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i was a year older than miles when i saw the first movie when it came out. now the second movie has come out, and im 20, but its not my fault the sequel took nearly 5 years to release. ageing up is fine and exists for situations like these where a piece of media didnt maturate properly with its initial fanbase, and thus didnt allow for them to naturally grow in tandem. that's literally part of what fandom/fanfiction is for. fandom and fanfiction are for people to expand on their favourite piece of media and remake it into how they want it to be. the same thing happened with mcu!peter parker. i was abt 1-2 years younger than peter parker when homecoming came out, and i was 2-3 years older than him when no way home released.
whatever happened to just judging silently, and moving on with ur day? why are people being so mean and exclusive now?
obvi ped0s are fucking vile, but no one's being a ped0 here. go find ur common sense and thinking skills.
and i bet the same ppl who are being so weird abt this fandom rn are the same ones who think the movie has copaganda... what??? tell me ur a spiderman/marvel tourist without telling me ur a tourist, smh.
this movie uses typical spiderman tropes, and makes a meta analysis of miles morales as a character and whether or not he deserves to even be spiderman. the movie uses this as a narrative device. one of the core elements of spiderman is parental figure death/trauma, his/her relationship to the police/the city (often times by way of the police chief to represent all of the police, and/or by way of the media to represent public perception of spiderman, ie.: hero vs menace).
if we wanna only talk about movies, then all 3 live action series of spiderman have done the exact same thing. the comics do it even more.
but these ppl just watch movie, see ācop not intrinsically bad in this oneā and go āhey guys, this is bad right? am i right? please agree. when are we going to do something about itā. it feels like a very uninformed and performative analysis and reaction. and its always the people who aren't the ones being affected by police/police brutality that seem to put on the biggest show about supposed copaganda. how about you do something about the very real problems happening in the real world if you're worried abt copaganda? because i'll bet every dollar i have that every person that was bird calling on twitter abt atsv never set foot anywhere near any of the many protests that happened this year for the lives of those lost to the unjust american judicial system in just this year alone.
there are ways to consume media while also being smart. stop letting twitter raise u. you don't have to constantly perform for everyone to prove you're a good, socially-conscious person.
My uncle was one of the top surgeons in the country. He was upper middle class definitely. When he got cancer, his insurance didnāt cover all the treatments he would need and after 5 years he drained his savings on cancer treatments (while still working most of that time) and eventually died because he couldnāt afford the expensive treatments that might have saved him.
If you are upper middle class and you get sick, it will likely bankrupt your family. Itās fucked.
Honest to god - even if you make 6 figures a year? you're closer to poverty than true wealth. Check your shit and remember who your real allies and enemies are guys.
A 6 figure income is a lot right?
Thatās say: 223,000 dollars a year
Which is 112 dollars an hour.
Most people would consider that upper middle class. Thatās enough money to have a nice house, go on fun vacations. Thatās slight more than the average doctor makes.
223,000 dollars is what Jeff Bezo makes in a minute
There was a wonderful study done about 15 years ago I think, that shows that people cannot accurately identify their income bracket. Most people who own a home think they are upper middle class when in fact they are closer to the poverty line. Even people living well below poverty often identify as middle class. The wealth gap is even worse now. I wonder if anyone actually knows their financial standing.
Sometimes we used to wish that something horribly traumatic like we'd seen in movies, or heard referenced as a horrible thing to happen to someone, would happen to us.
And honestly it's weird, looking back on it and knowing what I know now. Because things were actually pretty dramatically bad. But part of how we personally operate is to split the memories between us.
So because we didn't really have an idea of the true extent of it individually, and the events that we weren't dissociated from didn't look enough like the trauma we had seen/heard represented, we were left confused.
Even unaware of the extent of what was happening, we identified with these portrayals of scarred people. We longed for the support and help that they received in these stories.
So maybe we just wanted things to be bad enough that we would be worth saving. Maybe things would eventually get bad enough that we wouldn't be able to hide it and someone would just.. help.
I know now that things were bad, and in fact even the things that we remembered at the time were bad enough to deserve help. It was just so normal for us we didn't know it was abuse.
A lot more to it but I hope that this summed it up okay. If you identify, then I'm sorry, and you deserved better. Just because it wasn't the most terrible thing that could happen doesn't mean it wasn't traumatic. Be kind to yourself.
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