#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

[havenesc]

Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, The Penguin (US TV 2024)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Relationships: Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Sofia Falcone & Jason Todd, Sofia Falcone & Dick Grayson

Additional Tags: Temporary Character Death, gripping my fist ao3 let sofia gigante be a tag, she is a GIGANTE, Mob Job Gone Whoops, Bleeding Out, Whump, Angst, Complicated (gestures) Everything, complicated relationship, Immortal Jason Todd, Haterisms, Loyal Dog Jason Todd

Summary:

The white lenses of his eyes are wide open. Blood, rich and dark, drips out of the helmet in Dick's hands.

"Jay," Dick murmurs, startled.

Sofia glances away.

“Using him as a shield,” Dick says after a moment, ashen, and the hatred there is raw and familiar up close. “What the fuck is wrong with you.”

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Nightwing bails Sofia out when Red Hood's demise comes at a bad time. She still owes him nothing.

[abirddogmoment]

Learning about trains and stuff

[cesium-sheep]

it's kinda weird that domesticated dogs have like, about the same variation in size as wild dogs, wolves to fennec foxes. probably even wider size range, since small domesticated dogs can be significantly smaller than small species of wild dogs. but domesticated cats kind of come in one size category and wild cats range from. small domesticated cat size to significantly bigger than wolf size. where are my hundred pound domesticated cat breeds.

[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 ^^

[polito0]

silly thing I made based on the last drawing I posted lol (audio might be a bit loud)

[skeletonrodeoqueen]

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

[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

[birdiedoesdc]

no glory in love (t, 1/3, 8.8k)

ch 1: see yourself in mine

Carefully, Dick lifts his hands up to his neck and taps at the hollow of his throat. It takes Jason a second to process, but Dick knows it the moment he does. Jason's never been able to keep his emotions to himself. They're written all over his paling face, in the way he presses his lips together and swallows, hard. "He did do this to you," Dick says, and he's surprised, somehow, by how emotionless he sounds. "Didn't he?" *** About six months ago, Bruce Wayne slit Jason Todd's throat. It was an accident. Jason came back. None of that matters.

[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.

[symbolicdecree]

Sting Wants You! (WCW, 1990)

[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.

[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

[jilted-love]

Okay but Kurama's full fox form as Vicar Amelia from Bloodborne. Think about it. Boss fight with Kurama who lost most shape and sensibility of a man and now he's just a fox. A very hungry one.

His monster transformation is gonna be epic.

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

THIS was absent from my dreams past night so THAT’S a good thing. Probably. Idk I don’t want it following me around but it WOULD be pretty funny.