voicemails Taken-style, and the only reason i scrapped it was because i just genuinely couldn’t remember Bruce’s phone number.

*Bruce lifts his head, squinting slightly*

The kids: we listen and we don’t judge,

Tim: when i was nine my camera broke because a rogue that Batman was fighting threw the car i left it in off a bridge and i was so mad at Batman that i sold photos i’d taken of Bruce Wayne wearing a thong on his private beach to the Gotham Gazette to buy a new one

*the rest of the league also lift their heads, staring at Bruce uncomfortably. Bruce shifts in his seat*

Jason: THAT WAS YOU?

Tim: YOU’RE JUDGING WE SAID NO JUDGING-

Damian: i feel like we should be able to judge OCCASIONALLY.

*the league, eyeing each other*

Clark: they wont… post that video online, right?

Bruce, sighing: to the family groupchat, probably.

*heard again from across the watchtower*

The kids: we listen and we don’t judge,

Jason: back in the league Damian’s hamster died and we told him it was natural causes but it’s actually because i set it loose during a meeting and Ra’s freaked out and stepped on it.

Jason: OK DRAWING A SWORD MEANS JUDGEMENT DAMIAN PUT IT BACK-

Diana: should you be… checking on them?

Bruce, dead inside: what am i supposed to do about it?

Ollie: aren’t you in charge of them?

Bruce, completely seriously: i’m not in charge of anything anymore.

The kids: we listen and we don’t judge,

Damian: when I was a child I was forced to kill 183 people and I dream of their faces every night

Tim: Damian I don’t think you understand the game.

Bruce, getting up: I’m going to go-

The rest of the league, simultaneously:

Clark: see if the kids are-

Diana: we can handle this-

Barry: you got this buddy-

Ollie: yeah go- go take a break-

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Dick: we don’t talk about Jason’s death, Dami, because it’s insensitive and we don’t want to remind him of bad memories!

Damian: *squints*

-later-

Damian: -and then he said because he doesn’t want to remind you of any bad memories, which-

Jason, absently: that’s fucking rude. what bad memories?

Damian: -right?! you coming to the league and becoming my ahki was the best thing that could have ever happened to you. it is NOT a bad memory.

Jason: i mean i was talking about convincing Ra’s to play a match of laser tag with us as ‘moving target training’ but sure you’re great too.

Damian: Grayson simply does not understand our bond.

Jason, not even looking up from his phone: uh-huh. so true kiddo.

Damian: *grins smugly*

Tim, watching them interact:

Tim:

Tim: he’s talking about Jason being beaten and blown up you fucking weirdos.

Tim:

Tim: …you got Ra’s to play laser tag?

Jason: mhm.

Damian: he lost devastatingly quickly.