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#this is my all time favourite panel
hourly-yugi · 8 months
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ultimateyakazoo · 11 months
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chapter 1 trial
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weatherera · 7 months
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The Hero
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boyfridged · 11 months
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"a very bright boy, but he's been yawning in class and--" "yawn" "excuse me... but it must run in the family."
"but... i thought jason was adopted." "environment, not heredity. listen, i don't mean to be brusque, ms. collins, but i'm familiar with the problem..."
batman (1940) #383. story by moench. art: colan & alcala
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bat-besties · 1 year
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People often say Cass’ reason for identifying as nonbinary is “not understanding gender” and while it’s often a joke, I do think it’s the complete opposite to Cass’ knowledge. (I’m using she/her for canon, this applies however and whichever way you headcanon Cass’ gender identity)
I feel it’s often coming from a place of her not understanding language, but gender is so much more than language. A lot of sociologists and gender theorists would kill for the ability to perfectly understand body language and then travel across (at least) China, Vietnam, and the US observing people in urban and rural environments, in both peaceful and violent situations. 
 In many ways, her lack of preconceptions about gender or need for language to shape her observances would make her more able to see the reality of gender performance rather than ideals. The idea that women are weak or men are unemotional would be foreign to her. 
As a child she’s isolated, but she still trains with the League of Assassins briefly. Unfortunately, the first time she is heavily gendered is as a disguise and a weapon in the most traumatic event in her lift, which undeniably shapes her attitude to femininity as this post covers. 
But as she runs, her world suddenly expands to, well, the entire world. 
Her gender identity may have come to words and self-expression in America, but the first place she would be able to really observe people is in south China, likely passing through Guangdong and Guangxi over the course of a year or two. That’s a really formative period, and as I personally think Lady Shiva is from south China (specifically Yunnan), is also unintentionally Cass connecting with her heritage. 
She’s a homeless and very traumatised nine year old, so obviously her experience would have been overall awful. However, a teenage Cass still strongly believes in the sanctity of life and the capacity for goodness in people, and I have to think that while she’s seen a lot of darkness, she’s seen a lot of goodness too. Cass isn’t always curious about things she doesn’t understand (as with her reading), but she has to have been observant to keep travelling and keep escaping from Cain. 
She will have seen the wealthy gamblers of Macau, the street vendors of small-town Vietnam, the pickpockets of Gotham. She will have seen different gender norms across cultures, even if she doesn’t know how each language reflects those norms. She would have to adjust to each new place, and refine her body language reading more generally (like how Americans smile way too much), including gendered readings. 
Cass will have seen a million couples, straight and gay. Pairs of women afraid to hold hands but projecting their nervousness on the first date like a signal. Unhappy marriages hidden by false smiles for the neighbours. Elderly couples where the man still walks on the road side of the pavement.
Considering herself an orphan, she will have seen mothers nursing their babies, fathers pushing their daughters on swingsets, sisters yelling at each other one moment and laughing the next. 
Watching unobserved, she would see all kinds of women in the city. Groups of women going from club to club in high heels, schoolgirls copying each other’s homework on the train, business women in neat makeup and a purposeful walk.  
She will have met other homeless girls like herself. Despite being unable to speak with them she might recognise the guarded set to their eyes, the way they are always poised to run - but they might have a smile for her, and a willingness to share a sheltered spot. They might have cut her hair spiky and short, or taught her to play cat’s cradle.  
Unfortunately, she will have seen predatory behaviour, men who leer or talk with deceptively friendly tones to a little girl alone. (I know she’s meant to “discover” men being attracted to her in the comics as a teen but that’s optimistic). When those men approach other girls, she doesn’t hesitate to protect them. 
But she would have seen so much joy too - boys playing football and grown men joining in, old men sitting on plastic chairs and observing the street together, gangly teen boys play-fighting.
On the streets, clustered and sometimes hidden, she would have seen people whose clothing and body language doesn’t match their bodies. Before Cass knows the words transgender and drag and gender nonconforming, she knows that these people are at risk for being different - at risk like she might be, if she couldn’t convince herself she only needs her fighting skills to protect herself. She wouldn’t need words to take each person as they look to her, to have an amorphous and wordless idea of performativity. 
And then of course, she has Barbara, and Batgirl, and finally language. 
So, I think Cass’ gender identity is something she discovers with the background of this huge tapestry of humanity she’s observed over the years. And if she goes “fuck that it makes no sense”, that’s a deeply informed, nuanced Fuck That. 
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protagonist-art · 1 year
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read ducks on the road and i am SO obsessed with these silly guys
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the most relatable panel
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[ID: A panel of Kolya staring shocked into space. The text in boxes reads "Wha... What happened?". End ID]
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pdalicedraws · 7 months
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Nobody's having a good time!
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floorpancakes · 3 months
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assorted thoughts
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justgleekout · 1 year
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Klaine Secret Santa 2022 for @twinkkurt​! Blaine and Kurt get snowed in at the 3x09 chalet
Merry Christmas Arden! 
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besties who take down criminal mob bosses together stay together 💖
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hiranospiercing · 1 year
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my beloved's popularity is inconvenient
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clearbun · 7 months
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had to pause the drawings of him I was working on to do something else so this entire time my laptop screen's just been
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your honour that's my emotional support chimera <3
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lunaticonthewall · 7 months
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There is no fucking way fujimotorola did this wtf
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martyrbat · 1 year
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detective comics #439
[ID: a close-up of Bruce Wayne's face after a long and difficult patrol. He's still in his costume but has his cowl pushed off as he starts to cry. The narration reads: "and suddenly, sorrow explodes within him. Time heals all wounds, they say–" END ID]
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ajaxxx-x · 7 months
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