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Ryoko Kui's Dungeon Meshi // Ursula K. Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
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Let's look briefly at the Coffee Bean in Spider-Man comics!
Contrary to popular memory, Peter's college pals initially met up at a diner called the Silver Spoon (ASM 44, but also 46, 52, possibly 125).
The spread at the top of this post takes a lot from this place's layout. But as newcomer MJ might have pointed out, diners are so fifties. The modern teen needed someplace cooler and edgier to hang out. Somewhere more underground. Literally.
Maps place The Coffee Bean alternately in East Village or Tribeca. The beret and glasses? The lowercase Dante's Inferno quote? The wall-hung guitar? So hipster. Wait, wrong decade. So beatnik.
The OG Bean didn't show up much more frequently than the Silver Spoon (ASM 53, 59, and 82, most notably), but it's the one that stuck in the cultural imagination. I enjoy Tim Sale's take in Spider-Man: Blue with the unfinished basement look and cult film posters.
In early modern flashbacks, the location is plagued by a specific continuity problem: "then [character] leaps through the WINDOW!" from new writers who missed the fact that it's below ground. In ASM Annual '96, JRSr complies by raising the ceiling a level!
The Sensational Spider-Man Annual's approach to the Coffee Bean makes me a bit sad. Dialogue repeatedly emphasizes its unique character and long history and how well MJ knows the place. But it's drawn aboveground and totally generic. (This from an issue with a dozen Silver Age panels directly traced!)
It's not the first time that happens, but here feels like a critical failure of show-don't-tell. The eventual window smash is worth it, but... I'd argue this would work better set at the Silver Spoon (where MJ actually met the gang, old in an uncool way, aboveground) instead.
Brand New Day reestablishes a solid sense of place for the Coffee Bean. Brick and glass entryway, a logo that's less beatnik and more Starbuck, and an interior that reminds me of a Panera Bread.
(If it's supposed to be canon that the new more corporate look is due to renovations by Harry, that's been lost in the shuffle. But it would make sense to me. His effort at impressing Norman with a plan to make the Bean a chain store circa ASM 569 would extend his trend of editorializing his own memories.)
While it still teleports between Astor Place and Tribeca, this version has now had more consistent (and just more) appearances than the original. And, of course, it has a beautiful bank of windows to—
Ah, that's more like it.
The Coffee Bean has become a symbol of innocent nostalgia and a happier past. It was also (as designed by Romita Sr) a virtual bunker: not until 1977 would superheroics be written to take place inside the Coffee Bean. (ASM Annual #11—Romita Jr's first ever penciling job on Spider-Man, interestingly.)
As a silver age icon, the location was physically safe and interruption-free in a way that even Peter's apartments and Aunt May's house couldn't be. The architecture—and how it's changed—has been a large part of that symbolism, underappreciated as it sometimes is.
#long post#thank you for coming to ollie's deep dive of the week if anything here is wrong go ahead and add on#the coffee bean#coffee bean gang#down with the sliding timescale#images undescribed
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I got to go to a cat cafe!!
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Some fish and bug pictures I took.
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hi yes hello I just wanna know who paid real life money for tumblr to show me his divorce vent blog as a sponsored advertisement?????
I expected the link to lead to some obvious scam but no?? it's just this guy's fuckin wordpress blog where he writes at length about his divorce???
you good my guy?? did you want this to show up alongside the zombie apocalypse piss kink mobile game ads???? how much did you pay for me to see this???????
#yes ok i clicked on the tumblr ad but how could i not???#its all deeply personal and also like balls to the wall emotionally wild#why would you make this an ad on tumblr#tumblr ads#images undescribed#stuck somewhere between bafflement hilarity and genuine concern for this stranger's mental wellbeing
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Literally me about 2 minutes ago before I ordered this.
I just looked up at @apocalycious with big eyes and said "it's oooonly eighteen dollars!"
(she said I could order it)
#queer family times#my life#image description in alt text#don't label this as undescribed#it annoys me so much
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Hi friends!! I know I haven't been posting as much lately, and that's because I've been working on a project!! That project is finally completed now :}
Dragon scale jumper!!!! 🐉🌱⭐️
please me nice to me I do not know how to pose or style this yet 😔
It looks a little wonky up-close, but I'm very happy with the results!! This was a prototype done with an old grey jumper and a dragon-scale patterned pillow I got on clearance. Now that I sort of know what I'm doing, my goal is to make a green version that fits me better :}
I very much recommend this for all beasties with scales!! It's a really easy project even if you dont have a sewing machine, and it looks great even if you mess up a bit
Some wip shots when I remembered to take them below the cut!
🌱⭐️🐉
#dan yips#undescribed image#alterhuman#nonhuman#otherkin#therian#dragon#dragonkin#dragon therian#dragoncore#clothing alteration#otherkin gear#therian gear#nonhuman gear#alterhuman gear#alterhuman community#nonhuman community#therian community#otherkin community
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....PEOPLE THINK OTAYURI ISN'T CANON? THEY THINK IT'S AN ENTIRELY FANON SHIP? WHAT? DID WE WATCH THE SAME ANIME? DID WE WATCH THE SAME WELCOME TO THE MADNESS?
DID WE NOT WATCH THE SAME WELCOME TO THE MADNESS??? PEOPLE THINK THAT IT'S JUST FANON? WHAT?? WHAT? I'M SO SHOCKED
DID WE ALL NOT SEE THE SAME SERIES???
#yoi#yuri on ice#yuuri!!! on ice#yuri!!! on ice#otabek altin#yuri plisetsky#yurio#otayuri#book of kells#undescribed images#undescribed video
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#brick speaks#STOP DOING THIS SHIT#winnie the pooh#public domain characters#ursaphobia#undescribed images#uncanny valley
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(USM #8)
#usm#images undescribed#aunt may#jjj#maybe I just really like it when people yell at Jameson over the phone#using the Bugle + Urich's investigations as an in-road for how a teenager would find out about organized crime is pretty good#oliverliveblogs
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XISUMA !!!!!!!!
#sorry i cant think of a good image id rn.#xisuma#xisumavoid#gubbys drawings#hermitblr#undescribed#special thanks to moony for helping me decide on a design i was so stuck x_x
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Desmond chilled in @maple-autumn-rain's house for a while.
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cross guild playing uno, vamp au edition.
#monkey d luffy#sir crocodile#dracule mihawk#buggy the clown#op vamp au#my art#my comic#undescribed#sorry for the lack of image description lately
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underneath the street light, you are dark and sweet and golden
i creep out of the night to rest my head on your shoulder
and i can tell you really love me
can you tell i'm really sorry?
can you tell i'm really sorry?
#png#marble hornets#jay#tim#jam#ambiguous. but#you all know where MY loyalties lie#image#undescribed#the lyrics are from friends with you [2021 mix] by the scary jokes
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