Elden Ring, My Reading On Marika

Red Robin (2009) #25

This is actually the reason you two are siblings WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

Any chance of a drawing of CJ meeting the 03 guys? either apocalypse or when Dee reunites with them in the good timeline?

I...may have went a little overboard. But this image was what popped into my head when i read your ask, and it would not leave until it was finished.

Anyways, This is CJ is meeting them but not them meeting him. That happens a little later since he's being stealthy in the vents atm. He does that quite a bit, actually. Shelldon will keep him hidden there for as long as he asks to be.

This is probably about the time the 03s first showed up in the apocalypse future. They've only just found out about Dee like a minute or so ago and Leon's taken off again. I should really write this whole scene out (or comic it at least) since i can imagine it pretty well. (the only thing holding me back is that i haven't quite figured out how Dee would have died, and i'm fairly certain that would be mentioned during such a scene lol)

Thank you!

The idea of dragons in modern times is so fun because imagine a hot summer day on your vacay and go to use the hotel pool and staff is like “valued guests we regret to inform you that the pool area is out of service at the moment, we apologize for the inconvenience”

And people like “wtf why” looking out their hotel room window and there’s this. This dragon just curled up in the pool chilling, literally, cooling itself down

Some of the staff are trying to gently shoo him away and the dragon does a soft little “rrrrrr” like a grumpy cat and a warning puff of smoke and they’re like “fuck it i don’t get paid nearly enough for this” and no ones using the pool today sorry!

this is why LH!Fleo isn’t invited to peepaw karaoke night god what a buzzkill~

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Norman be like

Fk you TPN season 2.

Here, have some Capital Arc demons.

I'm being very brave today

They deserve a proper goodbye I think

Oracle isn't just a name. It's an identity that is inextricably intertwined with Barbara Gordon reclaiming herself and her sense of agency over her body and life after becoming disabled.

The last 13 years of dedicated activism have gotten us back to a point where Oracle is acknowledged and Babs is portrayed as a competent adult woman, and I'm grateful she finally has her team back. But DC still refuses to acknowledge and uplift her as disabled, undermining the core thesis of Barbara's character in the modern era. And as long as she's not visibly disabled…she's still not Oracle.

Oracle was created because two people (Kim Yale and John Ostrander) saw a horribly misogynistic story and went "no. We can do better. We SHOULD do better." Oracle was a rebirth, a revitalization, a refusal to allow women to be relegated to the sidelines and margins of superhero comics regardless of physical ability.

To refuse to portray her as visibly disabled undermines everything that Babs as Oracle stood for, both in-universe and in real life. It betrays the identity's foundations as a reclamation of agency and heroism. It betrays her creators' intent as an avenue for disability representation and a revitalization of a character summarily discarded because the company saw no further use for her. It betrays the millions of readers who read her stories for nearly 25 years and enjoyed stories brimming with strength, independence, and heroism that depicted a disabled character at their center.

It's doubly frustrating because it's clear that DC is slowly moving Cass back into the "primary Batgirl" role, allowing us to have a semblance of Oracle back, but they seem to think of Oracle as an interchangable identity with Batgirl that Babs would have had even if TKJ had never happened. And outside of Batgirls (which ended last year), they won't even meet people halfway and make Barbara an ambulatory wheelchair user who uses forearm crutches and/or a cane when she's mobile.

Again: I'm grateful that Oracle is being acknowledged again. I'm grateful Babs is back to being a competent adult and team leader who has friends outside of Gotham. But I continue to be frustrated at the company-wide sexism keeping her from fully moving on from Batgirl and the ableism prohibiting her from being shown as visibly disabled.

Do you ever become mutuals with someone you share an intense interest with and it becomes this limbo of "I want to be your friend SO fucking bad but I'll eat a shoe before dm-ing first"