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The Oracle’s hand.

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Not all heroes wear capes.

Oracle would be fuckin' proud of this girl.

okay! 4 days and a bunch of on-off work later, I'm finally done with one of my passion projects.

So as everyone who has ever visited the DC Wiki knows, it sucks for a wide variety of reasons (lack of sourcing, incomplete and/or wrong information, generally hard to navigate, etc etc). One of the wiki's many issues is that there have historically been no substantive reading recommendations on anyone's character pages.

Well...as of now, every single major Batfamily member's New Earth (post-Crisis) and Prime Earth (post-Flashpoint) DC wiki pages have a mostly complete reading recs list at the bottom!!! (except Bruce, because fuck trying to figure that one out lmao, I just linked to the Wiki's Batman Recommended Reading page and will deal with that issue later)

These lists should be most of the character's major appearances in that continuity. For anyone who's had more than one mantle in a given continuity, the recs are split up by mantle. Here's what Dick's post-Crisis page looks like now, for example:

Note: there are no specific exclusions due to quality, because I kept in mind the fact that this is a public-facing wiki and not a personal recs list. I will still be keeping my personal Batfam reading recs list up to date, because 'major appearances' and 'these comics are actually good/good depictions of the character' lists are two different things. But hopefully anyone navigating the Batfam's wiki pages will now have solid reading timelines for everyone.

I hope to do some more work on these lists at some point (breaking up the long-running books by creative team, filling the lists out a bit more, and eventually coding in some stories that don't fit neatly on a single line, at minimum...probably editing the separated Batgirl and Robin recommended reading pages too), but I'm pretty satisfied with my work for now!

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What's that heart? I broke you before 9 am?

Fair. This is too cute.

Thought about these two and went insane. I miss their old dynamic so much

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Thought about these two and went insane. I miss their old dynamic so much

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I won't judge you on/because of the discourse on this post, although I am very judgemental and might judge you if I run across you in the wild.

I want you to actually drop your thoughts on this post somewhere on canon/fanon/headcanon. I am bored and feel like reading thoughts.

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finally have stable enough internet to share this old voice claim video i made ages ago 😗

everyone else im still unsure abt but cass is locked in forever ill never budge on huntress wizard cass

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"During the writing process, he was in his living room excitedly explaining the T-1000 to his friend and collaborator Stan Winston when Winston raised a concern. "I don't know who the bad guy is," Winston said. "I need a specific character, a specific image." To Winston, what Cameron was describing sounded like a blob of goo, not an iconic evildoer. "From a story standpoint, I thought it was a problem," Winston later recalled in an interview for the picture-book history of his story, "The Winston Effect." Cameron respected Winston's instincts for creating memorable characters, and he started reconsidering how he would shape this one. Later that same night, the effects artist got a phone call from his friend. "I've got it!" Cameron said. "He's a cop!" The form the T-1000 would take for most of the movie was a Los Angeles police officer. This solved the storytelling dilemma Winston had raised and also gave Cameron an opportunity to underline a central theme in both of the Terminator movies - how people, especially those in violent jobs, like soldiers and cops, can become barbarized. "The Terminator films are not really about the human race getting killed of by future machines. They're about us losing touch with our own humanity and becoming machines, which allows us to kill and brutalize each other," he says. "Cops think all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job.""

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Futurist-Life-Films-James-Cameron-ebook/dp/B0034184U0

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babs and dick are at their peak when she’s just dragging the shit out of him

birds of prey vol 1 #8

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birds of prey vol 1 #8

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Talking No Man's Land and playing Arkham Knight has me thinkin bout Barbara Gordon and the portrayal of the early mainstream internet, when she was reintroduced as Oracle, especially in Birds of Prey.

I always found it off that there's no discussion of online disabled communities in the early Oracle comics, despite the attempt to portray both Barbara adopting late 90s "on-line netizen" culture and her social isolation as a recently disabled person.

It kind of feels a little... "There are no women on the internet"-y, but disabled.

I was There (as a high school kid lol) for the late 2000s Disabled Internet and it really was a specific time and place, man. It's something Barbara would have to have interacted with, surely.

And I mean, this is a ridiculous thing to complain about, I know. Seriously I cannot imagine a less relatable thing to include for a majority able-bodied audience in the early 2000s.

but I cannot describe to you in words the incredible catharsis I would feel in seeing early 2000s Barbara Gordon complain, "they want a photo of my disability before they'll let me join the forum, like I'm supposed to take a picture of my fucking legs not moving."

Because sis, if you had been there. Oh my god.

If you had been there...

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Batman: Let's get you home. I'm sure your parents will be worried about you. Troubled Dark Haired Gotham Youth: Actually I don't have any. Batman:

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Saving for later.

Remember when I told ya'll last month to be ready to start looking for a Discord alternative?

Yeah things aren't looking good for discord.

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The girlz <3

the boys: X

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make art, wussy

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I was drawing fight poses and accidentally just had cass beating steph up