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A wild flash reprint appears!
It's 'Modern Cassandra', originally published in F&SF a couple of years ago, now free to read in Small Wonders:
Modern Cassandra tries so hard to warn us, but all her visions go to Junk. I have an important revelation! she writes. I saw you in my dreams. This is urgent. Please reply, but even though she flags her emails as top priority we never do.
With thanks to Medium Amanda, who made a really dedicated effort to connect with me towards the end of 2019! And yet I never replied to her. What would have happened if I had?
#Julia August#flash#fiction#fantasy fiction#Small Wonders#Modern Cassandra#Apollo#Cassandra#prophecy
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Somehow, in the far future, Tim's canonical age finally moves past 17, and his siblings take him out for his 21st birthday
Dick, placing some vodka shots in front of him: Time for your first drink! I can't believe you've already grown so much!
Jason: Drink those slowly, alright? Do you need us to dilute them or-
Tim, already downing the shots in under three seconds flat: Can i have more
Jason:
Dick:
Cass, covering Damian's eyes:
Tim: uh I mean ooh! It burns! It's...so bitter haha
#Tim turning towards Duke: Don't ever drink it's bad for your liver okay#no way that guy got through everything he did and had done to him while he was in young justice without some alcohol man#jason todd#dick grayson#batfam#tim drake#damian wayne#cassandra cain#duke thomas#dc#nightwing#red hood#red robin#dc robin#signal dc#batfamily#batfam headcanons#batfamily headcanons#batfam shenanigans#batman comics#incorrect batfamily quotes#incorrect batfam#incorrect batman quotes#source: That modern family hayley scene it's so funny
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I've been seeing a whole lot of posting about Cass hallucinating her girlfriend and I do love it, but I think we should all also acknowledge that Steph does this shit too, they're literally made for each other 💕


Batgirl (2000) #26
#need to see her doing it again in modern day too#also shes kinda just like me for real#i love motivating myself by imagining cassandra cain is there hyping me up#dc comics#mae reads comics#cassandra cain#stephanie brown#batgirl#batgirl (2000)#batgirl (2024)#stephcass
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*Alfred is reminding Bruce to go to a school seminar for Damian that’s about helping the development of kids behavior*
Bruce: I don’t know why I have to go to this thing. In case you’ve forgotten I’ve raised a few kids.
*Cut to Jason pulling Dick’s hair and Dick poking Jason trying to escape. Tim, Steph, Cass, and Duke stare at Bruce*
Bruce: Why look at me? It was Alfred’s fault. I was barely around!
#batman#dc#robin#batfamily#batfam#dick grayson#incorrect dc quotes#nightwing#incorrect batfamily quotes#jason todd#red hood#tim drake#red robin#bruce wayne#stephanie brown#damian wayne#alfred pennyworth#source: modern family#duke thomas#cassandra cain
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Stephanie and Cass have such a complicated dynamic to me that I can never fully enjoy any dynamic/trope that's slapped onto them, like 'golden retriever x black cat' or 'sunshine x grumpy' or whatever. They're almost always inaccurate because Steph and Cass are both multifaceted and three-dimensional women who can't be boxed neatly into categories, and assigning one of them as the 'optimist/happy one' rings false at different stages of their relationship. What I love so much about them is that they can't be boiled down to one thing. It's refreshing to have a relationship between two women that holds space for all their flaws, nuances, shifting feelings, clashing morals, and more. Of course anyone can call them any trope, it's all good fun!! The appeal for me though is how static tropes don't really apply to them.
#stephanie brown#cassandra cain#stephcass#i love them sooo much#their relationship is so AGHFADB so rich so complicated so nuanced#batgirl 2000 you will always be famous#this is why altho i love them being cute bffs i do miss when they would have little spats all the time#they LOVE each other of course. they always have. but it wasn't always such smooth sailing#idk tho i guess the happiness of modern times it the payoff for the conflicts they used to have
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"Sunny!" you cry, "Why did you draw the entire Trojan royal family from oldest to youngest in two days? That seems wildly unhealthy!"
"hurghhhhhhhh" I reply.
Anyways here's the full family portrait
(Only four of these people survive the Trojan war btw :D)
#greek mythology#trojan war#iliad#apollart#I'm just gonna tag the people that people know#priam#hecuba#paris iliad#hector#cassandra iliad#helenus#troilus#Also it is true that Hecuba and Priam had 19 kids together (+ Troilus who's Apollo's kid whoops) But not all 19 kids had names#so I stole the names of Priam's other kids for fuznies lol#anyways this was fun I had fun#still going insane over Paris btw might post something silly about that tmrw#Preview: Paris and Apollo are parallels actually but also if they met in modern day they would ruin each others lives#(and the worst part is they would do it out of a genuine wish to become close)#That probably makes no sense but IT WILL TOMORROW IMMA WRITE LIKE 3000 WORDS JUST WATCH ME#Me: I'm writing a Paris essay tmrw /threat
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Bruce: Clark! Where are you, honey? I need to talk to you. Clark: What is it? Bruce: Do you know what our daughter did? Clark [Points at a sleepy Cass]: Nothing. She's fine. She's reading. Bruce: No, not her. Steph! Stephanie! Come over here. I want to talk to you. Clark: There she is. Not a scratch on her. Bruce: Do you have something you want to say to us? Stephanie: Uh… Bruce: Mmm… let me help you out here. Fake I.D.s? Clark: What?! Bruce: Mm-hmm. Stephanie tried to get her and her friends some fake I.D.s. Steph: I wasn't gonna use them for drinking. We just wanted to get into this club to see a band. Bruce: She took a bunch of money from them and then she lost it. Clark: How much? Cass: $900… Bruce: You're kidding me!? Steph: It's not my fault! I gave money to this guy. He's the one who ripped us off. [Damian comes in, with a black eye] Bruce: …What happened to your face? Damian: I ran into a door. Bruce [Stern]: What happened to your face? Damian: Clark hit me. Bruce: What?! Clark: It was an accident. I was trying to open up a band-aid for his arm! Bruce: His arm too?! Damian: That was all me, I swear. [Cassandra falls to the side, asleep on the couch] Bruce: …What's wrong with her? Clark: …Growth spurt. Bruce [Stern]: What's wrong with her? Clark: …I drugged her. Bruce: Clark! Clark: I accidentally gave her the nighttime allergy medicine. Bruce: Ugh… Okay. All right, one thing at a time. Stephanie, how are you going to repay your friends? Steph: I don't know… Jason: She needs the money back. Who is this kid? Steph: A guy at school's cousin's friend. He lives in Gardena. Dick: Well, if you know where he lives, just call the police. Clark: No cops. We can't afford a scandal right now. Your dad's running for town council. Bruce: That was before, when I thought you could take care of the children. I take my eye off the ball for one minute, and I've got one in a coma, one with a black eye, and one running a crime ring. Jason: Well, to be fair, Steph started her crime ring when your eye was still on the ball.
#incorrect batman quotes#incorrect dc quotes#incorrect quotes#batman#batdad#batkids#batfamily#superman#clark kent#bruce wayne#superbat#dick grayson#stephanie brown#cassandra cain#jason todd#damian wayne#modern family
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big day for the ukd nation how we feeling guys…..
#tangled the series#rapunzels tangled adventure#pansy-art#tangled#princess rapunzel#uknighted dream#unknighted dream#new dream#cassunzel#tangled cassandra#eugene fitzherbert#modern au
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Ok but what if Cass my chronically online princess picks up some of the modern slang and makes it her mission to use it at the most inappropriate times (wether she’s aware she’s doing it or not is up to you)
Cass, complimenting a meal: whoever made this needs to get their ass ate
Bruce: *has a stroke on the spot*
Cass, looking at a unconscious beaten up Jason in the medbay: where’s the girl with the list
Cass, humming while tying up a cannibalistic cult: big back big back, big back big back
Villain: *monologuing about their motives and they awful life that lead them to villainy*
Cass: skill issue
Cass, nodding while drenched in blood after a fight: serving so much cunt
Steph: hell yeah you are!!
#feel free to add more#since Cass learned English by watching tv and movies (SAME) I feel like the modern equivalent would be TikTok#on full volume too Bruce has heard espresso by Sabrina carpenter more times than he can count#it’s so catchy too he catches himself almost humming it to himself#shitpost#batman#dc comics#batfam#bruce wayne#batfamily#dcu#cassandra cain#batgirl#dc orphan#orphan dc#cass cain#incorrect batfamily quotes#incorrect batman quotes#incorrect dc quotes#brain rot#stephanie brown
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jason todd is a girls girl.
let me explain (ik ik i say that a lot)
Jason Peter Todd will stand on business if it means helping someone out, especially a woman.
A creepy man following you home? woah that's crazy jason todd is very suddenly your friend and just so happens to be walking the same way.
Someone being a dick to you in public and making a scene? jason intervenes, handling the person after calling you a cab and paying for it up front.
You need someone to watch your drink? Mr. Fucking Red Hood will stand with a gun held over the drink until you get back, regardless of what he was doing.
Jason Todd is a girls girl in my mind and I will die on this fucking hill.
seriously though I feel like he and Steph would recreate that sonic meme that's like
Steph, saying something about how she, Cass and Babs are better than the rest : -and I'll prove once and for all that a female can be just as good of an hero as a male!
Jason : You know, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying this is the exception and not the status quo.
Steph :
Jason :
Everyone and their mother :
Jason : What? Just because I'm a resurrected zombie freak and assassin, doesn't mean I'm not a feminist. I read pride and prejudice, dammit.
#dc comics#batman#dcu#jason todd#batfam#headcanon#batbros#comics#red hood#batfamily#cassandra cain#stephanie brown#i saw that video that was like 'who do i need to talk to to do a keg stand it's my birthday' and i immediately thought of our boy#him and diana would have in depth conversations about modern feminism#Jason and Selena would be besties fr fr#it's 2 am i wrote this instead of sleeping
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One of my biggest pet peeves is how many people tag Batfam fics with "Modern AU" when they really just mean capeless or civilian AU.
#dc comics#batman#batfamily#dick grayson#jason todd#like its.....already modern bro#tim drake#damian wayne#bruce wayne#cassandra cain#stephanie brown#duke thomas#barbara gordon
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ONCE AGAIN thinking about how Steph and Cass both think of crime as being related to abuse but they think of it in different ways based on the abuse done to them- Cass is inclined to see perpetrators as abused in some form and in need of rehabilitation bc the only way she can conceptualize her abuse is through David's making her a killer (and not any of the physical abuse involved in her training or the emotional and psychological abuse of depriving her of speech, because those both make her a better vigilante in her mind) whereas Steph sees the perpetrator as abuser, because her father's criminal persona (his violence, his inferiority complex, him literally and figuratively holding Steph and her mother as hostages) is so entwined with the abuse he inflicted on her and her mother, and she feels this so strongly she often fails to see Cass' perspective of criminals as victims, when of course the answer lies in between in that many of the most iconic rogues of Gotham (save few who lean one way or the other) are both abused and abuser, victim and perpetrator, Steph and Cass' number one fear, the one Steph can't think about and the one Cass obsesses over, of being just like the people who hurt you.
#ramblings of a lunatic#dc comics#dc#stephanie brown#cassandra cain#God it's been so long since I've had anything worthwhile to say about them#do you know how evil busy one has to be in order to be unable to post???? TO POST???? ON HERE??????#anyway yeah was thinking about this again#glad Cass is once again having to think about the cycles of violence in her life and conceptualize shiva as both villain and victim and-#-neither and let that guide her own sense of mercy towards herself in future#I'd like more arcs that deal with Steph's thoughts on abuse and criminality#without the simplistic parables of the dixon era and without the glossing over of the modern era#and without forgetting where it all comes from. if Steph is tough on criminals it's because one was extremely tough on her#and it's impacted her to this day#AND WITHOUT ARTHUR HAVING TO BE CLUEMASTER AGAIN he's behind bars rn just let him be Steph's lector#but less useful and more emotionally damaging
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Thinking about Cass and the Lazarus Pits.
#i actually don't really like the Lazarus pits in the modern interpretation#like the n52 introducing 'Pit Maddness' was one of the worse things ever#especially since fanon grabbed it and refuses to let go#maybe ill make a post about it#but at the moment ill just stew in my feelings#art#digital art#fanart#digital drawing#digital painting#drawing#universaljoke#batgirl cassandra cain#cass cain#cassandra cain#batman#dc#dcu#dc comics#dcu comics#black bat#dc black bat#lazarus pit
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Clary and Alec in CoB when Alec refused to admit Clary was a shadowhunter:

y'all i pray this makes sense🙏🏻
#clary fairchild#alec lightwood#the mortal instruments#city of bones#jace herondale#isabelle lightwood#the shadowhunter chronicles#magnus bane#city of ashes#city of glass#city of fallen angels#city of lost souls#city of heavenly fire#shadowhunters#tsc#kitty#the wicked powers#twp#the infernal devices#clace#malec#modern family#sarah hyland#cassandra clare#herongraystairs#herondales#the dark artifices
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Wip i wanted to finish for the tts anniversary but uni said no💔

Finishing it soon tho
#cassunzel#cassunzel fanart#cassunzelfanart#cassandra#tts cassandra#cassandra tts#cassandra tangled#tangled cassandra#rapunzel#rapunzel fanart#tts#tts fanart#ttsfanart#rapunzel's tangled adventure#tangled the series#tangled#tangled fanart#fanart#wlw art#wlw fanart#modern au
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Not to get back on my soapbox but bruce & cass’s early relationship does make me want to eat drywall. any outsider could tell you bruce is obviously enabling cass’s unhealthy behaviors and yet he 100% completely believes he’s doing the right thing for her because that’s what he thinks he would have needed in that situation. and. that says some real interesting things about bruce as a person. wow, mr. wayne, are you totally sure that what you needed when you were cassandra cain’s age was someone holding you to impossibly high standards, keeping you shut up in a cave all day, training you until your lungs gave out and encouraging vigilantism to consume every aspect of your life? is that really what you think you needed? does this maybe stem from an ultimately twisted view of yourself, bruce?
#batman#bruce wayne#cassandra cain#bg 2000 was a wild ride for cass and her interpersonal relationships.#every day i thank god for kelley puckett.#like. IMAGINE anyone writing for modern bat comics telling a story anywhere NEAR this nuanced today.#it doesn’t!! happen!
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