Re-blogging Not Just For The Hot Take, But Also For That Terrible (wonderful) Pun

I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

The first one was a trap! This Side of Paradise is actually about avoiding groupthink and complacency. And also letting Leonard Nimoy actually have fun acting for once.

Star Trek TOS: Don’t do drugs. Here’s the episode witch alludes to use of drugs to escape reality.

Also Star Trek TOS: To survive this we need to get high… The whole ship crew actually needs to get high. And we sure going to have so much fun with it…

You are so right. I feel like this was grandfathered in from the era when Batman actually had a police license, and just never got updated. I much prefer the Spiderman approach; sure, fine, he's a criminal, but somebody has to punch this giant lizard. Who's it going to be, the cops? They can't do it, they've all been knocked out trying to arrest a guy with spider powers!

Sometimes you want a hero more focussed on protection than punishment.

Craziest thing in a comic is always when the vigilante is like “Those Evil Criminals I’ll Get Them… stop their nefarious Crimes… those Criminals… not like ME” after breaking and entering into 10 buildings assaulting 20 people stealing evidence and tampering with 3 murder scenes.

Juuuust when I thought I'd found all the ways the works of take-my-heart-gently-in-his-hands-Tolkien could bring me to tears youse gotta hit me with a take like this. How dare. Well played.

Once again thinking about the “Tolkien elves are physically superior to humans in every way” thing as a disability parallel

Reblogging for that tag; I, too, aspire to use media for nefarious homosexual purposes XD

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 3 of many - part 1 - part 2 - "It was with some surprise, therefore, that I saw him walk into my consulting-room upon the evening of April 24th. It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual."

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

Do you have a favorite episode of Colombo? Your Detectives and Tricksters Trope Talks inspired me to get hooked

Season 5 Episode 1, "Forgotten Lady"! I shan't spoil why, but it's top tier.

Also shoutout "Try and Catch Me", "Suitable for Framing", and the one with Evil Johnny Cash.

Congratulations, you wrote the fic! The POV/tense choice is a little experimental, but tbh it's really working for me. Plus, pluckin' on the ol' heartstrings like a harp. Ctrl-c ctrl-v this into AO3 already so I can add it to my bookmarks :D

spideytorch angst fic where peter has to stop being spider-man for one reason or another (possibly after aunt may passes and he falls into a depressive episode that causes him to lose his job so he can't afford to do the crime-fighting thing because he can barely afford to feed himself, let alone buy the ingredients for his web fluid and suit repairs and stuff)

He doesn't really expect people to care that much - there are already so many heroes in new york and he mostly dealt with street-level criminals anyways, and the bugle is always going on about what a menace he is so they'll probably be happy for him to take a break for a while.

So fast forward a year later, peter's starting to get back on his feet, and he manages to get a job working for reed. He's a little wary at first, worried that they'll figure out who he is, but this isn't an opportunity he's willing to give up

He gets along really well with reed, and every once in a while he crosses paths with the other members of the fantastic four as well

Sue and Ben are friendly enough with him, but Johnny seems to hate him for some reason. Like, this goes way beyond whatever petty grudges johnny may have had with peter parker when they were both teenagers, and peter can't figure it out

It goes on for weeks before it all comes to a head when peter stays behind late at work one day, after everyone else has already left.

Johnny comes round to find peter, and awkwardly apologises to him for the way that he's been treating him

Peter is obviously pissed, but this is his best friend after all, so he gives him a chance to explain himself.

Johnny looks ashamed of himself as he haltingly explains that none of it was ever peter's fault. It's just that...peter reminds him so much of spider-man (which makes sense after all, johnny knows that peter and spidey were friends, so of course they'd share some mannerisms), and it hurt johnny to see the way reed and the others were just kind of accepting peter into the fold because it felt like peter was replacing his best friend. Peter doesn't know what to say as johnny keeps rambling about how the last time he ever saw spider-man, the two of them had had a fight and had left each other on bad terms. Johnny is crying now because he doesn't know where his best friend is, doesn't even know if he's still alive, and it hurts him to think that maybe spider-man is still out there, has stopped the hero lifestyle and is just living a life that doesn't have room for johnny in it, but that's still so much better than the alternative that he's not out there at all. That maybe he had been done in by some villain who got in a lucky shot and no one ever found out because no one knew who it was beneath the mask.

Peter is hugging johnny now, trying to comfort him and figure out how to come clean, because there's no way he can keep hiding his identity now, right?

Then johnny sniffs, and says that the worst part is that he never even got to tell spider-man that he loved him. He kept putting it off, because they were still young and they had all the time in the world and johnny had to make sure he got it right, and now he might never get to say it at all.

Peter starts crying then, because oh, he had always thought his feelings were unrequited, and it's so bittersweet in this moment to know that johnny feels the same way, but also to know just how much pain he had put his best friend through this past year.

"I'm sorry," says peter, whispering apologies over and over and over again into johnny's hair. "I'm sorry for staying away for so long, firefly. I didn't mean to hurt you so much"

Johnny pulls away sharply to stare at peter in disbelief when he processes what he had said. He freezes for ten long seconds, convinced that he must be dreaming or something. Then, he pulls peter into a desperate kiss. There will be time for explanations later (he knows that peter will be getting an earful from sue when she finds out). For now, he just needs to hold his best friend in his arms a little longer

Hide a tazer in his hair; there's enough of it that no one could possibly discover it

with the concerning amount of times Mokuba is getting kidnapped by various people, he should really go for some self defense classes

This series has singlehandedly cured me of my tendancy to roll my eyes at canon divergences...

Update: just listened to the suggested soundtrack and hey guess who just solved a lifelong mystery about what song is in a heirloom musicbox. This series, HONESTLY.

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 9

This update comes with a content warning, which you can read here if you're so inclined.

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 9 of a few more - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8.

You'd think so, wouldn't you? To be fair to the hospital, I don't really see any reason to keep a geiger counter by the blood bags.

Flash will spend a lot of time in the coming years getting his heart dragged out by force, a little at a time.

Also Peter they would probably notice if your blood had some noticable amount of radioactivity before giving it to her. Amazing Spiderman 10