#has to happen

[foolsocracy]

controversial take: What if Pete did just adopt the name Ben?

I know it’s avoided because of it being a painful reminder of Uncle Ben (and in his case Ben Urich) but I kinda like it. 1) because I’m amused by the fact of him being an already hard to approach and off putting spider in the spider society. So going by Ben would automatically make the other Peters kinda wary (for their own mental sake lol). But also cause 2) it’s a very jewish thing to do

there’s a really big tradition for ashkenazi jews to name someone after a deceased loved one/relative. It’s supposed to foster the deceased person’s good traits in the child and to keep their memory alive. It’s big on honoring and commemoration and all that. Sort of like ‘their soul lives on’ type thing.

Ofc this applies to any Ben variant, benny/benji/benj/benjamin/etc, so this still works regardless if he goes by Ben or not. It’s all a nice gesture. But also I feel like noir Peter wouldn’t be opposed to the sting of loss he’d get every time someone said his late loved ones names. He’s morbid and self-hating like that

[shadeswift99]

Alright time to put that poll feature to use.

[memorycare]

half a year of unrelenting genocide in Gaza, please don’t stop caring. they are so tired, they cannot be the only ones participating in their own liberation. we have to keep caring

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

[ayo-edebiri]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse + text posts

[ibtisams]

A report just came out from a Palestinian hostage saying he was strapped with bombs and sent into a Hamas tunnel, with Israel prepared to blow the tunnel up with his body if fighters were found inside and yet people are still making the “Hamas uses human shields” arguments that have been confirmed to be a myth with no supporting evidence

[uncanny-heart]

my forever favorite character dynamic of all time

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[embraceyourdestiny]

to any americans who feel "paralyzed" and "dont know what to do" to help with gaza:

reading a fucking book. i beg of you.

in a time of knowledge suppression is it your duty to arm yourself with knowledge.

read about americas occupations in the middle east.

read about 9/11 from outside of america and see how they inflicted senseless harm and violence to countless amounts of people and have been suppressing your rights for the past 2 fucking decades.

read about any of the countless wars from the past 30 years. especially from a civilian's. and the victims and survivors' perspective. listen to the horror stories and do not plug your fucking ears as to what your country is doing.

and read about fucking gaza and palestine and keep up with what is happening no matter how "sad" or "uncountable" you might get.

dont look away from this.

you dont have the right to be comfortable during countless active genocides.

if you're knowledgeable, you're powerful, and our current state doesnt fucking want that.

you have the power to change things if you open your eyes and scream to the world.

wake the fuck up.

Edit: please check the reblogs there are readings and ways to help

[silentvoidtreeshop]

asked my brother if he'd seen goncharov (1973) and he looked at me and grabbed this beanie that hes had for 2 years that ive seen but never read the tag on it and

turns out he and his friends got matching beanies and made lore a full TWO YEARS ago

[ato-dato]

Aziraphale please! He’s been through enough!!!

[smolldust]

Me, aroace: “Yeah I think these fictional characters are kinda hot”

Other people: “Oh you think they’re hot? Doesn’t that mean you’re not actually aroa-“

Me:

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[sluttypatrickstar]

i cannot fucking believe i am wheeling this out again

[randomfandomss]

[bluebeesknees]

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