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galateus (galateus) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-11 16:50:00

Entry tags:

char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: black canary/dinah lance, creator: butch guice, creator: chuck dixon, creator: gail simone

About Babs/Dinah and Gail Simone

Funny question: On a TV Tropes example page most relevant to our interests, someone wrote that Gail Simone 'encourages' femmeslash. What interview was that?

Relatedly, a moment from Birds of Prey 21. You know the one.

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bluefall
2009-10-12 12:51 am UTC (link)

Shit, I wish I still had the email, or we still had comments from the old site. IIRC Gail said it was "placeholder dialog," as in, that's what she put on the page, intending to later get clearance to change it (which she expected she'd be able to), but never got around to it.

It's not a real hard line to work with as is, though, you can easily go the "deep denial" route, since "I AM SO VERY HETERO THAT I AM HETERO RIGHT DOWN TO MY BONES" spins pretty well as "doth protest too much," and the whole running-off-to-Asia-when-Babs-gets-engaged and marry-Ollie-despite-not-having-a-single-real-reason-to shenanigans support the reading of "desperate to assert her heterosexuality."

I love this post, I get to give my favorite icon a workout.

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	scottyquick 2009-10-12 12:54 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I remember that bit clearly. And then we were all "GAILLLLLLLLLLLLL!" and she was like "Of all the dialogue not to go through :(" . What's funny is that I remember this from looking through two year old backposts. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluejaybirdie 2009-10-12 01:15 am UTC (link)
	That was the day I went from really liking Gail's writing to loving Gail. Because seriously, how can you not love that she was going to write Dinah as canonically not completely hetero? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gailsimone 2009-10-13 11:32 am UTC (link)
	I am not done with Black Canary, I promise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bariman1987 2009-10-13 12:15 pm UTC (link)
	Should we start cheering now, or wait until the previews? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	! bluejaybirdie 2009-10-13 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Ms. Simone, you have just made me a very happy woman! :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

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