Bamboo Crimes

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[foolsocracy]

peter benjamin parker, 1933

collab with @bamboocrimes; close ups under the cut

Text, left page, top to bottom, left to right:

person balancing on a pipe, walking between two tall buildings: "Oh, bullshit. Bull! Shit!!"

narration from noir comic: The sun was rising as we reached the manhattan docks.

dialogue bubbles from noir comic: speaker 1: "Are you mad? You think this is worth dying for?!" speaker 2: "You tell me... Is it?!"

label: New York. New York 10014 notepad titled "I WISH I WOULD HAVE SAID:": the hell with keeping my identity secret / robbie / its me dialogue bubble: "Please. You must listen to me! I can fix this! all of this!" dialogue bubble, peter: "Robbie! Come here!" cluster of thought bubbles: "Can you turn back time?" "Can you rewrite history?" "Can you bring back the dead?"

Text, right page, top to bottom, left to right:

encyclopedia clipping: All spiders are hunters. black out poem labeled "NEW YORK": For decades, New York has been on the decline. few care oth- ers are prevented from getting care Decades of bed closures, service reductions, crisis trauma forcing the sickest to only worsen New York- the "unprofitable" vault label and text: KEEP THIS SECRET IN THE VAULT: / Spider People / were there too. / When the new world / wobbled, / they sewed / earth and sky / together. / It's together / still . . . stamps: nineteen thirty-three word clippings: The song of death / was music to her ears. / She leapt, / looking for children to terrify arranged encyclopedia clipping: SPIDER GOD

[proangelpnk]

Bro his face...

can't blame him though this was probably the fist nice thing anyone said to him for 2 days

[bamboocrimes]

He’s just: 😊 I’m splendid! 😊

[bamboocrimes]

My favorite gardener Brother Karl

[bamboocrimes]

“I appear to have a knife in my hand”-Karl, laying in a pool of blood

*karl proceeds to yank the knife out of his own hand*

“Oh. Uh, I was going to do that.”-Jean Paul with no small amount of concern in his eyes

[bamboocrimes]

Just went back and realized Karl got stabbed through the hand to actively save Jean-Paul.

Like yes give me more religious imagery. Willingly bearing the punishment, the price for his brother- tell me that’s not a direct allusion to Jesus.

[1-jar-of-stars]

On Friendship.

[lelif]

on survival

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[foolsocracy]

sometimes JPV and Az make me so sad i have to send Bruce out to go get another ward

[bamboocrimes]

And what if Karl was there too (who said that)

[bamboocrimes]

CW for religious self-flagellation

Was doing some Wiki research into Karl’s habit of whipping himself and found some interesting stuff. Apparently it’s a practice with historical precedence in the Christian faith, but controversial.

And his special white whip for it is called a ‘discipline’

[bamboocrimes]

I just noticed Karl has his normal purple fighting whip and then a separate white whip just for hurting himself omg ill cry :(

[bamboocrimes]

Do you think he saw his dad in this moment?

[julietcpulet]

Honest Feelings 💚

For me this is the most impactful moment of the episode. We finally get to see MaoMao admit that she doesn’t understand feelings as well as others. For all she loves those who raised her, it was undoubtedly a terrible environment for a child that did bring on lasting damage. She learned not to express herself and that no one would care if she had certain emotions so she taught herself to suppress them out of protection.

Cut to her time with Jinshi and we see how things are being reversed, albeit slowly. He’s the first person in so long who cares about how MaoMao feels. He wants her to trust him, to know him, to share things with him. It’s a new thing for her, someone who shows this much interest in her thoughts and expressions. Who intentionally gives her things she wants just for her enjoyment. Who thrills at her little outbursts of joy.

Right now, she’s not able to put words or emotion to what that is but we as the viewers know, it’s love. He cares about her and so is being intentional towards showing her how much he does. And her reciprocation, while imperfect, is telling him that she sees him for the person he is, not for whatever status he’s hiding. Jinshi is the more true version of him she’s come to know and appreciate and in admitting that to him she’s finally given him a glimpse of the emotions she’s tried hard to suppress. As she says:

Jinshi wanting to be with MaoMao isn’t an easy road, for many reasons but I adore their relationship because it’s all about being willing to see through what someone might’ve endured and learned in their past to who they can be going forward. To understanding that making a confession of even the smallest sort may be worth all that much more because of what they’ve been through. And for these two I think that’s where they’re able to meet one another and develop this growing affection, even if it takes only small moments at a time. 💜

[neo--queen--serenity]

It’s heartbreaking to know that when Anshi looks back on her first encounter with the late emperor—the man who sexually abused her for years—she can only describe her 10-year old self as ambitious.

In the light novel, Anshi is far less aware of why she was sent to the rear palace, and it’s clear in the books that she did not intend to grab the emperor’s attention.

But in the manga—now the anime—she says she knew, that she understood what she was getting into, and that she reached out to him deliberately.

This is very likely a lie she told herself to cope with the trauma of the abuse she endured, abuse that dictated the course of the rest of her life, for better or for worse.

Because, even if Anshi knew, on paper, what her father intended by sending her to the rear palace, what 10-year old would understand, truly, the implications of winning the emperor’s favor? What prepubescent child fully understands sexual grooming or abuse for what it is, understands how it will hurt them?

Anshi falls for the oldest lie children of sexual abuse tell themselves: that they brought this upon themselves, that they were somehow responsible for what happened.

Telling herself that she put herself in his path out of ambition gives her the illusion of agency. It allows her to ignore the glaring, obvious signs that she could not have refused him if she’d wanted to. It is also a manifestation of her own self-loathing, the all too common misplaced guilt that rape survivors feel in the wake of their assault.

This particular coping mechanism is what drove her to assault the late emperor right back when she was in her late 20’s.

That helplessness, that rage, that unresolved trauma, led to her repeating the cycle of abuse, led her to forcing herself onto him as an adult to reclaim that agency she knows she never had.

And this assault brought about her second pregnancy—the birth of the moon prince, the current emperor’s younger brother.

And even though Anshi knows Jinshi is Ah-Duo’s son, not hers, Anshi was still the woman who raised him. She feels this guilt and revulsion every time she looks at Jinshi, especially since he resembles the late emperor so strongly.

And even though Anshi loves Jinshi deeply, she is constantly haunted by the self-loathing she associates with him. She calls his very existence immoral, a living embodiment of her sins. And it’s so heart-wrenching, so tragic that she blames herself for everything, that she believes all of this happened due to her own, selfish sense of ambition.

[bamboocrimes]

good take, also can we pls get a therapist into the inner court please and thank you

[narusasuart]

Accommodating king for real

[bamboocrimes]

physical affection but only on her terms, relatable queen

[ivvyela]

nothing on this god's green earth can convince me that peter parker doesn't have an ao3 account where he is elbows deep in a 'rise of skywalker' fix-it fic. like, fully invested in it, been writing it pre-spider bite with ned, who is just as enthusiastic about it. but the thing is, it's really hard to do updates when you are literally spider-man.

every three months he'll post and in the author's note there's some shit like "sorry this took a while, i got shot seven times :/" or "i know it's been a minute, i literally got hit by a bus and then stabbed in the leg, but i'm all good!" or sometimes ned would log in and post with a note "hey i'm a friend posting on the author's behalf, they're healing from severe hypothermia but promised an update, so here it is!"

and the fic just gets increasingly more popular for the author notes alone. a good handful of the comments are something along the lines of "i'm not even in the star wars fandom, i'm just here to see if the author is good" or "every update i cheer for another day the author gets to live at this point"

and any reader who is a native new yorker kind of pieces together that holy shit the author might be spider-man because the timeline adds up, and they just fully embrace it. spider-man will stop a robbery and the guy behind the counter will ask when the next chapter will be up. spider-man returns a stolen backpack to a girl and she'll tell him that he "really got poe's voice down so well, it's really impressive."

ned thinks it is hilarious. mj finds out about the fic from twitter, to peter's absolute horror, and changes peter's contact name to "friendly neighborhood ao3 author". but the worst thing to happen is after an avengers battle where peter took a pretty big hit and ends up in med-bay. and during a press conference, when someone asks how spider-man is healing, tony just drops "spidey won't be down for too long. the star wars fic will be updated within the week, probably."

ao3 goes down for two days.

[bamboocrimes]

people accuse him of medical inaccuracy like 'no way they could survive that hit' or 'no one heals from a concussion that fast' and he's just 'well i did soooo'

[foolsocracy]

he’s nervous

[bamboocrimes]

He’s so tiny!!

[colin-becher-death-countdown]

Just finished my Season 1 Re-listen, so time for a Michael recap!!

Starting off strong with Episode 1 and the start of a very long name trend

back to back Michaels with Episode 2

wow a whole episode break before the next

yet another back to back

first big gap of Michaels mentioned

a repeat Michael and what has to be the funniest term for an academic year that I hadn’t heard before

because of course his name is Michael why wouldn't it be, also how could I not mention the German Becker family (obviously a different spelling than Colin Becher but still)

one of my favourite Michaels now

these ones are Michaels on a technicality, also Salesa was mentioned in an earlier statement but only by his surname

last Michael mention of Season 1, a repeat

🟨 - New Michael

🟦 - Technically a Michael

🟩 - Repeat Michael (repeat in the season not how many times the name is mentioned in an episode)

⬜ - Just Very Funny

And with that we have in Season One:

7 New Michaels

9 New Michaels Counting Technicalities

And a rate of Michaels being mentioned in 30% of Season One

[bamboocrimes]

Petition to rename it The Michael Archives