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DID PETER PARKER IMAGINE DEADPOOL IN A TIGHT CHEERLEADER OUTFIT IN SOME ACTUAL COMIC???!!!
Yep! In Avenging Spider-Man #12
Context: Spidey’s having a classic nightmare sequence thanks to the supervillain Hypno- the one where you’re back in high school and everything sucks? And Deadpool shows up to break him out of it. (Or so he says.)
Deadpool does joke that he got the dress from (insert store name here) but, like… It’s Peter’s dream. It’s all affected by Peter’s subconscious and Hypno’s powers. So yeah. He does imagine Deadpool like that.
Polyamory, it’s all fun and games until you’re in a polycule that could serve as a perfect example of the homestuck troll quadrants.
oh boy i start my job as a wound man tomorrow can't wait to be stabbed, sliced, slashed, lacerated, eviscerated, bludgeoned, cudgeled, beaten with rods, beaten with irons, shot with arrows, shot with cannons, have spears thrown into me, have spears thrown through me, impaled on spikes, flayed, flensed, boiled, shot with arrows again, and have rocks dropped on my head
I love you fictives with problematic or hated sources. I love you fictives that're terrified of showing up and existing around others because of terrible things that your sourceselves, source content, or creators have done. I love you whether or not the hate toward that fiction is justified because you're not your exact fictional source. You're real. I love you fictives that desperately try to explain yourselves and your situation because it was so different from the inside and you're trying so hard to be better. I love you fictives whose identity and experiences still mean a lot to you, and you're working every single day to balance that with the reality of media either harmful or perceived as harmful.
You're real. You're people. Your existence is not inherently terrible or amoral- only you decide your impact on this world.
[All plurals can interact, singlets can too if you don't clown]
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
ETA; Yes, the links are US American; no your country is not immune to propaganda. Be POLITE in asking, and I will help you find the data for your own country as well.