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So obviously the first worst thing to ever happen to Barbara Gordon's character was regressing her back to Batgirl again after all her character growth.

But the second worst thing to ever happen to her is the perception Oracle is somehow tech support for the batfam specifically and not that she used to run her own team and regularly work with the actual Justice League.

I think these problems are somewhat connected in that they both relegate Babs as to being strictly in the batfam's orbit and make her appearance in comics contingent on her relation to another (usually male) batfam character (frequently Bruce or Dick). And it sucks to see because it not only regresses her character growth but it restricts her story from growing further than being support in other characters' lives rather than having her own independent life. It was her job to know things! She got shit done! She used to make cameos in seemingly unrelated comics (e.g. Suicide Squad, Blue Beetle, Green Lantern, etc.) because she was such a staple within the wider superhero community! Sure, her most frequent appearance were either with her Birds of Prey team or in Gotham-related stories, but she played an important role in the greater DC canon that I miss now.

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Have you ever wondered what the other Saja Boys songs would've sounded like?

Same here. So much so that I made a playlist about it, which you can check out here:

Soda Pop and Your Idol are such extremely different songs in terms of musical sound and k-pop sub-genres that I wanted to imagine what it would look like for there to be a slow descent into progressively darker songs. I tried to keep it down to the 9 songs rumored to have been in the longer version of the film, but ultimately bumped it up to 11 total songs for a slightly smoother transition across them. I also tried to use boy group songs exclusively, but a couple of male solo songs slipped past me because I felt they fit really well (sorry, I like Taemin's music too much).

While this is definitely indicative of my specific taste in k-pop, I did my best to try to keep the songs narratively consistent. Lyrically, Soda Pop and Your Idol both truly are villain songs, reflecting the Saja Boys' roles as demons while simultaneously sounding like regular k-pop music. There aren't a lot of real k-pop songs that truly mirror that because, at the end of the day, no matter how dark the concept of a song is, the idols singing it aren't literal demons and their goal is to be liked by fans. That said, a lot of the songs in this playlist feature themes of obsession or even elements of consumption to pick up on some of the lyrical elements of the two actual Saja Boys songs.

If there's enough interest, maybe I'll do a follow up where I deep dive into how and why I picked certain songs. For now, I hope you enjoy this playlist.

(Also, shout out to @shoebilltaemin for helping me fine tune some elements of the playlist!)

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This is how you know Wake Up Dead Man has me by the fucking throat: less than 12 hours from finishing the movie, I am trying to craft a playlist for it

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Star Wars tropes:

— secret marriage

— secret siblings

— secret parentage

Staf Trek tropes:

— mpreg

— fuck or die

— evil and sexy alt dimension

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Lightsaber construction and design as a metaphor for how the character views themself. You get it.

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meow mf

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Unhinged thought: Muppet Great Gatsby

But it is crucially important to me that Miss Piggy plays Gatsby

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bites bites bites

Any particular reason for this or is this just the situation now?