thinking about the part in batgirl 2000 where babs and bruce are arguing about whether or not the video of cass's first murder is real or not. the fact that bruce went directly to the source of the video (cain) and didn't ask if it was faked but rather how. the fact that cain told him to his face that it was real and bruce still refused to believe it. the fact that babs believes it's real and still loves cass and tells her that it was not her fault. the fact that bruce cannot accept that cass is a killer, because he refuses to believe that someone who has taken a life could ever be as dedicated to the mission as cass is. the fact that cass's dedication stems directly from her desire to never see anyone experience what the man she killed experienced in his last moments.

O Mother Where Art Thou?

batgirl (2000) // bethany webster, from mother wound healing: why it’s crucial for women // batgirl (2000) // enough, suzanne buffam // batgirl (2000) // h.d., from “envy” // fariha róisín, how to cure a ghost // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // james baldwin, from jimmy’s blues and other poems // janet fitch, from white oleander // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // clarice lispector, “excerpt”, collected stories (trans. katrina dodson) // batgirl (2000) // jack gilbert, “the abandoned valley” // batgirl (2000) // tomas tranströmer, tr. by robert bly, from a poem titled “track” // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // may sarton, journal of a solitude // batgirl (2000) // adonis, from selected poems; “a piece of bahlul’s sun” (tr. khaled mattawa) // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // neil hilborn, “a place where someone loves you” // batgirl (2000) // laura gibson, from “empire builder” // batgirl (2000) // anne carson, grief lessons

when will my wife (oracle-era grunge barbara gordon) return from the war