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Another ridiculously funny thing in the OracleFam is like... Genuinely the existence of the kids who all kinda dysfunctionally form a pseudo family and listen to Barbara as she sorta raises them but not. Like, imagine you're Jim Gordon. Your beautiful daughter that's biologically your niece but by god she's YOUR daughter and you love her so decides that she's gonna use her intelligence and skills and experience as a borderline A-Lister to lead superhero teams and play support for anyone who needs it, primarily your vigilante friend Batman.

Then one day, you visit your incredible daughter who always thinks things out and is careful... And bam. There's just this unexplained little girl who doesn't talk. Apparently your daughter is looking after a traumatized assassin child now. Do you now have a daughter in law? It's complicated because your daughter and your vigilante bestie somehow managed to start acting like they divorced and have split custody over this kid, despite them never even liking eachother. Great.

Then you visit again. The girl your daughter is looking after has a best friend sleeping over. You're sure you won't see her around to to much right?

Then you visit again, the blond girl your kinda grand daughter is best friends with is there again. Your daughter corrects you, *there still. You aren't sure where the kid sleeps because there's only two bedrooms; but apparently she just stays over often.

You visit five more times, see this "Stephanie" with "Cass" everytime. You ask if they're dating. They aren't. You ask if Steph is another Cass situation. She's not.

Then Stephanie dies.

Then Stephanie comes back to life.

Then Cass dies.

Then Cass comes back to life.

They go straight back to being inseparable. Your daughter tells you they hallucinate each other when separated for too long.

Then you visit again and HOLY FUCK IS THAT A DE-AGED VERSION OF YOUR DAUGHTER WALKING- nope she's just looking after another kid Barbara's looking after. Apparently this one was actually an orphan this time. ... ... ... "This time?"

Oh and the whole time this takes place while your daughter is suspiciously single but surrounded by a whole team of beautiful women, a few of whom she's incredibly close with. Also Barbara splits custody with this newest one, "Charlie" with some of these ladies, tho she does most of the... Whatever she's doing. But she doesn't seem to have the divorced-without-dating dynamic she has with Batman so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠⊙⁠_⁠ʖ⁠⊙⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Oh and your daughter's ex seemingly just hates the first daughter. Fascinating.

You still, after YEARS of Cassandra and Stephanie never being far apart, don't know if they're dating or not. Surely they are, right? But no announcement or revelation comes forth, and your daughter still says they aren't.

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batz maru and peni parker from dc comics

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"Go to hell” is basic. “I hope your favorite characters start acting with their fanon interpretation in canon” is smart. It’s possible. It’s terrifying.

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every bad plot around a woman in dc could be redeemed if you guys were willing to do even half the amount of good PR for women as you do for jason todd

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Honestly in terms of running gags I think Jason unwillingly ending up in gay drama involving Cass has the potential to actually make me laugh. He's already got that friendship with Rose and Steph, two of her most popular ships. Imagine every woman you have chemistry with won't stop thematically parallelling your least favourite brother. There are four others to choose from but nooo they all like Jason and think he's chill to hang out with for some reason. Every time the air between Cass and a female character gets thick with sexual tension Jason walks in with pizza and video games. He thinks she still hates him because he used to kill but since he doesn't really in modern comics anymore she's completely fine with that aspect, ex killers are usually some of her favourite people to talk with slash project onto. She's just mad he won't stop cockblocking her like she should be getting pinned down onto the floor while Rose holds a knife to her throat and Steph watches and they all pretend they're showboating how tough they are instead of flirting but nooo now she just has to sit there and play Mario Kart and pretend she can't read how every person in the room except for Jason is deeply horny for each other. And on top of that he knocked her off rainbow road. Little brothers are so annoying ugh.

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Hilarious to me that DC went out of their way to make sure we knew that Steph and Cass were having an Anti-Valentine's Day dance -- complete with Jason, just in case we got the wrong idea about two girls dancing together -- and everybody's still like "aww, look at the lesbians!"

You can't defeat them, DC. It's over.

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at long last here is my thing i did for @batgirls-zine !!! as it turns out writing and drawing a three page comic in that short a time period is kind of intense but i have zero regrets

(also i’d like to sincerely apologize to every art professor whose class time i actually used to work on this)

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the stephcat problem

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Of that ASL is just another difficult, frustrating thing being pushed on her, that people get upset with when she doesn’t want to engage with learning, because they *trying to be accommodating* (decided on their own it would be better)

Sorry it took so long to respond anon but yeah, if canon Cass was asked to learn ASL I honestly don't think she would? It really depends but she clings to English a lot, English is symbolic to her of her triumph against David Cain. Also, writing is extremely important to her, and ASL has no written form (ASL gloss and pictorial representations are imperfect at best). ASL uses facial expressions as grammar, given Cass' experience with body language it might be in some ways harder for her to learn.

Honestly a story exploring someone thinking ASL would be good for Cass, but it backfiring and Cass being extremely frustrated with them, would be QUITE compelling. Also, ASL is extremely tied to Deaf culture and history. It isn't just a neutral language, it's one that has been discriminated against by the hearing community and forms a large part of the American Deaf identity. Thinking ASL would just be an 'easier' language for Cass to learn is a misunderstanding of both Cass' disability and of ASL itself.

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at long last here is my thing i did for @batgirls-zine !!! as it turns out writing and drawing a three page comic in that short a time period is kind of intense but i have zero regrets

(also i’d like to sincerely apologize to every art professor whose class time i actually used to work on this)

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We all just intuitively understand that DC would absolutely drop Wonder Woman altogether if they thought they could get away with it, right? There are individual creators who put their whole pussy into doing right by Diana but DC editorial overall has zero authentic interest in her. They just know she's up there with Rosie the Riveter as one of the all time OG feminist icons so they have to reluctantly remember to include her sometimes. She's the one woman they can't get away with fridging or shelving and a lot of them quietly resent her for it.

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It's actually ridiculously funny to me that David Cain spent all that time grooming and perfecting Cassandra only for past the prime time to fight Sandra Wu San to kill her humanity and ascend to godhood, becoming the only person able to kill Cassandra.

Common David Cain L.

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everyone: cass you are everything the batman stands for and more. you are so great and empathetic

cass: im an irredeemable monster and they all hate me

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Colored in warm up sketch of Mia as Robin