#A Very Marvel Christmas

[canisalbus]

Machete and Vasco are so pomegranate-and-the-hand-that-slices coded. To me.

Pomegranates are seen as messy, bloody, inconvenient fruits. You slice or tear or bite and in return for your effort you come away underwhelmed, disgusted, and stained too deep to wash. The consumption of a pomegranate is a violent act of defilement, for both the fruit and the eater.

But that is because most do not understand how to open a pomegranate. They have little patience for the precise carving. They see no point in coreing the fruit gently, no reason to be reverent as they pull the quarters apart. When done correctly, opening a pomegranate leaves little mess. Your fingers will still stain, your knife will still slick, but there will be no pool of crimson drowning both you and the fruit.

The seeds are only sweet to those who understand the merit of a light hand and intricate slicing. Why put in so much effort for a food so bitter and clearly armored against consumption? Surely it must not yearn to be eaten.

(^insane about silly catholic dogs)

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[countthelions]

Ghost horses sweater knitting is complete!!!

[nikothebookdragon]

agatha all along slapped so hard it made me (an avid marvel ignorer) cave and watch the mcu the right from the beginning

[wanderingmind867]

Howard reminisces about Christmas on his world, while Carol talks about how her parents divorced on Christmas (which led her to hate Christmas, and suffer the pains of a childhood divorce). I like the direction this story is taking. And the art isn't bad. Gene Colan still does great work in Black and White, apparently. (Howard the Duck vol 2 #4):

[cookinguptales]

so there's this disney bejeweled knock-off that I play on my phone (what can I say, I'm a sucker for repetitive movement games that also allow me to propel gonzo or sora at the board) and they keep introducing new characters for the game but like. they have hundreds now and they are clearly starting to scrape at the bottom of the barrel.

they've been delving into properties that disney technically owns but that you would never expect to see in a disney game, like, I shit you not, the golden girls, and at this point I am just counting down the days until they finally introduce my beloved and very stupid vampires.

please, disney. it would be so funny. I know you'll never put colin robinson in a kingdom hearts game, but you can at least let me attack vampire mickey mouse (a character that currently exists within the game) with guillermo de la cruz or something. you own both properties. you have the power. let me do it. let me force donald duck and nadja of antipaxos to fight to the death. let me do it. it would be so funny.

[questionableratatouille00]

hey hey hey good morning good morning do I have your attention okay great

don’t be a fucking dick in people’s asks. Don’t send a bunch of hate to fucking fic writers because you didn’t get what you wanted. Don’t fucking do that. It’s shitty and you ruin the whole experience for both the writer and the other people reading the fics. Fanfic doesn’t really have any rules, except for one main one: don’t be an asshole.

if you do that you’re a loser and I hope that when we all inevitably go to hell you’re forced to lose at monopoly for the rest of eternity okay bye

[nostalgia-tblr]

torn between "letting fandom have it's fun however it wants" and posting something like "the only reason we know so much about the Norse gods in the first place is that nobody was celebrating Christmas while they were writing that stuff down."

[shiningstarr15]

Ok so I took it out of the box before I snapped the pic bc I got too excited and impulsive lol

But yea my best friend won Christmas this year lol 😆😍🥰💖🫶🎄

This is why she’s my best friend 🥰🫶💖

I will be putting her in a new pose every month starting January 😝

[cattatonically]

Brandon's Very Merry Haunted Christmas - A.J. Sherwood (Mack's Marvelous Manifestations, book 1)

Synopsis

When Brandon Havili gets recruited by the FBI, he’s immediately assigned to shadow his brother and the psychic Donovan’s anchored to. Brandon doesn’t mind this in the slightest. He loves his brother, Jon seems cool, and it’s a great way to learn how to be an anchor, which is what the FBI wants him for. It’s supposedly three weeks of just following people around and observing.

But there’s a hitch in the plans. Brandon accidentally picks up a hitchhiker of the ghostly variety. Donovan is NOT pleased. Jon is amused to no end.

Dealing with the ghost means going back to the place Brandon accidentally got it from, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. They expect to meet up with an FBI medium, exorcise said ghost, and go home again.

FBI Medium Mackenzie Lafayette is not at all what Brandon expects. And for once, he’s quite happy to ditch the plan. Returning to Nashville can wait. He’s got a sexy medium to figure out first.

My Thoughts

Did Brandon intend on gifting Jon a haunted snowglobe? No. Did he do it anyway? Yes. Did Donovan freak out? Also yes. And it was all extremely entertaining. But of course, this doesn’t solve the problem of getting the ghost out of the snowglobe. But what does is calling the FBI and requesting the assistance of their paranormal activity division. Which leads our ragtag team from Nashville right to Mack Lafayette, a medium in training with the FBI. Which works out well in Brandon’s favour, as he’s an anchor in training with the FBI himself.

Brandon and Mack meeting is just as explosive as when Jon met Donovan. The chemistry was instantaneous , but it was also more than that. It was Brandon being honest with himself, and coming to terms with his bisexuality. And it was Mack being honest about the struggles he’s faced not only as a medium, but as a gay man in the Louisiana bayou. They were quick to have open and honest discussions, but as Jon learned, once you have the undivided attention of a Havili, there is very little that will take that attention away.

While the ghost hunting in this particular story was rather low stakes, it was a really great introduction to this series. I’ve been emotionally invested in Jon and Donavan’s adventures from the beginning, and now I’m really looking forward to getting to know Brandon and Mack better through their adventures. I’m just as emotionally invested in them, and I’m really looking forward to this series!

[azurecoffin]

hi who wants to hear my crackship of nature girl x dryad

plz I think the way out of nature girl's emo phase is sapphics hear me out plz

[shironezuninja]

Discovered the Spidey Bells album before going to Holiday Family Dinner this Christmas Day.

[microcroft]

NEW MCU UPDATE!

It has been announced that Gonzo from The Muppets is set to join the MCU in the next Phase! Many fans are speculating he will be the next Iron Man! Wow!

Follow for more Marvel Cinematic Universe News!

[daydreamerdrew]

Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #51

[evilwickedme]

Fuck it I'm bored so here's a ranking of different Peter Parkers by how Jewish they are

Dead last, obviously, is MCU!Peter Parker. This version of Peter is the farthest from comic canon to the point of being almost unrecognizable at times. Also, Tom Holland answered the question "is peter parker Jewish" in a Wired Autocomplete Interview a while back with a very baffled "no", cementing him forever as my sworn enemy. So he's actually the only peter parker who, at least by word of God, is canonically NOT Jewish. -1000000/10

Next up is Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker. I think this Peter is... fine, at least he's much closer to comic canon than MCU!Peter, but honestly that's not saying much considering how far the MCU strayed from comic canon or even the spirit of comic canon. But like overall, Sam Raimi's movies just aren't particularly interested in presenting Peter as Jewish, so, eh. 1/10

By far the most Jewish of live action Peters is TASM!Peter, also by far the most comic accurate of live action Peters. I'd be remiss not to mention the fact that Andrew Garfield is Jewish, and he understands the character so fucking well. He stated on record that he played Peter as Jewish and that he sees Spider-Man as an inherently Jewish character:

However, the Webb movies still do not textually define him as Jewish, and the best parts of Andrew's Peter's Jewish subtext are better when viewed in light of the comics. Overall, 6.5/10

Next up is the original, our beloved comic book Peter, pictured here saying Happy Hanukkah in a panel from Matt Fraction's Hawkeye. Comic Peter is one of the most heavily Jewish coded comics characters of all time, which is saying something considering how Jewish comic books are as a medium. Obviously he was created and often written and drawn by Jewish writers and artists, but beyond that his driving ethos and values are incredibly Jewish, and as a bonus he's constantly sprinkling Yiddish and Jewish phrases into his speech, alongside things like the above panel where he outright acknowledges Jewish culture in a scene where everyone else is saying merry Christmas. However, despite the extremely heavy coding, Marvel Comics are fucking cowards, and he has yet to be confirmed Jewish, so I must give him a measly 8/10.

Finally, the cream of the crop, the most Jewish of all Peter Parkers, Into the Spider-Verse's Peter B. Parker my beloved!!! Peter B. is voiced by Jake Johnson, himself a Jewish actor, and is a phenomenally accurate representation of comic book canon - but he also has the unique quality of being canonically, textually, in the actual movie Jewish! It's a bit of a blink and you'll miss it scene, but when we get introduced to Peter B. in his "one more time" segment, we see his wedding to MJ, where he steps on a glass. This is a Jewish minhag - custom - meant to represent the destruction of our Temple and Jerusalem, as well as remind us that sorrow and joy come intertwined, and is one of my personal favorite Jewish customs. It's a phenomenal moment in the best Spider-Man movie, and while this version of Peter would have been my favorite film version regardless, his Jewishness absolutely pushes him even further up. 13/10, no complaints

[lelliefant]

Kevin Feige, if you don’t cut OP a sweet 3-picture deal with full creative control, you can kiss MCU fanbase goodwill goodbye.

thor love and thunder would have been better if during that scene with all of the gods instead of introducing Zeus they introduce jesus as the head god except its very obviously just Loki with a fake beard and a white robe so then Thor has to team up with Loki/Jesus for the rest of the movie. Loki/Jesus also has knives shaped like crucifixes thank you goodnight

[iomadachd]

From @agentvharrison:

Day 1: Almond and orange lace cookies dipped in dark chocolate

Day 2: Cranberry-orange meltaway cookies

Day 3: Honey walnut cookie sticks

Day 4: Gingerbread bars with cream cheese frosting

Day 5: Soft chocolate-gingerbread cookies

Day 6: 'Gingy-bread' men

Day 7: Walnut cinnamon cookies

Day 8: Double dark chocolate merlot cookies