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![[TW for blood, violence, death, parental betrayal]
cleromancy:
luanna255:
Okay, this might seem like an odd thing to post on Mother’s Day, but I want to talk about this scene.
Whenever people try to present Jason as the “bad Robin”, who was a bad person from the start and got what he deserved, I think of this scene. Jason spent his dying moments trying to save his mother. Not a kind, loving mother who had cared for him and been good to him all his life, either. Jason spent his final moments trying to save his absolute witch of a mother.
If you’ve never read A Death in the Family, here’s what happens. Jason begins to suspect that the woman who raised him wasn’t actually his biological mother, and his bio-mom is still out there. So he goes off to find her, and, various shenanigans later, sure enough he does. And to those of you who are used to seeing angry, bitter, emotionally closed-off Jason, his reaction to meeting his mother for the first time is heartbreakingly enthusiastic:
He just throws himself unhesitatingly into her arms, with the most heart-rendingly blissful smile on his face. It’s clear that Jason was pretty much starved for parental affection. Unfortunately, his mother turned out to be less-than-capable of providing it.
So Jason meets his mom, she tells him this whole sob story about how she didn’t have the money and she had to give him up, and instead of blaming her for abandoning him (not that that would have been the right reaction, but it would certainly have been understandable), Jason is completely sympathetic. “It must have been so hard for you”, he tells her.
Then he overhears the Joker blackmailing her, and decides that it’s up to him to save her. This is the famous “disobeying Bruce” moment, as Bruce had told him not to do anything until he came back. Jason decides to take matters into his own hands because he wants to save his mother. Stupid, maybe, but you can’t say his intentions weren’t completely coming from the right place.
So he reveals that he’s Robin to his mother, she tells him to come with her, and then… this happens:
Yeah. That’s right. This jerk straight-up sold her son out to the Joker because it was more important to her that no one catch her “dipping into the funds”. Nice to know she has her priorities in place, there. She’s not even apologetic about it, either - “Sorry, kid, you chose the wrong person to trust”. After he made himself so completely vulnerable to her, she betrays him in the worst possible way, without even a hint of regret.
And I’m sure I don’t even need to tell you what happens next:
The cigarette always infuriates me for some reason. Yes, Sheila, I’m sure this is really freaking stressful for you. You know how you could have avoided it? By not handing your son over to a homicidal maniac.
So the Joker beats Jason nearly to the point of death, then decides that Sheila is a liability, too, so he ties her up in the warehouse with Jason and decides to bomb them both. And then comes the moment below. Jason wakes up - and his first reaction is to save his mother.
How do you think you would have felt, if you were in Jason’s shoes? He had been so, completely happy at finding his mother. Then she took him and handed him over to the Joker without a hint of regret. He’s been brutally beaten, nearly killed because of her betrayal. Yet he doesn’t show the slightest hint of anger or recrimination. He just wants to save her - even at the cost of not saving himself:
He wastes time untying her that he could have spent saving himself, and then he tells her to run for it and save herself. Unbelievable. And after the explosion, Sheila tells Bruce that Jason threw himself over her, trying to protect her from the main brunt of the blast. He died trying to protect his mother to the very end - despite everything she’d done.
So why am I posting this today? Because as much as Sheila’s actions were despicable, Jason’s were extraordinary. And because the parent-child bond expresses its strength even in the most dysfunctional relationships. Sometimes loving our parents and honoring them is easy, because they have loved us and brought us joy all of our lives. But sometimes we look at our parents and it’s really, really hard to see why we should owe this person anything. Some parents do not earn their childrens’ love (and, of course, vice versa). It’s really hard to know what to do in a situation like that, and there is no “wrong’ decision. While Jason would probably have tried to save his mother regardless (he was a hero, after all), no one could have blamed him if he had turned his back on her or not gone above and beyond to save her. But the fact that he didn’t shows something extraordinary about his capacity for love. Loving the people who are good to us is easy. But when we look at the people who have caused us the most pain, who have hurt us in the worst possible ways, and we still find a way to see the good in them, to love them - that is the hardest kind of love to give.
And that kind of love is worth remembering, too.
jason todd and his caring-about-people problem](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3sodoFGT81rvrq3wo1_400.jpg)
[TW for blood, violence, death, parental betrayal]
cleromancy:
luanna255:
Okay, this might seem like an odd thing to post on Mother’s Day, but I want to talk about this scene.
Whenever people try to present Jason as the “bad Robin”, who was a bad person from the start and got what he deserved, I think of this scene. Jason spent his dying moments trying to save his mother. Not a kind, loving mother who had cared for him and been good to him all his life, either. Jason spent his final moments trying to save his absolute witch of a mother.
If you’ve never read A Death in the Family, here’s what happens. Jason begins to suspect that the woman who raised him wasn’t actually his biological mother, and his bio-mom is still out there. So he goes off to find her, and, various shenanigans later, sure enough he does. And to those of you who are used to seeing angry, bitter, emotionally closed-off Jason, his reaction to meeting his mother for the first time is heartbreakingly enthusiastic:
He just throws himself unhesitatingly into her arms, with the most heart-rendingly blissful smile on his face. It’s clear that Jason was pretty much starved for parental affection. Unfortunately, his mother turned out to be less-than-capable of providing it.
So Jason meets his mom, she tells him this whole sob story about how she didn’t have the money and she had to give him up, and instead of blaming her for abandoning him (not that that would have been the right reaction, but it would certainly have been understandable), Jason is completely sympathetic. “It must have been so hard for you”, he tells her.
Then he overhears the Joker blackmailing her, and decides that it’s up to him to save her. This is the famous “disobeying Bruce” moment, as Bruce had told him not to do anything until he came back. Jason decides to take matters into his own hands because he wants to save his mother. Stupid, maybe, but you can’t say his intentions weren’t completely coming from the right place.
So he reveals that he’s Robin to his mother, she tells him to come with her, and then… this happens:
Yeah. That’s right. This jerk straight-up sold her son out to the Joker because it was more important to her that no one catch her “dipping into the funds”. Nice to know she has her priorities in place, there. She’s not even apologetic about it, either - “Sorry, kid, you chose the wrong person to trust”. After he made himself so completely vulnerable to her, she betrays him in the worst possible way, without even a hint of regret.
And I’m sure I don’t even need to tell you what happens next:
 The cigarette always infuriates me for some reason. Yes, Sheila, I’m sure this is really freaking stressful for you. You know how you could have avoided it? By not handing your son over to a homicidal maniac.
So the Joker beats Jason nearly to the point of death, then decides that Sheila is a liability, too, so he ties her up in the warehouse with Jason and decides to bomb them both. And then comes the moment below. Jason wakes up - and his first reaction is to save his mother.
How do you think you would have felt, if you were in Jason’s shoes? He had been so, completely happy at finding his mother. Then she took him and handed him over to the Joker without a hint of regret. He’s been brutally beaten, nearly killed because of her betrayal. Yet he doesn’t show the slightest hint of anger or recrimination. He just wants to save her - even at the cost of not saving himself:
He wastes time untying her that he could have spent saving himself, and then he tells her to run for it and save herself. Unbelievable. And after the explosion, Sheila tells Bruce that Jason threw himself over her, trying to protect her from the main brunt of the blast. He died trying to protect his mother to the very end - despite everything she’d done.
So why am I posting this today? Because as much as Sheila’s actions were despicable, Jason’s were extraordinary. And because the parent-child bond expresses its strength even in the most dysfunctional relationships. Sometimes loving our parents and honoring them is easy, because they have loved us and brought us joy all of our lives. But sometimes we look at our parents and it’s really, really hard to see why we should owe this person anything. Some parents do not earn their childrens’ love (and, of course, vice versa). It’s really hard to know what to do in a situation like that, and there is no “wrong’ decision. While Jason would probably have tried to save his mother regardless (he was a hero, after all), no one could have blamed him if he had turned his back on her or not gone above and beyond to save her. But the fact that he didn’t shows something extraordinary about his capacity for love. Loving the people who are good to us is easy. But when we look at the people who have caused us the most pain, who have hurt us in the worst possible ways, and we still find a way to see the good in them, to love them - that is the hardest kind of love to give.
And that kind of love is worth remembering, too.
jason todd and his caring-about-people problem
cleromancy:
idliketosurvivetheadventure:
The thing about this story is that it feels like it’s trying to make us disapprove of Jason, with Batman’s condescending narration framing how we see the story, but really, I can’t say I care. I am all for Jason pushing serial rapists off of balconies. I love him for it. Batman’s helpful plan was ‘get him deported’ - seriously, Bruce? You couldn’t even try to think of something more effective than just making him not your problem anymore?
(And, really, I think he must have pushed him, because just looking at how Garzonas was standing and how high the balcony rails are, I can’t see how he could have slipped. But I just don’t care. )
yeah this story is big part of what made me love jason so much.
i pretty much refuse to believe it was an accident actually lmao whenever someone tells me it’s ambiguous i just glare at them until they cry
tezukaspanels:
If I had to choose one panel by Osamu Tezuka to be hung in my bedroom, I would pick up this one. It comes from the tale of “Future” - second in the “Phoenix” series.
In the year 3404 AD the population of Earth is down to 25 milions. They live in underground cities, because the surface is barren and cold.
The civilization finally meets its end in a sudden outbreak of nuclear war. It was started by crazed supercomputers which ruled the cities. Almost all humans melted in the inferno the very instant they were informed about the conflict. Oh, crap!
Here we see Roc - one of the characters from Tezuka’s star system, who usually plays roles of heartless, intelligent and good-looking villains. He always schemes to achieve his goals and usually wins. Here he was trying to escape Earth but he was irradiated so much, he would eventually die anyway.
In the moments following the realization of his fate, for the first time in his life, Roc did something irrational. He went to the crater where hours ago was a thriving city. Ignoring the heat and radiation he simply sat on the edge and gazed upon this horryfing view. It’s the last time we see him.
Blaise Pascal said:
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him.
But in this story by Osamu Tezuka, it did happen. The entire universe crushed Roc.
So: what a guy like him was thinking at this moment? Yesterday he had a magificent career, a loving girlfriend and great perspectives. Now, everything is finished. Literally, all the humanity went to hell.
What was he thinking about? Is it even fathomable?
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![youarenotyou:
alexandraerin:
moofable:
bethosaurus:
godsquito:
annadroid:
dirkshusbando:
Fritz Feld (October 15, 1900 – November 18, 1993) was a film character actor actor who appeared in over 140 films, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a pop sound.
WHOA
Konstantin “Koča” Popović (Константин Коча Поповић) (14 March 1908 - 20 October 1992) was a communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division in Josip Broz Tito’s Partisan army. Sometimes he was known as “the man who saved YPA” because he broke trough the German lines during the crucial Battle of Sutjeska and saved Tito and Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA). Popović came from a prosperous Belgrade family and at university studied philosophy. After university he moved to Paris where he mixed with the Left Bank world of poets, writers, artists and intellectuals
ah that doesn’t…. sound so bad!
John Joseph Joubert (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an American serial killer convicted of the murders of three boys in Maine and Nebraska. He wasexecuted in Nebraska.
shit, if my parents named me John Joseph Joubert I think I would go on a killing spree too.
Kenneth Lee Muse (July 26, 1910 - July 26, 1987) was an American animator. He is best known for his work on the Tom and Jerry series at MGM.
Biography
Muse worked briefly at Walt Disney Studio, where he was Preston Blair’s assistant on Fantasia (he helped animate “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” scenes).[1] He also provided animation for various Mickey Mouse cartoons such as Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940), Mickey’s Birthday Party (1942) and Symphony Hour (1942).
Muse left Disney during the 1941 strike there and joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s animation department in 1941, along with fellow animators Ray Patterson, Preston Blair, Ed Love, Walter Clinton, and Grant Simmons. He was assigned to the Hanna - Barbera unit, where he remained for 17 years. He first provided animation for the eighth Tom and Jerry short, Fine Feathered Friend (1942), as well as the very last Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry, Tot Watchers (1958), and nearly 120 other shorts in between. Muse also animated Jerry Mouse dancing with a live-action Gene Kelly in the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh.
When MGM closed their animation studio in 1957, Muse joined his former bosses at their new company, Hanna-Barbera. He was one of the most prolific animators working for Hanna-Barbera’s classic period of the late fifties and early sixties. He animated many important shows and sequences, including all of the short pilot The Flagstones, from which The Flintstones series was sold, as well as the original opening and closing titles of the series (the instrumental “Rise and Shine” titles, seen in the first two seasons, rather than the later, more familiar “Meet the Flintstones” titles). Muse also animated all of the first-produced episode of the series, “The Swimming Pool” (during the first season, episodes were assigned to one animator, who had only about four weeks each to complete them). Other early episodes animated entirely by Muse include “Hot Lips Hannigan”, “The Monster From The Tar Pits”, and “The Tycoon” (the J.L. Gotrocks episode). Muse also animated the opening and closing titles for Top Cat (1961). Over a period of three decades, he provided animation for nearly all of Hanna-Barbera’s animated television series, including The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958), The Flintstones (1960), The Yogi Bear Show (1961), Top Cat (1961), The Jetsons (1962), Wacky Races (1968), Hong Kong Phooey (1974), Jabberjaw (1976), and Challenge of the SuperFriends (1978). He helped Disney as assistant animator with Ben Burgess for The Fox and the Hound (1981), but he was uncredited.
Muse was the stepfather of singer-songwriter Judee Sill, with whom he had a strained relationship.
Muse died on July 26, 1987, his seventy-seventh birthday, in Templeton, California.
Inder Raj Anand (died 6 March 1987) was an Indian film writer. He was father to actor and director Tinnu Anand and producer Bittu Anand. Inder’s grandson is noted film director Siddharth Anand. Famous director Mukul Anand is Inder’s nephew. Shahenshah, starring Amitabh Bachchan was Inder’s last film as a writer. It was produced by his son, Bittu, and was directed by Tinnu. Shahenshah was released after Inder’s death and it became one of the biggest hits of that year.
…nobody wiki-notable died on June 10th, 1980. But I just might be Gabriel Fallon.
Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as Dynamite Bob, was convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Chambliss allegedly also firebombed the houses of several black families in Alabama.
are you fucking kidding me. worst game ever
Hank Worden (born Norton Earl Worden July 23, 1901 – December 6, 1992) was an American cowboy-turned-character-actor who appeared in many Westerns including The Lone Ranger.
fast forward
He worked steadily in television as well as films, long outliving Hawks, Ford, and Wayne, and achieving some late notice as the World’s Oldest Room-Service Waiter in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks TV series.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zq7dupd11qhvsvho1_400.jpg)
youarenotyou:
alexandraerin:
moofable:
bethosaurus:
godsquito:
annadroid:
dirkshusbando:
Fritz Feld (October 15, 1900 – November 18, 1993) was a film character actor actor who appeared in over 140 films, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a pop sound.
WHOA
Konstantin “Koča” Popović (Константин Коча Поповић) (14 March 1908 - 20 October 1992) was a communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division in Josip Broz Tito’s Partisan army. Sometimes he was known as “the man who saved YPA” because he broke trough the German lines during the crucial Battle of Sutjeska and saved Tito and Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA). Popović came from a prosperous Belgrade family and at university studied philosophy. After university he moved to Paris where he mixed with the Left Bank world of poets, writers, artists and intellectuals
ah that doesn’t…. sound so bad!
John Joseph Joubert (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an American serial killer convicted of the murders of three boys in Maine and Nebraska. He wasexecuted in Nebraska.
shit, if my parents named me John Joseph Joubert I think I would go on a killing spree too.
Kenneth Lee Muse (July 26, 1910 - July 26, 1987) was an American animator. He is best known for his work on the Tom and Jerry series at MGM.
Biography
Muse worked briefly at Walt Disney Studio, where he was Preston Blair’s assistant on Fantasia (he helped animate “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” scenes).[1] He also provided animation for various Mickey Mouse cartoons such as Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940), Mickey’s Birthday Party (1942) and Symphony Hour (1942).
Muse left Disney during the 1941 strike there and joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s animation department in 1941, along with fellow animators Ray Patterson, Preston Blair, Ed Love, Walter Clinton, and Grant Simmons. He was assigned to the Hanna - Barbera unit, where he remained for 17 years. He first provided animation for the eighth Tom and Jerry short, Fine Feathered Friend (1942), as well as the very last Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry, Tot Watchers (1958), and nearly 120 other shorts in between. Muse also animated Jerry Mouse dancing with a live-action Gene Kelly in the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh.
When MGM closed their animation studio in 1957, Muse joined his former bosses at their new company, Hanna-Barbera. He was one of the most prolific animators working for Hanna-Barbera’s classic period of the late fifties and early sixties. He animated many important shows and sequences, including all of the short pilot The Flagstones, from which The Flintstones series was sold, as well as the original opening and closing titles of the series (the instrumental “Rise and Shine” titles, seen in the first two seasons, rather than the later, more familiar “Meet the Flintstones” titles). Muse also animated all of the first-produced episode of the series, “The Swimming Pool” (during the first season, episodes were assigned to one animator, who had only about four weeks each to complete them). Other early episodes animated entirely by Muse include “Hot Lips Hannigan”, “The Monster From The Tar Pits”, and “The Tycoon” (the J.L. Gotrocks episode). Muse also animated the opening and closing titles for Top Cat (1961). Over a period of three decades, he provided animation for nearly all of Hanna-Barbera’s animated television series, including The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958), The Flintstones (1960), The Yogi Bear Show (1961), Top Cat (1961), The Jetsons (1962), Wacky Races (1968), Hong Kong Phooey (1974), Jabberjaw (1976), and Challenge of the SuperFriends (1978). He helped Disney as assistant animator with Ben Burgess for The Fox and the Hound (1981), but he was uncredited.
Muse was the stepfather of singer-songwriter Judee Sill, with whom he had a strained relationship.
Muse died on July 26, 1987, his seventy-seventh birthday, in Templeton, California.
Inder Raj Anand (died 6 March 1987) was an Indian film writer. He was father to actor and director Tinnu Anand and producer Bittu Anand. Inder’s grandson is noted film director Siddharth Anand. Famous director Mukul Anand is Inder’s nephew. Shahenshah, starring Amitabh Bachchan was Inder’s last film as a writer. It was produced by his son, Bittu, and was directed by Tinnu. Shahenshah was released after Inder’s death and it became one of the biggest hits of that year.
…nobody wiki-notable died on June 10th, 1980. But I just might be Gabriel Fallon.
Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as Dynamite Bob, was convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Chambliss allegedly also firebombed the houses of several black families in Alabama.
are you fucking kidding me. worst game ever
Hank Worden (born Norton Earl Worden July 23, 1901 – December 6, 1992) was an American cowboy-turned-character-actor who appeared in many Westerns including The Lone Ranger.
fast forward
He worked steadily in television as well as films, long outliving Hawks, Ford, and Wayne, and achieving some late notice as the World’s Oldest Room-Service Waiter in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks TV series.
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pineridgesd:
Laila is a 9 year old angel who is fighting for her life. She needs a kidney as soon as possible. She is O+ and can only recieve O+.
Laila comes from the Pine Ridge Reservation. She is suffering from End-Stage Renal Disease. She is fighting for her life!
- In 2010, a total of 6,521 patients died while waiting for organ transplants.
- On average, 18 people die each day because of the shortage of donated organs.
- A new name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list every 10 minutes/
Please Reblog and support! Maybe we can find Laila a kidney!
Like her facebook page Laila’s Fight; thru the eyes of a zombie baby there’s information on how to donate.
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rydellk:
for 4/13 we made homestuck sims for a birthday party yeeeeaaaaaay all friends sit together
except for rose. rose is a party girl
toast to birthday boy
rose is pregaming
time to get crunk. shake it
get down lalonde
meanwhile, a happy tv dinner for the birthday boy
oh no dave is phasing through his chair i think dave is dead.
happy 4/13! : )
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gohan……… gohan hey…… tell… *cough cough* tell your mom………… she had a great ass
like, wow
you dont even know kid, like
damn
anyway
gnight buddy
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ps dying piccolo looks like hes making a sexy face or he just spotted a choice ass
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