Oracle - Blog Posts

I have nothing to post so I guess I’m talking about how my hyperfixation also bleeds into my apprenticeship

Hi, I’m pretty new here.

Would anybody be interested at all if I posted my Batfam x pretty much any FromSoftware designs over time? Like, genuinely, if this gets any attention, I’ll post them when they’re finished, or I might just post them anyway.

You do have a point, but I have seen some instances (fanfiction) where it’s done right. Where most of that is true and they still show her vulnerabilities without it being toxic, or putting other characters down. It’s really just about how much nuance is in the writing. How many layers.

And you’re right, not everyone would have Oracle feeding them info, but I think the BatFam would, depending on how close they are. I also just love crack fics where the Justice League thinks that Oracle is a computer program that Batman has made for the Watchtower in meet the Bat Family fanfics.

But you’re right. There’s no way that she does everything for everyone. Unless someone contacts her and says, “Pleeeeeeese help meeee” for whatever reason, she would stick to her territory.

Now the idea of her being an untouchable goddess just seems like a fun play at her name. You can have character dynamics with old jokes that say things like, “You dare disrespect the All-Seeing-Oracle?! Our Goddess?! You, young one, are doomed!” and it’s just a freakishly large blackmail folder.

And I do like the idea that she’s very smart. A better hacker than most. Being trained by the Batman only to exceed his teachings. Not that she’s omnipotent, but that she could get into practically everything, except for things like Lex Luthor’s hideouts for example.

But all that aside, that comes with good writing. When she becomes a one-dimensional, untouchable god character only there because of some shoddy representation of people in wheelchairs who can be anything they want to be, it’s an issue. When you have a story centered on her and don’t show her having imperfections, insecurities, or problems with certain aspects of life, she’s no longer a character. I do like Babs and I do think she can be used correctly. But when she’s just a means to an end, she’s no longer a respected part of the cast. And that’s not ok. You can show a strong character without putting the other characters down, and she can be strong in spite of her struggles.

TLDR: Babs can be written good cause she’s cool, but making her one-dimensional and/or hateable isn’t right and just kinda annoying.

My Opinion about Barbara Gordon as Oracle.

Oracle is a great character. Don't get me wrong.

My issue has nothing to do with her disability but more on how her writers and fans brag about her job and position in the DCU in an arrogant way.

I've met a lot of toxic barbara gordon fans who think she's an untouchable goddess who everyone has to worship and who thinks she runs the entire universe.

Again Oracle is a great character but I don't like it when her writers and fans ignore, sideline, and dumb down other dc characters to prop her up.

I think she's a bit overhyped and her role is over-exagerrated.

let me explain.

Her fans think she's the brain of the DCU.

I disagree with this.

Barbara is smart but I refuse to believe she's DC's no. 1 most smartest character when the Brainiac Family, Lex Luthor, Detective Chimp and Mr Terrific are right there.

Her fans think she's the one and only tech support and central hub of information for the entire dc superhero community.

Who gave Barbara this title?

In what world where 10 billion+ people exist, is it possible to only have 1 person capable of using technology and providing information to people.

I don't think Barbara is that special.

There are plenty of DC Characters who know how to use a computer.

Who know how to research.

Who know how to hack.

Who know how to communicate with other heroes.

Who know how to use technologies

The Brainiac Family, Lex Luthor, Cyborg, Mr. Terrific, Danny Chase, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Luke Fox, Blue Bettle, Green Arrow, Atom etc.

and Governments exist in dc too!!! There's literally Amanda Waller!

Batman has the Bat-computer in his Batcave

The Titans have a huge computer at Titans Tower.

The Justice League has the watchtower which has even installed highly advanced off world technologies.

You expect me to believe these characters don't use their own computers and resources and just wait on Barbara to hand feed them information???

Why are her writers and fans ignoring all these other intelligent tech users and information brokers in DC?

Why are they making Barbara the center of their universe.

Reastically, A lot of characters don't really need Barbara to do things for them.

They can do what she does.

A lot of DC teams have fully functioned and stood on their own without her help.

Her fans always say she's a huge part of the Justice League and Suicide Squad.

Yes she is a member but she's not an integral part of those teams and I'm sorry but she's not easily remembered as a member of those teams. She's forgettable.

Nobody knows who Oracle is outside of comics.

Oracle doesn't even exists in multiple Justice League and Suicide Squad cartoon shows and movies.

Again Barbara is a great character but her role and importance is over-exagerrated.

And I don't know if this is the right word but she looks like a cloutchaser to me since she's often shoehorned into other character's histories and into other teams she has nothing to do with to maintain her relevance. Worse she dumbs down characters along the way to justify her presence.

just like What Tom Taylor did in the Titans book when he shoehorned her into their team despite the fact that she's not a Titan and she's not needed. They literally already have Cyborg for tech support 🙁 what's worse is that Cyborg got sidelined to make her look more useful to the team.

Again I don't hate Barbara.

I just don't like the constant bias towards her.

I do think Barbara is Gotham's information hub, but I don't think she's the queen of the entire dc universe.

Overall i think she's better on her own with her own original supporting cast because Every other hero she touches gets dumbed down to prop her up including Dick.

Dick is an intelligent detective and he's also a good hacker. He's even hacked an alien computer before but the second he gets paired with Barbara, he stays away from technologies and gets dumber so he can be the himbo muscle and she can be the Brains behind their operation 🙁

Yah ever take a break from reading a comic and kinda dread reading the rest? That’s Batgirl year one for me rn. I put it down a week ago and I haven’t picked it up again.

Oh yay misogyny and sexism wooooo~!

Not gonna lie I like reading it for Barbara’s half but knowing it was written around when in the mainline comics Dick and Barb just got together, his actions in it give me the massive ICK why did they write him like that?! I know Dicks two-faced at times, usually those cases have a reason and I accept them cuz Dicks not perfect. But, it’s low key creepy when you know what was happening in other comics during this one and then this one.

Like, am I supposed to feel grossed out? I know the main idea is to so how much sexism Barbara faces on a daily basis, but from the guy she’s supposed to be dating later? I don’t think I am? Maybe I am? Like if that’s the idea, yah failed to make me like him so far from her prospective or the reader. He doesn’t come off as “coy” or “cute” it’s just something about his behavior in how it’s as a cis female reader in 2024 just gross.

It’s not reading what? 14? 13 year old boy at this point? It’s reading I don’t respect you at all and you might as well be a toy to my own ends.

Note: these are my personal thoughts and they are subject to change, thank you… also no I’m not dropping it just taking a break cuz reading that stuff can be tiring even if writing it can be therapeutic.

Edit: Also this isn’t a hate post for Dicks character just SPECIFICALLY this comic presents him as a character. Robin year one was great but then you read this one and your like “what the fuck happened?”

So as someone with glasses with VERY poor eyesight I actually want to know if this is acknowledged in the older comics, Barbara’s eyesight. Babs is honestly a badass already but I want to know if the comics acknowledge her eyesight, at first I thought her glasses were like computer or reading glasses then I remembered Barbara never really takes them off unless she’s Batgirl.

If someone like me with a lazy eye and horrible astigmatism, you know you basically kinda are flying blind without your glasses. Honestly it’s not as bad as some shows make it out to be but it’s still hard to see. I also assumed if she has bad eyesight maybe she was wearing contacts but that would mean she could never let anyone punch her in the face because they’d get in her eyes.

In like shows like the 2004 series Babs has the white out lenses like Dick and Bruce so I assume she has lenses in her mask. But in the comics the batgirl suit doesn’t have that so I can only guess she’s not wearing anything.

If that’s the case Babs has become like 10x cooler for me and kinda a missed opportunity to see her struggles with poor eyesight on top of her legs.

Idk if anyone really cares just me as someone who struggles without my glasses thinks it’s really cool. Just because you have glasses doesn’t mean you’re magically fixed but your not helpless ether, and I love it when stories acknowledge it.

She tiny

Barbara: I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. Someone asked me what the Spanish word for "tortilla" was once, and now I dream of kissing them under the moonlight.

Dick: Babs what kind of animal is the Pink Panther?

Barbara , already taking off their clothes: God, Dick, you’re so fucking stupid.

Kid!Dick, in a high voice, holding barbie: hey ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career!

Kid!Barbara,in a deep voice, holding ken: nonsense, barbie. you’re staying home and having my kids

Bruce: what the fuck are you guys doing?

Kid!Barbara: playing systemic oppression

Victorian Seance

A quick character design for the moth oracle i thought of.

In some Universe Edward Is Oracle. Instead of being in wheelchair he's limping around with his cane.

If Riddler ever reforms again I don't think I want him as a PI. I have a better Idea sense Barbra isn't Oracle anymore can Ed become the new Oracle. Oh I can imagine him sitting behind the bat computer now Alfred bringing him cookies and Ed talking about how information is his business and how he has all the awnsers to all your questions. He'll help keep Batman alive for a change and he'll be screaming at Bruce about him doing somthing stupid or laugh everytime he gets his ass kicked.

I thought about this for awhile and now I can't get it out of my head so I decided to do what I do with all my other horrible ideas share them, sorry if I ruined your day.

kakehiki

big fan of just shoving these lyrics onto these two during the beginning of dick's nightwing era. dickbabs aren't really mayakuro coded to me if only because i think they're both more maya than claudine but this song (kakehiki) in particular always reminds me of them ✌️😔

Writers, get yourselves a tarot or oracle deck (or use one you already have). Ask it questions about your writing and your stories. Feeling stuck? Pull some cards! Need to rethink a scene? Ask your deck!

I just started doing this and it has worked wonders for beating writer’s block and helping me keep forward momentum. I hope it can work for you too!

It could also work for visual art!

Bruce and Jason are like "Joker is the embodiment of evil." Meanwhile Duke and Barbara are like "Joker is just some loser."

When referring to Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian:

Batboys doesn’t work cause that includes Duke

Robins doesn’t work cause that includes Steph

So I propose a new and improved name:

~The Assholes~

It’s straightforward, it’s classy, it rolls off the tongue, it’s in character for all of them

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

Batfamily as actual things my family has said: Part 2

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Stephanie: Cass isn’t just my best friend, shes my baddie from another daddy

Jason: . . .

Stephanie: Oh dear god why did I say that

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Duke: What’s wrong with Tim?

Damian: The idiot took NyQuil instead of DayQuil by accident but refuses to sleep because he’s got work in an hour

Damian: He’d probably be fine if he hadn’t taken twice the recommended amount too

Damian: He’s gonna pass out any minute, wanna watch with me?

Duke: Hell yeah

Duke: Tim! How’s it going dude?!

Tim: I CAN SMELL THE RAINBOW

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Dick: I’m really not that sunburned

Barbara: lobsters aspire to achieve that color Dick

Dick: At least my skin actually has color

Barbara: It’s not my fault I’m translucent!

DC Characters as actual things my friends have said: Part 3

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Damian: You can’t talk you flat ass!

Stephanie: I may be part of the itty bitty titty committee, but i am NOT part of the itty bitty ass committee so shut your mouth

Damian: Oh sureee whatever you say

Stephanie: 38 inches Damian. 38 INCHES! that’s bigger than cass’s head

Cass: It’s true! we measured :)

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Roy: My friendship is your birthday present!

Jason: Does it come with a receipt?

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Dick: This is a circus, a certified circus

Dick: And I would know, I traveled with one for 6 months when I was 19

Donna: You know I always forget about that

Wally: Yeah you’d think it’d come up more

They all yell at everyone else constantly about respecting their personal boundaries and shit but then they all turn around and track each other’s every move, like “i just wanna make sure you’re safe :(“

Love the idea of the batfam all being equally unhinged like Tim calls dick every two days with “why’d you take the cameras I use to stalk you down :(“ Dick is always placing trackers on everyone, Bruce just fucking shows up and watches his kids go about their daily lives, Jason’s got eyes all over the city to ping him if someone matching his families description pops up, Barbra is always listening and watching like love that shit

Batfamily as actual things my family has said: Part 1

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Bruce: Jason! No gang signs at the dinner table!

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Damian: Stingrays are so smooth. They feel like Stephanie’s hands.

Steph: Was that a compliment? I can’t tell if that was a compliment.

Damian: OH I’M SORRY FOR TRYING TO BE NICE TO YOU ASSHOLES FOR ONCE! GOD, I MENT THAT YOU HAVE SMOOTH HANDS!

Steph: Thank you?

Damian: whatever

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Dick: Oh don’t worry the bite marks are just from Tim

Barbara:

Dick: I swear that sounded reassuring in my head

Justice League Meeting

Superman: where's Batman? The meeting was supposed to start 20 minutes ago.

Wonderwoman: could he be in danger?

Green Arrow: someone maybe should call him BEFORE we go into defcon 1

Superman: [calls the bat-line]

Oracle: [answers] this is O. How can I help?

Superman: Hi Oracle. Batman was supposed to be at the tower 20 minutes ago. Do you know where he is?

Oracle: let me check... yeah, he's at the cave, I can connect you to the security cameras?

Superman: Please.

Oracle: ok.

-The batcave shows up on screen, Bruce and some of the kids present-

Batman: [Mid sentence] -OUTRAGEOUS STUNT!!

Damian: [scowling, arms crossed] -tt-

Batman: Do NOT scoff at me, young man!

Jason: [snorts]

Batman: Are you Laughing?! This is reckless even by YOUR standards Jason!

Jason: yeah... but you said-

Batman: [menacing] What?!

Jason: [looks at Dick and mimes "young man"]

Batman: Don't look at-

Dick: [loudly and jovially] THERE'S NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN

Batman: Wh-

Steph: I said YOUNG MAN [spins to point at Tim]

Tim: [Fingerguns at Steph] Pick yourself off the ground!

Batman: [floundering] En-

Dick: I said YOUNG MAN

Jason: 'Cause you're in a new town!

Duke: [from the locker rooms] There's no need to be unhappy!

Batman: [to Duke] You're not even in trouble!

Steph and Tim: YOUNG MAN there's a place you can go!

Dick: [throws an arm around Jason's shoulders] I said YOUNG MAN! When you're short on your dough!

Jason: You can STAY THERE!

Batman: That's EN-

Dick and Jason: [turn to Damian, grinning expectantly] and I'm sure you will find-!!

Damian: [glaring and without enthusiasm] ...many ways to have a good time.

Batman: Don't-

All the batkids: [chorusing] It's fun to stay at the B-A-T CAVE

Batman: [finally loses it] WHY???!!

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Superman: ...

Green Arrow: ...well someone has to say it.

The Flash: That he should get an award for parenting that lot?

Green Arrow: that clearly inherited behaviour has nothing to do with genetics. I grew up with Bruce Wayne; he deserves every second of this

me n who

pt.1 of batfam dancing !!! ( dick grayson and barbara gordon)

pt 2 here

Next time anyone would wonder what the hell is going on in Batfamily they just should remember the fact the first Robin was raised in a circus

Babs' shirt makes want to fly into the sun