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parksborn real

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These two should kiss also

(Reminder - Nico is bisexual and has been since like 2007)

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These two should kiss

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The new Spider-Man show is excellent. This is going to be my spoiler-free thoughts on the first two episodes.

Pros

This new Harry is my favorite incarnation of him already. We actually don't interact with him all that much in the first two episodes, but it's interesting to see how/if he'll be Peter's best friend. Especially when...

This guy seems so much more in that role already. If you don't know, Lonnie Lincoln is a longtime Spider-Man villain called Tombstone. They may not o that route here, but his personability AND the way the show clearly portrays how his race impacts his life struck a chord with me.

So far the plot itself has been fine. But my biggest hype moment was when reality struck at the end of episode two - HIGH recommend.

Cons

Nico's inclusion here rubs me entirely the wrong way. And it's not so much the fact that before now she had nothing to do with Spider-Man at all, it's because this continues the MCU trend of taking things from Miles because they're played out everything of Peter's so hard. Nico here is Ganke. That's the role she serves. Them doing this forces Miles adaptations to have to write around it so they're not seen as aping things that rightfully belong to him.

Pearl. Okay, this one is more of a mini-con leading into a bigger con, but in an effort to diversify the blinding whitness of Peter's 70 year history, the MCU has made his love interest Black. Now, at least, they're making it clear that Pete liking older dark-skinned women is going to be a continuing theme. I prefer Pearl with Lei Ling/Aero personally, but her being here is going to overshadow everything unique about her as just another of Pete's love interests.

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PSA: Cloak and Dagger are not siblings

"Wait what?" I hear you ask. "How could anyone think--"

"--are siblings?"

Well, twitter never fails to disappoint. In response to some amazing art by millawanda depicted below:

we have several gems:

And

And

And (Not specifically from that post but still. Cmon bruh.)

And

Anyone who's ever spent three seconds in fandom isn't surprised, but as a diehard Tyrandy shipper the backlash to people concluding they're siblings (or even twins?) based on literally nothing was entertaining.

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Black Galacta

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HAWKEYE/CHARLI RAMSEY In The Ultimates (2024) #5

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we are cloak and dagger ❤️🗡️👥

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Cloak and Dagger palette swap

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their first steps

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not in another universe, but in this one 🩵🩷

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can't have sad arcanes in my arcanes..

☆ speedpaint

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i had this dream where you were different…

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gyalaya and princess mononoke, same thing really

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Batman & Robin, Duke & Carrie By Symeona Kanellou

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The Reckoning of Roku (Full Spoiler Thoughts)

Just finished The Reckoning of Roku.

I really, REALLY don't like Sozin. If I'm being dishonest about why, it's that he's such an awful person and such a snake that Roku feels dumb for continuing to trust him. But if I'm being honest about why it's because he's the sole arbiter of the second greatest tragedy of Malaya and Gyatso's life. It's impossible to forgive him for killing her.

But Gyatso, oh my god this book was so amazing for his character. He's such a fun guy and seeing his and Roku's friendship bloom was a genuine first. An intimate male-male friendship that exists in the canon and is so beautifully written.

Overall, we know so much of Roku's life and see so many snippets of it in the show that there are immutable aspects this can't change. Roku and Sozin still trust each other into old age, so Sozin's shadiness can't break things too much, but learning more about Roku really puts into perspective how those two came to that end.

I wish it had been revealed that Sozin, if not for Roku, was at least gay for Yasu - because canonically he outlaws gay marriage and that still has to happen at some point for some reason - but alas.

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Okay, I'm on page 24 of The Reckoning of Roku and wondering why Gyatso is at an Air Nun temple. Is it gonna turn out that he's trans?