#and i dunno

[maranull]

sometimes a small smile of support goes so much further than you can ever realise

[toaarcan]

I think there's kind of a split in the Spider-Man fanbase between comic readers and adaptation-only fans.

The latter start screaming and complaining if any Spidey media comes out and isn't about how being Spider-Man is awful and bad and Pete needs to be the Marvel universe's biggest loser at all times.

Meanwhile the comics fans are mostly at the level of "For the love of fuck, stop with the endless misery brigade and let Pete have some nice things in his life" on a good day. On a bad day they seem to be actively conspiring to feed the comic's writer, and its entire editorial staff, and Joe Quesada, into a woodchipper, feet-first.

[genderfluidsgetguns]

I kinda miss when he had a tag for me but I'm fine

[blackrosecapri]

Nicholas The Punisher.

associated so closely with the weapon he uses that him and its names are practically the same. given to him by a false god and a shitty doctor when he didnt fucking want it. youd think he wouldnt keep it around. youd think the second he gets hed trash it and start again, i mean, he knows how to use other guns, so why keep it around?

you Have to assume its bc he humanized it, to some extent. he didn't have any humanity. at least that's what hes told, what he believes, and he wasnt allowed a sense of identity outside of it. outside of or away from "the punisher," so he Had to make it what made him a person. he HAD to embody it, he wasnt given any choice, really. he only chose to embrace it.

he hated everything else around him. of Fucking course he did, but he couldn't afford to hate the punisher. that's All He Was. if he hated the punisher, he hated himself, and he'd Never get out. never fully. so the punisher had to become something he enjoyed, and looked forward to, and valued. that's why i think he keeps it. he had to learn to love it so any semblance of identity or joy.

in order to make it through the eom he Had to learn to love it, even if he didn't want it, it was him now. weather he liked it or not, hed never escape it. but now? now he Genuinely dose. he doesn't like how it's from the eom, he doesnt like how it was forced upon him, But. he does like it. hes bonded with it, basically. if he can vaule his weapon then he can vaule himself. if he takes care of the punisher, to Love the punisher, it's catharsis. because That is Him.

and now he goes everywhere with it. is he still Nicholas The Punisher? maybe. ans maybe he hates that. but at least he can love the punisher itself. who that is isnt clear to him, not anymore, but it got him here. it got him out. it let him be happy. if he cant pity, or love, or process it all himself, he Can pity, ans love, and empathize with the punisher. whether he knows it or not, thats him.

and he can love at least that. even if he plays it off as a bit

(yes he calls it his baby girl, its funny, alright?)

[utsuboh]

sitting here at 1 am thinking about the good ol days when i wrote fucked up bloodborne and dark souls muses.

[maverickcalf]

Sending you love. You're included in Pride, always, & the pain you feel is real & needs to be seen & not just brushed over. It's not fair what you're dealing with & you're not alone in it.

I'm glad you're here & that we're friends. It won't always be like this for you, I promise. But you're also not getting left behind now because you're unable to be more open currently. We all know the pain of this somehow & you're not alone ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷💖✨🏳️‍⚧️💐🎉🫶🏻

I think on a base level I know I am included in pride. But I dunno, maybe it is just being closeted in some form or another for half a decade now... it has left me rather numb. I should be celebrating or doing more.

I appreciate your kind words and love. It means a lot,

[cistematicchaos]

Lol, it’s so funny growing up in a family with pretty much exclusively disabled people. Especially as a Black-mixed kid, like, ah, it’s glorious to constantly see the medical system abuse and kill people for being disabled, for being fat, for being Black, ect ect. 

It’s so fun that I never want to go to therapy or anything like that because one of my close relatives was literally murdered by the US medical system because she was “too mentally ill” to be considered human and she dealt with a lot of the same mental issues I do now. Yep. It’s just glorious to see the US health system in action. 

[sensitivegoblin]

Vent

[maranull]

One of my favourite things in the game is the Blade of Gold skill.

It's the leap into the air, the spins before and after firing the projectile, the pose when landing. It's all just really cool.

Top tier skill, for animation alone. (Its Melina association is a very neat bonus.)

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[tooquirkytolose]

He made her an offer she couldn't refuse

[myimaginationplain]

white queers are always so damned certain that "true" queerness is for them & them alone. expressions of queerness from Black people (most notably, Black women & those percieved as women) that don't center whiteness & aren't tailored for white audiences are always, always pegged as being unbelievable. all this plus a heaping dose of thay classic "all bi women are dirty attention seeking liars" brand of biphobia. fuck off man

[foldingfittedsheets]

When I was young my dad offhandedly told me he thought people treated fish with so much casual cruelty because fish can’t scream.

The words branded themselves across my soul.

As an adult I think he may have been joking. He payed no especial attention to any indignities fish suffered in our household but I could never forget. I saw fish in a different light after that.

Fish kept in tiny bowls, breathing their own poisons, dying by inches. Fish kept in cold tanks, casually disposed of. Fish touted as being short lived when they could outlive the better loved family dog if only they could breathe. Fish casually won and discarded in cheap plastic bags, thrown away a week later.

How they would scream, if they could.

[bruhstation]

you’re just like the rest of them

[veradragonjedi]

[medusolo]

clammy ganon will become a fixture to my vocabulary now. excellent