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Basically, Duela Dent gets killed. After the Titans attend the funeral, they start investigating and discover that Red Hood is involved.

And then, after that:

Alright, here’s the wiki summary. The power of words is truly something, just reading these lines makes me feel like I’m about to explode.

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May I suggest instead, “stop using random click commands to bother your siblings!” and it’s just Nightwing and Spoiler on patrol hitting “assistance assistance assistance” on their molar clips so it pops up in their comms AND their lenses, and of course there’s the occasional “down down down” when Bruce does something they don’t like and they click “terminate (chase)” whenever Red Hood shows up because it’s hilarious to try and guess what his face is doing AND it’s a dead brother joke all in one.

Alfred’s back in the cave getting “pitstop. pitstop. pitstop question?” because the kids want food after and Bruce is grinding his teeth so hard he breaks the clips because all of his teeth are implants at this point and there’s no click command for “shut the fuck up” other than “opsec opsec opsec” which just encourages them.

Barbara has her own click clips because they’re useful for multitasking, Cass loves spelling out full words with her clips and gets fluent fast, meanwhile Tim has them on all his molars and promptly chips a tooth whenever he tries to use them, Damian needs braces before they fit properly on his teeth and is handling that about as well as you can guess, and Duke loves them because he can decline every single sibling message unless it’s a priority alert.

Except one day, Duke gets hit in the mouth so hard, the clips all short out in his mouth. Instead of groaning about the sparks (Bruce is already working on a better model) Duke feeds them a little and smiles at whoever hit him with a bloody, sparking mouth, and promptly wins “most badass fight” on the sibling board (eh) but then gets Bruce’s praise for not leaving the clips (and the teeth) behind even if they regenerate.

Anyways this is kinda salty but something I like to indulge in sometimes is reading all of Jason’s appearances in their comics as being solely their perception of Jason, rather than how he really was. The way Jason is used in their stories says something about their characters, but what does it say when the narrative isn’t particularly set on propping them up as the protagonists?

Tim thinks Jason is an emotionally unstable reckless idiot whose ideas are wayyyy too extreme, Dick thinks Jason is straight up crazy (literally as well as in the derogatory sense) and they both think that Jason is obsessed with them.

In Titan’s Tower and Brothers in Blood, Jason’s return ignites a minor identity crisis in both of them. Jason comes to Tim raving about being forgotten. Tim seems to resent Jason’s memory— for being the Robin that died, that failed Batman, and stained the mantle.

Jason comes to Dick as an evil doppelgänger. An image of what Dick might’ve been, or could still become if he lets go of himself. Unlike Tim’s Jason who simply is inferior, Dick’s Jason has a whole inferiority complex. Dick’s Jason noticeably lacks any of “real” Jason’s usual pragmatism (a trait that even Tim’s Jason has) and is instead just a childish copycat performer… what does that say about Dick’s unconscious impression of Jason?

Applying this lens to UTH itself is also interesting. (Of course we can’t say the entire comic is just Bruce hallucinating, but we can consider the comic to be the story of the “actual” events as told by Bruce.)

That UTH is written pretty much entirely from Bruce and Alfred’s perspective, with no thought boxes from Jason’s POV at all, indicates that Bruce doesn’t assume (or can’t predict) what Jason is thinking.

Bruce does understand that Jason is a pragmatist, but he also (incorrectly) connects Jason’s cynicism as Red Hood to Jason’s attitude as Robin. To Bruce, Jason was not an idealist who was burned— he was already a cynic as a child and he only got worse.

It's... pretty much what it says on the tin. Some car manufacturers are phasing out AM Radio from their cars so they can replace them with their own streaming services - this bill seeks to make them a mandatory feature.

As somebody whose day job is in radio, I totally agree that the amount of ads and the quality of the ads is ridiculous. Personally, I don't find radio to be an amazing source of political news broadcasting.

But do you know what it is really good at? Providing emergency broadcasts during extreme weather events.

When power and internet is down, radio can be one of the only sources of information, and it's helped provide lifesaving information during these times.

(Plus, at least in my area of the country, emergency weather alerts override and interrupt programming when broadcast - even during pesky ads!)

So if you want to toss your signature in support, you can head on over here.

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