ri

may there be batgirls aplenty

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decode

The girl crouches. Stephanie instinctively readies herself to fight again, but the girl just picks something off the ground and stands up. She extends her cupped hands. There's a dead rat in them.

"Okay," Stephanie says weakly. Is there a language in which David Cain sounds like dead rat? "Um, I don't really think that's what we need."

The girl sets the rat down.

Or,

Cassandra is nothing like the vampires Stephanie has killed before. She's impossible to hurt, wickedly fast, and enjoys staring at Stephanie like she's a really knotted ball of yarn that's just begging to be untangled. And Stephanie's trapped in a manor with her. With no way out.

chapter 1/4 of my vampire x vampire hunter stephcass fic is up!! girls locked in a house together fighting gayly <3

[stormsbreadth]

RIP Arti, 9 May 2026

Arti, offline name Hal, known here as @catsarehumanstoo, died on Saturday 9th May of complications following surgery. He was surrounded by family and friends, including me.

I've been friends with Arti since we were 12 years old, and we grew up alongside each other both online and in-person. He was kind, clever and generous, with a wickedly dry sense of humour, and I will miss him more than words can express. He loved cooking, comics and films, of which his absolute favourite was Speed Racer (2008).

Despite being close friends, in recent years our online circles didn't overlap much. If you had any interaction with Arti, I would appreciate you reblogging this so that we can get the word out. If you were a friend of his and would like to talk, my DMs are open.

[mamawasatesttube]

arti was a dear friend to me, and he also wrote fic for dc comics, including one of my favorites of all time (above all things be glad and young). if anyone would like to read his works (please do, they're wonderful and you can catch a glimpse of him through them), you can find his ao3 here.

[stormsbreadth]

RIP Arti, 9 May 2026

Arti, offline name Hal, known here as @catsarehumanstoo, died on Saturday 9th May of complications following surgery. He was surrounded by family and friends, including me.

I've been friends with Arti since we were 12 years old, and we grew up alongside each other both online and in-person. He was kind, clever and generous, with a wickedly dry sense of humour, and I will miss him more than words can express. He loved cooking, comics and films, of which his absolute favourite was Speed Racer (2008).

Despite being close friends, in recent years our online circles didn't overlap much. If you had any interaction with Arti, I would appreciate you reblogging this so that we can get the word out. If you were a friend of his and would like to talk, my DMs are open.

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steph is her everything burger

[bumbledraws]

Rereading Batgirl 2000. Cassandra Cain, they could never make me hate you. I'd do five thousand backflips for you.

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not an artist please excuse the stick figures. concept for stephcass reunion after steph death because we were robbed of cass thinking she’s another hallucination

[lemonlimestar]

hi neveah takw my hand lets stephcass out together

ok :) yay :)

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day 1: daughter | sister | friend @casscainweek

happy birthday, cass!

sources: ptolemaea, by ethel cain & batgirl secret files & origins / batgirl (2000) #5, #50 / batman #567 / batgirl (2000) #9 / detective comics #734 / batgirl (2000) #39, #11, #62, / batman #567, #606 / batgirl (2000) #33

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

Watch her have like one line of dialogue. Anyway Steph brown titans 33 bingo!!! Color coded by my worst fears (red) vs my wildest dreams (green).

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CASSANDRA CAIN BATMAN IN KNIGHTFIGHT!!!

Also potentially Stephanie Brown Batman, looks like her panelling!

[theriversticks]

Whenever I'm mad abt smth Batman did I feed him to a comically large dinosaur

Down the hatch bitch

[getthembees]

cass & steph having such a great relationship at the same time that cass & tim’s is turbo awkward is really funny because I imagine tim talking about cass to steph and being like “yeah she’s just really intimidating and kind of hard to talk to. I don’t know how to act around her” meanwhile steph is just like yeah well we play tag together and laugh at our shit dads and gossip on top of the gargoyles so. skill issue probably

[decapod-appreciator]

whatt everrr stephcass as that one spiderman panel

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

Bruce n Steph r so fun bc he is like her baby to her (deathbed/post birth hospital and identity parallel) AND he is also like her mother to her (‘get some sleep’ gk22 parallel + Steph being over-relied on by adult figure for emotional support) AND Steph is like his son to him (‘tec #790 direct comparison) AND she is also like his mother to him (it came to me in a dream). And thats not even touching the Tim or Arthur stuff!! What’s going on there. Too much!

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ALL THIS and also Bruce is fundamentally Steph and Steph is fundamentally Bruce. somwthing is so deeply wrong with them it’s rlly beautiful

[twtrout]

idk if i like this drawing but i know i love batgirl 2000 everyone read it now

[fabfiveunionrep]

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

WHATEVR you do don’t think about how Steph’s rampant self worth issues (which cause a lot of her other issues) r being fueled not just how often she’s repeatably being demeaned and/or invalidated as a vigilante but also the years and years of internalized misogynistic messaging that she’s been subject to her whole life, just as a civilian. As an 11 yr old who was groomed and nearly molested, who was told she was making things up, who explicitly states it took literal years to unlearn the idea it was her fault, as a 15 yr old who calls herself fat and disgusting during her pregnancy, who insinuates she’d understand if her boyfriend cheated because of that, who is textually judged as a bad influence on Tim because of her pregnancy, who assumes one of her only friends will think of her as a bad person when she tells her about it, as a 16 yr old hearing ‘you hit like a girl’ from a hero who she’s been trying everything to impress, it only pushing her to try harder, to hit harder, like if she works hard enough and fast enough and good enough she can undo how ‘bad’ she is already, how much she’s failed as person just bc she’s failed at meeting the standards of what a ‘good’ girl is supposed to be. Do you get it. She thinks she’s a terrible person forever. And it’s so intertwined w misogyny it can’t be unraveled or separated.