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lace-coffin · 6 months

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Slasher autism headcanons

Requests are open!

is this just me projecting onto other slashers? Absolutely! It’s like the spider man pointing at eachother meme but it’s just me and slashers both having autism 😌

Tw: slight mentions of meltdowns and self injuring stims

Billy Lenz

*slaps him like the hood of a car* “do you know how much autism you can fit in here?”

Billy struggles with loud noises especially repetitive ones. He often holds the phone far away from his ear when calling the sorority because he can’t stand the call tone. please get him some headphones or ear defenders

Despite this he enjoys making a lot of noise through vocal stimming/echolalia, picking up on words or phrases he hears from you or the others at the sorority. He usually has a record playing to keep him from getting under-stimulated, though this can be a delicate balance because sometimes it helps and sometimes it’s too much and annoys him.

Billy is hyper verbal (this may be more of an adhd thing I’m unsure) he has so many thoughts he needs to voice to the point where it feels like he’s going to explode if he doesn’t get them out audibly. He does struggle knowing when it’s his turn to talk though so he may accidentally talk over you.

Billy tends to get along with animals better, connecting to them just feels easier and more natural. He loves to hang out with Claude and rub his face against his fur.

Billy often throws and breaks things during meltdowns, doing it in the heat of the moment and regretting it later if it was something he cared about. Please reassure him it’s not his fault and help him clean it up/ fix it when he feels ready to be around people again.

May not be purely and autism thing but affection bites for sure

Bubba sawyer

Bubba stims in a lot of ways. Flapping his hands in excitement and doing little dances. I think She would play with the charms on her bracelet she took from Pam when they don’t feel safe to openly stim, say he’s in public somewhere he’s not familiar with or dealing with victims.

They have a habit of hitting their head with their fists during meltdowns and pacing (as seen in the og movie when she’s upset about the victims breaking in when no one’s home)

Bubba is also hyper empathetic, other peoples emotions have a big effect on them, sometimes making it hard to settle when their family is distraught.

Non verbal- speaking feels unnatural and straining for her, her family have never pushed him to talk since it’s clear it’s uncomfortable so she’s happy to communicate via noises and body language. Communication cards may be helpful for when more complex answers are needed.

Loud noises aren’t really a problem for her since he’s running around with a loud ass chainsaw all day but it can become grating after a long day if they’re overstimulated already, they’ll push through it and get the task done but he’ll need some time alone in his room to recuperate after.

Doesn’t leave the house super often, they’re much comfier to be home around people they know. She does occasionally go shopping with Drayton and their siblings but it’s very taxing on her because of all the stimuli so it’s not super often.

Michael Myers

I think he’d have a very specific pallet, not liking inconsistencies in its foods and preferring to stick to the stuff it knows it likes. he has such a sweet tooth and eats a bunch of candy. It likes the texture differences in different kinds of sweets, jelly is a particularly good one. Mikey eats a lot of grilled cheese to, it’s mum used to make it for him a lot as a kid and it’s a staple safe food for him. He likes his food bland and beige (me to mikey)

Very specific about his clothing, labels are an absolute no go and need to be cut out. He only likes to wear one brand of coveralls because they’re the only ones it feels sits right without making him want to crawl out of his skin. So basically its wardrobe is just a bunch of the same brand coveralls. (Like SpongeBob with his identical wardrobe lol)

Non verbal through choice, mikey can talk but finds it uncomfortable to do so it usually doesn’t. If he really needs to get something across that he can’t then it’ll use sign.

Low empathy, Michael feels empathy for people close to him like his mother or you but not for others. He doesn’t really understand why he should care about people unimportant to him.

It’s part of Michael’s routine for you to go to bed together at the same time, it gets gradually more antsy the longer you stay up over bedtime. Eventually if he deems what you’re doing not worthy of staying up for he’ll just pull you away from it and carry you to bed. It also sleeps in a specific position, he has the whole bed to sleep in but prefers to curl up in the same way he did back at smiths grove, apart from there he didn’t have a choice. If you’re asleep and splayed out Michael would rather sleep on the sofa so he can be in its comfy position. He also probably won’t touch you if your wearing pyjamas with a bad texture, brushed cotton is a no and he won’t be cuddling you unless you’re in a safe textured set.

Doesn’t like eye contact much, he feels more comfortable in looking at peoples face if it’s wearing a mask, it’s less intimate and awkward.

Brahms Heelshire

Brahms can go from very clingy to not wanting to be touched very quickly. He adores being attached to you anyway he can, like cuddling you from behind when cooking or wrapping himself around you in bed. Despite this Brahms can get overwhelmed with touch sometimes, the feeling of ‘to much’ buzzing under his skin. If this is the case then he’ll likely need time to himself back in the walls.

Brahms likes everything to be on schedule and to follow the rules. Like we see in the movies he gets upset when his rules are ignored since it throws of his routine and schedule. If you need to do anything extra or take something off the schedule please let him know in advance so he has time to process it.

Low empathy but only for people not super close to him. He understands how he’s expected to react socially to peoples problems/pain and can show it through masking but it’s purely because he thinks it’s what he has to do.

The walls are a safe space for him. His room was the place he felt calmest after what happened with his parents, its decorated to his taste and dimly lit as not to hurt his eyes. His room has everything he needs within close distance so if he’s feeling low on spoons then the fridge is only a few steps away. Plenty of blankets for pressure/burying himself into.

Also we can’t ignore the fact he literally masks with his porcelain doll mask lol

I think Brahms would use to much eye contact as opposed to none, he was taught it was polite in his lessons as a boy and took it slightly to literally. He loves to stare at you affectionately < 3

Asa emory

Special interest in bugs and entomology! I headcanon that he mostly became a professor so he can info dump about his special interests all day to his hearts content. He can get frustrated quickly if he feels he’s not being listened to.

(Ignoring the shitty enclosures in the collector bc I say so) I think proper husbandry would be important to him, he researches for days before he feels comfortable setting up a home for his specimens. If he’s feeling overwhelmed he likes to sit with his bug enclosures, watching over them and rocking himself.

Asa connects to his bugs more, finding them easier to understand , bugs tend to have more readable body language so it’s easier to tell when they want to be left alone without pressing to far. A person may say they’re not upset but are only hiding it to be polite. A tarantula will bare its fangs and let you know when it’s had enough.

Asa is very precise in his traps, planning them thoroughly before assembling, however he can get overwhelmed and upset say if a wire snaps repeatedly or the trap won’t work as it’s supposed to. He can feel himself boiling over and will abruptly stand from him chair, taking himself over to his bug collection to distract himself and hopefully avoid a meltdown.

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gabessquishytum · 2 months

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Imagine this:

Dream gets out of the cage, and, once he has his tools, goes to see Hob like in canon. They end up agreeing to see each other more often, and Dream (rather quickly) realizes he has feelings for Hob.

However, when he finally resolves to just... tell Hob how he feels, he arrives at the New Inn to discover... his younger brother Destruction is there??? And he's apparently Hob's boyfriend?????

It's the Spider-Man pointing meme.

Hob eventually explains that he met Olethros shortly after WW1 ended and that it didn't take them long to get together. Olethros knew immediately that Hob was immortal (he'll always be able to sense the power of his sister) and told Hob that he was as well. They've been together ever since, though Olethros often travels.

Dream is... happy to see his brother and know he is alright but utterly devastated that Hob is unavailable. He vows that he won't get in the way of their happiness and that he will be content just to remain Hob's best friend (he's lying to himself about that second part).

What he doesn't know is that Hob has been in love with him since they first met. Or that Hob and Olethros already spoke about him (though Ollie didn't know they were talking about his older brother) and decided that Hob could still pursue Dream if he was open to it.

Dream has no idea what he's in for, especially because Ollie can absolutely tell that he's head over heels for Hob and he's not about to let his precious immortal lose his chance with his Stranger, even if said Stranger is his older brother.

- 🐺

I am so invested in idea of a Hob sandwich between Destruction and Dream. Just the idea of Dream showing up and trying to smother his jealousy as his little brother gets to be with Hob? Incredible.

Basically Destruction's plan is to make Dream so jealous that he'll finally boil over and admit that he's completely in love with Hob. Destruction isn't going to be mean about it - really he's just indulging in a little extra PDA with his boyfriend. There's nothing wrong with that.

Except it becomes abundantly clear that Hob is incredibly horny whenever Ollie touches him in front of Dream. It just seems trigger something that leaves Hob red faced, sweating, and biting his lip. When he sits on Ollie's lap during a meet-up with Dream he almost moans as Ollie touches his thigh. Its like the fact that Dream is watching him being owned and manhandled turns him on.

Even Dream can't help but notice and wonder why Hob seems so completely out of control. And then one night, Ollie smirks and just tips Hob off his lap, right into Dream’s arms. As he stands up, he says: "Here, you look after him for a minute. I'm going to help out behind the bar. Try playing with his chest, he really likes that. You might even be able to make him cum."

Dream is left gaping and astonished. And then Hob whines softly and presses his blushing red face into Dream’s neck. Well. Good brothers do share nicely, right? If Hob wants them both then that's exactly what he'll get - thank goodness he's greedy enough to take the love of two Endless beings. Maybe he'll actually finally be sated!

#🐺 anon #the sandman #dreamling #hobstruction #nsft

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orderforbrian · 2 years

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have finally unearthed the web!martin au content, my god........this is the page of not-memes, some of them are very old and some are new lmao - i do have a semi-serious au in my head -- details of au under the cut after ID (it's a little long lol)

[Start ID: Multiple comics of Jon and Martin from the Magnus Archives where Martin is an avatar of the Web. Jon is a thin Persian man with dark curly hair and a beard. Martin is a fat mixed Polish/Korean man with glasses and a beauty mark under his lip, he has shoulder length dark hair with a streak of white in his bangs.

1st comic: Martin is looking down at a pack of cigarettes in his hand and has a cigarette hanging in his mouth. He is wearing a cardigan with a simple shirt underneath. Jon looks at him with a captured expression, a light blush on his cheeks, and holds his spider web detailed lighter out. He asks, "E-er, do you n-need a light?" Jon's hair is slicked back and he is wearing a business shirt. Martin has the now smoking cigarette pointed down to Jon's lighter and is looking up with a coy expression, saying "Hehe, do you like spiders or something?"

2nd comic: Martin is looking to the side with a blush across his face, saying "U-um". A spiderweb behind him is shaped in a heart and there are multiple hearts floating around him. He is wearing a simple sweater with a jacket that has pockets in the front. Next, it shows a spiderweb with "Jon" spelt out in it with a huge heart below the name. Next, Martin is blushing intensely with wide eyes, eight of them on his face, and his mouth is hanging open with two fangs. He is holding his hands stretched out, each end pointed into a claw. Blink is written next to him. Next, a simplified Martin is swatting at the spiderweb, screaming "Aaaargh!". A couple spiders are flying off.

3rd comic: Jon is crawling on the floor through a doorway, a rug with a spiderweb pattern outside the doorway. He is shouting, "I'm going to the Institute even if I have to crawl my way there, Martin!!". His hair is short and he's does not have a beard, he is wearing a business shirt and green tie. Next, a pair of claws grip Jon's waist and he grabs onto the rug for leverage. A simplified angry web!Martin shouts back, "Oh no, you are not going back to that hellscape prison calling itself an academic institute!". Jon grits his teeth and yells, "No, no! You can't stop me-". Next, several spider legs hover over Jon in the doorway. Martin says, "Oh? Is that what you think?". Jon gulps. Next, Jon is being pulled back by the spider legs and screams, taking the rug with him.

4th comic: Jon and Martin are kissing, there are multiple hearts around their heads. Martin says, "Have a nice day, love" and Jon responds, "You as well". Next, Jon and Martin part with surprised expressions and there is a black widow spider hanging on a thread between their lips. Martin says, "Oh!". Next, Jon is trembling with a wobbly grimace, his eye is stylized black with tear shines in it, and a stream of tears is coming from his eye. He is gripping Martin's sweater ferociously. Martin has eight eyes now and looks at him flustered, his mouth has fangs. He yells, "AH!! J-Jon I'm so sorry!!". The spider hanging between them begins to spin down a web thread.

End ID.]

basically, the Web wants to bind all 14 Fears to the tapes in order to place them under its control, without anyone's knowledge such a thing is occurring. they could pit the Fears against each other when necessary, control their actions from the shadows, etc. However, the Web understands that a successful ritual would mean the demise of all the Fears through the End. Jonah Magnus understands that a successful ritual would mean the same, but does not care about the ramifications. this, the Web cannot allow to happen. So once all the Fears are bound, the Magnus Institute will burn in order to ensure no one else can gain control of the Fears. Except for the Archive itself -- the Archivist.

like in canon, jon is marked when he's young so that it will keep his interest in the paranormal enough to get a job at the Magnus Institute. he becomes the Web's 'person on the inside' but jon of course has no idea that's what's happening. the Web wants an avatar to become marked by the Beholding enough to be useful but not so much that they become corrupted or Jonah Magnus can use them as a tool for his own plan. the end goal is for him to become the walking, marked Archive that will abide by the Web's will.

but as jon continues at the Institute, the Web finds that he's becoming embroiled and marked faster than they would like and not in the way that would preserve their 29 year old 'secret weapon', both in his mortality and his corruption.

in comes martin. he became a web avatar after his mother died, the Web having taken interest in the way he could subtly manipulate and lie to others in order to make ends meet. he's genuinely nice and is good at manipulation, but does so as a means to help others do what he thinks is best for them rather than to hurt them. it's important to me that a web!martin does not enjoy hurting others. his most powerful weapons are gentle hands and a patient, nurturing voice. things that guide others into doing what he wants them to, under the impression that it was their own idea in the first place. (but also it's martin. he could body someone if need be. most of the time though, he's passive like in canon. the Web loves a sneaky bitch)

he's perfect for jon. in his paranoid state, what jon needs is someone unassuming, someone who'll slow him down, gives him a sweet smile, a friendly face to rely on -- and later, someone who, unfortunately, can relate very well to the 'i didn't want to become an avatar, i hate being a monster' situation

so martin comes to jon to give a statement. he gives the same statement to jon about jane prentiss as he did in canon, except this time he's lying. jon, having already suffered the jane prentiss attack, feels intense sympathy for him (played like how he acted with Helen after the Distortion statement). they get to talking and slowly become friends. the plan is for martin to crawl his way into jon's heart, get him to care about him, value his opinion, place his utmost trust in him -- until he'll do anything martin says.

and by anything he says, it means: don't fucking die by shoving tape recorders in powerful avatars faces. and also maybe pretty please burn down the Magnus Institute.

martin masquerades the Web's plan as genuine care for jon's wellbeing. "you work too hard, why don't you take a break? christ, the Magnus Institute really creeps me out, why don't we go to a nice cafe instead? if youre feeling bad, call in sick to work and lets go have a nice day out!"

martin starts to find his 'fake' feelings for jon aren't so fake anymore. was it necessary to the plan that him and jon eventually start dating? no. but he didn't exactly deter it from happening because oh my god surprise! jon is super cute and charming and harbors a mutual endearment for him, and its making him forget himself at times (and a certain annabelle cane is noticing). he finds himself falling for him, and the act he was putting on is soon becoming the real, instinctive way he wants to care and to love jon.

then jon finds out he's a web avatar. and all hell breaks loose.

martin feels like an idiot, thinking he could forever be a sense of normalcy for jon -- but the fact remains that he is the monster of jon's nightmares, and jon is already on his path to becoming a monster as well. he still has a mission though: protect jon from harm, make sure he doesn't get corrupted. the only problem now is that jon wants to kill him dead with a shoe and spray him with Raid if he so much as gets within a mile radius of him.

complicated hilarity ensues.

martin tries to sort of distance his lingering feelings by acting coy and aloof. he begins only speaking to jon by calling him on the phone and referring to him as "the archivist". but the act is.....well, jon tells him point blank it's not very convincing. martin will slip up and call him jon whenever he does something cute. they both still have each other's numbers. they both know these little personal facts about each other. jon remembers to tell martin happy birthday over the phone one day and martin nearly cries right then and there. martin can't help but remember the times he felt so safe in jon's arms, and jon the same. they both are too stubborn to say they miss each other, but god do they.

as jon learns more and more about the Fears and his descent into the Beholding becomes impossible to undo, he finds the only person he trusts to turn to is martin. martin who, despite initially lying to him, has protected him from certain death, always lent his shoulder to either lean or cry on, and has been the one person he feels truly understands him. jon finds that, as much as he hates to admit it, the feelings he held for martin may not be as fabricated as the man himself. and the martin who's a web avatar isn't very different from the martin he fell for. in that, he also feels a sense of pity, realizing that martin is just as human and helpless to the Fears as he is, stuck in the web right next to him (think Oliver Banks level solidarity). martin didn't choose to be a part of the Web, the Web robbed him of choice entirely.

eventually they bond over their shared tragedy, reconcile their differences and work in tandem, steadily repairing the repertoire they had prior. it's an unlikely pair for sure. the Web, who deals in secrets and subtlety, and the Eye, hungry to see and know all. martin does not want to be known, but when jon looks into his eyes, a smaller part of him wants to bare his soul for him and only him to see. jon does not like secrets, but loves a mystery, and finds unraveling the threads of martin blackwood to be quite compelling.

the au ends bittersweetly. my idea of a big ending scene is when martin and jon go to burn down the Institute, jonah magnus makes a last ditch attempt to perform the ritual, compelling jon to begin the incantation. martin and jon manage to kill Magnus before the ritual is completed, and they stand outside on the dark night street, hand in hand, watching the Institute burn.

jon is still the Archive, though he and the tapes are under the control of the Web now. he's free from the Magnus Institute, but certainly not the Beholding. Monsters will still come, him and Martin will still need to feed their gods, they will never have their original lives back. eventually the Web will grow bored of gorging itself on the bound Entities, and will consider other threads, woven long before this current one. it may not be for a while, there is still a chance the Fears may leave this plane. jon and martin will take any time they can get, so long as they're together.

anyway, blah blah, i probably didn't write this very well but i wanted to at least summarize. i just want to manifest a web!martin au where he's helping to protect jon from the Fears by being the most caring boyfriend ever and then realizes too late that falling in love was not part of the plan (even though it totally was)

#tma #the magnus archives #web!martin #web martin #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jmart #jonmartin #websight 🕸️👁️#order up! art tag #lmao websight is my ship name for them #cw spiders

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echoing-locations · 9 months

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Ok so more of prince Ambrosius au cuz I think it’s neat

(Also thank you to @goldenheart-supremacy for all your amazing ideas ❤️❤️🥰)

Now I’m this au I’m thinking that Ambrosius is the type of prince who was constantly sneaking away from his guards and he became so good at it that only one was able to keep tabs on him at all times (that being Ballister)

I would say Ambrosius and his parents have a good relationship, they’re just busy cuz their basically running a country

Ambrosius is a master at manipulating the media, he’s been doing practically since he was born, he nows how to be seen by the media only when he wants to be seen

That didn’t stop the media tho, they were convinced the prince was a open book, Ambrosius’s favourite headline being ‘is the prince secretly married!? His guards tell the story!’

Ambrosius and Ballister laughed their asses off at this considering it took place when they were both 16 and Ballister being Ambrosius’s only guard at the time

Ok now back to some main plot things!! Nimona still finds ballister in the tower and still forcefully becomes his sidekick

Although this time Ballister didn’t have any leads on who messed with his armour, so it took him longer to come out of hiding, but it did give him and Nimona time to get to know each other and build that trust

He would probably be on the run and in hiding for like 2 months at least,

Meanwhile the Director woke up at least a day after she was shot, the queen come to visit her and she goes and a rant about “oh how grateful I am that it was me to get hurt and not you or the prince!”

Another meanwhile, Ambrosius begged his father to let him be involved in the search for Ballister. He told his father “this gives me a chance to show my leadership abilities!” The head knight was then told to report to Ambrosius with anything having to do with the search

What Ambrosius really wanted to say to his father is “look I love this man and I would rather not see him with a sword in his chest or a arrow between his eyes, so please let me be in charge!!”

After a bit ballister decided to sneak into the institute to check the security cameras of the armoury and of course Nimona tagged along

They then find the video of the director taking Ballister’s forearm piece and replacing it with the weapon one, they download it to post later

They don’t leave the institute right away because ballister wants to find his armour pice just to be sure, so they sneak into the director’s office and Bal does find the pice

Then the director walks in, Nimona shifts into Todd (cuz yes) and Ballister ducks under her desk

“Sureblade what are you doing here?” “Well..uuhh— I thought heard some one in here and wanted to uhh um- punch them..?” *continuous looks to ballister👀* “Surebalde what are you looking at?”

After the final look to Ballister is made the real Todd walks in to say he lost the prince again and for a second it’s the Spider-Man pointing meme until Ballister jumps over the desk grabbing Nimona and booking it out the door

After running from the kinghts they both hop the wall to the Institute, thinking it’s the one facing the city, when in reality they just hopped the wall to the castle

(I like to think the castle and institute are right beside each other)

“Oh fuck” “wrong wall 😐”

Ballister knows where they are and knows a way out (Ambrosius wasn’t the only one who knew how to sneak away)

On the way out they run into the Prince in one of the more private gardens in the palace.

Ambrosius stands there in shock for a minute, “Ambrosius I uh- please-” “UHHH BOSS I DON’T THINK WE HAVE TIME FOR CHIT CHAT!!!”

And they don’t palace security is approaching fast.

Ballister runs to Ambrosius to give him a ‘hug’ when in reality it’s to give him the armour piece “please believe me, I didn’t mean to hurt anyone. I didn’t mea-” “OK BOSS TIME ITS TO SKEDADDLE!! LOVELY MEETING YOU!!!”

And Nimona grabs Ballister and runs

Ok that’s what i got for now, again feel free to add your own little additions and such I’d be happy to read them!!

#ambrosius goldenloin #ballister boldheart #nimona #prince ambrosius au #ballister x ambrosius #text post #royal au #this took me like 3 days to write

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seek--rest · 3 months

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I joke a lot about it now but I wish there was a way for fandom history to be remembered. Not the drama or just a list of the popular tropes, but the intercultural stuff. The things you only get from being there, or close enough to it.

Like how in 2016, irondad basically started as a fandom by killing May Parker off and instituting Tony as thee dad of all time, ranging anything from best dad ever or struggling but either way— Tony even after Civil War immediately sees Peter like a son. Or how by 2017, Peter as an avenger or going on a field trip was the most popular thing for him to do, with Flash Thompson being an abusive jerk that beats Peter so much, he was scared of him (and Tony would come to save the day). Like how by 2018, fanon irondad took precedence of over anything, not just the movies but even the comic book history— skip westcott, a character from a PSA comic from the 80s, becoming such a known and understood character that he’s part of the “Spider-Man lore”, but only in so much as it gave Tony a platform to save the day, not Peter. How by 2019, in the scenarios and rewrites of infinity war had taken on a different lens into thousands of fix its after Endgame, ranging from making Peter jealous of Morgan or writing out that little girl entirely. Like how in 2020, quarantine and writing in Peter at marches was an active trend, to the point of cosmic irony.

It’s not just knowing the tropes, but knowing the vibes. The history. The things that now, don’t make any sense or just have different assumptions for what the reader believes to be true. I reread a fic recently and was so struck by the notes which poked fun at the trend of killing May off when you could just coparent, not just because it was funny (and a little disconcerting) to see all the defensiveness of irondad writers in the comments who made their names by killing May/writing the kind of codependency they passed off as found family— but also how it both fit into and deflected against established fanon, not canon. Of course Tony is going to speak Italian and be an active, engaged presence in Peter’s life that not only has lab time, but has dinner with him once a week and asks about his friends. Of course May is a nurse that works long hours that keeps her busy and away— because Tony can “babysit” a 15-year old New Yorker. Of course Peter is a teenager but acts more like a 12-year old in temperament and excitability, speaking like a walking meme.

This particular fic was so radical imo not just because May is 1) alive, 2) active in the plot, and 3) isn’t abusive or dating someone abusive, but because it ALSO presumed things as normal that weren’t common— like Rhodey being Tony’s actual best friend, Pepper being Tony’s fiancé who actually showed up, Peter being friends with MJ and Ned, having a crush on MJ— all things that still aren’t terribly popular in that subset of fandom, but now come with more canonical evidence that supersede the fanon.

I’m not sure if there’s a point to this, maybe this is a thought that should’ve stayed in the drafts. But this kind of fandom lore™️ is too good to let go.

Especially since I know irondad isn’t the only kind of fandom with a shared history that’s changed over time.

#seek speaks #irondad #fandom lore #fandom #fandom discourse #I know it sounds like I didn’t like this fic I reread— I did! a lot!#but even some of the choices made stuck out to me /now/ in 2024 #for how much of it is based on irondad fanon and diverging from THAT #rather than being based on MCU canon #idk. that presupposition of irondad fanon being the basis of what any fic should be feels intangible sometimes to describe #yet it’s SO REAL #and fics like that really showcase how.. when it diverges from it

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xtruss · 11 months

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The Comic-Book Aesthetic Comes of Age in “Across the Spider-Verse”

The Spider-Man sequel might be the first superhero film to take full advantage of what comic-book art can achieve onscreen.

— By Stephanie Burt | June 14, 2023

Each of the Spiders in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” brings not just an art style but a personality and a backstory.Art work by Aymeric Kevin / Courtesy Sony Pictures

The latest comic-book movie associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” certainly knows what kind of film it is. Most of the movie follows Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, two animated teen-aged Spider-People, but, for the sake of the fandom, live actors from live-action blockbusters make surprise cameos. Gwen quips at one point that Doctor Strange—last seen in the M.C.U.’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”—should not practice medicine. Miles’s high-school roommate references another audience favorite, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017), when he tells Miles, “I’m not your guy in the chair.” Inevitably, there is a meme-inspired scene of Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man. This is the kind of self-aware fan fodder that, in lesser films, might feel tired.

And yet “Across the Spider-Verse,” which came out on June 2nd, does something that no live-action superhero movie has done before—or can do. It leans hard into, and emulates onscreen, the storytelling devices and the visual flair that make comic books special. Even more than its predecessor, “Into the Spider-Verse” (2018), the film feels designed to show young people, many of whom were raised on superhero movies, why they might care about the comics that launched these characters. It does this so well that, at a time when some Marvel movies haven’t been doing so hot at the box office, “Across the Spider-Verse” has already raked in nearly four hundred million dollars. At 7 p.m. on a Wednesday night, with local schools still in session, my seventh grader and I found most of the seats in our suburban multiplex full.

The first scene in the movie reintroduces us to Miles’s long-distance best friend, Gwen Stacy of Earth-65, a.k.a. Spider-Gwen (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld). Her world looks painterly, as if rendered by brushes and pastels; she often appears in Expressionist shades of blue and pink. That’s how the rest of the film will roll: each Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, or Spider-Villain, and each new Earth on which they live, has its own eye-popping art style. Miles (voiced by Shameik Moore), a Black Puerto Rican physics star who draws in all his notebooks, inhabits a world that evokes hip-hop album covers and graffiti. Miguel O’Hara, or Spider-Man 2099, comes with clean lines, techno details, and RoboCop vibes. Spider-Byte appears as a glowing avatar like the nineteen-eighties film “Tron.” Pavitr Prabhakar, a.k.a. Spider-Man India, swings through his home city of Mumbattan, all tropical colors and curvy architecture. (When characters move between dimensions, they pass through a portal made of hexagons—a basic geometric unit of Hollywood animation.)

Almost all of these characters existed in comic books before they hit the screen, and, crucially, all of them have what the scholar Hillary Chute identifies as the core property of comics: they look like somebody chose to draw them. They bear the mark of their creators’ hands. The Spot, a villain who sets the movie’s main plot in motion, looks like a blank page splattered with ink; each of his splotches opens up a little wormhole, in the same way that the pen stroke of a comic can open up another world. The animators of the film owe a lot to Marvel’s comic artists: the credits thank a “Black Panther” illustrator, Brian Stelfreeze; a co-creator of Miguel O’Hara, Rick Leonardi; and the nineteen-eighties titan Bill Sienkiewicz. All three have contributed to the making of “Across the Spider-Verse.”

The film’s version of Miguel O’Hara (voiced by Oscar Isaac) behaves like a stern, bad Spider-Dad. He resolves to stop Miles from disrupting something called a Canon Event—a plot development so important that it has to happen in every parallel world, lest the entire universe be at risk. “You break enough canons,” Miguel warns, “and we could lose everything.” He sounds almost like a Marvel Comics editor, telling writers that they can’t go too far. (One writer, Grant Morrison, called their longest project at Marvel “more like a prison than a playground.”) In the tradition of print comics, the film offers explanatory notes in 2-D colored boxes; some of them, in an homage to the comics of the nineteen-seventies, are even signed “--Ed.,” for editor.

Like all the best teen superhero comics, “Across the Spider-Verse” hints, or more than hints, at real-life dual identities. The colors that tend to accompany Gwen, blue and pink, are the colors of the transgender flag. A poster in her bedroom says “protect trans kids,” and her father, a police officer who initially has no idea that she is Spider-Gwen, sports a trans-flag pin on his uniform. Gwen tells Miles that her parents “only know half of who I am.” She also wears her hair in an asymmetrical undercut—which, my seventh grader told me, is often a sign of trans or nonbinary identity among Gen Z. (It should not be confused with a half-and-half, my seventh grader added.)

Miles and Gwen both have well-intentioned cops for dads, who try hard but can’t seem to stop enforcing rules. In one scene, Miles tells his father, “Men of your generation ignore their mental health too long.” In part for this reason, Miles and Gwen feel the kind of solidarity that young people can share only with one another. When they finally get some tender alone time above a twilit Brooklyn, Gwen asks Miles, “How many people can you talk to about this stuff?” He tells her, “You don’t even know.” That’s what happens when trans people meet one another, too—something that the Internet pointed out right away. (This isn’t the sole Spider-Man film to be interpreted as an L.G.B.T.Q.+ allegory; some viewers saw Tom Holland’s Spidey as transmasculine, too.)

“Across the Spider-Verse” is a sequel, but it’s arguably the first superhero film to take such full advantage of what comic-book art can achieve. At the Guggenheim Museum, Gwen has to fight a version of an old Spidey villain, the Vulture, who looks, in her words, like a “big flying turkey from the Renaissance.” He’s drawn in the style of ink on parchment, with the scratchy, busy lines you’d expect from a goose-quill pen. He’s not just from another Earth but from a different artistic universe. Elsewhere, several Spider-People chase Miles across the body of a rocket and up what appears to be a space elevator. Theoretically, C.G.I. could help live actors imitate some of these stunts—but not in such colors, and not with such dynamism and glee. In another sequence, Miles races a moving subway train while he fights a pangolin-esque villain, who rolls up in an armored ball. In a live-action film, the scene would cost a ton and still look cheesy. With animation this artful, it’s all part of the fun.

Comics are at their core a visual medium. “Everyone’s first response to your work will be to the visual aspect,” Brian Michael Bendis, the co-creator of Miles Morales, wrote, in his 2014 book about creating comics, “Words for Pictures.” In a comic, the script has to serve the art, which in turn has to serve the characters. And this script does. Each of the Spiders brings not just an art style but a personality and a backstory: tragedy for Miguel, teen heartbreak for Gwen, dad jokes for Peter B. Parker, that lovable sad sack from “Into the Spider-Verse.” (There’s even a Spider-Baby.) Each character and each gadget—one is called a Go-Home Machine—says something about generational change. Today’s kids may feel that they can’t live up to adult expectations and still be themselves. Where, if anywhere, can they find heroes?

Maybe Gen Z could find them in superhero comics, but it’s not clear that they’re reading many. The best-selling U.S. single-issue comic book of all time remains “X-Men No. 1,” published in 1991, which moved more than eight million units; in the past ten years, the best-selling superhero comics have tallied half a million instead. “The captive audiences of the pandemic era are out doing other things,” the comics journalist Heidi MacDonald wrote this year. When Zoomers read comics, it’s often via online platforms such as Tapas and Webtoon, which span genres from high fantasy to romance, or else in all-ages, slice-of-life graphic novels. (“Guts,” by Raina Telgemeier, was America’s most-purchased book—not comic book, book—one week in September, 2019.) “Across the Spider-Verse” could help to boost printed comics. Marvel has leaned hard on movies to promote Spider- titles, including the made-for-mobile online comic “Spider-Verse Unlimited.” Viewers who want to read stories that look like the Spider-Verse might also check out recent issues of “New Mutants,” by Vita Ayala and Rod Reis, in which feelings are more important than fisticuffs, and the expressive art fits the strong emotions.

“Across the Spider-Verse” is full of astonishing action, but a quiet scene midway through, when Miles and Gwen finally get a moment together above Brooklyn, might be the most affecting in the film. It lets viewers—including my rapt seventh grader—contemplate what young people want from one another, what they can never get from adults. Perhaps it’s a budding romance. Perhaps it’s trans bonding. These moments set up the conflict that comes later, when Miguel O’Hara tells Miles what he must do for the multiverse, and Miles, facing a superhero-level trolley problem, just says no. And the whole thing takes place, beautifully, with Brooklyn inverted: Miles and Gwen, using their tenderness, and also their powers, conduct the whole conversation upside down. ♦

#Spider-Man #Marvel Comics #Comic Books #Comics #Marvel #Animated Films #LGBTQ #Art #Films #The New Yorker

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The Dead Zone (1983)

You walk into The Dead Zone with certain assumptions based on the names on the poster. Though David Cronenberg has directed many different films in various genres, when you see his name next to Stephen King’s, you expect a lot of gross corpses and nightmare fuel. With Christopher Walken in the lead, you might think the film will be… a bit goofy? I mean let’s face it, he’s basically become a living meme at this point. That’s not what you’re getting. I’m not sure I’d even categorize The Dead Zone as a horror film; it’s a blend between several genres, a great Twilight Zone-type story with an excellent performance from its lead, strong emotions throughout and a great conclusion.

After a date with his girlfriend, Sarah (Brooke Adams), Johnny Smith (Walken) is injured in a car accident and left comatose. Waking up after five years, Johnny discovers he now has psychic abilities. By touching someone, he can learn about their future, past, or parts of their present even they may be unaware of.

In many stories, we’ve seen superheroes lament their extraordinary abilities - it’s never sat well with me. Rotten luck with the girl next door or not, everyone wants to be Spider-Man. In The Dead Zone, Johnny’s power feels like a curse. While he manages to save someone soon after waking up, news of this extraordinary skill quickly spreads and in no time, he’s being hounded by reporters who want to turn him into an exhibit and strangers who want his help for trivial matters like finding a lost dog. The man’s already having a difficult enough time accepting that he no longer has a job or a girlfriend, that he’s missed out on half a decade of living and now this? It’s no wonder he wants to return this gift.

What follows are a series of episodic “adventures” that always ultimately return to Johnny and his relationship with the rest of the world as seen by the way he interacts with children. When the film begins, he is a school teacher. When he wakes up from his coma, he has lost his job and learns that Sarah now has a husband and a young child of her own. She represents the life he missed because of his accident. Later, a 15-year-old girl is murdered by a serial killer and authorities briefly convince Johnny to return to the world from his self-imposed exile to help with the investigation. In another film, this hunt for a murderer with Sheriff George Bannerman (Tom Skerritt) would’ve been the whole movie. Here, it’s just a snippet of a bigger story as Johnny figures out how and when he wants to use his abilities. His desire to have a family, to keep children safe or to follow his calling as a teacher always bring him back to our world but his ability to see beyond pushes him away. Meanwhile, the mysteries to solve always remain secondary to the emotional journey. It’s a perfect marriage delicately balanced by director Cronenberg, who infuses so much humanity in this fantastic tale.

As Johnny, Christopher Walken delivers an excellent performance. You can feel the whirlwind of conflicting emotions within him. The heartbreak of losing his sweetheart, the daunting questions regarding his abilities, the frustration and isolation that come with his newfound fame. He’s aided by an excellent screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, who improves the novel by King by tying every episode together thematically and condensing the story into an efficient package.

The Dead Zone easily ranks among the best adaptations of Stephen King’s works. It’s so much more than its premise, which is saying something considering the potential of Johnny’s abilities. The characters are rich, the interactions are emotional and human. The conclusion is perfect. I’m not sure how it would play out a second time when you know the answers to each of the mysteries we encounter but I intend to find out. It’s a movie you’ll want to revisit. (August 20, 2021)

#The Dead Zone #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #David Cronenberg #Jeffrey Boam #Stephen King #Christopher Walken #Brooke Adams #Tom Skerritt #Herbert Lom #Anthony ZerbemColleen Dewhurst #Martin Sheen #1983 movies #1983 films

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l-e-g-i-o-n-losh · 6 months

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{{ Character ask for Otto! If this is too many, feel free to pick your favorites to answer. c:

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Thank you!!

2) I haven't read the original arc yet, and I know its focus is more on the character relationships involved, but I LOVE that Otto was involved in combating the AIDS crisis, even if he failed. I feel like there's so much fascinating context lurking just offscreen there, I'd really love to see an LGBT author follow up on it somehow, especially with the current trend of pride specials that acknowledge a character as out but don't explore the implications of their position in society or community much farther.

4) I almost feel like he's a rare orchid and if I transplant him into the wrong environment he'll be destroyed. Maybe L.E.G.I.O.N. ? I'd love to see him go head to head with Vril Dox II in terms of interpersonal struggle, although being a Brainiac gives Vril an unfair scientific advantage.

8) obviously there are always fans who like to sand the edges all off a character until they're unrecognizable, especially with Molina!Ock who's already pretty different from comics, but they aren't overwhemingly terrible here. It does irritate me when people try to pretty him up by making him younger and skinnier, or can't compliment Olivia from the Spiderverse movies without calling classic Otto ugly. I especially see a lot of people say she's more beautiful because she's a woman, but I NEVER see the same comments about Octavia Otto from the Spidergeddon comics who is also a woman Ock, and cute as a button, and a HERO, but has the same build as Otto. I see more compliments aimed at Lady Octopus, and she's literally not even the same character.

12) the one thing i really liked from Year One, aside from the art style, was the idea that Otto has a deeper love for nuclear/atomic physics as a basic aspect of the universe than anyone judging by his material projects would really guess at. Remember that meme about ants dancing around in microwaves? Otto dreams of being that ant. Bathes in sunbeams like a kitty cat because its free solar radiation.

20) i think Anna Maria Marconi is the best friend he has, but i don't think he's met anyone prepared to be the kind of best friend he needs yet. Which is no reflection on Anna, she's remarkable, but they have too contentious a history and she can And Should prioritize herself over further Otto's Nonsense. Otto needs someone who can be more selfless than is sensible for a while because he isn't chill enough to keep a relationship otherwise yet.

25) my first impression was that he is the exact cartoon villain archetype that has had my brain at its mercy all along and it's only by sheer indifference to Spider-Man that I didn't become attached sooner. My current impression is that he is a deeply human character, who is keenly aware of the brilliance of his potential, but is too often blinded to mundanities and ignores them to the point of self-sabotage. He dreams so big it blocks out the sky, and then he doesn't understand where all the stars went.

#songs that the hyades shall sing #thank you!!

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chibi-taylormoon · 1 year

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Hugoooooo aannnd Uteeeee ! ! !(I mean I want to heard about how do you think about Yuto&Yugo. )

OH BOY! I have many feelings about these two!!

Yugo!

How I feel about this character:

I absolutely adore this sweet idiot, while he is very funny at times as a kind of comic relief character; Yugo has a lot of depth outside of that. He is a very sweet and caring kid, he knows very well that he acts before he thinks and owns up to it. With everything that goes on in the series, his behavior is justified, he's upset and angry about losing Rin. Someone very special and precious to him, Yugo is allowed to feel what he does and act on his strong emotions. He is just such a good character, everything he does is emotionally driven because he just has a huge heart to compensate for lack of brain cells. Yugo is sweet, dumb and funny, it adds some charm to his character!

All the people I ship romantically with character:

Rin!!!!! Of course! appleshipping is very wholesome! Rin meant the WORLD to Yugo! His reaction when Yuzu assumed Rin was Yugo's girlfriend is one of the sweetest scenes, him blushing and rocking side to side was just precious. Yugo adored her to the moon and back and went around anywhere and everywhere to look for her. Their dynamic is just too sweet, the way Yugo even cared for his d-wheel so much because they worked so hard to build it together is just another reason they're so perfect. Yugo has and only will ever like Rin.

my non-romantic OTP for this character:

Yuya!!!! The idiot and idiot duo. Best friends. Same braincell. These two would just get along so well, always smiling and laughing with eachother. They would have the most wholesome duels for just the fun of it. They deserved to have some interaction in canon, because just that scene when they were syncing during the duel was not enough. If they directly interacted they would just spider-man meme point at eachother and instantly become friends, Yuya would've been more than happy to help Yugo look for Rin.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon:

A better reunion between Yugo and Rin would've been nice. Like the parasite thing was depressing, and then bam he never sees her again because she goes into the machine for Ray to be awakened. It was way too sad of an ending for those two and they deserved so much better. The whole thing with Rin always beating Yugo should've been an emotional build up within Yugo to beat Rin in their duel, Yugo wins and Rin becomes free of parasite control and they hug tightly. Rin tells Yugo thank you with tears in her eyes, she'd tell him he did a good job! Cue Yugo sobbing and holding Rin tightly because he never wants her to disappear again. Then Yugo can go look for Yuri to duel him and kick his butt for kidnapping Rin.

Yuto!!

How I feel about this character:

My second favorite of the Yu's! Immediatly at his introduction, I basically just went "Who is this emo child waltzing around, he is amazing" bam its a different version of Yuya. I thought his design and behavior were interesting, he was very angry but also it was sad to hear him apologize to Yuzu and to say he doesn't want to hurt her. You know he carries that guilt about Ruri and its rather sad. Yuto is such a good boy and he deserved way better than what he got. But at least within Yuya, he smiles and communicates with him, their bond through the series is very good. Yuto is very clearly a good sweet boy that went through way too much that he did not deserve. Protect him at all costs.

All the people I ship romantically with character:

Ruri!!! Im a big fallenangel shipper. I know there are people that don't like it despite it being one of the most canon couples aside from Yugo/Rin. The series made it very clear in the short flashbacks that they mutually had feelings for eachother. Yuto literally started crushing on Ruri immediately and was so awestruck; its freaking adorable. And that scene when he gets shy when Ruri rests her head on his shoulder??? CUTE! im cliche okay, they're very fluffy together. Plus the fact that Yuto falls for his best friends sister is rather precious, thats good stuff right there. Yuto really adored Ruri, and it was so sad to hear him say things like he didn't want to hurt her. What happened was not his fault.

my non-romantic OTP for this character:

Yuya! The other best friend pairing, their interactions through the series is very wholesome. Yuto really showed his true personality through the time he is within Yuya. Yuto is a doofus very much like Yuya who was scorned by war, but he smiles because of Yuya and even has funny comments here and there at times. Their bond is very very good, they understood eachother very well.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon:

OH BOY! for starters it would've nice if Yuto and Yugo didn't have their miscommunication at all that lead to Yuto being absorbed into Yuya. That's one of the things that really upsets me in this series, Yuto is angry and out for revenge, all he knows is the face of the person who kidnapped Ruri and he sees Yugo. It makes sense for their to be that mistake, but Yugo literally blames Yuto for the same exact thing he's mad about it.

Yuto the one maybe more prone to using common sense would've heard Yugo blaming him for kidnapping Rin and thought ?? wait a minute, no! You kidnapped Ruri!! Its very much both their faults for not stopping for a second to understand this huge red flag in the situation and not just duel. Boys, use your brains and take a second to chat. They would've learned somethings not right and they're both innocent. Yuya could've also helped calm them both down. So instead of Yuto "dying" he and Yugo actually could've gotten along and teamed up together against Yuri...the real mastermind.

#yuto arc v #yugo (arc v)#long post #i have many thoughts

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wonderfulworldofmichaelford · 2 years

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Is It Really THAT Bad?

Move over MCU. Step aside, DCEU. Get the hell out of the way MonsterVerse. The big boys are in town now, as Sony Picture’s Universe of Marvel Characters (SPUMC for short) has dropped the finest piece of cinema mankind has ever seen: Morbius. Starring God’s gift to humanity Jared Leto as the titular Living Vampire, this movie is such a morbtastic experience that it’s no wonder it grossed a morbillion dollars at the box office, cured the impotence of everyone who went to see it, and has been nominated for every Oscar imaginable. Truly we live in a society—or, better yet, a morbciety.

...Ok, yeah, I’m not doing the whole review like that.

This movie’s reputation truly precedes it. It’s hard to say people were actually excited for this, but as soon as Morbius hit theaters it became the laughingstock of superhero cinema; it even released after numerous delays on April 1, perhaps the most apt date possible for a film such as this. Not only did this movie bomb, the Sony execs saw the memes and decided to put it back into theaters only for it to bomb again. That’s right, this movie bombed twice. It truly is the anti-Avatar, and is the perfect showcase for how utterly out of touch Sony is with what audiences actually want from their Spider-Man villain spin-off movies.

The movie does have a fandom… kind of. The main “fandom” is generally comprised of people who probably never watched the movie, a bunch of ironic memers who have transformed the film into something of a memetic badass, a film that can unite the world, end poverty, and even take your virginity. A big part of it is obviously the name of the character; Morbius is just a fun name to say. Another part is definitely that the title role is being played by reviled actor Jared Leto, a man only tolerated when he’s being brutally murdered by Christian Bale, beaten to a pulp by Edward Norton, or in a film that contains Ryan Gosling. The film was basically doomed to memedom from the start.

Now that things have cooled down a bit and the memers have moved on to The Rise of Gru, it’s time for me to ask: Is Morbius really that bad, or is there morb to it than meets the eye?

THE GOOD

Sigh… Ok. Jared Leto is alright here.

Look, I hate Jared Leto as a person. I think he’s a creep, I think he’s an obnoxious asshole with his method acting, there’s nothing nice I have to say about him in those regards. But he’s (unfortunately) not a bad actor, and even with what little the script is giving him here I think he does a solid job at making Michael Morbius a decent protagonist. He’s definitely not on the level of Andrew Garfield trying valiantly to save the dumpster fire that was the Amazing Spider-Man duology, but he’s at least in the same zip code.

The action isn’t too bad either, even though there isn’t a whole lot of it. There’s a lot of slow-mo to the point where it’s like something out of a Zack Snyder movie, but the effect with the color trails is really pretty and visually appealing, and there’s also a part where Matt Smith kills half a dozen cops singlehandedly before Fortnite dancing over their corpses. It’s PG-13 violence, sure, but it is enjoyable in its own way.

Speaking of Matt Smith… It’s finally time to

HAVE SEX!

Matt Smith’s Milo is the absolute best part of the film, full stop. Smith manages to channel exactly what is needed for any given scene. When it’s time for drama, he actually gives a pretty heartfelt performance, especially during his character’s death scene; while it’s not quite as strong as it could be, his relationship with Morbius is actually handled fairly decent, all things considered. But the real fun comes when it’s time to play a campy, hammy supervillain. Smith goes balls-to-the-wall, absolutely apeshit, dancing and being smug and just morbing people for shits and giggles. He basically does a 180 in terms of personality, with a tiny bit of foreshadowing early on that doesn’t entirely mesh with his reasoning for killing, but frankly it’s too goddamn fun to care. Smith owns this movie.

THE BAD

Almost every bit of writing in this film just falls completely flat. Aside from Milo and Morbius, every single character is underbaked. Morbius’s girlfriend? Morbius and Milo’s mentor? The two cops investigating the vampire killings? All of them are rather flat and not explored to any great extent, and considering one of the cops flippantly admits to not caring about murdered mercs because they might have done something bad and thinks you can call a cat by shaking its litterbox, I need to know more. What the fuck is wrong with this lunatic? Please explain, movie.

The story is a mess too, and is shockingly low stakes and features things happening solely to happen. Morbius catches all those vampire bats at the start offscreen, because fuck showing us that. Morbius gets a boat full of illegal mercs to do his bat research because fuck it, plot contrivance. Like yes, there is little bits of dialogue that set these things up, but they’re so baffling and confusing and downright stupid that you can’t really care if the movie justifies them. For a movie that was continuously delayed, it’s pretty obvious no one thought to go and run the script by an editor a couple more times.

Of course, the single worst thing in the movie by a country mile is the credits scenes featuring Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes.

Literally everything about his appearance is the biggest load of bullshit imaginable. Now, he is ostensibly here because of the spell Doctor Strange cast at the end of No Way Home, that much can easily be surmised. And yet, nothing about that makes sense. The spell sent people like Andrew!Peter, Tobey!Peter, and their villains back to their home universe and made everyone forget who Tom!Peter is, so by the actual rules of the spell the only thing that should have happened with Toomes is that he should have forgotten Spider-Man was Peter. That’s it. Why he got teleported into the Sony-verse is anyone’s guess, as is his complete lack of care that he is now likely never going to see his beloved wife and daughter again. He makes some comment about hoping the prison food in the new universe is better, and that’s it for angst from Mr. Toomes despite the fact he is now separated from the very people he turned to crime for in the first place.

And somehow, some way, they manage to make this even worse and stupider. Morbius meets up with Toomes in his full Vulture suit, which he somehow acquired despite Tinkerer and the Chitauri scrap used to make said suit not even existing in this new universe, and Vulture drops this wonderful gem of a line: “I’m not sure how I got here. Has to do with Spider-Man, I think.” This is it. The “Somehow, Palpatine has returned” of superhero cinema. Just an astounding, insanely lazy way of establishing something that spits in the face of logic and reason. Why is he blaming Spider-Man for this, when last he remembered Spider-Man saved his ass to the point where Toomes willingly protected the guy’s identity in prison? Hell, there’s no indication Spider-Man even exists in this universe!

And even that isn’t the worst part! The worst part is how completely nonsensical Leto’s replies to Keaton are, showing that this whole thing is just a bunch of greenscreen and ADR bullshit that was slapped together to set up another (likely ill-fated) attempt at a Sinister Six movie. The whole scene is just jaw-droppingly embarassing.

Oh, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but he never says “It’s Morbin’ time!”

Is It Really THAT Bad?

Honestly, it’s not that bad. It’s not good, but it isn’t awful. It is essentially a throwback to early 2000s superhero films… with all the good and bad that entails. Most of the characters are one-dimensional, the plot rarely makes sense, and its attempt at setting up a sequel is so idiotic that it makes the Dark Universe look dignified in comparison. And yet, there’s still some fun to be had when it’s Morbin’ time, and Morbius morbs all over some bad guys. And Milo is definitely a fun antagonist, despite how utterly stupid and nonsensical his turn to villainy is.

If I’d compare it to anything, it would be the Ben Affleck Daredevil movie, and honestly how well you like or can tolerate that movie will likely be an indicator as to whether you can like or tolerate this one. Frankly, this just seems to be the angle Sony is going for with its cinematic universe: Trashy, early 2000s superhero throwabacks that feel like they belong on the shelf at Blockbuster. I’m okay with these kind of schlocky films existing, because frankly I’d like a few superhero films that are hilariously dumb as opposed to being genuinely awful. This is nowhere near the fun stupidity of the Venom movies, but I think if you get on board with the Morb, you’ll have a decent enough time. I think it’s a bit too low, I’d bring it up to a 5.7 at least, but it’s definitely no higher than a 6.

As my brother put it, “There’s 90 minutes of my life I’m never getting back… It was Morbificent.”

#Is it really that bad #IIRTB #review #movie review #Morbius #It's Morbin time #Sony #Marvel #Jared Leto #Matt Smith #superhero movie

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That Harry heart Louis sign makes my blood boil and these are the same people who were shouting yesterday that no one should be forced to come out of the closet and it should be their decision to share what they want about their sexuality.

I guess Louis has no rights, its only Harry who has rights.

The way Harry is making Larries miserable these days. They deserve each other ♥️

Previous anon— I just read the New York Times review of Harry’s MSG residency! Thanks for giving me a heads up! imo Jon Caramanica was very perceptive. He pointed out that although the music and singing ain’t all that, Harry basically has taken the 1D parasocial relationship with fans to an apex. And despite all of Harry’s cosplay of better musicians (Led Zeppelin, Elton John), cosplaying 1D is still Harry’s best shtick and talent.

The funniest thing about the clip from Don’t Worry Darling is that it was to change the topic from the Rolling Stone article, which spawned this viral video of Harry singing next to Michael Jackson (2 million views).

Instead, we got another round of memes and viral tweets pointing out the obvious qualitative difference between Harry and Florence Pugh’s acting.

This makes the Harry-Olivia relationship, and the fact that Warner Bros. is essentially counting on Harries to prop up the movie, even more embarrassing.

Did Ms. Wilde really cast a man with average high school acting skills for her blockbuster movie just to sleep with him? Or to sleep with his fanbase? Either way, it doesn’t say much for her directing skills.

Still, it takes two to tangle. Larries despise Olivia Wilde, but they seem to think that Harry is an innocent fly caught in the spider web. Maybe they’re both hapless spiders.

#harry styles #olivia wilde

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itstimetodrew · 1 year

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I thought you really liked NWH?

I do! I just wouldn't put it up there as a Best Multiverse Movie like Spider-Verse and EEAAO.

I think those two benefit a lot from being 'original' movies and not a sequel to something else. Like sure, for Spider-Verse it helps to go in knowing the basic idea of Spider-Man = person with some sort of spider bite-induced ability. But it's not the same 'oh, to get the most out of this then you should really watch these other related but not really directly related 5 movies first' hurdle that No Way Home has.

Like for another example, I saw the recent Puss in Boots without seeing the 2011 movie, so I didn't know the Kitty Softpaws character. But she was handled in a way that at no point did I feel I had missed out or needed to catch up! I'd say you'd get by fine without a Shrek movie at all, even if that's where Puss originated from. I don't know if someone only familiar with Tom Holland's Spider-Man movies would feel the same for the 8 'new' characters NWH brought in.

NWH is probably my top MCU movie or a reeeally close second, but looking back on it I can't say every character was used in a way that justified their inclusion. Like I loooove all the villains (#DILFSQUAD) but Lizard and Sandman really got the short end of the stick, and Venom's "addition" was just a gag. Even with including past dialogue or memes, some came off as 'hey, say the line' instead of making sense in the story itself. 😭

The Marvel machine speeding down a road that's still being paved gets frustrating because potential story threads that are teased are just that, potential. A sort of winking 'maybe if this gets enough attention we'll actually do it later' comment that hurts the movie in hindsight if it's not followed through on. Time will tell if Spider-Verse can avoid that trap with its sequels...but I have a lot of faith!

#I think an EEAAO spiritual sequel would be cool. like not a direct sequel but a new movie with similar themes or style #anyway ummmm I'll still watch any spider-man movie ever any time so if anyone wants to knock 1 or 3 or 9 off their list :)c #I say all this about just letting character arcs close but like...WHEN'S THE NEXT TIME I GET TO SEE MY GOBLIN BF HMM? 🤨🤨🤨#anon ask

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aimmyarrowshigh · 1 year

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For the WIP Game, MCU - A Quantum Universe

Oooh, I'm excited about this one and hope that I really do actually find the time to write it once I finish Lent From Tomorrow (and probably Please Stand By?). I actually got the idea from an anon who messaged me last time I did a fic meme -- if anyone reading this is that anon, please tell me so I can credit you properly! -- but: ok.

So.

This is an Endgame AU where Thanos' snap Dusts either all men or just all of the male superheroes (haven't decided yet) but either way: all of the male superheroes are Dusted. So it's up to the woman superheroes to save the universe and bring back the other half of the universe and whatnot. Up in space, Captain Marvel finds Nebula and Mantis and they go to Earth to find out what happened. Natasha is leading what's left of the Avengers (so, uh, her, Wanda, and Maria Hill) and teaming up with Okoye, Shuri, and the Dora to do all of the humanitarian stuff that EG totally ignores but that we get hints that Nat's been coordinating during the Blip.

MEANWHILE IN SAN FRANCISCO, Janet Van Dyne and Hope contact eminent astrophysicists Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis because they think (idk some technobabble I will figure out). They decide to contact the lady Avengers and offer their help. Probably Katy is their lyft driver across the country.

Time keeps going while they build a new quantum tunnel, but they need more than to be able to enter and exit the quantum realm. They need to be able to traverse the multiverse.

Nat's like, "I know a brilliant scientist," and she contacts Melina and Yelena. Possibly there's a subplot about Madame Hydra Val and Powerbroker Sharon but idk. Something something Ten Rings Xialing.

Like twoooo-ish years into the Blip, there's someone standing outside of the Compound gates a la Scott Lang, but it's not Scott. He got Dusted. It's Kate Bishop and her martial arts sparring partner, MJ Jones-Watson. Kate claims to be the best archer left on Earth, if they need a new Hawkeye. MJ basically says, "I'm pretty sure I went to school with Spider-Man? I'm not sticky, but I'm good at aerial silks and martial arts, and also engineering, and I want to help?" Possibly Riri shows up with them, too, idk.

At some point Carol shows back up with Monica, Maria who DID NOT DIE, and Kamala.

The greatest minds of the MCU are all working on how to travel the multiverse to get the stones safely but it's not working. Science! is not enough on its own.

Enter Wanda's chaos magic. And maybe Agatha? Undecided. And maybe America? Also undecided.

So the women team up into groups to go to different universes adjacent to the MCU's main universe to get the stones, and no one goddamn leaves anyone for Peggy.

And possibly Nat and Yelena are who go to Vormir. Undecided.

Yadadada, they get the stones, build their own gauntlet, nobody betrays anyone because they didn't meet up with Old Nebula, Captain Marvel snaps because duh, and the menfolk heroes are back. Everyone rides off into the sunset, alive and with who they're supposed to be with.

Fin.

P.S. Except Vision is still dead, sorry Wanda.

#fanfiction ask meme #fandom #fanfiction #my fic #a quantum universe

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kithtaehyung · 1 year

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hold on, trying to remember every thought that went thru my mind lol

the way this couple owns my whole heart all while frustrating tf outta me bc they be like

"no its me"

"noo it's me"

"I'm sorry it's me"

"don't be sorry! its me"

🔄🔃↩️↔️↪️💫😵

And, THE WAY YOONGI WAS CHESHIRE GRINNING THIS WHOLE CHAPTER OUUUU THIS MAN TESTING ME 😤 wipe that off rn! 🫠

Andd, the way my heart was skajkaizjwjsjaj the whole time because her bro need to goooooo omg my heart stopped so many times I was mentally telling them to keep it down! lmao Also like oop, the brother lowkey sus(?) like besides their shared holiday trauma, was he also hiding something else 😗 (DOM!? when she said sis-in-law? 😗 forgot which friend the brother was asking about that one time)

Anddd, lastly where this jewelry store at? 🤨📝 evvverryyone wanna buy something there I need to check it out too ALSO MATCHING JEWELRY!!! THEY BETTER WATCH OUT FOR DISPATCH!!

love it when you "cant stfu" and gift us with 15.3k words!! 🤲💟

HAHAHAH JOONLOVELY!! i love the jk meme. omfg. it’s so perfect with your commentary about them basically spider-man pointing at each other💀

YOONGI BEING A LITTLE SHITTTT the biggest menace and looking like THAT? can we fight him now? like truly. i’m ready fr this time. wipe that damn smile off your face or istg...

all of us yelling at the screen for bro to leave but for them to keep it down but for bro to let them live but also for them to- it was a whole thing LOL. and no one’s said that about dom’s comment!!😗 interesting take on that comment from her.

LOL right? the jewelry store must’ve been nice as hell for everyone to wanna buy something. NOT THE DISPATCH COMMENT IM CRYINGGGG!!

ah... a ha ha yes a “drabble.” uh huh. sure. very drabble length. so short and to the point. much tiny word count we got here. (i’m glad you like how i can’t control myself lmfao)

#it's all worth it #joonlovely #asks:3tan #3tanW #lovely people #3tan spoilers #*ryenfictalk #mailbox💌

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softgrungeprophet · 2 years

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i WILL say that while i think joe kelly is vastly more successful with the tongue-in-cheek quippiness than a lot of other writers who try to do constant banter, there are def still places where it falls flat, and i find it weird that he has the head nazi shithead (aka zemo lol) using Hip “Millennial/Gen Z” Slang (aka appropriated AAVE) considering the racial things at play there linguistically etc but at the same time it’s a choice that i can’t say isn’t potentially justified in this context, especially if you wanna talk about the greater trends of white power and the (mis)use of AAVE and vernaculars outside of the predominantly white “““standard”““ for english and of modern/young fascists and neo-nazis, cryptofash etc. using memes, coded language, and other “trends” including things lifted from black culture

but somehow i doubt that was uh. that thoroughly thought through. though i guess there’s an essay in there about either that OR about modern cape comic writers’ leaning on vocabulary they’ve picked up from younger audiences who’ve picked it up (often incorrectly) from black english

anyway, even if it was that thought through it still might not have necessarily been the right choice for this specific character... but i really don’t know, i don’t really read a lot of comics that heavily feature hydra—obviously. i’m a spider-man fan. i read street level shit.

anywhooo

as far as peter goes, even with the over-leaning on being Cool And Young, kelly (the writer) still manages to have an overall pretty solid grasp on peter’s personality imo; his anger, his being pretty fucking smart, and his being incredibly deliberate in everything he does—measuring out his anger, controlling himself, monitoring everything around him, thinking a thousand miles a minute, and running himself ragged for the sake of other people while also sometimes missing the big picture because of his focus on getting from point a to point b, so in that case i think kelly (the character) is a fairly effective foil to him in being better able to look at the big picture and detach herself in a way that pete is incapable of ...

if i can go on a tangent, since this is a comic made by two people who worked (albeit on separate arcs) on ANOTHER comic i can name—

sm/dp was, perhaps ironically? one of the first spidey comics i read, for better or for worse, but i think... much as i’m really not interested in spideypool itself (only once for about a month) or its fans for the most part, i do think that even in those comics, like, even pushing these two disparate characters together, kelly still had a solid grasp on peter in that the way he wrote peter in THOSE comics was STILL this way—still angry, vicious, analytical, shortsighted, etc. and capable of intense violence and yes lethality. and it’s funny because to be honest in those earlier arcs of that comic, it really feels like peter ... doesn’t really care about wade at all; i mean to me it generally seemed that he was extremely detached from him in a lot of ways and that while he ended up knowing a not totally insignificant amount about wade i don’t feel like it went the other way... and like, not just in a regular spidey secret identity way you know, like there are a lot of people who did not know peter’s identity and some who still don’t who he is still pretty close to even in the mask, and to me this didn’t feel like that? right? it’s not like a... early spidey + torch days you know? like to me it did read as if he were kind of holding DP at arm’s length for most of the stuff through the first arcs, before the author switches and stuff.

but uhhh i guess that’s not good shipping fodder lol

but for as much as it’s a series basically predicated on “how can we squeeze more money out of a subset of fandom we’re not profiting off of effectively?” i do think there are solid aspects of it that do show at least a pretty solid grasp on peter’s overall personality and demeanor and i think joe carries that into non-stop as well.

(can’t speak for wade, i haven’t bothered reading any DP comics, i don’t think they’re really my thing. I’m super picky about 4th wall breaking for one thing. and for another i’m just not suuuuper interested in them. shrug. i’m sure there are some good ones, i’ll probably never read em, such is life.)

ANYWAY

also the layouts and art in non-stop are stellar. hugely dynamic, bold, well paced and wonderfully composed etc. love to see a comic book that just LOOKS this good.

it does feel like bachalo may have been a little rushed or on a tight deadline at times, but it retains a slick sense of style overall and thankfully a lot less weird sexy framing for the female characters compared to his work in sm/dp

#peter looks a little young at times but i think that's really just the way bachalo draws tbh #he still draws a solid peter parker—pretty boy doesn't hurt. dark hair though i like. good nose.#a little scrawny sometimes but overall good #nadia rambles #nadia reads comics

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