I changed my blog name! darkskyatnight < < < ladyofthedagger!
Someone with better media analysis can probably articulate what I'm trying to say better but the more I think about across the spiderverse the more I think about the underlying theme of we're all useless alone and that being alone is what causes suffering.
Like the majority of the time the spider people are working alone, and that is when 'canon' tragedies happen because they have no one to support them. Pavitr should have faced a canon tragedy because he was trying to have it all without any help, it's only when Miles steps in that he was able to have both in the end
I feel like there's also something to be said about POC having more focus on community and helping one another and how the POC characters in the movie have stronger community support and seem to be better spiderpeople because of that
Something something colonization breeds hyper individualism at the detriment of the person but we can only be successful with the love and support from the community that surrounds us
I love the Hobie Brown "palms" thread from Spiderverse 2.
Like, in the one scene Hobie busts the force field, notices Miles was doing something similar to him, and points out it'd be more effective if he used more surface area by touching with palms, not just fingertips. It's a quick line of dialogue in the middle of a rapidly unfolding action scene.
And then when Miles is trapped in a different force field like 8 scenes later, he makes the "palms" gesture and mouths the words. Which is about all he can do without tipping off the rest of the several dozen guys in the room what he's trying to say. And Miles doesn't get it right away, but he does like a few seconds later and you can kinda see his face when it clicks. It's enough to kick off the escape.
This is cool not just because it allows a good bit of detailed hand animation, but also because it's just communicating detail and character in a tight, focused way.
Miles Morales’ fuck you speech to Miguel had so many deeper layers because one of the storyline is Miles’ parents are basically dealing with the fact that their son is growing up and how he wants to do this awesome things but the movie doesn’t hide away from the fact that growing up Afro Latino and wanting to do amazing things isn’t easy, especially when Miles’ Mom voiced her concern about how she needs miles to protect himself because black and brown people are always told they don’t belong and all that so when Miles told Miguel that he wasn’t going to do his plan and he is Spiderman despite what Miguel says, it is a beautiful metaphor of how black and brown people don’t NEED to belong in a space that don’t want them, They don’t need to listen to the big guy up top because they belong whatever the fuck they want to be at and it is beautiful that Miles stands up to Miguel, the head guy in charge, because it is saying that Black and Brown people have to stand up for themselves against the head guy in charge, especially if they are in your way
And to my black ass, that’s *chefs kiss*
Love how Elena chose to be shitty to Daisy because of the possibility that she might end the world but didn't hold any resentment towards Fitz for the way he violated her. Love that Jemma went on to comfort her husband after he cut into their friend as she screamed in agony but couldn't be bothered to check on said friend even once. If anything she just really wanted Daisy to get over it.
Love how these women of shield decided to side with a white man who violated a woman, gaslighted her. I have always believed AoS has really well written female characters but then I remember these things and it makes me question why I even liked this show in the first place.
came back wrong but its from the perspective of the person who came back
Seeing pictures of yourself -the real you, the one people miss, the one people look for in your eyes- is like staring into a foggy mirror. The parts are there, you think, but the details are lost.
Someone who loves you makes you breakfast. You thank him and eat it despite the fact the eggs are too crisp on the sides and missing much needed salt. He says its how you like it, but that just makes that angry, unfettered itch in the back of your brain grow stronger.
How I used to like it, you want to say, how I used to be.
You grip your butter knife harder and light catches the polished metal. The glimpse you catch of yourself in the cutlery looks nothing like the photo on the mantle.
Reblogging things I like feels a lot more goblinesque than upvoting ever did. The upvotes felt like "hmm yes, I approve *golf claps*" while reblogging feels like furtively staring at something before shoving it in your mouth and scurrying back underneath the nearest piece of furniture.
Which isn't to say that I don't like it. But I definitely find myself going "maybe I shouldn't reblog this because I've already reblogged a bunch of things today and I don't want to look like I don't have a life," I say as I close the app and reopen it like one of those little automatic box toys with the switches.
man, the way some of the reddit refugees talk about moving to tumblr is kinda depressing; they're saying stuff like "No one has belittled me on tumblr yet" and "people actually talk to me here."
We've got to rehabilitate these users so that they can see what it's like to have a non-hostile internet experience.
You might think that I'm joking when I say that we need cyborg rights to be codified into law, but I honestly think that, given the pace of development of medical implants and the rights issues raised by having proprietary technologies becoming part of a human body, I think that this is absolutely essential for bodily autonomy, disability rights, and human rights more generally. This has already become an issue, and it will only become a larger issue moving forwards.