#....also i'm terrified of having dinner there bc they are rich and fancy and i am a messy peasant. very frightening

[clockworksheep2]

two realizations this morning:

showering is a lot more difficult + tiring with long hair and i think that's part of why i've been avoiding it so much lately, but also the avoidance definitely also comes from the fact that brother lives here now. idk how to fix this but goddamn i rly truly dread showering so much and i feel such immense relief when i have gotten dressed after a shower bc i know i won't have to do all that again for a couple days

i think that when ppl (or when i myself) ask if i want to do something, a lot of the time i don't rly consider "want", i mostly consider "should". irl friend invited me to dinner w her family and i was agonizing over the decision bc yes i do want to but i know i have no energy for it so my answer should have been an easy "no thank you, but in the future yes i'd like to do that", but instead i spent 18 hours fretting over this bc i was thinking of it in terms of "SHOULD i go to dinner". like... mentally listing out the pros and cons of going vs not going, and trying to figure out what the Correct decision is. but there is no correct!! 😭😭 but i feel like there IS somehow a correct decision for every situation! idk where this comes from but yeesh it is stressful

[measuringbliss]

Spider-Man Read-Through 081 The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man (ASM 246-248)

MASTERPOST

This time: daydreams, hot Peter, a secret sister, extremely hot Peter, and... uh...

...whoever this guy is. Also, read the title again!

Spidey's relationship with Black Cat is much more happy under Stern's penmanship. He goes to see BC at the hospital (she's not out yet in ASM 246) and invites her to help him steal papers at an embassy. Not only does he appreciate her expertise, but he uses it! That's lovely.

Then they give the papers to an agent, who gives them 500K dollars, and they get away in Spidey's yacht and--wait a minute.

Oh. Well played, Mr. Stern. Well played.

Elsewhere...

Jameson is channeling his inner Sue Sylvester.

I can see it.

This issue gives you insight into everyone's dreams. Felicia wants to be respected and loved for who she is (and rich). Jameson wants to punch Spidey down and be celebrated (and rich). MJ wants to be famous (and rich).

Then MJ's sister who wanted to be an actress is introduced and when MJ wakes up from her daydream, she sure has a REACTION.

Oh, is that the new MJ thing? Act all happy in every panel except her very last one of the issue where suddenly she's terrorized? It's the second time now.

In his dream, Peter saves Jonah and gets famous for a picture where Jonah kisses Spidey's foot. It's pretty similar to Jonah, in a way I never considered. Are they foils to each other? Anyway, Peter also has a fancy camera, then Dr Sloan says he actually cured every disease EVER. The celebrity kind of terrifies him.

Captain Marvel <3

And now, every superhero team fights to get Spidey. But then nobody wants him anymore because Spidey's powers were forced upon him, so his cause isn't as noble as people think. Kind of interesting, but the self-pity does get tiring.

It's a nice issue at least! The teams were changed for Comic Con (see previous post).

Anyway, #287 time!

Spidey asks Arthur "Nose" Norton for intel about the Hobgoblin. He leaves when Nose says he's got nothing, but Nose does have *something*... But is it related to the Hobgoblin?

Anyway, Peter joins May and Anna for dinner.

The Romita Sr/Jr team-up makes for great work because that last panel is... oh, my ovaries!

Peter mentions that ever since Anna and MJ's return, everybody's been trying to set him up with the latter. Well, it's not MJ arriving with Nathan who'll prove him wrong!

Stop being so fucking hot, Peter?!

Peter can be so funny. And that relationship between MJ and Nathan? Hell yeah!

Sorry for the amount of screenshots but ah, my ovaries! They're bursting!

Anyway, Spidey follows Nose and his suspicious attitude, unaware that he's being watched himself. It's Frog-man, who soon intervenes.

Well at least he's funny.

Later...

Jesus Christ.

Anyway, uh, Spidey gets to the goons to whom Nose gave that stuff, and it's eventually revealed that he wasn't running after the Hobgoblin (obviously), but Thunderball. Sure.

We saw Nose's last appearance! I'm not too sad about it. Also, apparently, the guy who was following Spidey was *not* Frog-man, and we never learn who it was. I'll assume it was the Hobgoblin then.

#248 time!

Oh.

Watch me skip the 10 pages of fight with whoever that villain was because I am nawt intcherested.

Ooh. Every Star Wars movies? I hope he liked the 2010s trilogy...

Spidey goes to see Tim at the hospital to have a little conversation with him. You quickly forget that the kid is even at the hospital.

The conversation is full of nostalgia, it's quite fun, and then it's time to say good night.

He does, then leaves.

Yeah.

I think I already read that story, years ago. It's famous, and very much spoiled for pretty much everyone. It's alright, but a bit obvious.

There's a cute follow-up in Christmas Holiday Special #1 in the 90s, FIY.