sarah531: Are we still ok to submit Obscure Faves here? If so, I want to submit Ursula Ditkovich from the original Spider-Man films! She lives next door to Peter Parker and has a crush on him but is shy and so doesn’t act on it apart from bringing him food all the time. And she displays no jealousy and is instead happy when Peter starts dating MJ. And she fumbles her words and bakes cakes and SHE IS MY ADORABLE EMOTIONALLY MATURE RUSSIAN BAKER BABY. I wrote fic about her once but there should be MUCH MORE
I ACTUALLY TOTALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT AND YOU’RE RIGHT SHE IS 100% ADORBS 10/10 WOULD FAVE
also yes yes submissions are ALWAYS open i know that i am being really lax on making posts my life is just one huge collegiate entanglement right now but i PROMISE i am gonna be getting to the featured fave stuff i mentioned and hopefully all sorts of other cool stuff don’t you fret
The only moment in a comic book that got me to actually tear up. The death of my favorite comic book character of all time. Ultimate Peter Parker. He really was the best.
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
We share so mamy faves! Isn’t Peter like the definition of a disaster though
I so nearly put him in there next to Harry! But I figure, despite him having a lot of horrible things happen to him, they don’t usually (with some notable exceptions…) stem from him being a human disaster so much as everyone around him being a human disaster/supervillain/loudmouthed newspaper editor.
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.
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.
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.
I was looking at ASM #121 for a project I’m working on, and I never really noticed/thought that much of it before, but it’s interesting that Gwen’s last thoughts on panel are about Harry/trying to figure out the best way to help him.
I noticed that too! And it makes me so sad. They were friends whose destinies ended up being entwined in the most tragic of ways. :(
