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I love the idea of Connor Hawke telling anyone to join him in the 21st century. But also Ollie is obviously one person he can say that to lol

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Arrowfam fans, we’re getting an archers quest omnibus!

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Yes Ollie's reaction to Connor being his son is OOC. No I will not accept any retconning are you kidding me.

It is funny how in an attempt I assume to make Ollie seem more favourable they retconned it so he did know about Connor so there could be the "oh he felt guilty about abandoning him that's why he reacted the way he did :(" aspect but like. Him giving up on looking for Connor because he found Roy is worse. You do see how that's worse right.

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All of the arrowfam wearing shirts that are three sizes too big for them because their arms won't fit into anything that fits the rest of their body

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green arrow (2001) #32 has to be my favourite GA issue ever, because the only take away is that gay people like bookstores, and straight people love strip clubs, and it's HILARIOUS.

'this is connor, he likes bookstores and the dancers at the strip club instantly clocked him as a "friend of madonna". this is his brother roy, he only enjoys bookstores when it might get him laid, and all the strip club workers know him by name"

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Honestly, Tim is so real for fanboy-ing over Connor because he is that cool.

Nightwing (1996) #23

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more people should talk about connor’s gay group of friends from that one issue puckett wrote in the nineties😭

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90s Arrowbrothers have such a unique relationship and I will literally never stop thinking about it because. This man is not your brother but he is your dad's son and sometimes he speaks and you swear it's your dad's voice. This man is not your brother but he got the parts of being your dad's son you craved so desperately your whole life and if you could combine yourselves together you'd make either the perfect son or a total stranger. This man is not your brother but there is nobody else in the world who could understand the experience of being Oliver Queen's son. This man is not your brother but you're haunted by the same ghost. Maybe this man is your brother. Fuck.

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teeny dinahbabs

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i have an excuse to post this because kyle’s a white lantern again

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fourth ship done !! - jaderoy (they deserve the world)

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💥💥 💫 💥💥

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Spin meme

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Ouch Dickroy brainrot goes hard

(Song is Fable by Gigi Perez)

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God this panel kinda drives me crazy. From Batman & the Outsiders #17, Shiva asks Duke about his suit, whether it was his choice. And how does Duke respond? He... doesn't. He parrots what is clearly something Bruce said to him, but never clarifies whether it was 'his choice' at all. Because both him and Shiva know it wasn't. And he acknowledges that his suit, with all the Batty-ness (ears, symbol), was specifically designed to make him like Batman.

Then Shiva suggests dark red, which is what Duke wore in We Are Robin and has connotations to Robin as a whole. Duke's reaction - can we let it go? - can be read in many ways, but to me it suggests Shiva's words hit home. He does miss the Robin colours. Becoming the Signal wasn't his choice, but becoming Robin was.

(And throughout this run, Shiva says both Cass and Duke are being held back by Bruce. With Cass this is a clear allusion to being Orphan over Batgirl, so it's not farfetched to read this conversation as being about how Duke was denied Robin to become Signal).

Duke-as-Signal is a symbol of 'people like Batman', but Duke-as-Robin was a symbol of youth, of community, of diversity and of choice. He was a Robin formed without Batman. I know there's no going back, but having Bruce choose the name, the suit, and the time of day that Duke goes out makes the Signal such a fraught identity. I love the yellow, the suit, and the daytime aspect, but I just wish they were Duke's choices, not Bruce's.

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HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY ROY HARPER!!

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donnakyle dynamic