#podcast - batgirl to oracle

[thisweekinfandomhistory]

Do you want to know how he got these scars? This week, Emily and V take a trip to Gotham City to look back at Alan Moore's Batman magnum opus, The Killing Joke. While it garnered tons of accolades for its darkness, grittiness, violence, and portrayal of The Joker's semi-definitive backstory, The Killing Joke has also received a lot of (totally warranted) criticism for its darkness... grittiness... violence... and misogyny. The history and continued legacy of what happened to Barbara Gordon in The Killing Joke is complex, dark, and hard to reconcile. Oracle was a badass character who represented a deeply underserved portion of the DC Comics audience; however, Gail Simone kind of had a point that it was metatextually misogyny keeping Babs in her chair. DC's choice(s) surrounding Barbara have no easy answers. However, your intrepid hosts do find a light in the dark-grim-grittiness of Gotham as they discover (create) its worst strip mall and the heroic citizens who brave its potholes...

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

[shyjusticewarrior]

Batman Unburied Incorrect Quotes Pt 8

Ed: Why are you waking me this late?

Barbara: I need your help. I've done something very bad.

Ed: Put the corpse on ice. I'm on my way.

Barbara: Wait that's- that's not- why would you-

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Barbara: We said no shenanigans!

Ed: It was a single shenanigan.

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Alfred: Go to bed, it's 3 am! If you don't you're gonna hate yourself in the morning.

Bruce: Jokes on you, I'm gonna hate myself in the morning regardless.

[kudosmyhero]

Batgirl (vol. 3) #14: Terror in the Third Dimension

Read Date: May 01, 2023 Cover Date: November 2010 ● Writer: Bryan Q. Miller ● Penciler: Lee Garbett ◦ Pere Pérez ● Inker: Jonathan Glapion ◦ Rodney Ramos ◦ Pere Pérez ● Colorist: Guy Major ● Letterer: Travis Lanham ● Editor: Sean Ryan ◦ Michael Siglain ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● I love the movie poster feel of the cover art ● I don’t know much about Supergirl, but the fact she just made a “that’s what she said” joke? I already love her! ● “requisite super-collider lab” — heheh ● ok, I wonder who this T.A. is going to end up turning into…

● T.A. seems unchanged, but now we have movies coming to life ● I adore Kara and Stephanie’s friendship <3 ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: Stephanie is playing scrabble with her mother when Supergirl arrives unannounced to hang out. Steph shows Kara around the Gotham University campus, and they go to the campus theater to see a vampire movie. Although most of the audience find the movie hilariously cheesy and laugh when Dracula screams he is alone, Steph and Kara know what it's like to really be alone and think it's depressing.

Meanwhile, in the university’s super-collider lab, something goes wrong with an unscheduled experiment to generate "hard light." The lab overloads and the theater takes the brunt of the blast, accidentally generating twenty-four hard-light Draculas. Steph and Kara decide it's time for a team-up and suit up. Batgirl and Supergirl investigate the explosion and talk to Newton Flitwick. He explains about the hard-light projector and that the best way to dissolve those vampire projections is embedding a control rod in them. In other words, driving a stake into the Draculas' hearts.

Batgirl and Supergirl spend the whole night hunting vampires all over Gotham. Back at the Brown residence, Supergirl hears trouble back in Metropolis and she has to go. Before Kara leaves, they make a deal that the next time one of them feels alone, she will give the other a call.

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batgirl_Vol_3_14)

Fan Art: To Die With The Sun by dCTb

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 13

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

ifffff you're still taking asks about the podcast: opinions on Babs in it? love your thoughtful analysis

no major complaints, honestly? she's not really in it quite enough to get too terribly fucked over, and I was really relieved that the writers had the restraint not to catapult her straight to being Batgirl and REALLY leaned into her being an Oracle-type support for Batman instead. this isn't going to happen because god and DC comics personally hate me, but since a Barbara-centered series is almost inevitable I'm REALLY hoping they let her skip straight to being Oracle instead of fucking around with Batgirl.

overall I just REALLY adore her character, she exists in such a special and unusual space as a version of Barbara Gordon who's made it (comparatively) far in her life without *quite* becoming a vigilante of any kind while still being heavily influenced by Batman and retaining a lot of the traits that make her such a firestorm in the comics and she's so so dear to me. it's sooooo cool to get to see these little glimpses of her coming into her own after being restrained by being a cop and still gleefully breaking the law at every opportunity.

you know how literally every time Barbara shows up in Secrets in the Dark Eddie goes "Barbara!!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧" because he's obsessed with her. that was me.

[george-trevor-blog]

Resident Evil Wars comes to the Crimson-Head Podcast! Our team of survival horror warriors grab their favourite Resident Evil game, and with their best fighting talk, furiously debate which game will rule them all! Across a range of categories including Graphics, Gameplay, Sound Design, Innovation, and Legacy, each contestant will passionately convince our guest judges from the 'First Aid Spray' podcast, that their game destroys the competition!

Your Resident Evil warriors: George Trevor (Resident Evil Dead Aim), Joe Whyte (Resident Evil Village), Jen Von Lee (Resident Evil 6), The Oracle Dragon (Resident Evil Outbreak), Jill Valenfield (Resident Evil), BatGirl (Resident Evil 2).

Guest Judges: Steve & Psyniac (First Aid Spray podcast)

Our survival horror mansion: https://www.crimson-head.com/

Survival Horror news feed: https://twitter.com/Crimson_Head

[resurrectionsadamwarlock]

Other Podcasts You Should Listen To- Feathers and Foes

Feathers and Foes is a Birds of Prey Podcast where our mission is to cover every Birds of Prey comic book as well as television and movie appearances.

Find it HERE!

[earthschampion]

2021 Reading List Challenge Day 06

January 06, 2021

Birds of Prey #1 (01/2004)

Writer: Gail Simone

Artist: Ed Benes

Story Arc: Feeding the Game Part 2

Rating: 2/5

Starts off with Barbara trying to fire Dinah from the Birds of Prey after she got injured on two recent missions, the last one putting Dinah in a wheelchair while she heals.

Barbara leaves for a restaurant where the waitress is... trying to set Babs up with the cook? Meanwhile, Dinah is booking sparring appointments to get herself back on the team, and finds out from Dick Grayson the reason Barbara is in a mood is because she and Dick broke up.

The waitress has a daughter who goes up to Babs, and then the waitress sits down at the table with tiramisu???

Huntress is dressed up as Black Canary and being chased by the security of a senator, calling Oracle for assistance but it’s Dinah who answers.

Dinah leaves the building and uses her canary-cry to destroy the car that was chasing Huntress, then fights the men. Barbara apologizes in her own way and mentions bringing Huntress onto the team.

This was just so... Weird? The restaurant scene really bothers me, and I know it’s apparently a typical Gail Simone scene when there’s food involved. Overall the dialogue sounds similar to CW.

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[ao3feed-brucewayne]

BatWatch™

by TheCasualFan

Timmie Drake has been following the Bats and Birds at night for eight years. He's sixteen now and his hobby has grown into something a lot bigger than it started out as.

"Timmie cracks his fingers and sets to work preparing a special release for this evening before his shift begins.

'My podcast and my Twitter account have grown astronomically in the past couple years. Originally, this was a game for me. A bit of fun. Somewhere I could share the crazy things I was seeing when I caught the Bats out on patrol. It’s not a game anymore....'"

Words: 716, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Genderfluid Tim Drake fics

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Original Child Character(s), Bruce Wayne, Damian Wayne

Relationships: Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Original Child Character(s), Jason Todd & Original Female Character(s), Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Batfamily Members & Tim Drake, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon & Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Tim Drake is Oracle, Stalker Tim Drake, Tim Drake is Not Adopted, Tim Drake-centric, Genius Tim Drake, Jason Todd is Jayhawk, Jason Todd Lives, Genderfluid Tim Drake, Nonbinary Jason Todd, Neopronouns, Detective Tim Drake, Jason Todd Interacting With Children, Tim Drake is Not Okay, Damian Wayne is Robin, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Barbara Gordon is Batgirl, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Selina Kyle is Catwoman, Good Sibling Jason Todd, Good Older Sibling Jason Todd, Good Sibling Damian Wayne, Damian Wayne is a Little Shit, Jason Todd Loves Classic Literature, College Student Jason Todd, Dead Joker (DCU), Bruce Wayne is Not the World's Greatest Detective, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating, Nerd Jason Todd

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/35508928

[clocktowerfiles]

Sorry for the absense! Oracle has set up shop in a new clocktower! Now systems up and running I think we'll get back to our regularly scheduled programing. This episode we talk about Black Canary (Dinah Lance) some more, with Sensei & Student being our guide.

[chaoticoconut]

BARBARA GORDON HEADCANONS THAT MAKE ME SWOON!!

(and so can you!! alfkvoekfndnej does anyone get that reference anyhoo)

I couldn't NOT post these idk I was showering and then I was hit with a mf tornado of hcs about my favorite gal and I figured I'd share :))))

Barbara and Tim are actually the most potty mouthed members of the batfam, excluding Kate. Jason is close, but only when he's upset (which probably seems trivial bc he's yk always upset but I hc him a pretty chill if not bitter and snarky guy). Tim cusses more when he's tired, but he consciously tries to bite his tongue. Barbara has no remorse and cusses very casually and openly, because she sees no point in abstaining. It releases endorphins guys. Duh. She uses those ridiculous "holy heck Batman!" lines as Batgirl unless she's genuinely thrown off her game. She limits her cussing a lot as Oracle bc she's not one to offend people, and you never know. It's most definitely a civilian thing for her, and anyone who knows Babs knows she's a fucking sailor.

Her favorite food of all time is pizza. Her dream house has a brick pizza oven. She has a food blog with every pizzeria in the greater Gotham area ranked from best to worst. Her favorite of all time is the Gotham Pizza Garden, which is located in Old Gotham near the police station. Technically it's the second best pizza in Gotham, second to Gargoyle Pie Company, which is renowned for being the epitome of Gotham-style pizza and is always busy. She has a lot of memories of GPG though, and loves both pies. GPG also has an incredible Chicago style pizza, which is her second favorite type of pizza. She does however believe Gotham style is superior and thinks less of Dick for disagreeing (@blanddcheadcanons tie-in heyo!!) Very few things make Babs as happy as gourmet pizza.

She grew up watching Teenage Mutant Turtles, Powerpuff Girls, and Star Trek. They all hold a very special place in her heart. There is totally a connection between her love of pizza and TMNT and turtles and mixed martial arts. She once got the boys to go as the turtles for Halloween, with her crushing it as April.

Speaking of turtles, she's had a pet turtle named after icon Nichelle Nichols since high school. Yes, she does call her Shelly. Yes it's cliche. No she does not care. She also has a calico cat named Cornflake that Dick gave her as a birthday present. She doesn't have pet dogs until she and Dick finally settle down. She never had them growing up because her father is allergic and her mother was a devout cat lady. She's not really sure why she never got any on her own, she's just more familiar with cats. After her mom passed away, she did get a bunch of bunnies whom she and JJ named after their favorite horror movie monsters and serial killers.

She loves slasher flicks. It's a family thing. JJ was creepy about it, Jim loves the thrill, Babs loves the mythos, and her mom was never really afraid of anything and found them funny.

She inherited her mother's love for baking. She left her her cookbook, which contains an amazing mixed berry pie recipe. Her pie baking abilities rival Alfred's. She even begins to branch out with her recipes and experiment with all sorts of fillings and even cake-pies (fanfic au tie-in heyo). Everybody loves a Barbara baked good. She knows everyone's faves and literally crushes holiday season. Dick is all about the og mixed berry pie, whereas Jay, who loves lemon everything (hc I saw awhile ago that I just love) prefers either a lemon meringue or a raspberry lemon. Tim is all about strawberry open face while Steph prefers cherry cheesecake or pecan pie. Cass and Bruce both love her cinnamon apple pie. Duke loves just about anything she bakes, but especially her more adventurous, contest winning pies like kiwi-blueberry-black cherry and other originals. Kate will die for Babs' cherry pie. Damian prefers blackberry or mixed like Dick. Alfred is a sweet potato pie kind of guy himself. There's a farmer's market in Blüdhaven her mother went with her to when she was a kid that Barbara still goes to get get all the fresh fruit.

Even better than Barbara or Alfred baking alone is them baking together. Roy Harper is also a pretty good baker. They all trade recipes with Martha Kent. M'gann brings wine to the manor and assembles them all for fun days of baking.

She's also totally the type of gal who made a shit ton of cupcakes when she ran for class prez and stayed I from Batgirl duties to finish them. Just saying.

She picks baking back up as Oracle but several hero emergencies lead her to burn perfectly good desserts.

She and Roy will always have puppy-love crushes on one another and be totally oblivious. They both did ballet as kids, love baking, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, shameless empty flirting, and tech. They're completely platonic and really great lifelong friends. They met at a Wayne gala as kids.

As if she wasn't already talented enough, she's completely ambidextrous. I'm jealous. Dick and Wally are left handed. Bruce is similarly ambi. Selina's a leftie. Maybe Alfred too.

She likes to enter contests and win for fun. She's a monster. Everything from baking to video games to weight lifting, she loves showing people up.

Dick, Babs, and Tim all snore atrociously loud. The batfam hates it. She's the quietest out of them all, but she's also a blanket hog. And a major cuddler.

Her favorite colors are grey and green. Purple does deserve an honorable mention however. Her apartment is a fair mix of green and grey decor and covered in books.

She was a total ballerina growing up, just like her mom wanted. That was until she discovered how kick ass martial arts were, and she got a little too jacked to continue with ballet as a formidable career option. Her next best option is becoming a cop at this point, but her father believes that not only would it be far too dangerous but a waste of her skills (like ballet cough cough). This upsets her so much she goes off and invents Batgirl, complete with a stole grappling gun from evidence.

In college she works as a barista and excels at it. Her dream is to open up a cafe/bakery/flower shop with Dinah some day. She wants to call her half Bean Me Up Scotty! (another hc I saw and fell in love with)

Babs is also a pretty good cook being that she became the family chef at a young age (Jim can barbeque and make spaghetti. That's literally it. Maybe some breakfast). Cooking lessons from Alfred certainly helped.

Her personality is so versatile. She can get along with pretty much anyone due to her wide range of interests and skills which is what makes Oracle so bad ass. She's also a Libra so she adapts fairly easily to any group without seeming fake.

She has a podcast where she rants about tech and feminism and politics and plays video games

She SO took Latin in high school and dominated competitions. She loves classical studies and is a dork for Greek and Roman mythology as well as linguistics. She has a pretty good grasp on all of the romance languages, and learns languages fairly quickly.

She always smells like mint and books. She has killer mint shampoo and conditioner, which is a Kean family thing (they just love the scent). She always smells refreshing.

She likes coffee but prefers tea always. She's like Ramona Flowers with tea

Her music taste is total 90s nostalgia (grunge, boybands, air pop, ska, hip hop) meets far too indie 4 u. Yes she's pretentious. Yes she loves chick rock and *NSYNC and Britney and Kurt Cobain and Biggie and deal with it. She also loves shit you've never even heard of. Was totally into the Gotham punk scene as a teen.

She collects vinyl and books and horror flicks ugh hipster queen

She loves spicy food and Dick cannot stand it. They both like sour candy though

If your Barbara Gordon didn't graduate high school at 16 she doesn't have rights

She was all of the Robin's first crush. Duh. Tim will always think she's the gold standard of women. He likes that she usually sticks up for him. He doesn't mind being seen as her male equivalent lmao

At some point Jay and Babs are roommates and it's literally the best I'll talk abt that later

Her type is guys with dark hair or blonde gals.

[shyjusticewarrior]

Batman Unburied Incorrect Quotes Pt 11

Ivy: Women do twenty percent of all violent crime, men do eighty percent.

Ed: And that means nonbinary people do literally zero percent, so the next time you wanna call the cops on me for "breaking and entering-"

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Ed, singing: And if I don't separate my skittles by color I can feel my bones!

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Barbara: Let it go, Riddler, let it go.

Ed: "Let it go." Does she even know me!

[kudosmyhero]

Detective Comics (vol. 1) #407: Marriage: Impossible / One of Our Landmarks Is Missing!

Read Date: April 30, 2023 Cover Date: January 1971 ● Writer: Frank Robbins (both stories) ● Penciler: Neal Adams / Gil Kane ● Inker: Dick Giordano / Vince Colletta ● Colorist: {uncredited} ● Letterer: John Costanza (both stories) ● Editor: Julius Schwartz ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: Story 1: ● rude, Batman! let Kirk be happy! ● “trys”? meh, I don't have room to talk. once I was so sleep deprived that I spelled "of" phonetically. that's right: uv ● I’m rooting for Francie and Kirk’s relationship, tbh

● 👏👏👏👏

Story 2: ● I could see Batgirl trying to get the power switch to go down, but she has to switch it up in order to deactivate the mines? how in the world… ● hmm, ok. beggars belief a bit, but ok ● “Your generation and mine…” I’m pretty sure Batgirl and Shelley would be of the same generation, no? or so very close--i.e. Batgirl at the end of one generation, Shelley at the beginning of another--as to make no difference ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: Story 1: When Batman learns about the pending marriage between Kirk Langstrom and Francine Lee, he races down to the cathedral to stop the wedding. Interrupting the ceremony, he pulls a mask off Langstrom's head, revealing the face of the Man-Bat. Man-Bat flies off through the window leaving guests horrified and Francine in tears. Batman grabs her, demanding to understand how she could marry Kirk after everything that has happened.

He recalls how he tried to cure Kirk after their last battle against one another and even brought Francine to the Batcave, hoping she could convince Kirk to accept the antidote. This tactic failed and Kirk had escaped the cave the same way he got in. Francine then tells Batman how she pledged to show how committed she was to Kirk by taking the bat gland extract herself. She pulls off her veil and a mask revealing that she is now a She-Bat.

Francine flies off into the rafters and Batman chases after her. The Man-Bat peers down from above and tries to crush Batman with a chandelier. Batman evades the oncoming missile, and sprints up the cathedral staircase. Batman rings the cathedral bell, which causes the Man-Bats intense pain. Taking advantage of the situation, Batman knocks them both out and administers the antidote, turning them back to normal.

Story 2: Batgirl had stumbled upon the fact that the leader of the group Peaceful Protest has begun resorting to bombings to get the groups message across. This revelation, however, has gotten her trapped in a room where if she were to step off a circle of floor in the middle of the room the entire place will explode.

While Batgirl is utilizing her cape and a boot to try and turn off the switch that activates the explosives, Mal, Shelley and the Peaceful Protest group pay a visit to a man named Slavin, who had hired Mal to bomb the building in question because, since it was protected as a heritage building, Salvin was prevented from building a new high rise apartment building.

Batgirl arrives, and with the help of Shelly, captures everybody involved. Shelly is shot attempting to stop Mal from escaping, however. She is taken to a hospital where is expected to recover and testify against Salvin.

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_407)

Fan Art: Bat-Selfie by DarkerEve

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 13

[scottwinters714]

New Post has been published on https://comicbookheros.everythingonlinenow.com/episode-22-holy-crossover-batman-part-2/

Episode 22: Holy Crossover, Batman Part 2

Join me, Chris (The Professor Frenzy Show/Batgirl to Oracle: The Barbara Gordon Podcast/Bat-Books for Beginners), and Jon & Maggie (Married with Comics) as we gingerly make our way past the sensitive subject matter in this 2-volume comic book adaptation of Vachss’ novel.

Original source: http://thebatmanuniverse.net/episode-22-5/

[ddpodcastnet]

The Centurions

Join Chris and Mark as they revisit one of Kenner’s coolest toy lines, The Centurions: Power Xtreme.

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