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Who's been feeding you, chat? And what about robes? Who's been giving you robes?

we're the only one in the team that uses tumblr anymore. too chronically offline, we need to make references.

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don’t kill yourself because the internet is going to be really funny when Elon gets assassinated

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a little comic for jasons birthday. on being robin & batman and being brave & scared

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elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.

trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.

trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.

trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.

trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.

trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.

trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.

trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.

trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.

trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.

trump changed mount denali back to mount mckinley.

trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.

trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.

trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.

trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.

trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.

trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.

trump withdrew from the paris climate act.

trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.

trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.

trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.

multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.

trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.

trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.

trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.

trump refused to swear on the bible during his inauguration.

andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.

georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.

amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.

every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.

hope the possibility of cheaper eggs and gas was worth it.

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Not to Jason Todd post after years but since I've seeing it around again:

I think characterizing Jason meeting a Bruce who kills in Countdown as "Jason meets a version of Bruce who kills the Joker and hates him" is one of those technically correct but wildly misleading sort of summaries.

In that yes, this Bruce did kill the Joker, and yes, Jason initially hates this Bruce, but using that to conclude Jason didn't actually want Bruce to kill the Joker and would've been upset no matter what happened in utrh makes me think you either haven't actually read countdown or you're deliberately trying to make people who haven't come away with a very misleading idea.

Jason isn't upset because that Bruce killed the Joker! He's upset because that Bruce then went on a killing spree of every other rogue, something Jason very explicitly said he wasn't asking Bruce to do in UtRH. He's upset because this Bruce then took *trophies* from the dead rogues. Because this Bruce isolated himself, away from the city and without Robins.

And yes, Bruce does those things *because* he's a Bruce who killed the Joker...but that's the point! The point isn't that Jason realizes he doesnt want Bruce to have killed the Joker, it's that he's confronted with the fact that he can't both have that and *his* Bruce. Bruce won't stay himself if he kills, even once, even just the Joker.

The fundamental tragedy of Jason and Bruce is they love each other and they can't give each other what they need. Bruce cannot give Jason the justice he needs and still *be* Bruce. And Jason can't return home without it. What Countdown gives us is Jason seeing that firsthand.

(And as an after note, Jason doesn't purely hate that Bruce. He ends up caring for him and is destroyed by seeing him killed. He, in fact, does immediately kill in revenge for that Bruce's death. "If it had been you" holds true, in any universe.)

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I love you, George Takei.

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I screwed around on a fake tweet maker for far, far too long to make this stupid post.

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I think the first people who really start doubting the whole "Jason died because he was reckless" rhetoric are Donna Troy and Kyle Rayner.

It's kinda hard to really believe that when there's literal gods saying that his death was an actual cosmic mistake.

They wouldn't be too vocal about because Jason was an asshole, though.

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oooh, more about the identity porn jaysteph please

One of our favourite Au's is Jason not returning to the bats or becoming the Red Hood. My friend prefers Au's where he just retires and lives out his life normally, and while I agree, I prefer one where he just does All Caste shit and helps out in Gotham, just not as a vigilante.

In this Au, he'd be more wary of the Al Ghuls, so he wouldn't take Talia's words at face value. Sure, he'd find out about Tim and the Joker being alive, but he'd doubt that she had his best interest at heart when telling him. He trains with the All Caste, and he'd get his head on straight. Of course, he'd feel abandoned, so he stays with them until he completes his training, and everyone is less wary about him being the chosen one.

Cursed Gotham is a very fun headcanon, so I'd make it so Jason returns so he can 'purge' the curse. This would include killing the Joker (obviously) and clearing out the slaughter swamp, which results in him being chill with Swamp Thing. Once he's done with everything, Gotham would recover from being a hell hole, but it wouldn't become good; shit's mega fucked no matter which way you slice it. It's why he sets up community centres and shit and uses magic to ward off any intruders. This includes anyone who intends to cause harm or to spy on any resident, which would include the bats.

It takes a while, but eventually, he's trusted by the people there. Him hiring ex-cons and being really protective of kids would really help with that. Whenever the bats try to interrogate alley residents about the centres and their mysterious benefactor, they clam up. Whenever they try to spy on Jason, they get clocked, which causes their reputation to take a hit. Why are they investigating places that help the poor and unfortunate? Do they think all alley residents are unredeemable?

Well, what about going undercover? That wouldn't work since all the Waynes are very recognisable, and people think that they're close to the bats, so it would fuck shit up even more.

Here's where Steph comes in. She's already a volunteer since she always wanted to become a nurse, and because she wanted to help people like her mother, who actually benefited from one of the rehab centres, so in her mind, she's paying it forward.

She keeps running into Jason when they're both volunteering. Since Bruce doesn't talk about Jason, and has canonically gotten rid of every trace of him in the manor, she wouldn't recognise him, and he wouldn't know her because she's not a Wayne. He wouldn't look upr the bats since he doesn't really care; they're not his concern, and he doesn't want to see them.

She sees that he's easygoing and pretty well liked by all the people there, so she strikes up a conversation, and they get along really well. They're pretty similar, what with the addict mother and criminal father. I think their friendship would really help Steph with overcoming her self-esteem issues since she gets support from Jason and people at the centre that she never got from the bats.

Over the next few months, she grows even closer to Jason as they reveal more about themselves, and she finds herself texting him constantly and thinking about him, while he's pretty much the same. Mutual almost obsession with each other. He's more expressive and happy, and it's noticeable to everybody around him.

The bats don't notice any difference in her general behaviour except for Cass, who notices that her best friend is really into somebody. She tries to spy on him to make sure he wouldn't hurt her friend, and he clocks her immediately (all caste training made him hyper aware of everything, and I headcanon that the lazarus pit counts as pure evil, so it triggers the all blade). This, of course, unnerves her, and she becomes obsessed with finding out about the man who managed to notice her when she manages to sneak up on batman and League assassins all the time. Jason doesn't put 2 and 2 together since he has no reason to. To him, it's just the bats being paranoid

This all culminates in Jason and Steph sleeping together, and generally getting more serious, which causes Cass to break in and confront them. Jason starts fighting her, and he's actually winning, which freaks Steph and Cass out. Steph interrupts them, heartbroken because she thinks that Jason only got with her because she was Batgirl, which causes Jason to get heartbroken, since he know thinks that she was only eith him because the bats figuired him out.

He starts raging about how Bruce can't leave him alone, which gives the Batgirls pause because what is he talking about? He reveals that he's actually the second robin, which shocks both of them, and in the confusion, he just leaves. He takes his emergency duffle and goes back to the Acres of All to compose himself.

Now, do they figure out a solution? Get back together? Stay apart? Do they tell Bruce? Up to you. Personally, I think they wouldn't tell Bruce, and they'd get back together like a year later. A bunch of angst, but a happy resolution, because I like being happy, thank you very much.

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Eggman is a genius who escaped from a planet of mushrooms in less than a year. He's also actually funny. Musk WISHES.

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Jason Todd, James Gordon Jr., and Victor Zsasz should all be Cassandra Cain rogues but you didn't hear that from me.

They're all antagonists who are the exact opposite of Cass in every way, she needs that Joker type of character, I'm just saying.

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Jason dating Tim's ex is so much funnier than him dating Dick's ex