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[marisatomay]

someone should pay me to write about how my relationship with the mcu went from general enjoyment to excitement to apathy to outright hostility

[firespirited]

I'd love to see a study of how many people watched all the MCU, how many people stopped other than exceptions (black panther or the pivot to longform for example) and at what points burn out happened, getting reeled back in happened, if other better media was a factor in dropping out, if specific moments including promos and interviews made many think "OK that's the last straw". I'd read the dryest paper or a 5 hour video essay compiling testimony. Same for Disney and Star Wars. What's the threshold? Does it vary by age (nostalgia factor)? It was The Media people watched and talked about, maybe it's time to examine why it worked and why, for many, it stopped working.

[sxmmersloving]

I came back because I remembered ATJ played pietro with a Slavic accent and saw an edit of him on TikTok

I’m weak

[sxmmersloving]

should I come back to writing here lmao

[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.

[dragonomatopoeia]

batfamily drama arising from the fact that dick is allowed to do whatever flashy acrobatics he wants in public because everyone knows he was raised in the circus but the other kids have to pretend to be within reasonable distances of normal and therefore cannot do sick flips whenever and wherever they want

[yeyq]

Dick "sorry I can't hear you complaining over my triple somersault" Grayson

[jesterwaves]

superheroes are so weak. “keeping my identity a secret is so hard :/” to YOU. my parents dont even know what type of music i like.

[autisticredhood]

an aspect of bruce adopting jason that conceptually is funny to me is the age difference between jay & dick. like i bet bruce is thinking ive got this :] i know what having a kid is like :] but nooooo bruce is used to dick now as a young adult. its been years since his kid was a child. bruce goes from fairly confident to a very heartfelt ‘ah, fuck. MIDDLE SCHOOLER’

[autisticredhood]

and also jay is constantly making fun of or staring blankly in response to bruce referencing tv/video games/music dick liked growing up

bruce: how can i be outdated?? this was dick’s favorite

jason: exactly. dick is ancient 

bruce: 

[autisticredhood]

#baby jason is like ‘bruce can u get a step stool for the kitchen please i cant reach the shelves’#and bruce has to lay down for a few minutes because he has a BABY!!!

 @respectabletwunkjasontodd 

[marisatomay]

someone should pay me to write about how my relationship with the mcu went from general enjoyment to excitement to apathy to outright hostility

[firespirited]

I'd love to see a study of how many people watched all the MCU, how many people stopped other than exceptions (black panther or the pivot to longform for example) and at what points burn out happened, getting reeled back in happened, if other better media was a factor in dropping out, if specific moments including promos and interviews made many think "OK that's the last straw". I'd read the dryest paper or a 5 hour video essay compiling testimony. Same for Disney and Star Wars. What's the threshold? Does it vary by age (nostalgia factor)? It was The Media people watched and talked about, maybe it's time to examine why it worked and why, for many, it stopped working.

[mycroftrh]

people get so confused trying to figure out the Lois/Clark/Superman situation that somehow they come to the conclusion that Clark is cheating on Lois with Superman

[mycroftrh]

I mean Lois clearly has nothing to hide, everyone from here to Krypton’s seen Superman fly her with a chaste hand around her waist. but Clark puts an awful lot of effort into making sure no one ever gets a pic of him and Superman together

what is he worried Lois will see

[mycroftrh]

people shake their heads sadly every time Superman visits the Daily Planet and then Clark emerges from a closet disheveled and tucking his shirt back into his pants. but if Lois won’t see it there’s nothing they can do

[allthingsbatfam]

[itzroseblossom-deactivated20230]

Clark youre such a nerd

[megamindsupremacy]

GCPD: unfortunately the Joker’s death has been ruled an accident. No clue who did it because nobody killed him because it was an accident

Literally anyone outside Gotham: he was found beat to death with ten bullets and a small sword in him

GCPD: crazy shit. Must have tripped down the stairs and fallen. Onto ten bullets. And a small sword

LAOG: the Red Hood made a tiktok of him killing the Joker and nobody can get it taken down

GCPD: cosplayers these days :/

LAOG: nightwing dueted it with him doing tiktok dances on a roof. Red Robin was interviewed yesterday and said, quote, “oh yeah red hood did it we’re having a party tomorrow and Batman isn’t invited”

GCPD: such an unfortunate accident

[galahadwilder]

I need more of the Gotham Media having absolutely no idea why Stephanie Brown lives in the Wayne house

[galahadwilder]

He has five children and only one of them is by blood so he’s no stranger to adopting, he’s got Duke Thomas so he’s cool with legal guardianship as well, but Stephanie just. Has no legal connection to Bruce Wayne. No papers were filed except for change of address. There is just a teenage girl, living in his house, eating his food, and apparently dating his children in rotation.

[penny-anna]

hmm. i feel like Superman is the type to give his superhero friends’ child sidekicks money.

Superman: hey Flash! hey Kid Flash!! *tousles Wally’s hair and hands him a dollar*

Wally: fucking sick :D

[penny-anna]

Wonder Woman, meanwhile, sees nothing wrong w giving children of any age swords

Wonder Woman: I’m not seeing the problem here. You already gave him a bow and arrow?

Green Arrow: I only ever give him non-lethal rounds Diana!! he could really hurt someone with that thing!

Wonder Woman: so?

Green Arrow: he’s fourteen!!

Wonder Woman: when I was his age I had already been trained in 9 different styles of swordplay. it’s time he learned.

Speedy, in the background: ow

[aloofwindbag]

Tim shut up he’s trying to kill you

[fxvixen]

goddd i just want spider-man's identity to be his own worst but new york city's best kept secret. like i want him unthinkingly taking off his mask and like 20 people see, but if you ask them if they did? no they didn't.

the rule is unwritten, but very enforced. like, there are online communities dedicated to erasing any trace of the spread of his identity. a tourist takes a photo of him and posts it online? it's gone in minutes, and people send DMs to the poster anywhere from "hey, i'm sure you were just excited, but...." to "ill kill u if i evr c you, fuckin bitch".

any information on spider-man is only spread via word of mouth, and only spoken in hushed, awed voices. after several years of spider-man, everyone knows someone who encountered him:

"he saved my cousin. caught a falling billboard from underneath with his bare hands..."

"wow... i've never seen him myself, but he talked to my coworker's daughter for an hour after he stopped a guy from getting a little too handsy. apparently, his smile is 'dreamy'."

these secrets are freely given if you're kind, trustworthy, and show respect for the little guy. but the moment you demand information on him... "i don't know what you're talking about, buddy. he's just an urban legend the news likes to blame the city's problems on so we don't unionize or worse"

so as many times as spider-man ends up with out a mask, or accidentally introduces himself with a name that starts with 'p' and rhymes with 'meter'... on the record, they don't know a thing. because he does his best to help as many people as he can, so it's only fair if they help him a little in return.

[megamindsupremacy]

Batman adopts Billy because haha bat-son this, Superman adopts Billy because “let the kid be a kid for Christ’s sake” that, how about Wonder Woman adopts Billy as the younger brother she never had and enables the hell out of his heroics

[puppylove24680]

#they're both technically demigods of the same pantheon#let! them! be! siblings!

[miskatebishop]

losing my mind over johnny storm like this stupid 16 year old boy got fire powers and can fly now but his older sister still makes him do chores and he has a bedtime. lamest space adventure ever.

[miskatebishop]

johnny standing on the roof of baxter building: stupid sue, stupid chores, stupid birds

peter swinging by: had to clean the birdshit off the solar panels again?

johnny: ... don't mention this to anyone

peter, already planning to sell a picture of this to the daily bugle: scout's honour