bighistoryofgastronomy

[heynhay]

so part of my klance renaissance has obviously included haunting ao3 and can i just say this one by @thespacenico was especially lovely. drew a lil somethin.

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

One of the things I'm particularly bitter about when it comes to this ending is how it flattened Ed and Izzy's relationship.

You can't, in the same season give me

"I have... love for you, Edward." "I loved you, best I could." "Artsy outsider was always your thing." "A shark did this."

and

"Hello Mr. Latch! it's not your fault you're broken, no. Were just trying to do your job, weren't ya?"

and expect me to just... move on from that, accepting that we will never get anything more from them, that their relationship won't get explored, that they won't have a the chance, time and space to finally talk it through as a crew, to air out their grievances, to reach a boiling point, and to decide where to move on from there. Within just a few episodes they became the most fascinating part of the show for me, and the fact that, as far as we know, this is it for them... yeah, I don't like that at all.

[stairset]

I think the portrayal of Spider-Man 2099 in Across the Spider-Verse is in-character in that aside from like Shattered Dimensions he's always been portrayed as a bit of an asshole who slips into anti-hero territory at times and generally has a "needs of the many over the needs of the few" mindset and given his specific circumstances in the movie it's not unreasonable to think he could take the actions he does. However it does kinda suck that since like 99% of moviegoers had no idea who he was before the movie came out their first impression of him is when he's in an antagonistic role and people think "antagonist" and "villain" are synonyms so now I'm gonna have to listen to people who've never read a comic saying he's a villain or isn't a real Spider-Man for the rest of time or at least until he inevitably changes his mind in the third one.

[dinosaurwithablog]

Suni Lee does the routine of her lifetime!! She only practiced for a little over 6-7 months, while the rest of the competitors had years to prepare, and Suni took the bronze medal 🥉 in the individual women's all around gymnastics!!!! What a fighter!! What an amazing athlete. There is no one more deserving that Suni to win a medal at this Olympics in Paris!!! I am so happy for her. The smile on her face as she did her routine showed that she knew that she crushed it!! She was having a great time out there, and it showed. Congratulations, Suni!!!! I'm sooooooo happy for you!!! You did it, and you did it brilliantly!!! I'm all misty eyed from watching her do this phenomenal routine!! 😍

USA USA USA!!! ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙

[thatthirstyweirdo]

Is…Is Wally’s full name Walliford??

[elegyofthemoon]

SCREAMS

[dopepoisonivyoncrack]

Just the first 2 main chapters of the theoretical part of my thesis..... it needs to be reduced to half 💀💀💀

[oflgtfol]

Ive never read venom 2003 before https://oflgtfol.tumblr.com/post/751671883581325312/nvm-about-the-comments-people-are-unironically#notes and bc of this post i looked it up for the art style and. I like personally just barely tolerate it tho im somebody whose just Immune to this point to ugly art styles ive seen em all they cant hurt me anymore but my thing is like. Isnt venom 2003 a thing spoof? Like based off the thing??? Why did they get a hyper cartoony guy for this…. Like… huh… isnt it meant to be scary i heard???

ok so a few things

regarding the art style first:

venom comics are quite frankly full of ugly fucking art styles so i too am kind of immune to them. just like, any of the mid to late 90s venom solo comics were butt fucking ugly. HOWEVER. venom 2003 is a specific king of ugly that is particularly atrocious to me. just something about the noses, the lips, the jawlines, it's basically just the caricature art style??? but like, in a comic for some reason??? and i also really hate the caricature art style so much i don't understand why people A. make art in that style and B. pay others to make art of them in that style

but whatever. ugly art is very common in comics of all walks of life. it's fine. but the real kicker, and the real thing i was talking about that prompted me to make that specific post, is this fucking page:

i have such beef with this man over how he draws female characters. it is so needlessly objectifying and dehumanizing. like, the male characters get to just exist, but oh god, how dare a woman wake up from her slumber, we must must must depict her languid curves and the rotundity of her breasts !!! combine this very deliberate objectification with the stupid fucking pouty lips choice behind the art style in general, it's just so gross

and then, the icing on the cake was the comments on readcomiconline about that specific page from venom 2003:

(how dare you put the good name of sleeper symbiote to shame like this!!!!!!!!)

anyway, and moving onto The Thing spoof:

yeah so the "shiver" arc of venom 2003 (because this god forsaken comic run is separated into arcs for some fucking reason) was a riff on The Thing (1982). which, how dare you put the good name of The Thing to shame like this.

and like, i do really think that a symbiotes x thing crossover idea could work. a symbiote who goes rogue, who has no qualms with killing anyone around and doesn't care about its hosts, absolutely would basically be like The Thing and as a fan of body horror i'd love to see a take on symbiotes like that. instead of just oh big claw monster kills people, what about big goo alien assimilates you and rends you apart atom by atom !?!?!?!!? just wish it wasn't in the image of Venom Symbiote, my beloved babygirl who has never done anything wrong ever in its entire life

and yes, the body horror aspect of symbiotes x thing doesn't even hit correctly because the art style is just so atrocious. like, the body horror itself isn't grotesque because the art itself is grotesque, and not in any meaningful way. like Venom: The Hunger (1996) is also quite fucking ugly with its art style but its purposefully ugly - the muted, putrid colors with the heavy black shading are meant to be off-putting, to visually echo the frame of mind that symby, and by extension eddie, is in. because the whole story is about how symby is sick, so a putrid color palette feels sickly, and the grotesque shading makes every character look monstrous, because the sickness is warping their sense of reality and genuinely making them feel like they're surrounded by monsters. IT WORKS FOR THE STORY!!!! but venom 2003 it's just, plain bad art. it's cartoony, it's like a caricature, it does not lend itself to body horror on par with The Thing. caricature art styles are great for like, an uncanny valley feel, but that's not what venom 2003 is going for. it has the chutzpah to show rooms littered with dead bodies, but the art style is so fucking messy and chaotic that i literally cannot make sense of what i'm looking at, so therefore the horror of it doesn't hit me. there is no visual clarity or purpose and worst of all IT'S SEXIST and i hate it

[tacagen]

man do i love green goblin and do i HATE how he's usually handled

[derangedthots]

feeling some type of way about user simpofnegan's new cowboy jacemond fic in the tags and by some type of way i mean desperately trying not to scream in my dorm room @ 2am and wake my roommate

[felikatze]

replaying sov i have feelings again

super super cool how alm and celica are both strong-willed characters but in opposite directions

so from like act 1 and 2. alm has an incredibly strong sense of duty even before joining the deliverance. it's clear that he knows he is a capable warrior to the point it may come off as delusion of grandeur (to be fair he made it very difficult to train units bcuz he kept critting everything to death) and as a result has a strong sense of guilt related to what he sees his duty to be.

he believes that he as a warrior is required to use his might for the greater good even before stepping foot out of ram. it's one of the reasons he's so eager to leave to begin with. why should he spend his days tending sheep when he has learned battle and zofia needs all the warriors it can get?

his sense of duty only intensifies when clive pronounces him leader of the deliverance. at first he's hesitant because he's a warrior and not a tactician, but once it's clear that role still falls to clive he steps up immediatly. in his act 2 reunion with celica we already see that alm considers what he must do as a leader above any desire he or celica may have.

he's also much more pragmatic than celica. whereas at first he can come off as a hothead because he charges into battle, he is not a person to believe in miracles. instead, he believes he must wage war because mila will not suddenly turn up and save them. the people must save themselves.

celica may seem the more calm and collected one on a moment-to-moment basis, but she is much more idealistic. she believes miracles can fix things. and i think most importantly she wants someone else to fix everything.

by going to mila she is hoping that a goddess will make everything right for her and that she won't have to be the princess to do it. whereas alm embraces duty to an unhealthy degree, celica abhors it. after all, it is her status as a princess that almost got her killed, that killed her brother, that tore her away from alm. it is quite understandable that she doesn't want to be the responsible one.

and that hatred for this duty, for having to fullfill it, she ends up projecting on alm which drives the conflict between them in their reunion. for celica, alm shouldn't have to be leader either, blood be damned, because she knows how horrible the life of royalty is. in the ideal world she wishes for, she never would've left ram at all. mila has to fix everything. nobody should have to die when mila can save them. nobody should have to take up arms.

it's a very interesting conflict bcuz it's not how these characters appear on the surface. alm tends to wear his emotions on his sleeve and celica tends to put up more of a facade, so you don't expect alm to be the pragmatist and celica to be the idealist.

of course these initial characterizations get subverted in increasingly fun ways as alm gets an identity crisis and way too many personal conflicts and celica ends up utterly consumned by the duty to stop duma after mila can't, but hey, that's good writing, babey. nobody can get what they want and everybody gets their worldview challenged.

[stairset]

One of my toxic traits as a superhero fan is when adaptations make the villain connected to the hero’s origin I sometimes like it and sometimes don’t and either way I usually have no specific reasoning for my opinion other than Vibes.

[quaranmine]

seeing people use photography as a defense in favor of ai art (photography is easy/photography didn't replace drawn art/they're both just machines humans put input into to create things) makes me sort of violent as an amateur photographer

i am not hiking out to places, literally laying on the ground to get angles, memorizing aperature and iso and shutter speed and white balance information to compensate for constantly changing real-world conditions, paying attention to specific compositions, etc just for u to say it's the same as feeding some prompts into a computer. respect the technical expertise that goes into it or die by my sword

[chucklesandrick]

X-Women as Teachers

[drysauce]

i gacha'd a lot

[sparrowsfallingfromthesky]

what did I do today? oh you know. went through and looked at how long my fics have taken to write. and then made a graph. obviously