even though i am sleepy as hell i needed to draw something, and it happened to be my two fave ladies from The Mary Janes :3 i really want Gwen’s outfit GAH
mary jane watson
Anonymous: Amy Pond, Rory Williams and MJ Watson for the Hogwarts meme?
Oooh
Amy would be a Gryffindor, I think. She’s both brave and reckless, prone to threatening armed pirates with swords and Silurians with laser guns, she’d fit in perfectly…
Rory would be a Hufflepuff. HE’S SO HUFFLEPUFF I CAN’T EVEN. Unfalteringly loyal, hard working, kind…
MJ is a tricky one. But I think she would be Slytherin. There’s a post going round about how surely some Slytherins would be children from bad homes who had cultivated ambition as a way of surviving, and I think that’s her to a tee.
Anonymous: MJ is a good character? I thought Gwen might be more up your alley considering MJ is just there for the male gaze while Gwen isn’t. One More Day did one good thing and that meant they would stop belittling the spiderman audience with a sex object which we do not need. I suggest you more stuff with Gwen in it. She a very good character and Emma Stone plays a very good version of her.
mj is a fantastic character.
she isnt just a sex object. i see where you come from, you’re a big gwen stan and thats okay but gwen isnt better than MJ. lets not pity the girls against each other. they’re both great. but MJ is more my cup of tea, i agree gwen was great in tasm and it made her so popular that she got her own series as spider gwen now.
but i’m going from the original comics in which i prefer mj.
Some genuine questions for the OP:
Why is she just there for the male gaze? Apart from anything else, not all the people who’ve written/drawn for her have been heterosexual males. If it’s because she’s a model and very comfortable in her body, what are you saying about real-life models? She’s been drawn in creepy, male-gazey poses sometimes (as has every Marvel female, sigh) but it’s, um, somewhat of a stretch to say that’s all she’s there for. She was part of the story even after One More Day.
Why is she a sex object? She’s seen having happy, consensual sex with Peter a lot. She’s seen in her underwear/skimpy clothing sometimes, but so is he. (So is Gwen, actually). Why isn’t Peter a sex object?
Why is she belittling the audience? Show your working. She’s an abuse survivor shown to undergo character development, work through her emotions, stop hiding her real personality, be incredibly successful career-wise, have close relationships with other women, and be one of Marvel’s most popular non-superpowered female characters. What is belittling about that? All I can come up with is “well, you know…she’s proud of her good looks and body and flirts with people and wears short skirts and stuff.” Hmmm. Sign me up for the Belittlement Brigade, in that case.
You get a C- for effort. A solid A+, though, for writing misogynistic nonsense with feminist buzzwords thrown in to disguise it.
Spider-Sense and Sensibility
Here’s Spider-Gwen and Mary Jane, Regency style. Inspired by saladinahmed‘s hilarious tweet.I really love this
okay but like
raimi!mj is actually pretty close to 616!mj tho??
for some reason, people (myself included not too long ago) have decided that mary jane from the movies is this completely different character who that is essentially 616!gwen with another hair color and it’s just…….. not……. true……??
616!gwen didn’t come from an abusive family, didn’t put on a front so people wouldn’t get close to her and discover her weaknesses, wasn’t ambitious almost to a fault, doing whatever it took to get what she wanted career-wise and sometimes personal life-wise, wasn’t terrified of commitment because of what she’d seen at home and would leave people before they could leave her. and 616!mj did. and so did kirsten’s mj.
the only thing the previous trilogy’s mj wasn’t is flirty and upbeat, which are classic mj traits that i guess people really like?? but everything else was pretty spot on??
where are people getting that they did such an enormous 180 that she’s barely recognizable and as such should be criticized and it always needs to be pointed out how so very different she is every time she’s mentioned i just
I think, but am not entirely sure, that Someone Official (maybe even one of the Raimis) said in an interview that their MJ is MJ mixed with Gwen…
…but yeah, even if they said it, I don’t think that’s true? (I’ve kinda stopped trusting stuf that comes/came out of Marvel writer’s mouths now.) And the flirty and upbeat thing – I do honestly get why people would miss those traits in her, but you do see them a bit in the first movie, and it makes a lot of sense for MJ in this particular verse to be a bit less upbeat anyway? She doesn’t have Aunt Anna, her acting career is on a more realistic trajectory than it was in the comics, she keeps getting kidnapped…
I think MJ’s such a fabulous character in whatever verse she’s in, because she has these wonderfully human traits universal to all her portrayals – survival, ambition, determination -and they ensure that she’s always interesting. God, I know you and me both wish more people thought so but OH MY GOD MORE PEOPLE SHOULD THINK SO