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we are cassandra cain stans first and people second

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New 52 my dearly despised…

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Something that I’ve noticed in the New52 is that the reason why Bruce doesn’t take Jason down personally has either changed or expanded. 

In Batman/Superman Annual #1, Bruce approaches Jason specifically because he knows that Jason is willing to make “hard decisions”–to take a life. In this dire situation, Bruce is willing to enlist Jason for that purpose and stand by as Jason kills someone. He’s not enthusiastic about it, but he thinks that it needs to be done, and Jason is the one who can do it. 

In Batman and Robin Eternal #22, when Bruce is talking to Damian, he describes Jason as being “willing to do what Batman can’t, when the world needs it.”

In Pre52, it’s important to note that Bruce isn’t the one who takes Jason to Arkham (Dick and Damian do), and he repeatedly fails to bring Jason in. 

As explained in Batman #629, taking place weeks before Under the Hood, the core reason why Bruce can’t bring Jason down himself is because, “You love me too much.” Remember, this is Bruce’s hallucination, so he’s talking to himself. This is what he honestly thinks, unfiltered, about Jason. 

Even in Batman #650, in which Bruce eventually throws a batarang at Jason to prevent him from killing the Joker, he’s distraught leading up to that moment. He’s willing to beg for Jason not to force his hand like that. How often do we see the Batman beg? 

After that, Bruce never tries to capture Jason–but he isn’t willing to stand by either. 

This is similar to when Jason was Robin and Bruce suspected that he’d killed Felipe, but waited until Jason’s self-destructiveness became impossible to ignore before benching him. He’s always let Jason “get away with murder” in a way. 

From this, Bruce’s Pre52 motivation is clear. He is morally obligated to stop the Red Hood’s activities, but he cannot take down Jason because he knows full well that he loves Jason too much to go through with it. 

In New52, we have two options. Either a) Bruce doesn’t take down Jason because he believes in what the Red Hood does, but not for Batman. A necessary evil that he isn’t willing to engage in. He also won’t do it because he loves Jason too much. b) Love doesn’t enter the picture in this particular motivation. Bruce simply thinks Jason as the Red Hood is necessary. 

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y’all romanticize pregnancy too much we need more fics about postpartum psychosis. And abortion as well

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not a jason stan myself but headcanon that since the lazarus pit brought him back to life he has a soft spot again like a baby and thats why he wears the helmet

This is the single funniest thing I have ever read.

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tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.

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Me reaping

I’m sorry but this whole Richard Siken situation is very guy who invited vampires into his house complaining that there are now vampires in his house

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I’m sorry but this whole Richard Siken situation is very guy who invited vampires into his house complaining that there are now vampires in his house

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People on here talk about how Bruce acted after Jason’s death like the worst kind of low grade true crime aficionado. Leave him alone.

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After we kill Haly the dog we should give Dickie a mangy pomeranian or other small dog like a chihuahua with severe behavioural issues

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Of all the iterations of Bruce Wayne that have existed 1939-present the Devin Grayson take might be my favorite. He is just… the saddest wettest little high anxiety cheetah of all time. His friends and family members are always talking about him behind his back like oh my god! I think there’s something wrong with our high anxiety cheetah! What should we do? And then he goes home and writes a bunch of embarrassing crap about himself in 3rd person in his secret diary.

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The New Titans (1988) #55 & 57 | Robin (1993) #86

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I really hate the idea (which I see floated on here constantly as if it’s a statement of fact rather than conjecture) that comics are exceptionally confusing or difficult to read because they really really aren’t unless you’re trying to read some kind of big crisis-style event, at which point we’ve arrived at what I like to call a ‘driving in New York’ problem: you knew it was going to suck ass before you got started and you didn’t have to do it that way because there are better ways of getting around

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comics nowadays are like “if we don’t tell the audience exactly what’s going on character wise how are they supposed to empathize with & never have bad feelings about a character. also if this character doesn’t know every single one of their own flaws how can they be self aware about them in a way that is #relatable to the people” take them out of therapy I swear to god I’ll kill us both

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The implication that Dick is Mother is very powerful

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Not to be psychotic on main, but here's every instance of Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne in the Pietà pose that I could find so far