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The zoo in my hometown posted this picture of one of their cheetah cubs and I'm obsessed

HIS NAME IS YAM ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDINF ME

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that doesn’t even …. okay lmao

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Mundane America. Broken pole with rope and an American Flag. Cincinnati, Ohio.

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actually obsessed with this image i drew when i was 9 years old

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Skeletor has forever destroyed our ability to come up with voices for skeleton characters.

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been playing pokémon black on an emulator and like …. why did pokémon games stop being top-down? honestly i really prefer the cute little guys walking around with more detailed character designs in battles and cutscenes. the nintendo 3d look (tm) works for mario but nnnnnot for pokémon like look how cute this is why can’t they still look like this

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In Defense of TKJ as Oracle Origin Story

Note: in this piece I’m not using TKJ so much to mean the comic itself. Instead I use it as a shorthand for the concept of Barbara being paralyzed by Joker as a way to manipulate Jim and Bruce.

I have such strong feelings about TKJ being referenced in the preboot vs the n52. I know I’ve discussed it before, but in case you haven’t noticed, this page is like 15% repetitive Oracle meta.

Because here’s the truth: Oracle made TKJ matter, made it complex. Made me fucking like it to some degree.

Don’t get me wrong, TKJ was a disservice to Barbara’s character, arguably the start to Joker being the inescapable boring little incel icon he is today, and one of the most egregious examples of fridging and unnecessary sexual violence in comics.

However. Kim Yale and John Ostrander, and the writers who came after them, managed to take this horrific story and make it part of Barbara’s arc, Barbara’s story.

Her objectification and fridging, the way she was used as a pawn in a game not even about her, her anger at that? Discussed. Her struggle with her father and Bruce’s guilt that just weighed her down more and tied into the fridging? Discussed. Her blaming herself because she “should’ve known better,” used to be a superhero? Discussed.

Barbara is allowed her anger, allowed her healing, and allowed her strength. She reclaims her agency, and that’s a story that resonates with many people—for example, women, survivors of violence, and disabled people.

Via the writing of Oracle, a horrible comic became the root of a story we rarely get to see in comics: female anger, defridging, disabled empowerment. And in this case, for me at least, the branches somehow healed the rotten root.

When TKJ or the Joker came up in the preboot, it was Barbara’s moment to shine. Her moment to stare her trauma in the face and say “you don’t define me, I do.” Every time DC shoved the Joker at her for drama, she refused to buy into his mind games. “You took nothing from me,” indeed.

Barbara didn’t really have an iconic origin as Batgirl, but TKJ became her Kryptonian rocket, her Joe Chill in the alley, her Uncle Ben’s death. TKJ gained symbolism, purpose, and meaning with Barbara at the center; Barbara’s recovery, feelings, and resilience now formed the heart of TKJ retellings.

I do like Oracle origins that aren’t TKJ, but I think a lot of Oracle’s power does come from its tackling it head on. Barbara’s frustration and trauma is heavily affected by the circumstances of her disablement, and I think losing that loses some of the power of her story.

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god if there was a book of forbidden spells I wouldn’t even hesitate

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A little drawing of them. For me. As a treat

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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A cougar cub (Puma concolor) in the North Carolina Zoo, USA

by ucumari photography

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WAAA ABANDON ALL HOPE ILL CAST AN EVIL SPELL ON YOUR ASK BOX 🤜

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rip harrowhark nonagesimus you would’ve loved the foundations of decay by my chemical romance

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all the new god portraits (so far) in hades 2 !!!

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IM ON MY KNEES IM SHAKING IM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH GOD IS GOOD

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you've achieved some kind of postmodern statement if one look at your recipe puts enough doubt in me to do this