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steph: yeah keeping vigilante life separate from my real life can get hard sometimes :/ i have to balance school and being batgirl, plus im keeping it a secret from my mom so its even harder :(

mia, writing a resume with "speedy" under past work and "vigilantism" under special skills: yeah that sounds like it sucks i guess

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six fanarts 1/6, mia suggested by @queen-lance!

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My assortment of roys and mias

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Local communist loves his daughter

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CELEBRATING CONNOR’S FIRST PRIDE AFTER COMING OUT

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Fake comic cover of the speedy solo that exists in my most wishful thoughts! Based on this post by @academia-dearden :3

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i could say a lot about how dc got exponentially worse with the oversexualization of their female (and especially teenaged) characters in the new52 but i think the pics of mia dearden pre-reboot and post-reboot speak for themselves

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“Don’t do that, it will explode!” is a very dangerous thing to say to someone who used to do science shows!

Anyway, here’s a video about shooting lithium-iron batteries…

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Who give a shit about Superboy dying when Mia's just standing here cutely?

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for the honey ask: helena bertinelli, barbara gordon, and mia dearden

Hi there!

Helena B: sourwood honey

Barbara: coffee blossom honey

Mia: vanilla acacia honey (that is to say, acacia honey that is infused with a vanilla stick for a while to absorb the flavour)

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picked up ga01 again ohhhhmy arrowfam ilyyyyyy

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everytime i see them together on the same panel my heart explodes with joy

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Something something Rose|Tara|Mia/ See No Evil| Speak No Evil | Hear no evil or something

They should get to make each other miserable for like one issue and also I think Tara's fate and the way the titans speak of her should haunt them forever and they should terrify the hell out of each other. Mia listening to the other titans explain the story about Tara while trying to remain composed and stoic while Rose is listening and biting her nails from behind the door

Also at least one of them should have a sex dream about the three of them and it's not even a nightmare the dream feels good if weird and then she wakes up drenched in sweat with tears in her eyes because she only remembers the first part of the dream and then she doesn't remember what she dreamed after but it was bad and then she gets up and practices until she's not thinking about anything anymore

I think also maybe Rose should have some sort of nightmare/hallucination about Tara's ghost kissing her while being on fire and holding her chin and whispering in her ear about how slade called her her name once while they were in bed together

Maybe Rose and Tara fighting and Rose thinking back about that and snapping and throwing Tara into pool water and both trying to drown each other and Mia shooting an electrified arrow into the water to shock them unconscious and then pulling them both out of the water

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Also hc that Mia's allergic to cats. Unfortunately she does still love them very much.

"heeey kitty kitty" she says, her eyes watering already

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Thoughts on Roy and Mia's relationship?

LOVE IT, wish we got more of them together! There is such a strong overlap between their personalities - both very brash and cocky and extroverted, both determined to talk about their pasts without euphemisms or apologies. They feel like natural kindred spirits to me, but I also feel like that could be misleading in an interesting way - Mia expects Roy to be the Fun Brother and is surprise when he's fallible or, like, an adult and a parent and thus a killjoy; Roy expects Mia to make the choices he would have made at her age and has to be reminded that she's her own person. I think that could have been a fun story to tell.

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Olympic Archery isn’t the best style of archery! (Because the “best” style is a fluid thing and depends on what you enjoy and/or need)

Tutorials and more can be found here (it’s a link to my Patreon)

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Mia who starts crying in the middle of the grocery store after an extremely mild inconvenience because emotional regulation is so hard and it's humiliating why is she crying about her favourite brand of flavoured milk being missing there is another brand of flavoured milk right next to it that's only 20 cents more expensive and she feels like a kid throwing a tantrum even though she's a grown adult and why is she even upset she's strong she's a survivor she's a hero what kind of hero cries about flavoured milk and and and-