peter parker in the 2002 movie is fuckin…. incredible. he gets bitten by a fuckin jacked red blue spider and he doesnt say “hey someone should take me to the hospital mayhaps?” he just goes home. then the bite swells to the size of a fuckin jawbreaker but he’s like “nah i just need a nap.” then he wakes up the next day and discovers that he DOESN’T NEED HIS GLASSES ANYMORE and he has a fuckin six pack. does he flip his entire Fuck? no. he says, “cool.” iconic.
2002 peter parker had no health insurance
Seriously tho that was the Bush administration he had no health insurance.
I sometimes feel a little guilty about all the complaints I made concerning Bunn’s writing of Lorna. But then I remember why I complained as much as I did in the ways I did.
Lorna has a long history of being treated poorly around Havok. Her dynamic with Gambit on All-New X-Factor matched it until Peter David saw complaints and did better, though he did still have problems here and there. Bunn was not only repeating that problem pattern when using Havok around her, he was writing Lorna’s dynamic with Magneto the same way as Peter David was writing her around Gambit early on.
In those early issues of ANXF, Lorna was treated like a leader in name only, with Gambit treated like the “actual” leader, and some (not all) Gambit fans justified it as that Gambit has more leadership experience so it’s fine for Lorna to be treated that way.
Magneto fans essentially did the same for Lorna’s treatment on Blue. They loved Bunn’s writing of Magneto, they care more about benefits to Magneto than anything else, so they praised Lorna’s use on Blue because it fit their interests.
Every time there’s something wrong, in any medium, you need to push past the people who will pretend bad things are good because they’re more invested in what they’re getting than what should actually be. Even a lot of Polaris fans can be like this. But when it comes to comics, it’s more common for Polaris fans to be the ones wronged than the ones doing the wronging.
So my complaints can never simply be “This is bad, please fix it.” I know writer ego and writer interests. Something said so softly will be ignored because its softness is seen as a sign it’s not really a big problem. Other people defending the bad as somehow good give the writer the impression there’s no need to consider the complaints.
And as the problems persist, my complaints need to persist too. Sometimes become more vocal.
So yes. I can feel bad about the complaints I leveled at Bunn. But then I can also remember they were a necessity for a character who has suffered for decades because the complaints about poor treatment of her were ignored and never loud enough to bring about needed change.
It’s Lorna’s 50th anniversary this year and Marvel is completely disregarding her history because of these same basic factors. Her perspective isn’t seen unless someone forces it to be seen. She’s invisible or an expendable supporting extra in the eyes of Marvel and people working there unless she’s highlighted by the people who care about her.
there will be a moment when you realize you are more grown up than your parents are. this is the loss of childhood, my love. it is when you’re standing in the kitchen and one of your parents is screaming about something and you recognize: you will let them win the fight not because you are wrong, but simply because you know that they will keep shouting unless you drop the subject. you expect them to have childish understandings of things. they will hold onto their concept of the world as if it was not a changing thing. they must be right, and they must be somehow more right than you, always, in everything. their idea of control is so necessary to who they are that you just let it go.
this is the moment. you are 11 or 17 or 21. and you realize that you’re more mature than they ever were.
and in some odd, sad way, this frees you. where they have stagnated, you continue.
For those saying in the notes “wow teens really think they’re more mature than their parents just because they disagree lol?” No, it’s not about that.
It’s about seeing my mom use childish tactics of name calling, and changing the topic to another issue when my sisters call her out on something. When my sister asked her what was so wrong about homosexuality and my mom only had one response, “It’s not normal,” to every follow up question my sister had. It’s when my dad decides to make a joke, and getting unreasonably angry when it’s not recieved well, deciding that we just can’t take a joke and not that he didn’t read the room right. It’s when my aunt is proud of herself for being close minded and laughs at my sisters and I for trying to say that maybe she shouldn’t be.
As a younger teen I had a theory that because my mom ran a daycare out of our home for so many years that she now only knew how to argue like a child. It’s been years since the daycare and she still resorts to childish tactics. And as I got older I saw it more in the other adults in my life. My sisters see it too, and we’re becoming experts in how to navigate our them as if we were the parents learning how to control our children.
I love my parents I really do. But at 23 years old it is indeed a bit sad and frightening to realise that these figures of authority really dont hold that much more over me in terms of maturity anymore. And that yeah, there are many scenarios I have to navigate as the adult in the situation, and be
the one willing to let things go.
Basically, it’s the realisation that respect is earned, not demanded simply because someone is older.
you guys there’s a new nancy cartoonist and she’s amazing
this art style with modern references is the most jarring thing I’ve ever seen
it’s so raw and I love it
I’m reblogging again because I feel like most of my followers aren’t Nancy Enthusiasts™
and don’t know all the context around this, which I think make it even better
in 1925 Ernie Bushmiller took over the comic strip Fritzi Ritz, about a flapper named Fritzi who was a kinda cheesecakey saucy dame with a lot of sometimes-boyfriends, most notably the goofy-as-hell, owned-with-regularity doofus Phil Fumble
In 1933 Bushmiller introduced Fritzi’s niece Nancy, because you can only write so many stories about a dynamite gal dealing with her idiot boyfriend, and by 1938 the comic was just called Nancy.
Phil Fumble basically completely disappeared as Nancy became a strip that has literally had papers and later whole books dedicated to how carefully Bushmiller managed to craft his strips.
Art Spiegelman explains how a drawing of three rocks in a background
scene was Ernie’s way of showing us there were some rocks in the
background. It was always three. Why? Because two rocks wouldn’t be
“some rocks.” Two rocks would be a pair of rocks. And four rocks was
unacceptable because four rocks would indicate “some rocks” but it would
be one rock more than was necessary to convey the idea of “some rocks.”
A Nancy panel is an irreduceable concept, an atom, and the comic strip is a molecule.
It changed hands a couple of times, but the person of note here took over in 1995: Guy Fucking Gilchrist. If I sound like I dislike Guy Gilchrist, it’s because he was garbage! Fritzi suddenly became a country music fan with huge knockers and cross necklaces; Phil Fumble came back as a buff Christian to make an honest woman out of her; Nancy was always praying and talking about how great music used to be and waving flags all over the place. Sluggo became a tragic orphan whose uncles were truckers and Vietnam veterans. Gilchrist’s idea of honoring Bushmiller’s legacy was to make constant, neverending references to three rocks. They lived in a town called Three Rocks now (in Nashville, because of-fucking-course). Three rocks were on all the signs. Three rocks in background panels, everywhere.
If it sounds like he turned it into a good-ol’-days ammurcan wankfest, that’s because it was. If you’re around my age, you have probably only ever known the strip as Gilchrist’s trash.
Those three rocks in the first panel were definitely necessary, and not stupid as hell.
While no official reason was given, Gilchrist was taken off the comic this year after a former assistant made a public statement accusing him of substance abuse and sexual assault.
While he was waiting for the axe, he tied up his new Nancy with a storyline where buff Phil adopted Sluggo and married Fritzi, and they all lived happily ever after doing who gives a fuck.
And now they’ve given the comic to a woman, who is once again doing gag-a-day strips and who seems to be ignoring literally all of Gilchrist’s stupid bullshit in favor of things that are actually funny.
“because a 16 year old girl who had her first orgasm whilst getting raped, had to watch her 34 year old rapist go free because she had an orgasm.
because when one of my guy friends told me and some friends he got raped by a woman when he was 12, a “friend” laughed at him and told him he should be happy he got laid that young.
because my 17 year old friend’s parents let her 14 year old brother roam the streets until 12am, but she has to be home by 10.
Because my brothers girlfriend, told the police she was raped and fell pregnant but the rapist didn’t get jail time as she got an abortion and the ‘evidence’ was gone.
because a guy from my old school was raped by another guy, but because he’s gay, they said it wasn’t considered rape.
because a 19 year old lesbian got raped by a guy, and he didn’t go to prison because he said “he only tried to turn her straight so she would be accepted by her parents”.
because in some cultures, girls (and boys, of course) still get thrown out of the family because somebody sexually assaulted them.
because they’re still teaching girls to walk faster at night instead of teaching boys that they shouldn’t rape.
Because they’re teaching kids that they’re only male rapists and not female rapists too.
because I have to explain why rape makes me mad.“
If you excuse rape for any reason stay the fuck away from me because you are literally a peice of human refuse.
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being a lesbian (and bi, pan, etc.) woman can be so hard and lonely because women specifically in our current culture are socialized to be very physically intimate with each other.
growing up my girl friends and i would shower together and cuddle and hold hands and do each other’s makeup and link arms when we walked down the street and share food.
and some women are on different levels of comfort and intimacy with each other, like maybe no shower-sharing or hand-holding etc. But on one level or another, we are raised to be physically affectionate and it’s normal.
and once we realize we’re not straight, suddenly people around us are scrutinizing us. anything we do with out friends must be because we’re attracted to them. so we start becoming afraid to interact platonically with women at all.
even if our friends reassure us they trust us and don’t feel that way, we hear other people saying shit like “what? you shower with her at the gym? you let her sleepover in your bed???”
“that’s like doing that with a guy, isn’t it?”
and we know that every single second of our time spent with straight women is spent being studied through a microscope by other heteros who see as as predators. It’s heartbreaking.
And if we don’t have great friends, because hey, when you’re younger sometimes your friends aren’t always great, we end up with no reassurance and we start worrying maybe we ARE crossing boundaries when we tell a best friend “you look hot in that dress” when we just meant it as a normal compliment, so we isolate ourselves from female friendships.
it’s sort of like a joke I hear a lot, “why do so many gay/bi/etc. girls have all guy friends?”
but the truth is actually really sad bc we’re afraid to interact with women because of the scrutiny we face in our every word, expression, and gesture.
if you’re straight and your girl friend isn’t, here’s something to know: it is impossible for me to exaggerate how much it means to me when my straight friends normalize physical intimacy with me in front of judgmental people.
When my straight friends hold my hand in the mall or link arms with me, or when they help me fix my hair or ask me to fix theirs, when they ask me to help them put on a necklace or unzip a dress, etc.
I know these all seem like little gestures but there are so many things I miss about “straight friendships” because I didn’t realize I liked women until I was 19, and some of my friends started acting different around me, stopped touching me, didn’t want to share beds, etc. and now I’m hyper-aware of my interactions with straight women to the point of misery.
So when you bridge that gap in the little ways, saying you don’t care and you trust me and love me and don’t see my any differently, it means the world tbh.
so many comments on this post are really patronizing like “clearly you’re nt form the US” and “okay but what girls showed together lmao bye” or “so you’re saying people have to let you touch them to be an ally” (??????????) and it’s like???
I clearly stated all people have different levels of comfort when it comes to intimacy.
No, I do’t go to my friends’ houses and strip with them to shower (but maybe someone does!). As adults my friends and I shower together after we swim at a public pool or a lake bc often locker rooms have communal shower options and it saves time.
Some of my friends don’t like hugging or holding hands, and I respect that, obviously.
Everyone has different lived experiences and comfort zones but I’m really tired of comments on this post making fun of me for having grown up comfortably intimate with my friends and being told that’s not normal for straight women.
salarta 