#ESPECIALLY MJ

[apple-spider-vinegar]

Many of us saw the Raimi trilogy as kids and so the main characters were just put in the mental category of "adults," but growing up and realizing Peter, Harry and MJ were all in their late teens/early 20s gives their behavior a lot of much needed context, actually.

Oh, they're indecisive and riddled with insecurity? Their love lives are a complete mess? They think one mistake or setback means their life is over? Well, no wonder! They haven't even beat the 25 allegations yet.

[thamepo]

“williamest hasn’t ended yet” and the boys group hugging. thanks for the free therapy!!! 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭

[mustasekittens]

clocking out of my job only to clock back in at home for my Real Job (gay spiderman posting)

[felassan]

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[feng-shui71]

warm up sketch of the twins w their inspos because I still feel like their personalities aren’t very clear

[sewooonz]

아스트로 사랑해💜

[flowerakatsuka]

guess those feelings are gonna stay unrequited, huh? — ( feat. @laurzvahll's sol! )

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

Maybe the reason Jake is so "casual" about his parents being criminals and leaving him alone is nobody needs to know that the Golden Boy of the school has it rough because that would fuck with his reputation as the CoolRichAwesomeSpecial guy with a perfect life. Maybe it's framed comedically because he wants you (the audience and a hypothetical peer) to view it as a fun thing. Yeah they're running from the law so they're not gonna notice if I throw a rager on a school night, you comin' or what.

Maybe he's "casual" about Rich burning his house down because he has like 4 spoken lines in The Play and 3 in VIMH (depending on how you count them) and we don't know what his thoughts are on it because why would he talk about that with anyone when he's got a role to kill in Midsummer Nightmare with broken legs, like a badass. Because he's a badass. Don't feel sorry for him just look at how much of a badass he is. He's walking on broken legs because he can't feel pain. How cool is that. Tell him how cool he is.

He wasn't given much doylist development so I'm putting a watsonian spin on its absence. This is what we do with side characters.

[saetiate]

the thing i struggle most with x reader writing is that i really believe in being changed by love and i want to write a fic where reader is changed by the way the character loves them. but in order for me to do that i have to give reader a personality or at least some personality traits, and i don’t want to suggest that one personality trait should be changed into another or imply that there are “bad” personality traits. so

[vertejay]

Saw multiple (sad) edits of the itoshi brothers back to back and I genuinely started crying and started crashing out. 💔💔

[bancaishi]

commission for @oliveroctavius

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[thamepo]

society if people didn't feel the need to insult/belittle forcebook before praising them in the slightest

[eldritchx]

vampire/werewolf everlark pass it on

[felassan]

prayer moodboard for a Season 2 of Dragon Age: Absolution

[wildandmoody]

Michael on a train in New York City during the promotion(?) of 'The Wiz' in 1978.

The placement of the overhead lights suggest that he was riding in an R-46 passenger car. The R-46s were constructed in the late 70s with the fleet being incorporated into the subway system in 1975-1978 - so they would've been brand-new at the time! This also suggests the train line he was riding - the N - which utilised the R-46 cars up until this year. 'The Wiz' was predominantly shot in Astoria, Queens, and this line runs between Manhattan and northern Queens with service ending in Astoria - so it just makes sense!

[kzele]

Unpopular TSSM Opinion

Sha-Shan was a better example of a serious moral compass love interest to Flash than Gwen was to, well, anybody.

The gal clearly has no problem turning a guy down until they've proven he isn't a too much of a douche. And she doesn't care how popular they are. If they make make the right, but hard choices, then they've got her interest.

Gwen, on the other hand, can’t seem to judge any of her friend’s moods or situations correctly and make an appropriate decision. For instance, whether as friends or love interests she and Harry are a dumpster fire. When the guy passes out in the courtyard and then avoids her, what does she do? Does she (a) tell her COP dad about it at home, (b) tell Harry’s father, (c) tell a teacher/coach/school counselor AKA any other figure in a position of actual authority? Nope. She tells Peter that something’s wrong with Harry, but doesn’t elaborate enough for him to take her concerns seriously, so he puts it among the lesser problems he has to deal with. Because if Peter was actually told the specifics, this would be MUCH higher on his problems list. There’s no way he’d have to be bullied into talking with Harry, otherwise. (Also, how is it possible that she couldn’t sense anything off about Eddie after he returned to the lab? He’s obviously creepy and fake and you’ve known him since you were both in single digits. If it was just Eddie this happened with, I wouldn’t be having my doubts about her judgement.)

This brings me to my next point about boundaries. Peter respects hers more than she respects his. Thus, she can only enforce her boundaries and/or will if someone already respects her. Harry and Gwen’s full-on couple status is proof. Harry’s shoved her against a locker, jumped over her during a villain attack (did he ever apologize for that?), and the first thing he does is ignore his new girlfriend in favor of calling his dad about having a girlfriend. Oh, and she’s ignoring all these red flags in an implied attempt to make Peter jealous. Nuff said about that ball of toxicity they got going on.

Flash saw Sha-Shan as a hot nerd/rebound, then as a challenge, and finally as someone whom he wants to be respected by. She didn’t let him get anywhere by being a jerk or overstepping. Granted, she had the benefit of not caring about Flash’s opinion of her, like Gwen would with long-time friends. And yet, despite being very judgy about him at the start, once they’re together she understands that Flash will say/do dumb things but it doesn’t take away from his good heart. Sha-Shan accepts him and his flaws. Ironically, despite Gwen being in love with Peter over Harry, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a time where she cuts Peter any slack for anything even when it’s not his fault. Including and up to not dying.(Not actually joking about that. See Christmas Tree aftermath s2ep3.) Maybe it’s just me, but I swear Harry and Eddie could be be kicking puppies off the Brooklynn Bridge in front of her and she’d be giving Peter the silent treatment for missing her calls trying to stop it.

I'm aware that Gwen isn't evil whatsoever but I find her immensely frustrating when TSSM has better female characters to choose from. And this post is for other people who agree with me. I'm not denying the flaws of anyone else here, be it Peter or Harry or whoever else, but I can't cover my thoughts on all the dynamics at play here without overloading my laptop and this site. I feel like Gwen's actions in the show get glossed over a lot. I've seen Peter and Harry get criticized for their actions and sympathy for their differently bad lives within the show, but Gwen. . .doesn't get that same scrutiny. She makes objectively horrible/stupid choices about how to go about things in her relationships but somehow she seems to get less spotlight shed on those things. Instead, the responsibility is often shoved the two guys for screwing up, despite either having far more on their plate or a bad home life. Anyways, I've rambled incoherently enough. Hope it brought you some food for thought even if you don't agree with everything.