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cassie cain my favourite unemployed stay at home daughter who is not at home ever

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something ive been thinking about lately is how for babs being batgirl was something that allowed her to find her identity and i think its also an interesting sort of coming of age/womanhood thing

in bop babs tells helena how bullied she was and how even at her first dance the boy who took her only did so bcs his dad was friends with jim. in batgirl 00 she tells cass about how being in the suit turned her into powerful, confident, and sexy person and in the same bop issue she also talks about how she began to 'fill out' when she was batgirl

anyone whos grown up as a girl and been 'ugly' knows how detached you can feel from womanhood as a whole bcs of it. for babs being sexy and confident as batgirl let her find her identity as a person and as a girl but whats an interesting subversion to me is she does it in a decidedly not traditionally feminine way

like its not really like she starts putting on makeup and dressing different and being like 'yay im conventionally attractive now i finally feel like i fit in as a girl' becoming batgirl was her way of asserting her autonomy and flouting her fathers control--not a really a 'feminine' thing to do, right? sneaking out, fighting criminals, breaking into the 'boys club' of batman and robin-its all her breaking away from what is expected of a girl and actually finding herself and what it means to be a girl for her in the process. i think its neat how batgirl lets her be the sexy, confident woman thats more traditionally a female archetype, but it also lets barbara gordon break gender norms and accept womanhood as babs too

and imo the same sort of thing happens with her oracle persona. she has her autonomy violated in an act of violence i call gender-based and i think its important to note how disabled women also often are treated as not 'real' women

but she once again rebuilds herself and reclaims herself, and i think its once again by flouting the expectations of what it means to be disabled and a woman-shes competent, resourceful, fiercely independent and even becoming a hacker ties into that-again, shes establishing herself in a place which has traditionally been a 'boys club' shes still breaking norms and being a woman her way but also doesn't mean that she doesn't fit into traditional womanhood either-shes sexy, shes confident, shes desired and shes loved!!

(important to note that disabled/poc women being traditionally feminine can often be more empowering than making them not fit bcs they are historically excluded. babs being disabled and being pretty and wanted is really important)

but yeah i just think this sort of thread of babs both finding herself as what it means to be a woman traditionally and what it means to be a woman outside of tradition is such an interesting dichotomy does this make any sense

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The number of whites that treat AAVE like simlish instead of an actual dialect with specific rules, etc. is maddening actually

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bop-cule, anyone? (batfam related free art requests are open btw!)

was gonna be brave and draw a background myself but alas i am scared of those things

here’s the ref/flats/alt backgrounds/close ups! LOOK INTO DINAH’S SOUL SHE’S SO PRETTY somehow just her face took 5000 years and all of babs took about 3 minutes (actually the whole thing took 11 hours, 56 minutes, but you know)

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Since there’s that huge heat wave that’s about to fuck up like 3/4 of the US, I’d like to stand on my soapbox for a second. I’m not a doctor, I’ve just lived somewhere with summer temps over 110 for most of my life.

Obviously, the best thing to do during a heat wave is STAY INDOORS. Of course, that’s not always possible.

Get a couple washcloths, or rags, or old shirts you don’t care about. Get them nice and damp. If you wanna get fancy with it, throw some essential oils on them. Who cares. The important thing is that they are WET. Next step, fold them into rectangles (so they hold the coldness longer!) and put them in their own zippy bag or an old grocery bag or whatever. Doesn’t matter, just don’t let them freeze in a clump. ANY TIME YOU LEAVE YOUR HOUSE, GRAB A FROZEN RAG. Drape it on the back of your neck. Dab yourself like a fancy Victorian lady. Do whatever helps. One of my friends keeps them in her bra. Whatever works!

Windows. They let heat in. Blackout curtains help a lot, but they’re not magic. Get a nice thick blanket (not a comforter, too heavy) or fold up some sheets. Pin or nail your blanket/sheets above your window like dorm curtains. Block that heat OUT!

HYDRATE. Everyone says it because it’s TRUE. Dehydration sucks. Heat stroke sucks more. Learn the symptoms and what to do if it happens to you or someone else. On that note…

Replenish those electrolytes! It’s gonna be hot. You’re gonna sweat a LOT. If you’re chugging water and not replenishing your electrolytes, you can actually have a heart attack. Even if you don’t have a heart attack, you can still faint (medical emergency, especially in the heat!) or best case scenario, feel like garbage. Pedialyte is nasty but it works. Sports drinks, sure whatever. Those little pouches of powder that you add? Whatever you like. If you don’t have any of those, eat something salty while you drink your water.

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now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

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Did the USA really just spend that much money and supply on bunker bombs and it was meaningless? Lmao did I get that right

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Keep track of the vocabulary, everyone.

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Makur Mabor by Justin French for Dazed Magazine Summer 2025

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We are seeing the same playbook as Iraq and a lot of Iraqi diaspora also said the same things when it was ongoing. Regardless of how you feel about the Iranian government, do not fucking do CIA job

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the more i read early 00s stuff the more i’m like. wow steph REALLY got the short end of the stick every single time huh. bruce and tim kept keeping secrets from her, bruce never quite praising her for her efforts to her face, firing her as robin, to the point where goons are like ‘hey spoiler seems like she has rly intense daddy issues and is praise-oriented. let’s use her as our weakest link” i’d become the joker

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The congress members praising him are just as insane. How do you let this man step over you. Let him make a joke of your position you fought to be elected for and to hold.

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If a regional war breaks out between Iran and Israel, Gaza will be forgotten. We will continue to suffer this suffering and will not be mentioned in anything. We will be forgotten forever.

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