#Oracle dC

[mrdogface]

oracle, meanwhile:

[bianc0re]

Head in the clouds

[batfamhastwitter]

Now's the time, folks! Send in any burning questions for our resident vigilantes and you shall have an answer!

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[oldmannapping]

The gang tries Tik Tok

Red Robin: "We're vigilantes, of course we fall asleep at our day job."

Spoiler: "We're vigilantes, of course we have unresolved daddy issues."

Nightwing: "We're vigilantes, of course we put on a smile to hide the unfathomable trauma from the relentless horrors we see every day."

Red Robin: "Wait, no, that's not-"

[cut]

Signal: "We're Gotham vigilantes, of course we have a favorite Batburger meal."

Red Hood: "We're Gotham vigilantes, of course we have a favorite gargoyle."

Nightwing: "We're Gotham vigilantes, of course we have to exist outside of a system that is soulless and corrupt while barely making a dent in the abysmal crime rate."

Signal: "Dude."

[cut]

Oracle: "We're vigilantes, of course we know your passwords."

Robin: "We're vigilantes, of course we carry a backup sword."

Nightwing: "We're vigilantes, of course we spell it R-I-C without the K."

Oracle: "CUT."

[myrefugeblog]

This episode fucking hurts, but look at them 💜

There is nothing wrong and everyone is happy.

[arttuff]

thank you to NScwub on twitter for donating to the dc gotcha for gaza event!!! the prompt was for cass and babs angst

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[i-fell-in-a-hole]

back to my roots w some silly batfam instead of angst

[lemonlimestar]

save me 90s bats…. 90s bats save me….

[oraclenthusiast]

the barbara and bruce dynamic is actually so funny to me like they're co-parenting a teenage girl together, babs is dating bruce's son, she's the daughter of one of the only people bruce actually trusts, they've been coworkers for years, and they just legitimately CANNOT stand each other. they're close with the same people, work together all the time, and yet literally every conversation they have in batgirl (2000) goes exactly like this:

barbara, just got back from a date with dick, picking up cass for her week of custody: hey cass it's nice to see you sweetie :) oh hi bruce.

bruce, returned from a (play)date with commissioner gordon, recently worked with dinah, babs's best friend in the world: barbara.

babs, unable to stop herself: how's it feel being a bitch all the time?

bruce, also unable to stop himself: i don't know, BARBARA, why don't you tell me?

[whalehouse1]

Let’s see if I got this right,

If you want good Batman, read Detective Comics, not Batman

Good Nightwing, read him being Batman

If you want good Jason, read fanfiction or WFA

If you want good Tim, I was told his solo series, but I found he’s better in Batman

If you want good Damian, read Dick’s run as Batman or Supersons if it’s to your tastes

If you want good Babs, don’t read anything modern unless it’s Birds of Prey

If you want good Steph, her solo is fine but gets rid of her nuances, but the stories with her nuances treat her horribly so good luck

Good Cass, her solo, and keep rereading it because no one who works at DC gets her except in very niche books (Outsiders)

If you want good Duke, read literally anything with him in it except WFA

Would you say that’s correct?

EDIT: Guys, this is a joke post based on what I’ve seen in posts for these characters. It is not a recommended reading list. “Why do you put, “this is a joke in your tags? It is to alleviate yourself of being called -insert form of bigotry against the character-?” No, it’s because if I don’t ppl don’t get that I’m not being serious. Only Cass and Duke have ones I would actually suggest based on my own experience reading the character.

[mrdogface]

So I finished Birds of Prey (1996 - 2009).

Highs:

known unrepentant homophobe Chuck Dixon accidentally wrote a pretty incredible bi sapphic story during his tenure on Birds of Prey, although much of the queering does come from the artists working on the books. We all know the “call me Barbara” moment – apparently, after the audience reaction to that, Dixon started leaving notes for artists like “be careful and make sure the audience doesn’t misinterpret this scene” lol. 

imo, the realization of Helena Bertinelli’s arc happens in the Birds of Prey. She is finally removed from an environment where she needs and is actively craving Batman’s approval, and she ends up thriving, infiltrating the mob and earning the “good work” from Bruce. Personally, I would’ve preferred if her character moved completely away from Bruce’s opinions of her, and it kind of does, but Gail SImone does close that arc off by giving it to her. 

Gail Simone uses the series as a who’s who of women in DC, showcasing a number of minor and often underrated women, from returning classic characters like Ice to giving Zinda Blake / Lady Blackhawk a second chance at comics relevance (Lady Blackhawk’s best story in the Birds of Prey, imo, happens under Tony Bedard, concluding the character’s arc from her 1950s roots). 

Infinity, introduced very late in Bedard’s time on the team, is a severely underrated nonstarter superhero and it is criminal she never went anywhere. Weird ambiguously Australian ghost girl? Hello??

Barbara as a character who learns to accept her disability. A lot of people, including Dixon and Simone, tend to point out that Barbara learns to be a superhero in spite of her disability, but that’s not the interesting part imo. I think the more interesting story here is that they almost accidentally cobbled together a very genuine character arc of Barbara initially being insecure and doubtful that she’ll be perceived as an equal, as romantically desirable, as a real leader in the superhero world, all this stuff, due to the chair. What we end up seeing is her growth into someone who realizes she’s accepted within the bubble of people who are relevant to her, and that the bigotry of people who aren’t can be made irrelevant simply by building one’s life without them. Her disability isn’t written as saccharine inspiration porn (I think it actually veers too far in the other direction at times; at its worst, it’s a point of grimdark melodrama lol) and it isn’t something she “overcomes” in the classic superhero sense of getting a magical wheelchair or psychic powers, and imo in the superhero genre that’s rare and valuable. The execution isn’t perfect but for me it’s very close. 

Lows:

Chuck Dixon makes Barbara and Power Girl do an accidental war crime lmao. dw, both DC editorial and the fanbase ignore this and the less said about it the better.

Dixon really likes James Bond, Indiana Jones (surprising because Indie keeps beating up his friends) and other travel-adventure stories, so throughout his run Black Canary keeps ending up in exotic locations… and judging the people there, before doing some insane “World Policing.” The racism is uhhhhhhh

Simone ties the Birds into the wider DC universe and it does, frustratingly, hit a point where you need to be either really up-to-date with other books or cracking open google to know who a lot of characters even are. This is kind of just how DC works in the mid-2000s, frustratingly. She’s also forced to work with a lot of off-screen deaths, like Ted Kord’s death should be an enormous thing for Barbara, but we have deadlines to keep and we can’t be certain people have been keeping up with Jaime Reyes, so gogogogo

Misfit and Black Alice. They never worked for me. I hate Misfit’s whole archetype of zany comics fan who acquires powers. Making her Jason Todd-adjacent by giving her the sad homeless backstory did not sell me on her and felt like a cheap attempt to make a nonstarter character function. Black Alice’s whole thing devolves into a “stay on your meds, emo kids” PSA. Just very clumsy 30-somethings-writing-teens material. 

the last arc, set in DC Silicon Valley, kind of sucks. The Calculator isn’t an interesting villain to me. The chemistry between characters after Dinah leaves never feels right. 

it all ends with Barbara believing she's lost her edge, writing a signed note, peacing out, and dumping her adopted homeless kid friend on Helena after getting her ass kicked by the Joker. The last page: Ganthet lamenting that she's in a wheelchair, "to be continued in Oracle: The Cure." oy.

[pythiasaint]

Barbara Gordon commission by the amazing @risoria

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

[batfamhastwitter]

Part 22! Fun fact, Mrs Harrington is based off of an actual teacher I had, and yes, Jason's donut trick worked like a charm on her too

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[hisuianserperior]

Just read through all of Batman Wayne Family Adventures and I have to say that I consider this to be the most canon batfamily there is and you can fight me. From sibling nonsense to Bruce trying his hardest to be a good dad to emotional moments it's all so good. Also it's hilarious in every way shape and form. Characters you don't see often in the batfamily but deserve more recognition are made so lovable

[arttuff]

they have a terminal case of the sillies