#Oracle Users

[crowkip]

ouguugh,, womnen

[sunnycanwrite]

no I don't think some people get it.

Barbara Gordon should not ever be Batgirl ever again. She is an adult woman, who has grown fr past the role. Who lost her ability to walk. Who lost a good chunk of her mobility, and had adjust to disability. If you've ever lost a bodily function you've had your entire life it drains on you both mentally, and physically. Having to fight with yourself to adjust to a new reality to learn to adapt to the world your now living in. It is a fucking battle, and the world is not made for you in the end.

She had to get used to slighting lopsided sidewalks are, two floor buildings without elevators, trying to wheel over carpet, not being able to do things she's always done, etc. And in the end she ended up becoming more powerful than ever before as Oracle. So the goddamn fucking audacity to take her back to Batgirl.

[delphiss]

Solstice by Audre Lorde + Dg.

[sliipppy]

Birds of Prey Brainrot

This is so messy but I didn't feel like putting effort in. I love Birds of Prey because it's like a reality show but with explosions and secret missions like yeah let's spend 5 issues in a row seeing what's happening in Barbara's chaotic love life (this isnt sarcastic btw, I REALLY enjoy just like...seing the characters be people and like navigate their messy lives an relationships.)

[verstappenclerc]

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[msfcatlover]

Oracle!Tim has a wheelchair, but hates using it. He loudly insists he doesn’t need to when almost anyone suggests it. He can get around just fine on crutches, and it’s bad enough the way people treat him like that; he refuses to have them literally looking down on him.

Except, see, the thing is… he does need it. By the end of the day navigating on his crutches, Tim hurts. His back is screaming from the shoulders down, his spine feels almost swollen with how it takes over his senses (burning, throbbing, every click & grind of bone like having a knife wedged between the vertebrae,) the skin on his legs feels like it’s trying to crawl off his body, and there’s sharp needles of pain shooting through his leg muscles. If Tim spends the day on his feet/moving around a lot on his crutches, he’s going to spend the next 3 nights trying to be Oracle while flat on his back on the floor. (Tim does try to get around this by having wheelie chairs in all his offices and just not walking around much, but if the weather turns cold or a big storm blows in, even that won’t help.)

He gets better about it over time. Cass drags Tim into helping with her specific charity work, helping other disabled kids in Gotham. Tim ends up giving interviews in which he talks about being an ambulatory wheelchair user, how he’s treated when he goes out in the chair, how people act like it’s all a horrible lie if they ever see him get up from it, and how it combines with Tim’s own pride & internalized ableism to lead to him gritting his teeth and just pushing through. “It’s not worth it,” he tells Vicki Vale, a rueful smile on his face. “It’s never worth it, to go home and lay on the floor in too much pain to move, just so the people at the grocery store don’t see me in my chair. But I do it anyway, and I’m probably going to keep doing it… so if you see me out in public, please ask me if I’m being stupid, because there’s a good chance the answer is yes.” People laugh. Vicki calls him brave for talking about it. Tim says if he can raise just a little attention, make people a little more aware of how they treat people in (and out) of wheelchairs, he’ll have done something good.

Then he goes home. Lays on the floor. And tries not to cry while one of his loved ones rubs tiger balm into his back, because no, people don’t understand, it fucking hurts.

[tangerinesayswhat]

SOOOO happy to drop my first fic today!! we love an honest barbara gordon character study (and hate the killing joke)

Please check it out!!

[ivymess]

babs and dinah 🦇🐤 2/3 of my DC wlw series <3

[papaiyatree]

did not like the swimsuit comic that released. made a mockup cover to pretend like it didn't happen

EDIT: comms are open!!

[futabas-safespot23]

[smilesrobotlover]

Some worldbuilding stuff I enjoy playing with:

The highest honor a man can have in Hyrule besides royalty or the hero is to be knighted. There are soldiers but they are simply soldiers. Knights on the other hand are blessed by the queen herself, and are knighted typically because they match the qualities of a hero: strong spirit, unwavering courage, and so on. The knights of Hyrule are the strongest fighters and defend the castle if it’s attacked.

The highest honor a woman can have in Hyrule is the status of a maiden. Maidens are blessed by the queen as well and typically match the qualities of the princess with the goddess’s bloods in her veins: wise and powerful with divine magic. Though their magic is not as strong as the princess/Queen’s, together, they are significantly powerful and can help in defense of the castle.

[sunnycanwrite]

Mobility aids aren't props for your cosplay.

If you don't know I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user, a cane and forearm crutch user. I am also a passionate cosplayer, the cosplayer ambassador for a 3rd printer, a panelist, and convention volunteer. But most of all I'm against abled bodied cosplayers buying mobility aids for cosplay.

Another wheelchair user I know ran into a cosplayer who bought a very nice used wheelchair just for a cosplay. One that someone like me could be using instead. I went to a con in my wheelchair a few months ago, and there was an able bodied cosplayer, using a wheelchair as a prop. It looked nothing like an actual usable chair. I was to say to say anything, but got asked throughout the day if my wheelchair was a prop.

Don't cosplay a disabled character, and buy mobility aids that people who need could use. It's not funny, it makes you look like an asshole. There's a lot of passionate disabled cosplayers who gev told they aren't in character due to their mobility aids.

[sliipppy]

Being an Oracle fan is an endless loop of being excited she's in something and then being sad when it's batgirl of burnside or at least batgirl of burnside inspired

[raynetheinsane]

THE GIRLS EVVERRRRRR

(more details and progress pics under the cut)

These were supposed to be practicing with different media. Cass was done entirely in pencil and lined with microns, neither of which are new to me, but my traditional art in general needed brushed up. Her pose is from ISTV and its a Peter B pose, i would go looking for the pic but im lazy

Steph was colored with paint markers (both posca and sharpie) and lined with a normal sharpie. Ive never used paint markers for an actual drawing like this, only backgrounds and an odd art project, so this was really interesting to work on. My one “complaint” is less of a medium more of a materials-available-to-me in that i couldnt shade with the markers, i could only hatch which i already worked on with Cass. Her pose is super basic cus i never intened her to be any more than a sketch so…

Babs was the last drawing and she was lined with a fine tip sharpie and colored with alcohol markers. I’ve breifly worked with alcohol markers on my own as i have my own set, but i challeneged myself to use the brush tip on these as mine dont have a brush tip, additionally mine have mostly been used for coloring pages and little doodles, not full scale drawings.

This was a suuuuppper fun project to work on in my free time and im so happy that i finally finished it

PROGRESS PICSS (there isnt any for steph so..)

[babsggordon]

Are you in a wheelchair?

Not anymore, why?

[joelletwo]

[so were - was - we, i - that is--]

kjhgkjsdf helloooooo whats this guy and his two holographic twins' deal