You know what my favourite thing about Into the Spider Verse is?
Marvel have spent over a decade insisting that Peter Parker’s character has to be “Kept Young” to have any appeal, and have gone out of their way to enforce the idea of “Spider-man is about youth” in both comics and adapted media.
They had his marriage to Mary Jane undone via deal with Mephisto, because supposedly having him married made him unrelatable to the target audience but having him be a divorcee would age him too much, so this was somehow their best option despite… you know, the whole thing spitting in the face of everything Peter’s character is supposed to be about.
Pretty much the majority of Spider-man media since the Raimi movies ended has featured Peter as a High-schooler and a teenager. Every cartoon that’s been made since Spectacular has kept him in High-school, in Avengers EMH he was only about 18 at most, in the Amazing Spider-man movies he only graduated High School in the second movie and then that series got abruptly cut short, and the MCU has basically cemented him as “The teenaged Avengers fanboy” character, with an entire trilogy planned to focus on Peter in high school.
It’s really only in video games that we’ve gotten a version of Peter that isn’t a teenager in the last decade outside of the comics, with the comics themselves making a point to mentally regress Peter to the chagrin of many long-time fans.
Marvel have been insistent that “Young, teenaged Peter Parker” Should be the default and that it’s where the character is at his most iconic and appealing…
And then Spider-Verse gave us Peter B Parker, a version of Peter who’s in his late 30′s and going through a mid-life crisis, has stubble and a beer belly, is a mentor figure to a new teenaged superhero, and has a character arc that concludes with him deciding to reconcile with his ex-wife after deciding he wants to be a father even knowing the risks involved…
I love Spider-man no matter what, either as a teenager or as an adult, as Peter Parker or as Miles Morales. I adore the 2 films Rami made and Tom Holland’s Spidey. But I can say for sure that Peter B Parker was a breathe of fresh air.
I’m aware of the rumours. I’m also aware that they’re not true.
Someone made them up a very long time ago because they disliked him, and they’ve circulated ever since.
Because this website is full of teenagers. And teenagers throw around accusations that ruin people’s reputations over petty reasons. Then the reasons get forgotten and the accusations stick around, being perpetuated by people who heard it from someone who heard it from someone.
The particular reason at play here was shipping drama, if you can believe that. People forget how heated that stuff got.
I’ve looked into this myself before. PGP okayed me sharing screenshots of the conversation. Nothing I found in any callouts conflicts his account, so I’m more inclined to believe the person I’ve known for years and has done nothing problematic in living memory, than the account of random asker #whatever.
Apparently there’s a callout post circulating right now that also implicates me just for… daring to question what other people tell me to do, I guess. Anyway, people following me know I’m not a pedophile and wouldn’t associate with one. So whatever.
i really love how they always make david tennant drop his Scottish accent no matter what role he’s playing
David Tennant: *Scottish noises*
the director of whatever tv show hes in:
I know this is a lighthearted post - I definitely chuckled - and I hate to be That Guy but it’s because of the social impact of English imperialism. He elects to use an English accent in lieu of his usual speech because he’s noticed he gets more callbacks and gigs when he drops his conventionally unattractive accent and uses one that’s more socially acceptable for Main Characters ™ and television stars on British TV & productions.
The Scottish accent is considered lowbrow, right along with the Irish and North accents - uneducated, angry, tropey, what have you. Scots had to learn proper English to be taken seriously and participate in government & other British social spheres. Today kids who speak Scots - the language from which the Scottish accent originated - are corrected on their words in school and taught to use only the English counterpart instead, because that’s the education standard.
Anyway, it’s the lasting social implications of English imperialism and cultural genocide.
As we’re all thinking about David Tennant because of Good Omens at the minute, I’d like to point out that the same is true of Michael Sheen’s Welsh accent, too. Aziraphale and Crowley are played by two Celtic men who are putting on English accents because there’s no work for them otherwise.
it’s really weird to me that people are so willing to criticize unhealthy dog breeds (pugs, neos, english bulldogs, etc) but so many of those same people are completely silent about unhealthy cat breeds (persians, exotics, munchkins, scottish folds)
unhealthy cat breeds
Manx
-tailless gene is lethal in its homozygous form
-cats with partial tails are prone to an extremely painful form of arthritis
-Manx Syndrome, a condition where the spine is shortened too much by the tailless gene. can seriously damage the nerves and spinal cord and also cause digestive issues. affects nearly 30% of all manxes
Donskoy
-A Russian breed, completely unrelated to the more popular Sphynx
-This breed’s hairless gene can result in Feline Ectodermal Dysplasia in its homozygous form
Munchkin
-prone to lordosis and pectus excavatum
-Short-legged gene is lethal in its homozygous forn
-A swedish study showed that Ragdolls and Siamese cats had the lowest survival rate of any of the common cat breeds
Scottish Fold
-Osteochondrodysplasia is the main issue here
-also prone to polycystic kidney disease, cardiomyopathy and degenerative joint disease
Foldex
-dear god why
-whywhywhywhy
-exotic shorthair/scottish fold cross, so they have most (if not all) of the issues both breeds have
-seriously whose idea was this
Siamese
-Progressive retinal atrophy
-more prone to vestibular disease and feline hyperesthesia syndrome than most other breeds
-the albinism gene that gives them their trademark color also gives them eye problems
Wow I didn’t know this about Ragdolls and Siamese
I didn’t see any people mention this in the comments so I want to add that Japanese Bobtail Catsdo not have genetic issues associated with their bobbed tails. The gene that makes their tales bobbed is different than in Manxes and American Bobtails, and as far as I’m aware (correct me if I’m wrong) occurred naturally.
I wanted to point this out because I already know someone on here is going to associate “bobtail = unhealthy” and cause panic by trying to claim animal cruelty towards a perfectly healthy cat
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