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anxiousnerdwritings · 30 days
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That incest imagine made me think of your old papa green arrow content lol, what if the darling is the same darling but they escaped years ago and the batfam doesn't know it? Imagine the shock of batfam when both darling and damian are gone and can't seem to find them. Meanwhile papa green arrow is hugging the darling while damian talked to black canary about wtf happened inside the manor. (Papa green areow is disgusted and enraged)
(Oh, gosh I miss Yan!papa!Green Arrow so much!!!!! We need more of him again honestly🥰🥰🥹🥹. Thank you for sending him back in my life again, anon!)
Okay but when the Reader had disappeared before, Oliver had been so beside himself for so long. He never stopped looking for them though, even after all these years. He still held out hope for reuniting with his bby again so when he and Dinah hear a knock on their door late one night and open it to see their beloved lost bby standing there before their eyes you can bet this man sobbed holding his bby in his arms again.
To say both Dinah and Oliver are appalled hearing what all Bruce and his other boys have been doing, especially to their bby, is an absolute fucking understatement. You’re damn right they’re disgusted and enraged, it takes everything in Oliver to not run out the door then and there and give those fuckholes what they deserve, but he needs to be here for his bby. They’re the one that matters the most right now, they always have been.
I’m completely imagining an absolutely unwilling!darling in this scenario and just the thought that while the Reader was going through the whole ordeal with the batfamily they thought numerous times about how good they had it with Olly all those years before. You can bet Dinah will be the Reader’s personal therapist after this. And if need be she and Olly would get the Reader the help they need outside of them.
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tbcanary · 7 months
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Dinah Lance, the Black Canary 🖤
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mysterycitrus · 6 months
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Top five DC ships?
oooooooo fun q
1. dickroy — the Guys. trauma bonded to all hell. would die for one another cause they’ll kill each other. something is very wrong with them. they share custody of lian and like twelve adopted teenagers.
2. dickkory — thee bi4bi, t4t couple. the sun and the moon. red and blue. starcrossed lovers. the princess and her malewife. nobody is doing it like them.
3. rosecass or rosecassie — i enjoy lesbian conflict
4. yj polycule — sometimes u just gotta kiss ur best friends on the mouth
5. bruce wayne/divorce — this man has fumbled every baddie he’s ever had. i need him to be elon musk levels of divorced
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sbd-laytall · 6 months
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Fellas, is it gay to "break up" with your crime fighting partner, realize you're utterly miserable without them, and come back together because your "talents complement one other"?
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Birds Of Prey: Wolves (1997) #1
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girl-named-matty · 7 months
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Who is your favourite Hogwarts Legacy professor? Do you have headcanons for them?
(if you have already posted about them, feel free to write about another one)
I love your posts, and seeing them on my dashboard.
I have three main ones I really love. Professor Fig, Sharp, and Hecat. But since I’ve done some for Fig and Sharp already, I’ll do some for Professor Hecat. 
Obviously as a Ravenclaw and especially as she worked as an Unspeakable– girl knows her stuff. 
Probably could quote almost anything straight from the book. 
Master duelist at her time in Hogwarts. I imagine they had something similar to The Crossed-Wands Dueling Club back in her time at school but it was WAY bigger and much more competitive. 
Like I’m talking, students would literally get hurt because of this dueling club and have to go to the Nurse– yet ironically “no one” could ever tell them how it happened. 
And of course, Dinah would be in there winning every duel. 
She was extremely mischievous during her time at school. She was just very good at hiding it so nobody would catch her or even know unless she told them. 
Because of her extreme dueling skills and wisdom, after graduating she set out to become an unspeakable. 
In the Unspeakable department, you can study many things. One of them is the concept of time (the Ministry has a stock of time-turners stored there. And who knows what else). This is where I believe she worked. 
Since after all she did mention that she was “aged by time itself” while working for the ministry. And we know she's the same age as Professor Black, since she says she went to school with him. So she's not even actually that old.
She never got married and she never felt the need too. But I feel like she has the “really cool Aunt” kind of persona. 
Her and Sharp definitely bet on who’s going to win the Crossed-Wands duels.
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fluffyprettykitty · 2 years
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hey friend! congratulations on 1800 followers!! i was wondering if you’d write a little something about my girls layla & dinah? i was thinking maybe a hate sex threesome with top!layla and bottom!dinah? no preference on reader’s position<3 i just think layla & dinah don’t get enough love<3 thanks and congrats again!! xoxo
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Pairing: Layla El Faouly x female reader x Dinah Madani
Word Count: 400 words
Warnings: degradation kink, pet names, dirty talk, mean dom layla, sub! Dinah, fingering, bodily fluid, rough dry humping.
Author’s Note: Thank you so much!!!! Your mind is insane might I say that, I loved thinking about this and I would love to return to it one day, I kept it short for now and had Layla and Dinah being in an established relationship.
Main Masterlist ・❥・Layla El Faouly Masterlist
NSFW UNDER THE CUT. MINORS DNI.
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"Easy, easy, easy, baby," Layla says gripping your hips tighter. "Just pretend a little you're not that desperate to get fucked. I'm sure it's hard for you."
Dinah chuckles from next to her, her knees drawn and her fingers deep inside her own pussy. You grip Layla's neck tighter and move your hips against her thighs searching for some more friction but God, Layla is resilient. She had told you before if you left you wouldn't ever get to have them again yet here you were on her lap begging for her fingers.
"Fuck me please." You mewl but Layla doesn't budge, she only spanks your ass repeatedly, Dinah moaning at the sight. "You don't get to make demands. You don't get to make anything, me fingering you in the bar should have been enough for you but here we are. Look at her, look at how she mewls, you've been here half an hour and she's already losing control, you think that's fair?"
"N-no?" You tremble and try to meet her strict gaze. "I can take care of you both of you." You continue hoping this will settle the prize, you already had been grinding on her thighs for god knows how long. Dinah looks at Layla trying to plead with her as well but she doesn't want to provoke her either.
With one quick move, Layla wraps her hand around your throat and pushes you down on the couch climbing on top of you.
"No fucking negotiations." She says angrily and moves her hips against yours, the harsh fabric of her jeans shorts feeling very heavy against the lace panties of your almost ripped dress. Dinah moves closer to your body, sinking her pussy above your face.
You hold on to her, darting out her tongue, and watching as she places her hands on your breasts, Layla setting a brutal pace on your body that will sure have you desolate for breath sooner than you'd like. But you don't mind, you knew how harsh and rough Layla could get and she'd never give it to you easily but maybe just maybe you could fuck Dinah so well that she could convince Layla to let you have one.
Sisterhood or something like that.
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actuallysara · 1 year
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Hey I'm sorry to bother you about this but I know you're going to the convention in paris and I would really like to come too but I've never been to a convention before so I really don't have any idea of how these events work and I don't even know where to start? Do you have any tips for me? 😭
Hello anon, this is not a bother at all! this turned out into a full DREAMIT CONVENTIONS GUIDE so I apologize in advance lol but hopefully it will help you and other people out! You can also always dm me about it, I really don't mind talking about it or helping people out in any way I can.
This is all from my experience at DINAH last year so please mind that some things might be a bit different for FRR but here you go:
DREAMIT:
This is dreamit website (you can select the language on the menù at the top on the right), twitter and instagram.
I suggest you turn their notifications on to keep updated since twitter and instagram are where they make all their announcements.
WHEN AND WHERE:
WHEN: June 3rd and 4th, 2023
WHERE: Centre Evénementiel Mairie de Courbevoie in 7 Bd Aristide Briand, 92400 Courbevoie, Paris, France.
The location is not in the city centre but there are several big chain hotels nearby such as: Best Western, Ibis and Mercury hotels among the many.
How to reach the location from the city centre: either by metro, train, taxi or uber. If you use public transports get ready to walk a bit.
GUEST LIST:
Guests are announced whenever Dreamit gets a signed contract. According to their last update (March 2023) they're now focusing on bringing more Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy guests while 911 Lone Star guests are currently on hold. There will be minimum 10 guests.
So far the guests announced are: Stefania Spampinato from Station 19 (bonus guest), Ronen Rubinstein and Rafael Silva from 911 Lone Star (regular guests).
BONUS & REGULAR GUESTS: the difference is basically on their request and their cachet. Bonus guests cost more and their activities will therefore be more expensive than regular ones.
PAYEMENT:
You can pay on their website with credit or debit card, by wire transfer and with PayPal. PayPal gives you the option to split your payement into 4 parts if you want.
ACCESS PASSES:
You need to have one of the below passes to access the event and to purchase extras:
FIRST RESPONDERS PASS: a pass for the whole weekend. It can be paid in 2 parts. In this case you need to buy the First Responders Pass 1/2 first and then the First Responders Pass 2/2.
EMERGENCY PASS: a pass for 1 day only, either Saturday or Sunday.
FAST ACCESS:
This is an extra pass that gives you priority for activities for all/some guests, they basically let you skip queues:
Fast access+ will give you priority access to all the guests activities for 1 day only (you need to choose for which day or you can get it for both days).
Fast access Stefania/Ronen/Rafael/etc etc will give you priority access for the activities of the chosen guest(s) for 1 day only (you need to choose for which day or you can get it for both days).
I personally don't recommend getting these cause they're expensive and not worth it in my opinion. Queues are not that long anyway and there's time for everyone to get their extra done so there's literally no rush. Also sometimes these priorities in line aren't really respected and queues are where most friendship start so just take advantage of that!
PACKS:
Packs allow you to buy extras in a bundle and save a bit of money. They are on sale per guest and per day:
REGULAR PACKS: include a photo, an autograph and a selfie for 1 day only for 1 guest.
FULL PACKS: include a photo, an autograph, a selfie and an individual meeting room for 1 day only for 1 guest.
ACTIVITIES:
You will get a complete schedule of all the activites 1 week before the convention by email.
Every activity gets announced on screen in the panel room. So you don't have to wander around waiting for the activity to start or for your turn. You just need to sit in the panel room and wait for the activity to get announced. Once the activity has started, you can go where it will take place. Staff members will be everywhere to help you out in case you need it. Photo ops are all taken in one room, autographs in another and meeting rooms in other rooms.
PANEL ROOMS: with any pass you can get access to ALL panels for all guests. In a panel you basically have the guest(s) on stage and you can ask them questions going through a moderator first. They usually last 30 minutes.
MEETING ROOMS: they're basically a panel but have place in a separate room with a limited number of people (max. 30 people + guest(s)). They last 30 minutes. You can ask the guest(s) questions and just talk with them. At the end a group photo is taken. Sometimes they let you take an individual photo/selfie with them instead. These meetings can also come under the form of breakfasts, tea time, board games, etc etc. Meetings can be individual (with one guest only), or group ones (with 2 or more guests). The duo/group meetings usually happens with actors from the same show or who portray a couple on screen (see Ronen Rubinstein and Rafael Silva). There's usually an individual meeting per guest per day and a duo/group meeting per guests per day.
1:1s: usually very limited. You have 3 minutes with the guest alone. At the end you'll get a selfie with them.
PHOTO OPS: it's your chance to get a photo with the guest(s). There are individual photo, duo/trio and group photo ops. There are usually 2 photo op sessions per guests and per duo/trio/group per day (one in the morning and one in the afternoon). If you want you can show guests what pose you want to do on your phone or you can just explain it to them. Obviously no inappropriate poses are allowed and guests are allowed to say no if they don't feel comfortable with any suggestion. At the end of the day you will get printed copies of all your photos. Once the convention is over you will get the chance to buy the digital copies too.
AUTOGRAPHS: it's your chance to get autographs from the guests and this is the only moment where you can give them gifts if you brought any. You can get signed anything you want, something you brought from home or photos that you can buy at the convention. You can ask guests to write anything you want on the autographs and have them personalised.
SELFIES: they happen at the same time as autographs so you need to have an autograph if you want a selfie. If you have a selfie ticket but not an autograph one, they won't allow you to take a selfie with them. So you get the autograph done and then you can take a selfie with them. You can ask the guest to take it for you if you want.
PARTY: limited. It happens on Saturday night and NOT all guests will be attending (Stefania Spampinato will be there, Ronen Rubinstein and Rafael Silva won't).
ONLINE ACTIVITIES:
Sometimes they add some online activities so that people who can't be there in person have the chance to interact with the guests too:
ONLINE 1:1s: it usually happens on zoom and you get 3 minutes with the guest alone. At the end you'll get a screenshot of the two of you.
ONLINE 3:1s: it usually happens on zoom and you get 5 minutes with the guest and 2 other fans. At the end you'll get a screenshot of the group.
SHIPPED AUTOGRAPHS: you can order autographs from guests that will be shipped to your home. Dreamit will give you photo options so that you can choose which one you want to get signed and you will have to email them your personal details, shipping info and any request you have for your autographs so that you can get it personalised. They might take some time to get delivered.
VIDEO RECORDINGS: you can order a video recording from guests. You will have to email them any request you have for your video so that it will be personalised. If you don't have any special request the guest will just record a general video. The lenght of the videos is usually around 1 minute but depends on the guest. They will be sent it to you by email. They might take some time to arrive.
TO KEEP IN MIND:
DISCOUNTS: Dreamit has a fidelity program called "Dream It Club" so that you can accumulate discount points with each purchase made. You need to sign up for it here. It's 1 point for 1€ spent: -10% with 500 points, -20% with 1000 points, -40% with 4000 points, -50% with 6000 points.
FANBOOKS: if you want to do a fanbook for a guest you need to fill in a survey that Dreamit will post on twitter to show your interest. You need to have a pass beforehand. Dreamit will randomly pick a winner and contact them directly to be in charge of it.
Bring water and food with you. They don't have stands at the convention where you can buy something to drink or eat so be prepared in advance. There are some grocery stores in the area where you can go during lunch breaks if you want.
The convention place has no running AC so be aware that it's gonna be very hot in there but bring a jacket too cause it gets chilly outside in the evening.
There are several bathrooms at the location.
IMPORTANT:
VIDEOS: the general rule is that you cannot film anything including guests except for the welcoming and farewell parts of the panel room. You can film some bits here and there of panels as long as they're not too long. They'll be making a DVD of the event so they don't want people to leak the whole thing before that happens.
PHOTOS: you can take as many pictures as you want during panels. You cannot take pictures of the guests anywhere else or during any other activity.
AUDIO RECORDINGS: you cannot record anything at any time.
BE DECENT: people are there to have fun, have a good time and share the experience with other like minded people. Every single person will get their chance and time to interact with the guests. If you have a ticket for an activity you will get that activity done. If something happens at one session and you can't get it done then, you will get another chance at another session, that's exactly why there are multiple sessions during the weekend. The staff will make sure that you will get what you paid for. So there's no need to scream, yell, run around, push people to arrive first or be disrespectful to anyone, whether it's other fans or staff members who are just there to help. Please.
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finleyforevermore · 9 months
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(This is the fanart I was talking about ^_^)
Aww!!! it's adorable, Ratter!! :)
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thecruellestmonth · 1 year
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I was reading your Lazarus pit madness post and I disagree a little bit personally. The wording from that interview doesn’t come off to me like he is blaming the pit itself as what is influencing Jason but rather coming back from the dead screwing him up a little bit. That same interview says that Jason was always screwed up so I don’t think it’s fair to say the pit is influencing his actions. There is far more evidence against pit madness than there is for it, and tons of characters have been in it with no adverse side effects in that same writing era like Cassandra.
Yes, I'm aware of what the Lazarus Pit lore is in Cass' book.
In a setting where Bruce Wayne becoming Batman is a reasonable response to the ills of society, I don't think Jason or anyone else needs to have Lazarus Pit side effects to do what the Red Hood did.
I'm not a huge fan of tying up the characters' agency in Magic Evil Juice. But I say the possibility is open. DC writers do whatever the heck they want with the Lazzy Pits. A flexible interpretation is available to them and to fans.
Bruce previously said he wouldn't use the Lazarus Pits to revive his parents, because the effects of the Pits are corruptive to the point that they are better off dead rather than twisted beyond recognition.
The Pit brought Cass back from death without many problems.
Other lore states that the Pit can't truly resurrect people, and can only heal injuries and diseases up to the brink of death. (Why is it called the Lazarus Pit is it can't even resurrect people? *eye roll*)
Again, the Lazarus Pit brought Cass and Shiva back from being freshly dead. And yet on another occasion, Bruce decided that the Pit wouldn't be strong enough to heal Jason's catastrophic brain injury. And then way back in the Bronze Age, the Lazarus Pit resurrected Ra's from a pile of ashes. And then Paul Dini and Alex Ross drew up a concept that the Lazarus Pit would heal Barbara Gordon's spinal injury at the cost of twisting her personality into something darker. Now "Lazarus Resin" is available in a conveniently portable form, and this Lazarus Planet event has a Lazarus Volcano eruption giving and nullifying superpowers for people across the planet.
My point is that--in this case especially--I really don't think fans can pretend to be the undisputed expert and argue for one definitive interpretation. On the list of the many flexible and inconsistent elements in Batman lore, the Lazarus Pit is high up there.
I'll probably remake the Jason-focused post into a multi-part overview of the history of the Lazarus Pit starting from the Bronze Age, and including Elseworlds and adaptations and their influences.
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chvoswxtch · 17 days
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hiii! seeing as you’ve (clearly 😭) watched punisher, have you ever thought of/written a fic about dinah midani?
i’m asking this because i am SO down bad for her (in true homosexual fashion, ofc!)
thank you!
hi love!
I have slut that woman out in my mind several times I just haven’t committed the sinful thots to text but I absolutely would (in true homosexual fashion) <3
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dragynkeep · 8 months
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WHYYYYYY DOES GREEN LANTERN LOOK LIKE THAAAT???? they did her so dirty jeez she looks awfulll😭😭😭
deadass whitewashed my girl: that's not jessica that's jane-leigh
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tbcanary · 7 months
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I love how much you love Dinah. I’ve been reading as much of her as I can recently, but I feel like I’m all over the place between old/new GA and BOP (Dixon vs Simone) and JLI and JLA and etc… with so many people cautioning that this characterization gets her or that one doesn’t. Would you be willing to talk a little about what you see as her core character, and/or what different runs get right about her?
oh anon, this is such a delightful message and i am overjoyed to receive it tbh. i can absolutely talk about this!! i keep starting this ask and then just rambling for a while with a bunch of context, but for the sake of not boring you:
i'm still pretty new to comics, and i'm learning as i go, so this is not going to be the most comprehensive look? also, i tend to take the approach of "no one writer gets everything right," so it's more of a pastiche of different things as opposed to just... one person's interpretation. bc everyone brings different aspects that i enjoy.
ok! deep breaths. i'm holding your hand and we're going to dinah land together.
core characteristics!
generally, i shy away from the idea that a character's main feature is their "compassion." this is something comics throw around a lot as either a character flaw or a point to differentiate them -- specifically from batman or one of his proteges, in this case, babs. so whenever dinah is described as "compassionate," i tend to back away a little and think of how to reframe it.
see: birds of prey (1999) #60, when babs "fires" dinah for being too emotional and compassionate in the field.
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dinah does put herself in harm's way a lot. and sometimes it is emotional, for sure, which is something all superheroes do. but for dinah it's not... it's not that she gets too emotional or compassionate. she's very logical, actually, and pretty calculated even when taking risks. what dinah does comes from more of a utilitarian perspective, i think: if i do this, then fewer people get hurt. it's just that "fewer people get hurt" often translates to "dinah gets hurt instead of anyone else."
this is similarly reframed by shiva later, not as something compassionate but as something heroic. see issue #94: "what would dinah do? something heroic, i'd imagine." and then she immediately offers to fight someone one-on-one, not in a self-sacrificial way but more because she has logically -- if incorrectly -- assumed that it will be an even match and she stands a chance of winning. shiva knows dinah would put herself on the line instead of letting the whole team risk themselves; she also knows that it only makes sense to do so, for either her or dinah, when they stand a chance of winning. (bop #94)
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this is reflecting back on dinah's little adventure with ted grant, where she frequently realizes the odds are against them -- and makes a calculated choice to get them out of the situation, even if it risks blowing her cover or revealing her identity. point of fact: it always works. (bop #82)
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she recognizes they're outnumbered, pulls a stupid and desperate gambit to prey on the insecurities of twelve trained assassins, and in the end, they all get out alive. it might be based in compassion and worry for ted's safety, but it comes from a place of fully understanding their circumstances and acting off of those factors. it's what makes her such an incredible field agent.
so anyway. a lot of these are from simone's run, because that's what i've been reading lately. but generally, i think dinah is aware of her own skills and abilities. she takes risks and she acts against orders -- but while those behaviors may seem wild or random or unsafe from the outside, she always does it with an understanding of how much she can get away with. she might push herself here and there, or get into situations that are difficult to survive, but very rarely is she truly caught off-guard in a situation she actually cannot handle.
(and, when she is, she's fucking excellent at asking for help. she contacts batman, she contacts ollie even when they're on the rocks, she contacts huntress. she urges other people to do the same. dinah knows her own skills, and she also knows other people's skills and when she needs their assistance. she's a tactician and a strategist, she's just also more willing to make a bigger play than most of her colleagues. risk it for the biscuit, baby!)
this is not to say that she isn't compassionate; she cares deeply for her family, and once you're in her circle, you are in it. wildcat, sin, roy, babs, helena -- every time she's gotten close to someone, she's held onto them. when babs and helena fight, dinah urges them to get their shit together (bop1999). when ollie finds out about roy's addiction and doesn't offer the support roy needs, dinah stays with roy until he's sober and can safely be on his own (snowbirds don't fly). when hal is transported to another world, dinah volunteers herself to go in after him, because she knows she's the only one who can do it (green lantern/green arrow). when "mother" threatens to train sin to become the new shiva, dinah pulls strings to get sin out of the country and into a safe circumstance (bop1999).
tl;dr: she does not give up on people. this is a pillar of the dinah lance experience, to me. everyone gets a second chance, and a third, and a fourth. there are limits and lines and regulations on that, obviously; when ollie cheats, it is a hard thing for her to come back from. again, she's logical and strategic in how she maintains these relationships. but! she does maintain them. she tries to keep people close to her, and i love how much work she puts into it.
also, like, i love dinah and ollie so much -- but despite the fact it took her a long time to get her own run and really develop, i appreciate that as early as the grell run in the 80s, she was her own person. the best dinah writers understand that, while ollie might be her other half, she has always been able to operate on her own.
(note: i love dinah in the longbow hunters. she is everything to me. she specifically tells ollie, let me handle this case, i have it and i want to do it on my own. and like... it doesn't work out, whoops, but that doesn't change the fact she was allowed to make that choice on the page. even in green lantern/green arrow, dinah is going undercover and investigating things on her own. these storylines fall into the trope of her being in mortal danger and needing ollie to save her, but like... aw, well. baby steps!)
i'm a lover of kevin smith's run of green arrow, and i think it's a great example of dinah and ollie at their best -- i love dinah's "the good ones always do the dishes" panels, and her dedication to assisting women who are in difficult or abusive situations -- so that's great supplemental material for that relationship, because as much as i've talked up dinah being logical and strategy-motivated here, i think a lot of that absolutely falls away in the face of the force that's oliver queen. he's the one guy who manages to get her to a point of misbehaving and turning off that voice in her head, which is just a delight to see. i love them.
i'm not AS familiar with jsa or jla, but! i think her appearances in justice league set her up as a good leader, despite bruce being a better strategist and superman being more powerful and diana being more compassionate and hal being more willful and ollie being more righteous and angry, etc. dinah is kind of... outmatched, on every front. but what she then offers is a sort of centralized perspective that encapsulates all of those things; kind of like a jack of all trades. she recognizes the strengths of the people she works alongside, and she can work to fill the gaps.
i haven't really been a fan of what's been done in rebirth/52, so i'm not as familiar with most of those. what i have read has leaned pretty far into her being a mess, and like... while dinah is messy, certainly, in other runs, it doesn't usually interfere with her work. she's very good at compartmentalizing. and i think when writers decide to focus on her Troubled Relationship With Ollie, they forget that like. she wouldn't be here if she couldn't separate the personal from the professional, you know? you just can't function that way.
and, yknow. i'm looking forward to where kelly thompson takes this run of birds of prey, because i like her writing generally and i'd like to see a new take on sin -- even if i wish they hadn't aged her up offscreen like they did with lian. because dinah's relationship with parenthood and children is such a big part of her character, to me.
there's longbow hunters, where she tells ollie that while she loves children, she "won't make orphans." again, this is why i push back against her being primarily ruled by emotion or her heart; she knows and understands the risk of her lifestyle, and she will not give it up. even if it means she can't be a mother, which is something she's always wanted to do.
(i'm not a huge fan of then moving to give her the whole infertility storyline, but whatever. comic writers will do what they do.)
dinah gets to play a motherly role with roy and connor, sometimes, but like. sin is the first time she comes close to actually having a kid of her own, so i'm interested to see where the current birds of prey run takes that. (i know they call each other "sister" usually, but dinah has called sin her daughter a few times; the sister thing is more due to the baggage of the word "mother" than because of the nature of the actual relationship.) i'd like to see how thompson writes dinah's relationship to motherhood and children now, and what might have changed or what they kept in the various reboots and retcons. because again, a core part of dinah is that she does love children, she does want to have them, she takes on maternal roles -- she just knows that it isn't practical or fair to do, with her vigilante lifestyle, and she loves that lifestyle too much to give it up for anything.
i don't even know if this makes sense anymore, frankly. i just love her so much. there are a few things i couldn't manage to fit in here that i think deserve mentioning, though, so here's a lightning round:
dinah struggles with guilt over her own abilities. she doesn't use the canary cry while fighting most of the time because it wouldn't be fair in hand-to-hand combat. she's been surrounded by respected martial artists and boxers for most of her life; she respects the art of unarmed combat, and her voice is a weapon she only uses in extreme circumstances.
similarly, she doesn't like knowing how to hurt people. she understands it as necessary for the greater good, and she does it when she needs to, but knowing how to break bones and having a "gift" in the area of physical violence isn't something she's proud of. it's a skill she possesses, not a trophy she shows off.
"You can't compartmentalize a lifetime of learning where to place your fist, just because you might be in polite company."
there is a panel where she explicitly refers to herself as a heterosexual. do not believe this; she has very weird, homoerotic tension with every single adult woman she has ever met, and other characters literally comment on it. (babs says she doesn't understand the weird Thing dinah and shiva have going on. as if anyone understands the weird Thing dinah and babs have going on, as commented on by ted kord, selina kyle, and likely many others i'm forgetting. come on.)
when babs tells her she's fired, she responds with the fact that fighting crime is the only thing she does "that makes any sense." despite her struggles with it, despite wanting a more peaceful life, she doesn't really know how to do it. this is who she is, and she will keep on doing it.
i didn’t reference Dixon’s run much here. it’s really good for developing dinah and babs’ friendship, but it makes a habit of downplaying dinah’s intelligence. she has some great moments and continues to shine as a field agent, and overall i do still love this portion of the run, i just don’t have as many specific pulls because any time dinah gets any kind of personal narrative it’s about being in love with “the wrong guy” or whatever. she and babs are really cute, though, and again — the mission where she takes babs’ place could be read as impulsive, but she has a handle on it. very rarely do her decisions as a field agent truly fuck her over. because she’s good at her job, damn it.
noooo idea if this answers any of your questions. again, this is very very bop heavy because that's the zone i've been in recently, but like. to be fair. it's a lot of dinah's big moments, so it seems appropriate. she's everything to me, really, and i love her so, so much.
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atticuscortes · 28 days
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👪 - parents
"I never really know what to say when people ask me how things with my parents are. Better doesn't feel right, because yeah, okay, in comparison to when my mom and I were fighting so bad every day that I don't even remember if she told me to go or if I just felt like I didn't have another choice but to leave? If better is talking again, family dinners, sweeping everything under the rug and pretending that that blip in time that stretched years where we weren't on speaking terms just...didn't happen, but it doesn't change the fact that it did. Just like it doesn't change the fact that my dad wouldn't stick up for me--not to her, at least, not where I could hear--and as cool as it was for him to tell me he loved me and that there wasn't anything I could do or be that would change that for him...that's not how I needed his support then. It's not how I need his support now, but if it's the choice between accepting it for what it is or going another however many years without talking to them...sure, yeah, things are better. But sometimes I wish I was still under the impression that there wasn't anything that I could tell my mom that would make her love me less. There's nothing better about knowing that's just...not true."
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send 👪 for my muse to talk about a family member of theirs.
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dinahdoeeyes · 2 months
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Others: "Dinah, why are you with Greaseball? He's so toxic!" Dinah: "Well, God forbid women do anything!"
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rededgerp · 2 months
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Mw females?
Keke Palmer, Barbara Palvin-Sprouse, Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Normani, Dinah Jane, Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke, Camila Cabello, Nikki Reed, Saweetie, Megan Thee Stallion, Ice Spice, Troian Bellasario, Lucy Hale to name a few
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