#pre-2000

[wheelchairbatgirl]

Nightwing 47.

Short hair ponytail Babs is a very good Babs. Also got to love, “That’s cool.”

Those wheels are really high up. I want everyone to hold their hands up that high and pretend to be pushing themselves in a wheelchair. Y’all feel all that tension? Feel how your elbows feel? Not ideal. But it looks badass. Maybe next time just give her some padded swing-away arm rests. Or some adjustable single-post with integrated side guard. Single-post arm rests look badass and can go up and down depending on how badass you need to be vs how much you need to move.

Anyway, 8/10 because the can get so much worse than this.

[knifeforsale]

SUPER-AUTOMATIC POCKET KNIFE | LISTING

[wheelchairbatgirl]

More Birds of Prey from just around the turn of the millennium. Once I go through my screenshot backlog, I will cite these properly, but I have too many shots already saved to go back and do it.

Consistent and really quite good wheelchair here. We even get push rims. I’m also awarding points for taking the two things less likely to spill, the coffee pot and the milk, over to the table to prep the cup of coffee, the thing much more likely to spill. Took me months to realize that’s easier than wheeling an open cup of coffee across a room.

Based on what I’m seeing, this era might be the best in terms of wheelchairs. Excessive camber, but the back of the chair isn’t above the shoulder point. Fuck it, this gets a 10, because everything else I’ve seen is way worse.

[wheelchairbatgirl]

HI THERE SO QUICK QUESTION

WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE??? like I know what happened here but WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.

This frame is why I started this blog.

I didn’t log the issue number or the artist’s names, but even if I had them, I wouldn’t be calling anyone out by name. But this is clearly someone referencing an image of a model sitting down, and then they drew the wheelchair around that pose. And so we have

oh wow

A very, very wide, cambered wheelchair, with the wheels possibly not attached to the actual frame, with two little bitty foot plates that are just OUT THERE, and then a seat about 4x the width of Barb’s butt. As much as I’d love to have my wheelchair change size and dimensions to fit whatever pose I wanted to execute, sadly, not the case in reality.

Wheelchair Batgirl rates 1/10.

For comparison of how bizarre this looks in a wheelchair, here’s me attempting the same pose in a wheelchair that’s already a little bit too wide for me. There’s no chair out there in the world that I can find that will have feet plates that far out.

[wheelchairbatgirl]

We have another reader submission, here's Jack Drake.

Hey look! Push rims!

I like this chair. It looks like your standard hospital chair, and in the story my understanding is that this is a sort of temporary thing. But if you look at where the axle of the rear wheels is, it's pretty far forward. As y'all know, I love me a good forward CG. This one is so far forward that I feel like your chair salesperson would really want you to buy anti-tippers, too, but it's fine, honestly.

Wheelchair makes sense and looks like a reasonable rendering of an item that is likely to exist. 9/10 because I can see in-universe reasons why someone might not like that chair for this application.

[sweetestshaboo]

Gorilla, My Love

by Toni Cade Bambara (American) Published: 1972 |  Period Read: 15 December 2020 – 8 January 2021 | Kindle edition  Goodreads Synopsis In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between…

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[thehumanarkle]

Haven’t done a Ten Things post in forever it feels like, so here we go.

Ten Older Movies (pre-2000) Movies I Haven’t Seen Yet But Want To.

In no particular order

The Great Dictator

The Warriors

Fitzcarraldo

My Neighbor Totoro

Dark City

Au Hasard Balthazar

Porco Rosso

Quiz Show

Jackie Brown

Hoop Dreams