Ngl i am kinda anoyed the symbiote is just a "manipulative evil metaphor for substance abuse" in Spider-Man adaptations. When the symbiote is so much more interesting, more layered and i preffer when the suit is treated like an unhealty relationship with boundary issues and lack od comunication, where Peter sees it as a physical thing while the suit is in love with Peter and doesn't understand boundaries (hence taking his body on rides while he's asleep). That's kinda what i like about the original alien suit saga, the suit isn't the focus and it's all fairly subtle where it doesn't turn Peter angry or evil.
substance abuse? okay, i don't really think i've consumed a lot of the more recent adaptations of the symbiote, save for the venom films and spider-man 3 (my beloved. it's not good. i love it somehow regardless. it's agony to watch.) i think it's so boring to read the symbiote that way. besides - people can be self-destructive without it being related to substance abuse. it can be allegorical for anything, anything.
i think with the symbiote (or any metaphor at all) it can't be 1:1 – but the way i see the symbiote is that it's kind of an embodiment of his ego. the symbiote - actually, is a force that loves peter parker and wants to protect him.
it embodies the opposite of self-destruction, actually. peter parker - peter parker is self-destructive. but the symbiote? the symbiote wants nothing more than to protect peter. because they're one.
the symbiote, to me, the way i write it, is an embodiment of peter's sense of self-preservation. it's his ego. it's his sense of self-love. it's all the things peter does to protect himself, and nurse himself, and soothe himself, and bolster himself, and shield himself.
it's all of peter's habits, and all of his insecurities. everything he does out of a sense of self-love and self-preservation. so that's why...
but also why...
so it's all of peter's behaviours that peter's brain orchestrated to soothe him and protect him - good and bad. the suit loves him, but also isolates him out of a sense of self-protection.
peter is scared of getting close to people - particularly johnny, because - you know, bisexual panic. and so the symbiote literalises this and is terrified of flame. i think it's funny goofy that in 9319 it's canon that the symbiote is weak to flame because peter is gay for johnny and can't handle it. hilarious. i am hilarious.
(also the symbiote is weak to high pitched frequencies because peter's autistic ass was already sensitive to noise!!! the symbiote just soaked it up.)
the symbiote was a blank slate, and only learns from peter. so what comes out with symby, is just - it's just what peter is, but manifesting in a way that facilitates peter looking at it from an alien perspective. like peter knows it's him. but he'll deny it, and pin it on the alien. and so when peter rejects the symbiote, he's rejecting himself. he's rejecting all of the things he's ashamed of. and his rejection of the symbiote is the actual destructive force.
aaaat least that's the way i see it.
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“My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space? Can you handle unspeakable horrors from outer space paralyzing the living and resurrecting the dead?”
64 years ago today (22 July 1959), gloriously inept and twisted b-movie visionary Ed Wood Jr unleashed his much-ridiculed el cheapo sci fi horror thriller Plan 9 from Outer Space (original title: Grave Robbers from Outer Space) – frequently derided as the worst film ever made – on an unsuspecting and mostly oblivious public. Pictured: cadaverous glamour ghoul Vampira (aka Maila Nurmi) and hulking Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson.
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Wes doesn't have a phone, his only mode of contact is email from his PDA. Leon off handedly mentioned getting him a phone once and had to endure a several hour long rant about how he's not gonna let some rich assholes have access to your data and location, and how having a phone on you is how you get caught and killed by the government because they are tracking you, and the first rule of getting away with a crime is don't have a recording device on you when you commit it. (Meanwhile Raihan is hiding in the bushes recording this entire rant on his phone)
Despite the fact that Wes has several email contacts, he has only one active email thread with Eagun. They have never said a word to each other, it's just a very long chain of pictures of their Pokemon sent back and forth.
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So a couple weeks ago I got this free offer of “make your own custom tote bag on Shutterfly for free, you just have to pay for shipping” and not knowing what else to get printed on it, I just went for a sambucky edit I made of an animated emoji that came out when the show aired.
Anyhow, so the bag came and it looks SO good!!!
My original image was small and lower res than what Shutterfly likes so I had to find a way to upscale the image while keeping good quality. Took me a bit but found a good AI that did it.
I’m glad I only had to pay for shipping because if I had to pay the actual price plus shipping??? The costs would’ve been over 30 dollars and I would’ve lost my mind
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Just some funny silly goofy alien circus entertainers❤️ (aka mine and my besties klownsonas🫶)
From left to right: Petals (mine), Sizzle (@barebandbear), and Fatcakes! (@colorfulsaccharinecalamity)
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