A few of the Spider-People in SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)
Ma’am. What are you doing. You can’t be here.
This is my childhood home and my babies will grow up here too.
Ma’am. This is an orphanage.
And?
Good point. Welcome home, ma’am.
I AM FINE I’M NOT CRYING
“Being Spider-Man is so easy! I wake up, skip the workout because I’m naturally buff and I don’t wanna get too big, ya know?”
-Pavitr Prabhakar
Ok I get where everyone is coming from when they see the design of Pavitr ‘Pav’ Prabhakar aka Indian SpiderMan as an expression of gender queerness, but let me be frank this is very typical Indian male costuming.
Even the toxic masculine patriarchal men have similar stylistic expressions or to be be more precise this is a traditional/historical/ye olde male aesthetic.
Having said that I love what design elements are being used here. So…
Let's take it from the top.
The FACE MASK
- The Three Colors surrounding the eyes are typical spider man colours but they are done to evoke the image the traditional makeup done for the ancient dance art Kathakali. In which the whole face is painted and bold lines are drawn to emphasise/exaggerate the eyes. These eye mask lines are usually thin - bold-thin.
- Same with the white lines on the cheek bones which are indicative of tusks or pincers of demons or Animorphs in folklore/myths.
- The white dot in the centre of the forehead is the most common Hindu motif, expressed in myriad of ways all over the country .
The ARM/LEG BANDS/CUFFS
- The bicep cuff is a part of Indian historic armour - made of malleable metal, its bejewelled ornate counterparts were then worn in day to day life. Here in the north Royals still wear it during big ceremonies. These metal bands are generally worn by warriors.
- bangles (metal circles worn at wrists) are an important male accessory and are more daily wear even in present modern times, some religions (Sikh,Jain etc.) require the males to always wear one at all times. The ones on the suit were more in the shape of wrist guards which again were an armour accessory. In Indian male clothing the cuffs are usually emphasised.
- Due to traditional male footwear being sandals metal ankle cuffs were employed to guard the shins and were worn during wars while thinner bands - ornamental accessories - were worn in daily wear.
There are so many other things I want to elaborate on like: The PATTERNS/LOGO,The LEG GARMENT (??!)(what’s the collective term for clothes for legs?), The Cat’s Cradle swinging/body animation ; but my ADHD is already acting up so imma leave this here.
SIDE NOTE:
- I love how the heel and toes are bare in this design. It makes sense from the spider powers perspective - no barrier in contact allows for better manoeuvring and jump control as is seen in gymnastics. But also because in Hindu culture important tasks including some traditional sports require the removal of footwear and getting feet dirty is not discouraged (of course with an adherence to washing of the feet multiple times in a day)
- I also loved how incorporated his wrist guard is in his spider style using it as a toy and a tool. This aspect of making use of something in a completely different way was so desi ‘Jugaad’ I was stunned.
The average day of PAVITR PRABHAKAR, Spider-Man of Mumbattan, in SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Bonus:
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023) + reddit text posts
I just saw the movie and I'm gonna make this silly little guy my entire personality for the next month :DDD
Disney using gay as a weapon against a fascist because taxes is on brand but wasn't on my bingo card for 2023
#politics#corporate bullshit#this is some real#enemy of my enemy#lesser of two evils#bullshit#like fuck the mouse but#weaponize the mouse when needs must#we can return to our regularly scheduled anticapitalism when evil is defeated#corporations see customers and employees as useful but discardable tools so imma return the favor
hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx
I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.
Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.
woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time
Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?
I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.
The world may never know…
Maybe it’s something mathematical?
I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.
It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.
(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)
“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).
It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.
So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.
Word for today: bang path
The use of exclamation points to distinguish between variations of a character or name
tags from coloredcompulsion:
tags from me lol but yeah
“Between 1992–2003, $14.4 billion was spent in total in the 109 countries studied…That investment resulted in a 29 percent-per-country average decrease in the rate of biodiversity decline…”
This is one of the first large-scale studies to show that investment in conservation really does work. The study also examined how conservation dollars could be spent most effectively in different locations to slow biodiversity loss.
redneckcomulist
Sounds like we need to spend more.
This was over the course of 11 years. That 14.4 billion was spent over the gradual course of over a decade. This amounts to about 1.3 billion per year for what it accomplished, a pittance to most nations and truly a tiny amount if there’s multiple nations (like the 109 countries) covering it together. Never let anyone tell you dying ecosystems and climate disasters are inevitable or “too expensive” to prevent.
But there’s a significant silver lining here: If spending a “pittance” can buy us a 29% decrease in biodiversity loss, think how much loss could be prevented if countries seriously invested in this kind of thing!
This is one of the first big studies to show that investing in conservation translates to real, measurable, tangible improvements over the long term and in multiple countries. We aren’t just throwing money at something that isn’t working. That’s still really excellent news! And a big reason to invest more in conservation efforts!
“An accompanying commentary in Nature notes that halting the decline in global biodiversity would be “remarkably cheap,” amounting to less than 0.01 percent of global gross domestic product.”
captain-price-officially
Wet beast Wednesday
Oh they’re notching her tail. See the little bit taken out? That tells whoever catches her next to let her go– it’s a sort of “hey, this is a reproductive female; let’s keep the cycle going by putting her right back in the water” signal. The bit will grow back in 2-3 shed cycles, which takes a couple years.
They know she’s able to reproduce bc she was caught with eggs.
The abrupt way he slams the fish into her claw is so funny though like take your fucking lunch and get the fuck out of here. Ma'am.
Imagine being grabbed by eldritch giants and they give you lunch and send you back home
my-dudedededed
Imagine they shove a whole fucking cow in your arms and throw you back to the Earth
skulk-id
It’s better than that, even. First they give you a tramp stamp that says, “Too fuckable to kill” and THEN they slam a dead cow into your arms and throw you back to Earth.
being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse
Being a stem major who's friends with humanities majors is ALSO funny bc you ask what's goin on with them and they're like "oh yeah my day's pretty good! I only have to read 50 pages for this one class today and half a book for another one. It's much better than last week where I read three books and wrote a 10 page paper about their overlapping motifs for one class while also researching a niche period of time that our library doesn't have any resources on. How's it been for you?" and you're like "oh I have a lil packet of fun math puzzles due tomorrow." and they look at you like you're carrying the weight of the universe on your back
This man took so much longer to crack than I would have what a PROFESSIONAL
Plotting, scheming, etc.
I am weeping 😂🤣😂🤣
Chaos baby
I think it's so funny how we bred JOBS into dogs. I have two shih tzus and they were bred to be lap dogs. All they care about is looking cute and cuddling with people. Meanwhile my grandma has a border collie and that dog needs to feel so useful all the time, he acts like he will pass away if he doesn't have a job to do constantly
On one hand this is extremely fucking funny, but on the other hand, it really boggles my mind how many people punish their dogs for just… doing the thing they were bred to do.
Your husky isn’t “hyperactive”, it’s bred to pull sleds for 8 hours straight and you have it in a 400 sq ft yard.
Your English sheepdog isn’t “pushy”, it’s bred to herd sheep, and you have neither to space nor the herd to allow it.
Your terrier isn’t “nippy”, it’s bred to kill rats and your hamster looks a hell of a lot like one.
Your Catahoula isn’t “mean to animals”, it’s bred to hunt any and all animals smaller than it, and you didn’t acclimate it to your cat.
Your Lhasa Apso isn’t “yappy”, it’s bred to bark at any tiny noise and alert watchmen to intruders
Like Jesus Christ, if you can’t provide an environment where your dog can’t fulfill its literal life purpose, maybe?? Don’t get that dog??? And if you do, maybe know the breed characteristics so you can redirect those traits into more constructive outlets????
Both your most common doodle's parts (labra and golden) want to hunt and retrieve water birds so the best suggestion I can give y'all is congratulations on your new duck hunting hobby.
tags from @gnarlystarships because YEAH
Absolutely bonkers shit that legitimately happens in NBC Hannibal (an incomplete list):
- Will beats a furry to death while fantasizing about Hannibal getting off to being beaten to death
- A man??? Gets folded into an origami heart???????
- A villains actual honest to god evil plan is to steal Will’s face so that he can eat Hannibal’s penis with it
- Said villain then gets eaten by his pet eel??? After having his sperm harvested so his sister’s girlfriend can bear his child and inherit his wealth??
- Honestly just Mason Verger in general: ??????
- That time Hannibal waves at another serial killer and says “hello I love your work” before killing him
- Hannibal wears at least four patterns at the same time and no one gouges their eyes out or tells him it looks awful
- Fish jello treated as a delicacy that the average American would consume without vomiting
- Feel free to add more
- “Is your social worker in that horse?”– a legitimate question that gets a rather heartbreakingly sincere “Yes” in response.
granpappy-winchester
- Hannibal getting caught sniffing Will during their session, then critiquing how he smells and Will deciding this is totally acceptable behavior and coming back for more????
- Hannibal getting off to Will telling him he’d kill Hannibal with his hands
- Will sailing across the ocean to find Hannibal in Europe while making a pit-stop at Hannibal’s childhood castle
- Hannibal being the King of Pettiness and the Queen of Drama and sending a serial killer after Will’s new pre-assembled family because he did not spend three years in a glass cage manned by his ex-girlfriend and the Disappointing Chilton to be disrespected like this
- Hannibal stuffing an ear down his only friend’s throat to frame him for murder then murdering the judge that pronounced said friend guilty, because he got lonely.
- Frederick Chilton’s entire existence
kremelicious
- Hannibal breaking a guy’s neck out of second hand embarrassment
- The entire fifthsome scene
- Hannibal feeding a man his own baked leg and the man’s first comment after taking a bite being ‘My compliments to the Chef’
- Hannibal straight up making cannibal jokes in front of a Criminal Profiler, three Psychiatrists, a Reporter and an FBI Agent specialized in Behavioral Sciences
softwillgraham
- Hannibal and Will just decide to adopt a daughter together after having known each other for like three days; still aren’t sure if they’re even friends
- Jack goes to dinner at Hannibal’s house even more often after he finds out it’s all human meat
- Will spends months having seizures and somehow never has one in front of anyone except Hannibal, nor drives off the road
- Hannibal eats a Raw Human Lip that was bitten off its native face by someone other than him and then mailed
softwillgraham
Some more from the replies and tags:
- The human cello
- The man who castrated himself, then flayed the skin off his own back to make wings, then strung himself up in a barn????? (Who could also somehow See evil people??????)
- The man Hannibal grafted into a tree (not formed into a tree, not stuck branches on, but literally grafted into a living tree)
- Dolarhyde eating that painting. He just fuckin cronches it
- The time there is a LIVING BIRD inside a cadaver
- The human totem pole how could I forget this most iconique creation
- A pig is used semi-successfully as a surrogate host for a human embryo????
- Hannibal realizes that he’s heartbroken and LITERALLY says “I have to eat him” (then proceeds to attempt to do so)
- A man realizing Hannibal killed his old poetry professor and deciding this is a great opener for asking for a threesome
- Hannibal being entirely open to that threesome
- The head of Behavioral Sciences at the FBI trying to entrap someone into committing murder
- Hannibal gets crucified in a public pool with duct tape and a broken broom stick looking thing by a guy who has a murder crush on Will, at Will’s behest
- Jack’s wife decides she doesn’t want Jack to see her die (from terminal cancer) so she overdoses on morphine and then goes to Hannibal’s office to die like it’s no big deal
- Hannibal then proceeds to base his decision to save her life ON A COIN TOSS
- Will gets manipulated, drugged, framed, and gutted by Hannibal and still decides to sail the Atlantic to forgive him
- Freddie Lounds’ absolutely horrifying lack of shame and/or guilt
- The fact that those guards pushed Abel Gideon over a stairwell, thus breaking his back, and THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT IT, LIKE, WHY THAT HAPPENED OR THE REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE GUARDS
- When Will has just woken up from a seizure (that Hannibal caused) in Hannibal’s dining room, Hannibal mentions that Abel Gideon has gone after their friend Alana (Hannibal sent him) but says it’s too dangerous for Will to go. Hannibal then pretends to put on his coat and leave but he leaves car keys and a gun within Will’s reach and when Hannibal comes back a few minutes later to an empty dining room he just makes a face like “hmm I wasn’t sure he had it in him”.
- During the whole framing Will for murder thing, the fact that he shot and attempted to kill Abel Gideon is never brought up as evidence of his darker urges or his instability
- THEY REALLY HAD WILL KILL SOMEONE IN EPISODE ONE AND IT ALL WENT DOWNHILL FROM THERE
I think about this a lot.
requested by anonymous:
RATING: RELIABLE
Source: ‘The math checks out. In 2019, the median annual earning for women was $47,299. For men, it was $57,546. Averaged together, that’s about $52,423.The cost of the average home in the same time was $377,700. That is about 14 percent of the median salary.’
As of Oct 2022, the median annual earnings for women in the United States was $50,492 (extrapolated by multiplying weekly earnings by 52 weeks). For men, it was $60,528. Average together, that’s about $55.640. The average purchase price of a home in the United States during Q3 of 2022 was $542,900.
The average salary in the US is now about 10.2% of the cost of a home.
But that’s not even the whole story, because “income earned” means pre-tax income, and mortgage payments are not tax deductible unless you itemize (which people w/ average salaries do not do bc it’s usually less than the standard deduction).
In 1936, following FDR’s income tax hikes, the median annual salary for a single person was $830, taxed at 4% Income + 1% Social Security. The take-home median pay was therefore ~$790. The average home value was $4,766. So take-home pay was about 16.5% of home cost in 1936.
In Oct 2022, taxes are a bit more complicated. Assuming you take the standard deduction, file single, and only pay federal income tax, the take-home pay from a salary of $55,640 is about $51,584.
(Using H&R Block’s 2022 tax estimator)
So really, the average take-home pay is now 9.5% of the average home price.
Meanwhile, the person earning $2M/yr in 2022 would end up taking home at least $1,289,600. He is taxed at 35.3% of his earnings. The person earning the inflation-adjusted equivalent of in 1936 (~$95,000) would be taxed at 60% of his earnings.
Tl;dr: It’s an even more dire situation than that tweet suggests. Taxes on the middle class have skyrocketed, taxes on the ultra-rich have been slashed in half, and housing is nearly twice the ratio to income earned that it was in the middle of the Great Depression.
This makes so much more sense than “they canceled your favorite show because you weren’t posting hard enough”