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I’m sorry things have been rough lately :( I hope life takes a turn for the better soon💙 and hm,, maybe something with Annabelle and Jon being friends? laughing together maybe?

hands u them... I care they,, they deserve to be friends

(ID: a traditional pencil sketch of Jon and Annabelle, sitting together on a staircase with warm drink cups in their hands. They are both outlined in different colored pens. Annabelle is sitting further up on the staircase and smiling down at jon, who is leaning back on his arms and talking at her with a smile.

Annabelle is a chubby Black woman wearing a vintage dress, flowery tights, and dress shoes with a bow. Part of her skull is collapsed in, and she has short afrotextured hair. Jon is a thin Persian person with long, curly dark hair half up and half down. He is wearing overalls over a turtleneck and boots, and their skin is dotted with scars.)

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Jesus Christ. Polygon's done.

Plante is out as editor. Massive layoffs across the staff, including Nicole Carpenter, Petrana Radulovic, Michael McWhertor, maybe Charlie Hall...

Fucking hell. I wouldn't have even tried to start writing about games without that site. Goddamnit all.

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@hihereami @rosyabomination combined the two! he’s eating a pirashki which is like. A Persian treat that’s dough with sweet feeling (it also comes w meat fillings but this one is the sweet one. I also think there’s a russian version of the same treat w the same name but yeah). This is his and Martin’s cat the Professor who is a one eyed & three legged stray they found and took care of in Somewhere Else

(ID: a pencil sketch of Jon sitting cross legged with a cat in his lap. He is eating round pastry and petting the cat. He is a thin Persian person with long curly dark hair, wearing an oversized sweater that hangs off their shoulder and exposes a large scar on their chest. Their skin is fitted with scars. They are smiling down at the cat in their lap. He has a wedding ring and ace ring on his right hand. Screenshots of tumblr comments from rosyabomination and hihereami are pasted over the image, and they read “your fave character with their fave pastry/sweet treat?” And “Jon with a cat! (I’m not v original)”)

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@mx-darcy neither queequeg Nor the cat like the cold weather so they’re bundled up

(ID: a pencil sketch of queequeg from Moby dick. He is a polynesian person with tattoos on his face and short curly dark hair. They are wearing a scarf bundled around their neck, and a cat is being slung in the scarf on their back. He is holding a harpoon and looking off to the side. There is a screenshot of a tumblr comment from mx-darcy over the drawing that says “queequeg with boat cats!!! Or the boat pig! They probably had one!”)

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a bunch more Artfight attacks! Characters belonging to (in order) Freiigon on Artfight, @drawmeter , @yellowvixen , agoodnight on Artfight, @hysterical-random-things , @avemarts , and @maplem0th !!

(ID: Several digital drawings Of other people’s OCs. 1) Alden and Lake, a young Latino man and a blue bird person, reclining in the grass together and smiling. 2) Erebus, an aasimar dnd paladin with purple skin and long, curly hair, looking nervous and saying “oh agrotis, we’re really in it now.” 3) Shiya, an elf with blue gray skin and stars for freckles, looking to the right in profile. 4) clorinda, a Black woman with dark skin, dreads, and a blue cloak, smiling 5) Natali and Issac, two people in historical clothing dancing and smiling at each other in front of a backdrop of leaves, 6) Theta, a dragon with glowing eyes on their wings and frills, 7) Juno, a small white humanoid with big eyes and a starry blue cloak.)

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Sistah Scifi is a Black-owned bookstore for mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Black and Indigenous authors. I’ve found some of my favorite books through them, and every so often they have special editions and signed copies for new and upcoming releases.

https://sistahscifi.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorvd_cFbhQePwJ0fzJOu37JgOOaMdIykyVMvAXlmF8RCbGHjBDu

Oh AWESOME I love this! Thank you!

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Wow it's crazy that no one is making any cloying "you deserve to not give a shit about the world ♡ take care of yourself ♡ you deserve to be happy ♡" selfish posts about the callous treatment trans people are receiving in the UK, it's almost like apathy is a doom reserved only for the people being genocided in the global south! Yes both things are bad yes it's obvious that many many white liberals are also white queer people who are often racially and culturally biased and do not have reserves of compassion for oppression they personally cannot identify with! "Me! Me Me me me me!!!!!!"! That's all I hear so often.

This isn't about my trans siblings in the UK, they have my heart, my soul. This is about the people who are selective in who they choose to ally with ^-^

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While these protests succeeded in disrupting normal operations at the targeted arms companies, they were unable to meaningfully halt the manufacture of weapons, in part because the group best poised to shut down production was conspicuously absent from each of the actions: the companies’ workers. More than two million US workers are employed by the weapons industry, which produces over 80% of all of Israel’s arms imports, including “precision guided munitions, small diameter bombs, artillery, ammunition, Iron Dome interceptors and other critical equipment,” according to the Pentagon, as well as F-35 aircraft—the most advanced fighter jets in the world. In the past month and a half, Israel has used these weapons in a genocidal assault that has killed more than 14,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza, at least 5,600 of them children. The violence has prompted direct action against the Israeli war machine’s supply chain, with protesters targeting not only munitions factories but also ships transporting arms to Israel and financial firms with significant investments in the weapons industry. But unlike in many other parts of the world, where weapons workers have led the disruption in response to an urgent call for solidarity from Palestinian trade unions, in the US, unions in the weapons industry have so far remained outside the fray.

This is despite the presence of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of unionized workers in the US weapons industry, some of whom are employed at the very factories that protesters have attempted to shut down this fall. As journalist Taylor Barnes reported earlier this year, each of the five major Pentagon contractors—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and General Dynamics—employs some unionized workers, although union density at the firms ranges from as low as 4% at Northrop Grumman to as high as 32% at Boeing. Many of these unionized workers belong either to the International Association of Machinists (IAM), or to the United Auto Workers (UAW), which is part of a renaissance in the US labor movement. […]

For anti-war labor organizers in the United States, unionized weapons workers present a paradox: Serving such members ostensibly requires making weapons industry jobs stable and remunerative, but the principles of global solidarity call for dismantling the war machine altogether. Traditionally, US unions have only pursued the former mandate. As one anonymous local union president in the industry put it to researcher Karen Bell earlier this year, “my top priority is trying to make sure that we have work in jobs in the United States . . . I don’t make a lot of judgments on anything other than, what can you do to keep the people I represent in work? That’s my job, and to be anything other than that, it would really be a disservice to the people that are paying my salary.” Rather than questioning their role in the industry, unions have reconfirmed their relationships with weapons companies since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Last month, 1,000 IAM members in Arizona and 1,100 UAW members across the Midwest separately ratified new contracts with Raytheon and General Dynamics respectively, during a period when both companies were actively implicated in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. When the Raytheon contract deal was announced on October 22nd, one IAM leader said he was “proud to support our Raytheon members and excited for this contract’s positive impact on their lives”—a statement that highlights the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between the economic interests of weapons industry workers and the anti-war, anti-genocide movement.

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The US labor movement has long been implicated in the country’s wars abroad. In a famous December 1940 radio address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked unions and bosses to come together in the fight against global fascism by rapidly converting the US peacetime economy into a wartime one. “I appeal to the owners of plants, to the managers, to the workers, to our own government employees to put every ounce of effort into producing these munitions swiftly and without stint,” he said. “We must be the great arsenal of democracy.”

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[After the Cold War,] a genuine conversion to a peacetime economy never materialized, in large part due to lobbying from the major Pentagon contractors, and to Democrats’ fear of looking “weak” in comparison to war-rabid Republicans. “In the absence of a vision for what would replace the national security state, the arms industry worked on dual-use technology to serve civilian and military purposes, turned to the export market, and consolidated,” writes journalist Indigo Olivier. “Since the 1990s, the number of prime contractors in aerospace and defense working directly with the Pentagon has dwindled from 51 to five due to a dizzying wave of mergers and acquisitions in the industry. With this new monopoly power, arms companies turned more of their attention to elected officials.” Through decades of successful lobbying, the arms companies have continued to secure lucrative Pentagon contracts, further entrenching an economy of permanent war. The gears of this war machine are greased by military aid packages to US allies—the largest of which by far is an annual $3.8 billion for Israel—which are required to be spent in full or in large part on US arms, thereby acting to subsidize the US weapons industry.

Weapons workers keep this war industry up and running, not only by laboring within it, but also by contributing to its popular legitimacy. As tens of thousands of Americans repeatedly take to the streets to call for an immediate ceasefire in Israel/Palestine—a move favored by 68% of the electorate—President Joe Biden has cited weapons industry workers in his bid to sell voters on sending $14.3 billion in supplemental military assistance to Israel. “Patriot missiles for air defense batteries, made in Arizona. Artillery shells manufactured in twelve states across the country—in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas,” Biden said in his October 19th Oval Office address, namechecking battleground states in next year’s presidential election. Explicitly echoing Roosevelt, he continued: “Just as in World War II, today patriotic American workers are building the arsenal of democracy and serving the cause of freedom.” In the weeks after the address, Biden’s aides reportedly circulated talking points to congressional allies arguing that supplying Israel with weapons would create manufacturing jobs for US workers. But despite Biden’s attempt to harken back to a time when the labor movement was fully invested in the US war machine, some present-day unionists—in the tradition of predecessors like Reuther and Winpisinger—are beginning to challenge the idea that war is essential to workers’ well-being.

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the problem of fandom reducing characters who are women and/or people of colour to sexist/racist stereotypes is definitely aggravated by the fact that a lot of fans simply do not pay very much attention to these characters in the first place then subconsciously paper over the gaps in their perception with things they’ve been culturally conditioned to believe are true about people in the same category as said character

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'acab includes fandom police'

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review: Authenticity

So this took awhile even after speaking to @traincat ,someone who no longer does Spider-Man discourse because she is over it, but I struggled because I was not sure exactly how to approach this so it took a lot of rewrites and taking myself out of it. And one word that stuck with me in our conversations that she said was “Authenticity” and yeah, so I am giving her kudos for that and a chunk of this review. Even though she would call me the Miles Morales expert, she is the Spider-Man expert by simply following Peter Parker which over 1500 issues of continuity and 50 years of canon. Miles is only a little over ten years so I want to personally thank her for helping me put my thoughts together. I am sorry that after watching this movie 4 times that it took so long

I am going to try and avoid editorializing and just to stick with this movie. Because it is an amazing movie. Just to be succinct, I am going to put this here.

Cons

1. The Copaganda

2.  The movie does not let the viewer rest and process what is happening before going on to the next scene.

3. This shit No, there is no excuse for overworking and mistreating artists and if you do not think this is valid, you are wrong.

Pros

Literally everything else

Okay. You can check out of this review now if that is all you wanted. For the rest of us, here we go.

This movie defends Miles Morales’ existence

“For years, I’ve been taking care of this little boy, right? Making sure he is loved, that he feels that he belongs wherever he wants to be. He wants to go out into the world and do great big things, and what I worry about the most is that they won’t look out for you like us. They won’t root for you like us. So, here is the deal: wherever you go from here, you have to promise to take care of that little boy for me. Make sure he never forgets where he came from. And never doubts that he is loved. And he never lets anyone in those big fancy places that he going to be in tell him that he doesn’t belong with them. And when he comes home, and he better come home, you are going to be early, and you are going to be holding a normal nice cake… You gotta promise, Miles.”

(Ultimate Spider-Man #1 and Ultimate Comics: All-New Spider-Man #2)

On August 3rd, 2011, Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli revealed the next Spider-Man who would take up the reigns and the mantle of Spider-Man after the death of Peter B(enjamin) Parker in Ultimate Fallout #4. The world finds out that underneath the Spider-Man mask is this little black boy. And the world accepts Miles Morales without any qualms and he then becomes one of the most beloved character in comics media. Psyche, the world collectively loses their shit.

“The Affirmative Action Spider-Man”

From this point forward, Miles has been criticized, dismissed, and lambasted as this “diversity politics superhero.” Every story is picked apart as not being as good as Peter Parker’s or it being derivative of his story. To anyone who has ever picked up a comic of his could figure out immediately, this was obviously not true regardless, this controversy followed this character up until 2018. I wonder why. It seems like you don’t mind Miles Morales or his stories if it was white person doing them so…

Everything about Miles Morales from Brian Michael Bendis’s standpoint was done out of a labor of comic book love and inspiration. When Donald Glover campaigned to audition for Amazing Spider-Man reboot only to be met with racist opposition and condemnation, Brian Michael Bendis saw Community and saw him wearing Spider-Man pajamas and said why not? He then based Miles Morales’ origin on a documentary that he saw, “Waiting for Superman”, a film about how charter schools take away poor communities best and brightest and places them in charter schools under the guise of protecting them while also forcing would be talented kids to enter a lottery in order to gain such an opportunity, and decided to center Miles’ origin on that. Bendis named him after Miles Davis, a famous jazz artist and one of the most influential recording artists of all-time, which is affirmed by making his father’s surname Davis. The number that got Miles into Brooklyn Visions Academy is 42, the number belonging to the first ever Black Baseball player to enter Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson.

And Miles relation to the Prowler is even deliberate as the Prowler was known to impersonate Spider-Man and was seen as “could have been Spider-Man but got pressed into crime because he had to take care of his family” enemy of Peter Parker. Miles Morales, the nephew of the Prowler, becoming Spider-Man is essentially the Prowler legacy coming into full circle. It is symbolic and it’s literature. But yeah, Miles Morales is clearly just thoughtless tokenism and forced diversity with no connection to Spider-Man mythos. There is a reason why the moment Miles meets Peter in the first movie, his spider-sense goes from green and purple, Prowler’s colors, to red and blue.

Even till this day, people refuse to acknowledge Miles as Spider-Man and attribute the title only to Peter, Ben, Miguel, and any of the fairer skinned person who decides to take up the mantle.

The Miles Morales story of this movie begins with a counselor holding a blank piece of paper exclaiming that she does not know who Miles Morales is and then starts making wrong and honestly racist assumptions about him in order to fulfill a convenient narrative. It is something to be said that people who watched this movie and see his hobbies and passions still choose to apply their own biases and preferences of the character because fanon Miles is malleable, Canon Miles does not know what Homestruck and does not know what Comic-Con is because he has actual hobbies. You can watch ITSV and this movie and somehow some people still walk away asking who is Miles Morales because they only went to the movie to see a cartoon pig.

And this movie is a meta-commentary on this discourse. The denial of a character because he is not like your fairer skinned originals. Even why Miguel O’Hara is the antagonist because, let’s be honest, Miguel’s sudden surge of popularity came at the existence of Miles Morales when people started consider Miguel as the first Latino Spider-Man when Miguel’s entire family drama is that his mother feeling disconnected from him because he looked and acted more like his rich cyberpunk corporation owning Irish father than anything else and his owning connection to his culture was that he got a T-shirt down in Mexico getting drunk celebrating Day of the Dead. Miguel was white until Miles was created. The movie even highlights how unlike Spider-Man Miguel is yet he is considered the valid one. The man does not wall-crawl, was not bitten by a spider, did not lose a loved one that was his own, does not have Spider-sense, and worst of all, he wears a cape. He is more like Batman than Spider-Man yet he has the audacity to question Miles being truly Spider-Man?

Everything about this movie defends Miles’ existence and validates him being Spider-Man from the other Spidersonas denying and rejecting him. Gwen is patronizing and uses Miles as a placeholder for her own trauma and misery and even gives him horrible advice. Peter deliberately patronizes him and claims ownership of everything Miles does as his ‘mentor’ while at the same time disrespecting him, “the kid is not the type to think about his actions.” They all lie to Miles and gaslight him for the greater good. They all act they know better than him and even feel the need to tell his story for him.

Spider-Punk, Hobie Brown and original Prowler, being the only Spider-Person to truly have Miles’ back is symbolic. The original Prowler looking out for his symbolic legacy and even aging him up as soon as he appeared on screen was intentional and deliberate. It’s representative of Prowler’s legacy coming into full circle. And even Donald Glover as MCU’s Prowler cheering on Miles escaping the Spider-society and booing the Spider-Society is representative of the rejection he felt being denied to be Spider-Man over the white actors. Every decision that this movie makes is deliberately pro-Miles Morales commentary and anti-comicgate. This movie is for every Jon Stewart, Luke Fox, David Zavimbe, Duke Thomas, Cass Cain, Riri Williams, Kamala Khan, Anya Corazon, Jaime Reyes, Bilal Asselah, Conor Hawke, and Amadeus Cho that faced racist backlash because they were the non-white legacies that were questioned and rejected, and Miles Morales being the forefront of that and having his critically acclaimed franchise validating him and all of them is so dope.

It felt good watching Miles telling Miguel and his Spider-Society to fuck off. This movie talks about race without talking about race. It is a black ass movie that if you are aware as a black person, know exactly the kind of thing is meant when Miguel calls Miles an Anomaly with a hard N. Miles does not belong around these Spider-parts so the whole of Spider-Society turns into a Sundown town. And it was amazing to watch the microaggressions, the gaslighting, and the downplaying get shown for what it was to the point of having Miguel needing to reassure himself that he was being a good guy. Miles won. He beat all of his critics to the point that they now claim to have always been on his side or are in denial about it.

This movie is Comic Book Authenticity

Across the Spider-Verse is one of the most faithful and creative pragmatic adaptations I have ever seen. Sony does not own the rights of the majority of Marvel elements such as the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Champions, and etc. Luckily, Spider-Man has it’s own creative universe within the Marvel Universe that does not need any attachment to greater Marvel Universe because Spider-Man is a little bit of everything. So people would use the lack of certain IPs to twist a story or a theme of a story or in MCU’s case, use the excuse to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to turn every movie into a romantic comedy/superhero movie. This movie stays true to the spirit of the stories that it’s adapting and then uses placeholders for characters or events they do not have access or the rights to.

The source material of Across the Spider-Verse is:

1. Spider-Man(2016) Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

2. Edge of the Spider-Verse(2014) #2

3. Civil War II/All-New, All-Different Avengers

4. Spider-Men II

5. Sitting In The Tree Arc

6. Champions

At two of those you are probably thinking, “huh?” Let me cook.

If you have not read Spider-Gwen, it should be known that she is being persecuted for the alleged murder of Peter Parker and she handles it in the same way that she handles it in the movie: she uses the ability to leave her dimension to escape her problems. There are narrative issues with it that harm the quality of her books, but that is for another discussion. Point is that Gwen Stacy is very caustic during this time because she lost friend due to being at the wrong place at the wrong time and because she does not have the natural loner qualities that Peter has when dealing with the same exact persecution, Gwen chooses to run away. Unlike Peter, Gwen did have friends and a social life and the negative PR actually gets to her at a level where she spirals bad. Unlike Peter, Gwen has a parent who is active and involved in her life and isn’t elderly or sickly. Gwen has trauma to the point that she can’t even hang out with other Spider-people because they remind her of her Peter hence her affectation with Miles.

The movie condenses what is hundreds of pages and tons of characters into a single point of contention for Gwen: her father is anti-Spider-Man. The comic chooses to resolve the struggle almost immediately, but the movie drags it out to make Gwen’s torment more intertwined with Miles’. The narrative theme of the story and the heart of the matter is that Gwen in both ATSV and the comic at that point were in a bad place mentally and emotionally so they chose to run away from their problem when offered an out like escaping to a different dimension whenever it’s convenient instead of dealing with it. The comic chooses to go about this by making her the equivalent of a squatter and stuff. The movie uses Spider-Society which works just as well. Especially when it comes to this moment.

The movie prolongs the story when the comic resolves it literally in the next page. And it’s better for it. How else are you going to get to the same head space the she was in for the whole Sitting In The Tree storyline to work? She does not want to go back and face her dad thinking she is a murderer and being hated by him and everyone. And it works. You get the gist of Spider-Gwen without going through her losing her powers, one of her best friends hunting her down, and her bandmates being annoyed with her loner attitude for 30 plus issues.

Now with Miles, they really do some magic because they honestly have to. 2016 Miles Morales is the least narratively cohesive comic book runs that I’ve ever read because Bendis was allegedly going through writer’s block. I personally believe that he simply couldn’t relate to a black teen from Brooklyn as a white middle aged man from Portland, but whatever. Anyways, the core struggles with Miles that one could derive from this is that Miles is having trouble juggling responsibility with school and being a vigilante, he is having trouble keeping his double life from his mom, and he feels like he doesn’t know if he lives up to the mantle of being Spider-Man. 

So Miles in 2016 joins the Avengers because he feels like he is supposed to. He makes friends with the greater Marvel universe because he wants to be in the it group. Everyone loves him more than the other Spider-Man because he is more likeable and social and Miles gets to talk to all the hot girls. 

Yeah, that sucks.

ATSV decides to focus on the loneliness and the longing towards his friends. Can’t really use Ganke because MCU Spider-Man stole him so his relationship with Ganke is bare and underdeveloped in the movie. Miles supporting cast did not get expounded upon until after Bendis left so no need to actually bring up Judge when you got Spider-people. But you can focus on the estrangement Rio feels from her son and expand on it to both parents. You can make Miles’ feeling guilty about lying to his parents and his parents growing weary of their son hiding something from them as a stressor point of the story because it’s uniquely a Miles Morales thing. Unlike Peter, Miles actually suffers consequences if he misses too many days at school or skips out. And unlike Peter, he has parents that would take note of too many unexplained absences and would actually do punish him for doing it. You can use Miles getting grounded as a core part of your story.

And instead of using Gloria Morales, Miles’ abuela, to do the corporal punishment and accuse her grandchild of doing drugs because she has no chill, you can use a sufficiently angry Rio and Jefferson to do the parenting themselves. Wait, you don’t have the rights to Ms. Marvel in the Avengers to beckon Miles to skip out of his punishment? Just use Gwen and the Spider-Society and boom, same goddamn story.

Make Miles regret wanting to be part of the cool kids by having said cool kids turn on him because of some predetermined thing that is going to happen before it actually happens? Well, Miles can’t kill Captain America like in Civil War II, but we can use Spider-Man mythos and Lyla to do what Ulysses and his cheap Minority Report plot device couldn’t: make a compelling story. Now we have Miles on the run and his buddies starting to feel a type of way about how everything went down and start t turn on Carol Danvers and her thoughtcrime super-fascistsMiguel O’Hara and the Spider-Society. 

Oh, and lets highlight the subtextual implication that Miles without the Spider-bite would have fallen under the influence of his Uncle Aaron and become the Prowler by making the subtext text. Spider-Men II without the convoluted background of making Miles’ Kingpin’s lackey/bestfriend. You want evil Miles Morales to actually be a dark reflection of his potential and bam, we got Miles Morales with braids instead of a lighter skinned Miles Morales with a perm and scar.

That works.

And hey, Sitting In The Tree is fun, but instead of Miles going to Gwen’s dimension and seeing how fucked up her situation is, let’s have Gwen just drop in on Miles and mess up his life and give him bad advice because she is projecting her own problems and insecurities on to him.

This is all to say that this movie loves it’s source material and respects it. They love Miles Morales comic books as well as Spider-Gwen’s and creatively adapts these stories that are still original yet still true to these characters. They do not shy away from the comic book shit. They embrace it.

I never feel like they are the type to say they read Spider-Man comics and then not consciously ignore everything about the character. This movie is for the comic book fans who are actually comic book fans. It’s a love letter to 2010s comic book born characters like Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen. It’s authentic to the core of the character.

This Movie is Amazing

I have seen this movie 4 times. It’s a labor of love from everyone involved regardless how overworked a lot of the animators were. It is a testament stylized animation and it’s success and future accolades is warranted.  It is beyond a visual eye candy feast. It is narratively compelling. You love every single important character and it wears it’s heart on it’s sleeve. In a world of soulless superhero adaptations, the Spider-verse movie recaptured that magic that this media can be and they did it through Miles Morales. And as a fan of this character who knew what a gold mine that he was and to see how people in the new generation embraced him as their Spider-Man warms my heart.

I love this goddamn movie. And while I doubt that Beyond the Spider-verse is coming out next year in lieu of the troubled development of this movie(I am firmly on the side of the mistreated and overworked artists and animators), I cannot wait to see how this trilogy ends. This movie did justice for Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man by making a crucial plot point of that movie series into the main point of this movie. It brought Josh Keaton’s Spectacular Spider-Man into the limelight after Disney intentionally sabotaged it. It did what Marvel Comics won’t and actually have Peter happily married with a child.

I love how Anti-MCU this movie is. I love that Ganke will point out to Miles that he is not Miles’ “Guy in the Chair” because somehow MCU can steal Ganke and rename him into Peter’s abusive romantic rival to Betty Brant and still get the character of Ganke fundamentally wrong. They poke fun of the fact that Spider-Man ruining the livelihoods of a small business over an ATM is not a thing Spider-Man does or should do because yes, people’s lives are more important than a bank. They make fun of the No Way Home plothole of Dr. Strange and Peter just warping time and space in order for Peter to escape accountability. I love how Rio asks Miles after giving the aforementioned pivotal speech to bring home a perfectly fine cake when he comes back from his shenanigans in reference to the critical backlash of the creator of MCU Spider-Man lambasting Garfield’s Spider-Man for remembering to bring back eggs to Aunt May as if that is not a thing Peter would do. I love how this movie gets Spider-Man in a way MCU doesn’t in every aspect and embraces it instead of skims over it because it’s too inconvenient to cover it. 

This movie is art. This movie is cinema. This is one of the best goddamn superhero movie ever and I only say one of because the first one exists. This movie is a testament to how good comic books can be and, in the case of Miles Morales, are.

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“I give white radicals the tools to work with, a theoretical framework, and some analysis of racial oppression. I cannot, however, make them take the steps to actually use in dismantling racism inside radical movements. I just tell them that their lip service and feeble attempts to this point are unacceptable, and one day it will all be taken out of their hands. So they had better act now, or they will find themselves on the wrong side, when these decisive battles take place.”

-Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

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I’m sorry things have been rough lately :( I hope life takes a turn for the better soon💙 and hm,, maybe something with Annabelle and Jon being friends? laughing together maybe?

hands u them... I care they,, they deserve to be friends

(ID: a traditional pencil sketch of Jon and Annabelle, sitting together on a staircase with warm drink cups in their hands. They are both outlined in different colored pens. Annabelle is sitting further up on the staircase and smiling down at jon, who is leaning back on his arms and talking at her with a smile.

Annabelle is a chubby Black woman wearing a vintage dress, flowery tights, and dress shoes with a bow. Part of her skull is collapsed in, and she has short afrotextured hair. Jon is a thin Persian person with long, curly dark hair half up and half down. He is wearing overalls over a turtleneck and boots, and their skin is dotted with scars.)

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@radiosandrecordings happy birthday *hands you a gerry*

(ID: A digital drawing of Gerry Keay from the magnus archives. He is a white person with pale skin and long, straight black hair streaked with blond. He is wearing a long black coat and leather boots, several piercings, and pins on his coat with the ace, aro, and nonbinary flags. He has several piercings, a choker, an ace and aro ring on his hands, and small black tattoos of eyes on his joints. He is sitting on a top of a desk with a plaque that reads “Gertrude robinson” and holding a lighter with the flame lit. The second image is a closeup on his face.)

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First three art fight attacks Babey!! Characters belong to (in order) @fricklefracklefloof @american-ninja @rosyabomination ! Come follow me on artfight ~ pocketsizedquasar if you want! I try to revenge everything!

(ID: three digital drawings of other people’s OCs. The first is Ronnie; a chubby person with dark skin, freckles, and blonde afrotextured hair. They are wearing a pink shirt with a sun pattern on it and smiling off to the side. The second is Selma a thin gunslinger woman with light brown skin and long, curly dark hair. She is carrying a gun pointed at the viewer and wears a cowboy outfit with a veil on her hat, and has a stern expression. The last is Mad Scientist, a light turquoise skinned elf-eared person in a lab coat with yellow eyes and a gleeful grin. They hold up a syringe and are saying “I am going to trans ur gender.” They are drawn against a trans flag.)

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@jonbinaryrights had a cute summer drawing prompt thing on IG so here is jmart on a diner date! because Martin looks hot in a leather jacket god damnit

Commission me!

(ID: A digital drawing of Jon and Martin from the magnus archives, sitting in a diner booth. There is a milkshake on the table between them, and they are smiling at each other fondly; Jon is leaning agains the table and looking up at Martin, who appears to be talking excitedly at them. Jon is a thin Persian person with medium brown skin, and long, curly graying dark hair. His skin is dotted with scars, including a knife scar on his chest. They are wearing a light pink vintage dress, white gloves, and a Pearl necklace. Martin is a fat Black and Filipino man with dark skin and freckles. His hair is a short and curly dark reddish brown, and it is tipped with white. His face and hands are dotted with vitiligo. He’s wearing a leather jacket with several patches and pins— the black and brown gay flag, the trans flag, the ace flag, and the Filipino flag.

The second and third images are closeups on Jon’s and Martin’s faces.)

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for @pocketsizedquasar 's dtiys <3

[ID: A digital drawing of Jon and Martin from TMA. They are sitting cuddled up together on a dark pink picnic blanket on a grassy hill and stargazing. Around them on the blanket are Jon's cane, a picnic basket, a few star maps and a small telescope. Jon is a thin Persian person with medium brown skin and long curly graying dark hair in a half up half down hairstyle and a short beard. He is wearing glasses, a light purple shawl, a flowy white longsleeved shirt, dark blue pants and black shoes. He is also wearing a wedding ring and an ace ring on his right hand. Martin is a fat Black and Filipino man with dark skin and lighter patches of vitiligo around his eyes and on his jaw and hands. His hair is dark, short and curly except for a white patch at the front. He is wearing round glasses, a rosy pink cable knit sweater, a scarf in a similar but darker shade of pink and dark trousers and boots. End ID]