#jay should sleep

[afterhourswjay]

Gotta love when kitty sits directly on both your tit and kidney

aka am in pain 💀

[im-the-j-in-anthony-j-crowley]

Good omens tag game

Name two things you have in common with Aziraphale and two things you have in common with Crowley

More reasons to love them!

Crowley

1.- Taste for black clothes and... I WANT TO BELIEVE that I look good too

2.- I love Aziraphale Dramatic

Aziraphale

1.- I love books

2.- Stubborn. Really stubborn

No pressure tags: @fearandhatred @bildads-shoes @harbinger-of-existential-dread @di-42 @sayeverythingwillbefineplease @littlekhaos626

And of course, open tags!

[fernaldoishere]

Been thinking about this post a lot recently, so I decided to make a small continuation with characters that have been on my mind recently lol

How Ninjago characters would react to you asking for pads (Part 2)

bonus: the movie versions of the ninja cause they're completely different lmao

bbg garmadon will never change, he don't gaf

[missycooper33]

flamepaw’s first night at the moonpool

[boyfridged]

in your fic “paint it over” is that how you imagine jason making it out of the explosion at the end of utrh? not exactly the events that follow, but the preferable characterization of bruce digging jay out of the rubble and carrying him to help. and how do you think jason made it out canonically (without the help of bruce) also!!! what are your thoughts on the specifics of jason’s scar and how he’d behave toward it. i liked the part of your fic where jason was temporarily unable to speak due to the trauma his neck received. i think the scar is something that rests on the junction of his shoulder/neck, and that can be hidden with whatever clothes he wears -> no one knows he has it (or how he got it) either. i like to imagine while bruce knows his batarang made contact with jason’s throat it’s never fully registered to him that it scarred until he sees it for himself (and while i believe bruce would turn the moment in head over and over again until it’s engraved in his brain, his delayed realization—to me—is due to his repression of the occurrence)

oh i adore this whole ask. some of it i explained in my notes, but this fanfic is quite dear to me, so i will elaborate.

short answer to whether this is how i imagine jay making it out of the explosion: not exactly?

the premise that i wanted to explore with paint it over is almost the opposite of a fix-it, and definitely not what i believe it should be in canon.

what i wished to explore there is, however, the part of utrh that is perhaps the most shocking to many readers: that bruce leaves jason to die.

in-universe, i think the answer why it happens is surprisingly simple enough: bruce does not come because he is just... not there. my understanding is, that in a way, the events of under the red hood did not happen. there is nothing to follow. that purple mist in the finale of the utrh, that is often read as a force resurrecting jason (not technically wrong, either)- i believe that is the timeline already rewriting itself, making the whole story into something that was not.

and the reason for the above is the infinite crisis. if i'm not wrong, it's also the inifinite crisis miniseries where bruce meets dick right after the explosions in (or of) bludhaven-- that in batman clearly happens in the background of his confrontation with jay. however, in infinite crisis (#4, just checked it now), bruce tells dick: "i wanted to make sure...you're alright... i was in new york when it hit. got here as soon as i could." which could be a lie or a matter of the editorial not being synced enough- but i'm willing to give them a benefit of the doubt given how it ties with that sudden, stunted ending of utrh.

this makes sense for canon for several reasons. in the animated movie, since it spares us the infinite crisis tie-in, bruce says of the whole incident: this changes nothing. it changes nothing because although aditf isn't, utrh is a tragedy; it changes nothing because since his death, jason is necessarily always pushed at the peripheries of the narrative, no matter how much the fate itself tries to fix it, becoming a tragic footnote. the dead have one right and it's the right to remain silent. and that is ironically ensured on a cosmic level, with his violent attempt at being seen hidden in the folds of the timeline. you can also see it clearly in canon -- i believe it was not until the infinite frontier that the events of utrh got just tangentially mentioned (before that, even lobdell barely touched upon it). other than that, they have no consequences; they are barely ever spoken of; they seem to slip out even from jay's solo comics.

this move was necessary for batman, as a character and as a title: let's say bruce does hold red hood as he does in the alt cover of annual 25 (and the cover of the deluxe edition of utrh.) that would implore a reckoning with his failure and his (suddenly non-productive) grief that would either reconstruct the whole myth or lead to some terrifying implications. these terrifying implications are, essentially, what paint it over is about. it's about the worst happening and about there being no way back from it. and jason, in receiving what he wanted (his father's love and care) wants to deny that reality. they both want to. yet even jay cannot ignore it completely -- and i chose to use the batarang injury to emphasize it.

and about the scar: i mentioned it briefly before, but in the au jason aggravates the wounds on purpose, hence it will scar worse and cause long-term issues for his voice. it's a theme i also keep in some of my other stories (to come...) and i very much think this is what would happen in canon if he had to take care of that injury. yet as it healed, i believe he'd take to hiding it, mostly. still, as it stands, my primary take might be that in canon (if it was to follow the interference into the timeline from the crisis at least) jason would simply end up with no scar at all, and only memories for evidence of what happened, which is perhaps worse for him too (but of course better for bruce. and as it happens, this is bruce wayne's story and everyone else is just living in it- or dies in it- for better or worse. and if we're ignoring that metaphysical timeline bullshit, as you said, i believe bruce would repress it all anyway.)

[jaiofalltrades]

it drives me a little bit nuts when other asexual people use asexuality to justify being weird about sex in texts. like i’ve run into multiple people in my college classes who either refuse to engage with or just fully sensationalize the sex in plays/books/stories/whatever we have to read. like i get being personally skeeved out by sex. i do! but that doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility to destigmatize sex and be sex positive. idk how you can call yourself a feminist or an advocate of queer rights if you think sex is inherently unpalatable. again, i get the feeling. i also think the idea of sex on a personal level is gross. i also get uncomfortable when people or media talk about it. but 1) i know being asexual doesn’t give you a monopoly on being repressed. just think of the catholics. the asians. the eggs. and 2) i’m not gonna ignore the thing that makes me uncomfortable. i’m gonna engage with it. bc were fuckin english majors and that’s what we do. i’m ace, not a puritan. you know? also. while we’re here. sex positivity means sex neutrality. fighting for the rights of the sex enjoyers to enjoy sex means fighting for the rights of the sex not havers to not have sex. please don’t take this as me shaming anyone for being a prude. i’m shaming people for perpetuating the stigmatization of sex and being bad literary critics.

[rockhousejai]

YOOOO LETS GOO IM FEATURED ON THE BENDYMOUSE TAG

[localaceken]

If there is ever going to be a life action Ninjago movie [god no pls] or smh Jay needs to be played by Danny Gonzalez.

I will not accept anyone else he is Danny Gonzalez coded. Danny is like Jay irl by vibes alone.

[angelspuparium]

Ehe

[cboffshore]

summer heat is getting to me. I'm sitting here listening to The Black Parade completely out of order and wondering if maybe - just maybe - I could make the whole thing a Skybound analysis. like, how can I relate this to the season, song by song?

I probably won't do it anytime soon, but, like.... I think it's possible.

[afterhourswjay]

me: *attempting to sleep*

my watch that i sat near my bed: beep beep, bitch, andother hour has passed and your still awake

me: *chucks it across my room and it lands somehwre behind my fan, where i shall no longer hear it when it beeples* fuckin banishment to the shadoe relm 4 u

[ne0nwithazero]

When you crave aromantic narratives but you have internalized arophobia that makes you have a really hard time writing and exploring it 💔

Feeling like by shipping an arospec character with a non-aro character, is making the non-aro character "miss out" or that it's somehow unfair to them, even though deep down you know that's not the case and just 💔💔💔

Aromantic representation is so important to me and I want to represent sides of it, but because of how much people look down on those who "don't feel love", I get so scared of it and making people think I'm somehow supporting toxic or abusive dynamics...

[janeway-lover]

Me, awake at a ridiculous hour:

Mutual, also awake at a ridiculous hour:

Me: .....

Mutual: .....

Me: go to sleep!

Mutual: no! you!

[eldesperadont]

Juice is so devoted to Jay and im insane about it send tweet

[butchdykekondraki]

you ever wanna die but not in like. an actively suicidal way. just in like a "it'd all be easier if i didnt have to Deal With All This" way. yaknow.

[rockhousejai]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAIII!!! 💓💓💓

I wish you a happy 20th birthday and hope you have a wonderful birthday! ✨☀️

AHHH HI SUNNY THANK YOU SO MUC FOR BIRTHDAY MESSAGE 🩷🩷🩷

The day hasn’t yet started for me  but I hope when it does, it will be a good one :’)