I’m so in love with the relationship between Miles and his dad in Into the Spiderverse … the relationship is wonderful, complicated, deeply heartwarming and, as with a lot of the character development in the film, almost none of it is said in so many words.
We meet Miles’s dad when there’s some friction between them over Visions, but we still get to see how much Miles’s dad cares about him. Not just wanting the best for him, but caring about him – trying to reach out to him and connect when things get tense. He jokes about the upscale coffee shop to lighten the mood, and you can tell that’s a throwback to an earlier conversation we never saw. And messing with him a lil – BWOOP “You have to say I love you back” “DAD!”
It would have been so easy to write Jefferson off as the authoritarian cop dad and Designated Spider-Man Hated™, but instead we get to see how deeply he cares for his son – how deeply this family cares for each other.
And even if Miles is frustrated with his dad right now, we can still see how much he looks up to his dad. When he’s scared of his new powers, his first thought is to call his dad. When he escapes Prowler, sneaks back into his room, and Jefferson barges in, Miles’s immediate response is to cling to his dad for comfort and emotional support.
It’s why the centerpiece of the film is that quiet, emotional moment with Miles’s dad talking to the closed door – that tender admission of vulnerability and love. The promise that Miles’s choices do matter, because more than anything, Jefferson wants his son in his life. That there is no failing bar. That no matter what Miles chooses to do, his parents will love him, and be proud of him, and have faith in him.
And it’s understanding his parents’s faith in him that gives Miles the faith in himself that he needs.
ive been thinking and honest to god: i think i would actually join a girl gang if the offer came. like a legitimate, hierarchical, “let’s carry knives under our skirts and beat up men” gang. fuck college
bringing back the sukeban girl gangs from the 70’s that wore long skirts against teen sexualization and fucked things up for the patriarchy
and this was no “5 girls in a small town” who made the news—this was yakuza level shit. 20,000 girls getting into gang fights and shoplifting and getting pissed off that only men were allowed to be rough and violent and angry
and y’all wanna know the funniest part? immediately after this trend blew up, the Men decided to sexualize the hell out of these girls. this included movie adaptations and pornos where the skirts were made shorter and the tits were bigger cause apparently they had found their new fetish
but here’s how they actually looked, and it’s actually pretty badass:
i just had the funniest experience in vr chat, i joined a random server and the one i joined had Japanese people so i waddled around in my goofy club penguin avatar that i have saved, after a while a guy walks up to me and clones my avatar so were both penguins then another guy shows up and clone my avatar
now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends
we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…
I made these in response to hate crimes in my community. They are full size and free to download and print if you’d like to use them, too.
Since these are going around, I wanted to fill in some of the gaps! Here are seven more posters for communities under threat. As with the first set, these are completely free to download, print, share, repost, etc with no credit needed. This is open source activism.
I can never hope to cover every community, but in light of these difficult times, I wanted to make the additions above. Hopefully, you would be able to find the poster you need to respond to any type of violence in your community. These are especially meant for allies who want to state loudly that they are here to stand with vulnerable members of society. Remember: if you just say “everyone is welcome”, some secret bigot agreeing with you is marking an asterisk in their head beside a vulnerable group they hate. Be specific. Stand up. Resist.
I cannot understand loona lore/theories like what…. what are you TALKING about. i read a thread that was literally like “intro to loona!!! 1. the members’ names, 2. biblical allusions and satanic iconography”
