Machina Ecrire

Eli | they/them | Short Insomniac™ with a pirate obsession | part-time poet | Musical theater enthusiast

[stjohnstarling]

You know, I've been thinking about it the past week but it's crazy that it feels like there should be some great book out there about pirates, it feels like a really rich and widespread genre, but when you try to find one it turns out all the famous pirate books are just Victorian children's fiction (and if you're into that I support you entirely, but for me that's a huge drawback). All the big books about the sea are about the navy, or explorers, or whalers. Maybe I'm crazy, but where are all the pirate books?

[machinaecrire]

I KNOW right? Listen I have this whole obsession with pirates but I can't seem to find a single book with compelling storytelling free of mysoginy and queerphobia. I don't think that's too much to ask right?

Anyway if anyone has some recs, PLEASE message me I beg

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

first rule of fandom is everything goes back to destiel

second rule of fandom is everything goes back to kirk/spock

third rule of fandom is everything goes back to holmes & watson

fourth rule of fandom is everything goes back to achilles & patroclus

[lesbianshepard]

[lcdspideysystem]

animal crop top this bisexual peter that thats his BINDERRRR

[spiderlingp]

Like father like son I’m sick

[nero-neptune]

my sister sent me this lmao. we used to pray for times like these!

[ladyg1rll-deactivated20260404]

if i’m ever having a bad day i just need to remember that peter parker is definitely having a worse one

[livelove-fangirl]

So...how is everyone feeling...

[buckysprettybaby]

brand new day trailer dropped and peter looks so depressed so i know the movie is gonna slap

[endlesss-rain]

[spider-ish]

How today had me feeling

[blazeofbones]

MY BABY IS BACK!!!

(F*ck professor Hulk)

[hauxicrook]

If they ever ask you why you love Spider-Man so much, show them this. His suit needs to be washed, he leans against the washer with bruises all over his body, life fucks him up in every single stage but he never gives up, and that's why Spider-Man will forever be the greatest superhero to ever exist.

[artigas]

i'm probably gonna say very little about fandom discourse around this ep because spring break starts next week and i'm running out of sanity but actually. i love everyone on the pitt being flawed and fucked up and nasty sometimes. i love robby being a hypocrite and repulsed by samira's anxiety because he's repulsed by his own. i love that, alternatively, samira is repulsed by her mother's loneliness because she's repulsed by her own, too. i love santos blaming langdon for her ostracization at the ED and her unwillingness to see that, separate of the langdon issue (however separate you can make it), if you go around being an asshole to your peers all the time, some people are just not going to fucking like you. i love that its garcia specifically who checks santos for the lack of decorum she's displaying in front of their patients in this ep because garcia herself could arguably stand to have a bit more decorum when talking about patients and she's also treating santos like a dogggg right now. i love that mel is overstepping boundaries with becca and coddling her in a way that doesnt allow becca the space she deserves to be an autonomous adult with autism who should be respected on her own terms because mel's also struggling with what it means to be an autonomous adult with autism who should be respected on her own terms. i think there's a difference between a show depicting characters behaving badly and cosigning their bad behavior. i think a good character and a good person are separate categories. i love that this is a show that isn't so obsessed with likability that it keeps its characters from behaving badly.

frankly, i hope these characters keep fucking up, and i hope they keep getting checked by their fellow fuck ups, because that's life, brother. there is no divine priestly class of sinless people who exist to tell the "bad" people off for their missteps. and i hope that, as the show progresses, we see robby, santos, mohan, langdon etc make more mistakes and better mistakes. and i love that this show, for all its flaws, is (imo) still holding true to its premise that people are not wholly defined by their best moments or their worst. no matter how uncomfortable it is to sit with that nuance or how tense that makes an episode of television lol.

[kcrlfs]

robby’s suicidal ideation is so much scarier this season than last. last season we were inside his head. this season we’re experiencing him like the people around him are—temperamental & selfish & basically given up. he’s pushed the audience away as much as he has anyone else.

i feel like the visual storytelling is really supporting that in a few ways; we're not accompanying robby into private, quiet moments anymore, we don't see his flashbacks and the way they affect how he treats the people around him in their aftermath, we're not seeing him try to stay calm & collected for other people's behalf.

and as robby's behavior likely becomes more erratic and angrier as the day goes on, as he pushes the people that love him further and further away... it's going to be interesting to see if the show frames that kind of breakdown. because it's just as much of a mental health crisis, but it's a significantly less easy one for the audience to sympathize with when the show is keeping us at arm's length.

i think that that's an immensely interesting storytelling decision and i am really, really excited (and terrified) to see how it unfolds.

[margathings]

someday langdon will have a neurodivergent patient who prefers the lights on and he won't know what to do with himself

[guardian-of-the-arc]

I need y’all to realize that DIRECTING an episode does not equal WRITING an episode. I love that Shawn Hatosy directed Ep. 9 but people are crediting him on the written interactions between characters that SHOULD actually be credited to Cynthia Adarkwa, a Ghanaian American woman. Who wrote episode 9. And the interactions you’re all loving and feeling devastated over.

I think Shawn did an amazing job and helped pull great performances out of the actors, but once again, those performances and dialogues were created and written by Cynthia Adarkwa and the writing team.

Credit where credit is due.