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and if you’re making a fuss about her being a supporting character in a bat book, so many huntress fans seem to eat her nineties appearances in Robin up, which was exactly what that was.

I really am somewhat sorry to keep putting stuff about this on peoples’ dashes because I know it’s been litigated to hell and back by now but it’s just. I had stupidly expected better from people and I’m not over that. It was disproportionate and ugly and extremely disappointing to see.

some of it seems to have calmed down now, and so some people are now onto making real long think pieces about “okay well x might be fine but z is what makes me worried” and just. give it a rest until *the book comes out*. Especially when the things you guys are picking apart are components of many a popular huntress story in the past.

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from the vox article on helicopter story.

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Cannot believe this needs to be said or even laid out but apparently it does. Jason Todd is not real. He’s lines. None of his superpowers include a misogyny ray. What jason Todd is, is a fictional character who has been written by misogynistic men who have also terribly botched some prominent, amazing female characters. Chief example of this is Scott Lobdell’s writing of starfire in rhato. Scott Lobdell, known sexual harasser Scott Lobdell. heinous guy by all accounts.

Think for two seconds about why it’s abysmally transmisogynistic to imply that just by virtue of being in this comic written by Gretchen Felker-Martin, Helena Bertinelli will undergo similar horrible misogynist writing. Think.

and think too. the comic is unreleased. We have an official blurb that doesn’t even mention Helena, and we have a couple of ship bait covers. That’s it. Get a grip.

Don’t participate in comics fandom misogyny and hate that’s literally only happening because a woman’s writing a red hood solo and she dared to put huntress in her comic.

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time, wondrous time; gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies.

a messy digital painting for helena bertinelli aka huntress by yours truly on the occasion of pride month!!! this is my first attempt at greyscale painting and it's 1 am, please be nice to me 😭😭

line art and black and white versions:

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It's time: the prompts for Helena Bertinelli Week are here! Thanks again to everyone who submitted prompts—we've compiled your ideas into seven exciting days!

Day 1: Origins | Omerta Day 2: Cowboy AU | Mafia Day 3: Friends | Allies | Lovers Day 4: No Man's Land | Knight AU Day 5: Faith | Fear Day 6: Teacher | Family Day 7: Free Day!

Remember, Helena Bertinelli Week will be running from Monday July 14th - Sunday, July 20th. Tag your creations with the tag #HelenaBertinelliWeek2025 to participate! You can check out the guidelines for this event here.

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my doodles have been getting shoujoified

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a video meme edit i made for helena bertinelli inspired by this shadow the hedgehog meme video by jhett. turn on audio & various transitions have been used if you need that warning. peace and love and planet earth <3

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One of her students: Miss Bertinelli, what did you study when you were younger?

Helena: Oh, you know…

Helena: History.

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how about two for the price of one?

first is Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood #5, second is No Man’s Land #0

Find a character sewing.

See pinned for rules.

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What’s the story, Helena? Why are you leaving school? You’re a brilliant student. I’ve worked hard to train you to Olympic potential. You’re throwing away your whole future… not just in gymnastics, but in-

I don’t have a future! I don’t have a past, and now I don’t have a future!

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"I am no longer their quarry. I am... The Huntress"

Reference under the cut

The panel redraw is of the last page of Huntress (1989) #1

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huntress hold emotes!! the base is courtesy of @deven895!!

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just finished huntress 1989. is this anything. pt. 2

miss sohee f/w 2021

um after i finished i was like “it’d look so good if i drew a crossbow in her hand” and then im like “does she even use one in this run” and then i skimmed through every issue and also i asked ireth and ireth like looked through all the issues and found one (1) single mentioned but im too tired to draw it now so whatever

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just finished huntress 1989. is this anything.

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You just know helena must have gone through SO MUCH hairspray and hair gel

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reread Lazarus planet: dark fate’s huntress story tonight. One reeeally interesting thing to me was one of the logos used:

Does that look familiar to you? It is not the much more commonly used logo for her (in which the T of huntress is stylized as a dagger) seen in such places as cry for blood:

This logo is as far as I can tell the much more prominent one, it started being used first for Helena Bertinelli in the nineties, seen in Huntress (1994), Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma, and into the 2000s with cry for blood and huntress year one. It is such an iconic logo that they even used it for Helena wayne in the huntress (2011).

however this is not the logo design they chose. What they went with is pretty recognizable as being the title design seen in only one series, to my knowledge and memory:

The Huntress (1989). I can even find an issue where the coloring is pretty similar

So yes, instead of the widely more prominent dagger T logo (which I do find quite nice myself), they went with the one that is from her first series. The question then obviously becomes, was this intentional, or did they just pick the logo at random? If intentional, then why? When rereading I was actually struck by how little it felt like the Helena of 1989 - in dark fate she sets herself as above everyone, above criminals and civilians alike, whereas 1989 spends half its time immersing Helena in a rich cast of civilians, with the tension between her as Helena and her as huntress is a main thoroughline of the book. that is to say, her seeing herself as just as vulnerable as anyone is extremely prominent in 1989 and unlike the way she sees herself in dark fate. Her religion/Catholicism is also barely ever mentioned in 1989, much less prominent than the way it is at the forefront of dark fate’s internal monologue.

all in all, the story itself did not seem to have a clear connection to 1989, and remember, the huntress (1989) has never been reprinted, so it’s not like it is a famous series. dc is not likely trying to associate this story with it due to its prominence, because it is not prominent. it’s the origin of helena bertinelli, but most versions of her would take origin notes from something like cry for blood. Why the use of the logo here?

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2023 reading list: Huntress (1989)

"I've got to be bigger than the pain. Bigger than life. Bigger than whatever they can throw, shoot, fire, or punch at me."