#about: mary jane

[riptide-if]

Did any of Lee’s band members try or wanted to try to get with MC before Lee did ? If yes what stopped them ?

all of mary jane (sans lee) were in relationships at the time! so no. plus mc and lee originally met during one of their shows and none of the members besides lee LOL are the types to go for flings or one night stands

[uncharted-constellations]

I... Cannot stop

[aroaceleovaldez]

okay last one for the night but. honestly i really hate how the franchise has been using loyalty to Rick as a shield for so long. If Rick was involved in a project or not doesn't matter, especially not anymore.

ReadRiordan and the publishing for the franchise has been using this tactic for ages - they obscure if any writing related to the series wasn't written by Rick unless it's special circumstances. It's near impossible to find out who the ghostwriters are (Stephanie True Peters and Mary-Jane Knight). TSATS was promoted as the first time we got a non-Riordan (Rick or Haley) author working on one of the companion novels despite having seven already existing ghostwritten books in the series. The only reason Mark Oshiro was emphasized so heavily for TSATS was because they also work as a sensitivity reader for topics such as queer identity, and Rick had received backlash in the past for being a Straight Cis Old White Guy repeatedly falling into bad habits (that he hasn't broken out of) with certain characterizations that he kept doubling-down on or retconning into oblivion. The show emphasizes that Rick was involved, but the LA Times article brings into question exactly how much he was involved, and it doesn't even really matter either way. The ReadRiordan site actively avoids putting any writing credits on their articles (or art credits...) or anywhere on their site.

Practically the entire fandom unanimously agrees the musical - which had zero involvement from Rick - is the best adaptation of the series so far, including the TV show. Some of the best writing to come out of the series recently was the stuff ghostwritten by Stephanie True Peters (Camp Half-Blood Confidential, Camp Jupiter Classified, Nine from the Nine Worlds, etc). And yet when promotional stuff is posted about CHB:C, there's clearly coded language used to hide the fact that Rick himself didn't write it. Yes, that's how ghostwriters work, but at this point we should really stop pretending "Rick Riordan" isn't just a pen name for a group of authors like "Erin Hunter" and that Rick is actually writing everything in the series. I can easily look up and see which Animorphs books were ghostwritten, and who those authors were. I can find every "Erin Hunter" easily listed on official sites. And yet most people don't even know the Riordanverse franchise has ghostwriters at all.

And the franchise is still trying to use the "Tio/Uncle Rick" stuff. Author loyalty and marketing parasocial relationships isn't going to save the franchise when the author himself can't hold up his own original themes or even keep basic series bible details straight, and especially not if the editors are barely if at all doing their job. And please at least get a goddamn series bible by this point.

[himbolithium]

I love bisexual gaming

[operationcaked]

twitter really liked this, so i’ll post it here too :))

[squash1]

on healing an inner child:

[mister impossible by maggie stiefvater / all of us strangers / rattlesnake by jack van cleaf / boy (2010) / russian doll / mary poppins & mary poppins returns]

[givemearmstopraywith]

rape ment / not a huge fan of debates from reactionary atheists who joke about mary lying about cheating or being some sort of first century slut, and then making up a story about god appearing to her to hide the truth because like. that's a girl. that's a child. that's a peasant girl under the age of sixteen. if you take that story at historical face value and agree that the mythological aspect is simply not real, then suddenly this is a story about a girl who was almost certainly raped, cannot remember what happened to her, and tells a story that an angel appeared to her and impregnated her. and that is the basis of christianity. christians also do not like to talk about this and i have also sat in the camp of mary's consent was predetermined, but i've also grown enough as a christian and a theologian to recognize how fucking depressing this story is. maybe the story of christ is one that begins and ends with a miracle, or maybe it's one that begins and ends with being brutalized by men.

[hedonistbyheart]

I saw an incredible youtube short and had to realize my vision lol

[edgepunk]

a v self-indulgent angsty petermj doodle using a pose from a ref sheet

[battlships]

i really said “mj and peter should date miguel” as a joke in a discord server and now i’m in too deep

[sophiegoose]

MJ: "This is my husband, Peter. And Peter's boyfriend, Miguel. And Miguel's boyfriend, also named Peter."

LEGO Spiderman, standing on Miguel's shoulder: "'sup?"

[sciderman]

spider-man & the human torch #5

[theshadowrealmitself]

MJ and Gwen Stacy getting married to each other, and Peter’s happy for them, but at the same time he feels sad and lonely with both of his exes having moved on and finding happiness with each other while he’s still single and feels like his friend group is leaving him behind

So some of the other heroes, who don’t know his identity or who his exes are, are just comforting him like “just don’t think about it buddy!” while the wedding pictures are everywhere, like the billboard right next to them, and everyone’s talking about it because MJ is really famous so it’s a huge event

[big1ron]

It’s the nineties Peter! Job security is deader than disco!

[rosiedawsons]

if not for cowardice, a spider-gwen movie has the potential to be the most unapologetic gay superhero movie ever. scratch superhero, just movie in general. that girl is gay, her whole band is gay, everyone in her universe is gay. earth 65 is that one youtube video "a world were being gay is the norm" where straight kids get bullied. earth 65 gwen, emjay and glory could give us the greatest toxic codependency lesbian polycule of all time

[frozentothetouch]

sketchies (mainly gwen)