Third Time's The Charm, Hopefully :D

To be fair, I have met (and herded out of a mildly exploding building) kids like that. Highschoolers, man. Just enough smarts to be so, so stupid.

Because some kids can't even hold onto the instruction of "there is a killer robot loose in the school, evacuate" Amazing Spiderman 8

IT'S BACK! Oh man I never even considered the possibility of SH bumping into Watson as an accident 🤩

the Empty House - part 1

It is the spring of the year 1894, and Sherlock Holmes has been dead for three years. Watson's Sketchbook returns with THE EMPTY HOUSE - part 1! Bonus points to whoever recognizes what classic of Victorian literature Holmes is quoting on the first page.

notes under the cut:

Holmes references dressing as a woman in the Adventure of the Mazarin Stone - I always wanted to see more of that disguise:

Watson is in mourning. Men did not wear as elaborate mourning as women in this era, but the extra wide hatband was one way to convey a deep personal loss. Who that loss is referring to is probably not something that Watson is entirely honest about, even to himself:

There's a theory from Madeleine B. Stern that Holmes's bookseller was a real life person named Alfred B. Clementson, and that he impersonates him in Empty House, so I nabbed that name.

Looks like these guys are okay, after all :)

Some crossovers make you think 'huh, I guess that could work.' Then some deliver a beautiful glimpse into a world that never was.

It's probably been done before, but the urge to crossover my two favorite 60s shows won today

Illya's a bit grumpy rn, but no worries he'll come around once he learns the future is a communist utopia <3

Yapping vvv

Anyway, what *is* up with 60s us shows and having two male leads, one slutty bisexual american, the other a highly competent foreigner and repressed homosexual who doesn't show much emotions, having a string of romances with a different woman every episode that was intended to show how the slutty one was a womanizer and the epitome of heterosexuality, but ended up highlighting how the only deep and meaningful relationship in his life is his *friendship* to the second male lead ? Wild

Anyway you're a gay one mister Solo, dig it in there mister Spock, there is something about 60s implied queerness that compels me so much <3

Also we *kinda* got this crossover already with uncle's S1E9 and the first Nimoy and Shatner on screen appearance- too bad that was long before star trek

PS : this is barely disguised the man from UNCLE propaganda gkkfkf

I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people

I was like 12 and high off this shit

Hello Witcher fans, may I offer you my dumb doodles from the last month or so

Well maybe I think that Parker Paparazzi deserves to sweat a bit after publishing all those unflattering pictures of an honest spidercreature who as far as we know only eats super villains

Spider-Man's Canon Crypidization

As much as I love how Batman went from respected lawman to urban legend, I feel people fail to appreciate the Marvel equivalent. Peter Parker's alterego went from 'literally a wrestler with a gimmick' to 'he might maybe have once been human? We hope?!' in the eyes of the average civillian/mook.

Like his origin is clearly human, he's a tv performer and it's understood that his webbing is a gadget he came up with for the schtick. Then a little later when the Xmen become more popular and have more of an effect on the Marvelverse, you get the whole 'mutant scum' angle. But it eventually becomes clear that no, whatever this guy is, 'typical mutant' ain't it. (The alien suit debacle does not help with this at all.)

By the mid 80s Spider-Man is basically a cryptid, helped along by how the choreography and art style changed enough to show him moving in a way that is very inhuman, striking from the shadows, gravity optional. There's a whole arc where he adventures overseas and just straight up passes for a supernatural being so as not to compromise his secret id.

Then whenever anybody interacts with him long enough for him to start quipping they realize he's just a huge dork. Like, you know the inhumanly strong man-shaped shadow that can tell you pointed a gun at him from two blocks away without looking? He's going to give you a punny nickname while tying you up with a semi organic compound hitherto unknown to science. It's so funny.

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.

The trick is to specifically cultivate this cycle such that the interest-fields of one fandom rest and lie fallow just when another comes ready for harvest >:D

i feel like being in a fandom long-term has a very specific repetitive cycle that kind of looks like this

Well, that *does* cover vehicles, multigenerational knowlege transfers, and the taming of fire...

"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably

@oh-tobeafrog thank you for inspiring me with this galaxy brain take on my two favorite marvel heroes :)

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