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Dick's canonically supposed to be one of the like 5 people in the world total who can perform a quadruple flip. I put forward that this is the one and only thing Cass has never been able to match him on. She is very bitter, he is very smug and neither of them are especially mature about it.

#I LOVE THEIR DYNAMIC YOUR HONOR #dick grayson #cassandra cain #batfamily

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Anybody else with BPD catch yourself wishing you could get really sick, because at least then people would care?

#emotional breakdown blogging #cr1mson asks you! #borderline personality disorder #cluster b

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I don't understand why it has to be like this.

#emotional breakdown blogging #borderline personality disorder #cluster b #shut up cr1m

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So much of pro-censorship fandom (so called "antiship") culture seems to boil down to finding a reason for any ship with more spice than mayonnaise or more chemistry than distilled water to be considered morally reprehensible, and considering the people who ship it to be suspected criminals.

#op where's the essay #op gets me #anti censorship #proship

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Hai!! I just started this account to post my silly batfam doodles

#hey op this is amazing #stephanie brown #batfamily #gorgeous people making gorgeous things

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A little Tim beating up a big Killer Croc

#ohhhhhhhhhhhh my god #tim drake #batfamily #gorgeous people making gorgeous things

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Wanted to assure everyone that I still haven't forgotten about Holmes. My mom is super sick right now and rebuilding family ties is taking precedence. Thanks for your patience.

#cr1mson talks life #holmes au

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DC TRANS WEEK 2024 PROMPTS

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Posting: May 20 - 26

Tracking: #dctransweek #dctransweek2024 or @dc-trans-week!

DAY 1

"This isn't what it looks like."

bodyswap

magical mishaps

genderfluid

DAY 2

omegaverse

growing up

gender exploration

families of choice

DAY 3

science fiction/fantasy au

correct gender in the suit, not in civilian id

binder overuse

nonbinary

DAY 4

"You look beautiful."

costume modifications

top surgery

identity porn / identity reveal

DAY 5

supernatural creatures au

gender dysphoria

secretly trans

older trans character

DAY 6

royalty au

formal occasion

hormones

accidental child acquisition

DAY 7

transitioning in a long term relationship

date night

reflection

gender euphoria

#B R U H #dctransweek #dctransweek2024 #fandom event

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ALSO the fact that tim drake canonically watches bruce get stabbed, spies on the titans tower, knows all of the titans schedules, spies on dick’s apartment with kori, breaks into dick’s old apartment, follows him to the circus, has kept newspaper clippings of batman and robin since he was able to read, knows what art bruce wayne collects, had dreams about being saved by batman and robin and y’all REDUCE his stalker tendencies to just he followed them and took pictures….. no. no, we need him crazier.

#thank you for your contributions op #tim drake #batfamily

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yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

#palestine #this is sickening

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Diversity win! Ancestral curse recognises non-biological parenthood!

#cr1mson's fics #curse au #phylactery au

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A lot of people don't seem to understand what Barbara actually did as Oracle, so let me clear up some misconceptions. Oracle is first and foremost an information broker. She's a data nexus, a living hub of information that crimefighters around the world could reach out to for assistance and mission coordination:

"So how'd you become the data nexus for every costumed crimebuster in the world?" "That's gonna have to remain off the table too."

Yes, that role centers her gift with technology, computers and hacking, and that is the area where Babs most often shines. And yes, those tech skills are incredibly formidable and absolutely vital to her work! But the TECHNOLOGY isn't what makes Babs special.

Babs' tech skills positioned her as one of the most prominent fictional women in STEM in the 90s/early 2000s and gave her the ability to do things like build a VR fighting simulation room (eg, a Star Trek-esque holodeck) from scratch:

"Maybe we should move back to Greenie play level." "But you designed this game, Babs. And this incredible virtual reality projection room." -Birds of Prey (1999) #19

However, those skills are all ultimately secondary to her real gifts, which are her eidetic memory and her ability to gather, analyze, synthesize and distribute information to people:

"What I believe happened to Batman is too important to rely on my photographic memory..." /// "Having been blessed with photographic recall, I studied a dozen newspapers, four dozen magazines, and my main haunt: the computer bulletin boards." -Showcase '94 #12 /// "I was nine when I realized I could ace any test without really studying. The photographic memory thing." -BOP (1999) /// "My memory is eidetic (i.e. perfect). It's my greatest asset." -Batgirl (2011) #35

Oracle wasn't just a glorified hacker. She was the crimefighting community's living computer and central information hub:

"There is little she doesn't already know. There is nothing she can't find out. If knowledge is truly power, Oracle is one of the most powerful people on the planet. Despite having her spine shattered by the Joker's bullet, Barbara Gordon refused to give up. Recognizing she could no longer be the kind of superhero she had been, she instead devoted all her time to developing one of the world's most complex and powerful computer systems and set to work accumulating information, renaming herself 'Oracle.' Blessed with a photographic memory, Barbara reads dozens of the world's top newspapers and magazines daily. She's also constantly gathering information from other, less public sources, such as the CIA's mainframe, not to mention the data networks of the FBI, NSA, and Interpol (all without their knowledge or consent)." -Secret Files and Origins (2000)

"Now as Oracle, she uses information as her weapon. With her vast computer network, Oracle is linked up to every hero on the planet and is always ready to help." /// "With a photographic memory, Oracle is considered information central in the superhero community. She's a computer specialist and expert hacker--and she has files on every villain and hero."

"But Barbara invented a new life for herself as Oracle-computer master and undisputed sovereign of data collection and dissemination. There is hardly a crimefighter on the planet that has not come to rely on her skills and dedication."

"I'm keeping the secret identities and home addresses of every superhero in the world from being stolen. Think maybe that's a little bit important?" -Countdown #39 /// "Oracle: The Living Mind of the Justice League. Oracle monitors and records the worldwide flow of information. She Analyzes. She Interprets. She Calculates."

It's part of why "Cop!Babs" is so insidious as a profession DC keeps pushing onto her, because Barbara Gordon is, at her core, a librarian. As Oracle, she gathered information and valuable resources and then coordinated with crimefighters around the world to help them access and utilize it. Her day job became her night job:

"From my days as Gotham's head librarian, I knew how to find out whatever I needed. If I could do that for citizens, I could do it for colleges, non-profit corporations, private investigators...and superheroes." -Showcase '94 #12

She's not "just" a tech geek; librarians are trained to have specific sets of research, information analysis, and communication skills that others don't have. And those are skills she has that the other Batfamily members do not, and they are skills she has regardless of whether or not she can walk:

"I was tired of being a victim. I had skills and abilities long before I was Batgirl. It was time to make them work for me again. It was time to stop being afraid." -Oracle: Year One

This skillset also served her well as the co-founder and leader of the Birds of Prey; contrary to semi-popular perception, she's not just the Birds' 'Guy in the Chair.' She's the Birds' Leader and Mission Control. She tells them where they need to go, what they need to do, and how to achieve their goals. To put it into James Bond terms, she's their "Q", but she's also their "M."

So if you look at Oracle and you only see "hacker and tech specialist," you are seeing a very limited picture of who Barbara is, what her skillset is and how she uses it, and what her role in the crimefighting community was.

#hey op this is amazing #barbara gordon #oracle #batfamily #i love her a normal amount

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queer as in gay but also queer as in unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

#getting to know cr1m

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I swear I haven't forgotten about Holmes, I've just been extremely busy lately.

#holmes au #cr1mson's fics

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Working on my memoir again, trying to make better financial decisions, getting anxious about everything in sight.

#cr1mson talks life

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I don't know if anybody else can relate to this experience, but...here goes.

I grew up Catholic, which is shorthand in itself, but because not all Catholics are part of the monolith I grew up conservative Catholic. I came out as a lesbian almost seven years ago, and my family has sort of taken to this MO ever since of just not really discussing it? And maybe it's selfish of me that I want it acknowledged, but it's frustrating when I mention having a new girlfriend to my parents and they blow right past it as if they weren't personally supporting me through my divorce. As if it's not a huge deal to me. We've never really had a conversation acknowledging my sexuality since I came out, or at least none that I remember. And again, maybe that's on me for wanting that to happen, but it just seems...healthier, I guess, to address it rather than ignore it. It's certainly left a lot of unsaid things out in the ether, which doesn't feel good.

There's not really anything I'm wanting from this post, necessarily. Maybe just validation that this is a real thing that other people go through and that it sucks.

#cr1mson talks life #lesbian #coming out #catholicism #trauma recovery

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Bruce & Tim before Tim is Robin are so funny bc it’s just Bruce going "I care about this kid so much. I care about him so much it aches. He’s so small and smart and eager and strong and I love him so much. If I loved him I would push him away. If I loved him I would tell him he’s good." and then Tim’s internal monlogue is switching between pure unadulterated joy brought about by hero worship and praying Bruce doesn’t kill himself when he’s not looking

#YES THIS #bruce wayne #tim drake #batfamily