Tidbits of ATSV That I Enjoyed (Or Alternatively: Just Miles Being The Most Endearing Spidey Ever)
Miles patting The Spot's head after successfully webbing him (I don't see this as condescending, but rather him still engaging with the humanity of a villain like Spot) and ~very assertively~ telling/asking him not to escape.
"I'm like Robin Hood-if he gave to himself."
Miles' spidey senses going off when he arrives late to his dad's party because there's nothing more frightening than Brown parents when they're mad at you. Beware the chancla or correa!
O.k. So we all know there are different versions of the movie out there. You may already know that one of the slight differences is when Miles goes to save Inspector Singh. There's a version where you can hear Gwen's voice in the distant background yelling no! when she thinks Miles gets crushed under the rubble, and there's another where she's silent as she webs to him. Now, I have found ANOTHER version (online) where her shouting is even more at the forefront. She's practically screaming and sounds more desperate, (prolly because it's close to the same way her Peter Parker died so she's reliving trauma) and the fear in her voice is palpable. That one haunts me.
Jefferson trying to equate studying for his police exams to childbirth, which Rio quickly nips in the bud.
Ganke having a soccer poster of Son Heung Min, a famous Korean footballer who currently plays for the Premier League Tottenham Hotspur and is captain of the South Korean national team.
Miles having a Sashimi (his universe's version of Supreme, but I just like the idea that Miles loves eating sashimi. Like I know that kid has good taste in food) poster in his bedroom.
The fact that Miles kept in touch with Aunt May for long enough after the events of ITSV that he helps her move.
The Spot saying he was one of the more handsome scientists at Alchemax according to his colleagues.
Miles and Gwen having the same collectible toys, the only difference being that he keeps his in the box and she doesn't.
"Hey, don't try to wow me with big words, man," *in deep manly voice* "I do crosswords every day"- Miles after Spot points out Alchemax as "the crucible of our connection!"
Miles going, "This job is so dumb sometimes" after he tries to web Spot at the deli, but it goes through a hole and lands on his face.
"Nahhh, he seems more Dominican to me." Kinda want Miles to meet a native Dominican Spidey because that dynamic would highkey fuck hard *pun not intended*. They would repair relations between our two islands-PR&DR.
"Almost there Mami *smiley face* *cowboy* prayer hands*"
The college admissions coach at Visions Academy straight up saying, "That's your story! Now, just stick to the script..." Ma'am what???
"Calmate Mami, eso no es my fault."
"I've hit a lot of different villains with a lot of different food...I'm just trying to lighten the mood."
Miles in his angsty teen era and smart-mouthing everyone around him. Love that for him.
"He almost killed his mom as a baby, I mean, look at those shoulders." No but for real tho. Those shoulders are as wide as a truck. Kim Seokjin who??? (if you understood that reference, ily).
Miles writing a love letter to his dad in 2 cakes.
Gwen at the water tower chowing and saying how feelings make her hungry after her and Miles talked about how they can't be together cause it would end in tragedy. Like Gwen, come again?!
Also, Miles' and Gwen's talk at the Williamsburg Bank Building being lowkey the catalyst for the 2nd/3rd acts of the film. Without them both kind of silently admitting their feelings for each other, Miles probably wouldn't have chased after her the way he did. Pretty sure you know the rest.
"I bet she doesn't even speak Spanish," and Jeff going "Que barbaridad" in his very broken Spanish. Queue Rio's bombastic side eye.
Both Gwen and Miles referring to Spot as a Villain Of The Week, even though neither of them have spoken about Spot to each other.
"I was bitten by a-wouldnt you like to know? Know what I mean?" SIR. Chill. This movie is for children.
The Spot inverting himself, going from a white mass with black spots to a gaping black hole with smaller white spirals. It's giving Junji Ito.
The irony of Pavitr exclaiming, "Well that was another easy adventure for Spider-Man!" right before an incoming canon event. HIS. He was about to experience his first big loss, and his happy-go-lucky nature would've been challenged.
Miguel saying conyo! when all the Spideys start pointing at each other.
"!Cállate!" "Nosy!" Sidebar: we don't talk about Gwen's banter with bad guys enough. She's so funny!
A lot of the Peters saying hi to Gwen as she passes HQ because she is canonically the one lost love--the love interest they all would've ended up with had she not died, so they all have an affection for her.
Web-Slinger going "Giddy up!" Cause he's swinging up.
Miles offering his fresh new takes on how to deal with the Spot upon meeting Miguel, saying "He just wants to be taken seriously. Like we all do." MILES YOU BEAUTIFUL, COMPASSIONATE GOLDEN SUNFLOWER BOY I LOVE YOUUUUU.
Hobie referring to Peter B. as Humbling Reality Spider-Man, which considering how steeped in tragedy the Spidey lore is, is really saying something.
Miguel's nonono no puedo más no puedo más. His misery is very funny and delightful to me. Little bitch ass.
"You know you're the only Spider-Man who isn't funny." Yes! More Miguel slander in the next one, please! Little bitch ass.
"Snitch!"
Miles shouting out Peter's name for help whilst Miguel pins and lays into him the fact that he's an anomaly. This after he momentarily glitches back to his ITSV store-bought suit. Mimicking the way-in also the first movie-Miles shouting out Peter's name for his own rescue as Doc Ock attacks him at the research facility. Because even though he feels hurt by Peter at this point, that's still his dad mentor and he still instinctively looks to him for protection. Rip my heart out why don't you!
Gwen sneaking back into her and her dad's place just to get that printed polaroid of her and Miles, a pic she already has on her phone.
Earth-42 Miles wearing Nike while our Miles wears Jordans.
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My housemate is moving out in January
She told us this a week or two ago, when she sat down and, after sitting with us watching TV for over an hour, said "hey so I bought a house and I'm moving out. We agreed on 2 months notice so I won't move until the end of January."
The last time she talked in the immediate terms about buying a house was in 2021, when the sale she was working on fell though and she was unemployed so it was a "when I'm back in a position to look I'll start looking again." Since then I've occasionally asked her how she's doing on the house buying front and she's been like "oh I'm getting there financially" but hasn't mentioned anything concrete.
She didn't tell us she was looking at places. She didn't tell us she had put in an offer. She told us when the offer was finalised. A week AFTER she emailed the letting agent about getting out of her part of the lease. And, it increasingly feels like, only because the letting agent's response was that we had to agree to change the lease.
The letting agent's response (which our housemate obviously didn't copy us into; we had to follow up separately and they copied us into the email chain) also includes that when we change the lease, they're empowered to change the rent, quote, "no cap". Rent was already going up in January - there's no possibility of Sam and I paying her share of the rent.
The really fucking upsetting thing is we're not strangers. This isn't a casual "housemate we found on flatshare" thing. She and Sam have lived together literally their entire adult lives. Me and her have known each other well over a decade. I lived in her and Sam's flat when I was homeless. We were the first people she came out to as trans. We're not super close but I thought we were fucking friends. And she's literally gone out of her way to not talk to us about this for what must have been months while the sale completed - which means she's lied to my face at least once cause I've asked her about her finances in that time (cause she's in a job she hates that she only took to get the house money, so it's like. when we've been commiserating about work stuff I'm often asking 'are you almost free?'). she literally went out of her way to talk to the letting agents before talking to us about putting us in a situation where we could lose our fucking home.
And she keeps. trying. to pretend nothing's happened. Every time I've seen her since then she's not mentioned anything or apologised or anything, she just keeps chatting away and offering hugs and fistbumps like nothing's happened. Like we're still fucking friends.
All it would take for us to still be friends and to be happy for her would have been one fucking sentence in the groupchat like "hey, just put an offer in on a house" or "I'm looking at properties, just so you know, that might happen in the next few months". Like nobody begrudges her for buying a house! It's very cool for her! She's 31 she's worked really hard to get the money I would love to be happy for her! Unfortunately she decided avoiding conflict is more important than giving the people she fucking LIVES WITH (who btw fronted her a month on the rent here while she was unemployed and agreed to take on a larger proportion of the move-in cost back in 2021, if we're still holding ourselves to shit we said 2.5 years ago), so no, you are not entitled to our friendship or to going back to normal.
like if she'd been honest with us it would have been something to process but we'd have had time to figure out our next steps. instead she's left us in a position where we have to find a new roommate before she gives her one month notice, which means finding someone by the end of December, which oh look that's the middle of the fucking Christmas holidays. and she didn't tell us anything until the START of December, or copy us into her conversation with the letting agent, meaning we still don't know what the rent on that space will be so we aren't yet in a position to advertise it. Has she offered to help find a roommate? Has she fuck. Has she offered to help out by moving her move-out date? Nah, she's moving as soon as she gets the keys because, quote, "that means her finances won't have to change". SOUNDS LOVELY. NOT HAVING YOUR FINANCES SUDDENLY CHANGE. I THINK THAT SOUNDS LIKE A REALLY REASONABLE FUCKING GOAL.
Thirteen fucking years she's lived with Sam. Four fucking weeks over Christmas she's left us to figure out a way to not turbofuck our living situation. And she's got the fucking nerve to try and pretend we should be interacting like nothing's changed. Jesus Christ. What a fucking unhinged way to treat...anybody, honestly. never mind the friends-your-entire-adult-life part. literally cannot imagine a scenario in which I would buy a house without telling the people I lived with.
(haha actually this is what my parents divorced over so apparently it's not unusual. although at least my dad had the decency to tell the woman he shared finances with at the point he put in an offer not the point the fucking sale went through.)
Like we'll be fine. It's a huge city centre flat with decent rent and queer housemates, hopefully even when the rent goes up it'll be an easy sell in a city with a huge housing shortage and big queer community. We've got a couple of people interested already, sight unseen - worst case scenario we have to live with someone we don't get on with. And it's given Sam and me a push to look at our own finances and as of today, we've got a mortgage decision in principle and can start looking at flats in the area - mind, we'll be transparent upfront and tell any prospective housemates that yeah, we're looking to buy and move out in the next 6-12 months, and we'll tell them if we put an offer in, because we're decent fucking people who aren't going to spring that on someone out of the blue.
But it's been I think 2 weeks and I'm so fucking angry I could spit. It's such a fucking betrayal. And frankly you know selfishly like. I just had a breakup a couple of months ago, I'm in the middle of moving jobs, both me and Sam have a history of housing instability and this has been the first decent, stable, safe, not-mouldy not-freezing home I think any of us have had, and this is so fucking triggering and upscuttling I could just start biting. like I was talking to my friend about it last week and it's just like. Can I have One Fucking Thing of the three main tentpoles of survival - home, work, relationships - that are fucking stable right now? because shit has been In Flux lately. and at least the work and relationship stuff has changed because of my decisions. going through all that work to make myself short-term unstable to gain long-term stability has been really hard and draining and then just as I was reaching the crisis point with work stuff BOOM, IT'S HOUSING INSTABILITY WITH A STEEL CHAIR. fuck. seriously fuck this and fuck her. we're going to make something good come of it but what a deeply, unbelievably shitty thing to do.
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Ride 727: The training camp's first battle!!
Pag 1
1: Oh, Touji-kun
Thank you so much for this year, too
2: Everyone else has already started running
Yeah, I was a little late with preparations
You have some lively first years
Thanks
3: It's the third time you stay here, so you can just park wherever
Thank you so much
4: It started already?
The “training camp”
5: It has already started
Pag 2
1: The first battle that will decide the Inter High's positions
3: The first “buddies battle”!!
Pag 3
1: E.... everyone has to pair up... choose their “buddy” and run, that's the rule of this training camp...
Huh.... Murakami.... your....
2: “Buddy”....
7: Is the second year Kaburagi-san!?
Pag 4
1: But... wait, our partner... shouldn't it be.... a fellow first year... huh!?
2: Can he do this!?
4: After all, before the start, Naruko-san only said.... “choose a partner among these people”!!
5: But the idea of choosing a second year senpai....
He played that card?
6: I didn't have good results in the first years' race
7: During the first years' race, at first, when Kinaka said we should accelerate
Pag 5
1: A small fry just fell, should we accelerate a little, Murakami-kun?
He's a nice guy. I think this pace is fine
I stopped Kinaka from accelerating and shaking off Rokudai
2: Now I regret being “nice”!!
5: After that Rokudai followed us on the mountain and the was at the top on the climb!! And even though he retired after that
6: He joined as a member in the qualifiers and his results were recognized!!
Seeing all that, I
Pag 6
1: I swore I would never show mercy to anyone!!
2: He opened them!!
Murakami's eyes!!
3: Let's go , Kaburagi-san
Let's quickly get rid of those who get in our way!!
But wait, why did Kaburagi-san pair up with Murakami
4: Uh... Murakami, you said “those who get in our way”....
No but Kaburagi-san is so fast!!
Pag 7
1: He got ahead of the line in a second!! And Murakami followed him!!
3: Please accelerate!!
4: Wait, Murakami! Oi, stop! That guy participated in the Inter High last year when he was a first year....
And he competed for the sprint line on the first and third day, too....
No, wait-
If you accelerate now, we....
Pag 8
1: Houru-
Pag 9
1: aaaaaaaagh
2: This is bad, waaaa
Follow them!! We have to follow them
Don't get left behind!!
Pag 10
1: Don't get lef.... ugh- waaaaa
So fast!! Dammit!!
3: Amazing!! So this is Kaburagi-san's acceleration!!
The legs that during the Inter High fought on par against Hakogaku!!
4: If I didn't know the timing and didn't bring myself as close to him as possible to cut the wind resistance, I would have been left behind too!!
5: But other than me, the other first years
Pag 11
2: Yes, we got rid of them!!
3: Haha.... hahaha!! I'll go to the Inter High!! That's why I joined Sohoku!!
4: Next, the second years... and then the third years!!
Pag 12
1: Straight road!!
2: Kinaka and Rokudai!!
They sticked close to us on the opposite side!!
Pag 13
1: You're keeping up, Rokudai!!
Somehow.... yeah, teh!!
2: You two again, dammit!!
They're entering the climb, teh!!
Pag 14
4: What a relief... they're not attacking on the climb for now....!!
Yeah
It's tough to keep up with that pace
5: But they'll attack at some point, so don't relax your attention, Rokudai
Yeah, teh
6: I'll keep an eye on Murakami's movement, if he starts moving I'll give you a signal!!
I'll leave it to you, teh!!
8: But Murakami's facial expression is difficult to read!!
Pag 15
1: First lap, clear!!
2: 1)Kaburagi; 2) Murakami; 3) Kinaka; 4) Rokudai
3: Kaburagi, Murakami, me, and Rokudai!!
We cleared it almost at the same time!!
4: Suddenly.... the first lap was so hard? Kinaka-kun
5: Ah... well!! It's probably gonna get harder from here on
Look, behind us, there are no
6: first years following!!
Pag 17
1: Dammit!!
Wa-
2: Kinaka-kun is a road racer, so of course he turns around to check behind at key points!!
And since Rokudai clings to him, he looked behind too!!
3: That was our sign to accelerate, Kinaka!!
I told you I would show no mercy!!
4: Let's keep going like this, Kaburagi-san!!
Pag 18
1: We left them behind!!
Murakamii!!
2: Hahaha.... like this, I'll be the top among the first years....!!
3: Hahaha the top!!
4: Danchiku....
6: This is bad!!
Pag 19
1: It's- it's okay, Kaburagi-san! Danchiku-san said he'd just be a little late and come with Kanzaki-san's car, didn't he?
2: Yeah.... you think he will really come, Murakami?
3: He will definitely come!!
Yes!! And he'll be as healthy as ever!!
4: I believe so!!
5: Yeah!! You're right
You're a nice guy, Murakami
6: Ah but we promised I'll be your temporary buddy until Danchiku-san comes
Honestly, I'll be sad when he comes!! I really want to run all 1000km with Kaburagi-san!!
Pag 20
1: Just until Danchiku-san comes, is that okay, please
Hm... well anyone will do, if it's not Danchiku..
2: Until then, thank you!!
What do we do next?
Let's keep going atthis pace, please!!
5: Ah?
6: Danchiku-san?
7: No.... he won't come, right?
Even I can see that his condition is bad
Pag 21
1: He has a serious innjury or some other problem, right!?
2: He won't come, that guy!!
3: You and me will keep running like this until the end, Kaburagi-san!!
Pag 22
1: Can you see it, Danchiku?
2: Those guys are struggling to understand the course
3: … yes!!
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