#could be misremembering tho

[lesbian-batgirl]

as far as i remember the Joker never interacted with Stephanie directly, but here’s his reaction after Black Mask killed her. similar to when Tim was “killed” by Killer Croc, he’s furious that Black Mask got there before he could. this was “his” kill that was stolen by someone else, and he makes it very clear that he plans on killing more, if not all, of the Robins

Detective Comics #810 / Batman #644

Joker and Robin

Alright, I promised this post.

So, the other day I was reading Robin: Year One, and I got to this panel with Joker in jail.

And it startled me a bit because I got this very vivid flashback (flash forward?) to Robin II, Joker’s Wild. 

This is almost identical concepts for panels except one is Dick and one is Tim. And well, it got me thinking… Joker really IS obsessed with Robin as much as he is obsessed with Batman. And - I mean, fuck, he doesn’t even hate Batman - he fucking HATES Robin.

[Gotham Knights 73] 

I - woah. Okay. Really FUCKING hates them. 

I can’t help thinking of Joker’s first interaction with Jason ever (though this is ginger Jason) in Batman 366. He’s… super not amused to see Batman with a new kid. 

And then… you know…

The Murder Thing. 

Actually, Under the Hood is interesting. 

Joker… kinda likes Jason, after he comes back from the dead. He’s amused. He’s got this… weird fucked up family angle he’s needling Jay with. It’s almost like he thinks Jason connects him and Batman. 

Until Jason calls him on his bullshit, of course. 

[Batman and Robin 14] 

The exception to this utter hatred seems to be Damian? Whom Joker seems to view as being more like Bruce than the others… or maybe it’s like the thing with Jason post-resurrection, Damian’s not exactly a moral compass for Bruce like Dick, Tim, or (pre-death, sometimes) Jason. 

And, of course, Earth Prime has had their own take on this, delving pretty deep into the concept. 

[Nightwing 16]

Joker establishes that he hates Dick the most. Death of the Family establishes that Joker thinks Dick makes “his” Batman weak with all his love and friendship and stuff. 

[Redhood and the Outlaws 15]

Welp, there’s that “family” angle again. 

I don’t really know if it’s even worth it getting into Joker’s take in the New52 version of Tim, it’s really no where near comparable to his New Earth version, and I’m not sure what take away there is for Joker calling Tim “boring” in this universe other than it’s the writers calling Tim boring. Skip! 

Joker informs Damian that he and the rest of Bruce’s kids are a burden on Batman, that they “block out the light” he and Batman shine on each other. It’s an interesting take on Joker’s obsession with Batman. 

And, finally, in the White Knight universe, they go out an say that Joker was jealous of Jason for being “closer to Batman” than he was. 

….Yeah, that’s, that’s all I have to say on the matter. That’s just, like, a thing, I guess. 

EDIT: 

So, I didn’t really talk about Joker’s relationship to Tim very much when I wrote this. I knew he really, really hated Tim, but I didn’t have a comic handy that demonstrated that beyond their first meeting. In the interim, I found Robin 85.

Joker is critical of Dick’s initial presence, and confirms he’s always wanted Dick dead. 

He’s established, again, to LIKE Jason. Not just in personality, but as a second opportunity to kill Robin like he’s always wanted, but never got the chance to with Dick.

However, Joker also indicates that he missed having Robin around. 

But he still wasn’t happy to have Tim show up.

What Joker seems to hate most about Tim, is that Tim tends to work alone more often than the other Robins. This means when Joker starts a scheme to get Batman’s attention, sometimes Robin showed up, and only Robin. You can also see than Joker views Tim as the brainy Robin (though logically, all the Robins are smart in different ways - Tim himself just seems to recognize patterns the quickest, and is perhaps the most persistent in following small leads). 

We later see in Joker’s Last Laugh that he is so very pissed off when he is NOT the one to “kill” Tim (it’s a misunderstanding, don’t worry about it). 

At this stage, Joker seems to view the Robins as further methods to hurt Bruce. When he can’t be the one to kill Tim, he at least wants his body to show off. Then, when Nightwing shows up before Bruce, pissed and ready to kill a bitch, Joker decides that’s a better torture for Bruce than pushing Bruce himself past his code. 

[spaceistheplaceart]

found an old ekurei comic rotting in my files, decided to finish it. upon my rewatch of mp100 i kept noticing how many times dimple was referred to as a pet- but he's not ! ! ! he's a friend :)

[sysig]

Rainbows (Patreon)

[fairytail-rewritten]

Didn't end up working on Pisces Star Dress, but I did nail down a "redesign" for Yukino (she barely changed) and started on some Angel concepts :PPPPPPP enjoy!!!

Edit: IK their surname is Aguria I just forgot in the moment^///^;;;;;

[remarcely]

Imagine if the Joker had never intended to kill Jason. What if he only wanted to scare Batman and remind him who was there first; That before it was Batman & Robin there was Batman vs Joker.

What if he'd expected Batman to get there faster and it was the smoke inhalation that finished Jason off, not the bomb.

If Jason had been pulled out in one piece with his external wounds only being from Jokers beating, then maybe the bomb was positioned in a certain way to keep Robin from being blown up.

What if, at a safe distance, the Joker had seen Batman carry the kid out from the wreckage and hear him screaming out in pain for his dead son, and just had a 'oh shit' moment, scared for the briefest moment that he may have pushed the man too far.

[lizbethborden]

It's Ancient Images. It's not poetry, and it's very straightforward, but it made me gasp aloud at one point. I believe Stephen King talks about Campbell in On Writing and I can see why because King's whole thing was always about effective and unpretentious writing.

I am enjoying this Ramsay Campbell book I'm reading.

[apopcornkernel]

you know i saw the rpf poll pop up in my notifs and on second thought. it is truly incredible that i survived elem/hs shipping culture without much trauma. Like yeah someone i was barely friends with and ended up hating did write trashy fanfic about me along with other girls in the class and inexplicably paired us up with certain guys and my life did not really get affected by that .. i tell this story to other people as a fun silly tidbit and one of the guys she really kept writing me with (there was a fic where i was either the president's daughter or HE was marryinf the president's daughter? and another where i died in a car accident) i ended up falling reallyyy hard for (so i guess she was onto somethinf there lol.) i ended up hating her for completely unrelated reasons, but i gotta admit her doing that was really funny in retrospect. thanks for giving my life some flavor!

[o-i-w-u]

i feel like we've lost the whole eclipse coming back different and wrong thing here. like yeah hes the same guy but also.... not really? his memories aren't his, he is not that eclipse anymore, and he never was really

iirc a lot of eclipse's redemption arc was about the fact that he wasn't really the eclipse that did all of those awful things, he was just based off of him. like yeah hes still an awful person and he sucks but they're not really the same awful person that did all those horrible things to you.

he acts like he lived through those things and its his fault, but he... didn't and its not??? i dunno man it feels like we're back tracking here and not in a good way

(more ramble silly stuff in tags wowie)

[birb-tangleblog]

So back in the day, I would stream new episodes of TTS season 3 at like 12AM PST when they dropped using Kast. The watch parties capped out at about 100 users and it was always kind of chaotic to tell ppl to show up early so they wouldn't lose their spot, and then refreshing the page until the ep showed up on Disney Now- it would appear for different people at different times.

Here's a small collection of random screenshots from some of the streams I hosted, including Cassandra's Revenge where Ricky (one of the writers) turned out to watch with us. I only had (have lmao) 1 monitor, which means I couldn't actually participate in chat because I had to keep the video in fullscreen mode- and I'll always be a bit sad I missed it LMAO

[raventhekittycat]

I know it's Ryousuke but I genuinely thought it was a woman there for a hot second

[missr3n3]

I'm pretty sure Sherrif Brock was the guy that owned the gun Declan has in 2.6.

Not just because the report mentioned the sherrif, but more because the police sirens that played in that segment were similar to the ones that played at the end of 1.2.

yeah that was my thought while watching the ep too

[relnicht]

are all andré aciman's dads bisexual professors like? was his own dad or is he himself the bisexual dad (as well as the bi/gay son) or what

[takethistoyourstardust]

i do very much enjoy strong bad as a character but the problem is i was never exposed to the homestar runner comics, or rather i wasn’t exposed to them first. i was, however, OBSESSED with the wiiware series Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People. i begged my mom to let me get one of the titles and i ended up getting the Dangeresque 3 one in the series (which i BELIEVE was the fourth one? if memory serves) which was like, the least About The Homestar Runner Characters game out of the series i could’ve chosen but i played the FUCK out of it.

[akkivee]

BAJDSJSJSJS Reol fan I never saw that picture 😭 I know she's small but she looks so tiny at their sides lmao

and like, what’s so crazy is even without the heels the chuuoku seiyuu are wearing, she’d still be dwarfed by them she really is the crowning definition of short queen LOL

[veocc]

Hackers (1995) had some bangers tho.

Genuinely been looping this all day. Go listen to it if you haven't. I Know its 10 minutes but you owe it to yourself to listen to it.

[izzy-b-hands]

Didn't think the 1989 version of The Woman In Black would be scarier than the one with Dan Radcliffe in it

I was Wrong flkjdsafkldsja, but I'm delighted to have been wrong. I had missed getting scared with more practical effects/careful timing of things in the background of shots appearing and disappearing, and this one scratches that itch well.