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Cassandra Cain Broken Crown mmv

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Is tumblr just eating my posts now what is going on.

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So, I've thought a lot about your advice on how to write Cass' dialogue, done a bunch of research into usa reality tv (how many housewives are there??? Is it like one per big city?? They can't possibly all be "the real ones"), looking up shakespeare quotes in English, thinking about morphosyntaxic mistakes and incorrect word use...

And I'm sorry, I really am. With all the love in my heart, I can't stop thinking about this:

https://www.tumblr.com/fulgurbugs/786186833724850176?source=share

The sentences are longer, and it doesn't have a lot of the more phonological and morphosyntaxic you have mentioned. But on the semantic level... I can't see that essay without thinking of Cass anymore and I need to know if i'm the only one who's seeing it.

HELPPP yesss the use of "perchance" as well as "keep it up, baby!" 😭😭😭😭. I love the idea that Cass mixes all of her super formal and super informal registers at once, like YEAH why would she separate or relegate them to certain scenarios?? That's all her hard-earned language and she's gonna use it as she wants!!

Also the made up word "lifekind" Cass would TOTALLY do the same thing, we see her playing with language in Gabrych's run ("volving") and I miss that sooo much. Let my girl make different compound words and spout off puns!!!!

Since Batman & The Signal mentioned her going to school (which I do not believe but whatever), I can imagine her handing something like this in for her first essay 😭😭😭

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The Canon Batman Timeline

I tried my best.

It's important to me that even comic characters can age and grow.

TLDR: I think the best way to plot out a Batman timeline is to pay attention to the ages of characters over time.

Long version:

Batman: Year One, Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper, The Long Halloween and Dark Victory all take place consecutively and over the course of Batman's first 5 years.

Bruce Wayne is 25 when he returns to Gotham on Jan 4, Year One, and likely turns 26 that year. Selina Kyle is 19 during Year One.

Dick Grayson becomes Robin at 13 in Dark Victory, towards the end of Year Five and spends 6 years as Robin.

Adapted Silver Age stories follow Dark Victory.

Dinah Lance becomes Black Canary and co-founds the JLA at 19, early in the Silver Age.

Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl at 18, after the Teen Titans have formed, likely around around Year Eight. She is in-between Dick and Dinah's ages.

Adapted Bronze Age stories begin in Year Ten, after Dick leaves for college at 18.

Helena Bertinelli becomes a vigilante at the end of summer in Year Eleven, after turning 21, returns to Gotham and begins calling herself The Huntress in Year Twelve, after Ash Wednesday. She meets a 29 year-old Catwoman, who she's around 8 years younger than.

Dick is fired by Bruce at the end of Year Eleven at 19. Dick becomes Nightwing and Jason becomes Robin in early Year Twelve.

Crisis happens in Year Twelve and the Modern Age begins. Dick turns 20 around this time.

In Year Thirteen, Death in the Family, Killing Joke, Huntress (1989), A Lonely Place of Dying and Cry of the Huntress occur.

Barbara becomes Oracle, Tim Drake becomes Robin at 13, Stephanie Brown becomes The Spoiler at 15 and Jean-Paul Valley becomes Azrael as a post-graduate student. Dick is 21.

Knightfall takes place, over the course of 6 months between Year Thirteen and Fourteen.

In Year Fourteen, Prodigal, Contagion, Legacy, Cataclysm and Aftershock occur consecutively.

It is also in this year that Helena and Barbara join the JLA, Barbara forms the Birds of Prey, adding Dinah, and Tim co-founds Young Justice.

The entirety of Year Fifteen is the No Man's Land year.

Helena becomes The Bat, in Batman's absence, while also moonlighting as the Huntress.

Stephanie Brown gives birth at 16 and Cassandra Cain becomes Batgirl at 17.

The Titans form again, Donna Troy turns 23 and she is the same age as Dick.

Year Sixteen begins with New Gotham and ends with Infinite Crisis. Cry for Blood, Outlaws, Joker: Last Laugh, Fugitive/Murderer and Family occur in this year.

Renee Montoya turns 29, Cassandra turns 18, Tim turns 16 and Jason would have turned 18.

Helena joins the Birds of Prey, Tim joins the Teen Titans, Dick joins the Outsiders and Stephanie has a stint as Robin.

Jean-Paul dies.

Year Seventeen is the 52 year and is largely a timeskip. Kate Kane becomes Batwoman and Renee becomes The Question.

Year Eighteen opens with One Year Later.

Final Crisis occurs and Bruce "dies". Battle for the Cowl occurs.

Dick becomes Batman and Damian becomes Robin, at 10. Dick joins the JLA.

Stephanie becomes Batgirl at 19, and Tim becomes Red Robin.

Michael Lane becomes Azrael at around 30 and Kate turns 32.

In Year Nineteen, Bruce Wayne returns and begins Batman Inc.. Cassandra becomes Black Bat.

The Black Mirror, Gates of Gotham and Leviathan Strikes occur.

The Convergence timeskip begins.

Towards the end of Year Twenty, Convergence concludes and so does Post-Crisis continuity.

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Stephanie Brown and her litany of nicknames, her Spookygirls and Boy Wonderfuls and Masked Mans, her way of showing affection and harkening to the identities of people who rarely reciprocate - from the very beginning when Bruce reveals her identity to Arthur and Tim calls her Stephanie on the field (despite her telling him not to), her own name has always been out of her control. At least with nicknames she gets to control how someone else is called, for once.

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Gonna start being as annoying about people reading Underworld Unleashed as other people are about getting people to read Batgirl (2000) oooooooh you want to read a depressed closeted man get thirsted after by the devil so bad.

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Leaving aside that any variation of "this is happening because leftists wouldn't pinch their nose and vote for the lesser evil™" about the bombing of Iran is just factually untrue (Harris made it repeatedly clear that she considered Iran a threat which she would make a priority to stop with military force, and Democrat presidents don't exactly have a track record of being more opposed to bombing middle-eastern countries than Republican presidents), it's just such a perfect demonstration of first-world ghoulishness how so many self-proclaimed progressive americans will see people in another country get bombed and their first thought will be "I should use this to votescold other americans" before the bodies are even cold.

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Favorite batgirl run?

BATGIRL 2000 it's no contest I love Steph's run I appreciate Barbara's original appearances and Batgirls and I'm enjoying this current run but Batgirl 2000 is the best comic I've ever read. If we're talking specific author's runs then it's got to be Pucketts run. I appreciate what the authors that came after him tried to do but he had creator advantage where he got Cass on a level no other writer ever has, and managed to write her comics with such impact that some issues never fully left my mind. It's just really well written like it's the kind of run you'd pray your fave gets and Cass got it for her first ever run. Because she's the best. Everyone read Batgirl 2000 right now.

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Nightwing (1996) Issue #87.

Imagine thinking that Babs couldn't fight in her wheelchair.

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Sometimes I see an interesting post about a male character and I'm like oh this person seems like they could be fun to follow let's check out their blog and then I get hit by the most pretentious antifeminist lecturing of female character fans not discussing their mistreatment in a way that's Correct enough and it's like hmm. Never mind then.

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You know those photos of little birds sleeping together on a branch, all cuddled up in a line? This, but its the Order of the Robins from Dark Knights of Steel, high up on some precarious ledge:

(The photos in question:)

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I strongly suspect that many people who talk about the good and noble golden age of comics have not actually read anything from that period.

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(id in alt!)

timsteph napping together for @tobetame via @dcforgaza - requests close on the 21st!

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I do actually think Bruce would be more on the ball with regards to sensing when Cass is struggling with social interaction and stepping in than anyone else. That's just the level of freak matching they operate on. He also hates social interaction, he's just trained himself to handle it better so he's willing to take this bullet for her.

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cass cain angst for @arcaneprism!! TYSM FOR DONATING THIS TO @dcforgaza you spoil me

original poem from this video! i really want to do more of the poem (adding in lady shiva too) but i got burnt out. anyways, i love angst and i love cass

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Steph patching up an injured Cass for your Batfam art requests, plz? Thank you!

here they are!!!! must’ve been some scarecrow attack with poisons in the air to get hit so hard

here r the extras and my hodgepodge reference! ALSO everyone else who reqqed me— don’t worry, i’m getting there!

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It took them four tries to get the camera set up for this and they still dropped it afterwards anyway

[original+just the picture under the cut]