My ninjas wear red

The remains of a very old Talia al Ghul fanblog and home of the Talia Appearances Masterlist. Now fully back from a 9-year hiatus and totally confused about current DC events. Feb 2022: Updated Talia archive moving to a new site sometime this spring (it's taking forever). Sept 22: Still moving, still taking forever. FEB 2023: Semi-hiatus for life stuff but lurking, back soon

[katefatale]

And while I'm still logged in, sending love (and dropping it in the tags) to all fans of the al Ghul family, young and old, past and present, those who are still on this site and those who left, those I know from my heyday of being active in the fandom and those I don't, as we all brace for the coming shitshow.

Al Ghul family fans may not always agree on character faves, characterizations, storylines, creators, or fandom discourse, but the news doesn't bode well for any of us. Not a damn one.

[katefatale]

I'm still on hiatus for a while longer but I've logged back in to express concern about James Gunn's take on Damian and what it means for Talia, especially since he also mentioned King. And by "concern," I mean... wtf is this shit, are we really doing this? Again? To THESE characters?

It's been 16 years. Let that storyline the fuck go.

I'd about kill for good Talia rep at this point.

[immortaldino]

[katefatale]

Haven't actually read the issue yet but it looks like Talia might have an unprecedented-on-her hairstyle this week. Cool.

[katefatale]

Etiquette question: let's say there's an artist I used to know who hasn't been active in years. Let's say I'm trying to find them to ask if 1) they still do art and 2) if so, if I can commission something from them. Let's say, having exhausted all other venues, I went through the profiles of a bunch of people on FB who have this artist's name and actually found them.

Is it too fucking creepy to send them an unsolicited Facebook DM? Genuinely asking.

(also dear people in my inbox, I haven't actually read through my inbox in ages but I super super promise I'll do it soon)

[katefatale]

just did that thing where you log on to another site to compliment someone's not-Talia-related art and end up in fight about Talia, spreading that gospel of There Were Comics Before Morrison, My Dudes

[katefatale]

I'm teaching a (very hard-won) class on superheroes this fall. Today as we prepare for our first discussion of women in superhero comics, I had them list heroes and villains, with further instruction to put a star next to the ones who are presented as villains but they don't think actually are villains.

One guy wrote down Talia's name with a star.

This pleases me.

[lord-momonga]

*September 1st on Tumblr*

[lord-momonga]

You can only reblog this once a year

[katefatale]

Searching for a Poison Ivy issue

I have a memory of a single issue comic where Poison Ivy wilts because it's autumn. In my clearly flawed memory, the issue also has a flashback of Woodrue experimenting on her. I remember the art being really pretty and the ending being sad. The two closest issues I can find to what I remember are Joker's Asylum: Poison Ivy and Gotham City Sirens #8, but neither of these is quite right.

It's also been years since I read whatever it is I think I read, so did my brain just mix those two issues together and then embellish them? Or is what I remember really its own issue somewhere, and if so, any of you Poison Ivy fans know what it is?

[katefatale]

Bruce wtf are you doing...

[katefatale]

Glad to see that Talia being in prison lasted all of 5 minutes because I was nervous about where DC was going with that.

[madelynpryor]

“whos the best robin” “whos the worst robin” no. the real question is which robins were dinosaur kids which ones were space kids and which ones were bug kids

[katefatale]

.....I follow so many al Ghul fans that interact with other al Ghul fans that I think I'm following the whole lot of them because they all show up on my dash.

[birdybat]

Gleb, our lord our god our saviour, delivered today.

[katefatale]

Here's me, innocently scrolling both Tumblr and Twitter, innocently wondering what's all this with Gleb and Tal- HOLY SHIT

[kibibarel]

some of you have never had an unpopular female character as a hyperfixation and been forced to scroll through pages upon pages of bad hot takes about how terrible her character is while trying to peruse her tag for actual fanworks and it shows

[katefatale]

#you'd think i'd say the naruto girls or orihime but no#relena has them beat by a mile#fandom

Reblogging the tags because holy shit yes Relena. Few characters have been as passionately and even violently hated in a fandom as she was.* The reason I've been able to withstand hate as a diehard Talia fan for these many years is that I was forged in the fire of GW fandom.

(*I do consider Talia one of them, but I'll also say that even anti-Talia hate today seems to have somewhat less teeth than the Relena hate of the early 2000s. Those 3 AM unmoderated flame wars were pure brutality and it's a miracle we didn't all just leave the internet forever after them.)

[katefatale]

Once again reacting to Shadow War spoilers without actual reading the source material because I'm picking up the print issue tomorrow:

If I'm understanding this correctly (and I may not be because I haven't read a single word of it yet, just the spoiler), this could be a really good thing. It could also go wrong. Tentative mixed thoughts here.

[katefatale]

Send spoilers

Okay, who did it? Somebody give me Shadow War spoilers, DMs open.