#OPEN 24/7

[reedratt]

Taking drawing requests if anyone got any. Cof/ew/off related are all chill

[knight-in-sour-armor]

[christinered]

Keep your California Kale look. This is New York City we eat here.

~Red

[jay-wasstuff]

Logan: trauma dumps Wade:

[fjordfolk]

Its late so she's sleepy but we're also in the final days of me working as many hours as I can physically bear, so enjoy:

Acutely understimulated Spart

[aingeal98]

No one asked so feel free to ignore this, but I think it’s a little bit reductive to view Willis as an abuser when nothing really states that in pre-flashpoint comics.

Like Cathrine getting “drug abuser” pushed onto her while her introduction just called her sick, and Willis being a criminal (working illegal street gambling), and getting painted as an abusive father/husband, paints a ugly picture on people’s bias towards poor families.

It’s kinda how people assume Steph was dirt poor like Jason when she’s stated she’s from the suburbs multiple times. (And while there are suburban ghettos it doesn’t really seem like her financial situation was ever as dire as Duke and Jason’s growing up.)

Very true! I do agree with all of this tbh. There was classism involved in how Catherine's initial illness went from just "sick" to drug use, and same for Willis. When I knew nothing about Jason except from reading wikis, batfam fics and Cass comics, I just thought Willis had always been the way Lobdell wrote him, and then when I actually read Jason's Robin comics I was like hm. That's a bit odd, maybe there's something I'm missing because he seems pretty absent but that's like. It. Jason clearly cares about him! But he can't be around because Batman and Robin need to be a thing.

Since then I've read a lot of good meta from Jason fans on the topic, most of them were along the lines of what you're saying, pointing out the classism at play that's always damned Jason since he was first rebooted from a circus kid. However I've also seen good meta about Robin Jason's anger towards abusive men, and how bitter some of his speech is, that made me a bit more open minded towards the idea of bad dad Willis. I don't really mind when fans want to explore how Willis may have contributed to that mindset Jason had, but it crosses into ick territory for me when they use it as an excuse to prop up Bruce, who's canonically a much worse father. Ultimately I think what it comes down to for me is if the headcanon is done in a way to reinforce the classism at play in the narrative, or if it's aware of what Jason's up against and not trying to paint Willis as naturally abusive due to being poor and a criminal. YMMV on whether the person writing the meta/fic manages to land the headcanon well, but whereas before I used to have a "ew" gut reaction to seeing bad dad Willis, nowadays I'm willing to wait until I've read the full meta/fic to decide if I like it or not. In the comics though? Yeah fuck that, no thank you. I don't trust them to do it in a way that doesn't glorify Bruce for "saving" Jason from a doomed destiny.

It's interesting that you brought up Steph though because I do see her, Jason and Duke as three different perspectives of growing up Not Rich in Gotham. Jason obviously had it the worst, dirt poor. I do think Steph was meant to be in a bad financial state at the start of her appearances, despite living in the suburbs. But there was a clear progression in the comics of her and Crystal getting better and more stable, which is an interesting contradiction of Dixon's. He hated women and poor people and it showed in how he wrote Steph, but he also liked Steph, as much as he could like a female character while being so misogynistic. So she was given the rare opportunity to escape from the poverty he initially wrote her in, to be one of the 'good ones' who worked hard and got out. And then DC killed her, because even if she managed to make it out of poverty, she couldn't escape from being a girl.

And then there's Duke, who's from the Narrows and who's dad was a non union worker at one point (the monologue Duke gave about the shadow crews was so good PLEASE dc give me more of that Gotham worldbuilding from Duke's pov). There's so much there that still hasn't been fully explored and I'm hungry for more because despite everything going on during Zero Year, when we first meet him he and his family seem stable. It's almost like a reverse of Steph, where location wise he's in a poor area of the city but in terms of how his house looks like it seems fine! Whereas Steph is in the suburbs but her house initially looks... not great. So I'd put him at around the same level as Steph financially just based on living in the Tracy Towers and what we know of his parents careers, but with a much less toxic family situation, which meant that they were probably more secure in their finances even when the Riddler was around pulling some fuckshit. And obviously after the Joker attack he's in the foster system and then in the Manor and then living with a cousin. I need DC to give us more on the Thomas family like we don't even know if his dad is well or still Jokerized! And he stands to be such an interesting contrast to both Steph and Jason. Robins two four and six, three different ways of growing up in Gotham when you're not rich as hell, the similarities and differences between them... I don't trust DC to write it well but I want it all the same.

This turned into a big ramble lmao but thank you for the ask!

[devotion-disorder]

pov pc busts into harper’s office right before his shift ends

total off-mode harper with his coat off and his hair untied....oughhgh

(click for better quality!)

headcannon: harper smokes sometimes, but only when hes really stressed 

[shoutashii]

Vigilante keigo who only switched sides when he stumbled upon Lady Nagant's actual hpsc-filed documents and found out about her slow descent from hero hopeful to silent assassin.

They picked her for her loyalty and power. They picked her because she was the perfect malleable weapon. Born a gun with no traceable prints. Keigo knew he was one move away from becoming just like her, so he turns.

He cuts contact, throws the trackers they have on him and goes underground for a year, only to re-emerge as a red-winged shadow who the public knows is behind the hpcs's recent demise.

[pipcoded]

suddenly hyperfixated on this bitch who is a minor character with no name from a game that probably won’t have a new chapter for years please for the love of god help me

[sun-e-chips]

Decorating for Halloween at Waterspark Bay!

(for the love of all that is Tiki please ignore the floating cart I forgot to fix it and when I realized it was too late)

Let’s just pretend Sun is lifting it for the sake of stopping the package from falling over

[thelibrarian1895]

Red Hood and bookstores

Red Hood aka Jason Todd is a crime/drug lord. This is established.

I would like to suggest that Jason launders the drug money almost exclusively through used bookstores he opens up throughout the poorest places in Gotham since it's not like he needs to make a profit with the stores so he can afford to do things like price used college textbooks at fifty cents a pop. They are open 24/7 because Jason understands the need to get the next book in a series at 3am when you've just finished the one you have. He also understands how it can be hard to find someplace warm to hang out in in the wee hours, especially when you're a kid dodging Gotham CPS aka basically human trafficking. Each one also has a tiny cafe area and employees are allowed unlimited coffee/tea/hot chocolate. Kids also learn that they can get the unsold baked goods for free when the goods are judged to be almost stale and thus unable to be sold. This is helpful to him since it means that he has a place to send the results of too much stress baking and if he has to bribe Tim into helping him deal with the ledgers of the stores all he has to do is promise Tim free drinks/snacks from any of the bookstores for a certain length of time as long as everything comes up clean in any audit that quarter. He'd go to Barbara but she's harder to bribe.

The bookshops are also useful because they are nice places for any of his goons to work when they want to get out of the goon life for whatever reason while they look for something more long term.

All of the bookstores have different names. Jason has gathered a number of favors from his family for, or was allowed to offer in place of a favor, the right to name one of the bookstores.

[ncthandrake]

JOHN "SOAP" MACTAVISH ↳ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

[fjordfolk]

puppy fever, might be terminal

[ioannemos]

libraries being closed on sundays: fair enough, everyone's gotta have a day off

libraries closing at 2pm on saturday: what

[fookinhellcurlyyy]

This is way too much high visibility nonsense from larries.

They’re gonna force Louis into another denial.

And then they’ll be the ones hating on Louis all over again.

Tbh, I agree.

There’s so much unnecessary noise on X, and I’m not really a fan of it lol.

I’m not even hiding it—I’ve blocked a lot of antis, but I’ve also muted a bunch of Larries. So some of the tea doesn’t even reach me unless someone brings it up lol.

A lot of the words being thrown around aren’t even 100% accurate, which just hurts Larries’ credibility even more. But people keep fueling the fire (at least until yesterday).

Even I’m not well-versed in most of these technical details, so I’d rather let those who can provide unbiased input explain things first—then I can form my own opinion.

Seriously, just let it play out for now and find something else to do. Help me with my masterdoc project, for instance (HAHAHA SHAMELESS PLUG IT IS)