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One thing I've always wondered about Cass is how she learned her own name. The first time I recall her (or anyone else) saying her name in canon was in Batgirl #12, to Oracle's security system

before this she was nameless and kept getting referred to only as "batgirl"

In Batgirl: Secret files and origins, David Cain's character bio states that he named her Cassandra. But we know he'd never spoken to her before No man's land and even there he never calls her by name... So how did Cass learn her own name?

#cassandra cain

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Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.

Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.

He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.

Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.

But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.

Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.

Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.

So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?

Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.

Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.

Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.

Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.

Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.

Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.

But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?

Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.

Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.

So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.

Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.

At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.

The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.

Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.

All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.

Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.

But by GOD is he trying.

#batman #bruce wayne

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you don't get it. i miss batman. except not that batman, and not that guy's batman, and not that guy's batman, but this highly specific iteration of batman that coalesces after you're hundreds of batman comics deep and you figure out that everyone in your entire life has lied to you about batman this entire time. i miss that specific batman

#batman

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Did we ever actually get to see Cassandra's reaction to seeing Steph alive again after War Games? Because that's an absolutely monumental and extremely important moment to have happened offscreen if not. The emotional fallout of that could have been the basis for some of the best character development Cass has ever had.

#dc #cassandra cain #stephanie brown

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obsessed with the kinda analysis that "this character is deeply and unequivacably a bad person" when they are reacting in an understandable way to enormous horrible stakes, trauma and consequences. and are a teenage girl

#gwen stacy #atsv #spiderverse

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obsessed with the kinda analysis that "this character is deeply and unequivacably a bad person" when they are reacting in an understandable way to enormous horrible stakes, trauma and consequences. and are a teenage girl

#gwen stacy #atsv #spiderverse

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obsessed with the kinda analysis that "this character is deeply and unequivacably a bad person" when they are reacting in an understandable way to enormous horrible stakes, trauma and consequences. and are a teenage girl

#gwen stacy #atsv #spiderverse

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sometimes i go into the spiderverse tags to see cool art and stuff, and i'm like "oh, that's cool!", and then i see a wall of a dni list and i'm like "ohhh, right. a solid 70% of this fandom is younger teenagers and/or older people acting like them."

#ruby.txt #i just block and move on usually #i'm here to have fun #not to see walls upon walls of 'don't even LOOK at me if you think [xyz]' #wherein most of the shit on that list is either completely inconsequential or entirely irrelevant to however i stumbled across it

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i may have made a discord server about it,,, (link is also in my current pinned post)

there are so few places online that i can rant freely about ghostflower and exactly how much they have taken over my mind,,,

doesn't help that all the links to servers and such seem to be broken. screaming into the void that is tumblr will have to do for now

i don't know. is there even an audience for something like that?

#ruby.txt

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i also picked up the what if dark spider-gwen issue a couple weeks ago, because my approach to comics was to select one character per major publisher that i actually care about and my love of gwen means if i see her i now immediately jump for her, and

that was a whole lot of story for basically nothing to happen. like, i thought it might kinda suck but i wasn't prepared for whatever that was. however i did get this great meme out of it

#ruby.txt #ruby reads comics #spoilers #i mean. i guess??

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also. i had heard about the silk thing. but.

well, honestly, i don't know what i expected

#ruby.txt #ruby reads comics

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i also recently actually read (most of, not quiiiite done yet) the 2014 spider-verse event and overall i thought it was fun! i liked seeing all the small details that may or may not have been in mind when making the spiderverse movies (i picked out several in the moment but don't recall them right this second)

#ruby.txt #ruby reads comics

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i started watching the spider-man movies (bar the MCU because i have too much self-respect to get into that mess in this day and age), and i am already pre-emptively crying over TAS gwen. i literally only know her from frequenting the gwen stacy tag but i know i am going to be SO devastated

#ruby.txt #gwen stacy #this is VERY pre-emptive #like. only seen the first one from 2002 so far. #i let a friend select the order <3

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there are so few places online that i can rant freely about ghostflower and exactly how much they have taken over my mind,,,

doesn't help that all the links to servers and such seem to be broken. screaming into the void that is tumblr will have to do for now

i don't know. is there even an audience for something like that?

#ruby.txt #spiderverse #ghostflower #gwiles #miles x gwen #gwen x miles

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i was gonna do a dumb little post like oohh BREAKING NEWS: gwen and miles love each other!!

but then i started thinking about how their love has bloomed from that little crush and intensified, and settled itself deep within them throughout this year and a half of of separation, but truthfully, it’s still a very fresh and “immature” love. because they only knew each other for a couple of days, it’s a love based on that instant connection they can’t explain, and that spark of unspoken understanding they both attribute to being spiders. in short, they’ve spent over a year falling for the small piece of each other that they got to witness during the collider event, and then falling for an extrapolated / idealized version of that person.

but does that mean their love is weak? or in any way false? NO. the foundation is true. and what it means is that guys… guys!! there’s so much more to come. they’re going to learn so much of each other and of their own feelings. this love will grow, and develop, and transform into something much deeper and just… so different. from the butterflies and that little squeezing of the heart, into an all-encompassing feeling of longing and belonging and togetherness. they are going to have the time to grow - into their relationship and most importantly into themselves as people - and they will discover so many new aspects of what they have that the word love will begin to fall short.

they will learn things about each other that they’re not even aware of themselves yet. they will see and experience and feel and survive so many situations and just so many different seasons of life. and they will love each other because of them, and despite them, and through them.

guys!!! this is just the beginning. their story hasn’t gone further than the intro. they’ve barely gotten a glimpse - they’ve only seen a couple of the bricks that will make up the foundation of the love they will build. together. isn’t that beautiful?

#spiderverse #miles morales #gwen stacy #ghostflower

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I really love the “she was punk AND she did ballet” aspect of Gwen’s character and decided to play around with some practice outfit designs!! I tried to include the classic ballerina silhouettes while incorporating some punk edge + lots of colors.

#spiderverse #gwen stacy

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SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023) dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson & Kemp Powers

#spiderverse #atsv #gwen stacy