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If you're a feminist who understands the (apparently not) radical concept that women can have penises and men can have vaginas (and that there are people with either or both of those who may very well identify as neither a man nor a woman), would you mind

Another leave of absence planned in 20 minutes

mr-non:

Before I go, I wanted to share two things:

This is Ragdoll from Secret Six (DC Comics). My friend Rachel got him for me to encourage me to cosplay as him. He’s adorable, but at the same time he’s freakishly creepy and I want to cuddle with him but I’m also scared he’ll come alive to murder me in my sleep.

I got a Red Robin action figure from Forbidden Planet the other day. I’m cosplaying as Robin from Arkham City, which is Tim Drake. Tim Drake eventually becomes Red Robin. This isn’t exactly the Red Robin costume I like (I like version 2 a lot more), but it’s still awesome.

That’s pretty much it. See you guys later.

Sleep-murderers need love, too!

Guys this literally got tweeted at me

purpleprison:

“@PurplePrison hey i need u as my Vita friend. I have abuddy thats disabled too, hes the best. And i want u guys tomeet. Im follown”

UM.

YEAH.

NO.

ARE YOU SERIOUSLY TRYING TO SET ME UP WITH A GUY BASED ON THE FACT WE ARE BOTH DISABLED?

NOPE.

Hey! I bet you like parking in special spots, right? We should TOTALLY discuss that.

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lauralot89:

Comic panels that help me make it from day to day: Batgirl 6.

I am glad to hear that this is meaningful to you!

There was some anger about it here on Tumblr, people took it as a meta statement that Barbara was meant to be the ONLY Batgirl, over Steph, Cass, and others.

That was never the case, it was purely something Bruce said to Barbara when her confidence was a little bit low, nothing remotely meta about it.

I LIKE the idea of other Batgirls, everyone has a favorite. I still hold out hope for the day where we might be able to see them somewhere someday (I know, I know, but I’m an optimist, still!).

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icosplayzone:

(via DC Comic Characters With a Steampunk Twist | iCosplayCostume.com)

This amazing cosplayer, right here? Not only is she the awesome Huntress of the incredible STEAMPUNK DC cosplay group at SDCC this year, she is also Andrea, Ph.D, a psychologist who is a trauma specialist. She deals with exactly the kind of thing Barbara Gordon is going through right now and has given endlessly of her time and expertise as one of the experts I have been consulting to show Barbara’s recovery accurately.

So, just putting it out there, this is the face of female comics readers to me; brilliant, fierce as hell, compassionate, beautiful, creative and KICKASS.

Thank you SO much, Andrea, you are an absolute inspiration AND you make a fantastic Huntress!

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that-darn-rikki:

unlicensedsuperhero:

A great (not me) Black Canary, Booster Gold, and Nightwing from Geek Girl Con!

sweet baby jesus i need to remake my suit. the wear and shoddy craftsmanship is showing. :I everyone else, you look amazing.

I will have no such talk…you looked fantastic. You WERE Booster!

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deviouslyratedm:

I can’t decide who I like more.

Help, Fancast Friends!

Rosario Dawson or Gina Carano for Scandal Savage? 

Wow.

I never really know the actors in these things, but man, these are some SCANDAL-lookin’ women!

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thedarkdamsel:

Barbara Gordon - Batgirl IIII by ~Knightess-Rouge

I can’t even deal with this.

Knightess, you are amazing!

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thedarkdamsel:

Barbara Gordon - Batgirl III by ~Knightess-Rouge

Holy crap.  Can Knightess-Rouge just be Batgirl ALL THE TIME?

Look at that!

A Reason Why I Miss Secret Six

I know this book gets brought up a lot, and to be honest, while I miss the characters terribly, I am happy that we got to end the book on a solid note, the way I had always hoped we would. IGN called our last issue the best single issue of any ongoing that year, so we were really pretty fortunate.

And I’m still getting to work with artist Jim Calafiore on our Kickstarter, Leaving Megalopolis, so I am happy about that.

So I have that same longing feeling I get when I have really got characters in my heart, definitely. But a lot of series don’t get to have the ending they deserve, and that is something I feel we were fortunate with in Secret Six.

However, sometimes I’ll see a page of art, or some fanart, or some cosplay, or I will hear from a reader who really loved it, and it will remind me that there hasn’t really yet been a book to replace what it brought to the DCU and to comics.

It’s not about me, it’s about the cast and the kind of book it was.

I was at GeekGirl Con last weekend, one of my favorite conventions of the year, just a wonderful, energizing time. Seeing all those creative, gorgeous, intelligent women expressing their love for geekstuff makes me so ridiculously happy, it’s hard to explain. I am a relative newcomer to comics writing still, really, but even when I started, conventions were WAY, WAY more male-oriented, some had little room for females at all, let alone non-binary folk. Geek Girl is the opposite of that.

And then this happened and made me miss the book’s presence all over again.

I was just finishing my first panel, on Saturday…it was about Batgirl, and was moderated by the wonderful Kyrax2, the famous, ‘Batgirl of San Diego.’  The panel was very busy, and the crowd was lovely and very kind. Topics we cover a lot here on Tumblr came up, and we had some fun, it was lovely.

Then the panel ended, and as happens pretty often, lots of people came up with things to say that they were too nervous to say during the panel, others came up with books to sign, it was a bit of a crush.

There were several cosplayers who said very nice things, and we were being pushed out the door by volunteers to clear the room for the next panel, of course.

One of the cosplayers was a stunning young woman, very very nervous, dressed as Batgirl in a very cool and sleek modified black Batgirl outfit, very striking. And she finally said that (I hope I have this correctly remembered, it was loud and we were being pushed along) she had read Secret Six, and that she was a queer, poly, stripper with red hair, and that she was amazed there was a book for her, with characters like her in it. It clearly meant a great deal to her, and so it meant a lot to me, as well.

That’s a big reason to miss Secret Six, right there. I can’t think of another book in the mainstream publishers that would have another character like that, I mean, she practically WAS Liana.

It was a lovely moment, but sad, also.  I hope to come up with another book to fill the void left by Secret Six, thematically. I’m working on it!