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i saw your Duke Thomas post and was wondering if you had any recommendations for a good place to start reading for him. I'm trying to get into more batfam characters but idk where to start

hi! i do :)

here’s his full reading guide vvv (there might be a few comics missing, but this should be everything major)

the new 52

batman 2011 - zero year arc (appears in 21, 30 and 33, but story itself is 21-34)

batman 2011 - endgame arc (appears in 35, 37-19, but story itself is 35-36, annual 3, 37-40)

we are robin 1-6

robin war (robin war #1, grayson 15, detective comics 47, we are robin 7, robin: son of batman 7, robin war 2)

we are robin 8-12

rebirth

batman: rebirth

batman 2016 #1-6

all star batman 1-5 (supporting in my own worst enemy story, main in the cursed wheel)

night of the monster men story (batman 7, nightwing 5, detective comics 941, batman 8, nightwing 6, detective comics 942)

all star batman 6-9

dark days: the forge

dark days: the casting

new talent showcase 2017 "role call"

batman and the signal 1-3

detective comics 982-987

batman and the outsiders 2019

batman secret files: the signal (kinda mid but essential or whatever)

batman: urban legends 18-19 "main role"

rise of the power company "dynamic duo"

the power company: recharged

bolded are the ones i’d consider necessary! @casscainmainly also has a fantastic guide for his character pinned !

if you want to get into some more batfam characters i’d probably recommend batman: urban legends if u haven’t already read it. it’s just a bunch of different stories that focus on different characters 👍 id also always recommend something like no man’s land, it may be long but it’s such a perfect story for me. anyways, happy reading !! 💛

#duke thomas #reading guide #ashbox #i have a few guides i’ve made all saved in my phone .#but where to start is always something idk how to answer because there’s so many different ways u can do it #and i jumped head first into it. so there was a lottttttt #of things i didn’t really understand abt comics 😭😭#i wanted to make a huge “dc comics for dummies’ thing but i didn’t really get too far with it

I love the model bakugo he deserves it

oh thank you! he is my carrot on a string getting me through anatomy studies or smth. here's another one for you:

#ashbox #bakugo katsuki #mha

cass in this outfit (this is an image uploading website i didn't use imgur because i hear its being blocked in some countries) https://i.nuuls.com/beZ9U.jpeg

well, yes!

#cassandra cain #batgirl #ashbox #ashoss.png

feelimg like shit wish steph demanding to be tutored by black canary held lasting significance in canon

NO I WAS JUST THINKING ABT THEM. BC I REREAD THIS ISSUE. like im in MOURNING dinah teaching steph... GOD.

#im not nearly as read up on steph as i am say. cass. so i feel a little less confident in talking abt her but like #dinah and steph... im dead.#mayve after i finish bop ill go thru and 100% steph #ashbox #stephanie brown #dinah lance #and also they were who iw as thinking abt #when i made that post saying steph shouldve joined the birds instead of cass #in bop24 #like i think it owuldve been far more meaningful to steph to join the birds than cass. and cass already had her own solo going on #UGH

Idk if you have any rules about reposting your art on different platforms but @i_sing_in_my_room on tumblr reposted your art (and did give credit but didnt show the tumblr username, i had to hunt it down in the comments cus your art is PHENOMENAL.)

hi! yes i do have rules against reposting my stuff </3 thanks for telling me. do you think you can send a screenshot of the account/reposted arc? i cant see their account 🙃

#ashbox #and thank u sm <33

i am not trying to discourse at you i am just genuinely curious why you filtered out mute cass/cass using sign language? ive only been apart of this fandom for like a week but i am non-speaking and unaware why you wouldnt want that in a fic. i hope this doesnt come across as malicious or passive aggressive (i struggle with tone, apologies)

hi, not at all! i understand why a lot of people have the cass using asl headcanon, or even see her as mute, but to me its just a complete misunderstanding of her character and often comes from a place of racist stereotyping instead of genuine representation.

cass is not mute. she didnt know any spoken language growing up. she grows up only reading body language and her brain processes body movement as a language on its own. sign language is its own language, (and for the sake of simplicity im going to be refering to asl), but cass had no basis of a language, so asl would be incredibly complicated for her to understand (in her early batgirl days at least).and we do see when she does learn how to talk, she enjoys talking (albeit short and stunted sentences). shes likes being snarky, she likes being sarcastic, she likes making jokes and finally explaining how she feels about things, and even in the new 52 reboot, she really enjoys reciting shakespeare with basil karlo. she didnt have a choice in these things growing up, david took it away from her, but now as batgirl and with people like babs + bruce shes able to learn and express herself.

a lot of people who dont know much about cass will see that she grew up not knowing how to talk, and jump to "well, shes mute" because its the easier option to portray instead of her fumbling her way through a sentence or trying to understand the way she talks. they read that she knows body language and will portray her using asl because they misunderstand both her disability and asl as a language.

there are ways to write a cass who knows asl, and i do think its something she'd learn eventually as a way to communicate silently on missions or in a tough situation, but a lot of people aren't writing about it in that way. when im scrolling ao3 for cass fics, im trying to find cass fics written by people who read cass comics. its why i have soooo many tags filtered out that dont even have to do with cass. a huge majority of fics that have the mute cassandra cain or cassandra cain uses asl tag is fics where cass is only a secondary character, if that. ones where she'd only show up to hug her brothers and sign that she loves them and leaves the story.

and since i couldnt really find a way to transition into this, im shoving it here. there are a lottt of (mostly unintentional, but still harmful) racially stereotypical headcanons in the batman fandom, from tim drake being east asian because hes super smart and often meek in fanon, to jason being latino because he was poor and angry. but cass, being an asian girl, and being portrayed as silent and docile (fanon cass's entire character being about loving her brothers, being bruces favourite, how she could never disappoint them, how she gets along with all of them. etc) is just. racist. the people who write cass like this are tryinggg to insert diversity and representation into their works but it just comes across as gross and uninformed.

anyway, its veryyy late for me and im not sure if i even conveyed my thoughts properly, but if you want a more in depth post about the fandom portrayal of cass using asl, i highly recommend these posts !

#ok goodnight #ashbox #cassandra cain

What? Whats wrong with cass being called cassie? Whats their issue with it

I GENUIENLY DONT KNOW... like why are we complaining about her having a cute little nickname from her family??? girl who grew up without a name now given multiple ??!!!??////