you don't want movies in the spiderverse animation style!! you want movies that treat animation in the same way spiderverse did, as a medium that can be changed to best suit the stories they're adapting!!!
feels like the right time to bring back that canon comic issue where miles morales and kamala khan are both fanfic authors who hate each other's writing and get into online beef about it (and phil coulson is the fanfic site moderator)
literally lets goooo lets explore how spider-gwen was a response to her being fridged (comics being the medium that COINED the term to begin with) let’s talk about defying destiny and breaking cycles!!!
white ppl rly dont understand that racism isnt about intent. its an entire system and way of thinking that you need to dismantle very deliberately, all the time, because its so pervasive and because all white people benefit from it
nothing against the ship itself but reducing an indian character to a chai tea joke they made once for the ship name chaipunk feels very weird i am not going to lie 😭😭😭😭
btw u should all download this ao3 script it's a lifesaver u can literally just liveblog reactions. leave ur fave fic authors extremely long comments thank u
chilchuck confessing he doesn’t know why his wife left him and marcille basically immediately going “i can think of a few reasons” still makes me throw up laughing
the fact that spiderman, the guy constantly struggling to pay rent while being in college and being a superhero for the community, got turned into some upper middle class kid being sponsored by a billionaire whose villains are the exploited working class 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 hate the mcu
can't stop thinking about these extras like marcille's relatable reaction to a cat choosing to sleep with her. chilchuck's dad instincts kicking in bc itsuzumi is 17 and he'll suffer being a pillow if it saves her from laios being a weirdo. IZUTADE RIGHTS!!!!
hhhhh can we PLEASE be careful abt how we depict e asian characters so they're not borderline caricatures. stop with the bright yellow skin and buckteeth and small slanted eyes and big nostrils and comparisons to rats like JESUS im begging u all to just think for a second
@arakkisuperstar
THANK U LOL THEYRE COMPLAINING ABT THE CAPITOL HAVING A TINY POPULATION IN THE REPLIES TOO AND IM LIKE. GUYS THEYRE LITERALLY THE 1% THATS THE POINT? 😭😭😭😭 like yeah it’s not entirely realistic but it’s a dystopian book for teens 💀💀💀💀
@blockbustedpod
it’s in theatres specifically (if you aren’t putting on the actual play)! everyone just calls it “the scottish play” and it’s my favourite superstition. last time my lighting designer said it and one of the lights blew just before our show opened—so i’m playing it safe 😭😭
new game changer episode is so fucking funny bc i feel like katie brennan and raph are doing their best with their improv skills to salvage what they think is a mid premise 😭😭😭😭
you guys know laios made microaggressions in the comic itself right 😭 like i feel like white ppl need to be more conscious of microaggressions if it took you until this page to work out their dynamic 😭😭
sorry i genuinely do not think it is “cringe” or “western” to ask a japanese author if they intended to write neurodivergence into their characters and you guys are so fucking weird about it but WHATEVER
critrole taking inspiration from SWANA and palestinian culture for marquet and then staying silent and hiding replies asking them to speak on the genocide of palestinians is textbook cultural appropriation btw
i cant even go by my real chinese name without feeling uncomfortable as real actual malaysian chinese diaspora and white queers are out here telling people to call them miso. im so tired guys
no i have not read any of his comics yet yes i think jules jourdain is the coolest character design i've ever seen. the COSTUME references their TOP SURGERY SCARS?????
help me god the full page actually doesn’t even confirm if that half-foot is chilchuck’s wife. everyone just latched onto her eyes and hair ryoko kui we need you to speak on this QUICK
god it is still so so funny to me that iki*maru, known karezi enjoyer, was asked to draw the panel that canonised davekat in homestuck for real 😭😭😭 like sorry it's hysterical to me. the psychological warfare of this
itsv worked not just bc they had funky animation, but bc the animation style was made to serve the story of spiderverse and miles. because the comics/graphics/graffiti style is specifically for spiderman/miles/his story and i don't think that exact style works for everything!
visiting the ao3 tag for dunmeshi and seeing CHILCHUCK X READER is the fourth most popular pairing and then finding out they're all written by the same person is making me lose my fucking mind
i still cannot FUCKIN believe i can say "a white guy pretended to be a japanese man to get his work published, reap praise for writing abt japan, and climb his way to MARVEL EDITOR OF CHIEF, and still has his job, suffering no consequences for it" and all of it would be true
still laughing abt how brennan tried to keep baron gender neutral when they were first introduced so as not to presume riz’s sexuality but then murph just straight up uses he/him pronouns like OK LMAOOOO 😭😭😭
can we go back to just mashing names together…. hobitr pavhobie etc is cute…. i would rather die than start spiderverse discourse but something to consider etc etc
curious if reductress was aware of the very niche very active fandom that has popped up around the trolls movie recently or if they just threw a dart blindfolded and managed to hit a bullseye lmaaaooo
marcille, in front of the entire party: chilchuck you’re repressed, overly private, short-tempered, and have a mean streak and if i was her i would’ve left too ❤️
if jess doesn’t get her own “let’s do this one last time” scene in btsv im gonna snap she was like the only major spidey who didn’t get one whaddahell. WHATS HER STORY
@hyperprisms
genuinely insane that this guy just reused this design for an asian prostitute who gets violently killed while naked in love death and robots like i cannot believe people are defending this 😭
e.g. animated hawkeye not with the spiderverse style, but with the same style and colour treatment as fraction's iconic run!! tuc with animation that specifically uses hard lines vs round shapes or dull vs bright to emphasise the themes of duality and dreams!!!
genuinely as a zine mod please do not harass the showtime mods/condemn zines over this.... running a fanzine is a hobby that involves so much work done for zero compensation except the love you have for your media/fandom. there was no way for these mods to have predicted this lol
imo this has nothing to do with humor and is simply a callback/completion of the “spiderman always gets back up” theme! but im glad they realised it was too jarring after this moment of victory for miles bc it’s WAY more impactful when he does do it in kingpin’s fight
like im not sure how many people know that “fridging” was coined by gail simone criticising a green lantern comic where his girlfriend is murdered and stuffed into a fridge for his manpain. it’s fucking dire out here LET’S TALK ABOUT IT!!!!!
brennan going to such lengths to show that the bad kids, heroes though they are, were also victim to porter’s grooming…. 😔 he HAD FIG’S NUMBER HE KEPT MAKING SEXUAL JOKES AROUND HER I FEEL CRAZY. SHAKING THE BARS OF MY CAGE THE SUBTEXTTTTT
the same way wolfwalkers mimics the style of fairytale illustrations and old art prints and tapestries because it's a fairytale story!!! it's abt the treatment of animation styles as a medium rather than just superimposing one style onto another :')
literally so funny that brennan made a perfect rat grinder foil for each of the bad kids except he did not bet that of all people fucking kristen would run for school president 😭😭
i think d20 fancams are a valid and impressive form of fancontent that takes a lot of artistry and creativity. i will also never not have a little giggle when i click on one and it’s just rapidly cutting between two people sitting at a table looking mildly stressed
siobhan being like "so embarrassing to have chaperones on your school trip" and everyone being like "siobhan we literally had so many chaperones" 😭😭😭😭😭
i think the movies are like fun or fine or whatever but it's literally so insidious looking at it from any other angle and idc i will be a hater for the rest of my life ❤️ peace and love
that’s why so many white ppl go “well they didnt MEAN to be racist so its fine” or get so defensive when they are called out for racism. to them unlearning racism ended when they found out racism was bad, as if its impossible to benefit from racism if you simply ‘dont want to’
it's like. yes spiderman is a pop culture icon and there are many different renditions and adaptations of his material but stealing the design and personality of miles morales' best friend to the point where they can't be introduced together in miles' own movie is insane
just want to remind people that the criticisms of mismag have existed since the first season, and that orion d black, the creative director of d20 at the time who co-created misfits and magic with aabria, told everyone they understood the criticisms and to make space for them!
atsv spoilers // lrt “i would not call that dude evil miles. it’s miles being raised without a father in a criminal society miles. that’s not evil miles”
funniest fact to explain to non x-men fans is that it’s canon x-men lore that sherlock holmes was actually the immortal shapeshifter mutant mystique in disguise, and irene adler was a blind precognitive mutant she married, and their powers is why he was such a good detective
thinking abt when i discovered “ki” points was butchered 气 qi. i thought it was “key” points for sooo long god the dnd monk class is just so fucked up 😭😭😭
@gwenstacying
literally bonkers to say that fanfiction is the only media being created for free by people who genuinely love what they’re writing about. maybe if you went to your local indie theatre or read your local emerging student publication
this is the all-new all-different avengers annual
#1
btw! i like this issue so much it's a little out of touch with modern internet fandom culture but it's such a cute love letter to fanfic and the many current comic artists/writers that started out as fans in spaces like these!!
dont know jackshit abt critical role im so glad emily exford is getting the attention she deserves tho. literally consistently plays my favourite characters she’s so so fun