#cass is generally back

[mamawasatesttube]

superboy (1994) #85

truly, his skill at putting words in literally any order is unmatched. we gotta put this guy in a tube and study him!! ...wait a minute...

[thevioletcaptain]

i make a nickel / boss makes a buck / so at work i write fic / where the characters fuck

idk is this anything?

[chemzee]

So uh. MelDan ammirite? This (kinda) blew up on Insta and other socmed I use so ig I'mma upload this here too lol

It started as a crackship (and it's still is, I kinda like to jokingly them imagine them pretending to like each other but actually wanting to skin each other alive, a little ooc for both of them, but it's mostly just for fun) but rn I'm exploring the potential ""relationship"" through a more angsty lense.

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[necrotic-nephilim]

Any ships you don’t like in the batfam fandom that is popular?

OOOH this is such a fun question because I have quite a few

StephCass - i'll be honest this is one of those ships where the fandom ruined it for me. because 2000s StephCass is an elite dynamic, they care for each other so deeply. but the fandom has been intent on defanging and purifying this ship. i don't know *why* but StephCass seems most popular with the anti-Batcest crowd who get very mad if you compare it to ships they deem Batcest. i have an entire meta commentary on this in my drafts I'll likely never post discussing why the only reason StephCass gets the pass for not being Batcest ties directly into misogyny (because the women of the Batfam need to exist as love interests first, not family members so Steph was never going to truly get to exist as a "full" Batfam member so long as she could remain a viable love interest for Tim, and the same can apply to Babs, Helena, and even Cass in some cases) and that just sours me to it. like if i want yuri in Batfam i think there are far more interesting/fucked up ships for Steph like Babs/Steph or Helena/Steph. and when it comes to what i'd actually like to see in canon, i don't want to see Steph relegated to love interest of a Batfamily member, even if it's queer. let her date and exist outside of Gotham the way every other Batfam member gets to, DC *please*.

Bruce/Selina - i can't fully articulate why this ship isn't my thing, it just isn't. i think i just can't conceivably agree with Selina letting go of so many of her fundamental morals and beliefs for the sake of a man, even one she loves such as Bruce. ironically, i think that's one of the few things Gotham War got right about these two. the only canon love interest i like for Bruce is Zatanna and i mourn we'll never get much of that.

JayRoy - i will admit when i was newer to DC the first comics i picked up for Jason were all New-52 and i shipped this. but now that i'm a pre-Flashpoint truther and i've actually read well-written Roy Harper comics, i only see the flaws in this ship. ngl if ppl were actually fun and interesting with it, playing with the idea of Roy knowing Jason as Robin and still seeing him as just Dick's little brother who's gone a little mental, it *could* be fun. but this Red Hood & the Outlaws (2011) and Red Hood/Arsenal (2015) dynamic *butchers* the fuck out of Roy and strips him of everything interesting. and even as a Batfamily stan, my number one pet peeve is when other DC characters get *butchered* in a Batfamily character's book just for the sake of propping up the Bat as some kind of savior. free Roy Harper from this mans.

Bruce/Oliver - we could be here all day if i listed all the Bruce ships i don't like, but i figure this one has to be included. because oh my god either the people shipping this *really* don't understand Oliver Queen or they just hate his ass because why would you subject Oliver to this man. he can't *stand* Bruce. i really hate the popular BruOliie shipping dynamic of like "oh they were boarding school besties" because if you want that, you *should* like Bruce/Zatanna, not these two. Oliver just always gets butchered in these fics and i won't stand for it.

Tim/Bernard - the ESSAYS i could write on this ship and why i dislike it. the fucking *fear* DC (and most popular media tbh) has with depicting queer relationships as anything other than totally perfect and cute for fear of accusations of homophobia has stripped this ship of *any* real grit. Bernard is a non-character in Tim Drake: Robin, he exists to cheer Tim on and prop him up and just be The Boyfriend. we occasionally get glimpses of an interesting character with really interesting trauma and nothing is *done* with it bc at the end of the day, Tim and Bernard must be perfect and cute. what's fun about Tim is he is the *worst* boyfriend alive. that boy is *ass* at dating. all of his relationships are rich with conflict and yet the moment he dates a guy suddenly all of his flaws vanish? i hate it. i mourn what this could've been if we kept messy Tim Drake and had a Bernard who was actually informed by his trauma. DC please let gays be messy again. also of all of Tim's 90s/00s friends to bring back as a love interest, Bernard Dowd was just a *bizarre* fucking choice. Sebastian Ives was *right* there come on now.

Any Crossover Ship - look if crossovers are your cup of tea i'm happy for you but oh my god if i have to see that little green ghost boy or that ladybug girl in the Batfam one more time i think i may explode. i have a lot of thoughts on *why* i think specifically Danny Phantom and Miraculous Ladybug get crossed over as often as they do with the Batfam, but i don't think anyone wants to year that. my only exception to this is Jason/Bucky Barnes, but it *has* to be comics!Bucky. like. Judd Winick's Jason and Ed Brubaker's Bucky would hatefuck and that i wish to see it. any other crossover ship (especially the Peter Parker ones that seem to be rising in popularity) just do *not* do it for me.

honestly besides that i don't think i dislike many ships. (aside from being super opinionated on Bruce ships, but that's mostly bc ppl will use him to butcher the character they ship him with) there are some ships i'm neutral to because i simply do not know enough to have an opinion (like Dick/Wally). i guess the only Batcest ship i'm not particular to is Bruce/Damian, but I wouldn't say that one is popular nor would i say i dislike it, just that it's not my cup of tea. most Batcest ships click for me in one way or another because i like their Weird dnyamics. i guess i could also say i dislike most ships that have come out of Young Justice (tv) because. oh my *god* why were those group of characters put together on a team. it's baffling. but even then it's not disliking those ships, it's moreso disliking that show's depiction of those characters so. everything is really dependant on the canon context for me!

[on-leatheredwings]

im begging bruce to stop , begging dc to stop

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Labour's manifesto really did just prove no matter if its them or tory's in charge, if your disabled or trans or both, your screwed under their leadership and its pick your poison at this point with voting for them.

[abrushwithdeath]

((I'm gonna try to be around a little bit today, so let me know if you want me to send memes your way!!!

This goes for people I'm already writing with AND anyone I haven't had a chance to write with yet, by the way <3))

[danny-chase]

🔥

Taking your blog name into account, something I wish that hadn't been erased with Barbara (and ofc, this isn't like the main stuff, because that's obvs way more problematic, but I'm trying to narrow it down to less popular topics) is that she did have a very cute older sistery-ish vibe to Tim and i miss that relationship (Tim hanging out at the clocktower, them playing with the simulation room together, her helping throw him a surprise christmas party). Like ppl kinda get the idea that all batfam canon was dark and gloomy, and while yeah i was there for the dark and gloomy, i miss those little nuggets of cute moments and it felt like Barbara and Tim's interactions were one of those things that brought lightheartedness into the comics

[zahra-hydris]

daewen got cassandra's low approval scene before we even went to crestwood

which I was initially surprised about because I didn't think their relationship was *that* bad

but tbh daewen is a blunt ass dalish mage who takes every opportunity (and makes some) to trash human political and religious authorities so... yeah maybe I shouldn't have been

[seabreezeraincloud]

My Cassandra love is reawakening... Yes girl come back... Coexist with the newer blorbos...

[malikselfindulgence]

🥯 with Sokar and 🍋 for Masha? I wanna know more about them so bad :<…

- @honeysgalaxy

AGSHXH YESYES TY FOR ASKING ABOUT THEM [normal mode engaged I am Capableof being normal about them] TW FOR THEMES OF ABUSE AND RELIGION AND SLIGHT SELF HARM !!

Her weakness as a kid is Nareena talking to the other kids about her- she doesn't care when Nareena insults her to her face, she's somehow glad Nareena's talking to her at all, that she's getting his attention, but when Nareena's so disappointed that she won't even bother telling her off? When Nareena talks about her like she's not there? It makes her feel guilty and double down twice as hard to try and get Nareena feeling guilty, too

In her ghost arc it's when Sokar finally starts screaming back. Sokar's always been kind, kind and soft and quiet, she always took whatever came her way, so Masha pushing her to that point hurts her even though it's exactly what she wanted, even though she screamed at her to be angry and hate her

Sokar as a kid had a terrible obsession with being "clean" or "holy"- she's trans and was raised in basically a cult, and watching the older sisters showcase femininity as something holy and pure mixed with the constant berating of how she's dirty and won't ever be what she wants to be made her obsessed w the idea of it to the point she'll tear at her own hair or scratch at her arms till they're raw, trying to "cleanse" herself of her wants and needs essentially. She does get better! Generally living on the surface + meeting Cassandra who believes in do whatever you want Forever has made her much more open- she doesn't force herself into things she doesn't enjoy for the sake of appearing smaller or more gentle. She means THE WORLD TO ME I love herso much oh this is so long my bad

Post for the ask game here! :3

[brithombar]

i always experience this feeling of burnout with comics over the atrocious social views expressed by the incels in the industry but recently this feeling of exhaustion has been caused by femcel cottagecore aesthetics and not like gamergaters which is a new feeling. connor hawke being confirmed as asexual because of his long history of being disinterested in women in order to code him as gay, wally wests racist white twin good asian twin evil concept being resurrected as white twin main character asian twin background character, donna troys baby that she had as a teenager with a 40+ groomer being resurrected to be friends with said twins, dick grayson being disconnected from his status as a gay icon and now being referred to as bisexual so he can continue to be presented as desirable to women and as a self insert for straight men while poison ivy is disconnected from her long history as a bisexual woman so as not to intimidate straight men in the audience with her gnc mannerisms and dominant personality is like really exhausting me, it makes me feel like none of the passion i've had for this industry is worth it, like none of the work i've put into archiving and promoting these characters since middle school has ever meant anything

i always return to wonder woman and the x men because they are the only major comics areas where women inherently matter and now i have to return to them because they have gay sex through bdsm and not smol bean hands chastely touching in a flower field

[thevioletcaptain]

screaming into the sun will the execubot 4000 they presumably have in charge of programming decisions at netflix these days please fucking renew dead boy detectives already??? 😫 i want to write a spec for it, but i'm tired of putting weeks of work into a thing that instantly becomes useless when the show gets axed before i can even attempt to do anything with it.

(also dead boy detectives should get a second season because it's a damn good show and one of very few series currently filling the fantasy/horror niche among hybrid-procedurals in a seemingly endless sea of fucking cop shows. but right now i want the renewal for entirely selfish reasons.)

[ditzybat]

i love the headcannon that both tim and cass look scarily alike, to the point they could be twins.

like they both share the same general lithe build, they’re the same short height, cass has a short bob while tim has his baby mullet, their training is similar due to their backgrounds with lady shiva and the loa, and (depending on your headcanon) both waisan- so i can definitely see instances where they’re confused for each other or where they mess with everyone around them.

cass on patrol in red robin gear so tim can go on a date with bernard:

random thugs seconds away from being one hit k.o’d: yo since when did red robin start melting into the shadows like an eldritch horror?

jason: hey tim -

cass: wrong.

jason: no, im pretty sure you’re tim, i gave you that scar right there in your neck

cass: nu-uh, this is from cain

jason:

cass:

jason: well this got awkward…

steph hugging tim from behind: hey babe

tim: wrong wayne

steph: ew, i should’ve known, your ass isnt nearly as —

tim walking away with his fingers in his ears: lalalalala im not listening to you

damian: i think you’re the only one in this family i respect

tim who has been silently hanging out with him for the past 3 hours: aw thanks damian, i’ve come to love you like a brother too

damian: drake? i thought you were cassandra, my apologies, i retract my previous statement

tim: don’t care, you love me, don’t try to deny it

lady shiva hugging both tim and cass: my beautiful twins, such well trained weapons, unfortunate that you both ended up with cain

bruce pulling his children back: tim isnt yours…

shiva: well that cant be right, he’s s the spitting image of my sister carolyn, and that birth was far too painful to only produce one small child

tim: woah full circle, my drag-sona is called caroline, maybe you are my mom, i wouldn’t put it past janet drake to adopt

bruce: tim no, you’re not even the same type of asian

cass: too late, we’re blood

shiva: see!

[haveihitanerve]

Headcanon that Bruce invents fake “nicknames’ for his kids on patrol- usually fictional characters- because he cant full name them when they’re in costume-

So just imagine for me, Nightwing flying through the air past your late night college class, winking and making funny faces to get yall to laugh- when you hear Batman’s rough growl thunder: “PHILLIP THOMAS SHIRLEY!!!” (because dick had a thing about Prince Phillip when he was younger, wanted to be him etc)

Or the Red Hood is like roughing up these gang members and almost shits his pants when Batman appears and goes- “Fitzwilliam Darcy Esquire!”

Tim’s is- “William Sherlock Scott Holmes!!!!” sef explanatory i feel like

Damian is- “KIPPER CLIFFORD SHERMANN YELLER!!!” bc.. Dogs or smth… idk i needed it to be long

Steph is: “GEORGE THOMAS WASHINGTON!!!” bc… idk actually but it feels right

Babs is: “cockroach” and its only because shes always around no matter how much he dares to push her away and always comes back and also she pisses him off, but she calls him “mosquito” or just flat out “irritation,” “Oracle.” “yes irritation?” 

Cass is: Princess because he would never

Duke:... quite simply I think he just goes "DUKE!!!!" bc its generic enough and also... idk i feel like everyone in Gotham knows duke is signal.. like its not addressed everyone just knows...

[aingeal98]

Ultimately the resolution of Jason and Cass fights comes down to the fact that while he has his own ideals that don't mesh with the bats, Jason can be flexible. DC skipped the whole reconciliation with the family but while he's willing to kill it's generally a means to an end to him, not the whole entire point unless you're talking about Joker. Meanwhile for Cass the question of killing vs not killing is dead serious to her which means any time they're working together and things start going off track it's like:

Jason: Look if we kill this guy we send a message to his boss which makes it easier for us to negotiate with him from a position of power and I just think that-

Cass, snatching one of his guns and pointing it at her own head: Go on, pull the trigger. Kill him. Kill me. Go tell Batman that you let his daughter die to make a negotiation easier. He already let you die so no problem right? You think we should die? You think our life only worthwhile as part of a plan, just because we're killers? Are we doomed? Are we rotten to the core with no hope of redemption? Go on then, kill us and kill part of your soul alongside it. You clearly don't care for it so why are you even trying? Kill yourself along with us, come on Jason let's all just die right?

Jason, slowly backing away: I think you may be projecting a tiny bit so just. Calm down before I call the suicide hotline please.

Cass, slowly lowering the gun and knocking the random henchman unconscious: Yeah that's what I thought, fucking pussy.

Jason: Mm yeah you know what I hate you actually. Fuck this mission I'll just shoot you right now if you're going to be this annoying about it.

Jason, explaining things later to Dick: So I just kept shooting at her until I ran out of bullets and we both calmed down enough to call a truce. We tracked the guy down and didn't kill anyone but I did blow up the batplane just as a last minute screw you. Is she always this uh... intense?

Dick: Yeah, one time I broke up with Barbara and she threw me out a window. She's just like that.