I JUST REMEMBERED THE FIC IDEA I HAD LAST NIGHT THANK GOd. ok hear me out ghostbat butch cassidy and the sundance kid au.

(6/6) "R is for Rebellion!" ❤️

Jason Peter Todd was the second Robin. Known for his burning passion and strong beliefs, this little bird will soon find his own way into the world beyond that of even The Bat's established status quo. He who would encourage others to seek new ways unwritten and be an example of someone that could take life's challenges as well as come out stronger. To break rules and have the willpower to persevere to the bitter end. For at times, when old tricks fail, one must forge their own path and seek new resolutions. -Bubbly💙

as yr favorite local jason todd fan sometimes i get so fed up with the apparent inability of most dc comic writers to write a class conscious narrative about him.

and yes, i know that comics are a very ephemeral and constantly evolving and self-conflicting medium.

and yes, i know they’re a profit-driven art medium created in a capitalistic society, so there are very few times where comics are going to be created solely out of the desire to authentically and carefully and deliberately represent a character and take them from one emotional narrative place to another, because dc cares about profit and sometimes playing it safe is what sells.

and yes, i know comics and other forms of art reflect and recreate the society within which they were conceived as ideas, and so the dominant societal ideas about gender and race and class and so on are going to be recreated within comics (and/or will be responded to, if the writer is particularly societally conscious).

but jesus christ. you (the writer/writers) have a working class character who has been homeless, who has lost multiple parents, who has been in close proximity to someone struggling with addiction, who has had to steal to survive, who may have (depending on your reading of several different moments across different comics created by different people) been a victim of csa, who has clearly (subtextually) struggled with his mental health, who was a victim of a violent murder, and who has an entirely distinct and unique perspective on justice that has evolved based on his lived experiences.

and instead of delving into any of that, or examining the myriad of ways that classism in the writers’ room and the editors’ room and the readers’ heads affected jason’s character to make sure you’re writing him responsibly, or giving him a plotline where his views on what justice looks like are challenged by another working class character, or allowing him to demonstrate actual autonomy and agency in deciding what relationships he wants to have with people who he loves but sees as having failed him in different ways, or thinking carefully about what his having chosen an alias that once belonged to his murderer says about his decision-making and motivations, you keep him stuck in a loop of going by the red hood, addressing crime by occupying a position of relative power that perpetuates crime & harm rather than ever getting at the root causes, and seesawing between a) agreeing with his adoptive family entirely about fighting nonlethally in ways that are often inconsistent with his apparent motivations or b) disagreeing and experiencing unnecessarily brutal and violent reactions from his adoptive father as if that kind of violence isn’t the kind of thing he experienced as a child and something bruce himself is trying to prevent jason from perpetuating. because a comic with red hood, quips, high stakes, and familial drama sells.

it doesn’t matter if it keeps jason trapped, torn between an unanswered moral and philosophical question, a collection of identities that no longer fit him, and a family that accepts him circumstantially. it doesn’t matter if jason’s characterization is so utterly inconsistent that the only way to mesh it together is to piece different aspects of different titles and plotlines together like a jigsaw. it doesn’t matter if you do a disservice to his character, because in the end you don’t want to transform him or even understand him deeply enough to identify what makes him compelling and focus on that.

and i love jason!!!!! i love him. and i think about the stories we could have, if quality and art and doing justice to the character were prioritized as much as selling a title and having a dark and brooding batfam member besides bruce just to be the black sheep character are prioritized. and i just get a little sad.

No one:

Jason post lazarus: I wouldn’t wish that upon my worst enemy..

Jason: Unless, of course, we’re talking about my ENEMY, Bruce Wayne

Jason: Fuck you, Bruce Wayne, you know what you did-

I cannot Stop thinking about how April O'Neil and Casey Jones would've met each other for the first time

A bit more Outlaw from @pepperonitowerask because he’s finally shown up and I am hyped. Also I redrew one a the panels because it had such a cool feel to it.

Would you guys be interested if I shared my assignment of Danganronpa characters to DC vigilantes and rogues (with an eye on Saiouma, of course)? Mainly focussed on the BatFam, because I love them.

Okay i know theyre going to shoot at each other but. But. Consider. CONSIDER. Cowpoke friends.

(I haven't been this Not Normal about a tumblr askblog for YEARS, go check out @pepperonitowerask cause thats some GOOD SHIT theyre cookin. Outlaw is so shaped SO SHAPED SO SHAPED)

I’m reading Red Hood and the Outlaws and oh my god I am about to sob

I don't know how April O'Neil got Casey Jones' Number before The "Night of the Rogues" so I can only imagine...

(i don't know what his number is so i just made them up...)

Hey, Vigilante…. I'm sure you've noticed this yourself, being as… well, vigilant as you are, but Omino's got an alter-ego. Sometimes he changes up his appearance a little and calls himself 'Man.' Definitely the same exact guy, though

—Furiously taking notes. Like... furiously. Smoke coming off the notepad and everything. The shadows cast over his eyes look pretty intimidating, but.

"Thank ya kindly, stranger! I reckon this'll help me finally catch that sumbitch."

...I guess it's not directed at you, at least.

Wow!

The Chronicles of Robin-Jason and Superman

Action Comics #556

Getting his well-deserved head pats.

Action Comics #594

Tune in for more “Wow!” at 6.

Anyway he probably inherited Dick’s old Superman lunchboxes and other merch.

I AM PUTTING TOO MUCH INTO THIS FUCKING AU FOR A MINIGAME

Yoo Ji-tae, muscle 20kg augmentation...Lee Joon-hyuk "self-destructive Fijical" (A Vigilante)

Just Appreciating how Casey Jones is Drawn in the IDW TMNT 1987 Comic

(also casey jones needs to stop going after jaywalkers at this point)