#fandom theory w/ pheo

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obsessed with the shot in atsv where gwen is at her window at the beginning and has her mask off but when she’s looks into the window’s reflection she’s still spider woman. then at the end her coming back again after losing miles and looking into the reflection in her window and this times it’s all her because spider woman cannot exist without gwen herself and her realizing that she’s just a person too

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something i think nimona did really well was that they didn’t make nimonas oppression like,,,,, “her fault” i guess is a way to put it. i feel like far too often, whether the plot is an allegory for race, gender, or disability, it goes something like “x person is oppressed and treated like shit” and then you find out it’s because they turn into an uncontrollable monster that kills or hurts people and it’s like, why is that the metaphor we’re going with here. like with jk rowling and werewolf’s representing AIDS somehow. like, what the fuck do you mean by that?

but what nimona does well is they make nimona a shape shifter (trans person approved, i would love that) and then it’s not her problem that she’s different. just because she technically might fit the definition of monster doesn’t make her one and then we find out that the things that made her “bad” in the first place weren’t even real. it was a lie made to demonize nimona. she’s never the bad guy, she doesn’t want to hurt people, she’s just nimona and happens to be a shape shifter. and that’s how you do it in my opinion. you can’t make the oppressed the aggressor in these situations, because they literally never are. or at least should never be the original cause of it all, because in real life they really aren’t. they are the original victims of bigotry and their stories get rewritten so they look like the aggressors.

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i keep seeing people say “miguel doesn’t get why a 15 year old wants to save his father” and like i feel like that’s just wrong. like miguel fully gets it actually, he actually did it first. if anything i think miguel understands the most, he knows that miles losing his dad will hurt him but he also knows that if miles saving his dad does destroy their universe then miles will feel infinitely worse, he’ll feel like miguel does. and if he’s wrong about the canon then after he’s going to probably hold onto that guilt for hurting miles forever. miguel took it way too far in atsv but can we stop acting like he’s an irredeemable monster that doesn’t care about anything