#break free icons

[gayestcowboy]

she’s one of us <3

[cassandrva]

the spiderverse movies, especially across the spiderverse, are perfect stories to analyze through a metafictional lens (for context: metafiction is when a story deliberately draws the audience's attention to its status as a story)

it's almost inevitable for a spider-man story set in a multiverse to build commentary on what it means to be a spider-man story. itsv certainly does it, but atsv doubles down on it tenfold.

throughout all of the film we see characters imposing a narrative on miles, telling him not only what to do but also how to present and even think about himself and his place in the world. they want him to distort his story, make it palatable, to conform to the beats and tropes everyone expects from him both as miles morales and as spider-man.

his guidance counselor wants him to be poster boy for the stereotypical american dream "poor child of immigrants pulls himself up by his bootstraps to become a great scientist" narrative

miguel insists on subjecting every single spider-person to the same traumatic tropes— sorry, "canon events" that (according to his algorithm) define the very nature of a spider-man story. he's like the comics authority of this spider-verse. any divergence miles attempts from the standardized narratives that are thrust upon him is heavily policed and disciplined

both the counselor and miguel are essentially saying the same thing: being who miles is is about sacrifice, and it's about suffering. to prevent that suffering or to acknowledge its absence means erasing his identity respectively as an afrolatino young man and as a superhero

and he is having none of it. this is not a spider-man narrative, this is his spider-man narrative. he's not going to reduce himself to fit into a nice cookie cutter generic marketable version of his own life

and in his literal main character moment he graduates from guy who is doomed by the narrative to Guy Who Dooms The Narrative. he's taken control of his own story. bet in the next movie he's gonna make the whole canon theory unravel. bet he's gonna break canon so hard it explodes.

[casualavocados]

Ai Di manhandling Chen Yi for @grapejuicegay (& me)

Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[uncanny-tranny]

Me listening to Queen: Man, no wonder so many people are queer nowadays

[vertigoartgore]

Superman by the great comic book artist José Luis García-López.

[forgedinmyheart]

Walter White Heart Emoji Icons

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[sherlock-holmes-is-a-cat]

Stuff that made me think of my favourite Holmes adaptations part 3

Is it custom to cite your sources on tumblr?

(most stuff I forgot where I got it, I would need to use a citation management program for this)

The earring quote was originally used in a text post by @angrylasagna . I usually find my tweets on cheezburger, boredpanda and @mostly-funnytwittertweets because I am not much of a twitter user. (Never had a twitter account, certainly won't get one now. Insert bad word Elon Musk.)

[risingsunresistance]

damn i kinda dont like it here anymore

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

Felt cute might delete later

[19871997]

okayyyy girlypop captain of the winnepeg jets adam lowry

[holytrickster]

thinking of changing my url but I haven't come up with anything good yet..there's too many good quotes and lyrics and stuff for inspo..almost too many things that fit

[creative-soul-22]

They could have joined the Pythons for a sketch or two...

[nomaishuttle]

a cute thing abt me is i dont remember the past 2 hours LOL.

[frozenambiguity]

Hii so I hope it's ok to text you from anon.. I'm lowkey shy... silly me, anywayayay I love your blog and characterization of Kaeya so much it just feels like.... you get him, you know, really. I enjoy your Kaeya, posts and your personal energy in general hskjshk pls never delete <3 (not one of your rp partners sadly but i found you in kaeya tags and couldn't help but take look at your blog and i don't regret it. keep it up you're doing amazing) // you don't have to answer i just wanted you to know

ANONYMOUSLY TELL ME YOUR HONEST OPINION ABOUT ME. I CAN’T REPLY/COMMENT, JUST PUBLISH.

[marinehero-a]

Having thoughts ab Garp and symbolism connected to mountain, something something      oh mountain child of ours you cannot run from your roots.