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dearausten · 5 months

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just rewatched pride and prejudice 1995 and i loved it, even more than before! here are some thoughts:

- the best thing about this adaptation is, to me, the performance of jennifer ehle as elizabeth. honestly, she nails everything about her character, in my opinion. from lizzy’s wit and sense of humor to her firm resolution in rejecting darcy the first time and dealing with lady catherine, while also displaying all her conflictimg emotions not only during the whole wickham affair, but also when she found herself longing for darcy’s good opinion (who knows why!). she was absolutely charming and one can’t help but root for her.

- this might be obvious, but i love how it is pretty much the same as the book! it’s very clear that having six episodes worth of screen time instead of two hours as you get in movies played in their favor.

- i love the bennets! i love seeing the sisters interact! i love seeing them in their daily lives and watching their dynamics. i also think they got almost all of the characterizations perfectly. lydia, kitty, mary and mrs. bennet were all on point! however i do feel like they toned down mr. bennet’s flaws and only focused on the funny/sarcastic side of his character. other than that, i liked him too :)

- i’ve seen many people who don’t like this mr. collins but honestly i really enjoyed him. he was ridiculous and absurd, and he annoyed the fuck out of everyone, which is accurate lol. i do wish they’d made him age appropriate bc... that man is not 25 lol. anyways, i actually thought this collins was more accurate than 2005!collins.

- oh, caroline, you sneaky thing! i have nothing to say about her, really. i think she was portrayed very accurately as well. and they included the hursts!

- mr. bingley was good too! love me some golden retriever energy

- and, of course, how could i not talk about colin firth as darcy! he was DISGUSTED to be around common gentry people. he looked like he’d rather hang himself from the ceiling than be in those goddamn social gatherings for one more minute. he was so displeased with everyone and clearly thought they were nothing but a pain in his ass, and i love that lol.

- but OH MY he’s a simp! he can’t stop staring at elizabeth for the life of him. istg he is so fascinated by her. that scene at rosings when lizzy is talking to colonel fitzwilliam and darcy just stared at them while she roasts the fuck out of him????? top tier

- one thing i adored about his performance was just how miserable he looks when she isn’t around! and mind you, this is DARCY we’re talking about.

- the lake scene was great, but CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT LOOK THEY GAVE EACH OTHER IN THAT ONE SCENE???? YES, THAT LOOK. YALL KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. IT MAKES ME WEAKKK

- the ONLY note that i have is that i wish he smiled more, especially when they meet after the letter (but before that too)

- honestly the only bad thing i have to say about this adaptation is that the second proposal felt a little... underwhelming. it’s supposed to be this big emotional moment why do they look like they’re talking about the weather 😭

my conclusion: i’ve worshipped 2005 since the first time i watched but i feel like i’ve just become a 1995 stan, it was just so so good and so faithful to the book. and yes, i finished it two days ago. yes, i’ll be rewatching today.

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #p&p 1995 #i am now a 1995 truther i fear #that is until i rewatch 2005 and become a mess #and the cycle goes on and and on

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pinkboyrc · 1 year

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Some LO opinions/thoughts I would like to dump here

DISCLAIMER : I am strictly going to be talking about LO for what it is, I don’t really care what the myths are about because as far as I know there are many versions of every single God/people. You don’t have to agree or disagree with this but that is all.

1 ) Persephone is an interesting character and I don’t think she is a Mary sue, that just comes off as misogynistic when people say it.

2 ) Regarding the Perse-Hades-Minthe love triangle thing, I don’t think Minthe had any right to get jealous over Hades liking Perse considering she was sleeping with Thantanos. From the sounds of it they had an open relationship, she only wanted it closed off when she saw hades could also benefit from that.

3 ) I do not like Minthe’s character arc ending. I think we should have got to see her and perse interact more after she was changed back into a nymph and more of her time in the mortal realm. Her ending should have been her gaining female friendships that were based on respect and not toxic, that way her ending the friendship with Thetis would have felt more impactful.

4 ) Demeter has not acted out of character in her recent chapters. This was built up from the very beginning, and her relationship to perse is very nuanced which is why we see it is such a struggle for them to see eye to eye. Demeter is not an antagonist, she is very clearly morally grey in this, just like most of the characters in the story.

5 ) Apollo raped perse. Simple as, there is no denying this.

6 ) Perse is allowed to have sexuality and not be repulsed by sex.

7 ) The story was always going to be Hades and Perse getting together so coming into the story and complaining about them being together makes no sense. If you want a story that demonises the relationship go look somewhere else, it is annoying at this point.

8 ) The art was more interesting in season 1 and the first half of season 2. Not to say I don’t like it now but I liked the previous style more to the one we have now. I also like the colours better previously.

9 ) Hades backstory and trauma is very looked over by the fandom and almost every critique of him ignores it or treats him as if he does not have trauma. I think can be boiled down to people still not understanding men can be abused (I’m looking at the minthe stans who defend her verbally and physically abusing him).

10 ) Back to minthe, I think she deserved to get turned into the plant. Girlie fucked around and found out.

11 ) I do not think everything about LO is perfect and there are things to be critical about but if you’re making entire accounts dedicated to it and just straight up making fun of, accusing RS of crimes and overall clearly showing feral dislike of the series, please consider stop reading LO, it’s not healthy to obsess over things that clearly make you unhappy.

12) final opinion of the day is :

Demeter deserved to be queen of the mortal realm, hades is a cunt for denying her that.

#lore olympus

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ts1989fanatic · 11 months

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OPINION

Matty Healy exposed the dark side of the Taylor Swift parasocial fantasy

The responses to Taylor Swift's latest breakup highlight a toxic cultural phenomenon.

Karma may be your boyfriend, but Taylor Swift is not your best friend.Chelsea Stahl / MSNBC; Getty Images

June 6, 2023, 5:29 PM EDT

By Patricia Grisafi

It’s a bummer when your best friend starts dating an apparent dirtbag. God, you think, what does she see in him? He looks like he smells of stale coffee and cigarettes. He looks like a hipster stork. You’ve heard him brag about how he watches humiliation porn. And don’t forget the racism and antisemitism.

Except Taylor Swift is not your best friend.

I don’t know what prompted the breakup, but I doubt it was a tearful Swiftie on TikTok.

When news broke this week that Swift and The 1975 lead singer Matty Healy had ended their brief relationship, social media celebrated in a way that was notable — and a little deranged. (And immediately started speculating about her next fling.) Just hop on Twitter and read the comments about how Swift had really heard her fans and tossed that loser in the trash. I don’t know what prompted the breakup, but I doubt it was a tearful Swiftie on TikTok. Still, imagine feeling like you have that kind of influence over a person you’ve never interacted with. Or that kind of personal investment.

Swift is — in some ways — an unusually private celebrity. It feels like her every move is carefully choreographed. We hardly ever see her messy, incoherent, or intentionally challenging. But fans feel like they know Swift because she writes prolifically about romantic relationships. It’s hardly novel, a musician writing about love and loss. Still, fans pore over these songs. They find Easter eggs in the lyrics, do complex analysis aligning certain ex-boyfriends with specific details. And because language is subjective and Swift is arguably both elusive and slyly encouraging of these readings, the meanings are ever-shifting. Depending on who you ask, she is everything from an Aryan pinup girl to a queer icon. In short, she is the perfect parasocial fantasy subject.

The term “parasocial interaction” has been around since sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl theorized on the phenomenon in the 1950s. A parasocial interaction refers to a relationship in which a consumer comes to believe that media personalities are their intimate friends and that an emotional connection is shared. The phrase has become more popular recently with the rise of pop culture super fans, or stans. These fans can become incredibly invested in their favorite celebrity’s real-life relationships, and devastated if those relationships implode.

See, for example, when comedian John Mulaney separated from his wife Anna Marie Tendler in May of 2020 and began dating actor Olivia Munn. While celebrity relationships have always been fodder for gossip and people are naturally curious about their favorite stars (this writer included), public response regarding the Mulaney situation was noteworthy. Critics suggested that this was because Mulaney’s public persona made it seem like he was your buddy, your pal, a friend you could relate to. And he made his personal life part of his public persona by integrating details about his wife and French bulldog Petunia into his comedy routine. When he violated the parasocial social contract by not living up to that fantasy, things fell apart. It’s similar with Swift — particularly, this situation with Healy.

Swift stepping out with Healy disrupted fan notions of her and the values they believe she holds dear. She’s dating a guy who makes racist remarks? Who unrepentantly laughs about violently objectifying women? Is this who you are, Taylor? And if this is who you are, who am I?

Things got so intense that a group of Swifties circulated an open letter telling other fans to #SpeakUpNow.

Things got so intense that a group of Swifties circulated an open letter telling other fans to #SpeakUpNow and condemn the relationship: “He has been involved in acts and controversies that deeply trouble us,” the letter says. “We urge you to reflect on the impact of your own and your associates’ behavior and engage in genuine self-reflection.”

Rapper Ice Spice, who Healy called a “chubby Chinese lady” on a podcast, was brought in to share the stage with Swift in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Some speculated this act was a professional olive branch, others an empty, performative gesture to both Ice Spice and fans who were disturbed by Healy’s original remarks (he has since offered both an apology and a non-apology for the comments).

Poets talk a lot about how the speaker of the poem is not the writer of the poem. You’ve got to put distance between them. That’s healthy for artists and fans. You don’t know anything about Taylor Swift except what she carefully curates and puts out into the world. Her songs may speak to you, but she directly is not. Proclamation of ownership over a stranger and her love life, the fantasy that our whispers reach Swift’s ears and she heeds our pleas, is problematic.

Parasocial relationships can show the beauty of human emotion, our capacity for empathy, and our ever-expanding desire to connect. On the darker side, they reveal our desire for control, our capacity for cruelty, and our instincts to possess. If the parasocial fantasy is punctured, you might have to make an ethical choice that forces you to confront the dissolution of that illusion — and, more importantly, yourself and what you’re willing to accept.

ts1989fanatic: in some ways the last month or so on SM has been far worse and much more divisive than this🐍🐍🐍🐍 in 2016. There are times when I don’t recognize our fandom anymore.

I honestly don’t know if it’s the rise of TikTok as a preeminent SM platform or just a general increase in SM usage but I do know it’s become far more toxic than it was just a few short years ago.

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god-u · 4 months

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I think I need to step away from this fandom before things get weirder and weirder, like last year when gen v dropped and I watched it I became a fan instantly and I got really into limoreau, Derek and London and there was none of that inconvenience, now anything a person says about the cast or the series has become a reason to fight specially on Twitter

honestly do what you need to but i don’t think it’s the fandom as much as it is just weird ppl on twitter. it’s very toxic on there and ppl can never be normal about celebrities supporting one another especially if they’re supporting the opposite sex and or if they’re uplifting a Black woman specifically (we know why). so yea i get it

i stopped using my old account that was public because i got sick of how a lot of gen v twt would steal content from tumblr creators without crediting us, the racism towards marie while excusing everything cate did and pretending cate was the actual protagonist in whatever state of delusion some cate stans seem to live in there, and so on.

running the derek account is fun cause the virgo moon in me gets to be organized by posting updates for funsies and i can interact with some of the fandom without it being too personal and overwhelming. outside of that, i have a private twt with like 3 close friends on there and that’s all i use outside of the derek one lol

#this response got long but yea do whatever makes you most comfortable #i really love gen v tumblr and my mutuals here but gen v twt is a whole other world fr #i don’t care to get involved in fandoms anyway especially not there since i just post whatever interests me for the most part #but i’m happy my hyperfixation led to me meeting some wonderful ppl and making new friends ❤️#asks #anonymous #📩

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joealwyndaily · 2 years

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Joe Alwyn currently occupies one of the strangest spaces in the greater celebrity matrix. He’s not yet the sort of movie star your parents would recognize at the airport and text you about, nor does he have the box-office draw of a Chalamet or Pattinson, at least not yet. The 31-year-old has been working steadily in film and television since his straight-out-of-British-drama-school debut as the lead in Ang Lee’s 2016 high-def experiment Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. He racked up a series of well-received supporting roles in big period Oscar dramas and small critically appreciated indies, usually playing a Ken-doll-faced dick (Harriet, Operation Finale, Boy Erased, The Last Letter From Your Lover) or a blushing Brit from a bygone era (The Sense of an Ending, The Favourite, The Souvenir Part II, Mary Queen of Scots). Now, his first lead role since Billy, in Hulu’s second Sally Rooney adaptation, Conversations With Friends, threatens to make him fully Recognizable to Moms.

For a specific and rather substantial subset of the global population, however, Alwyn is not only a household name but a dinner-table centerpiece. To Google him is to stare straight into the stan-culture abyss. Lengthy YouTube videos are dedicated to his rare and rather unremarkable public interactions with his overwhelmingly famous longtime girlfriend — “Taylor Swift turns around to look at her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, and sticks her tongue out at him” — or to the opaque references the two have made to the mere fact of each other’s existence. Breathless lists of “everything Taylor and Joe have said about their private relationship” abound in the Us Weekly universe. Alwyn is left to choose his words and body language wisely or risk their becoming permanent parts of the elaborate Swiftian canon. The man is not simply well-versed in the art of concealment; he is the Criss Angel of conversational dynamics. In interviews, he often demonstrates an ability to politely answer a question while revealing absolutely nothing about himself, sometimes even backtracking mid-answer to negate a benign detail. (From a recent piece in Mr. Porter: “Well, do you like football?” asks the reporter. “Football?” replies Alwyn. “Yeah. Am I allowed to say those kinds of things?”)

Yet he believes he has gotten better at the whole press thing over the years. “I don’t think I don’t enjoy interviews,” he says carefully. “I think I have seemed guarded.” He definitely “would like to not seem so guarded in them.” I can see those contradicting desires roiling inside Alwyn now, sitting across from him on the patio at Fairfax, in the West Village, for lunch. His energy is vaguely uncomfortable but determined, like that of someone preparing to swim laps in the English Channel in January to prove something to themselves. Perhaps sensing he has already revealed too much, he falls back on one of his tried-and-true lines: “If you were to ask a stranger on the street questions about their private life, let alone with the intent to then post it everywhere, why would that person not be like, ‘Sorry, what, why?’ So why would I not be like that?” He points at a woman sitting across the way from us who is, to my knowledge, not on a press tour. “I’m not going to go over there and ask that woman about her personal life.” “Actually, maybe you should,” I suggest. “I mean, I might do later,” he says, now looking cheered. “I’ll just holler across the street.”

Alwyn orders a Guinness (which is not available, so he opts for an IPA) after confirming I will also be drinking. “I’m just clinging on to that Irishness,” he says, referring to the five months he spent filming Conversations With Friends in Belfast. I start with some simple questions — When did he realize he wanted to act? What was he like as a child? “See, these are the questions I find hard,” he says. Was he introverted? Outgoing? Sporty? “I was on the introverted side but not a crippling introvert. Like an extroverted introvert,” he answers. “Is that allowed?”

In small spurts, I learn Alwyn was “not hammy” as a youth — instead, he was the family baby, “displaced” at age 12 by a new sibling, and an athlete who realized what he really wanted was to act. He kept his burning theatrical desires quiet, à la Zac Efron in High School Musical. He admits to an early obsession with Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and talks joyfully about how he was brought up watching “random French movies” with his documentary-filmmaker father and psychotherapist mother. Occasionally, he broke free from the chains of jockdom and played Banquo in a version of Macbeth performed entirely on Rollerblades, and Snowy the dog in a production of Tintin despite looking exactly like Tintin: “Snowy was more of a stretch.”

Alwyn says he “secretly would look up drama schools online” as a teenager. Once in university, he applied to four and was rejected by all but one. He was yanked out in his last year by Lee, who had fought with the studio to cast an unknown as the naïve, PTSD-ridden Billy Lynn. “It was terrifying and surreal and happened so quickly,” Alwyn remembers. Critics were almost unilaterally derisive of the film, but Alwyn was praised for his naturalism, his believable innocence, and, per one review, a “cuteness roughly akin to that of Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting.” Like most things that have happened to Alwyn, that image has proved to be both a boon and a curse. Directors feel they must either play off it directly (place him somewhere in the past when evidently it was more normal to look like that; make him the evil, rich trophy husband to 1960s amnesia victim Shailene Woodley; cast him as Margot Robbie’s devoted, winsome courtier) or subvert it (he looks this way because he is an actual Nazi). Before filming Billy Lynn, Lee had been concerned that Alwyn was “too handsome” to play a run-of-the-mill contemporary dude; ultimately, he decided Alwyn’s face is “so compelling it doesn’t matter.”

The conversation about his looks gets meta in Conversations. In the series, he plays Nick, an emotionally walled-off, married, 30-something actor who begins an affair with a college student and slowly lets his guard down. His character is a classically attractive, heavily restrained man with hidden depths who struggles to be taken seriously while everyone around him says stuff about his face. In one scene, he and his paramour, Frances, are bidding each other farewell after a drawn-out romp when she blurts out, “You’re so handsome.” Nick turns pink. “I thought you were attracted to my personality,” he jokes half-heartedly. “Do you even have one?” replies Frances, who then looks equally humiliated. Alwyn begins mock-pulling at his cheeks and widening his eyes at any talk of said face. “Two eyes, one nose, one mouth,” he says. “I don’t know what to say.” But did he relate to that moment with Nick and Frances? “It’s not something I wrestled with,” he says, studying me as he spoons up some steak tartare. He tenses a bit. “What are you trying to get me to say about my face?” I explain that I have no specific face-related agenda, and he visibly relaxes. “No, sorry, I’m sure,” he says. “I would much rather work with an interesting director in a smaller, weirder, darker part, than something big and obvious and getting typecast just for the sake of it.”

COVID had messed up his plans to star in an “Emily Brontë origin story,” so he put himself on tape for Conversations director Lenny Abrahamson one weekend at an unnamed friend’s “beautiful, immaculate” house. Thinking he needed to look older than his three decades to play the mid-30s Nick, he went upstairs to find a jacket from his friend’s “older husband,” where he found a paperback copy of Conversations With Friends lying on the bedroom floor. He got the part a week later. “I’m not superstitious,” he adds, before spending the next five minutes discussing the things he actually is superstitious about — namely, and randomly, magpies. (“If I see one, I’m like, ‘Oh, shit,’” he says, whipping out his phone to show me a photo of a magpie, appearing genuinely thrilled to be talking about this.)

Alwyn’s performance in Conversations is his best yet. He’s convincing as a sensitive, depressive guy who desperately wants to open up to someone but doesn’t quite know if it’s safe to do so. The role is bold. There are more sex scenes per capita in this series than anything he has ever done, scenes of the caliber and intimacy that turned Paul Mescal, the previously unknown star of Hulu’s first Rooney adaptation, Normal People, into an icon of early-pandemic-era sensuality. “When they sent the audition, they said, just as a heads up, that it would be to sign up for the possibility of full frontal,” Alwyn says, though he ended up going tush-only. Is he prepared to be the subject of a new type of public frenzy? “To be honest, I forget that other people will see it.”

In the summer of 2020, Swift surprise-released the Grammy-winning album Folklore. Fans speculated endlessly about the identity of William Bowery, a mysterious co-writer on two songs. That November, Swift revealed that Bowery was in fact Alwyn and that the pair had taken up songwriting together in quarantine. I assume Alwyn will give me one of his speak-arounds on the subject. Instead, he leans forward, putting his English Channel–swimming face back on. “What would you like to know?”

Although he grew up playing a bit of piano and was the guitarist in a “crappy school band called Anger Management,” Alwyn doesn’t consider himself a musician or songwriter and insists that he is, in fact, an awful singer. He was merely “messing around” on the piano when Swift heard and walked over, intrigued. He had been singing the fully formed first verse to the song that became “Exile.” (Bon Iver handles the male vocals on the final version.) “It was completely off the cuff, an accident,” he says, shrugging. “She said, ‘Can we try and sit down and get to the end together?’ And so we did. It was as basic as some people made sourdough.”

I press him on this point — he wrote an entire verse to a Taylor Swift song without trying? “Who doesn’t walk around the house singing?” he asks. I explain that it’s unusual for hit songs to spring forth like that from nonmusicians’ heads. He says he wasn’t trying to write to Swift’s personal sound but had been listening to a lot of the National (Aaron Dessner ended up producing the album). Alwyn wrote the chorus for “Betty” just as casually, albeit less soberly: “I’d probably had a drink and was just stumbling around the house. We couldn’t decide on a film to watch that night, and she was like, ‘Do you want to try and finish writing that song you were singing earlier?’ And so we got a guitar and did that.”

Initially, Alwyn didn’t want his name credited, anticipating that what he describes as the “clickbait conversation” would distract people from actually listening to the music. So he went by William Bowery as a nod to his music-composer great-grandfather and the Manhattan street. But then he recognized the “clickbait conversation” was happening anyway — “I don’t say that vainly,” he adds quickly — so why not let the world know it was him? He stresses his blissful ignorance of, say, those videos dissecting his relationship with Swift: “I’m aware of those when people tell me in these situations.” It seems like a healthy, practiced denial; he has worked at tuning this shit out because otherwise he might never utter a single syllable again. And despite having a face that launched a thousand Swift songs, at certain angles in his normal-boy outfit, he does have a certain ability to blend. None of the other 30-somethings lunching at Fairfax seem to have any clue who he is. “I suppose it’s not as if you’re Jennifer Lopez,” I joke. “I beg to differ,” he shoots back with a laugh. “I am Jennifer Lopez.” I start to warm to Alwyn. He knows that what he wants (privacy) and what he has to do (publicity) are fundamentally at odds and has embraced that contradiction with dry, charming wit.

We’ve finished our food, which means the moment we’ve both been dreading can no longer be avoided. “You have things you have to ask,” says Alwyn, folding his hands together. “And I’ll either choose to answer or not.” I look him gamely in the face and ask if he is, indeed, betrothed to marry one Taylor Alison Swift. He exhales. “The truth is,” he begins, “if I had a pound coin for every time someone told me I’ve been engaged or I’m getting engaged, I would have a lot of pound coins. If the answer was yes, I wouldn’t say. If the answer is no, I wouldn’t say.” I’m struck briefly speechless. It is perhaps the best non-answer I have ever received. I ask him how often he’s practiced it, and he explains that recently, back home in the U.K., a journalist had tried to sneakily phrase the engagement as a statement rather than a question. “You’re not the first person to ask,” he says. His tone conveys that he understands I will also not be the last.

Before I release Alwyn back into the wild, I ask why, in one of his rare forays into celebrity endorsement — a perfectly confusing Tom Ford perfume commercial — he appears physically appalled by the sight of his own neck in the mirror as he sprays himself with the scent. “How dare you!” he says, laughing, looking both offended and delighted. “If that’s not how everyone puts perfume on themselves, then I’ve been lied to.” He suddenly remembers his professional obligations: “Tom Ford’s amazing as a person.” He stands up and bids me a polite farewell. Walking solo toward Tribeca, he is instantly snapped by the paparazzi.

#joe alwyn #interview #vulture

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boltun-tkn · 6 months

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I personally, am 50/50 on Lili, but I can see why you don’t like her, as Tekken 7 in particular soured her a bit for me.

As a staunch Asuka stan, I feel mad salty over the waste of Asuka’s potential. I am begging for Tekken 8 to do her justice and put some damn respect on her name I am begging 😭😭😭😭

im siding with asuka definetly lmao, i think their "friendship" is hella toxic, why is only lili getting away with everything, why cant asuka can have her winner moments too? why is it always the rich white girl? she lost to asuka once and became sssniperwolf lmaoooo, just stalking and stalking and being gross and creepy

i know that "mary sue" is a phrase from the past but thats how i see lilis character, she never deals with any problems, if theyre frenemies then i expect some teasing from both sides

this is why im not a fan of the ship, its just abuse and bullying, now lili is interacting with azu and i know she will scam her or some shit, lili is not likeable, she isnt funny, she isnt charming, asuka deserves a friend like xiao

#i have ideas how to fix this writing also lmaoooo #i wish i could like it but its just the writers not knowing how friendships work apparently idk #tekken

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Spider-Man Day

How will you celebrate Spider-Man Day on August 1? It’s important to remember one thing: with great power comes great responsibility. Now, you, a Spider-Man fanatic, have all the power in the world to celebrate one of the most iconic comic-book superheroes of all time whichever way you want to, so don’t take this responsibility lightly. This is your gift and your curse!

Created by Steve Dikto and Stan Lee, Spider-Man is Marvel Comics most iconic character for the past 59 years. For all true fans of the web-slinger, August 1, 2023 is the day on which you can appreciate what Spider-Man has brought to your lives.

However, you chose to celebrate Spider-Man Day 2023 don’t forget to share your thoughts with us.

When is Spider-Man Day 2023?

“Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!” is celebrated on Spider-Man Day on August 1, 2023.

History of Spider-Man Day

Everyone loves Spider-Man. And how can we not? Spider-Man entered the comic-book universe in issue 15 of Marvel Comics’ “Amazing Fantasy” in August 1962 and has been a major player ever since. The groundbreaking story caught the attention of readers when it featured an awkward, antisocial teenager as its superhero — a description typically associated with sidekicks. But this bold move turned out to be a boon for creator Stan Lee, who touched the hearts of a generation of kids who felt lonely, rejected, or had difficulty making friends. Spider-Man proved that anyone can be a superhero and, even after being around for about 60 years, he’s still as popular as ever.

Spider-Man got his own comic series, “The Amazing Spider-Man,” in March 1963. The titular character rose to popularity and quickly became integral in the ever-expanding Marvel Universe, engaging with regularly featured characters like the Human Torch, the Incredible Hulk, and Daredevil. The supporting characters in the Spider-Man world were equally interactive and colorful, enthralling readers who developed soft spots for them. This includes J. Jonah Jameson, the anti-Spider-Man editor-in-chief for the “Daily Bugle” newspaper, Spider-Man’s love interests Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson, and costumed villains like Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin, and Venom.

Spider-Man became a fast-expanding franchise, his heroics no longer able to be contained in single monthly issues. Spidey’s frequent crossover storylines with other Marvel characters led to the creation of the bimonthly series “Marvel Team-Up” in March 1972, which ran for 150 issues. Spider-Man teamed up with nearly every high-profile superhero in the Marvel Universe in this ongoing series.

“Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man” was the fourth installment comic series of Spider-Man’s continuing adventures. It debuted in December 1976 and ended after 263 issues. One of the most memorable events of this era was Peter’s marriage to Mary Jane Watson.

We all know Spider-Man is fast, but his momentum in the comic world was soon noticed by Hollywood as well. Sony Entertainment purchased the rights to Spider-Man, and brought him to the big screen in May 2002 with the movie “Spider-Man.” With Tobey Maguire playing the friendly neighborhood superhero, the Spider-Man movies paved the way for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the superhero movie genre. “Spider-Man 2” was released in 2004 and broke box-office records, followed by “Spider-Man 3” in 2007, which ended Director Sam Raimi’s trilogy. The franchise was rebooted five years later, with “The Amazing Spider-Man” in 2012, starring Andrew Garfield.

Next, Spider-Man made his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the third act of “Captain America: Civil War” (2016). Young actor Tom Holland breathed life into the web-slinger, who had been neglected due to the ongoing legal issues and character rights between Sony Entertainment and Marvel Studios. The latest Marvel movies featuring Spider-Man are worldwide blockbusters “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018) and “Spider-Man: Far From Home” (2019).

Spider-Man Day timeline

1962 A Hero is Born

Stan Lee comes up with the idea for Spider-Man and the character first appears in a comic as a supporting character.

1963 First Independent Comic

Spider-Man gets his own comic, "The Amazing Spider-Man".

2002 Spider-Man Goes to Hollywood

Spider-Man gets his own movie franchise ("Spider-Man") starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco.

2010 Broadway Special

"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" debuts on Broadway in NYC.

2012 Meet the New Spidey!

"The Amazing Spider-Man" starring Andrew Garfield premieres, followed by a sequel ("The Amazing Spider-Man 2") in 2014.

2017 Third Time’s the Charm

"Spider-Man: Homecoming" premieres, starring the new Spider-Man, Tom Holland.

Traditions

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is celebrated with exciting events, movie marathons, and trading of collectible comic book issues featuring the superhero. Spider-Man gets the approval of both kids and adults, which makes him so likable and relatable. Kids don their Spider-Man costumes and toy web slingers, whereas grown-up enthusiasts wear more elaborate costumes to celebrate events and parties.

Spider-Man comic books that are rare and collectible are traded and sold. Special issues are also available at some comic book stores. With the release of the latest Spider-Man video game, gamers and online streamers host playthrough sessions of the latest and older Spider-Man games. Today is also the day where traditionally we see many masked marauders make news headlines around the world as they attempt to climb walls and buildings — but don’t try this at home (or anywhere for that matter), kids!

Spider-Man Day By The Numbers

10 tons – the weight that Spider-Man can bench press.

200 mph – the top speed at which Spider-Man can run.

#15 – the issue number of the “Amazing Fantasy” comic book that Spider-Man first appeared in.

2002 – the year in which the Spider-Man movie franchise was released.

#290 – the comic issue of “The Amazing Spider-Man” in which the superhero married Mary Jane.

1963 – the year when Spider-Man’s first solo title “The Amazing Spider-man (Vol. 1)” appeared on shelves.

700th – the issue number at which Volume 1 of “The Amazing Spider-Man” ended in December 2012.

8 – the total number of Spider-Man cartoon series.

1 hour – the time it takes for Spider-Man’s web to dissolve.

250 – the IQ level of Peter Parker.

Spider-Man Day Activities

Have a Spider-Man movie marathon

Throw a Spider-Man party

Parkour!

Depending how far back in time you want to go and which producers/directors you prefer, you could easily spend an entire day watching movie adaptations of Spider-Man comics. Perhaps you and your friends could watch and compare the latest releases, both Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man and discuss which version is better.

Invite your friends over, decorate the house and get the silly string web-slinging devices ready 'cause it’s party time! To really make your party stand out, try some Spidey-themed food like deviled eggs with paprika shaken into the shape of a spider. To keep the adults happy, try making the Spider-Man cocktail mixed with cherry and raspberry liqueurs, tequila and a sprinkling of pop rocks.

Ever wanted to leap and fly like Spider-Man? While swinging through New York City with a series of webs isn’t quite realistic, the growing trend of parkour can be done, right here and now. A mix of gymnastics and dancing, building up your parkour skills means flipping, sliding and jumping through the city just like Spidey.

5 Super Facts About Spider-Man

Spider-Man was originally Fly-Man

The only spider people like

It’s in the name

Venom was born from fanfiction

Changing times

Initially, Stan Lee wanted to create a superhero based on a fly or insect.

Head of Marvel Comics, Martin Goodman disapproved of the concept of Spider-Man due to the fact that most people hate spiders.

Stan Lee specifically placed a hyphen in Spider-Man’s name to avoid confusion between ‘Spiderman’ and ‘Superman’ as the latter was rather popular at the time.

Spider-Man’s nemesis Venom was created as fan fiction, and purchased by Marvel for $220.

Spider-Man is the first independent teenage superhero who was not a sidekick to an adult superhero.

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#Spider-Man Day #Spider-ManDay #1 August #comic #Marvel Comic #travel #Toys 'R' Us #Times Square #I miss the store at Times Square #vacation #USA #summer 2009 #interior #original photography #tourist attraction #landmark #Midtown Manhattan #New York City

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kitkatnior · 10 months

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🔥our show is a dumpster fire 🔥

Hiiiii! We’re two fictives in a system that split at the same time as a pair! We made our own blog to stop clogging up the joint system blog (@strawberryeyebags) w our crap. Body is an adult, but we’re teens so don’t be creepy. Fandom and sourcemates welcome to interact and send asks, just be aware we can’t control how we formed and our exos may differ from canon. We are GAY and IN LOVE, Lukadrien canon.

Adricat 🐈‍⬛:

(I use Adricat/Cat the most)

He/they

Masc leaning bi

Literal catboy w ears n stuff

Chock full of exotrauma

Cringe fail loser boy

Soother

Also I have an in sys dad (who is NOT Gabriel thank god)

Luka 🎸:

He/him

Never left 2014 tumblr grunge phase

Sorry Mari ily but I stole your man

Ahhhhhh???

Soother

Stuff we share💙💚:

Rabid Lana del Rey stans

Alt Fashion lovers

Nostalgia whores

Love hate relationship with our source

DNI: all the basics obvi, fake claimers, cringe culture, anti endo, TERF, ed content, anti recovery etc.

#miraculous ladybug fictive #miraculous fictive #miraculous ladybug introject #miraculous introject #system #system blog #introjects #introject #introject blog #fictive #fictives #fictive blog #plural #plural blog #plural system #miraculous ladybug #lukadrien #Adrien Agreste fictive #Luka couffaine fictive

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padfootastic · 2 years

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Wolfstar stans always say that Remus was OOC IN Canon!!! I mean wtf?? delusional lol. Fanon Remus is a mary sue who suffers and pines after cruel hottie Sirius and then Sirius comes to his senses and runs after his moony, begging for scraps of his attention and ofc James is completely ignored by sirius or they fight over poor hurting remus lmao their Fanon is what is so OOC. I think they self insert into Remus so they can catch the popular Hot bad boy who they can "cure of his bad ways"

hello anon 💜 i see we have awoken to choose violence today (nice) so i’m putting this under a cut so remus fans can skip this one.

yeah i’ve seen that too and i always have to scroll past while making faces because,,,im not here to start shit lol but oh god it’s such an annoying position. like ok, i’ve called canonical behaviours ooc too (cough harry in CC cough) and it’s entirely possible i was wrong, but the remus thing is just. wilfully ignoring everything we know about him? (again: caveat here is if you don’t care about canon, then go for it w/o trying to do critical canon analyses. no harm, no foul)

but here’s the thing, right? remus as we know him in canon is a serial manipulator, liar, gaslighter, and coward. like, this has been shown multiple times. i’m not making it up. in my mind, his actions in dh were absolutely not ooc. they just followed the pattern that had already been established so far. and i feel like so much of his characterisation comes from not wanting to engage with that kind of darkness (because even acknowledging it means your dynamic is changed). i’ve read a few excellent fandom analysis posts on here, actually, about how characterisation of wolfstar has changed over the years (decades?) as the average readership/writer ship has gone from middle aged to younger. apparently, it used to be much more dysfunctional and grittier earlier, dealing with the darkness on both sides. it was interesting. but anyway, yeah, i see it happen with regulus/jegulus too sometimes (even if i can’t comment on it since i’ve barely interacted with that content) where you deliberately turn a blind eye to things because if remus is a coward or bad at relationships, then u can’t actually write that fluffy AU u want. which…isn’t fun. because fanfic is about writing all the fluffy AUs in the world ykno?

but what that’s ended up doing is completely transforming his character into someone barely recognisable to those who aren’t in that particular niche (although,,,it’s not exactly niche is it?) and just. idk. i’m rambling now lol but it just really frustrates me because i cannot escape it. and it always treats sirius so badly. remus is just the most sympathetically written character, even when he’s being an absolute asshole, and sirius can’t breathe without being whacked over the head with it. i hate how much he’s scapegoated, honestly. like, i think i’d be fine with the mary sue-fication of remus if sirius wasn’t so defanged in the process but alas, it isn’t to be.

also that’s such an interesting point because i’ve often thought the same about remus being a self insert tbh. i was talking to someone and they said something along the lines of ‘james & sirius as the hot, rich, privileged characters aren’t relatable as much as remus, who’s poor & tortured & misunderstood, so u have people flocking to the latter’ and that combined with the ‘i can fix him’ energy just,,,really shines through sometimes lol. not so much on tumblr (where i barely interact) but i’ve seen it so much in the mwpp fandom on twitter, and a bit on tiktok. it’s very projection-heavy imo (which like, not a judgement. i’m clearly a projection heavy writer too)

#remus lupin critical #we’ve been getting a lot of anti remus/wolfstar asks lately #which. not complaining. i’m just wondering what triggers it #bc sometimes i go weeks without anything like it and sometimes i wake up to so many of these in my inbox #also the ignoring certain aspect thing: again not necessarily a judgement bc i do the same with james and sirius imo #like i definitely sanitise them i think #i guess it’s just that line between hc and canon that bothers me #and not even bc i think canon is particularly untouchable but because i wanna avoid certain readings and this is the most effective way #like i’ll often seek out ooc snape for example bc him in canon annoys me #or i’ll skip past certain fics if they mention someone i like is ooc in certain ways #it’s just a useful descriptive category that’s been completely annihilated in r/s spaces #idk. does that make sense?#and i’m not saying that the grittier dysfunctional r/s is inherently better mind #i don’t think i’d have read that just bc i’m personally not into those dynamics #it was just an interesting look into how things have changed and why #yeah there’s no neatly wrapped answer here. we’re all just bitching in one corner of the room lmao #pen’s asks

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obsessivelollipoplalala · 8 months

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It does seem like the auction finally made more fans publicly turn against Mary, but you know, none of this would've been surprising to any of you (collective "you" being used here) if you'd taken Jim Hutton seriously. Yes, it's awful that Mary has now greatly upset Brian (and presumably Roger) with auctioning off all of Freddie's things without their say, but Jim told you exactly who this woman was 30 years ago. But no, even people who liked Jim didn't think it was a disqualifying character trait for Mary to...*checks notes* tell Jim he couldn't ride in the first car in the funeral procession with her the literal day of the event, tell him (an HIV-positive man) that dead Freddie was already waiting for him, steal his cat and his family photographs, change the locks immediately before he could even begin to pick up the pieces of his broken life, and ban a man dying of AIDS (Joe) from Christmas dinner at a house that he lived in up until a month prior.

Or even if people disagreed with what Mary did, there were those on here who thought it was fine to talk about literally everything related to the band, from their relationships to their food preferences to their body hair to their fucking dick sizes—except for Mary's hurtful actions and the homophobic PR narrative involving her that has greatly impacted the public's view of Freddie's image for 30 years. No, apparently these big things were inexplicably off-limits, and those of us who thought all that was worth discussing were uwu starting drama uwu

And, for what? Why were people so chicken shit about calling out the bullshit of a talentless leech of an ex-girlfriend before, because a terrible movie wrote fanfiction about her? Because popular fan accounts defended her homophobic ass? Because uwu Freddie trusted her uwu (even though he also trusted Paul Prenter and Barbara)?

Yeah, screw that. I was disgusted by Mary when I finished Mercury and Me 5 years ago and literally nothing has happened to make me doubt my initial thoughts—if anything, finding out more about her has only strengthened them

#freddie mercury #jim hutton #I had this in my drafts but forgot to add it to my queue #Mary stans don’t interact

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midnightostara · 2 years

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This is from my tiktok page, yes i know tiktok is a bit of a problematic place, I made a video using Hamilton sound from 'Who Lives, Who Dies, and Who Tells Your Story', and ooh boy I riled up a stan!!

Mary Stan: FREDDIE WOULD HATE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ABOUT MARY!!!

So? If Freddie saw what people say about Mary will not change my mind about her, she's homophobic and serophobic that treated his loved ones with so much cruelty.

I've been deleting her comments to rule her up. Another queen fan popped in my comments also saying the same thing and then screamed that "I'M A QUEEN FAN AN I HATE THIS FREDDIE WOULD HATE THIS!"

As if they know what Freddie would think. Also I turned off the comments, another reason I'm gonna be distant from the Queen fandom (I'm still going to write Queen content don't worry), since all of them want to act all high and mighty about everything.

#mary stans are the dumbest creatures on earth #mary stans don’t interact

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castelleve · 2 years

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Anon asked: Who are five of your favorite characters? (In the rp community or otherwise)

oh god there’s so many in the rpc i love to death??? idk if im just gonna limit it to 5 tbh its so hard BUT HERES SOME OF MY FAVES IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: I really love @zhuangshii ‘s Shao. She is just. So well written. And you can tell so much research and effort and love was put into her character?? On this blog we stan crazy MILFs ok

@batoushoujo ‘s Tem. TEM IS JUST??? SO EASY TO INTERACT WITH??? SO GOOD??? There’s a lot of depth to their character, and i really love the relationship between her and Damian.

@suizokukans ‘s Cian is also a big fave, he’s just such a joy to interact with. The dynamic between them and Henri is so funny and just so??? good??? I really love how things really are just Simple and Henri cannot wrap their head around things not being complicated. Cian is such a troll, too.

@desparialuna / @slaughtcrhaus ‘s Mimi. And Lili. And Centrias. And Kanou. And Mari. And Gio. And every other muse I’ve interacted with cause they’re all just??? Very unique and there’s so many all with different voices and y e a h

@hhemeraa / @matteblackstars ‘s Myles, Nicholas and Troy. I DON’T KNOW TROY THAT WELL, but I like how they all just sort of bounce off each other personality-wise. Like Nicholas is so innocent, contrasted by Myles,,,, Mylesness. In addition, Troy seems to be low energy which also contrasts Nicholas. And I love how in depth the relationship between the three go. Even when were not actively threading, it’s a joy to read about them.

ok thats,,, more than five BUT ITS FIVE USERS AND IF I KEEP GOING IM NEVER GONNA PUBLISH THIS ASK SO-

#Experiment Inquiries // Asks #Fungus Be Gone // ooc #hhemeraa #matteblackstars #desparialuna #slaughtcrhaus #suizokukans #batoushoujo #zhuangshii

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eisforeidolon · 2 years

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Okay so this has been bothering me. J1 only fans keep saying Jensen is rebooting Supernatural. It’s not a reboot. It’s a prequel. A reboot would be a continuation or a complete redo of the flagship show. The prequel is just a prequel, a continuation of the universe but a different story. It doesn’t change anything that happened in the main show. It doesn’t look interesting to me, and I know Jensen made mistakes. But I don’t like people misrepresenting things and then encouraging hate towards JA based on that.

On that note, I’m getting real tired of some of the hypocrisy going around. Jared is not perfect. I don’t love him because I think he is. His reaction online, I thought, wasn’t great. I understood, but still thought it was a bad choice. Why am I supposed to crucify Jensen FOREVER and constantly punish him by perpetuating the thought of him being this awful person, but I’m supposed to totally always understand and forgive Jared for his misdoings? I mean, he assaulted someone…. I’ve completely forgiven him and understand he grew and changed (we all make mistakes), but I don’t know why Jensen is undeserving of understanding and forgiveness? Not that either need fandoms forgiveness… but the point stands. Like now this side of fandom will take apart and misrepresent every single thing Jensen does just to prove their hate is founded? We always called out hellers for this. And now this side of fandom remains silent when it comes to Ja hate? AA’s and hellers said for years that J2 and Jared fans ONLY cared about Jensen because of what he meant to Jared, they never actually liked HIM…. Like…. They were completely right!!! Wtf? Id get messages saying “don’t interact with this blog they said something not nice about Jared five years ago.” But when I bring up that its seemingly the same thing from them towards Jensen, it’s just that I can’t take criticism? Whiplash.

I agree it's not accurate to call it a reboot when the main focus is clearly going to be the John & Mary story. However, to be entirely fair? The inclusion of a solo Dean narrating does actually add an element of continuation from the flagship. How big of a part that plays is something none of us know at this point, and combined with how the entire kerfuffle was over Jared being excluded? It's not exactly surprising there's a lot of fixation on that element.

As to all the rest, yeah, the thing that gets me is not how fans can find something an actor does forever unforgivable. That's their prerogative, whether we're talking about Jensen's or Jared's past mistakes. I don't agree about any of the instances for either one, but okay, whatever.

No, like you say, it's the hypocrisy. The other side? A bunch of crazy biased stans who can't see straight through their own hero worship of their!J, excuse everything he does even when it's so clearly awful, obsessively interpret everything in the worst possible light about our!J, and refuse to ever let anything go! Us? Like them? Just because we're doing the exact same thing but over the correct J? Obviously that's totally different! You must be one of them.

#askboxery #anonymous #anti actor stans #anti jared stans

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Comics read this past week:

the Captain Marvel stories in Whiz Comics (1940) #26-28 and Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #7-8 and America’s Greatest Comics (1941) #2

This is not a real big batch of issues. I had really deprioritized my Golden Age Marvel Family readings over my Hulk readings. I checked and I’ve only just entered 1942. This bit of issues included the first appearance of Ibac in Captain Marvel Adventures #8. Unfortunately, there’s also the first appearance of Steamboat in America’s Greatest Comics #2. Also, I’ve noticed that scan quality really affects my reading speed. If an issue has really poor scan quality, it just takes me longer to read than a nicely scanned issue.

the Marvel Family stories in World’s Finest Comics (1941) #258-262

More from E. Nelson Bridwell and Don Newton’s Marvel Family run from the very late 70s to the early 80s. Stories don’t feel very long, which is fine- short and sweet. I particularly liked the story in World’s Finest Comics #262, which has Captain Marvel team-up with the very first champion from 9,000 years ago, Vlarem, to fight Evil/the Three Faces of Evil, culminating in the creation of the Rock of Eternity, and then ending with Captain Marvel learning that Vlarem is the same man who would one day be the Wizard who gave him his powers. I thought that Captain Marvel and Vlarem’s interactions were charming and I enjoyed the cyclical nature of them creating the place that they first met back in Whiz Comics #2. I’m still enjoying Don Newton’s more realistic art for the Marvel Family, though I don’t like how he draws Tawky Tawny, his face is more proportionally realistic and so has a more pronounced snout which just doesn’t look good to me.

The Incredible Hulk (1968) #107-129 and Annual #1 and Captain Marvel (1968) #17 and #20-21 and Uncanny X-Men (1963) #66

In this batch of issues, I’ve gone from June 1968 to May 1970. Hooray for finally reaching the 70s. Gary Friedrich wrote issue #107 and the Annual (which was drawn by Marie Severin), Stan Lee wrote issues #108-119, and Roy Thomas wrote #120-130. Herb Trimpe was the artist for all of the main Hulk issues and I don’t have too much to say on his work other than that I preferred Marie Severin who he took over for but at the same time there are other artists who I have liked less for the Hulk. I like Roy Thomas’ writing more than I thought I would. I actually have been really loving it. I was attached to Stan Lee’s Hulk characterization and a little bit annoyed with Gary Friedrich’s so I expected to have a similar issue with him, but under Thomas there are more interesting stories that are less reliant on coincidences and have more good character moments. And Bruce has a much more active role! Honestly, like last week I was not really feeling it but this week it was soo good. I had stopped paying close attention to credits but had a ‘wait, what!’ moment in issue #120 when the Hulk said that his enemies would be “dead”. Similarly, in the Annual that Friedrich wrote the Hulk threatens to “kill” people. The Hulk doesn’t use those words when Stan Lee’s writing so it stands out to me. I took some random notes. I believe issue #118 is the first time the Hulk killed a person, albeit unknowingly. In an underwater fight he throw Namor towards two people and Namor hit a wall which toppled over them, killing one. Issue #126 is the first time Bruce and the Hulk meet Dr. Strange. In the Captain Marvel issues there is a very… Billy Batson-esque situation going on where teenager Rick Jones transforms into the adult superhero Captain Marvel by banging his wrists over his head. They maintain separate identities but share an existence 😑 In the X-Men issue it was established that Bruce and Charles Xavier had previously worked together which is neat. Also the villain the Leader, who had been killed off ages ago, has been brought back and revealed to have secretly been alive all this time.

The Curse of Shazam! (2012)

Gary Frank’s art worked well for this book, but that’s because it’s an edgy reboot, so I didn’t like it as I didn’t like the tone that it succeeded in conveying. I understand that some people like this reboot, I don’t really have an issue with that. I don’t think it’s worthwhile to put energy into being upset over someone liking something that I don’t like. But some of the discussion that I’ve seen around it that I feel is ahistorical has and still does bother me. Firstly, I think that it’s misleading to refer to this comic as just a modernization of the character. The Power of Shazam! (1994) is a modernization of the classic Billy Batson. The Curse of Shazam! (2012) is a modernization of Billy Batson based around rejecting the concept of classic character. I personally don’t like the approach of basing a reboot of a character around the idea that the premise of the original is naive or stupid to believe in, but even if you do then I think you at least have to acknowledge that that’s what it’s doing, and not that it’s a simple, smooth update. On that thread, I think that both Geoff Johns and some fans have acted like this book is the only modernization of the character, in the framing of it being a long-needed update treatment that the character had never gotten before, which is just absurdly disrespectful to the creators of previous modernizations like The Power of Shazam! (1994). The argument in support of this book is that the Billy characterization is just more realistic seems nonsensical to me, considering that the other foster children have gone through similarly traumatic upbringings and none of them are anything like him and that’s believable to that same audience. It’s also just not true that this character had a worse life than the Pre-Crisis version of the character, so I think that by arguing that this version of Billy has to be this way, it’s also being claimed that the classic character couldn’t possibly be that way. And the argument that the character goes through character development and then is more like the classic character by the end of the story is a flat-out lie, none of Billy’s subsequent appearances in the Trinity War event, the Infinite Evil event, or even his time on the Justice League (2011) run portray him as taking his job as a superhero seriously, or even just not as an asshole for the most part. Ultimately, this book exists within the same pop culture movement that has similarly produced an over-abundance of evil Superman and evil Superman expy content and the legion of fans who claim that the classic good Superman is unrealistic.

#comics read this past week #my posts

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