#that is a gigantic dog

[birdiedoesdc]

parallels between jason todd and sofia gigante

september 1, 1939, w.h. auden/batman: urban legends #2/the penguin, episode 4 (2024)/i am angry because of my father, halsey/batman: under the red hood (2010)/the penguin, episode 4 (2024)/burn me alive, the last dinner party/red hood: the lost days #2/the penguin, episode 1 (2024)/the story of isaac, leonard cohen/batman/catwoman: the gotham war: the red hood #2/the penguin, episode 2 (2024)/bells in santa fe, halsey/lost days #6/the penguin, episode 5 (2024)/please, please, please, let me get what i want, the smiths/batman #650/the lathe of heaven, ursula k. leguin/batman #650/the penguin, episode 8 (2024)

[olivexing]

Aughgf I’m playing with the concept of power dynamics switching in g/t but I’m too shy to post it

[abirddogmoment]

Learning about trains and stuff

[johnfreemanscomputer]

TOMMY COOLATTA FANART!!!!!!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHH!!!

I love him so much hes on my kin list he's wonderful I cannot put it into words

Made with free draw 2 on roblox and edited on aggie. io ^^

[havenesc]

OMG I'm very 👀👀 right now like!! why Jason gotta be immortal? if Sofia is Jay's benefactor, is Talia out of the picture?? AND DICK!! tell us more about their hatership! what is up with that?!?!?

WOOMPH OKAY so. first question is a heavy hitter.

Jason being immortal has been a fascinating concept to me, especially with regard to the ending of the UtrH comic (the famous batarang to the neck) and Jason's subtle yet canonical suicidal ideations. The multitude of layers it would add if Bruce had -- accidentally -- killed his son directly in the altercation. Jason's recklessness increasing because who gives a shit. He can die over and over and over. He died once and he came back and he died again and keeps coming back and he wishes he would stop coming back but here he is, vision pin-light green, crawling back to the land of the living and at some points it is against his will.

A more frank answer is that I love angst, I love whump, I think it's interesting to look at complicated familial relationships that get even more complicated because Dick and Bruce have very real, horrible opportunities to watch Jason die in real time and his revival never fixes the genuine issues they have. It doesn't save anything. It never will. There has to be more to repairing the broken relationship between father and son than just the opportunity to try an endless amount of times, but the tragedy of Bruce and Jay is that they will never see eye to eye. It doesn't matter how many opportunities they get.

The same concepts carry over to Sofia, who by this point has seen/caused death and knows it intimately. Sofia knows Jason died. Selina grieved for him. To have the Red Hood show up, to have Jason Todd show up in her life? Bruce's kid she met once or twice whenever she managed to get in the door at a gala, and out of obligation or just general amusement of pissing Bruce off, the one she sent flowers to for his birthday, not thinking a thing of it, until the damn kid sent back a hand-written thank you note?? He's alive??

Not only that, but he's handed her an opportunity to use an unkillable asset. Jason can't stay dead. He can go up against whoever she needs him to go up against and it doesn't matter if he gets killed. He'll get the job done.

(There is also. The uh. Minor infraction of killing him off of an extremely lucky shot the first time they ever cross paths. Twice. Jason's both horrified to find out he can revive and pissed off because the first time did the job, didn't need the second (third) death, thanks, and Sofia's smoking like a freight train.)

Honestly I haven't given a ton of thought to Talia's involvement -- I just reread Lost Days not too long ago and I think while Talia does care, to some degree, about Jason, Jason is a vessel to Bruce, and I imagine there's only so much she can participate in on Gotham soil without tipping Bruce off.

Sofia does not give a fu-huck about that. Not in the beginning. She's trying to keep the Red Hood on a leash and keep him off her neck, because she's heard about what he's done to others. They are working off a professional "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours" type of relationship. It has to be mutually beneficial for it to work. She'll help Jason get after Bruce on grounds of getting what she wants -- the fallout of Batman's potential demise is just an extra tip for the bill. Talia might be there behind the curtain, but Sofia's on the ground, so-to-speak.

I made a half-cracked post about Dick resenting Sofia for having Tony Zucco on payroll, which is in zero way canon or has any supporting evidence obviously, but regardless of that I think Dick would carry a "I don't like you, because you're a crime lord" level of neutral dislike for her that upticks real fast into outright disdain when Jason returns.

Dick thinks Sofia is an enabler and that she's not aware of the consequences Jason directly suffers by helping her; he thinks she willfully wants to isolate Jason from the family (which she does, but not for the reasons he thinks). He blames her for Jason's self-sabotaging ways, he blames her for being one of the reasons why Jason can never come home and integrate, and in turn because Dick is who he is, he blames himself for not being able to push all the buttons in the correct order to bring Jason back into the fold.

Sofia thinks Dick is Bruce's enabler and, considering Dick actually reminds her so much of Alberto, if push comes to shove, Dick is absolutely not choosing Jason. He will pick Bruce every single time, just like Alberto chose Carmine while lamenting Sofia's position. There is love and there is hatred in the hypocrisy. Each of them believe they know Jason better than the other and each of them think the other is less superior emotionally. They get into the ugliest, nastiest barbed-wire-word fights you've ever seen and walk away from them injured. Jason knows they don't like each other, but he does not have any idea the level of vicious these two go.

But they also work together when it matters. Sofia knows she cannot offer Jason comfort; that job is Dick's. Dick knows he cannot be utilitarian when the situation calls for it; Sofia can. Dick will hold Jason's dying body in his hands while Sofia pulls the trigger.

(And in the time it takes Jason to come back to them, they are so ugly with one another it would put a season finale of Real Housewives to shame.)

They both have to come to ugly terms that they both want what's best for Jason, but their definitions of "best" are vastly different. And they will hate each other for it.

[skeletonrodeoqueen]

Stevie Richards, Blue Meanie, and Raven, ECW Hardcore TV 6/17/96

[icys-junkyard]

I just remembered to double check if the lad could run on water and GOOD NEWS YOU GUYS

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

For their Halloween gig, exist†trace wore self-made costumes of the cast of Nightmare Before Christmas! Jyou dressed as Jack, miko as Sally, Omi as Jack's dog Zero, Mally as Doctor Finkelstein, and Naoto as Oogie Boogie.

[puppygirlgirldick]

real big dehumanization hours. real big spend hours in bed throwing my mind into elaborate fantasies of being able to surrender my humanity and be considered legally someone's pet hours. construct a bunch of half baked scenarios and let my brain sit in them until it shuts off and i lay here quietly shuddering with need thinking about someone cooing praise at me for being strong to make it this far despite very clearly not being a person, soothing and apologizing that i had to be made to endure that, promising that it's all over and now i'm safe and i can be the dumb little puppy i really am and they'll never let me go. just crying and chanting thank you thank you thank you like a prayer as i feel my mind slip away like a muscle i held taut for far far too long relaxing for the first time ever like blessed relief a burden i could never bear being lifted from my shoulders that they handle oh so easily and it's the final proof that i was never meant for humanity and it feels like freedom when that is the last human thought i ever have

[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

werewolf pup binghe’s human mama taking him to spend the night at her cousin’s house every full moon bc the cousin’s got a lotta land and binghe gets so rowdy around then…he plays in the fields all day with the animals, and then sneaks out at night when he starts itching under his skin with the desperate need to run and run and run

[symbolicdecree]

Sting Wants You! (WCW, 1990)

[abirddogmoment]

this dog is so, so stupid and i love him so much 😭

[zot3-flopped]

Speaking of Eleanor! It’s really hilarious to me how Larries were hating on Olivia Wilde for allegedly rehoming a pet dog of hers when she started dating Harry but they all conveniently avoid the obvious which is that Eleanor got Louis’s dog Clifford in the break up! I guess Louis didn’t care about his dog that much after all! There goes all their brain dead head canons of Harry cuddling with Clifford!

Louis was a terrible dog owner. Not a single photo exists of Louis walking either Clifford or Bruce. Eleanor did it all.

[havenesc]

what does Selina think about Sofia taking Jay under her wing? hell, what does BRUCE think??

OHHHHH THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION and like anything else I love yapping my head off about asks like this (the rancher au is a perfect example lmao) but I think it's going to make a lot more sense if I answer with a couple caveats in mind:

The majority of the Sofia and Jason teamup brainworms exist with the idea that Jason is immortal. I.E. he can be killed but he cannot permanently die. It's a whole (handwaves) Thing that I won't get into here.

My knowledge of Selina consists of the TK run back when Rebirth was new up to the wedding, Reevesverse, Gotham War, and a few other one-off stories. Take everything I say with a pinch or handful of salt as needed.

At this point in the timeline, Sofia has connected the dots to a few identities. She knows Selina is Catwoman and Batcat has been on-again-off-again for (checks watch) by this point, fifteen-sixteen years. Selina has absolutely bitched about Bruce. Sofia is not stupid. She's not about to lay her trump card out on the table, but she knows.

All of these aforementioned brainworms are also a product of Birdie (@birdiedoesdc) and I aggressively slinging ideas back and forth like it's The Wimbledon Championships!!!!

Sofia and Selina, in my little walnut mind, are incredibly close. I don't know what Reeves is planning for Part 2, but I think Sofia and Selina value loyalty and family so much in their own jaded, Carmine-warped ways, and they're all each other has remaining of family. They are sisters. They get wine drunk on Sofia's couch and complain about life. They help each other out on jobs. Sofia was there when Selina mourned Jason's death.

So, when Jason makes his public return in UtrH -- personally, I'm currently writing a "Sofia is backing Jason for the entirety of UtrH" fic, but the world's our oyster timeline wise -- I think, reunion with Jason and all that fun that entails aside, Selina would be wary of the consequences of Jason leaning into the crime lord angle, but would feel somewhat better knowing at least Sofia's teaching him the ropes. Sofia is still not a classical "good person" and she can and will do terrible things as a woman with hobbies should, but the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

Sofia has years of experience. Jason is young and brash and furious and passively suicidal with his immortality, and he's going to get severely fucked over if he doesn't learn to rein it in. If he's going to do this anyways, and there is no talking sense into him, at least Sofia is the one trying to take his neck off the chopping block before Bruce or GCPD gets ahold of him. Selina doesn't have to love the actual nature of what is happening -- she wishes everyone could reconcile, but you don't date Batman for decades without becoming used to the idea of never getting closure -- but at least it's remaining in the "family," and Jason appears more receptive to Sofia's teachings when it's clear that she meets him where he is as a person.

And!! Sofia talks to Selina about Jason. Selina understands Sofia's reasonings, her thoughts, her feelings, because Selina is the only person in the world that Sofia will be emotionally honest with. All the things she won't say to Jason can be said to Selina. Selina watches in real-time as Sofia goes from "aggrieved and having no choice but to take this chronically 19yo in" to "I am actually concerned for his wellbeing and what if this one death is the last of it and it runs out and nobody knows." Selina knows how deep the well of Sofia's care goes, and how much Sofia considers Jason as part of her family, even if she cannot/will not recognize it within herself.

Bruce is not privy to any of that.

Bruce and Sofia hate each other's guts.

Sofia has loose immunity by way of Selina and also by Bruce correctly sussing out that she knows exactly who he is. Sofia doesn't like Bruce even back when she was fresh out of her second stint in Arkham; she was vaguely aware of his family in a very neutral-at-best sense, but she did not like him and only wanted to be around him if there was opportunity to humiliate him. There is absolutely never enough goddamn alcohol in the house come time when batcat inevitably "goes on break" again. The most succinct way I've managed to put it is "Sofia can bitch about Bruce but Bruce cannot bitch about Sofia."

So, when Bruce finds out that Jason and Sofia are in cahoots, he's furious. He thinks Sofia is there specifically to weaponize Jason against him, and to lead Jason down a path to ruin. Sofia thinks he fucking sucks and that he should have wonder woman'd up and killed Joker -- and maybe if he had, nobody would be in this mess in the first place. (Sofia knows a lot about what it means to be failed by your father.)

There probably is a whole arc there I've yet to think about where he's trying to take down Sofia, which in turn leads to Jason getting involved, and Selina getting involved, and it would be so MESSY. In the end, though, Jason and Bruce have irreconcilable moral differences that predate Sofia, and Jason isn't doing anything he wouldn't already be doing by himself.

He hates it. He hates admitting that Sofia is probably teaching Jason necessary skills at least in the way of navigating conversations, about reeling back his explosive nature in times where deescalation is more beneficial than going scorched earth, and that worse, it's working. Where he could not get through to Jason on controlling emotions, Sofia can. (The real irony here is that they are both extremely emotionally repressed people and Jason never knows how much either of them care for him in the way he needs.)

He still believes Sofia is using Jason (she is) and that Jason doesn't know what he's doing (he does; they've talked about their business arrangement in depth), but barring a really bad fumble by Jason or Sofia, he fades more into the background as time goes on.

And I know Dick was not part of this ask but. But. I need everyone to know that he and Sofia hate each other worse than Bruce and Sofia hate each other. Their only common ground is caring for Jason. They have never once liked each other from day one but they are the nastiest case of a bad divorce with split custody you've ever seen, barring perhaps whatever the hell Talia and Dick have got going on.

SORRY FOR THE ESSAY THANK YOU FOR THE ASK <3

[scienceambersandfantasy]

Salt Giant

Glacier Giant

The two highest ranks of the Houndkeeper kingdom. King Gual wears a mantle of Bishop glass, and the dogmaster trains and breeds the best dogs in the world.

Inhabiting the southern pole, this 20 ton sloth is the engineer of its habitat. Forewalkers are a commanding presence wherever they stand, pruning trees & churning snowy soil. People of the South Ice revere this animal as a Divine Beast.

Art by @sawyerleeart

[roszabell]

feeling so unemployed and bitchless today