jageshemashftw

[jageshemashftw]

Also, I just want to add to this, but I love how even though this is, essentially, the complete and total opposite of Venom’s usual motivation, it’s still totally recognizable as a Venom story.

Because it still has the same foundation of being rooted in obsession.

The symbiote is obsessed with Peter Parker. It wants Peter Parker. Wants it in what way? Well, that kind of depends on the continuity, but it wants him.

That’s why, after Peter rejects the symbiote, it constantly goes after hosts who are connected to Peter in some way.

Eddie Brock already hated Peter. All the symbiote had to do was warp that into Eddie obsessively hating him.

But Harry? Harry loved Peter, with all of his heart and soul. But that isn’t much different for the symbiote to warp it into an obsessive love.

It hurts about the same either way.

It is so buckwild to me what Insomniac did with Harry Osborn and Venom.

In the vast majority of Spider-Media, Venom's defining character trait is his hatred of Spider-Man, and at first, it looks like Insomniac might be going that route. They give Harry ample reason to be absolutely furious with Peter, to resent him, resent the life he gets to live, a beloved superhero with a girlfriend, healthy and strong, a genius of such caliber that even his own father seems to prefer him to Harry. His supposed "best friend" who seems to be withholding lifesaving medical treatment just because he likes how it feels on him, because it's not enough that he be better and stronger and smarter than poor, sickly, doomed Harry, no, he has to be stronger than himself, stronger than the old Spider-Man could ever hope to be. It's not enough for Peter to have his own powers, he has to have Harry's as well, and if that comes at the cost of Harry's life? Well, that's just the cost of doing business. As long as it makes him a better Spider-Man, that's all that matters, right?

It seems like they are going down the route where Harry gives into his anger and resentment, the symbiote whispering in his ear and exacerbating his worst aspects until there is nothing left of the sweet boy that Emily Osborn raised to be so deeply good, only a supervillain hellbent on revenge and world domination.

But that's not what happens.

Instead, almost everything Harry does after the Venom symbiote takes over is framed as helping. As a genuine, if twisted belief that the world he is making is a better world. Instead of seeking revenge against Peter, Harry/Venom wants to convert him. Wants him to stand beside him as they "heal the world" together. And the odd thing is, this only becomes more true with time. At first, Harry/Venom seems almost indifferent to Peter, and angers quickly when Peter calls them a "thing." But we see that the idea of Peter doing this with him, the need for his best friend to be beside him at the end of all things, eventually becomes so important to him that it is ultimately a weakness the heroes exploit.

Think about that; Harry Osborn's love for Peter Parker is so powerful that it almost seems to be corrupting the Venom symbiote, infecting it and twisting its mind as surely as it twisted Peter's, but in the opposite direction. It's so wild to watch the scenes at the end of the game and hear Tony Todd, in his deep-ass Venom voice, read lines like "Thanks for coming, Pete 😊" with the same casual inflection and tone as Harry would. Saying "This is where we became best friends. Now it's where we become brothers!" and sounding so pleased and excited that you'd think he was talking about Pete's mom marrying his dad and not infecting him with alien mind goop.

It's so incredible to me that the defining trait of Insomniac's Venom isn't hate; it's love. A twisted, warped love that doesn't fully understand itself, but a sincere and true love nonetheless, one that holds to the very end.

#insomniac spider man #spider man 2 ps5 #harry osborn #venom #peter parker #spider man 2 ps5 spoilers

[jageshemashftw]

I want Rank Choice voting.

I want third party Presidents.

I want the abolishment of party politics.

I want politicians to be voted on individual merit.

I want strict term limits for our politicians.

I want to overturn Citizens United V. FEC.

I want to live in a country that I don’t have to be so completely disappointed in.

These are all good things to want… but what you all need to understand is that these are all very, very long term goals.

And the 2024 elections are not going to wait that long.

We need short term solutions as well as long term solutions so that the short term solutions will keep us afloat long enough to reach those long term goals.

And I hate to say it. I mean I really, really, really, really hate to say it.

But Biden is our best short term solution right now.

I know, believe me, I know. The man is a war criminal and a coward and a fucking murderer. The very fact that I am in any way advocating for him makes me sick to my fucking stomach. I hate Biden and I hate the fact that this is how far our country has fucking fallen.

But it really is either him or Trump.

We can vote for a third party candidate all we want, but even if they win by thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of votes in the popular vote…

That all adds up to maybe a handful of electoral votes as far as the Electoral College is concerned. And as far as the president is concerned, those are the only votes that matter.

It really is either Biden or Trump.

And as terrible, godawful, outright evil as Biden is… we can survive him. We cannot survive another four years of Trump.

He will do everything in his power to turn the U.S. into an outright dictatorship, and if he succeeds, we can kiss any short term or long term goals goodbye. The only goal left will be surviving. That’s it.

And I know this means the genocide in Palestine will continue, but let’s just be honest with ourselves, it’ll continue under Trump too, if not be outright worse.

Trump idolizes tyrants and dictators. You really think he won’t bend over backwards for Israel and give them everything they need to turn Gaza into a glass floor?

I know people are sick to death of hearing things like ‘damage control’, but as far as the presidential election is concerned, damage control is literally all we have left.

However, that’s just the presidential election. We have other options. We can still vote on the state level, we can still protest, we can still advocate, we can still fight.

We can do everything in our power to put more good people in the system, besides the President, who will bring Biden to heel, call him out, drag him through the mud if need be, but that will be a lot easier to do with Biden than with Trump.

Don’t let anyone tell you it’s too little or not enough. They just don’t want you to exercise the power you have because it is a threat to them.

#2024 elections #joe biden #donald trump #anti biden #anti trump #free gaza #free palestine #israel palestine conflict #rant #political rant

[jageshemashftw]

Don’t think of it as voting for Biden (cause I’m sure as shit not), think of it as voting for a larger Democratic base for the next election.

I hate the two-party system too. But just because I hate it doesn’t change the fact that that’s what we have to work with. We can still try to abolish the Electoral College and make third party candidates viable again, but that is a very, very long term goal and the 2024 election is not going to wait that long.

I…. would love to vote third party. Oh, sweet Jesus in heaven, you guys have no idea how much I would love to vote third party.

But the Electoral College still exists.

And as long as the Electoral College still exists, in ANY campaign where Trump is running, I am very much in the ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ camp.

I want a Third Party president so much. But the Electoral College are the one’s in charge of who gets to be in the big chair, and they will never, ever, ever allow a Third Party president. It’s just not going to happen.

At least, at the very fucking least, if I keep voting Democrat, that allows for a bigger Democratic base to build up for the next election and the next election, which would in turn give the people who actually want to abolish the Electoral College a larger platform.

Democrats may not be for abolishing the Electoral College, but they at least don’t try to suppress voter advocacy for abolishment. Unlike Republicans who will do everything in their power to keep the Electoral College around for as long as possible.

I’m not happy about it. Matter of fact, I’m pretty damned pissed about it, and you can be damned sure that I am going to do everything in my power to make sure Congress knows how pissed I am. This ‘lesser of two evils’ bullshit will never go away unless we get the fuck rid of the Electoral College.

But, as of right now, that is a fight for another day.

I can’t do another four years of Trump. I can’t.

I can’t.

#2024 elections #joe biden #donald trump #damn biden and may he burn in hell #i’m not voting for him because i like him #i’m voting for him because i literally have no other options #i fucking hate this country #but it’s the country I live in so I’m gonna keep it on life-support for as long as I can #rant #politics #political

[jageshemashftw]

Can anyone help me find this Christmas decoration?

So, for context, we just had a bit of a Christmas tragedy at our house. Somehow, a bunch of mice managed to dig their way into our Christmas decorations and have urinated and defecated over everything. Luckily, what we haven’t been able to clean, we’ve been able to replace easily enough, but there’s one decoration that’s been giving us some trouble.

We had to toss this snowman lantern because the pee smell soaked into the candle wax, and we can’t, for the life of us, find this same lantern anywhere. If anyone has any idea where we can find another lantern like this, that would be very appreciated.

And I don’t usually ask for reblogs, but that would also be super helpful in getting more eyes on this lantern.

#christmas #christmas decorations #asking for help #I dont know how to tag this

[jageshemashftw]

I…. would love to vote third party. Oh, sweet Jesus in heaven, you guys have no idea how much I would love to vote third party.

But the Electoral College still exists.

And as long as the Electoral College still exists, in ANY campaign where Trump is running, I am very much in the ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ camp.

I want a Third Party president so much. But the Electoral College are the one’s in charge of who gets to be in the big chair, and they will never, ever, ever allow a Third Party president. It’s just not going to happen.

At least, at the very fucking least, if I keep voting Democrat, that allows for a bigger Democratic base to build up for the next election and the next election, which would in turn give the people who actually want to abolish the Electoral College a larger platform.

Democrats may not be for abolishing the Electoral College, but they at least don’t try to suppress voter advocacy for abolishment. Unlike Republicans who will do everything in their power to keep the Electoral College around for as long as possible.

I’m not happy about it. Matter of fact, I’m pretty damned pissed about it, and you can be damned sure that I am going to do everything in my power to make sure Congress knows how pissed I am. This ‘lesser of two evils’ bullshit will never go away unless we get the fuck rid of the Electoral College.

But, as of right now, that is a fight for another day.

I can’t do another four years of Trump. I can’t.

I can’t.

#2024 elections #biden vs trump #vote blue no matter who #damn Biden and may he burn in hell #I’m not voting for him because I like him #I’m voting for him because I literally have no other options #I fucking hate this country #politics #free palestine #israel palestine conflict #free gaza

[jageshemashftw]

So a bunch of mice pissed and shit all over our Christmas ornaments.

So that’s a great start to the year.

#shit post #rant #christmas #mice infestation #merry fucking Christmas everyone

[jageshemashftw]

I find it really interesting that most politicians go-to argument against all the outcries and pleas against Israel to stop their blatant Genocide is that it’s ‘antisemitic’.

Because, A) Like you ever gave a shit about defending Jews against antisemitism before.

And B) The only Jewish people that we are pissed off at right now are the Zionists. And the idea that the statement ‘I hate Zionists’ is somehow an antisemitic statement is akin to saying that the statement ‘I hate neo-nazis’ or ‘I hate the KKK’ is somehow an anti-Christian statement.

#free gaza #israel palestine conflict #free palestine #anti zionisim #politics #rant

[jageshemashftw]

Sonic: Tails…

Tails: No.

Sonic: Tails, we need to talk about this.

Tails: What I do with myself is neither yours nor the Restoration’s business.

Sonic: Tails, it’s nearly been 120 hours and you have not slept.

Tails: My symptoms are both manageable and none of your concern.

Sonic: What do you mean sympto-? You are exhausted, man!

Tails: The serious… (eyes glaze over, stumbles a bit) I got it. I’m fine. The serious symptoms haven’t even started yet.

Sonic: What the fuck was that!?

Tails: Symptom seven: minor narcolepsy. I’ll get over it.

Sonic: You have them numbered?!

Tails: I have everything numbered. I’m organized. Get on my level.

Sonic: I’m calling Sally, we’re putting you to bed.

Tails: She won’t help you. She’s worse than me.

Sonic: …… HOW DO YOU GET WORSE THAN FIVE DAYS?!?!

Tails: Lots of training and plenty of caffeine.

Sonic: How are you not dead?!

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #incorrect quotes #source: pandaredd #shit post

[jageshemashftw]

Why the hell did such a legitimately amazing concept like Dark Super Sonic get used once in a less-than-a-minute-long fight scene in an early aughts anime and then literally never again throughout the entire franchise outside of fanworks?

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic x #dark super sonic #shit post

[jageshemashftw]

Insomniac: Introduces a minor character in one of their games. Fans absolutely love this character and have already started shipping them with one of the main characters. Brings this minor character back for the sequel, promoting them to the main cast and makes them the aforementioned main character’s official love interest because they know that’s what the fans wanted.

Also Insomniac: Who the fuck is Angela Cross?

#insomniac games #insomniac #spider man 2 #spider man ps5 #miles morales #hailey cooper #ratchet and clank #ratchet and clank going commando #angela cross #shit post #shitpost

[jageshemashftw]

Being LGBTQ has to be wrong because it makes me feel gross whenever I look at it!!

Buddy, as someone who was homophobic when I was 12 and is a flaming queer now, I promise you the only reason why you ‘feel gross’ whenever you see the El Gibbities doing their thing is because you were told to feel gross about it. And that, if you don’t ‘feel gross’ about it, it’s a ‘betrayal’ to the people who told you to feel that way.

Once you realize that, and come to terms that you are beholden to no one’s opinion but your own, that ‘gross’ feeling goes away real quick.

#lgbtq+ #rant #personal shit #homophobia #transphobia #queerphobia

[jageshemashftw]

Amy: What the hell are you doing here?

Surge: I-

Amy: Five words or less.

Surge: … Out. For. A. Walk.

Surge: ……. Bitch.

#sonic the hedgehog #amy rose #surge the tenrec #source: buffy the vampire slayer #incorrect quotes

[jageshemashftw]

Tails: Hey, can I get a lift to the mall? I want to buy a dress.

Amy: …. First off, let me just say that I’m honored you came to me for this and how proud I am for you being brave enough to say it. If this is a side of yourself you want to explore, I will gladly support you and-

Tails: It’s not for me. It’s a birthday gift for Cream. But you handled that very well!

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #amy rose #incorrect quotes #source: tumblr #shit post

[jageshemashftw]

It’s not just that Jameson has a pathological distrust of anyone wearing a mask, that’s part of it, but it’s also that Jameson absolutely despises the very concept of anonymity and unaccountability and masks are just a convenient visual shorthand for those concepts that Jameson can latch onto as a point of debate.

Honestly, there’s a lot of New York based anonymous vigilantes that Jameson could have projected his hatred of unaccountability to, the only reason he fixated on Spider-Man so much is because Peter constantly trolls and enables him.

#spider-man #j jonah jameson #shit post

[jageshemashftw]

……..Okay, you’ve won some points with me for that Reptile trailer, but still!

I want my damn kids back, Boon.

And, no, Hanzo cosplaying as Takeda like Steve Buscemi going ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’ does not count.

#mortal kombat #mortal kombat 1 #reptile #syzoth #mortal kombat banished trailer #kombat kids #cassie cage #kung jin #takeda takahashi #jacqui briggs #shit post

[jageshemashftw]

I want my damn kids back, Boon.

And, no, Hanzo cosplaying as Takeda like Steve Buscemi going ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’ does not count.

#mortal kombat #mortal kombat 1 #Cassie cage #jacqui briggs #kung Jin #takeda takahashi #kombat kids #shit post

[jageshemashftw]

(In Sally’s bedroom…)

King Acorn: (from outside the room) Sally? Are you there, daughter?

Amy: (head popping up, covered in lipstick) Oh no! It’s your Dad! Oh, what is the King going to think when he finds the Princess like this with me?!

Sally: (dazed and lovestruck, also covered in lipstick) Uhhh…. Lucky Princess?

#sonic the hedgehog #amy rose #sally acorn #shipping #sallamy #salamy #incorrect quotes #source: road to el dorado #shit post