#max dawkins

[shyjusticewarrior]

Max Dawkins and Dana Harlowe:

"Am I a joke to you?"

[undertheredhood]

i just know that all of jason todd's childhood friends have issues with bruce. like if your friend got adopted by one of the wealthiest men in the city and just started having bruises (and other injuries) show up all over his body all the time and wouldn't give you a straight answer about where they came from (because he couldn't tell them that he was robin) when you ask him, you'd definitely be suspicious too, right?

jason dying at fifteen in another country probably didn't help their dislike and suspicions of bruce, it probably made it even worse.

[rockingthegraveyard]

Notable kids Jason knew in his childhood.

In no particular order. Realized I did kind of put them in order from post to pre Robin era.

Rena (Detective Comics 561 / 563-565)

Pre-crisis Jason's girlfriend. They met in high school after Jason was adopted by Bruce. They were both the new kids and found companionship with each other.

Numbers (Batman: Gotham Nights 11)

Briefly lived together at Ma Gunn's. Numbers took punishment in Jason's stead because Jason was kind to him. Jason saved him in return, as an adult, from an assassin.

Gabby Christensen (Red Hood / Arsenal 4)

Homeless kid, along with Jason, who looked out for Jason before he was adopted by Bruce. Would comfort and try to tend to his injuries despite him lashing out.

Max Dawkins (Truth & Justice 10)

Ran with Jason when he was homeless. Jason notes that Max looked after him like a brother and Jason considered him he best friend. Jason would leave money for Max to find after he was adopted. Lets just ignore the fact he was created just to be murdered, he is still alive, fuck you DC.

Dana Harlowe / Strike (Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) 51-52)

Possibly Jason's oldest friend. Dana's father seem quite familiar with Jason, recognizing him as an adult and remembering him fondly. Dana took up the name Strike to help defend her neighborhood during the Joker War and later fought with Red Hood to save her sister, Denise

Jason was also friends with Edward Bloomberg (Kid Devil) who he was pen pals with, mentioned in the Blue Devil comics. And Roy Harper (Speedy ((at the time)) starting from the New 52 series. Didn't add them because I was focusing on friends outside of the hero life but they deserve the mention.

These are all the ones that I know of. If I missed anyone, feel free to add them!

[justadcgirl]

Time for some Max Dawkins appreciation

My boy manged to get off the streets, graduate from college and wanted to solve Gothams homelessness problems.

[strunmah-mah]

Hey, how come Jason has so many friends from before he gets adopted that get brought up Once and then cease to exist?

[spilledreality]

On conflict theory

Basically, the first serious attempt at creating a scientific field of archaeology was done by 19th century Germans, and they looked around and dug some stuff up and concluded that the prehistoric world looked like the world of Conan the Barbarian: lots of “population replacement,” which is a euphemism for genocide and/or systematic slavery and mass rape. This 19th century German theory then became popular with some 20th century Germans who... uh... made the whole thing fall out of fashion by trying to put it into practice. After those 20th century Germans were squashed, any ideas they were even tangentially associated with them became very unfashionable, and so there was a scientific revolution in archaeology! I'm sure this was just crazy timing, and actually everybody rationally sat down and reexamined the evidence and came to the conclusion that the disgraced theory was wrong (lol, lmao). Whatever the case, the new view was that the prehistoric world was incredibly peaceful, and everybody was peacefully trading with one another, and this thing where sometimes in a geological stratum one kind of house totally disappears and is replaced by a different kind of house is just that everybody decided at once that the other kind of house was cooler. The high-water mark of this revisionist paradigm even had people saying that the Vikings were mostly peaceful traders who sailed around respecting the non-aggression principle. And then people started sequencing ancient DNA and...it turns out the bad old 19th century Germans were correct about pretty much everything. The genetic record is one of whole peoples frequently disappearing or, even more commonly, all of the men disappearing and other men carrying off the dead men's female relatives. There are some exceptions to this, but by and large the old theory wins.

from Mr & Mrs Smith, cf Margulis vs Dawkins, Graeber vs Hobbes, and critiques of Randall Collins's (via Weber) conflict theory

[softerpixels]

doing nothing but working and practicing her craft has left ava with some major party withdrawals so she hit up the warehouse with her girls francesca and bria. it's not a night out if ava doesn't end up cuddled up with her longtime friend and dealer max, tho. she's... not that into him but he's very into her and this girl's gotta afford her vices somehow!

[jsimmersims]

They grown now

[rawsmackdownnxtdivas]

Street Profits and Hit Row (with B-FAB) vs Los Lotharios and Maximum Male Models (with Maxxine Dupri & Max Dupri):Friday Night Smackdown 9/9/22

[caramel-dalmatian]

DOG POLICE

An crossover show idea i did a while back

The shows like a mix between scooby doo and sam and max, about an independent freelance dog police force who deal with more outlandish and dangerous criminals in the city.

the character bios Dog police bios by dragonboy

Clifford: The head of the force. Tall, strong and imposing, yet a bit airheaded with a kind heart. Cares for the team like a family.

Martha: The team's communications officer and second-in-command, fluent in over a dozen languages. Firm yet caring. Isn't afraid to speak her mind. She makes sure everyone stays focused and not get into too much shenanigans.

Chase: An accomplished police puppy from Toronto, Canada. Leader of the world-famous Paw Patrol rescue team, working with the Dog Police is his "side project". Treats it with the same dedication as his main profession. Often accompanies Bluey and Rockruff so they stay out of trouble

Bluey: A puppy from Brisbane, Australia, and the youngest member of the Dog Police. Kind, innocent and playful. Loves thinking of inventive ways to solve a crime, especially if it can be made into a game. The team needs to be extra careful with her if things get dangerous.

Zoe: Expert detective with a sassy streak. Mastermind at figuring out mysteries and whodunits. Very fashion-concious. Don't mess with her hair!

Snoopy: A dog of little words, but one with a brilliant and analytic mind. Writer in his down-time. Always has his nose in a true crime book.

Aleu: A wolf-dog from Alaska. Zoe's best friend. One of the most hands-on members of the force. Not afraid to get her paws dirty. Ready for a fight even before she knows who shes fighting, though sometimes this approach gets her into trouble.

Courage: Ironically, a big coward, but a lovable one at that. Acts as the team's psychogical consultant. Trying to get over his phobias of a myriad of things. Skilled in cimputer tech and works with Dawkins to locate criminals

Elsa: The team's medic. Often seen training new recruits. Will always help out a fellow teammate or anyone injured at a crime scene. Can be egotistical at times, especially loves playing the leader when Martha or Clifford isn’t around, but always means well.

Dawkins: A Dalmatian from London, England, and just one member of a large family. The team's chief scientific advisor and tech support. Filled with knowledge despite his young age. Hes made several useful gadgets for the team at their disposal

Brian: an average joe-turned-sniffer dog from Quahog, Rhode Island. A ladies' man with a great singing voice and an expansive drinks cabinet. Can sniff out any form of contraband from blocks away. He does get annoyed with some of his teams dumb antics but does get along well with the others

Rockruff: The second-youngest of the team. A fireball of energy who brings a chaotic, upbeat energy to the team. Snarky at times, but in good means and being playful. Though he always has the feeling he's being controlled by someone.

[batfsm]

Jason's "brother" first appears in the digital-first chapter Truth & Justice #10 by Jeff Trammell, Rob Guillory, Jean-Francois Beaulieu, and Becca Carey. This story focuses on Red Hood's time as a homeless kid. But he isn't alone in this version of his past; one of the people who helps young Jason is Max Dawkins, an older kid who once took care of Jason like a brother. Together, the two survive their childhood. After Jason Todd is taken in by Batman, Jason leaves some money for Max to help him get off the streets. Max turns his life around, even graduating from college — but is unfortunately murdered by Scarecrow. Killing Max off was a huge mis-step on DC's part, and bringing him back could give Jason Todd's character new depth.

So is Max before Nu52 or in New52? Because I never heard of him so I think he is New52.

Almost every member of the Bat-Family still has a powerful connection to their past life. Dick has had old family members reappear, like his uncle and sister — plus he owns the circus he grew up in. Barbara Gordon still has her father, and Cass Cain, for better or worse, still has her mother and father. Damian Wayne has his father, mother, and grandfather. But Jason Todd has no connection to his past life at all. Both of Jason's mothers are dead, and Joker recently killed Jason's father, meaning Jason has no connection left to his pre-Batman childhood. Bringing Max back into continuity would give Jason at least one supporting cast member who knew him before his death as Robin and his revival as Red Hood, which is something Jason desperately needs.

Jason has Crime Alley! He grew up on the streets, he knows the people probably the best than anyone in the family. He has someone on his side, the people of Gotham themselves!

This has to be New52 because I swear Willis was dead around the time Catherine died. Or still in prison. Wait, Catherine dies by the Joker? At least here. I thought it was the drugs who did it.

(This was where I saw it said Joker killed Catherine and Willis.)

Every other Bat-Family member, including Batman, has both a connection to their past and a civilian life with supporting characters. Jason has neither; rarely is he shown in his civilian life, and he has no supporting cast that isn't a fellow superhero. There is no doubt that, out of all the Bat-Family members, Jason is the one who has struggled the most to find his footing outside the team. Every Batgirl and Robin has their own supporting cast, and Red Hood deserves the same. Bringing Max back could be the first step to fixing that.

Who did Tim have before dating Bernard? Unless I’m mistaken, which I might be, didn’t he push Ives, Bernard, Darla(?), and his other school friends away to focus on Robin? Not to mention it seems as if he had no one to hang out with when Jack made him give Robin up...

Oh, I thought it was Dick’s grandfather who reappeared? Or do they not count William as a family member? Plus, isn’t Dick’s sister his parents killers adopted daughter?

Wait, who do they consider Bruce having as his supporting cast? His kids who technically are also his partners? His best friends who are superheroes? Something that ScreenRant seems to hate for Jason? Damian literally has no friends, that they show, besides Jon who is now Tim’s age, since they got rid of Colin and his other friends, including Jon, are superheroes or villains also.

Tim has Bernard and maybe Ives. Duke has his mom, same with Steph, and that’s about it I believe.

I’m surprised they counted Cass’s parents, Ra’s, and Talia in with Damian’s support. Especially since they didn’t put that Ra’s and Talia are as bad as Cass’ s parents…now.

Actually, if you get down to it, the whole family has each other to rely on also. So Jason isn’t alone.

Every other Bat-Family member, including Batman, has both a connection to their past and a civilian life with supporting characters.

Every Batgirl and Robin has their own supporting cast, and Red Hood deserves the same.

ScreenRant really reiterated themselves here.

DC really changed everyones backstory and made them worse didn’t they?

[shyjusticewarrior]

[redjaybathood]

I'm sorry, I am still in the bomb shelter so I need to take my mind off the things like sounds of explosions and how my stomach is hurting right now from stress+constant coffee bc I've been pulling doubles and weekends on 3 hours of sleep basically the whole week+I literally have no food money left so I'm eating like, once a day and it's the cheapest crop there is. So yeah, my stomach is fucked up again.

Anyhow! Need to take my mind off things, and been browsing Tumblr insomuch as weak connection allows me. So happened upon a post that was about fixing Jason in comics. And the thing is, it's not about this particular post, I've seen a lot of them. By fixing things, people propose different things. Leave Gotham, have some of his own friends so not to steal from Dick of Tim, being community minded, etc etc. And most of the things listed are already in the canon.

Jason got his own friends back in 2016 with Artemis and Biz. Of course, Wonderfam/Artemis fans weren't happy about it either. And nobody would. You can literally not allow any established hero or villain or any character at all, to become Jason's friend, because it's stealing. You just need an OC. But fandom doesn't like OC that much either, seeing how when he got some more friends in 2020ish with Dana Harlowe (with a few unfortunate mentions in between, like Max Dawkins, fridged, and Numbers, rewamping Jason's story in Ma Gunn's school, never to be seen again), people were harping that it's rewriting Jason's history again, because he didn't have any childhood friends, otherwise he wouldn't be so alone and died. Now some people say that Martinborough doesn't respect Jason as a character and makes his OC the star of the show. So this doesn't work either.

Leave Gotham. He left Gotham plenty in 2016 run, and I'm not scandalsavage to be up to date on sales figures so I don't know how it did, financially speaking. İ would bet not that good tho. İ didn't enjoy the Year of the Villain event and Jason's group of kids/teen villains, and I don't see anyone enjoying them or even bringing them up in meta or hc or fic much. Yeah, I would bet it didn't do all that good. So. They probably wouldn't do that anymore.

And there's people who, the opposite. They want Jason back to street level, as if he ever was. Okay, so Red Hood: The Hill.

And there's people who say, Jason should help community in other, cool, hip, anarchist ways of growing community gardens or whatever. Do charity like multi gazillioner Bruce Wayne does. And wadda you know, Jason also did charity in canon! Again, Rebirth. İceberg Lounge arc.

The problem is consistency. The problem is making it matter for more than the issue it appears in.

İm sincerely holding up hopes for Martinborough's run. İt's a mini series, as far as I remember, and they're supposed to be easier in that - if you don't count, like, Rosenberg's Man Who Stopped Laughing being fucked by Zdarsky's Gotham War (fucking distasteful ; could have come up with a better name: Lover's Spat; or, Consequences of Not Getting Enough Sleep. Which honestly, I can relate, Bruce. Can relate.)

But from what I ve seen from the first issue, it's not exactly... There's too much going on and I don't know where he's going with it tbh.

[rockingthegraveyard]

Forever thinking about him.

And never forgiving DC for just killing him off.

[wisdomfish]

This is not atheism.

Dawkins wrote this: "Einstein sometimes invoked the name of God, and he is not the only atheistic scientist to do so, inviting misunderstanding by supernaturalists eager to misunderstand and claim the illustrious thinker as their own." … I list ten Einstein quotations from Max Jammer's book from which we can judge whether or not Einstein was an atheist.

"I am not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist."

"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for support of such views."

"Every scientist becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men."

"The divine reveals itself in the physical world."

"My God created laws… His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking but by immutable laws."

"I want to know how God created this world.… I want to know his thoughts."

"What I am really interested in is knowing whether God could have created the world in a different way."

"This firm belief in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God."

"Behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force ... is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious."

"My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit… That superior reasoning power forms my idea of God."

So what does Dawkins conclude? Einstein was an atheist! But Einstein speaks of "a superior spirit", "a superior mind", "a spirit vastly superior to men", "a veneration for this force", etc.

This is not atheism.

~ John Marsh 

[juliaxhart]

Wrestlers I write for:

AEW:

Adam Cole

Adam Page

Alex Reynolds

Angelo Parker

Anna Jay A.S.

Athena

Austin Gunn

Brody King

Bryan Danielson

Buddy Matthews

Cash Wheeler

Chuck Taylor

Claudio Castagnoli

Colten Gunn

Danhausen

Daniel Garcia

Dante Martin

Darby Allin

Darius Martin

Dax Harwood

Britt Baker

Eddie Kingston

Ethan Page

Evil Uno

Hikaru Shida

Hook

Jack Perry

Jamie Hayter

Jon Moxley

Julia Hart

Kenny Omega

Kip Sabian

Kris Statlander

Kyle O’Reilly

MJF

Malakai Black

Matt Jackson

Max Caster

Nick Jackson

Orange Cassidy

Pac

Ricky Starks

Roderick Strong

Ruby Soho

Shawn Spears

Stu Grayson

The Bunny

Toni Storm

Trent Beretta

Wardlow

Wheeler Yuta

Willow Nightingale

WWE:

Alexa Bliss

Angelo Dawkins

Asuka

Austin Theory

Bayley

Becky Lunch

Bianca Belair

Bray Wyatt

Cameron Grimes

Carmella

Carmelo Hayes

Cody Rhodes

Cora Jade

Dakota Kai

Damian Priest

Dolph Ziggler

Dominik Mysterio

Drew McIntyre

Duke Hudson

Edge

Elias

Finn Bálor

Gigi Dolin

Grayson Waller

Iyo Sky

Indi Hartwell

Jey Uso

Jimmy Uso

Joe Gacy

Johnny Gargano

Karrion Kross

Kevin Owens

Kofi Kingston

LA Knight

Liv Morgan

Michin

Montez Ford

Mustafa Ali

Raquel Rodriguez

Rhea Ripley

Roman Reigns

Roxanne Perez

Sami Zayn

Seth Rollins

Sheamus

Shinsuke Nakamura

Solo Sikoa

The Miz

Tyler Breeze

Wes Lee

Impact:

Ace Austin

Alex Shelley

Alan Angels

Brian Myers

Chris Bey

Chris Sabin

Dirty Dango

Heath

Joe Hendry

Trey Miguel

Trinity

NJPW:

El Phantasmo

Hiroshi Tanahashi

KAIRI

Kenta

Kazuchika Okada

Mercedes Moné

Shota Umino

Ships:

Hook/Danhausen

Hook/Jack Perry

Tyler Breeze/Fandango

Matt Jackson/Adam Page

Finn Balor/Damian Priest

Sami Zayn/Kevin Owens

Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose)/Seth Rollins

Seth Rollins/Roman Reigns

Sami Zayn/Jey Uso

Dominik Mysterio/Rhea Ripley

Dominik Mysterio/Damian Priest

Buddy Matthews/Brody King

Judgement Day (poly)

House of black (poly)

Damage CTRL (poly)

Iyo Sky/Dakota Kai

Liv Morgan/Rhea Ripley

Wheeler Yuta/Daniel Garcia

The shield (poly)

Chuck Taylor/Orange Cassidy

Chuck Taylor/Danhausen

Chuck Taylor/Trent Beretta

Best Friends (poly)

Kenny Omega/Adam Page

Jon Moxley(Dean Ambrose)/Roman Reigns