The year is almost 2023 and I just sit here and randomly think how raimiverse Peter and Harry are so painfully in love and stupidly smitten and– and I just– 🥺
they make me so sad sometimes bc harry was clearly left believing for years that his love was unrequited, and perhaps only realized the depth of peter's own feelings on his deathbed..... I honestly don't know how to read harry besides in love, bc so many of his actions / emotions would make no sense otherwise. confronting peter while drunk, and slapping him twice with tears in his eyes for choosing spiderman over him in front of a crowded room of people. his inability to kill spiderman when he found out it was peter -- instead eyes welling up. even dating mj (a girl he had no real interest in) bc peter liked her. harry's last words were "you're my friend", consoling peter by confirming they were still close despite all that happened between them. peter's sobbing gasp 'harry-' bc it wasn't supposed to end like this. not with so much unsaid between them. peter being the last person by harry's grave, bc it was always them against the world. anyways.
listen, just because someone started liking andrew's peter parker after nwh doesn't automatically mean they're a fake fan. just because YOU liked him siNcE 2012 doesn't make you superior, it doesn't make you a better fan, it does NOT give you the right to invalidate someone else's feelings. it's a hard to swallow pill but it is a fact. someone liking something way after it's initial popularity/release doesn't make them any less of a fan than you