#and having read a good deal of comics with kory (aka ntt nt the titans etc) and some with babs (some of 98's bop and nw 96)

[danny-chase]

babs and kory for that ask game !

Most annoying thing to me is that there was 1 comic where they interacted for 2 seconds and fandom went omg they're romantic rivals for Dick! It's a love triangle time to pick one to love and trash the other!

Like why do you find the need to tie their narrative value to a man? Like actually it's so frustrating that fanon buys into cheap drama and only judges them based on how good of a girlfriend they'd be to Dick. Like I'm sorry but they're both good pairings with Dick while the writing is good and bad pairings for Dick when the writing is bad, that's pretty much all there is to it. And imo if we're in fandom territory there are more interesting ships than dickkory and dickbabs imo (aka donnakory, dinahbabs, and dickroy/titans polycule/titans in qpr). The most frustrating thing is that Barbara as Oracle and Kory when not written as a sex object are both powerhouse characters that I personally find compelling. They're strong and independent, and have their own personalities and fanon (and some canon) ignores most of that to make them petty towards each others.

Ngl i wish the panel where they met in the Nightwing annual that shall not be named had just ended in a threesome so at the very least i wouldn't have to see the ugly ship wars between the two. I think 90% of the critiques I've seen of either character comes from salty Dick stans who can't seem to see the characters from any other perspective and it's just... tiring. Like i can only read "[x] is an awful terrible person for breaking up with Dick and ruining his life" so many times. Have you considered Dick and Kory's breakup was a very complicated situation (that one meta by bigskydreaming is *cheffskiss*) and that the Dick and Barbara one was only done to give Dick manpain tm, and that Devin wrote Babs ooc to make it happen? Ngl i believed Babs slander for an embarrassingly long time before someone was like have you considered you're wrong, and then i considered that i might be wrong, and then i adjusted accordingly after realizing I'd been fed bs by the fandom. It's annoying how easily it is to be led astray in this fandom, especially because it's hard to tell what people are basing their critiques off of.

Ahem, anyways. Pitting the two against each other is dumb and what DC wants fans to do to distract from their shitty writing.