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figuring out how to get rid of screen addiction is like trying to figure out how to stop a nicotine addiction while also having a job centered around smoking cigarettes and having half your social life be in smoke breaks

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WHAT DID THEY DO TO HIM 😭😭

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This meme popped into my head when I saw Cassandra and Stephanie dancing for their Anti - Valentine’s Day dance party and Jason was there too busting his moves.

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e.e. cummings, from “in time of daffodils(who know” (in 95 Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[Text ID: “In time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow)”]

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what are you even supposed to do when youre angry.  cant scream at anyone cos im not a dick. cant break anything cos i paid money for that. cant rip my hair out cos i need it on my head. literally what now

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the thing abt duke thomas is that he is a genius truly gifted kid who had a promising albeit average future ahead of him until tragedy struck and took his parents from him. then all the energy he has diverts and he blocks everything else out and dedicates himself to finding them and also being a huge problem for anyone who'd try to obscure that.

like #1 most underrated thing abt his character is that he is, by definition, a "retired crash out". after age 14 he had no friends, shit grades, was getting into fights so often he was being kicked out of schools AND foster homes. it truly was self made vigilatism and the power of friendship that saved him from tunnel-visioning into an early grave.

ALL THIS TO SAY my favorite thing abt duke thomas pre batman and the signal (hell even during the comic) is how much of an unapologetic asshole he is to everyone indiscriminately in a bad way. He was kind but lil bro was NOT nice. he was selfish and a dickhead even to ppl who cared and were really trying to help him. I really like to think that him getting past that wasn't dc neutering him but the active choice to get better after he finally found a solid support system. that being said, he most definitely code switches and has to CONSISTENTLY hold back from poppin bitches in they mouthes bcs hes past that! he's in his healing arc! <as he'd say.

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Duke is unapologetic for everything that comes out of his mouth. In fact, give him a mic, he'll say it louder.

Some way too old for that guy, trying to flirt with Cass: You know, you seem so mature for your age…

Duke, popping out of nowhere: And you're really fucking dumb for yours, man, fix this puddle of desperation on your head first and only then think about trying to fit into society. If even your hair doesn't want to be with you, what are you counting on?

Cass, who really didn't want to ruin her cute dress with blood: 👍🏻

A really annoying paparazzi: Hey, boy, how does it feel to become rich after, well, whatever you were before? Have your, erm, extracurricular activities changed? What's your favourite thing to do now?

Duke, with the straightest face known to mankind: No, it's still your mom. My favourite extracurricular activity, planning to do her more actually, thanks for the question.

Bruce, trying to parent a whole ass teen: So…

Duke: I really shouldn't have told this terrible, rude, insufferable piece of person to go eat shit. I genuinely regret it. I should have told her to go eat shit and die choking, such a missed opportunity, damn, I'm still upset.

Bruce: ...

Bruce, to himself: Why am I even trying?

There are a bunch of compilations on YouTube and Tiktok “Duke Thomas-Wayne has no PR training whatsoever”. Duke personally likes every single one of them.

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some books we know jason has canonically read:

the entire works of jane austen, especially pride and prejudice (his fav so far as we can tell)

the works of alexander dumas

the works of sir arthur conan doyle

hamlet by william shakespeare

richard iii by william shakespeare

1984 by george orwell

little women by louisa may alcott

the prince by machiavelli

fight club by chuck palahniuk

the art of war by sun tzu

these are just the real ones btw; he’s also read at least 2 self-help books, some entirely fictional series, books on japanese history, the napoleonic wars, and 19th century england, and in-universe superman comics.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

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Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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using these panels as affirmations i guess 😭

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i’m still here

Nightwing (2016) #121

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I'm back on my aroace Jason Todd bullshit because I'm just. Imagining him talking to Damian, who's asking him for advice because he's worried he just doesn't understand another feeling and instead of giving him "you haven't found the right person" advice, Jason tells him about being aroace.

"So... this isn't abnormal?" Damian asks, narrowing his eyes as he sits across from Jason, already almost as tall as him at 16.

"Not to me, anyway. But there's so much emphasis on romantic and sexual relationships that I thought I was just broken for a long time." Jason admits, scrolling through his phone at the missed messages from Steph about getting takeout for her and Cass and sneaking into the batcave.

"That's an option? To simply not do those things?" Damian questions, relief sinking into his tense features. It looks as though he's been dwelling on this for weeks, and Jason doesn't doubt that he has.

"Dami, I'm aroace. I've never had a relationship that felt right because I just... don't experience those types of attraction. I don't personally want to, either."

"That's... strangely comforting. Thank you, Todd."

"Anytime, kiddo. Now, you wanna help me get the girls some takeout past Alfred's sixth sense, or am I doing it alone?"

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You call me closed off. You think what I'm hiding from you are fields of flowers with a little bit of rain. If I let you see the endless landscape of burned destruction inside of me, I think you would change your mind.

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“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

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my head’s a burial ground of your memory.