#WHICH AGAIN IS SOMETHING TASM 2 UNDERSTANDS ABOUT SPIDEY

[cyanidespideycup]

I think a lot of people conflate superheroes as a whole to specifically Batman when it comes to the importance of a life. It makes sense, supers are meant to be put on pedestals and represent what we should all aspire to be. But it's weird when this gets applied to Spidey.

Just like everything else with Peter, he is a regular guy. Other superheros represent what we should aspire to be, but Spidey represents what we can be. He cares for every life. He hopes to give everybody a second chance. But if someone asks for it, Pete will beat their fucking skull in.

When his cop/detective friend Jean DeWolff was murdered, he hunted the man down and physically fought his way past Daredevil to kill the guy and ended up beating him within an inch of his life. When Kingpin got May shot, Peter broke into his prison, effortlessly beat him to a smear, and then promised that when May died, not if, he'd come back and finish the job- violently. There are just countless instances of him deciding "I'm actually going to kill him now totally" with Norman. Most notably of course is the glider incident, which Peter didn't actually go to with the intent to kill (weirdly enough despite Gobby killing his fiance). However, he took pleasure in beating him senseless and wasn't exactly broken up by the final thud.

Peter's a guy who meets every situation with the intent to help someone. He tries to find every opportunity to help another person, even someone who's trying to kill him, even if it's at his own detriment. He's not a perfect manifestation of morals and purity. He's just some guy. Some guy who cares a whole lot for people. And that makes it all the more special when he does help someone. When he talks a girl off a roof, or inspires a kid to be better than the system set him up for, or befriends his own rogues. It all feels so much more personal. This is just a person, one of us. Someone who fails more often than not, who makes bad jokes and gets angry and feels hate and love and pain all at once and most of all, someone who tries his best no matter what.

[clarrissanewt]

Shipping on Bus?

Pairing: tasm!peter parker x fem!reader

Warnings: reader literally falling for peter, fluff, fluff, fluff

Summary: when you literally fell for peter parker, it was time to teach him something- shipping.

Peter wouldn't mind dying in Paris, but dying in a lane of Queens, yes, you would mind very much.

The bus rattled as if to spill his bel sangue without even hurting him and he winced as the bus jostled against some ridge on the road.

1. University

2. Being a friendly neighborhood spidey

3. A bus ride to nowhere

Ah well, just a 'bucket' list about things that were killing him.

Now listen here, half of the words made no sense; like bucket for a list when the list never went to the bucket, cult when you can literally call it something which was actually understandable, and hey, what the hell does this 'y/n' mean??

He'd admit he tried wattpad and gOD SAVE THE NOBLE PETER, BUT WHAT WAS THIS GRAVITY ALL ABOUT?

He read 'y/n' as yes or no for a week before he decided to quit the hyped world of fanfics.

Yes or no (y/n) leaned forward, slowly, watching the freckles of their face, freckles as if a constellation of hazels, shimmering with countenance. 

No way in the heaven or hell for spiders, he could continue further.

There was a sharp screech! and the bus came to an abrupt halt, and fuck, he saw with horrified eyes as a girl, as old as him (on the second note, he's not old) tumbled forward, her eyes wide open in horror and if he had been sitting in one of those leather fitted seats and not hanging in these bus money bars, he'd actually want to summon popcorns for the awaiting scene.

Now he wasn't a bel esprit since birth, but as soon as the girl toppled straight into his arms, he didn't have any reign over his tongue and the words naturally fell off his tongue.

"Like you... literally fell for me."

The girl blinked at him in disbelief, and even though she had this abhor expression plastered on her face, she managed to give out a tiny smirk.

"I hope you are single then."

There were low whistles from around, and as a couple (or at least Peter's single ass thought that) strode out of their seats, giving him thumbs up.

"I ship you both!" The lady number one chirped with a toothy grin as she waded out of the bus while the lady number two had an airy expression on her face.

Now why the heck he needed to be shipped? He could go to home himself, thank you very much!

It was only when the bus started its bouncy gait again that he realised he was still staring into void while the girl was still hanging in his grip, her arms crossed and a bored look on her face.

"Oops," Peter said sheepishly, and he might have even dropped her then and there if it wasn't for his spidey senses.

"Seats," you pointed at the two empty seats behind you both, and though the feel of his taut, flexing arms felt like paradise, you decided that perhaps sitting would feel better.

"Yes, seats." You watched Peter Parker, or at least that's what he told his name,  bounced his knees with an unspoken clumsiness.

"Any way i can help?" You raised your brows in intrigue.

"Uh well, the thing goes like... ship? Why people would ship me? I can walk on my own to my house!"

You smothered a laugh at his dilemma, patting his vein coursed arms in sympathy.

"Well it's a different ship," you tried, moving your arms viciously in an effort to make him understand. "Shipping is the...uh a desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, well, either real-life people or fictional characters to be in a romantic and um sexual relationship?"

"Hope you aren't asking," Peter quipped and you flashed your palms in denial. "Like ship?" He pantomimes a ship from a flat palm, a pout on his face as he moved his hand.

You sighed in internal panic. No way he could understand?

"But I think," you looked at him in eagerness as he tapped you knee, "its cute how people try to see love even though it's not, not officially there?"

"So, you ship someone?"

"Ah well, I ship my aunt and uncle- WAIT! Hey, do you mind coming home with me?

You doubled back at the proposal. 

"You have some work?" As you opened your mouth, he cut you off again. "Forget your work, just come. I know Aunt May would ship us!"

"Are you asking me out?" You laughed nervously at you bold question.

"Are you saying yes?"

You didn't have anytime to actually say yes before the bus had stopped and Peter took your arm and already rushed to wherever he was planning to.

So much for being shipped on bus.

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[someoneoffthestreet]

Spoilery thoughts on Homecoming, beware.

I have some thoughts about Homecoming- more specifically, the lack of overt Spider Sense in the film. Admittedly, that was something that kind of hit me as I was leaving the theater and left me confused, but it was only after watching a few reviewers bring it up that I really started thinking about it. So excuse me while I try to jumble this out. Long rambling under the cut.

So before getting into Homecoming, and Peter’s presence in the MCU overall so far, I would like to jump back to the previous incarnations. I’m going to mostly rely on the 2002 film, as that is the one I’m most familiar with, but I think most of what I have to say here will apply to the TASM films as well. That movie took the approach to Peter’s relationship with his powers as if the film were a one-off: when he first gets his abilities, there’s a lot of shenanigans and slap-stick and general awkwardness as he tries to understand what’s going on. We get some montages of him practicing and whatnot, but after Peter chases down the robber, this element of the story disappears. Peter is suddenly 100% comfortable in his abilities and how they work. This is acceptable in the format of a one-off film; after all, you have a limited amount of time to work through a certain number of story beats, and How Do I Shot Web shenanigans can only take up so much room. The problem comes in when you start making sequels. Since your hero already seems to have a perfect grasp on what he can do, where do you go from there?

(By upping the ante, of course, and a good sequel will know how to do this well. But that’s another discussion.)

The difference with Peter in Homecoming is that he’s now in the MCU, where him reappearing is almost certain a given. Which means, he doesn’t have to be a master of his abilities at the end of his film, because he’s going to have more time to develop them later. In addition to that, this wasn’t even his introduction to us in this universe, Civil War was. And Civil War has at least one overt use of the Spider Sense. So if it popped up there, where was it all through his stand-alone film? 

In Homecoming, Peter is coming at everything from the viewpoint that he is ready for the big leagues. He had a taste of the Avengers’ world, he wants to dive back in, and he’s taking every opportunity he can to prove he can and should be ushered back into that world. So of course, when he and Ned discover the suit’s latent set of subsystems, he naturally decides to hack into and unlock all of them, because, as said above, he thinks he’s ready for and can handle them. But this decision leads him to spend the rest of his time in that suit heavily dependent on Karen and Droney. He’s not figuring out cool new moves and how his own abilities work naturally, but rather learning what the suit is capable of and how to use it. Which leads to him being at even more of a disadvantage when Tony takes away the suit at the end of the second act, and he has to face off against Vulture in his crappy homemade one which doesn’t have a bunch of fancy bells and whistles to keep him safer than he usually would be.

Basically, because Peter hasn’t been relying on his natural abilities during the movie, he hasn’t been spending time developing them. And this includes the Spider Sense. The Spider Sense can be one Peter’s most unique and important assets when he knows how to interpret it, but if he doesn’t bother learning how it works, then it would be more annoying than anything. There’s plenty of media out there that shows how puzzling it can be, and that sometimes Peter even flat-out ignores it. (And at other times that he doesn’t, that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily going to react to it in time.) Again, if Peter hasn’t spent time learning how his Spider Sense works, it’s going to do diddly-squat for him.

So, what exactly am I trying to get at here? What does this all come together to say? Well, it’s basically this:

In previous Spider-Man outings, Peter’s abilities have been treated as though the filmmakers are only going to have this one chance to show what Peter can do, so they try to develop that as quickly as possible so they can do as much as they possibly can. But the MCU is different. Spidey isn’t going to just be in This One Film and then they’ll have to wait to see if they can make another one, we already know Peter is going to be back, and soon. Which means that they can take more time developing him- and how his abilities work. My hope is, that they’re going to approach this like TV shows can. The Spectacular Spider-Man, for instance, is something that immediately springs to my mind: in that show, you could see a very definite progression in Peter’s power level and how he uses his abilities- enemies that were overwhelming to him in season one, he’s going toe-to-toe again in season two. And if the MCU plays its cards right, I hope that this is something we’re going to see happen with Peter in coming films. That we can watch Homecoming 2, and then go back to the first film and see the difference in how Peter handles himself and his abilities. And if it does go that route, I think there are two very key things that happened in Homecoming to set that up:

The rubble scene. Peter is completely and entirely alone. He doesn’t have Karen or Droney. There’s no tracker in his suit, so Tony’s not coming to save him this time. All Peter has is himself and, in that moment, he has to realize and accept that has to be enough. That what he can do is enough. (Or, y’know: “If you’re nothing without this suit, then you shouldn’t have it.”)

Him turning down the Iron Spider suit and Tony’s offer to join the Avengers. Peter knows where he fits in this universe now, and what he wants to do with his abilities and where he is needed. He knows what kind of hero he wants to be.

If we add these two things together, then this could (and should) lead to Peter coming more and more into his own in coming films. And though Peter got his Civil War suit back at the end of the film, if all that tech is still inside it, I would hope that we will see Peter leaning away from Karen and the toys, and learning to rely more on his own instincts. And, subsequently, relying more on his Spider Sense.