#HES SO GOOD AT MAKING CANNED SOUP

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

PM: So, how’s the food The Mayor made?

Jade: its great!!! compliments to the chef :D

PM: [Goes into the kitchen]

PM: You're adorable.

WV: [BLUSHES]

[kagekitsuneoflight]

It’s kinda funny that Jason is, in every sense of the word, the most normal Robin. Unironically, there wasn’t anything uniquely special about him before he was Robin. He was a street kid. His dad was a goon (which makes sense for Gotham. It’s a goon breeding ground) and his adoptive mom was a girl who fell in love with the bad boy, got disowned by her upper middle class parents and adopted her boyfriend’s infant son. Even his biological mother isn’t anything special! She was just a doctor who ended up becoming corrupt.

Jason Todd was no circus kid who could do an impossible signature trick. He wasn’t being scouted by some evil hidden organization.

He wasn’t the rich boy genius who lived next door.

He’s not the son of a supervillain (as lame as cluemaster is, he still *counts*).

He’s not the secret son of Bruce Wayne.

And he’s not a metahuman, nor did he led a whole organization of teens to fight when Batman couldn’t.

He’s the most regular boy to ever enter become a hero in Gotham. He wanted to do good things for the sake of doing good. He grew up poor with regular parents, where bad things happened to them. The kinds of things that could happen to *any* person living in Gotham.

There is nothing about him, pre-Robin and as Robin, that makes him Not Like Regular Kids.

His dad was a goon (who, depending on the run, was either killed by Two-Face OR. Just sent to prison and killed in prison! Which makes his backstory even PLAINER-) and his mother was a drug addict with cancer. Jason ends up homeless, and almost steals the bat mobile tires. The only thing that makes him stand out from any other tragedy befallen kid in Gotham is the fact he was bold enough to do that, get Batman’s attention, and continue to be bold enough to go against a crime lord (who was apparently his grandmother, the most interesting person in his family, but since she’s almost never brought up, she’s likely no more significant than a one-issue villain in the crime lord power hierarchy). Batman realized that Jason wasn’t going to really stop, and honestly he kinda grew on him, so he decided to adopt Jason, and eventually allow him to become Robin.

There just isn’t anything amazingly special about his backstory. The few moments where something could have been done to make it more interesting (like his biological mother) but ended up taking the most boring option. You can’t do much of anything now to enhance his past without upsetting much more well established canon, and not without making people wonder “well if his grandmother was such a big name in crime, why hasn’t she been brought up before?”

Jason Todd was a wonderful Robin (providing that he actually has a writer who likes him). He has a golden heart, he’s the voice of reason. He’s everything that a Robin needs to be for Batman. But compared to everyone else, he was nothing special. In a way, his lack of Not Like Regular Kids makes him stand out in a much more subtle way.

As if someone asked the question “Do I need to be someone special to be Robin?” And the answer was “You don’t need to be someone special, you just need to be brave, like Jason Todd was.”

[beeholyshit]

You know you made a promise Maroon

So please don't forget about it!!

[engagemythrusters]

Protecting that which is most precious: soup.

[leatherbookmark]

our flag means death S2E3: the innkeeper

[rogloptimist]

continuously thinking about this clip of a eurosports segment on primoz’s ski jumping career

the section from his former coach is particularly interesting, i’ve seen so many articles where people assume his career ended with his fall at planica but he actually continued jumping for 4 more years and the way those years are discussed here needs to be dissected imo

[i-spilled-my-soup]

could you draw plague!will?

i dont know what plague dude is supposed to look like or how he's supposed to work so you get biology and chemistry flashcards instead

[1am-s0-veryt1red]

with the leaks to the 2nd to last chapter out can I just ask that we hold off on criticism of whoever until the last chapter is officially out? I know it's asking a lot

[youcanthandelthetruth]

Sauerkraut sauerkraut I love Sauerkraut

[heyheydidjaknow]

I don’t usually do headcanons unprompted but seeing as I am bleeding this week I would like to be self indulgent and write a little something for me. So, me, how does L handle a partner going through their period? Glad you asked, me.

Very inexperienced but very nonchalant. He’s treating it a bit like a non-contagious cold, the logic being that if the two of you throw drugs and the right sort of food at the issue that it will, at the very least, cause as little inconvenience as one could expect whilst it travels its course. He will ask a lot of questions and read any reputable sources on the subject that are available the first time, but by the second he has whatever generally works on lock. Only unfortunate thing he does is that if he’s got more than a few data points he’s probably going to track where in your cycle you are, so if you are at all uncomfortable with him going all “you should probably stock up on pads; your period is scheduled to start in a week or so” you should probably shut that down. Also goes a little overboard on the research of you let him so if you don’t want him to talk to you about how women in 1326 dealt with their periods you should also do that.

[aq2003]

youtube user haruyasumi616 comes onto the internet to lie

[marsbotz]

ohhhh this is suchhhh a simple and nice change. GOD

[memethebum]

I think it’s kinda fun how I started the Apothecary Diaries bc I wanted to scratch the romance anime itch but ended up loving how aroace MaoMao is like yes girly you get it too fjdjsksks

(I’m also kinda tired of the male lead forcing himself onto the female lead at times like that scene with the honey was so fucking annoying and Jinshi didn’t even properly apologize and don’t even get me started on that scene where he rubs some of her lipstick on his own lips LIKE AM I SUPPOSED TO THINK THATS ROMANTIC HELLO SHE AINT INTO YOU LEAVE HER ALONEE)

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Having salivated over European food yesterday, here’s the head children’s takes on gastronomy:

[zombinary]

me: oh hey that person uploaded their winter king animatic lets check it out

me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[dutybcrne]

Love the idea of Kae getting used to eating consistent meals bc of a significant other or even a friend who made it a point to always eat with him to ensure he doesn't forget, and even gaining a little weight as a result, even with his metabolism.