#max Dillon

[hawkogurl]

I'll probably have more to say about this later bc I'm going to sleep soon, but I feel like, you, oliveroctavius, me, and a few other people are like the small minority I've seen anywhere who actually criticize TASM for the eugenics and ableism, and it honestly floors me that no one talks about it when it's so blatant and tumblr loves bringing up disability and ableism otherwise? Like, it's not even a case of how everyone has valid differing opinions and needs/wants when it comes to how the vast range of disabled experiences should be approached in fiction and there's nuance in how to do even tricky, but real experiences like grief and loss - we're talking about a film series where an antagonist meant to be sympathetic makes a speech about disability being a weakness of humanity that must be genetically eradicated to strengthen it (which is never deconstructed or challenged) and has no other characterization beyond sad amputee whose only interest for a decade is his missing arm, and where Peter is some kind of genetic chosen one whose Good Genes give him cool powers, and the whole mess with Harry.

The few other times on tumblr I've seen it brought up is to like, woobify (internalized) ableism even though the films go way beyond realistic personal struggle and straight into eugenics, and as someone with a Lizard niche in the Spidey fandom, I'm floored at how everywhere else, I keep seeing the TASM version of the character topping best adaptation discussions by a huge margin compared to way better takes with zero references of the ableism (this was not the case even a few years ago, idk what happened), and you can correct me on this if I'm wrong bc you would know more about the Harry side of things than me, but I feel like TASM!Harry used to be very popular and be moved, at least until MSM2017 and Insomniac came along.

Hi sorry my brother just graduated college. Anyways, in regards to the Harry side of things, I think a lot of the ableism SHOULD be pretty obvious, but apparently it’s not considering how little critical thought there is with all these villains. There’s the good genes bad genes eugenics of Harry wanting Peter’s blood to cure himself and then it doesn’t work because the spider only worked with Peter’s “good genes” (I don’t care about their in canon excuse, it still buys into this trope) and it reacted so badly with the TERMINALLY ILL CHARACTERS “bad genes” that he turned crazy and evil. And that’s ignoring my general distaste for disability or “insanity” being used primarily as a source of fear for the good, noble, and of course able bodied protagonists.

Something that’s also pretty weird that nobody mentions is the fact that like, Electro in these movies just HAD to talk to nothing. Normally it wouldn’t bother me as much or I might be willing to give it a pass, but it’s these movies, which just love to make their disdain for disabled people clear, so it comes off as super bad taste.

Like… I’m only scratching the surface. Why are there three people who consistently point out how ableist these movies are? Especially when as you said, tasm Harry is pretty popular! Ignoring my beef with him as a Harry Osborn, it’s so odd to me because so much of that is either like, sort of romanticizing his chronic illness and breakdown or getting off on that ableist insanity I mentioned earlier.

And when you bring it up, people get SUPER defensive. I don’t know if like, the amount of invalid criticism just makes people defensive or if it makes people think there’s NO valid criticism but like… these movies aren’t bad for the reasons you think. The issues they have are like… the writing saying that eugenics is cool and fun alongside generally iffy writing.

[theavengers]

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) dir. Jon Watts

[spider-3ggs]

theres nothing cisgender about this scene

[yee-honks]

SINISTER SIX BUT UPA STYLIN

U NSTABLE

P ERSISTANT

A SSHOLES

OTHERS ARE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK <3

[soranatus]

The Amazing Spider-Man By Devlin Baker

[tyquu]

Uhhh I know this isn’t my typical content but this show is giving me the drawing itches and I have no where else to put it so …. Enjoy???

[jervis-tetch-my-beloved]

This movie gives me ultimate brainrot

[angerydj]

Zap zap

[hollowsart]

Thanks for the suggestions last night, guys!! These were lots of fun to doodle!

tssm Cham & Beck: @lazymonth

Penguin: @possumclaws

Electra: @arcade-writing

Holiday Otto & Beck: @iru-hime

Flustered Beck: @silvervultur3

[funkinmadnesss]

bunch of TSSM doodles <3 majority being Mysterio but shhhh it’s fine

[why-i-love-comics]

Amazing Spider-Man #46 (2024)

written Zeb Wells art by Carmen Carnero & Marcio Menyz

[thenyougetbackup]

design refs for my peter's villains based on their default comic suits but just a bit different :3 (also just the ones i felt like drawing)

[comicsgallery-marvel]

Black Cat (2019) Annual #1

[lazymonth]

Max Dillon be like

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[thyla-scene360]

Doodled two of my favorite TSSM characters last night.

[wondrous-art]

Finally finishing off the last designs to create Speeder Parker's perfectly weird sinister six- sorry "Miniature Six."

I decided I wanted The Beetle's powers to stand out more so I specified her species to be a bombardier beetle and gave her a gun that shoots boiling hot caustic liquid. The Human fly's design is completely different cause eh I don't vibe with any of his canon looks. And the Rhino is now a big Russian beetle man. Yeah! :)