#toasted-spiders

[dragoneyes618]

you only listen to music with guitars in it

Okay, here's the thing. I actually have no clue.

I like music! I listen to music all the time! But do I know what the different instruments sound like or how to tell them apart? No, I do not! I have no idea what instruments are playing in the music I listen to. I mean, I can tell when there's a piano, but that's about it. So I don't actually know. ;)

Send me an ask with an assumption you've made about me

[french-toast-enjoyer]

being a symbrock fan who's friends with like, normal Spider-Man fans is so funny cause like. you get to hear their expectations for Venom 3. "I hope they have a canon Spider-Man!" "I hope it's rated R!" yeah well I hope they elope in Vegas at a 24-hour wedding chapel and their marriage is officiated by a Prince impersonator. their wedding rings cost no more than 400 dollars and when venom kisses the groom there's so much tongue that both Eddie and the court-appointed witness get lightheaded

[duplicitousfate]

Have some mortal Bishop designs! (Running over the hills)

(Art by @dashing-through-ecto )

[gummieturtle]

I'm not entirely sure how to use tumblr but here's some fanart of Dark Matter by mysterycyclone that I did a while ago :D it's Peter eating at the cafeteria in Gotham Prep :)))

[iceeericeee]

I just finished listening to The Magnus Archives 16 (Arachnophobia) and like. Damn, yall weren’t lying when you said early Jonathan Sims was a huge fucking skeptic 😭

[redhead-reporter]

you’re the man, but i’ve got the POWER ;; independent and highly selective mary jane ‘mj’ watson of insomiac games’ “marvel’s spider-man”. 21+ multi-ship. adored by shaye. established september 2022. promo by garrett, template by x

[barwithnodoors]

A recipe from Stan Lee Presents: The Mighty Marvel Superheroes’ Cookbook (1977).

One of the few recipes that was more than just open a tin and heat it up.  It was good.  It’s a sandwich made with French Toast, what’s not to like?

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[doyoueverstopandthink]

i love getting tipsy and ranting about spider-man movies like thank god for my siblings being able to zone me out and do other things while i keep yapping

[starrysharks]

yeah it's so over

[abyssmalice]

"Don't be afraid, they don't bite!"

"—Unless I tell them to. Hope you enjoy becoming mince-meat soon!"

[toast-of-eden]

I've got beef: I wanted more nuance in Trigun Stampede.

Obligatory: I loved this first season of Trigun Stampede. This is constructive criticism around the storytelling, not the incredible work that was done and published. Frankly, I think it was a work of art, and my beef could be resolved next season.

Remember this line from the finale?

I don't know about you, but this scene bothered me. So. Much.

It seemed like there was something that was supposed to click for us right here, but nothing new really happened — it was a battle where Nai and Vash realize they can never see eye to eye.

Was that supposed to be the aha moment?

I couldn't put my finger on why it felt so shallow. It was like there was a missing piece.

But I think I figured it out.

Do you remember this scene with the spider and the butterfly from the first run of Trigun?

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In Summary:

Vash, Knives, and Rem are in Ship 5's greenhouse thing.

Vash sees a butterfly caught in a spider's web, and the spider is closing in on it. He's incredibly anxious at the prospect and holds out his hands, seemingly unsure of which one to rescue.

Knives, observing this, grabs the spider and crushes it.

Vash: What the fuck? Knives: Either the butterfly goes free or the spider starves, dipshit. You wanted the butterfly to live, right? Rem: Yeah but you can't just make that choice for them. Knives: So like... we sit back and just let the spider kill all the butterflies while you fuck around and think about it? Vash: [punch punch punch] I wanted them both to live!

It's the brother vs. brother, life vs. death thing we just watched happen in the finale of the first season of Trigun Stampede, right?

Kind of.

This scene, along with the original run, is a little campy by our standards today. I don't know if I'd want the same scene beat for beat in the new run of the show.

But what it manages to do in a minute and a half does what the first season didn't manage to do.

This scene gave us nuance.

The butterfly/spider conundrum is a direct, clear metaphor for "the human problem."

There's a villain and a victim, right?

Knives sees that the butterfly is about to be eaten and that the spider needs to eat. Indecision will only mean that the spiders will eat all of the butterflies — so if there's one to save, it should be the one that you want to save.

Vash sees that the spider needs to eat, but the butterfly needs to survive, and is unsure of who to take out — the whole situation is horrible. He raises both of his hands but can't decide what to do.

Rem raises the question of what holds the nuance: what gives you the right to decide which lives and which one dies?

Neither Knives nor Vash understand this concept at the time. Knives just wants to save one, and Vash wants to save both.

As of this scene, the twins are 1 year old, and actually likely even younger. So in theory, this is the simplest form of their points of view.

By the time they meet again, they're 100-150 or whatever the thus-far mushy timeline in Stampede is telling us. (If y'all know, please tell me.)

So it's been 100 years and Knives has been working with mad scientists that literally use plants as slaves, working them to death while Vash has been playing plant doctor and getting pats on the head.

Knives has seen first hand that humans are working the plants to death in spite of their sentience. They mutilated the twins' sister, who, reminder, was also an independent and was kept (possibly still alive) in a bunch of jars right under their feet.

Vash may have been ignorant at first, but humans had locked in a tiny room for months, perhaps even years, and then let him out and acted all "oh we're home" with him after he proved that he was "safe," (aka "useful") by keeping the plants alive and happy. And then, he saw where Nai was living, and how his species was being enslaved and slaughtered. So Vash also knew humans had enslaved his species.

Put this in the context of the spider and the butterfly again, mirrored in the season finale.

Both twins are watching a spider close in on a butterfly, but have reached different conclusions. Knives sees good and evil, and Vash thinks everyone can live.

When you look at how humans have enslaved the plants, Knives' premise that the plants should be liberated is right, and Vash is being incredibly naive.

Knives tries to explain this to Vash to the point that he'd even destroy his own identity and his own brother to save his species.

But in response to this, Vash says: I'M VASH THE STAMPEDE.

...Yeah, Toast. We know that Knives is right, but evil, and Vash is naive, but good.

DO YOU? From the way this prequel season has gone, I don't.

There's an implication that Vash is going to "wise up" in the next season and be less naive. Cool.

But for "good vs. evil" vs. "shades of grey" to be the main moral problem is just... not doing it for me. After all the representation of trauma, class struggle, and the terror of living on a lawless frontier, that feels cheap.

The nuance was left out.

What I think this season was missing was the third response to the spider/butterfly moral problem from Rem: why do you get to decide who lives and who dies?

In the finale, Knives made a choice, and Vash also made a choice. But it wasn't about who's good vs. who's evil — it's about whether they get to choose who lives and who dies.

Knives says yes, and Vash says no.

Doesn't that mean Vash took on Rem's point of view?

Wouldn't it have been cool if we got that foreshadowing in the prequel, to imply that when Vash moves forward, it's not with Rem as a concept that represents humanity, but a concept that represents the strength it takes to let things be?

Vash and Knives wouldn't just be the God and Satan of this new world, which is the premise that this season of Stampede is currently working with.

Instead, Vash might be a Jesus Christ figure, who believes that everyone deserves a chance — even at the cost of his own suffering.

[Also, so fascinating that they had Knives reading the bible before he explained to Vash that humans are a blight. But I digress.]

Again — this could be solved in the next season or the season after that. But as it stands, like I said before, "I'M VASH THE STAMPEDE" just... felt shallow.

Rem has been reduced from a fleshed out character to a concept that lives in Vash's mind from when he was a relative baby plant, and right now she's a foil. Humans = bad, but Rem = good, and if Rem = Human, then Human = good.

So we might not get the nuance she gave us from her character or from somewhere else (unless we're rewarded with more flashbacks).

But it's something I'd love to see, and if it's going to be woven into the writing later, I wish we'd gotten the foreshadowing earlier.

ANYWAY, that's my rant of the day.

[azz4me]

media is lying to us!!

Welcome to watch tojo(mojo toast edition)

Where we are counting down the Top 10 Reasons Why Goo Won't Die:

>Hes too swag and hot

>We haven't gotten enough goo scenes!!! (Never enough though honestly)

>Because I said so

>Even if they fight, That old man is gonna get goo goo gaa gaa'd to death 😤

>Goo said once he there's gonna be a war.. I'm pretty sure he will be a part of it >:(

>Idk why I get the feeling that as gun is only appearing in flashbacks this whole arc maybe he himself will come and omg Tom Lee vs gungoo?? (But this is just toasty hunch)

>Goo dying makes no sense like get a brain bros, what do we even know about him so far?? And if ptj pulls a long flash back just to end him... That'll be so damn cheap

>Goo's 1st secret friend not revealed yet..

>Samuel is there, jinyoung is there, eli is there to talk to tom lee... Someone's bound to interrupt one way or another

>Tom Lee did mention once he doesn't know whom of gun and goo is stronger now..and goo was all on showing the difference between him and gun, so how are we supposed to see that if my babe dies??

it's the workers 1A arc.. Workers are supposed to collapse not anyone else!!

Thank you for watching tojo please stop spreading misinformation and instead use your breaths to join the Goo cult fanclub 🙏

~🍞

HEAR UP PEOPLE. LOOK WHAT THIS SAYS👆!!

I am not even worried about goo dying. The sun may rise from the west but goo ain't dying. That's it. Theories will remain theories. Goo is going to die? who? Goo? I will believe if a stranger came upto me and said I am adopted but even if Zeus himself came down and told me Goo is going to die- bullshit. utter bullshit.

thank you tojo mojo for your words. May you live long.

[toastedstims]

A Danger Days by MCR stimboard for @twoplayer-game !!

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[gummieturtle]

Peter sensing that he's being followed by the bats

*immediately deciding to walk directly to where his spider sense is the loudest out of spite*

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fic: time flies by (bye) by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN

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[izopoz]

furries have contributed so much to society including but not limited to BANGER MUSIC and the concept of PAWS ON BUGS