What the hell have I gotten myself into this time?
You know, this is truly katarik's fault. You should do a challenge about Oracle, she said. Not Barbara Gordon, Oracle.
Dude.
I should have thought it twice before going with it. The Barbara/Oracle dynamic is a much different one than, say, Bruce/Batman or Tim/Robin. It's less insane, more deliberate, more mature, while still being deeply fucked up. You can't really split Barbara into Babs and Oracle, neither in her mind nor in the way she interacts with other people.
But you can -or at least I hope as hell you can, because that's what I'm going to try to do- sit in Oracle's chair and look at the whole, messy thing from there. (This is also why I decided to do a philosophy_20 instead of a pysch_30; both are going to be difficult as hell, but Oracle, in my mind, is less a separate psychological entity than a mode of being, if that makes sense).
Maybe I'll get to fill one slot with Defense in Depth. It seems like it'd fit at least half of the prompts.
1.Birth
2.Loss
3.Ends Justify The Means
4.Inertia
5.Syzygy
6.Theory
7.Both Sides
8.Faith
9.Orientation
10.Time
11.Extrinsic
12.6th Sense
13.Love Beyond Desire
14.Parallel
15.Infinity
16.God
17.Lack of God
18.And if the answer is no / can I change your mind?
19.Caught in the form of limitation.
20.Reflection
And here is a list of prompt numbers, titles, and the corresponding Dewey categories.
Dude.
I should have thought it twice before going with it. The Barbara/Oracle dynamic is a much different one than, say, Bruce/Batman or Tim/Robin. It's less insane, more deliberate, more mature, while still being deeply fucked up. You can't really split Barbara into Babs and Oracle, neither in her mind nor in the way she interacts with other people.
But you can -or at least I hope as hell you can, because that's what I'm going to try to do- sit in Oracle's chair and look at the whole, messy thing from there. (This is also why I decided to do a philosophy_20 instead of a pysch_30; both are going to be difficult as hell, but Oracle, in my mind, is less a separate psychological entity than a mode of being, if that makes sense).
Maybe I'll get to fill one slot with Defense in Depth. It seems like it'd fit at least half of the prompts.
1.Birth
2.Loss
3.Ends Justify The Means
4.Inertia
5.Syzygy
6.Theory
7.Both Sides
8.Faith
9.Orientation
10.Time
11.Extrinsic
12.6th Sense
13.Love Beyond Desire
14.Parallel
15.Infinity
16.God
17.Lack of God
18.And if the answer is no / can I change your mind?
19.Caught in the form of limitation.
20.Reflection
And here is a list of prompt numbers, titles, and the corresponding Dewey categories.
- 1. 005.2: Programming for specific types of computers
- 2. 177: Ethics of social relations
- 3. 174.2: Medical Ethics
- 4. 623.1: Fortifications
- 5. 158.3: Counseling
- 6. 216: Good and Evil
- 7. 398.2: Folklore
- 8. 393: Death customs
- 9. 111: Ontology
- 10. 020: Library and information sciences
- 11. 794: Indoor games of skill
- 12. 109: Historical treatment of philosophy
- 13. 378: Higher education
- 14. 516: Geometry
- 15. 399: Customs of war and diplomacy
- 16. 172: Political Ethics
- 17. 793: Indoor games and amusements
- 18. 121: Epistemology
- 19. 372: Elementary education
- 20. 906: Organizations and management