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welcometogrouchland · 2 years ago

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I also want to make it very clear that the spider-verse franchise has made miles one of the dearest characters ever to me. All of the spidermen in the movie are great. But despite all our differences in bg and identity Miles' story speaks to me like very little else does (w/ some rare exceptions I keep very close to my heart). I'm not really coherent enough to provide sophisticated analysis rn but just know that he is my everything and I adore him so so much

#ramblings of a lunatic #like. the first spider-verse movie spoke to me as a 13 yr old when it came out #he was a kid with high expectations set for him and all these artistic ambitions but he dismissed himself. he doubted himself #he didn't realize that just being himself was valuable bc he is valuable. his journey to becoming spiderman #-hit so goddamn hard. it's about the fuckin. don't do it like me miles. do it like you (cut line spoken by peter b)#bc the way miles does it is good enough. he's good enough #and this second movie is still on that train but even harder as everyone tries to shut him out and make him feel not good enough #Miguel's projecting his bullshit onto miles his friends aren't sticking up for him his parents are disappointed in him. and he's hiding #but the movie affirms even harder that no. miles is something different and that is what makes him so special. he has so much worth #he has cosmic significance bc he is defiantly himself #and like. all of the subtext i mentioned above is clearly based around/related to his afrolatino identity #and I'm not gonna pretend for a minute that i get that part the way i get the more. surface level ig? aspects of his arc #these arcs exist bc of his background and how they thematically tie his identity into the story #but like. that context doesn't make him any less relatable. it just makes him mean different things for different ppl yknow?#and that's the beauty behind the while ''anyone can be behind the mask'' motif from the first movie #anyway. these movies are really good. i love miles #spiderverse spoilers

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