#25 under 25

[rosinfinitum]

All three Hughes brothers 🔥🔥🔥

As a new NHL fan catching up, the more I learn about them the more obsessed I become.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Please Reblog!!!

[magicalshopping]

♡ Angel Wings Tealight Candle Holder ♡

[solargeist]

silly Watcher family teehee

[northgazaupdates]

25 May 2024

Graphic design artist and journalist Moataz Abu Sakran @moatazart shares footage from north Gaza as the occupation continues its ethnic cleansing campaign

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Moataz and his wife and baby are trying to evacuate to Egypt for safety. They have raised the money required for evacuation and to stay there temporarily. However, they do not plan to stay there permanently. They plan to eventually rebuild their beautiful home in Gaza City, and require support to do so. Please help them rebuild their dream by giving here.

[rockdrop]

I read a reallyyyy really cute mafuena fic 😳https://archiveofourown.org/works/38711859

[doctorwhommm]

I hsve an idea. Could u draw rose and ianto as besties

absOLUTELY I CAN

they’re chatting shit (lovingly) about their tall, long-coat-wearing, time-travelling, death-cheating, alien boyfriends who have spikey hair

[nostalgicfun]

Crayola Bunny 🎀

[xanderscollection]

"Growing up is realising a (random ship) you loved is actually weird and bad"

Yeah? Is it? Great, I love it even more. The worse it is the Better.

[hierarchyproblem]

Not a lot to say about the Cass Report other than how utterly bleak it is that any politician would take it seriously - but then, that is the state of things in Britain right now.

In particular it seems especially ludicrous that the report throws out basically all existing scientific evidence regarding trans healthcare on the basis that the studies weren't double-blind, as though it would be either ethical or possible to perform a double-blind test on HRT or GRS. There also haven't been double-blind studies on heart transplants, for similarly obvious reasons!

[glitter-stained]

I keep seeing posts about how Jason should have chara development that makes sense regarding his morals and stop killing because of that rather than because Bruce told him to stop and like - it's not like I disagree. Of course, that would be great. Of course I want him to be written his age by writers that like him and have development that makes sense and work with Bruce and Dick and evolve on his own as a person.

But the thing is.

A few weeks ago I saw a critique of His Dark Materials that was so absurdly daft it made me want to peel my skin off. For context, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman is a children/young adult book set in fantasy worlds that doubles as a retelling of Paradise Lost in which Lucifer wins, and criticism of christianism is preponderant in it. (This will spoil a good part of book 1 of HDM btw). I'm far from a HDM fan, I saw a few episodes of the adaptation and read it once when I was ten and thought the characters and world was fun but the rhythm in the 2nd and 3rd books was off and I didn't like the ending, so like it was fun but I definitely not a re-read for me. But the point is, this critique clearly had a degree in not getting the fucking point, because his arguments against the books clearly stemmed from an inability to shift his viewpoint out of the christian framework (I promise this is still a Jason post). One of his most ludicrous argument was the lack of character depth in HDM. This is particularly silly because one of the main characters, Mrs Coulters, is one of the most interesting complex characters I've ever seen in fiction. Now Mrs Coulters is interesting because she is a bad guy. Like, tortures and kills children level of bad guy. She doesn't magically grow to sacrifice herself in the name of martyrdom to repent for her sins or something silly like that; but still, she sometimes does very good, helpful things for the characters, because the tension between her character is between her ambition (and her faith though that's more questionable) and her motherhood, as she truly loves and cares for her daughter, one of the protagonists, and wants a better, safer world for her. Now the critique claimed that there was no character depth because there was no concept of sin and no redemption arcs in the books- but those are utterly Christian concepts, so of course they wouldn't be endorsed by a book that challenges their validity. Just because Mrs Coulters doesn't have a redemption arc doesn't mean she isn't deep; and the fact that she does good things not out of morality but out of love is what makes her a fascinating character.

So, thinking about that asinine critique, I was suddenly struck with the realization that Jason is somehow similar to Mrs Coulters in that he is a very loving person who tends to put his personal connexions above everything else (of course, he doesn't experiment on and torture children, that's not what I'm saying). My point is, I don't think why we shouldn't have a Jason who evolves not moved by his morals (though he has them and they matter) but by his love. The point of Death in the Family is Jason wanted to be loved and have a family and trying to shield Sheila's body with his and telling her he loved her. The point of UTRH is Jason doing horrible things in the most theatrical, strategically planned mental breakdown as begging for proof of love because he can't reconcile being loved in a different way that he loves and because he can't understand someone putting their moral code over love. And as much as RHATO #25 fills me up with dread, I have to say I love Jason's behaviour in that final stint. "I am my father's son" holy shit what a line. Jason is Willis' son and because of his filial love, his loyalty demands he avenges him. Jason is Bruce's son and because of his filial love, his loyalty demands that he does not kill. Jason almost murders Willis' murderer with a blank bullet and then when Bruce beats hims halfway to death he doesn't defend himself, doesn't fight back (like, one punch but come on, we've seen him fight, he just gives up). That right there? Hate to say it with how questionable RHATO's Jason is in general, but that's peak characterization. The conflict is entirely about Jason's conception of love, family and worldview, and it's deep and interesting and has nothing to do with morality. I want Jason storylines that explore that. I want Jason to work with the batfam in stories that make sense, I want the writers to acknowledge him as a victim and trauma survivor and allow him to grow from there instead of demonizing his mental illness, I want him to stop killing out of love and I want him to allow himself to love in healthier ways and for the width of his love to spread exponentially and for that to affect his behaviour and worldview.

And that's not just because I like Mrs Coulters and dislike the idea of holier than though moral characters! The christic symbolism Jason is crystal clear (especially in Lost Days), but it's not just about Jason: Talia is associated with Mary (which makes sleeping with him that much more obviously incestuous and horrible and ooc), Joker is the Devil and Bruce, of course, is God (which begs such interesting questions about the Holy Spirit - Robin maybe? To explore at a later date). Now, everybody's experience with Christianity differs wildly, but the way I learnt it growing up in catholic culture was basically God being an Authority of Judgement and Law, strict and all about morality; while Jesus is about love, unconditional love, even and especially the sinners and the damned (and as for the devil Lucifer is a fallen angel who fell after losing to God, and Satan is the demonic incarnation of temptation ain't that interesting). So I would argue that by having Jason kill or not kill out of love for his family, Jason is already his own character with autonomous thought process, independent morals and original interesting values that are a breath of fresh air in the world of superhero which is all about moral codes. Additionally, I think it's interesting and full of potential (and hope) that that very thing is why Jason and Bruce are held in opposition so often when in christianism they are two sides of the same coin.

TLDR: Jason going through character development that doesn't involve an evolution of his moral code is a great idea and if executed properly should give us fascinating stories with one of the most interesting characters in the DC universe, I used to think he should get a sort of "redemption arc" after UTRH where he questions his moral code but now I feel like I'm stuck in the same Christian/superhero framework as the pedantic guy who didn't understand His Dark Materials and I refuse to agree with them about anything so now I'm a hardcore "love over morals" Jason girlie. Obviously I still think moral code development would be a good and interesting storyline and better than anything DC is giving us rn, but I think we could do even better without it.

(also Star Sapphire Jason ftw)

[meanlesbean]

this is how it feels to be an adult in this fandom tbh

[magicalshopping]

♡ Heated & Coolable Lavender Scented Capybara Plush ♡

[willgrahamscock]

you appear on my dash so often that I don't even notice that i reblog stuff from you. it must look like im stalking your blog. i apologize for that (I don't. i am indeed stalking you (affectionate))

there’s a handful of people who follow me and mass reblog from me on the daily and I just want you all to know I’m your girlfriend now.

[northgazaupdates]

25 February 2024

Resistance News Network reports the murder by the IOF of photojournalist Abdullah Al-Hajj in Al-Shati, northern Gaza Strip. The announcement reads

Photojournalist Abdullah Al-Hajj ascended to martyrdom as a result of a drone strike targeting him while covering the destruction of Al-Shati' camp in the northern #Gaza Strip.

He is the 133rd journalist martyr in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.

Glory to the martyrs.

May God have mercy on him /الله يرحمه

[ashinaisshin]

He who has Kung-Fu and Wude, makes the other know he can break him. His hands go out like lightning, and the other doesn’t want to fight anymore. SIFU (2022), dev. Sloclap