This was so fun to think about, seriously you’re awesome and I love you anon ♥️
• *looks in the mirror five seconds after the spell hit. gasps* “I’m HIDEOUS!!!”
• Wayne Enterprises employee, smiling brightly: “Good morning Mr. Drake-Wayne. How are you today?”
• He gets so fed up with having to push Tim’s bangs from his eyes that he resorts to borrowing Cass’ sparkly butterfly hair clips to keep them up and out of his face.
• “Why am I only an inch taller than I used to be? I still can’t reach Pennyworth’s cookie jar even on my tiptoes. You need to grow more, Drake.”
• He finds out why Tim wears long sleeves so often, but he doesn’t say anything to Tim about it. He does file it away for future conversation, though, and he monitors Tim more closely even after the whole incident is over.
• “Damian, why are you chugging an entire carton of milk?”
• *goes outside for an hour* “HOW THE HELL AM I SO SUNBURNED??? WHAT ARE YOU, A VAMPIRE???”
• He’s sad when his pets don’t recognize him and run when he tries to pet them. As a solution, he douses his entire body in catnip. Turns out Tim never told him he was allergic to catnip, so that was an interesting discovery.
• He has to drink at least four cups of coffee a day or else he gets sick because at this point Tim is addicted to coffee.
• Ives: “Hey Timbo, what’s up?”
• “Why are my pecs so huge.” *cups them* “They feel like rock hard muscle melons. Like a cantaloupe filled with pure power. What strong breasticles.”
• He’s amazed by the amount of muscle on Jason’s body and spends most of his time trying to see what stuff he can crush with his bare hands.
• He braids Jason’s white streak and puns it back with some pink hair clips Steph gave him.
• *on the phone with Roy* “Hey Roy, so remember that secret I told you once and demanded you never to tell anyone else? Yeah, that one. Would you mind explaining it to me in explicit detail, slowly so I can write it all down.”
• *gentle gasp* “I’m allowed to drink alcoholic beverages in this body.”
• He has to wear sunglasses and a hat whenever he goes out because he has to make sure no one in Gotham recognizes the late Jason Todd.
• The first time he sees what Jason’s body really looks like under all the armor and layers, he’s shocked. Jason doesn’t take his shirt off in front of people much because he’s embarrassed by all the scars. Tim tries not to look at them because he knows Jason doesn’t like sharing this detail with anyone, but occasionally he finds himself absently tracing the autopsy scar under his shirt. He has a new respect for Jason after this whole ordeal.
• “I feel like an overcooked noodle.”
• Adjusting to how flexible Dick is turns out to be quite the experience. He does the splits with no problem. He swings from a tree branch and lands on the ground as fluid as a leaf. He does four backflips in a row.
• “Why does my mouth taste like ketchup and ice cream 24/7. What do you eat, Dick.”
• At first he thinks it’ll be nice for once, being able to walk around Gotham without worrying about people recognizing him as being a dead man. Turns out, it’s almost worse when he can’t go to a McDonald’s without a bunch of paparazzi and fan girls following him around and begging to take a picture with the hottest Wayne boy.
• He goes to the police precinct for work and is on edge the whole time because this is the first time in years he’s been surrounded by cops who don’t want to arrest him.
• Catcaller: “Hey, nice ass!”
• Dick from the next room: “If you smoke in my body and give me cancer I’ll kill you!”
• After he’s back in his own body: “Hey, I wonder if I can still do all that flipsy shit.”
• He eats one (1) cheeseburger, but unfortunately forgot about Damian being vegetarian so he winds up getting violently sick because the body he’s in doesn’t accept meat anymore. So that was a learning experience.
• “Why does it physically hurt to smile. Who hurt you, Damian.”
• Damian may be athletic, but he’s nowhere near as stretchy as Dick is used to. He tries putting his leg behind his head and nearly breaks his pelvis.
• He has to call Tim for help when he can’t reach his cereal on the top shelf.
• He starts crying again later that afternoon because “THIS WEAK ASS BODY CAN’T EAT SRIRACHA WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW???”
• He stands in the middle of the room and watches all the adults bustle around: “I am a bean. A tiny chihuahua. A mere flea in a world of elephants and woosles.”
• “If there is one upside to all of this body-swapping, at least I can finally use the Dora the Explorer baby toothpaste without being ridiculed.”
• Jon: “Hi, Dami! What’s up?”
In a bad exam mood but this just made my wntire day t h a n k
This is the BEST fucking thing I’ve seen all day
I feel like this really needs to be said. Anyone familiar with the Batfamily dynamics knows that Jason’s methods utilized to defend Gotham citizens are unorthodox and not approved by Batman in the slightest. Batman believes Jason to be a dangerous loose canon who will go too deep too fast without thinking things through, even though if you know anything about Jason Peter Todd, you know he plans things to the letter, even if he is willing to throw those plans out the window at a moment’s notice because of a small detail.
We also know that Jason fights for the people over the city. He doesn’t fight crime because he likes it, or he thinks he can make the city a better place; he fights crime because he wants to make sure the people can sleep at night. So people don’t have to be afraid like he was growing up. His fighting methods aren’t because he’s extreme, he understands the mindsets of the victims and knows what they need and he’s willing to cross that line for them.
Above all else, is that Jason Todd’s heroic behavior stretches even beyond the comics he’s contained within. Because Jason has had every single shitty thing imaginable happen to him. He had an abusive father and a neglectful mother. So he stepped up and took care of his mother at a very young age. He already was fighting to defend those who couldn’t protect themselves. Then after his mom dies, he’s on the streets and has many unimaginable traumas induced by being a young surviving on the streets by himself for years. Then his life finally starts going right once he’s picked up by Batman, only for everything to get so violently ripped away. His “big brother” hated him but that was fine because he had his dad. Bruce loved him and that’s all that mattered. He learned how to be happy despite everything that had happened to him up to this point.
Of course, this being the life of Jason Todd, nothing good can ever last and we all know what happened. He was brutally beaten to death by a psychotic clown, never even knowing if Batman was coming or not. The next jump in his memory is to be buried alive in nothing but a suit in a fancy ass coffin he digs himself out of, and still, Batman doesn’t come. So he stumbles about, trying to figure out where he is, only to get hit by a car and suffer severe brain damage. Still, Jason Todd survives. He only stops fighting and looking for Bruce when Talia sows the seeds of doubt that Bruce never actually cared. That within only a few months, he was replaced.
Even after this information, Jason didn’t just stop and give up. He fought to prove Talia wrong. That the one good thing that had ever happened to him couldn’t be a lie all along. Thus, the events of Under the Red Hood took place. Psychologically why Jason wouldn’t have been able to kill the Joker himself aside, he wanted to make sure Bruce did care.
A batarang to the neck and a laughing clown was all he received for his troubles.
Yet, Jason STILL doesn’t stop. Doesn’t give up. He fights and he lives. He literally at this point has nothing. Instead of giving into the trauma and trying to make it all end, he uses his second chance to try and forge a new life. He forms the Outlaws and he does good. A lot of good. Even after the original outlaws are disbanded, he forms a new group and they continue to save people. Anyone that knew Jason Todd would know that he loves his friends and his family more than anything. Jason Todd, who has every reason in the world to be depressed and suicidal, loves being alive.
That’s what makes Jason Todd a hero. It was never easy for him. He would have every reason in the universe to either turn and become a villain or simply end the second life that he was given, but he doesn’t. He’s a hero. He uses his trauma to better understand the victims and the people of Gotham look up to him. He’s a person who knows how to protect them from their own fears.
Batman is an immovable urban legend, but the Red Hood is one of them.
As far as stretching beyond the comics goes, Jason isn’t a god-like hero. Just as Gotham citizens are able to relate to him, so are the readers of the comics. The story of Jason Todd is one black cloud after another, it’s perpetually being in the darkness, needing to fight for even the slightest scrap of light. Of hope.
But he does fight.
He’s a hero you watch constantly combat the demons of depression and despair. With PTSD and anxiety. But you see him fight.
No matter what is thrown at him, Jason Peter Todd always gets back up and keeps fighting. Keeps defending people even when he has to fight against the world and himself.
He’s a hero that people down in the darkest pits of despair can relate to. Can look up to. He’s not perfect but you watch him learn how to live time and time again. He’s able to fight back his trauma and just live.
That’s why he’s an amazing hero. Not because he’s able to defeat powerful enemies like Superman can, but because he can fight against his own demons and get up every single day and live life.
It’s moving day for [tumblr]!
Feat.: @maria, @cyle, @tumblrbot and @josephine-the-bear
I love this so much 😭❤️
Getting our move on over here!
pretty hectic in the office right now but EVERYTHING IS FINE!
WE OUT HERE. AND NOW WE OUT THERE! (we’re moving)
Dancing my way
Tumblr LA Team….packed up and ready
all packed and ready for a new start :•)
movin day = boxes, crystals, vodka, ariana
Me trying not to break anything on the way out
Packed up all my favorite hats and ready to rock our swag elsewhere.
Josephine and her trusty steed have supported us all through change, including this move and my clumsy transition to bangs. Lookin’ forward to the next adventure. Onward!
After working in the SF Chronicle building for over five years, I was sad to pack up and leave my little desk behind, but feeling excited now for Tumblr’s future with Automattic 🎉
over here in NYC, i’ve set up my corner desk with a message about libraries, @princesscheeto, motivation from @adamjk, a captain america comic and my #1 favorite tumblr error message. ready for this new era!
Some things never change! Here are @cyle and Guy in our new space!
shout out to the time a guy was like "my wife cheated on me :((" and demon!dean is like you cheated on her first?? and the guys like "but,, its different when men do it. we're made to do it" and dean just stabs him
