#they mean so much to me you guys im ill

[sevsryn]

Maybe Things Could Have Been Different

[crows-of-buckets]

Rook: I'm really worried about Davrin and Lucanis, they keep arguing with one another... Its very bad Varric, what if it effects them in battle?

Varric, remembering that one time Fenris broke Ander's nose then took a knife in the back for him in the same night: I'm sure they'll be fine kid. They're barely even arguing if you ask me

[ddocson]

Hi ranchers community ............... i am thinking about them

[spearxwind]

Happy 10th birthday to Cercerion!

OUGHHH UR RIGHT CERCIE IS 10 YEARS OLD NOW !!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BOY BELOVEDEST DID NOTHING WRONG EVER IN HIS WHOLE LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[marblerose-rue]

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it's this way! / squirrelpaw and leafpaw

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

From the same Storm mini-series 🥹

THE FAM 🥺

[lucabyte]

transfem loop + siffrin... you agree

i does agree.... i does in fact ... write a 7k word essay on the subject..... if you would like to perhaps click that link and read it if you were not already aware...... kisses u on the forehead......... sorry its that long but i had to cover all of my bases you know how it is with textual analysis when you're trying to draw a distinction between "headcanon" and "reading of the text" because those are different things.... to meeeeeeee.......

[sieglinde-freud]

oh im obsessed with this actually… who ever wrote this one i am kissing u on the forehead and hugging you real tight… inigo is such a loverboy im kkkhhhhhhijnsdnfng

[moeblob]

Rey, who is in my very biased opinion, one of the funniest "girls" I have because she's just a guy, truly. Like Rey is just short for Reynold because he was recruited by a a goddess to help the hero she selected and the hero is conveniently Reynold's younger brother. So he agrees to help under the condition that the goddess gives him a female body for the other world. She's like "really odd flex but whatever" and gives him a female form and he's like "you know. I can't really blame anyone but myself for not specifying 'please don't turn me into a Lisa Frank personification'."

[pleasedontcareaboutme]

It's missing my father hours rn so imma just dump a bunch of pictures here and cry

( sorry i don't know the source of anything I just had them on my phone)

(also dont read the tags i just need to let it out lol)

[yummycrummy]

I feel hesitant to post my art sometimes cuz I think it looks so boring compared to everyone else's on here (or anywhere)

[sadistichaunt]

Okay *cracks knuckles* it's time for my Jason Todd post

Jason Todd, on a fundamental level, is a morally gray character. He is not a good or bad person. He's not a redeemed villian, he's not a corrupted hero, he is meant to serve *as the line.*

This starts with his parents. As much as Bruce is a product of his parents, a product of the "last good family in Gotham," and carries on their legacy, Jason does exactly that. Take a look at Willis Todd. He (I'm pretty sure) cheated on Sheila, remarried to Catherine, and decided that his son didn't need to know who his real mother was. He joined Two-Faces gang, not because he was an awful criminal or because he wanted to hurt and steal, but because he had a wife and son at home that didn't have food on the fucking table. What would you do? If the people you loved were starving, if they were relying on you and your honest efforts weren't good enough, would you do any differently?

Willis wasn't some abusive criminal that did it for the fun of it. He was doing it to survive, to keep his family fed and safe, and it got him killed. But in The Batman's eyes, would it matter? He's still stealing. He's still a *criminal.*

For Catherine, it's much the same. After Willis's death, she was forced to take care of a child that was not hers. She realistically didn't have much of a legal obligation to him, especially in a city like Gotham. She still did. Even when she was told by doctors that she was slowly dying, even as her pain got worse and worse, she still tried to raise Jason right.

She was an addict because she was in pain. What would you do? Catherine could either die in pain, slowly, or she could take the edge off. She could do *something* to make her body's rebellion quiet, even just for a little bit.

But she was still using. She was still an *addict*.

Even with Sheila. Yes, she sold Jason out to the Joker. Yes, she was selling off medical supplies. But she was in Ethiopia on a *humanitarian* mission. She was still trying to help people. She'd done some things wrong, she'd made some mistakes, but she was trying to turn over a new leaf.

She was genuinely happy to see Jason. She was so prepared to meet her son, to learn who he was and have him in her life. But Jason was the wrong person, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and so she got him killed. What would you do? If you were under threat by the Joker, scared and desperate, terrified of being turned into just another body on the news, what would you do? If you had one of the Joker's worst enemies right at your fingertips, what would you do?

I'm not saying that any of them were right for doing what they did. But, every single one of these characters are *sympathetic* in the original comics. They are flawed, human, fallible, but at their core they *try to do the right thing.* But they're the wrong people, at the wrong time, with the wrong influences. They're all criminals. They're all *people.*

Jason is no different. He is his parents' child. Bruce meets Jason stealing his tires, so he can fence them off later and make a bit of cash. He's squatting in a building, isn't going to school, and god knows what other petty crimes he's committing to *survive*. How long until he joined up with Two-Face? How long until he made the same mistakes his father did?

Jason Todd was a criminal. He was a kid, yes, and he was doing it to survive, but he was *a criminal.* People like to say that Jaybin was a ray of sunshine, that he was kind and childish and perfect, and he was! He was all that, and a criminal.

When Bruce takes Jason in, he takes to being Robin like a fish to water. There's something to be said about *Batman* adopting *Robin* instead of *Bruce* adopting *Jason,* but that's a post for another time. Point is, being Robin is something that Jason loves. He comes into it bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but very quickly, he became disillusioned with Batman's methods. He wanted to do *more* to help people. He got in trouble for being too rough, for pushing the line too far. Jason's line of morality was *further* from Bruce's, just like Bruce's line of morality is further from most's. Especially growing up in Crime Alley, he didn't have the luxury to afford ethics. Of *course* that would stick with him.

One of the major catharsis moments for Jason is in the two storylines before a death in the family. I don't remember the order, but one is a serial killer who kept killing women and throwing them into dumpsters. Then, after almost a dozen murders, they find the guy dead. While Batman was looking into it, a woman had also noticed the disappearances and decided to *do* something about it. She dressed herself up, shadowed the killer, and baited him into coming after her. When he inevitably did, she killed him.

When speaking to Batman and the cops, she's asked if it bothers her that she killed a man. She responds that she didn't kill a man- she put down a mad dog.

When relaying this to Jason, Bruce emphasizes that no one is above the law, that it was wrong to break it and it was wrong to kill him. Jason, though, seems compelled by this. He sees someone, doing real good in the world in a brutal matter, and starts to believe that maybe Bruce's way of thinking doesn't line up with the real world.So is it such a surprise that, two issues later, Jason decides to try his own version? The story is standard. A rapist torments a woman, the law can't touch him, and he calls to threaten her again. She kills herself before Batman and Robin can stop her.

Robin, who had been begging Bruce to do something outside of the law, just this once. To take matters into his own hands and to get the rapist in prison for the awful things that he'd done. Bruce hadn't acted. He refused to do more than the law allowed him, and a woman died because of it. Jason pays the guy a visit, and it's heavily implied that he pushed him to fall to his death.

Why am I explaining this? Well, these comics are integral to Jason's robin run- he sees where Batman fails, sees what lines he doesn't cross, and sees what good can come from crossing those lines.

He is meant to be a foil for Bruce as Red Hood. He is the extreme of a vigilante, he's violent and a killer and a criminal, but who is judging where the line is?

I'd say there's three things that Jason Todd accomplishes as a character.

1) He is a warning that not everyone is going to fit into Bruce's line of thinking. There will be criminals who are good people, who do bad things because they have to. There will be people who kill and steal and hurt, who are enemies of The Batman, and still matter to someone. Jason is the representative of that. He represents his parents, every kid that grew up wrong in Crime Alley, of everyone that Batman could have possibly misjudged.

2) Bruce can't fix everyone and everything. He can't just go around busting crimes and offering jobs when, on a fundamental level, Gotham is built to make people fail. Bruce can't just have band-aid solutions to help individual people.

Additionally, he can't make Jason see things from his perspective. Sometimes there *are* situations where someone being dead is for the better. Sometimes, someone may have to cross the line that Bruce won't to keep people safe.3) Bruce can't save everyone. This is the most obvious, with Jason's death, but even with him as Red Hood he can't save him from the hereditary curse of survival. Of doing the wrong things for the right reasons, of coming from a life that encouraged selfishness because it *had to.*

(This is why it's so frustrating to see people saying that Jason is generous or selfless. He is an incredibly selfish character, that is built into his bones.)Jason's characterization in fandom isn't just wrong- it is antithetical to who he actually is. Jason is selfish, is violent and brutal and hurts people. He can be all of those things, he can be a criminal and he can be a festering wound in Bruce's gut, and still be a person. He is caring, determined and protective. These can coexist without having to flanderize him down to a caricature of one of the other.

[icyfox17]

NEW BLORBO ALERT

Your honour I've seen two (2) episodes and im in love with him

[donaviolet]

Friendship is the most special thing in the world because no award could be give me bigger happiness than jumping around in my room and smiling because my pookie asked me if I wanted to match pfps

[williamkisser]

One oomf i liked blocked me and i started wondering……are you guys annoyed by my ask sending……..should i slow it down perchance……