Comments | minim_calibre: [Fic] Origin Story (Dark Knight, gen 1/1)

minim_calibre

[Fic] Origin Story (Dark Knight, gen 1/1)

Jul 26, 2008 13:46

Author: minim-calibre
Fandom: The Dark Knight, with a healthy heap of general DCU.
Rating: Safe for all audiences.
Notes: Because there's nothing wrong with fighting like a girl. And because, well, I think it needed to be done. This goes out to cereta, and all my old DCU pals. Unbetaed, because I needed to get it out of my head.
Length: ~1300 words
Summary: She's ( Read more... )

Comments 90

makd July 26 2008, 22:10:40 UTC

here courtesy of a rec from kita0610.

She was right, as usual: awesome fic.

minim_calibre July 26 2008, 23:29:52 UTC

Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed!

petronelle July 26 2008, 22:11:37 UTC

I adore this. It heals places in my heart that the film hurt. Thank you for writing it.

minim_calibre July 26 2008, 22:47:29 UTC

Clearly, our hearts took damage in similar location. Thank you!

dancinguniverse July 26 2008, 22:18:33 UTC

Whee! So much yes. Yay, Babs!

minim_calibre July 26 2008, 23:30:36 UTC

Hee! Yay! Thank you!

Babs is my girl.

forodwaith July 26 2008, 22:19:20 UTC

A wonderful read. La la la never mind the movie THIS is what happened in my head.

minim_calibre July 26 2008, 22:46:17 UTC

Clearly, mine too!

kneil_bob July 26 2008, 22:39:51 UTC

Capoeria? Please! That is just baby step up from Tae-Bo & Um Yung Doe. Is she battling (hilarious) this crew:

minim_calibre July 26 2008, 22:44:02 UTC

Capoeria is a lot harder than it looks, and perfect for a Batgirl. I looked into it when I was considering a martial art form. (Plus, the most serious martial artist I know used to do it. Her most recent form was Krav.)

How'd the house hunting go?

kneil_bob July 28 2008, 04:03:12 UTC

I'm sure it is difficult. It is also very beautiful. But that doesn't make it useful as a martial art. There are (IMHO) three classes of martial arts differentiated by sparring.

The first is the stupid: (Um Yung Doe, Tae Bo etc.) which have no sparing. This is usually good exercise and may teach a little grace.

The second has styalized sparing using a prescribed list of moves & counters. This will probably make you stronger, faster and more graceful.

A serious martial arts school will requite you to buy a set of pads, because a you will learn about actually fighting an active resisting foe. This simple lesson is vitally important, and (as far as I know) impossible to learn any other way.

The second and third cannot be clearly separated by name although I've never seen or heard of Capoeria being in the third group.

And in IMHO taking both your feet of the ground or spinning is genneraly a pretty bad idea, unless you are trying to get extra points from the judges or impress your freinds.