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Thinking about how Cass's OG artist draws her in the Batgirl run and how there's just something about it that no other Cass artist has been able to replicate. The way she's so clearly 16/17, the youthful playfulness in her eyes, the unique features and expressions on her face, the casual clothes she likes to wear (and the lack of whitewashing but that's more the specific colourists). The way she doesn't look perfectly glamorous but instead looks human, like a teen who's been homeless and on the run since she was a child and is only now rediscovering happiness.

I don't hate Cass's features maturing as she gets older, and since she should be around 23 in canon it's not that relevant anymore. But when it comes to teen Cass, no artist has come close to this. When I picture teen Cass I am always thinking of Damion Scott's artwork.

#DC Comics #Batgirl #Cassandra Cain #Earth 46

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#DC Comics #Superman #Clark Kent #Kal El #Lex Luthor #funny

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hope is a skill

#awesome #heartwarming #important #writing

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Frank Paton - Witness my Act and Deed (1882)

#cats #animals #funny #art #awesome art

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Scarecrow realizing he has to physically inject the dangerous martial artist who went toe to toe with Lady Shiva because she wears a damn face mask.

#DC Comics #Scarecrow #Jonathan Crane #Batgirl #Cassandra Cain #funny

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I think more leftists need to recognize the gap between “this should happen eventually” and “this would be feasible to achieve in the near future”

Like, I’m an anarchist. (Although maybe I’m not according to some people but idk who cares) And I think an ideal world would have no nation states or borders. But that’s not going to happen tomorrow, or next year, or for a long time

So while I wait, instead of endlessly hemming and hawing over what the would should look like, I try to focus on what I can do right now to improve the world in material ways and to lessen the suffering of others

#important #seriously

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fucking tragic watching Jean Paul go from this artsy little softboy dyke look

to generic blonde man #9982

he's not even wearing his glasses anymore! boo hiss!

#DC Comics #Azrael #Jean Paul Valley

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#language #important

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#art #awesome art #history

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If it's TNG-era, Star Trek also has the advantage of allowing you to live out the other options (and countless others) via holodeck, so yeah, provided we get a good ship and Captain like you said, Star Trek is the clear winner.

#Star Trek

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Thinking about Cass and moral codes and how her moral lines, her black and white attitude towards killing , is not because she doesn't understand moral grey areas. She emphasises with every single killer, she projects on them, she wants to save everyone, from a woman in an alley to a man on death row. No one had to make her follow a moral code, in fact the people in charge of her childhood would very much prefer if she didn't have the code she does! She chose it herself, chose exactly what her line would be. And within that line, that clear line she's decided of "nobody dies", there is so, so much grey. Every killer she's helped, every person she couldn't save, has taught her of another shade of grey.

Her attitude against killing isn't there because she doesn't understand morally grey situations. It's there because she understands the moral greyness so deeply, in a way not even Bruce can. She looks at it, projects on it, is saddened and disgusted and furious and sometimes even despairing at the things she's seen and the situations she's encountered.

And she chooses to stick with her line in the sand anyways. You'll never convince her that killing is the solution to anything. It doesn't mean she can't ever be reasoned with, she put the man on death row back because his victim's mother made her feelings on the entire thing very clear. But despite how it shook her, despite how she failed to save that man, she still went out the following night determined that nobody will die. Nothing can ever shake that moral center of hers, even when she fails it just reinforces the trauma that formed her worldview in the first place. Is it healthy? Not at all. Is is entertaining to read? Absolutely

#DC Comics #Batgirl #Cassandra Cain #Earth 46

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Keeping her as Orphan when literally no one is using the Batgirl name wasn’t enough, it seems. Gotta whitewash her too, evidently.

DC March 2024 Solitations that feature Cass are here! Probably, Cass is only in one comic for the month sadly.

Birds of Prey #7

Variant by Pablo Villalobos.

Variant by Nathan Szerdy.

1:25 variant by Leirix.

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures Vol. 4 (with a weirdly colored Cass.)

#DC Comics #Batgirl #Cassandra Cain #DC critical

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DOCTOR WHO

DONNA NOBLE, "Careful. This is how I lost my job. Dropped a coffee in the computer."

#Doctor Who #Fourteenth Doctor #Donna Noble #funny

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Off the top of my head (meaning that there could definitely be some issues with the concept), maybe it could be something like after Faizul, there was a time that David managed to track Cass down at some point and try to "ease her back in" by having her just watch as an assassination was carried out, and that assassination was Miranda Row, and Cass' guilt over that comes from not being able to stop it before running again?

That way, we still have the original version (which I definitely agree works best), but we also get some form of the dynamic between Cass and Harper.

Harper's feel when her story is inexorably linked to Cass because Cass killed her mom, but the inverse is not true and Harper doesn't even show up in either group shot of the most important people in Cass's life shown in Spirit World:

#DC Comics #Batgirl #Cassandra Cain #Bluebird #Harper Row

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OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.

#Muppet Christmas Carol #A Christmas Carol #Christmas

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May I also submit:

- uses sign language

There’s definitely more, but words cannot describe how much I hate the sign language thing. Not only does it only exist because of the misconception that she can’t speak (not helped by the goddamn Young Justice cartoon), but it also implies that sign language is “easier” than verbal language. So it’s ableist bullcrap on two fronts.

I'm gonna start a list of red flags for me when watching someone on Tumblr talk about Cassandra Cain. Here's what I got so far: -ballet is her one allocated personality trait -she loves her brothers so much -precious little angel whose never done anything wrong -post tagged with "Orphan" instead of Batgirl

#DC Comics #Batgirl #Cassandra Cain #fan dumb