#Alysia

[jade-doodles-questionmark]

Did the color wheel challenge for hyv games

[reelingintheyears]

[simthorium]

“This is ama-a-a-a-a-azing!” Jesse said as his masseuse beat on his back. “We gotta do more cruises,” Alysia muttered, her face deep in the massage table. “Or maybe we can just hire a live-in masseuse.” “I’ll literally give anything for that,” said Jesse.

“Babe, do you see my abs?” Aiden asked as he laid on his beach towel. “Babe, look! They’re looking good as hell.” “I see your abs every night, sweetheart,” said Alicia. “Trust me, they’re fire.”

After their massage, Alysia and Jesse joined the others on the beach and decided to take a dip in the ocean. The water was clear and cold, and absolutely perfect.

“We gotta do more of these,” Aiden said, joining his wife and sister on the beach. “Do they do discounts to other islands for oldies?” “Trust me, I’m a Coupon King,” said Jesse, puffing out his chest. “If there’s a discount, I’ll find it.” “That’s right, baby,” Alysia said proudly.

The cruise’s first stop was Twikkii Island, which meant that they were able to explore the island for a day and return to the boat for the next location. The four passengers did everything they could in the short time they were docked. From swimming in the ocean, eating local delicacies, and taking beautiful helicopter rides, it was shaping up to be the best vacation ever!

[alienbycomics]

Second in a series of trans and non-binary character profiles! Who’s your favorite? Who should be in the next one?

"All the students in this school are my childhood friends!" —Najimi Osana

“I'm a trans woman in Gotham. Of course I have a weapon." —Alysia Yeoh

“There's a new chapter starting, and I'm not going to be who I was. I won't ask you to be either. But I'm still me. I'm always me." —Loki

"Maybe demons aren't the most trustworthy creatures to make a deal with." —Raúl Cocolotl

“I didn't get into fashion or romance, or even confront my own identity until I went out into the world. You can deal with all that when you're ready." —Nao-chan

Read the first set of characters here:

Trans & Nonbinary Character Profiles #1

[incorrectbatfam]

Every time I see a post from your blog, there's at least one new batfam member I've never heard of and I swear some have got to be fake.

(answer below)

The answer: Alysia Yeoh, from the Batgirl comics

[funnypages]

This Machine Kills Transphobes

[cadhla182]

Alysia Yeoh commission for Nat!

NSFW variant up for Patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107459720

[somos-deseos]

El momento en que sientes que debes demostrarle tu valor a alguien es el momento en que absolutamente tienes que alejarte.

Autora: Alysia Harris.

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

Happy Pride Month!

[itszonez]

ALYSIA ROGERS as Damita | Class Act (1992) dir. Randall Miller

[reelingintheyears]

[simthorium]

The SS Olympia was all set to take off from Pleasantview. Alysia, Aiden, Jesse, and Alicia were ready to start their first cruise and excited to enjoy their vacation together.

“Bring it in, man,” Jesse said, reaching out to tickle his brother-in-law. “Oh, wow,” said Aiden, awkwardly squirming away. “Didn’t know you were a tickler.” “Oh yeah,” said Jesse. “Tickling’s huge in my family. It’s how we show love to one another.” “You can’t just say ‘I love you’ or do hugs?” Aiden asked.

Soon it was time to board the ship. Jesse and Alysia headed out to the deck. “Look at this view,” Alysia said with a sigh. “I’m so glad we’re doing this. I feel like it’s been years since I’ve been able to just unwind.” Jesse wrapped his arms around his wife and brought her into a big kiss. “You deserve it, sweetie,” he said.

“Are you guys sure playing poker is how you want to relax?” Jesse asked, looking at his cards. “I feel more stressed out than ever.” “See, this is how we do things in our family,” Aiden said, winking at his sister. “None of that tickling nonsense.”

Later that evening, before the ship left the dock, the cruise passengers headed up to the top dock for an elegant dinner. “Look at us,” Alysia said with a smile. “A bunch of old coots at a fancy dinner.” “Hey, we’re a bunch of fancy old coots at a fancy dinner,” Aiden said.

“This was a wonderful idea, Alysia,” Alicia said. “As your almost name-twin, I’m so proud of us for being on the same page about us needing a getaway.” “We really married into such a cool family,” Jesse said. “That being said, being an old coot, even a fancy one, is making it hard for me to stay awake.”

“Ok, ok, let’s speed this up then,” said Alysia as everyone at the table raised their champagne glasses for a toast. “To a great vacation.” “To being fancy old coots,” said Aiden. “To our amazing family,” said Alicia. “To going to be early!” Jesse exclaimed.

The four lifted their glasses and clinked them together in the night, just as the ship left the dock.

[jesncin]

Your art of Xanthe in traditional clothing really spoke me for some reason. While I do like Xanthe's outfit it doesn't particularly speak to me as Chinese if that makes sense? It's very much an American silhouette even with the dragon print and their top. Your rendition was wonderful and I liked how it read as something a person Xanthe's age would wear casually.

Thank you! I think Xanthe has a fun character design (it's not like young queer Chinese people don't wear western clothes ever) but I do wish that- since we already have a trans Asian Gothamite who wears western clothing with Alysia Yeoh- Xanthe could sport more cultural outfits! Why not both, you know?

and they were room mates!! Trans Asian Gothamite room mates. Xanthe's job as an Envoy and their powers come from Chinese culture so why not have Xanthe embrace traditional clothing too? Especially since traditional clothing is often perceived as gendered or antithetical to queer culture, having a non-binary character sport those clothes would be such a powerful statement.

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Bring Back the Bombshells Batgirls!

In helping a friend of mine map out who all has been Batgirl across various DC continuities, I remembered a little jaunt to TVtropes where it mentioned that in a charming little number called Bombshells, the batgirl identity is shared by a baseball team.

This reminded me to actually go READ Bombshells, and oh. My. GOSH. It is the BEST FUCKING THING EVER!

What is Bombshells?

Basically, almost every male superhero got yeeted from the story or relegated to side character/civilian, while every female superhero takes the spotlight and gets to KICK SOME NAZI ASS (it's set during world war 2). Plenty of people get spotlight, but I'm gonna argue that the MAIN characters are probably Kate Kane's batwoman, Diana of Themyscira's Wonder Woman, Mera's Aquawoman (she hates that name, lol), Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, Zatanna, and Kara Starikov's Supergirl. All the storylines tend to revolve around them.

Oh, also it's super gay. Like, every single character is a lesbian or bi, there's tons of ladies kissing and dating and having implied sex, and at least one character---one of the batgirls actually---is trans.

In summary, go read bombshells it's really good, but today I'm here to specifically talk about:

The Batgirls (and boys)

"One for the ribbon, two for the pearls! Three for the crimefighting---

So first off, Bombshells is an elseworld, so it can do whatever the fuck it wants with backstories and shit.

Subsequently; this version of Kate Kane is a major league baseball player, and her Batwoman costume is literally just a pallet swap of her baseball costume (plenty of people figure out her "secret" identity because of this, but she's not super concerned about it). She uses an actual bat as her main weapon as Batwoman, and it kicks ass. More fanfic writers, and hell, comics writers need to hand the Batfamily some baseball bats, because it gives us scenes like this:

Or this:

(Yes her bat has a gun, it's supplied by Amanda Waller through goverment money, don't question it. Her baseballs are also explosives).

Oh, and also this:

Anyway, point is, Batwoman has a bat and it's great. But this means when Gotham's bat-weilding protector gets drafted into the Bombshells to go fight Nazi's, some new faces have to pick up the slack in Gotham.

And so:

Inspired by their vigilante/baseball hero, Harper Row, Kathy Duquesne, and Nell Little pick up some bats of their own and start busting up crime! The three of them are mechanics, that old car is their batmobile, and they're the best of friends!

Of this original trio, Kathy is "the brass" or the leader, and she remains nominally in charge through the whole thing. Nell is "the brawn" and while every batgirl is good in a fight, Nell is a bit of a demolition specialist. Finally you have Harper, "the brain" who invents their gadgets, works on their batmobile, and also jokes that she's the mascot, as this whole thing was her idea.

They don't stay a trio for very long though! They're quickly joined by "the beauty" Alysia Yeoh, an old friend of Kathy's, in an effort to break Cullen Row out of a prison-like orphanage (she's the t-girl btw):

You may notice another girl crouched in the corner up there too! That's Bette Kane, Kate's niece and the rightful owner of Kane Industries who will forcibly take it over, clean it up, and use it for good on her 18th birthday in like a week!

In the meantime though, she heard about the batgirls and decided she wanted in! She crashes their jailbreak and helps them wreck shop! She mostly shares the "brass" role with Kathy---a leader in her own right.

Anyway, their now quintet quickly finds the awful headmistress of the Pinkney orphanage berating one Tim Drake, who still has a living dad somewhere, but was snatched up by a dirty cop because this whole city runs on Newsies rules (not even kidding, I'll get there in a sec). Turns out Tim and Alysia are old best friends. Anyway, Tim fills them in on the sitch: the headmisstress has been using the orphans as slave labor to build war robots for the nazis.

The batgirls (now including Tim!), bust up the basement and the robots, free all the orphanage kids, including Cullen, toss the awful headmistress and the dirty cop helping her to one Detectice Maggie Sawyer---Kate's wife---and the day is saved!

In the subsequent week, Bette takes over Kane Industries, starts funneling funds into housing for immigrants and refugees and relief and aid and all that good stuff, and also recruits the final batgirl of the team: Felicity Smoak (the chick in braids)! Thus we have a full team!

Who's who in the alt text

I'm only halfway through Bombshells, but the batgirls and their adventures are a recurring plot thread, since protecting Gotham is entirely up to them while Kate is away. They gain lots of other allies and enemies (including one hispanic immigrant Lois Lane who does straight up help them pull a newsies and make their own newspaper with the real news in it at one point), and their sections are probably one of my favorite parts about the comic. It just feels so sweet and high school, while still feeling Batman-esque/Gotham-typical.

Why You Should Care:

Now. I may only be halfway through Bombshells, but I am in LOVE. With the story and the characterizations and everything!!! And the batgirls are a personal fave of mine cuz I'm a sucker for found family and teens fighting crime and bat-weilding superheroes!

But my point is: for all that fanfic loves these tropes too, there is NO fanfiction for them (or at least not on ao3). There's practically nothing for the Bombshells continuity PERIOD, which is a shame, but also to be expected for an elseworld.

But that's why I'm here and telling you about it!

You guys! This is fanfiction! We love flinging the batfamily through alternate universes and making lots of different characters take on the familiar Batgirl and Robin roles!

Why not bring forth the Bombshells Batgirls?

If you're writing your own elseworld, I suggest you nab this adorable team, or something like it! If you're writing an alt universe crossover, feature these guys!

They are the Batfamily found family you want! They CALL THEMSELVES a Bat-family! They all move in together! They loooooovvveee each other! And, as is the nature of the Batgirl mantle, they do what they do largely as independent operatives without adult supervision!

I would really love to see these guys yeeted into an alternate universe and have to cope with just HOW different their continuity is. Not only will they inevitably be flung way into the future, since they're around in the 40s, but in most continuities they're completely unconnected from each other and are absolutely not a team of bat-weilding crime fighters! It would be so baffling for any mainline batgirl and robin to meet a team that is so disconnected from them and so unconditionally supportive of each other and so Badass Adorable!

In Summary:

I may have lost the plot a little with this, but my points are:

Bombshells is really good and you should all go read it

Bombshells has a team of adorable bat-weilding batgirls that has all the found family crime fighting tropes you could want without the bad blood of the mainline batfam

More people should write fanfiction for Bombshells

The Bombshells!Batgirls in particular I think are a great place to start with that. Nab the premise of a baseball team being crime fighters, or Gotham being protected by a group of scrappy children whenever the big bad vigilantes are away, or give these colorful kids their Bombshells!backstories.

Also use the Bombshells universe in particular when you're flinging bats across the multiverse. Yeet these babies into a mainline comics verse and let the juxtaposition and chaos run WILD! There's a million and one of these fics for the Young Justice cartoon, I know ya'll can do it for Bombshells

Also. Take every opportunity to give your Batfamily, and your Batgirls in particular, an actual bat. It'll be so much fun, I promise

Anyway, I'll probably be back with another Bombshells rant later, PEACE!

[aliteralchicken]

I think Gotham celebrates bisexual visibility day more than most because the odds of getting snuck up on by a vigilante are significantly lowered for 24 hours

[thepersonalwords]

Strong women aren’t simply born. We are forged through the fires of life.

Alysia Helming, Protogenesis