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Petra Parker having Venom synthesise estrogen for her
Petra Parker dealing with less sticky webs when she takes estrogen and having to make synthetic ones
Spider Women being invited to take part in the trans pride parade of New York after people notice her breast growth
J Jonah Jameson being completely fine with Parker’s transition while loudly exclaiming Spider Women is making a bad name for the trans community
Toxic Yuri with chaser Black Cat
Villains awkwardly express their congratulations to Spider Women while in mid combat. Green Goblin misgenders her once and the rest of the villains make him write an apology letter immediately. Spider Women becomes a symbol for the trans people of Nee York much to J Jonah Jameson. In response he aggressively promotes and helps trans politicians to try and create a better role model for the New York trans community.
Spider Women is gifted a trans coloured spider suit during Pride Month and now wears it once every year for the entire month.
Petra Parker just as a concept I love her
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spider-woman (petra parker) villains react to her coming out as trans
kingpin: ...this changes nothing.
electro: [very clearly uncomfortable but not willing to interrogate what that says about himself] so is this, like, a permanent thing?
rhino: you are...AH!! [drops the bags of money he's holding and gives spider-woman a bone-crushing hug] MY FRIEND!!! YES!!! my cousin's wife, she is like you as well! beautiful woman. maybe you know her? you do not? is not how that works? i see. you two must meet. we will arrange dinner after i break out from raft again. uhp--no arguments. i have decided.
vulture: this is exactly what fox news warned me about...
green goblin: [mockingly] good for you, bug! though don't think i'll go easy on you because of this. after all, you and i both know i don't have a problem killing girls! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
sandman: [after five minutes of failed explanations] oh, like the thing rhino's cousin's wife has
white rabbit: girl!!! me too!!! no way!!! you know, this is perfect timing actually, beetle and i have been looking for a third, if you're interested...
lizard: [really not getting it] ssssso you have to inject yoursssself with girl DNA how often? seemssssss inefficient. you know, connorsssss only injected himself with lizard DNA the once. maybe you ssshould assssk him to make girl DNA for you.
doc ock: [known the whole time] so...you finally figured it out.
mysterio: [trying to fuck with her] so...you finally figured it out.
mr. negative: [gives a single, curt nod and doesn't say anything but makes sure to gender her correctly during their fight]
morbius: HISSSSSSSS!! spider-man!! vhat brings you to zhis dark corner of the city, at so late an--vhat? spider...woman now? [drops the accent] oh hey that's sick. listen if you need an endocrinologist i know a guy. he's over in brooklyn so it's a bit out of the way--oh you're going to diy? no that makes sense. hey, i really appreciate you telling me. no it's no problem at all. thanks! [starts doing the accent again] NOW BEGONE!!! FROM MY LAIR!!!!
electro again: [still really uncomfortable] i just don't think it's an unfair question to ask. remember that time you were like all mean and had the four extra arms and you said shit like "the die is cast?" how do i know this isn't another one of your phases?
carnage: [sprinting down the street on all fours holding the first syllable of a slur like piccolo charging his special beam cannon] fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFAGGOTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!
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The Dark Artifices and The Gothic
The Dark Artifices is an insanely gothic series, and I felt really silly when I realised how much I'd missed the first time I read the books. Starting with the obvious: the multiple references to Annabel Lee and Thule and every chapter title being from an Edgar Allan Poem. Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' mentioned in 'Lady Midnight'. Emma and Jules stay in an isolated cottage on the edge of the stormy Cornish sea, as in many Daphne du Maurier novels. The wild, cold, inhuman natures of the fae as a throughline that reference both folk tales and ballads, and the untameability of nature. There are multiple orphans, and a mad-uncle in the attic, akin to 'Jane Eyre'.
But the deepest and most enduring parellels have to be to 'Wuthering Heights'. Malcolm and Annabel are literally Cathy and Heathcliff; neglected children brought up as siblings by an uncaring family, who are able to find freedom in nature and in each other, but who have a clearly enforced social divide between them, meaning they can never be permitted to choose each other. Malcolm, like Heathcliff, is a marginalised Other treated as less than human and never worthy of a (Shadowhunter) lady. Annabel, like Cathy, dies young and imprisoned, and Malcolm/ Heathcliff spends longer with his lover's memory than he ever did with her. Heathcliff wants Cathy to haunt him, and Malcolm, who lives in an urban fantasy world, wants to bring Annabel back; both of them grow increasingly unhinged and detached from reality with time.
But of course, much of the text of 'Wuthering Heights' is about Heathcliff blaming even the next generation for his lover's death, and visiting his revenge upon them, just as Malcolm does with Emma and the latest generation of Blackthorns. Julian and Emma and have their parallels in Catherine II and Hareton, who are also neglected, treated as siblings, and manipulated against each other, but who ultimately manage to break the cycle and find love and support in each other.
Deep, repressed feelings that cannot be named, and textual and subtextual incest are also very gothic features, and they are recurring motifs in Cassandra Clare's work. Although there are more overt examples (Clary making out with both her her real brother and her perceived brother), Emma and Julian's subtextual incest born of growing up together, being parabatai and reproducing a family unit in the absence of responsible adults is the most emotionally involved example (to be clear, I love Emma and Julian and I find this an interesting choice). Catherine II and Hareton have an unhealthy relationship not because they are cousins, or inherently bad for each other, but because wider social forces and Heathcliff's machinations cause divides and resentment between them, even while circumstances constantly force them together. The dangers posed by the authority of the Clave (like the separation of the Blackthorns and the institutionalisation of their uncle) and the specific secrets that both Julian and Emma are keeping (Emma wanting to avenge her parents, Julian running the institute, secretly being in love), are what allow barriers to be created between the two of them. Once they break through these, and manifest the parabatai curse, they are literally unstoppable.
I would argue that TDA's climax, where Emma and Julian almost destroy themselves but manage to break the curse isn't an argument for romantic love being more important than platonic, but for the idea that one person should never be your everything. Cathy and Heathcliff have a gothic, all-consuming love that doesn't consider the feelings of anyone else, or often even of each other. Emma and Julian's relationship is at its most dangerous when they are each other's entire support system. But throughout TDA we've seen both of them become able to rely on other strong bonds. Julian's older siblings have come back into his life, and his younger siblings have started to assert their right to look after him for a change. Emma has met Cristina, and is finally old enough to be Clary's equal. Both of them have become less wary of forming alliances and building connections that they never would have made at the start of the series.
We even see an example in the Thule versions of Emma and Julian of Cathy and Heathcliff's kind of self-absorbed love. Thule Emma and Julian are devoid of morality or care for others, but are still able to hold on to a selfish romantic love, at the expense of all else. When Julian kills his alternate self, he is metaphorically rejecting the version of him that cares only for Emma. In the end of Wuthering Heights, Cathy and Heathcliff abandon themselves to cling to each other, forever as ghosts, but at the end of TDA, Emma and Julian are talked down by the Blackthorn family and friends; saved by their bonds to those around them.
Anyway, it's wild that CC set up the most incredibly gothic trilogy, then decided 1.3 books in, that the real villain was Shadowhunter Trump.
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Posting both Lestat and Louis from Interview with the Vampire by @annericeauthor hope you guys will like them 😘
both artworks were drawn in @procreate using my custom brushes 😁
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So happy Im finally able to post this 😂 I had a pleasure to work with Shelby Mahurin hope you guys will like my version of Lou xoxo
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So happy I can finally share this artwork with you guys. This piece was commissioned by @fairyloot characters are Wraith and Emilia from Kingdom of the wicked by @kerrimaniscalco hope you guys will like it xoxo
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I wanted to share this piece with you guys in Pride month but because it was commission I couldn’t. Well better late than never. 😅 Hope you guys will like it xoxo characters are Ead and Sabran from The Priory of the Orange Tree. By Samantha Shannon
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X-Men: The Animated Series 1x01 | "Night of the Sentinels, Part 1"