i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

i hc jon as a tiny slip of a man because i love it when small characters are mean and full of rage

old habits

yippeee!!! ^_^ *DIES IN THE EXPLOSION*

Hey, could you elaborate on your autistic Jon headcanon at all? I really like it, but, not being autistic myself, it makes it hard to write (which I'd like to do). I do have adhd, which ig can overlap, so I very much relate to some parts, lmao. No pressure if you don't want to, I just think it's a pretty cool headcanon

sure thing !  i’ve actually made a couple of posts mentioning it earlier on, but they were more meta-focused and less explicit about the headcanon itself. for general information about writing an autistic character i’m actually gonna direct you over to scriptautistic’s giant masterpost directory on that very subject, since any advice or guidelines i could give you will probably be covered by that content and then some.

i can, however, talk about jon specifically, and why i see/relate to some of his traits and experiences as those of an autistic person. i hope this is coherent enough to follow, since i’m obvs not trying to make a Case here, just pointing out what i see.  

to start with, i talked about it in a past post, but jon makes a lot of very dry jokes that most people don’t catch (save basira); there’s an obvious disconnect, very likely to do with his tone. he also doesn’t acknowledge or much favor, for example, tim’s sense of humor. tim (at first :/ ) favors practical jokes (see his “april fools” prank mentioned in mag 26) that it’s easy to imagine jon doesn’t appreciate from a sensory perspective, and as for the goofy wisecracks, well, they’re annoying because tim clearly knows they’re not clever, so he must be attempting to waste everyone’s time. 

jon also has trouble sussing out what people expect of him, and he focuses so hard on details that he often misses the big picture. it makes sense that he feels suited to an organizational job in the archives, even if he isn’t technically qualified; putting things in order is viscerally satisfying. and it’s easy to interpret his frequent overnight stays at the archives as a significant difficulty with task-switching; simpler to just pass out on the storage room cot than go through all of the steps of heading home and coming straight back again.here’s a bit from episode 83 that i like to point to: 

georgie: “i know that you get obsessive about stuff… and this right here- i’m guessing someone dragged you into something weird, you got hooked in and then it all went wrong.” 

jon: “i mean that is almost exactly what happened.” 

what georgie’s describing, jon getting “hooked in” on a subject, sounds to me a lot like the development of a special interest or hyperfixation, which she’s apparently seen him go through several times before. jon also tends to get so strongly absorbed in a task or concept that he loses sight of virtually all else; see his fixation with exploring the tunnels under the institute, for example, which he pursued to his own physical detriment. i think this exchange also indicates that jon is historically easy to manipulate, since that seems to be one of the biggest things georgie is concerned about until he tells her what’s going on. that would definitely contribute to making it very hard to trust people. 

that’s also how i read “fine, fine, i’ll be more lovely,” from season 1. people, on average, don’t like jon- he doesn’t bother to try and be likable. he is often tactless and dismissive, deeply self-absorbed, argumentative or downright spiteful. but none of this is because he has some predisposition towards putting anyone off. jon actually cares about people very strongly, even strangers, and even people who have been unfair to him. his refusal to connect with people throughout the first three seasons of the show more than anything seems to come from a powerful certainty that it won’t work, that it’s not worth the effort. no one understands where he’s coming from most of the time, and he’s bitter about it, and instead of admitting he struggles with communication and knowing how to operate around people, it’s better they just think he’s being a prick on purpose. in a way he is. it reads the exact same way as playing the derisive skeptic in order to cover up how genuinely disturbed he is by everything uncovered in the statements. 

that’s most of the general interpretation that i have? i’ll certainly get to centering it in one of my fics one of these days, it makes me very happy to have aspects of one of my favorite characters that are highly relatable, and i want to express that artistically! and thank you for appreciating my thoughts and letting me know you want to hear more, anon, that warms my heart as well. 

the magnus institute

Kind of funny that fan works seem fond of describing Drake Manor as being like a museum or a mausoleum in a negative way, because:

In the comics Tim himself actually talks about Drake Manor as fondly being his first real home with his dad (which he had convinced his dad to buy!). He had secret passageways to the Batcave there! His dad was actually pretty consistently home when they lived there! He once ran away to there when they moved! Tim liked living there.

Drake Manor has brightly colored walls and interior decor, Tim’s bedroom gets messier and more chaotic the longer he lives there, if it’s a museum then it’s a peculiar museum of a teenage boy who is constantly leaving stuff for Mrs Mac to pick up.

The first time Tim walked into Wayne Manor he excitedly pointed out the artifacts on display there. Not to even start on how the Batcave can aptly be described as a museum or a mausoleum. Bruce loves that vibe!

(Dick visited Wayne Manor right before Tim came along and was like “How does Bruce add so much new art and things to this place while I’m gone?? And the Batcave’s so cold.”)

Why would Tim not want to live in a mausoleum? His choice of a Gotham apartment was the theater from where Bruce’s parents died. He currently lives in a busted boat that his boyfriend calls a murder shack.

Emergency Beacon 

A lil thing put to First Love/Late Spring by Mitski for fun

(Please do not tag as ship)

"the best thing i ever did in my life was love people" is so bruce wayne coded because every single decision every single mistake every single tragedy that he's made can be linked back to loving someone too much (and not exactly in the right way) that the grief that follows their loss, whether it was permanent or temporary, literally kills a part of him and is rebuilt entirely unrecognisable. the best thing he has ever done in his life is love people, even if he's never done it correctly.

girls aren't really my thing.

Hobie

I would recommend marvels snapshots X-Men if you want a good Scott issue! it's 1 issue by Jay Edidin and is a kind of cyclops origin it's very good

oh neat!!! will defs check it out :D

need to start a masterpost of scott summers autistic moments. maybe then you would all understand

Robin Tim: I need to tell you something but I don’t want you to see me any differently or tell Batman just yet

Nightwing, thinking he’s coming out: I promise it won’t change anything

Huntress, also thinking he’s coming out: if he says anything when you do I’ll kick his ass

Oracle, also also thinking he’s coming out: just know you can tell us anything

Robin Tim, who just caused his first young justice international incident: okay so-

they could be a dynamic duo they have the POTENTIAL!!!!!

word of the day: “woowoo”

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