#oracle queen

[kbookblurbs]

Oracle Queen - Lynn Flewelling (Tamír Triad #3)

4/5 - feels more complete; ending is still rushed

Generally, I like Tamir a lot more in this book. She feels like she's truly a person struggling with her gender identity in a way that Tobin … didn't really. There's also some indication that she feels prolonged gender dysphoria when she sees herself in the mirror and I thought that was very well done.

The battles themselves were boring. I find myself generally weary of extended war books - after a while, all battles blend into one another.

All in all, I feel that this trilogy would've been best served by being one longer book. The character arcs would have felt more complete, and I believe readers would encounter fewer abrupt stops.

[batfamhastwitter]

Part 50! Alright everybody, it's time for us to do our civic duty and start a' stabbin! Who's with me?!

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[jaxallope]

POV: you are in a Justice league meeting and you look over to Batman, an already intimidating, Man? Personal? Being, and you see this:

[kara-zor-els]

Roy and Babs' dynamic has the potential to be so funny. "I'm having a homoerotic relationship with your stepmother while you are having a homoerotic relationship with my boyfriend". Unhinged.

[purpleturtletarot]

Pick a Card Reading - What Type of Lover Are You?

This is my very FIRST written Tumblr Tarot Reading :) please let me know what you think. I have also posted some text tarot readings on my YouTube (purpleturtletarot) if you are interested in more. Feel free to DM me for suggested tarot reading topics. - I didn't do a lot of editing for this post, so each reading doesn't have much of a conclusion, but enjoy!

Deck Used: Heavenly Bloom by Noa Ikeda

Purple Hydrangea

Upright Nine of Swords, Upright Seven of Laurels, Upright Five of Laurels, Upright Knight of Cups

You are the type of lover that overthinks everything and may even have the capabilities to astral travel to connect with your love interests. You may have a lot of anxieties or fears of abandonment from past situations. Though, you continue to pour love, effort and investment into your partners, you sometimes feel they don't do the same in return or you're scared that they won't if it's a new love interest. You understand that healthy relationships give space for both parties to grow, and you are eager to water the seeds of a relationship and patiently watch them grow and evolve over time. Sometimes you feel your partners do not give you space to grow by being hypercritical of you not growing fast enough, or finding your evolution a threat in comparison to their own pace of growth. But you love with an open heart, you express your emotions very clearly and sometimes you are the one to admit your romantic feelings to a love interest before they do. Words of affirmation may be your strongest love language to give and receive. Service may be a significant love language for you, as well. You have a strong crown chakra, throat chakra, heart chakra, and solar plexus chakra. You take charge in expressing your heart fully in your relationships and I feel some of your peers are in awe of how you always pick yourself back up after strife in your love life. You really understand the saying that "it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all." You may let yourself feel your emotions behind closed doors for a moment, understanding that it's more constructive to work through those feelings than bottle them up. If you're single, you easily open yourself up to new opportunities for love after the fact. If your in a relationship, you easily forgive because you know forgiving is not only for your partner, but also for you. Some view you as an oasis in a desert, and water is symbolic of emotions. Some people view you as a highly empathetic, compassionate person that is rare to find in a world where people perpetuate the stigma that being emotionally expressive is weak. You teach people that showing vulnerability is a strength.

Pink Chrysanthemum

Reversed Four of Laurels, Reversed Five of Swords, Upright Three of Wands, Upright The Lovers, Reversed Six of Swords

You are the type of lover that is overly generous with your time, energy, effort and resources. You may often get taken advantage of in your partnerships and they may leave you feeling like the grass is greener on the other side. This doesn't necessarily mean with other people, but sometimes you feel it's easier to grow and achieve your goals and desires when you're single and on your own. You're highly independent, while also being a "lover-boy" or "lover-girl" deep down. You fall deeply in love very fast, and can just as easily fall out of love. You're the type to want to be very intimately close to your partner, physically and emotionally. I feel lots of scorpionic energy, and 8th house energy. You're a very nostalgic person and tend to view relationships as important lessons no matter how long or short they are. Though you are nostalgic, you are able to cut people off with a swiftness. You are able to let go of attachments easily and sever cord ties with others when they have taken advantage of your generosity and kindness for too long. And you can easily look ahead to your future, you hold a strong optimistic attitude for your next adventure in romance and love and you can daydream and visualize about it easily. Though you can easily cut past people off energetically, you may leave doors open for them to physically contact you, such as through social media and texting. You may interact with past partners, but they can very much tell that you have emotionally and mentally have moved on. You're against the drama, and are able to be civil with past partners when you see them at different events, functions or social situations involving mutual friends. You tend to wish past partners well, and it sometimes halts them in their tracks if they want to be petty or try and make you jealous.

Orange Marigold

Upright Queen of Swords, Upright Five of Cups, Neutral Temperance, Upright Eight of Cups, Upright King of Swords, Reversed Page of Laurels

You are the type of lover that is very logical and somewhat mysterious at times. Though you express yourself easily and clearly, others feels there's much more that lies beyond the surface. When you are feeling more emotional or moody, you tend to retreat to a safe place to let your guard down instead of in front of partners. Some people feel you may put a mask on of who you really are, or that you try to act more tough than you need to be. The imagery of Mulan bathing in a lake comes to mind, it's one of the only times in the movie she allows herself to "be a woman." But her friends come and disturb her from being able to fully immerse herself in her femininity, and she feels the need to hide her true self. Whether you are a man, woman or in-between. I think this means you feel guilty for showing or feeling your femininity and you lean into your masculinity. You are evolving into becoming more balanced between your feminine and masculine. I think your strength, resilience, toughness and logical attitude seduce people in ways that you can become an obsession or drug to some people, or you can sometimes get obsessive or love people like vices. I feel strong push and pull dynamics, and maybe you have an avoidant attachment style. Additionally, you sometimes over-invest or overspend you time, resources, and effort on others. Prominent love languages in your life may be gift giving or words of affirmation, whether that is giving or receiving.

[queenofghost]

Incorrect DC quotes part 35: Justice League

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[celaenaeiln]

I always assumed that from the comics I've read dick seems to have a somewhat complicated relationship with his own gender/sexuality/sex status, etc.

Anon!! You can't just drop this on me and leavee!! I need to hear more!! LEMME HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS!!!

Ok so this is gonna be like three different things so I'll make subcategories.

Gender

Of the things listed. I think gender is the one thing Dick is rather set on/secure about. He has some feminine or softer traits which typically would not be associated with a male character such as empathy and caring to an overemotional aspect -

Joker: Last Laugh Issue #3

Nightwing (1996) Issue #86

Nightwing (1996) Issue #139

Being overly kind to an unappreciative and toxic girlfriend is one thing, but as a brother hugging and kissing a brother? It's a little softer than how people usually write male heroes.

He's male and I don't think he's considered switching to the female side because he's comfortable with his masculinity.

Does he do things like this -

Nightwing (2016) Issue #38

sometimes? Yeah. He takes the female role in his relationships with others such as Bruce and Barbara but he still very much sees himself as masculine. Like I said in another post, Kori asks him to be a male consort to her Queen because she was forced to marry a royal Tamaranian Prince. While male consorts are not unusual in history, they typically embody the female in a stereotypical relationship. (On a separate note, did you know Chinese emperors took on male consorts? It is circumvented when speaking about in the present and laters days but it's officially written down in the books).

But overall, Dick is very much a masculine male with feminine qualities.

Sexuality

Ok so the thing about Dick and sexuality is that Dick Grayson is a very, VERY old character. He's been there since the beginning of DC to the point that he was the third DC character created EVER. Clark, then Bruce, then Dick, AND THEN Wonder Woman.

So with a character this old and with a topic as controversial as sexuality, DC is not going to ever explicitly write Dick as gay or bi or whatever. Why? Because Dick is an icon.

When someone says "Batman and Robin" - EVERYONE knows who Batman and Robin is. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. They've existed forever and are the kingpins of DC alongside Superman and Wonder Woman. Whether that person is in the fandom or not, they know who Batman and Robin are. Within the fandom, people know there's more than one Robin (several) but talking to someone outside the fandom, someone who enjoys DC casually, only thinks there is one Robin. And you could tell them that there's this many robins, some have been girls, there's this many timelines and etc (which is actually a really embarrassing convo if someone isn't in the fandom OMG and how I wish I could take that back and erase it from BOTH OF OUR MEMORIES) - but they're not gonna care. Because for them, there's only one Robin and that's Dick Grayson.

So with something like that, DC cannot have Dick Grayson be anything but straight because it would cause too big of an uproar. So he can't be. Explicitly. People have written him as having an ambiguous sexuality though. I actually wrote this specific POST a long time because someone wanted to know more.

Instead what you'll have is a BUNCH of BROMANCES. His Nightwing authors have wanted more male/male sexual attractions with him and other characters and some of them have admitted that openly even if they were not allowed to write. So if you're reading a comic that has him and something seems SUS, well it might just be.

So like with all things, I cannot say anything for certain unless there is evidence of him engaging in a romantic relationship with someone who isn't a woman, but given the homoerotic tension that exists between him and other characters such as ROY -

Outsiders (2003) Issue #11

Teen Titans: Silver Age TPB 2 (Part 4) Page 16

Nightwing (1996) Issue #114

WHICH IS ODDLY SIMILAR TO THIS -

Nightwing (1996) Issue #138

I'd say he's bi-curious at the least.

Sex Symbol Status

-this is my previous post which goes a little into the sex symbol thing

Anon, holy crap I have an ESSAY for you. It's in my drafts because it's wayyyyyyyyy too long and I'll definitely exceed the image limit but holy crap.

Here's what I will say about it though. The world REVERES Dick for his looks and body. The amount of attention he gets for his beauty is ridiculous. Even Green Arrow's half-sister - WHO'S MUCH YOUNGER THAN DICK AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF DICK MET - dreams about him romantically.

Green Arrow (2016) Annual_1

Because of course. Villains are going out of their way to compliment him on his looks in the middle of a fight - Bane, Bludhaven villains, civilians (MALE) coworkers - it's literally insane.

So Dick is clearly the hottest and most gorgeous thing to ever exist in the entirety of DC. There's also a panel from a comic where Dick becomes Talon AND SOMEONE STILL CALLS HIM THE PRETTY BOY TALON LIKE WTF??? THAT PRETTY BOY TALON CAN RIP OFF YOUR HEAD IN A HEARTBEAT! He's a talon, too! Clearly death does not hinder his looks in any way.

But Dick himself is VERY uncomfortable any sort of bodily attraction. It's not just the comments that gets him but he, who everyone claims has the body of a god, doesn't feel good about his own body.

The New Titans (1988) Issue #71

He's really conservative. And in another comic when Tim comments on how the the Nightwing suit is really a babe attractor, Dick is uncomfortable going 'I didn't make it for them'.

Like even looking at this comic pic where Dick is in disguise and he and Kori are just walking down the street, they both still attract the entire street's attention. It must be so uncomfortable.

Here's my thoughts on the sex symbol status. Yes, Dick is a sex symbol. That's just fact. But here's where the issue is. People can be sex symbols without it affecting their personality because that status, is something given to them or bestowed upon them by another person.

I'm leaning a little into my post in the drafts but Johnny Depp, Marylyn Monroe, David Bowie, Tom Cruise, Cleopatra - they're all so vastly different on their opinions of sexual liberty and yet all of them as considered sex symbols.

So what does this mean for Dick? Nothing, really. It just means the world takes one look at him and wants him but he is under no obligation to follow through nor does he. He's not a slut for sleeping with the people he likes and no one thinks of him that way either. He was slut-shamed after his rape by Pantha who always has some harsher opinions because that is her personality. She literally says the meanest things about everyone because she's a rough and tough character and she finds humor in being mean because she is who she is.

For Dick himself, it means nothing. He doesn't view himself as attractive which ironically is also what celebrities who were interviewed about the sex symbol status said as well, such as Johny Depp.

The problem with being beautiful though is that people brush you off. Certain girlfriends of his do it. They see him as just a pretty boy and writers of certain comics *cough* Batgirl comics writers and Tom Taylor *cough* throw his skills and talent down the garbage disposal so he can act as a dumb pretty boy toy for his girlfriend. His personality is degraded to a bland white paste and his intelligence and power and pain are thrown out the window.

(This POST gives some examples of when writers do this for Dickbabs)

Like this is a serious problem! I read this article some time ago -

Here are the main highlights:

There isn't a problem with Dick being ascribed a sex symbol status and to his great benefit most people don't treat him like this but some do! LIKE HIS GIRLFRIEND.

In summary, and I'm gonna borrow a lyric here to quote -

"It's hell on earth to be heavenly Them's the breaks, they don't come gently"

I think the problem is, instead of focusing on how beautiful Dick looks, I really feel like DC and the fandom should analyze how uncomfortable Dick gets, how certain comics force him into relationships when others clearly show he wouldn't be interested in a parallel situation, and mostly how Dick Grayson is robbed of his personality, identity, and beliefs all because of how people believe he should act due to his beauty.

I'm honestly tired of the equation that Dick's status as a sex symbol somehow reduces him to a slut. He is not. Instead we should focus on how his beauty is weaponized against him. He was born with those looks and complaining about them is useless. That's his mother and father-given appearance. It's his genetic inheritance. It's as much a part of his as his grace or his unyielding kindness.

The real issue isn't DC’s acknowledgment of his beauty—it's the utter failure to dig deeper. Instead we should explore how Dick deals with it. How does he carry the weight of being constantly objectified? What does it do to his relationships? How is he coerced to do something in a relationship because it is expected of simply due to the fact that he's beautiful? We should explore how people (even the batfam sometimes) only see his smile or good-natured humor while his complexities - his pain, his resilience, his brilliance - are shucked aside? He's constantly diminished by the fandom and canon because of his cheery personality and good looks just to fit a particular character's narrow view of him.

Call him pretty! Dick legit doesn't care if villains call him pretty or someone calls him that because what they're really focused on when they call him that, are his skills. He doesn't mind being called pretty, beautiful, gorgeous - as long as he's valued for his talents and efforts and skills.

(Here's the pretty boy post for my lovelies. Part 2 in the making)

The issue, once again, isn't his sex symbol status or his looks. It's literally everything else. Dick Grayson is not a reflection of what others project; he is a someone who stands apart, vibrant, and irreducibly whole. Which too often gets lost underneath his looks.

[toyouhellohowareyou]

Screaming, crying, sprinting around my apartment like a hyperactive housecat.

Seyph (Instagram) has done fanart for Ocarina, Oracle chapter 12 and I'm full of FEELINGS 😭. I love them your honour.

[Cross posted to tumblr with permission]

[its-your-mind]

DCU as textposts 3/???

[milolunde]

The Sonic Underground reboot was fucking CRAZY

[urgorlfrog]

Happy Persona 5 day!❤️🖤

[robinhuntr]

The coms in Gotham-

Tim: Guys I see a mugging in the alley on 8th street, I’m going towards it right now

Oracle: Ok got it

Damian: I see one of the guys who worked with Two-Face on the last bank job, I’m going to go see if he knows anything about what Two-Face is planning

Batman: Ok, I’m nearby call me if something goes wrong

The coms in Star City-

Roy: You guys ever listen to Creed

Oliver: not right now Roy, there’s something going on in Villa Park I need a both of you to head over

Mia: no who’s Creed?

Roy: YOU DON’T KNOW CREED??

Oliver: guys there’s multiple gunmen and several others armed with Various weapons, I think these are the dealers we’ve been tracking for weeks. I need you two here, Conner and Emiko are both busy.

Mia: Why the fuck would I know Creed

Roy: you know Creed like “Hold me noowww I’m six feet from the edge and I’m thinking maybe six feet ain’t sooo farrr dooowwwnnn”

Mia: oohhh them…

Oliver: GUYS-

Mia: Oliver chill the hell out we’re both a block away we’ll be there in like 3 minutes. Anyway I guess I know them but their music is kind of ass.

[mouse-doubleo100]

dick: this is my girlfriend babs, and this is babs girlfriend dinah, and this is dinahs boyfriend ollie, and this is ollies boyfriend hal, and this is-

[samasmith23]

Say hello to the Phantom Thieves of Heart!

[but-a-humble-goon]

Dinah: Ollie, our relationship is in a good place, right? Ollie: Yyyyeah. Where are you going with this? Dinah: It's just that you're cool with knowing that if I ever realize I'm into girls I'll have to leave you on the spot for Barbara, right? Ollie: I just assumed. Same as how you're cool with knowing if I ever realize I'm into guys you're getting dumped for Hal in a heartbeat. Dinah: I'm glad we can talk out these kinds of things.

[queenofghost]

Incorrect DC quotes part 39

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