#jordan dixon

[nitpickrider]

Sir, if you see Madame Hydra roll up and say "I want your alias" RUN. That woman is not there to negotiate!

[comicsiswild]

Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) #6

Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) #6

[celebsbyseb]

[athletic-collection]

Team Great Britain diving--(from left) Ross Haslam, Noah Williams, Matthew Dixon, Jordan Houlden, James Heatly, and Anthony Harding

[brits-in-briefs]

Ant Harding, Ben Cutmore, Matty Lee, Matthew Dixon, Jordan Houlden, Jack Laugher, Kyle Kothari, Noah Williams, Dan Goodfellow

[cantsayidont]

January 1996. Before it became a Harley Quinn thing, BIRDS OF PREY was Barbara Gordon's (barely) crypto-lesbian crimefighting polycule. After Babs was shot by the Joker and summarily discarded by the Bat-books, John Ostrander and Kim Yale reinvented the former Batgirl as Oracle, a computer hacker and information broker who for a while was Amanda Waller's second-in-command of the Suicide Squad. In 1995, Oracle became the costar of the leading homoerotic team-up franchise of the '90s, recruiting Black Canary and later various other superheroines for what was nominally a CHARLIE'S ANGELS type adventure series with Oracle as Charlie.

What's memorable about this initial special, aside from its horny Gary Frank art, is that Black Canary doesn't know who Oracle is except by reputation and as an electronically altered voice on the telephone. However, Dinah is going through a rough patch, so when she comes home to find an answering machine message from Oracle saying she has a dangerous job for her and has already bought her a first-class ticket to Gotham, Dinah decides she has nothing better to do but play out the string. Oracle has gotten her a fancy rental car and a swanky hotel suite, in which there's a throat mic and tiny transceiver that will let Oracle communicate with her (and surveil her, although Oracle already knows everything about her, from her recent breakup with Oliver Queen to her poor credit rating) 24/7:

So, Babs not only wants Dinah to do some legwork for her, but also dresses her up like a doll, watches her every move, and is a voice in her ear basically at all times. (The early BIRDS OF PREY stories often have scenes of Babs talking to Dinah from the bath or the hot tub, because that's the kind of series this is.) Rather than being creeped out by this weird stalker/control-freak behavior from an anonymous woman, Dinah says, "Sure, why not?" and decides to just go with it, even after Oracle starts bringing other women into the mix. (It seems pretty clear that when Dinah asks, "Are these your personal taste?" she's asking whether they're what Oracle wants to see Dinah in — which Dinah evidently doesn't have a problem with — rather than whether they're something Oracle herself would wear.)

This being a '90s comic book by right-wing homophobe Chuck Dixon, there are of course various no-homo evasions throughout, but I'm not sure how one is supposed to not read this as kind of gay. The second BIRDS OF PREY story, which teams Black Canary and Lois Lane (and is written not by Dixon, but by Jordan B. Gorfinkel, the editor of the initial special), has this little aside:

There's no way anyone writing something like this in 1995–96 wouldn't know how people were likely to read this. (Dinah does know that Oracle is a woman even in their first adventure, and while Babs typically distorts her voice when communicating with people as Oracle, it doesn't appear that she does that with Dinah.)

After a while, Dinah does become curious to know more about Oracle, but Babs refuses to let Dinah actually see her. Eventually, though, circumstances force the issue in BIRDS OF PREY #21:

Dixon's script for this issue contained the following note for artist Butch Guice:

The more drama you can squeeze from this the better. We’re going for The Pieta as opposed to anything that HINTS of the sexual. This scene is apparently RIPE for misinterpretation (or OVERinterpretation.) by some of our readers.

Mission accomplished — no lesbian implications here, boss!

So, as you can see, they have the "be gay" part down pretty well, and you may also be assured that Babs spends this series doing crimes. As a hacker, she of course commits computer fraud on the regular, breaking into restricted and classified systems (she's hacked the military GPS constellation so she can track Dinah, for instance), but she also routinely steals as much money as she needs to finance whatever equipment she needs and keep her girlfriend partner and their ever-growing list of attractive female cohorts in hot cars and fancy underwear. Vigilante superheroes generally take a pretty selective attitude about the law, but the number of felonies this once rather prim policeman's daughter and one-time congresswoman perpetrates honestly puts Catwoman to shame. The stories are frustratingly stupid and the art only gets hornier as it goes on, but what a good series this could have been if it were actually good.

[genevieveetguy]

Only the most broken people can be great leaders.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ryan Coogler (2022)

[nitpickrider]

Note to future villains: When fighting the Falcon, keep your hands close to the chest because that @#$%& bird plays for keeps!

[comicsiswild]

Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) #5

[celebsbyseb]

[realhousewives-fan]

Is Robyn’s Reality Stranger Than Fiction?

We’re picking up with the housewives in Potomac at a strange time.

This is the aftermath of the revelation of Robyn Dixon’s version of the truth.

We’ve watched season after season as the women on the show has attacked relationships.

Somehow, Robyn’s relationship has been off limit.

When Andy Cohen had confronted her on WWHL, Robyn claimed that she was waiting for Karen Huger to bring up the stories about Juan Dixon.

There was so much that Robyn did and said last season that was… misleading and self-righteous.

And the fans were booing at her during BravoCon.

The fans, the producers and the other wives weren’t happy with Robyn, and we start the season with a conversation between Juan and Robyn.

As usual, their conversations are giving me high anxieties.

It seems like Robyn is tiptoeing around the topics because she knows that Juan doesn’t like this.

It’s like they’re seconds away of him blowing up or storming away from the cameras.

Robyn was mystified to how her podcast could cause such a firestorm.

But how are fans going to take it when they learn that Robyn has been hiding this from the show – and is willing to talk about it through her Patreon?

Her bestie Gizelle Bryant arranged an intervention on her with Charrisse Jordan-Jackson and Ashley Darby.

Their conclusion was that Robyn is in denial.

Everybody was expecting to see the group confront Robyn this season.

They might not have expected that Mia Thornton’s marriage to fall apart though.

After the trailer was dropped, she announced that she was separating from her husband!

They’re still struggling financially after Gordon Thornton’s family pushed then out of their business, and they’re struggling to make the ends meet.

And after all the talk he has been doing before the season premiere, it seems like she looked for another man who could provide the lifestyle she craves.

She said in her confessional that she was working how she could fix this or turn her situation into something even better.

The accusations about her being a gold digger started ringing in my head.

[onlylonelylatino]

Green Arrow and Green Lantern by Rodolfo Damaggio

[nofatclips]

make a poet Black by McKinley Dixon from the album For my Mama and Anyone who Look Like Her - Director: Jordan Rodericks

[kaylawritess]

suggestions?

i’m not really sure who and what to write about if you could give me suggestions that would be great 

[athletic-collection]

(from left) Kyle Kothari, Anthony Harding, Jack Laugher, Ben Cutmore, Matty Lee, Matthew Dixon, Dan Goodfellow, Noah Williams, and Jordan Houlden

[brits-in-briefs]

Kyle Kothari, Ant Harding, Jack Laugher, Ben Cutmore, Matty Lee, Matthew Dixon, Dan Goodfellow, Noah Williams, Jordan Houlden