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Here's a map by Les McClaine done for the manor. Maybe this will.help?

My theory: Alfred is secretly meta and can create copies of himself. No way he manages an entire manor by himself.

He has gotta have an ability or something. There is literally no other explanation.

This is why I need a blueprint or build of Wayne manor, I need to know how many bathrooms/bedrooms this man is maintaining. I need to know how big that kitchen is. How many fireplaces are there? How does this man keep everything dusted?

Whatever ability Alfred has, GIMME THAT!

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something silly and extremely self indulgent, i just want them to hug

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THEM❤️‍🔥

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Barbara Gordon commission by the amazing @risoria

If you are interested, they have portrait commissions for Palestine—> info in this link.

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Batober Day 11

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Thinking about Batgirl era Steph having movie nights with Oracle Babs and both of them being unable to escape a slight empty feeling because it was something they always wanted to do with Cass but never got the chance to.

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With the pomegranate....

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The Lovers

I totally forgot to post this, anyways… I love them. Go read birds of prey.

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If you’re a superhero and Barbara hand-makes a plush toy of you, that’s a sign you’re in her good graces.

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Barbara Gordon being created as an intelligent, independent woman with a PhD rather than just a silly love interest like Betty. Barbara Gordon becoming a Congresswoman. Yvonne Craig using Batgirl to promote equal pay in real life. Barbara Gordon as a disabled superhero. Barbara Gordon creating a team of badass women. Barbara Gordon being a mentor to other overlooked girls. Just. Barbara Gordon.

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Late nights, for day 5 of 90's batfam week !

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Ok it's been 24 hours and my official post-mortem is literally just "Elizabeth Warren was right: Democrats should have appointed an Attorney General who was committed to prosecuting Trump and everyone who enabled him, cleaned house of Trump's appointees, nuked the filibuster to pass DC and Puerto Rico statehood, and prioritized dealing with corruption"

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Fuck it, I'm going to start talking politics on a regular basis on Tumblr again

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They make me insane. What if you were responsible for an eighteen year old girl and you sometimes get annoyed at how she dismisses learning words and trying to have "normal" relationships and hobbies but you still love her anyway even if it's hard.

And then you learn she's planning to go off and get herself killed in a death match by the deadliest woman in the world because of guilt for her first kill as an eight year old raised by a psychopath and you can't understand why and you try to tell her not to go but she has to do this and you just can't understand-

Yeah, I'm normal about them.

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Babs messed up a lot in Batgirl (2000) but I constantly think about what it must've been like from her perspective. Being unable to connect with this girl who's wearing your costume, then bit by bit falling in love with her, but still failing to fully understand her and hurting her at every turn. What is it like to love someone who wants to die? How do you stop her without driving her away? What do you do when you call her stupid and do drive her away? Thinking about in #25 when Cass paralyses her, and how Babs has to hear her go, probably thinking it was the last time she'd ever see her. Batgirl (2000) Cass-Babs I miss you...

OUGH Cass and Babs is so much like you never asked for this... You never asked to care so much about this kid and there were so many ways that it was difficult to connect and yet despite everything she wormed her way right into your heart and you can't save her. You love her but it's not enough. You try and try and try and it is never enough she will always need something more than you can give her.

The Babs and Cass scene in batgirl 25 kills me. I think listening to Cass walk away to her death while being unable to stop her is the first time Barbara fully understood what Dick felt when he found out Jason had died. Only it's worse because not only is it family you care for dying in your old mantle, the legacy you created that started so positively ending in tragedy, but you are the sole adult figure in this girl's life trying to stop her from committing suicide. You are screaming and banging on the glass and trying to get her to accept that the guilt she carries is not something she deserves to die for, but she won't listen. She can't. And there's no one else to help you. Every other adult in her life either doesn't realise or is in denial about just how deeply unwell this child is. You are alone and you are responsible and despite your best desperate attempts she leaves anyway.

They make me feel so many emotions. Thank you for the ask!

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Oracle on Jonathan Crane

Dr. Cranes early years in pre-med were unremarkable, but as a postdoc he really came into his own. Turns out people notice when you fire a live round in a classroom to illustrate a point about fear. he would have been fired if he hadn't been so brilliant at securing what every university needs, funding.

In the end, he was a subject of a bidding war between institutes resulting in a handsome offer.

An offer he turned down to take Huge Strange's position of director of rehabilitation at Blackgate. "it was" He said in his acceptance letter "The perfect place to shine a light on humanity's darkest depths. Or maybe he just enjoyed the hearty combo of endless test subjects and little oversight.

His published research at Blackgate focuses on the Jungian concept of the Shadow. The subconscious ID held in check by the Ego. By doing Shadow work you can integrate the ID and the Ego and become a more fully realized individual.

That's the theory, at least. If you ask me though, Dr. Crane's less about Shadow work and more about making people jump at their own shadows.

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