If It Weren’t For Experiencing Life With You, And Through You, There Would Be No Reason To Do What

you: So, I was wanting to start working at your firm because I’m considering accounting as a career.

the man you agreed to interview with in this cafe: I see. I have to say, it’s a welcome change to have someone your age looking for a career instead of something to support their….I dont know, rock band, haha! 

you: Haha, yes, well, I try to stay focused. [you take a drink from your coffee] 

the man: While we’ve hired people with little to no experience, I have to ask– would you happen to have any previous experience in this field? 

you: Oh! I understand completely. The past three years I’ve actually interned a- 

spiderman: 

I miss it when peters apartment looked like a hot mess

everyone is talking about mcu spidey’s iron spider suit, or his homemade suit, or his stark tech suit, and i’m just waiting to see mcu peter in one of comic peter’s most iconic outfits:

an ‘animal’ cropped tank top,,,, cut off denim short shorts,,,,, @ marvel, bring this look back

leaving what counts as "old style" up for interpretation. if more than one of these is relevant - pick the one that's most important to you. reblog for larger sample sizes etc etc

Do you think Peter Parker also falls into this missremembered thing? I've seen plenty of people saying he's this happy go lucky guy even though he's not like that in the comics

Oh yeah, definitely, though I think Peter’s a bit of a reverse of Johnny in this regard; Johnny gets oversexed to attempt to make him an easier character to understand, whereas Peter gets undersexed, partly, I think, to sell him as a cinnamon roll. (One thing that’s hard to deny when you read Spider-Man comics is that this is a character who really likes women.) But Peter is a much more popular character than Johnny. Johnny was maybe more popular than Peter for like a hot two minutes in the early 60s. And the bigger a character is, not even in a fandom sense but in a pop culture sense, the easier it is to accentuate or to invent aspects of their personality and then have them stick. I mean, I feel like everyone feels like they know Spider-Man, because he’s Spider-Man! He’s insanely popular! I know I felt like this and then because of that I totally accepted the soft Peter fanon of my day (I don’t know how far back you would have had to go in fandom to escape it, but my gut feeling would be pre-Raimi) and when you’re getting into a character, you’re probably seeing the popular posts first, and the popular posts with Spider-Man comics are usually quippy, goofy panels posted without context or sources, like so:

(From a oneshot called The Many Loves of Spider-Man, by the way!) And I mean, it’s a funny sequence, with or without context, and you don’t really need to know anything about Spider-Man to get it, so of course it goes around.

But that’s just one tiny piece of a huge canon, that also includes stuff like this:

So if those panels above gets 100k notes and this Peter beating the Kingpin in a humiliation/intimidation/vengeance power move in Amazing Spider-Man #542 gets, let’s be generous, somewhere between 30 to 100 notes, even though these are both the same character, people start to associate him with a funny gag and not with beating the hell out of the Kingpin, because that’s what’s being seen. And if he’s funny, he must be funny all the time, in this specific way, he can’t have a dark or a serious or an angry side, because that doesn’t fit with the snapshot image of this character. Apply as needed to any other side of his personality beyond “quippy.” And I’m not saying any one person believes this, I’m just saying that’s how the myth evolves. It’s just how things spread. And like, if it was just misinformed fan opinion that Peter Parker in comics is a sweet cinnamon roll who would rather die than hurt anyone, like, fine. But we’re living in an age where fandom is more widespread and more visible than ever before, and the people creating new content for this character can see those posts and go, okay, so that’s what people want, with the expectation that if you give people what they want, they will then give you money buying it, and now I’m grumpy about Spider-Man all the time because he’s being written more and more soft and his banter has totally lost its edge and you know sometimes you just want to read about him shirtless and beating people up.

tl;dr yeah I would say fandom misremembering a character en masse does apply to Peter as well as Johnny, it just applies to Peter in very different ways than Johnny. 

they’ve had a long night

( @peterfelweek 2023 prompt "Dancing in the Dark”)

has peter parker ever had a mullet i feel it deep in bones he had that phase and i must know if it's canon

He's gotten close, I mean almost every hero had a mullet in the 90s. Whatever the fuck was happening with his hair in the ultimate universe is close. I'll let you decide what counts as a mullet. Although Ben and Kaine have canonically rocked pretty sick mullets, but so has Eddie Brock so maybe that's just a "dark mirror of Spider-Man" thing

You should talk to @earth90214 she's also on the mullet!Peter Parker brain wave and her art is gorgeous!!

.. <- two ants hanging out

Read @kitausuret’s post about Glory taking Flash clubbing and had to slap this together

Honestly, Peter Parker is so lucky he's hot. I would've killed him for this type of shit if I didn't want him so bad