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[secretlystephaniebrown]

You played Monster of the Week? How was it? Is there anything I should know before sitting down with my group?

I've been playing MOTW for over four years now, and ran it for two and a bit! It's a fun time; it's a very flexible system, like most PBTA systems, and it allows for a lot of cooperative worldbuilding, story telling, and shenanigans. It is very much built for short term adventures over long term, but it can do long term if you're willing to put in the effort. Honestly, it's just a lot of fun, at least if you're playing with people as cool as I do!

#Steph Replies #batmanofthewestcoast

[violet-backedstarling]

@batmanofthewestcoast as a fellow resident Harper Row stan can u please help a guy out i am Desperate

with the piercings, the hair, and the blue stripe on the jacket, this is clearly Harper, but I have no idea from WHERE

I have been searching like a madman but i simply Do Not recognise the art style

Do u have any ideas?

[renaroo]

Harper Row?

First Impression: Full disclosure, I was apprehensive toward Harper when she first appeared because it was hard for me to overcome the fact that her creation was a direct result of editorial hostility and refusal to allow established characters from comics history and, especially, marginalized groups to be used. And my standing then (and still now, honestly) is to be very reluctant and suspicious of the fact that with that background established, and with complete freedom to make a new character, they still didn’t want to racially diversify the batfamily with Harper. 

Impression Now: I have so much more appreciation for the character Harper became and a lot of the positive improvements made to her over the years, but I do think she’s one of those characters who suffers from not getting to be rounded by other writers. This happens a lot with newer characters in comics, only one or two writers will really use them and it limits their viability in books outside of those few writers and it can hold characters back a lot. I do also really like Harper’s character design. 

Favorite Moment: I did really like in Batman Eternal how Harper’s learning curve for being a vigilante was steep, even with her equipment being so advanced, and they did a good job of presenting that.

[Batman Eternal (2014-2015) #42]

Idea for a Story: I do think I’d like to write a story utilizing Harper’s roll as more of a garage support/techie support character for a Batman/Batwoman Cass & Steph duo but I haven’t really formulated it past the premise. I do think Harper will get more mileage in comics overall, though, if she was given a role like that like what Harold used to do for the Batfamily. ... for those who remember Harold. My 90s kid is showing.

Unpopular Opinion: I think Harper would be better served being taken in a new, non-vigilante direction as a supporting character and it’d probably stick more, too, if it was written by people other than Snyder and Tynion. They love the character and want to use her, but Harper needs to have her wings spread if she’s going to get further in comics. It’s the same problem that happens with a lot of Bendis creations, sometimes creators of characters in superhero comics aren’t the end-all, be-all writers for them in what takes with the public. It’s a strange quirk for superhero comics.

Favorite Relationship: Her relationships with other characters is actually where I have the most critique with Harper lol I love the CONCEPT of her being a third girl friend in the Cass/Steph/Tim generation and I think that it has so much potential to be more for all of those characters, but the foundation for those relationships is seriously rotten and needs reworked badly. And I just don’t even know where to start.

Favorite Headcanon: Harper has a scholarship for MIT waiting on her that she’s keeping on the backburner, but like most Gothamites it’s hard to leave her city. She’s going to need some persuading. 

#character meme #meme #opinions opinions opinions #Rants of Unusual Size #Harper Row #Bluebird #batmanofthewestcoast #ask and you shall receive

[crim-bat]

My assumption is that if a series of books or games has fantastic elements and swords, that it's something you'd find interesting (basing it on DMC, Hellboy, Star Wars).

My one complaint about Hellboy is that there’s not enough swords

#memery #batmanofthewestcoast

[goodluckdetective]

Top five cat names by Iz, go!

Well, I plan on getting a black cat because I really like them and the association with being witchy (don’t worry folks, the most witchy thing said kitty and I will get up to is watching the nightmare that is “Say Yes to the Dress”) so I like supernatural based names:

1. Merlin 

2. Morgana

3. Grendel 

4. Circe

5. Athena

#my english major and love for folklore is showing #iz replies #batmanofthewestcoast

[sleepy-hyacinth]

Mango, Strawberry, Tangelo, and Kiwi?

what is your trademark? I’mma say my hair because it’s always been the thing people comment on (even before I started dyeing it)favourite desserts? I like pie and rice pudding. I love dough-based desserts, but gotta be careful around those because I will eat them all. if you could be any mythical creature, which would you be? nature spirits are my jam. I love plants, man, and Greek mythology. ooh. probably a dryad. they seem less involved in seduction than other nymphs but maintain the freedom of being outside of male control which is nice.what’s something that fascinates you? cultural history, I guess. especially women’s history and the perception of single mothers (for some reason). just like, what shaped society and the way people viewed the world and each other…

#batmanofthewestcoast

[dooomninja]

Harper Row commission by phil-cho

@batmanofthewestcoast

#harper row #i may be spamming these for a while #i'm not sorry

[blanddcheadcanons]

Half of the patients at Arkham take personal offence that Violet won’t banter with them while fighting.

@batmanofthewestcoast

#arkham asylum #violet paige #mother panic

[berryraindropp]

late Christmas present for my friendo @batmanofthewestcoast  😁

#art #my art #fanart #watercolour #watercolor #gouache #harper row #bluebird #batman #batfam #bat family #overwatch #zenyatta #berryraindropp

[secretlystephaniebrown]

Oh what kind of dice did you get?

these!

#Steph Replies #batmanofthewestcoast #asks #Steph Plays D&D

[secretlystephaniebrown]

For the Fandom Ask, The Adventure Zone?

TAZ

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): Lucretia... beloved...

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): ANGUS MCDONALD IS MY SON

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): I mean probably still Lucretia but if I can't do doubles then Killian

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): FISHER

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): John the Hunger I guess? he's fun

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Magnus for sure

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): uh... honestly no one? I like p much everyone from Balance

#Steph Replies #batmanofthewestcoast #asks #asks meme

[secretlystephaniebrown]

My assumption (based on your blog) is that Stephanie Brown's stories influenced you IRL, resulting in aspects of who you are today.

Well, I’ve certainly used her as an inspiration! (Never wore purple before I found her, as the most mild example.)

LEAVE ASSUMPTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT ME BASED ON MY BLOG CONTENT IN MY INBOX AND I’LL TELL YOU IF YOU’RE RIGHT OR NOT!

#asks meme #batmanofthewestcoast #Steph Replies #asks

[crim-bat]

For the ask: Obi-Wan Kenobi

1: sexuality headcanon: By default, bi.

2: otp: I liked him and Satine and I oft wondered what he’d’ve been like had he stayed with her. Also Padme, sweetie, Prime Ewan McGregger was RIGHT THERE AND YOU WENT FOR THE ANGSTY FRESHMAN.

3: brotp: Him and Anakin

4: notp: Him and Anakin

5: first headcanon that pops into my head: I like to think that he’s a bit of a connoisseur of alcohol. Like, not a major one but he def knows his way around a bar and knows good booze by the smell.

6: one way in which I relate to this character: On occasion I also do not tell people things right away.

7: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: Him not telling Luke later. Like dude you had an excuse of not having a good time early on but you sort of sat on that for too long.8: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: Neither. He’s flawed but not problematic. He’s bread. Normal, well made white bread.

#Star wars #ben kenobi #batmanofthewestcoast

[crim-bat]

Alfred Pennyworth or Obi-Wan Kenobi?

As much as I love Sass master Alfred, there’s no contest.

Old Ben is my GUY

#memery #batmanofthewestcoast

[renaroo]

Number Seven/"Moonlight", Harper Row

Between the Lost and the Found

Disclaimer: Batman and associated characters are the creative property of DC Comics. Warnings: N/ARating: E for Everyone

A/N: I got weird and meta with this one, but I really enjoyed it and I hope you do too!

Harper sits in the chair across from Doctor Thompson’s desk. Her posture is stiff and her knees face forward as she looks into Doctor Thompson’s face, takes a deep breath, and begins to release the tension between her shoulders with a hiss of air through clenched teeth.

Her hair hangs flatly over her brow, sweatily sticking to her skin as her piercings sting against her skin — still bitterly cold from the outside Gotham air.

She’s still in armor from the waist down, her utility belt hangs awkwardly on her hips. But above it is only a sweat soaked halter top undershirt and a twice-worn sports bra too dark for the white tank.

Other than for her own conscience, Harper doesn’t need to say her first words to Leslie. The sagely doctor is well aware. But Harper says it anyways.

“I wore my costume tonight and went out on the roofs,” Harper announces solidly.

Her words have a metallic taste to them, hard and cold. They’re mocking and cruel. They’re empowering and independent.

She can’t make up her mind about which one she really feels.

“Why?” Leslie asks. Her word is flat, her tone is neutral. Her face is calculated and guarded. But it’s still immeasurably sad and disappointed because Harper knows Leslie and she knows how the old doctor feels.

“I didn’t have a choice,” Harper answers, her stiffness fading fast. Looseness in her limbs caves to the tremendous pressure and she folds back into the chair, her back hitting the seat. “I saved someone tonight.”

“Before or after you decided to put on the costume?”

“After,” Harper answers without hesitation. Her eyes can’t focus on Leslie anymore, she looks to her hands, to her wavering knees, to the floor.

“What made you decide to put on the costume?” Leslie asks again, calm but curious.

“I don’t know.”

“But you had to?” Leslie questions. “What made you feel like you had to do it, Harper? Was there a reason?”

“There was a reason,” Harper almost whispers. She feels her insides twisting in knots.

Having watched Leslie work for a while now, Harper understands the pause’s purpose. Leslie is reflecting on Harper’s answers so far, and in doing so is letting Harper have the time to breath. To gather herself. And, maybe, reflect on her own words some, too.

Being able to dissect the interaction should make Harper feel better. Feel smarter. Feel something other than sick. But, despite herself, Harper seems to go with the latter reaction as nausea begins to hit her like an evening tide.

“That reason,” Leslie hones in on, fully now Doctor Thompson rather than Harper’s friend Leslie. “When you think about that reason and picture it in your mind… is it inside of you, or is it in front of you?”

“Inside,” Harper answers first before shaking her head. “No, it’s in front of me. I see it, clear as can be.”

There is a hum of contemplation from the doctor.

“Why is it both? Do you see something and then it makes you feel?” she asks intuitively.

“Yes!” Harper exclaims, exasperated. She throws up her arms as she finally flushes fully with the back of her chair. “It’s… It’s the moonlight, y’know?”

Leslie blinks slowly behind her thin rimmed glasses and tilts her head. “The moonlight?”

“Yeah,” Harper continues. “Like… I’ll be folding the laundry here on the night shift at the hospital… or I’ll be studying for calculus in my dorm room… or sometimes I’ll be walking back from the library and all of the sudden I stop. And I see that there’s a cool light hitting me through the window or the door or from above the streetlights. And when I look up, I can see that it’s the moon. It’s out, it’s full and it’s… beautiful. It’s so beautiful even over Gotham. And then I remember when the moonlight used to belong to me. When I would protect the city, race on rooftops. When I was me. The most me that I could ever be. I don’t have to think about how I don’t know things. I’m not wondering whether I like guys or girls. I’m not wondering whether I want to go math or physics. I’m not thinking about how I need to choose between interning at Wayne-E or continue volunteering at Gotham General. Because… Because those decisions are good and good. How do you make a decision between good and good? When. When I put the suit on, I feel like every decision I make is good and bad. And that’s so much easier.”

Harper feels dumb saying it, but it comes spilling out of her. And so do the soft tears brimming from her eyes.

She’s certain that disappointment is going to still be on Leslie’s face when she looks up.

Leslie’s face isn’t disappointed, though. And it isn’t the stoic and careful guarded expression to mask disappointment.

What Harper sees in Leslie’s face is sympathy.

“Sometimes making good and good decisions are harder because making that choice feels like you’re choosing the opposite never happening,” she explains.

“Yes. Yes! Exactly!” Harper calls out in relief. “What do you do?”

The sympathy remains, but there is a new sadness in Leslie’s eyes. She stands up from her desk and circles around the corner, coming to Harper’s side. Leslie rests down on one knee, holding tightly to Harper’s shoulders.

“You choose anyway,” Leslie informs her. “You do your best. You sometimes get it wrong. And you keep working — sunlight, moonlight, or making your own light — because you’re a good person. You’re growing up. And making tough choices, even if it means you can’t have it all, is what you have to do. Because you’ve grown up. Because you know, deep down, the moonlight is yours even if you’re not wearing a mask. Because whatever you do as Harper Row matters now.”

Harper’s tears can’t be held back, and she doesn’t want to hold them back. She throws herself around Leslie’s neck and presses her face into the doctor’s shoulder.

She’s right. And it’s not easy. But Harper can do it.

And it will be done. Because she’s Harper Row.

#writing #batfic #Harper Row #batmanofthewestcoast

[crim-bat]

What have you been up to lately?

WORK

Also, trying to get gud w saving money and eating better. Drawing too. All of these are resolutions I made for the new year and I been trying to keep on them.

Fun fact! Gradual changes are much easier and so is setting the alarm on your cell phone as a shortcut to making good habits!

#crim asks #memery #batmanofthewestcoast