you have no idea how much it would rock my world if you picked up Barbara Gordon as an object of your ficcing. Is
Seriously, she's just amazing. At some point maybe I will find the energy to go out on scans_daily and find you some of the clips of her totally rocking the world with spinal cord injury. She's comics, so of course it depends who writes her, but one of the things I love about Babs is that she is written as -- if this makes any sense -- a realistic portrayal of a superhero with a disability. Which is to say she meets limitations, and she meets jerks, and sometimes you can just see the black hole into which her spoons are spiraling, but she also adapted her superhero nature to meet her new limitations. So all of the Bats are creepy spies and she's a librarian Bat; she becomes a computer genius who can find out information about every bad guy in Gotham. She adapts her acrobatic and martial arts skills into being strengths she can use with spinal cord injury, adapting escrima, for example, to being something she can do from the chair.
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Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 02:44 pm (UTC)Seriously, she's just amazing. At some point maybe I will find the energy to go out on scans_daily and find you some of the clips of her totally rocking the world with spinal cord injury. She's comics, so of course it depends who writes her, but one of the things I love about Babs is that she is written as -- if this makes any sense -- a realistic portrayal of a superhero with a disability. Which is to say she meets limitations, and she meets jerks, and sometimes you can just see the black hole into which her spoons are spiraling, but she also adapted her superhero nature to meet her new limitations. So all of the Bats are creepy spies and she's a librarian Bat; she becomes a computer genius who can find out information about every bad guy in Gotham. She adapts her acrobatic and martial arts skills into being strengths she can use with spinal cord injury, adapting escrima, for example, to being something she can do from the chair.