#or top 50 even

[maxwell-grant]

(SPIDERVERSE SPOILERS)

Something I always really liked about the first movie was the way Kingpin’s design, besides being a Sienkewicz homage and all, complimented the handling of Fisk as a character and the threat he poses, and it’s more than just him being big and terrifying especially by contrast with Miles. Spiderverse Kingpin is a hate volcano tearing open the city and universe in the hopes that doing so is gonna get him his family back, get the only thing that can fill the void inside him that they left when they died, and nothing else matters. Kingpin takes up so much space everytime he’s on screen that every second of screentime he shares with another character is overpowering by default, and the wholly black suit makes it so that everytime Fisk shows up, the movie’s colors and style and everything it has, it all gets punctured to leave room only for him, to the point that in the final battle with Miles, Fisk might as well be part of the background multiverse debris overtaking and suffocating everything.

Doc Ock and Prowler get to have the fun, of sorts, they get to have colors and styles and cool fights, the movie has no shortage of vibrant and lively and colorful characters, but Fisk himself is a walking casket and little else, basic and banal even compared to other versions of the character. He is the Sydney Greenstreet gangster of old blown up to astronomical proportions befitting a danger to the entire entire multiverse, not so much an enemy for Miles specifically as he is one to Spider-Man the concept, The Ultimate Gangster as someone who couldn’t deal with grief responsibly and has to make it everyone else’s problem (that also being kind of an apt description for Miguel O’Hara, who both triples down on the “all-encompassing grief as poison that harms not just you but those around you” part and is also a much more sympathetic character trying his damndest to do the right thing).

It’s only for a few seconds in his flashback that we see what he looks like with colors, and textures, and a little bit of warmth on his face in the life he had, before his family died running away from him, trying to escape The Black Hole Monster that he is. Figuratively, Fisk is not so much a person, as he is a a person-shaped hole in things, losing what little claim he has to personhood right when his family, and all the families he could ever have, leave him again and so he has nothing left but to take away other people’s families.

And I emphasize that figuratively, because it turns out they decided to turn that into a literally, for the villain in the sequel.

The first movie’s villain was a lifeless thug threatening to undo everything and everyone as collateral damage to try and fill the all-consuming void in his soul. The sequel had exactly that, except we got to see The Spot work to get there in real time and on purpose. And so instead of a generalized enemy to Spider-Man, the hero Miles is trying to be, we get the enemy to Miles Morales, the person he is.

The Spot, funnyman nerd sidekick to the previous villain’s number two, just a gag character without even a name to him that we didn’t even know was there, was pushed every step of the way by the frustration of being perceived and put down as a wannabe never-will-be, driven to uncover the multiverse and make himself noticed and respected by his peers, (like a certain someone who was going to define his entire career prospects around the possibility of getting to meet his spidery friends again, and then they did that to him)

turning out to be a anomaly that was never supposed to be and is hunted as such, their spite nipping at their heels to push them forward, twisting themselves to be free from the expectations and scorn of potential-peers-turned-enemies.

And so at the end, obviously Miles must face the worst version of himself, before he can face the worst version of himself, and it has to be right after he finally understands what he’s up against, his own nemesis, and it has to be right after he declares, after embracing himself as a fugitive and someone-that-shouldnt-be-but-will-anyway,

“I beat them all“

#spiderman #across the spiderverse #spiderverse #miles morales #spider-man #the spot #kingpin #wilson fisk #spiderverse 2 #it's been a week and i'll watch it again tomorrow #cannot overstate how much I've been talking about it with friends lately #i haven't been this obsessed with a movie in forever #also really cool of Spiderverse 2 to just sneak in the absolute coolest take on The Vulture there's ever been #and nobody talks about it because it's not even in the top 20 or 30 coolest and most impressive things about the movie #or top 50 even

[cometshift]

predisasters

#phighting #phighting art #subspace phighting #medkit phighting #art #subspace #medkit #predisaster tag #i think young subspace often gets way too overconfident and there's like a 50/50 chance it'll end weirdly well for him or very badly instea #medkit is the down to earth guy to keep him in check... maybe. if he feels like it #but more often than not he finds more amusement in seeing subspace eat shit. he thinks it's funny #though even when he does try subspace is too stubborn to listen to him. so medkit just leaves him to his luck. they're both terrible #i didn't mean to write so much in the tags sorry i have so many thoughts on them. i'm normal #also i made the 3d model in the top right on the first image i'll post renders soon hehe

[elderwisp]

𝔩'𝔞𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔢𝔱 𝔩𝔞 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔱

#this is one of those pieces where i had to edit them at the same time and some cool things okok #so in atlas's photos i pulled more towards the cooler side #while with taryn's photo i veered towards warmer colors #but then the colors had to compliment each other also ok with shading #the i shaded the top right and bottom left then swapped it for the next photo so even the vignettes are COOL #i'm so excited after the white rabbit arc bc i feel like these two really grown into their own selves and YEAHH #i'll probably take a mini hiatus before and after that huge arc just so i can get everything perfected #i was looking at the script and we have about 40ish scenes left (50 for y'all LMAO) #but even the way things open up after GAH GAHHHHH #oc: taryn #oc: atlas #ts4 #simblr #sims 4

[fishbloc]

THE MOD IS DONE . i am free

#will publish soon........ just need it to be tested by a few friends #he has 50 dialogue and hes not even a sociable npc lol.... #jellie has seasonal variants but the swaggon doesnt. idk if i wanna do it because i have no ideas oops #maybe ill add some snow on top for winter but ig thats p much it #烤鱼 #ty to those who submitted dialogue suggestions btw!!

[mayasaura]

AYYYY!!! MOVING UP IN THE WORLD

🥳🎉🎊💀⚔️🎊🎉🥳

#griddlehark #number one in books and the top 50 in ALL SHIPPING!! #LET'S GO LESBIANS!! #(and we're not even the highest ranked lesbians on the list. nice.) #year in review #the locked tomb

[spoopy-nevermore-dump]

Imagine the school like. teasing annabel about her crush (because let's be honest here she is being way more obvious than Lenore) and she's vehemently trying to pretend she's not in love with lenore (while looking like a tomato mind you) and one half of the school is trying to wingman her and the other half is trying to argue that too much has happened annabel went too far and the entire school ends up having a massive shipping war and the deans are unable to stop it so even they join in and it's like that one episode of amphibia where the town splits over a love triangle and sre like breaking windows and attacking people in their territory and the misfits are in their silly little observatory hiding out and keeping everyone away from Lenore who is just on the floor of the observatory like

#one time the wingman team breaks into the observatory and they have to escape to the roof #nevermore webtoon #lenore nevermore #annabel nevermore #white raven #nevermore shitposts #day one of the hiatus ive already gone insane (i was insane before it started) #as if this is the most cursed thing ive ever done/said lmao #this probably barely even scrapes the top 50

[avianii]

@calkale ok so I have no clue why my house has a concerning lack of beads but I felt like showing off my fav pair of converse ever today :D

#anii's random thoughts #not top gun #well #kinda #i mean not really #but converse!! #these are my pride and joy #even if I did mess up like 50 times painting them

[yuwigqi]

Dick's so extra every single one of his kicks looks like this

#Batfam #Dick Grayson #Robin #Nightwing #Batman #The wrestler is Yuhi from Stardom #I miss her #She used to have dozens of matches on Youtube back in like 2014 I mean like a huge amount there were like top 50 moves videos of her #Best kick in wrestling history lol #It's called the “Honey Flash” #if you even care

[beatcroc]

hi. vore on main. no that's it that's the post this is straight up genuinely and unironically voreposting on main. mostly just a lot of cutsey dumb goofy shit, but monsterfucker brain did get ahold of me for a bit there so there's also a handful that are uhhhh Spicy. nothing explicit, but like, It's Vore Dude, so if you look under the cut that is YOUR problem ok? ok.

ok listen before i move on i have to put it out there look i KNOW i drew the funny rat skeleton comic with this guy but that was ONLY because it was funny. thats not my real belief, he doesn't have any organs at all he is just a sack of gunk. he is harmless. it's basically just the same inside as on the outside but slightly more damp since it's not exposed to air to give him that drier 'skin' layer.

also i already typed this out in my friendserver so im pasting it here now too. my stance on fp re: horniness is i really can't see him as a 'sexual' being, per se, especially with how non-biological he is, but also he really really really likes physical intimacy so if you are giving him permission to be weird and touchy on you in any context, let alone one both parties would enjoy, i mean. he's not gonna say no. this Could be about sex or w/e if someone wanted to fuck him but more relevantly here yeah it's about vore. i think that's categorically about the Most you can be touchy/in contact on a guy so yeah thats always what he's going to go for. tangentially he just thinks it's fun to make peppino* flustered so since pep does not particularly Enjoy being vored, fp has other options to Get Up In There for something else pep might enjoy *spoken generally for whatever theoretical partner, just peppino is the one that's readily available here and fun to use

also while im here id like to say. no peppino is not a monsterfucker are you kidding me. he is not going to ever go out of his way for weirdness. weirdness really has a way of finding him though, and he's shockingly tolerant of it as long as he doesn't clock it as a threat. anyway what im saying is if you got a big clingy beast around and al up in your business all the time shits just gonna kinda Happen sometimes. he's certainly not going to Encourage it but if hes already in that situation, might as well at that point.

#pizza tower #fake peppino #no one else is getting tagged this is about him #rip to anyone going to browse my pizzaposting tag and seeing this at the top. its fine it'll get covered with normal stuff soon enough #literally next level derangement posting this from main but i have my REASONS. as follows: #1. i um. dont really have the luxury of anonymity with pt stuff. #so even if i posted this from my narsty blog people would recognize my art/content style anyway #2. i dont actually want people following my narsty blog for this #because it's suuuuuuuper inactive and i only actually draw this stuff myself like once every 3 years. so it'd be kinda pointless #3. the other cool pt artists i follow post their spicy stuff so you know what! maybe i want to too! even if it is freak shit for 3 people #4. i just think itd be funny if like 50 people unfollowed and/or blocked me for this. weeding out the weak. #if ur gonna be here u should know what youre dealing with and u better not a BITCH about stupid and weird kinks #5. if you are the 3 people the stupid and weird kink is for... i love i u kissing u #anyway if u reply some shit on here like ''wtf did i just see'' ur getting blocked. behave #i think this will maybe get [rightfully] 4 notes and if anyone actually reblogs this youre stronger than god #pizzaposting

[80yearoldmanmoodboard]

My gift to you all this holiday season.

The Monkees singing “Deck the Halls”

Season 2 Episode 15: The Monkees’ Christmas show

#Don we now our gay 💅 apparel #I’m so glad even in the early days of gay being slang for homosexual they were making gay jokes about songs before that was slang #no one can tell me not to do the same shit when watching/listening to things from the 50s #the monkees did it in the late 60s I can do it now #god I love the Monkees #the monkees #davy jones #mike nesmith #micky dolenz #peter tork #it is my gay given right #I will make gay jokes about things from the 50s and earlier or I am not a little gay boy with a mop top #(i am)

[buckysoldatbarnes]

ok but in season 3 episode 7 son of a coma guy the coma guy asks house “what’s going on with you two? (house and wilson). House tells him that wilson just lied to the cops to keep house out of jail. the next question coma guy asks house is “have you ever been in love?”

#house md #hilson #housewilson #mine #this exchange doesnt even make the list of top 50 hilson gay moments #its not even the gayest moment in the episode #in fact you can genuinely find a moment like this in pretty much every episode

[figs-oliomedley]

Funky uncles :]

Chima is actually so out of place with its uncle character lol, Wu and Merlok would get along just fine but Lagravis would fit in much better than Lavertus

#I used the watercolor brush and a thin lineart so I had to copy and paste the lineart layer so that it would be more visible #Wu and Merlok are both century-old GODS and Lavertus is a stinky man in a costume on the edge of the world #he's also like... much younger than him???? #like even without the centuries thing he's in his 40's (50's tops) while they're at LEAST in their 60's #I had so much fun drawing Merlok #and I'm very proud how far I've come in drawing Wu :> #I told you my Laval sketch was just Lavertus lol I basically copied that drawing as a reference #it's in the same pose and everything who's gonna stop me? #anyways on to the nitty-gritty #lego #chima #lego chima #merlok #nexo knights merlok #lego nexo knights #sensei wu #wu ninjago #lego ninjago #my stuff #gonna draw more crossover art later #so obsessed with lego shows

[macadam]

From here on out when making posts about transformers stuff I love I’m not gonna put in a footnote every time about how much other bad stuff there also is in the franchise/fandom. Cause trying to keep posts well rounded and faithful to the entire tf fandom as a whole every single time is so exhausting and also the tf fandom sucks? Additionally it’s too large. Lastly they are nothing to me. They are nothing. Why am I thinking abt the bad parts of fandom all the time when the original goal was to gush about something I really like.

Anyways I love optimus prime he has so much love in his heart

and also autism

hit post

#the tf fandom is incomprehensible #Tumblr is such a subset in and of itself #its different on twitter its different on reddit its barely recognizable on Facebook #at least 50% of it doesn't even exist online #and I'm out here trying to make all my posts approach every angle so that... what? I don't forget to mention that it's riddled with issues? #so that some vengeful anon doesn't come up to me and send an ask berating me on how actually there's a lot of militarism in transformers so #I shouldn't be gushing about how much I love the robot that turns into a gun #^example off the top of my head. this is not in reference to anything #I love talking about nuance in transformers but I also love making silly stupid loving posts about the franchise #and for some reason I've stopped doing the latter #they are both allowed to exist in my mind and on this blog. what is wrong with me #Mac mumbles

[swarnpert]

saw a trucking company that boasted about being in the top 250 carriers in the US which honestly does not sound that impressive

#like. top 50? even top 100? that's one thing #top 250 sounds like you're number 249 and you're just trying to impress people

[mokutone]

your art makes me wanna start testosterone

i can't read tone well, so this is either an incredibly touching ask, or an extremely funny one, and in the absence of confirmation: both!

i'm in a chatty mood, so i'll share some thoughts about testosterone and my art.

i liked being on testosterone a lot. i had an IM injection every two weeks (on tuesdays!) and because that's a sizeable dose every 14 days that slowly disperses, it can cause some mood fluctuations (every other friday i would have a crisis about not feeling like the world had a place for me in it) but even those were far more manageable than the ones that would come with my previous and current monthly hormone cycle (every month i spend a solid week thinking the world will never have a place for me in it)

It gave me a patchy little bit of scruff on my chin and a whispy mustache under my nose that still struggles on, despite adversity!

It redistributed my fat a little bit, but that's long since gone back to pre-T shape.

it lowered my voice! that hasn't changed :^)! even if i never go back on t, that won't change. it was the thing i most wanted, and its the one i'm most grateful for. Pre-T, I didn't speak much. I'm getting better and better at talking and getting more and more comfortable communicating with people because of it.

having been off t now for 3 years, i don't pass anymore—not as a cis man, or a cis woman, certainly not as anything approximating straight. if people look at me and see anything, i'd hazard a guess that they see me as A Queer (the noun—for all it's complicated connotations).

i'm not surprised that my art might make somebody want to start testosterone! a lot of my art was made out of the aching grief that came with being kicked off of testosterone, and how neatly that loss of autonomy over my own body knits in with yamato's loss of autonomy over his own.

how my body started doing things i disliked, how i didn't have the support necessary to access the healthcare i needed—how my inability to give myself what i needed made me feel as though i were trapped inside of myself and abandoned (by both myself and the world at large)

when i write comics about yamato as a trans man, i don't take away his testosterone, because that hits a little too close to home for me. for Ninja War Town Reasons, he has plenty of access to all the HRT he could ever need and nobody questions his need for it—instead, i project my own horrors onto the way Danzō defined his identity for him as a child, the way that Kabuto and Obito dehumanize him as an adult in their war efforts, and reduce him to the thing his body holds (the Mokuton). I give him a kneejerk compulsion to dehumanize himself (out of a feeling that he has a duty to his community to do so) and I give him a slow-growing resistance to that impulse (which comes out of a feeling that the people he loves would frown upon seeing him reduce himself like that)

it's dysphoria! it's not gender dysphoria, but it's a loss of self, and a need to reclaim it. it's a war between the hollow shell of a thing he thinks he has to be, and the vibrant and messy person beneath it that he is. it's a desperate need to say "this is who i am—only i can say it"

I enjoyed HRT a lot. it was a really useful tool in helping me feel like my body was my own, that i didn't have to fight it, that we were the same entity. It's not the only tool, but it was a really good one, and one day I hope to use it again.

(as for the being off of it—it's unpleasant, but i'm enduring! being somebody who now doesn't really pass as anything has put me in a weird and interesting position, where I'm constantly having to declare myself to people, because nobody knows what to make of me on any front. they don't know if i'm a man, a woman, nonbinary, nor even what age i am (Augh!!!!) it forces me to be brave and vulnerable more than I'm comfortable with—if I tell somebody I'm a man, there's no way that they will believe I'm cis, but I'm not about to recloset myself—and I don't think I could at this point anyway.)

(there's something fascinating about the position i find myself in, and while i'd leap back on t the moment that an opportunity presented itself to do so, i do feel like i'm experiencing something interesting and important in this weird zone i find myself in)

#yamswers #anonymous #dysphoria discussion #q slur — only because i literally use it in the noun form most associated w/ dehumanization #i love that u asked this on a tuesday. thank u for asking this on a tuesday #happy testosterone tuesday to all who celebrate #i also got top surgery a while ago—which is responsible for about 50% of my average suicidal idealizations vanishing #because my chest was my second biggest site of dysphoria after my voice #it was far less painful than i dared imagine. and far more satisfying. i had an excellent and lucky recovery #my results aren't perfect but oh man. the joy of being able to press my hand (flat) to my chest (flat). #the way that a binder mimics the exact squeeze around my lungs that a panic attack stimulates— #not feeling that when i'm out in public? thank you modern medicine. thank you. oh my god. no more false flag panic attacks #i had to fight my insurance for two years and all the health providers i contacted told me the hoops i was being made to jump through #seemed utterly ridiculous. and it was still gobs of money but i got it. so grateful u cannot even imagine #a lot of people describe their feelings post op as “relief—finally i could see myself” #but i experience...more delight than relief. joy. is joy the absence of pain or the presence of happiness? can i tell the difference? #on my worst days i can lay a hand on my heart. and i can lay a hand on my heart. and i can lay a hand on my heart. and i can lay a hand on

[layla-carstairs]

I've been thinking Adaon today & the more I think about him the more sure I become that he's going to betray Kieran in twp. the friend of all is the friend of none etc etc

#him saying sorry to arawn as he dies & him becoming so close to the Seelie Queen so quickly #no matter what happens Adaon will be fine & remain on top #also like. what if he saw in kieran the same thing erec did #erec was threatened since his fate is so tightly tied to their father & therefore meant he was a threat to him too #so he tried to destroy kieran. to break him into nothing into something that was of no concern to anyone or anything #adaon took the other approach #he was kind. he gifted kieran a horse. he ensured that if something did happen he would be fine #that he would be remembered as a favourite brother #singular among 50 #no wonder why he gets along with the Seelie Queen #this would be devastating btw. kieran always trusts even when he shouldn't :( #he always believes in true intentions and is surprised when he is tricked #never put him in another meeting with the Seelie Queen actually 😭 hes not built for it #bella talks #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #adaon kingson #kieran kingson #kieran hunter #the dark artifices #tda #the wicked powers #twp #I was sick today so I had too much time on my hands 😔