Everything is so shit at the moment that even a post reading “So, Europeans will probably lose their ability to publish fanworks in a few weeks” hit me with barely a “huh.”
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Raise your hand if you’re actually quite excited about the Spider-Man reboot now, but simultaneously afraid about what ableist shit might happen to Harry Osborn (who is canonically schizophrenic, possibly bipolar, and an abuse survivor) if they decide to include him in there
Ok he’s only schizo and bipolar because he injected himself with the Goblin Serum.
And yes while his dad was a dick, he never beat Harry or even all that emotionally abusive. Just very distant and kinda neglectful until he went full wacko. (Unless Osborn did something recently in the comics)That still doesn’t give him an excuse to be a fucking asshole trying to kill Peter on MULTIPLE occasions.
Harry Osborn is not a broken little fragile bird. He is his father’s son in every capacity.
That’s…not entirely right. Harry was diagnosed with schizophrenia after his LSD overdose, before he became the second Goblin:
And Norman’s abuse of Harry was a part of their story at least since the 90s:
(that’s Peter seeing Harry’s memories through his eyes, hence the Spider-Man costume)
And while no, it’s not an excuse for some of the shit he did (most of what happened between Harry and Liz was pretty fucked up too) even Peter and MJ, who bore the brunt of most of Harry’s supervillainy, wanted to get him help more than anything:
And Harry’s mental state is almost always depicted as something more or less beyond his control (though I imagine the hate he has for Peter is real):
So there’s that. (There’s also this, which is all of the above gone into in more detail.) It’s not about making Harry a ‘broken little fragile bird’, it’s about ‘can Marvel please treat mental health issues, especially very stigmatized ones, with some respect if they end up using Harry, because at the moment the most famous mentally ill character in the comic book world is the fucking Joker.’
Hamlet, Scooby-Doo Style
[This is one of the funniest, most brilliant damn things I’ve ever read. It dates from very early Internet days and I thought it deserved resurrection to Le Tumble]
This recently discovered folio edition of “Hamlet” follows other known versions closely until Act V, Scene II, where it begins to diverge at line 232, as will be seen:
KING: …`Now the king drinks to Hamlet.’ Come, begin, And you the judges, bear a wary eye.
Trumpets sound. HAMLET and LAERTES take their stations
HAMLET: Come on, sir.
LAERTES: Come, my lord.
Enter FRED, DAPHNE, VELMA, SHAGGY, AND SCOOBY
DAPHNE: Wait!
SHAGGY: Stop the fight!
HAMLET and LAERTES put up their foils
KING: I like this not. Say wherefore you do speak?
FRED: Good lord, I pray thee, let thy anger wait.
For we, in seeking clues, have found the truth
Behind the strange events of latter days.VELMA: The first clue came from Elsinore’s high walls,
Where, so said Hamlet, Hamlet’s ghost did walk.
Yet though the elder Hamlet met his death,
And perforce hath been buried in the ground,
‘Tis yet true one would not expect a ghost
To carry mud upon his spectral boots.
Yet mud didst Shaggy and his faithful hound
Espy, with footprints leading to a drop.
This might, at first, indeed bespeak a ghost…
Until, when I did seek for other answers,
I found a great, wide cloth of deepest black
Discarded in the moat of Elsinore.
‘Tis clear, the “ghost” used this to slow his fall
While darkness rendered him invisible.FRED: The second clue we found, my lord, was this.
KING: It seems to me a portrait of my brother
In staine’d glass, that sunlight may shine through.FRED: But see, my lord, when placed before a lantern–
KING: My brother’s ghost!
HAMLET: My father!
VELMA: Nay, his image.
FRED: In sooth, that image caught the Prince’s eye
When he went to confront his lady mother.
Nor did his sword pierce poor Polonius.
For Hamlet’s blade did mark the castle wall
Behind the rent made in the tapestry.
Polonius was murdered by another.
The knife which killed him entered from behind.LAERTES: But who?
FRED: Indeed my lords, that you shall see.
HAMLET: And if this ghost was naught but light and air,
Then what of that which I did touch and speak to?The GHOST enters.
GHOST: Indeed, my son.
SHAGGY: Zoinks!
DAPHNE: Jenkies!
GHOST: Mark them not. Thou hast neglected duty far too long.
Shall this, my murderer, live on unharmed?
Must I remain forever unavenged?SCOOBY and SHAGGY run away from the GHOST. SCOOBY, looking backward, runs into a tapestry, tearing it down. As a result, tapestries around the walls collapse, one surrounding the GHOST.
GHOST: What?
FRED: Good Osric, pray restrain that “ghost”,
That we may reach the bottom of the matter.
Now let us see who truly walked tonight.FRED removes the helm and the disguise from the GHOST’S face.
ALL: Tis Fortinbras!
FRED: The valiant prince of Norway!
FORTINBRAS: Indeed it is, and curses on you all!
This Hamlet’s father brought my own to death,
And cost me all my rightful heritage.
And so I killed this king, and hoped his son
Would prove no obstacle to Norway’s crown.
Then Claudius bethought himself the killer
(As if one might be poisoned through the ear!)
The brother, not the son, took Denmark’s throne,
And held to Norway with a tighter grip.
I swore an end to Denmark’s royal house.
I spoke to Hamlet of his uncle’s crimes.
Then killed Polonius to spark Laertes.
This day, with poison’s aid, all might have died,
And Denmark might have come to me as well
As my beloved Norway and revenge.
My scheme blinded them all, as if by fog
But for these medd’ling kids and this their dog.KING: The villain stands confessed. Now let us go.
For much remains to us to be discussed.
And suitable reward must needs be found
For these, our young detectives and their hound.EXEUNT OMNES. Copyright 1993 Michael S. Schiffer
(oobiwan here) your art gives me life IT IS SO GREATTTTT also for that question game obi wan and qui gon ;) have a beautiful day
Well, first of all, thank you!!! Your edits are freaking gorgeous, too; I appreciate everything you make so much.
And yesssssss THANK YOU also for being the one to put Qui-Gon in my inbox! aha honestly if no one had put him in I think I would have had to do him anyway, because I love him so much. X) And I almost never see any writing about him, so it’s about time I tried to compensate for that, I guess.
Disclaimer before I get started: this post is the definition of TL;DR. It somehow turned into three days and 2 billion pages of meta about Qui-Gon Jinn, which, well, I’m not really sure how that happened, but hey, I had a ton of fun writing it because I love this character to bits,and that’s all that really matters. I fully expect it to disappear quietly into the mists of my blog because honestly NOBODY HAS TIME TO READ THIS MESS X) so just – spare yourselves and get out now, okay?
Or get in, I guess. If 2 billion pages of meta about Qui-Gon Jinn is your thing. <3
(All quotes used are from various Jedi Apprentice books or Legacy of the Jedi – hit me up if you want the specific book numbers!)
OKAY. Under the cut to spare your dashes, HERE WE GO:
