okay, we officially have brackets for the first round of the free my girl / victims of fandom misogyny tourney! if you have any questions or concerns, or you noticed any typos and other mistakes, please let me know! i'll be posting 8 polls a day starting tomorrow! polls will last a week. i'm looking forward to reading your impassioned defenses of these characters!
ngl i rlly enjoy the idea of Jon actually being a Really good cook. like, better than Martin in fact. just cuz like, he was a neurodivergent kid who lived with his gran. he prolly picked it up because he was one of the few people he trusted to be able to make foods that didn't have Icky Texture. and i feel like it just adds another layer of tragedy to his character. just imagine him finding a bit of solace in his cooking. repeatable motions that are easy to just fall into, + plus having control over what's going into his body. and then as he falls into his workaholic habits, he begins to lose touch with that part of himself. and then after the coma he tries to cook again and discovers all human foods just taste like nothing. no joy to be found in them. another part of himself lost to the Entities.
i want to put my thoughts behind this: this was supposed to be a piece for pride month, titled "you were loved". the sky is the color of the aroace flag (just upside down)!
basically, i wanted to show an aroace person — an old aroace person, to be precise. being aroace myself, i am always told that i will forever be lonely and miserable if i don't get a partner. so showing grace, who is aroace to me, as old and happy and fulfilled and oh so loved by his best friend, was really important to me <3
Was inspired by the wonderful post by @hailed-marys so me and @sam-i-am-27 got possessed by the demons and came out with this.
HC list under the cut
* Astrophage is more like a virus that either alters people, causing them to commit crimes or violent acts, or a power that supervillains are starting to use.
* Grace is still a middle school teacher who got bitten by the spider, obviously.
* Adrian is the one who stitched up the suit (the Aunt May of this universe).
* He has all the perks of a normal Spider-Man, but he's still Grace, so he's incredibly clumsy. He does have a super-strong spider sense, and that's what saves him 100% of the time, but he absolutely does not have the agility. When adrenaline kicks in, he can do anything, but otherwise he'll trip over the most ridiculous things.
* He was wearing his yellow raincoat the first time he saved someone, so now he wears it over his suit (along with his white Converse).
* The spider was discovered by SHIELD (which is undercover as a scientific research facility that Grace works for part-time). After the original test subjects (who were only able to survive the spider mutations if they possessed a specific gene) were killed in an attack, Eva delivered the spider to Grace so he could be bitten before other villains got their hands on that power. (My boy gets unwillingly turned into a savior in every universe.)
* Simon is still an ex-convict who, in exchange for his freedom, is asked by the evil company of the day to test a series of mines infected by what appears to be blood from a meteorite (which eventually turns out to be the symbiote Ellie!).
* At first, they wanted to kill each other, but they end up becoming besties.
…okay so what if the problem with the taomeba never happened on the way back home. What if the radiation never got onto the Blip-A. What if Rocky ended up back on Erid, and Grace made it back to Earth. What if they missed each other desperately forever.
What if Grace made a lopsided crochet Rocky and cuddled it every night.
What if Rocky couldn’t stop making xenonite puppets of his alien friend.
What if I made myself cry, what about that? Huh? What then?
Ever since i was a child Ive had a very strong urge to consume my own blood and I have on many occasions. It doesn’t taste like much anymore but it used to taste so good
Why has my blood lost it’s flavor doctor
Not a doctor but the simple answer is your tastes have evolved. You need someone else's blood.
Digital de-aging is bad not just because it always looks creepy as fuck no matter how much money they pour into it, but because it deprives me of getting to see the fucking black magic of a) the casting director somehow finding someone who looks unnervingly like the original actor despite not being related at all and b) the actors completely convincing me that they are, in fact, the same person at different times in their life.
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