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Welcome to the horrors of something I affectionately call Corpse Harry Au. Im subjecting myself to the mortifying ordeal of being known, so please make it worthwhile by reading it here and also commenting.
It includes: Raimi Parksborn, Elements of Horror, Lovecraftian horror, major character undeath, Somewhat Undead Raimi Harry and a lot of angst and hurt/comfort.
Please read my baby I’m very proud of it
i tried my hand at parksborn angst! two hours and 4k words later i made this :)
summary:
No one knows loss like Peter Parker. Harry Osborn has been there since day one, when they were born in the same hospital on the same day, and has seen and experienced almost everything Peter has gone through. They fight each day together, help each other get through the times that seem so uncertain. They do everything they can to be the best for each other. Then the blip happens, and Tony dies, and everything is so much worse than before.
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A look into how I feel Harry would have been with Peter if he existed in the MCU, using generalised characterisations from multiple source materials.
“Why would you want to make a game for the original Nintendo?? No one is going to buy that”
Jokes on you! I sold 1 copy!!!
LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL GRAPH! THATS A SALE BAAAABY
^Me rn
Holy shit yall. I just woke up to 21 sales! The game has officially recouped the cost of all the software I used to make it!!! IM PROFITABLE?!
...What's the game, how did you make it, and how are you selling it?
It’s called Undercover Shot! It’s a 2 player social deduction game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System!
I’m taking pre orders for physical copies here https://www.homebrew-factory.com/home/138-undercover-shot.html
And selling digital ROM versions for a dollar here: https://pirateprincessjess.itch.io/undercover-shot-nes
A week ago I was losing my mind over 1 sale, now I’ve sold 81 digital copies and 52 physical ones.
Over 100 people bought my game!!!!????? This is mind blowing. I don’t even know how to process this. I am so grateful. I would not have sold nearly this many without yall sharing this post as much as you did. I love you all so much. Thank you for making this happen. You all made my childhood dream come true in a bigger way than I thought possible.
Achievement Unlocked:
Sell a new title for the fucking Nintendo Family Computer in the year 2025 AD.
Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…
This….
This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.
Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.
This explains a lot. And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce. Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.
And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that. Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid. Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given. It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.
I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:
Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.
I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.
It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.
The rest of the world is not like this.
Eat the rich. Resist.
When I was travelling in Germany once, I seriously hurt my ankle. In a few hours, it had swollen to twice its size, and I went to a little ER in a tiny town. I spoke no German and only one nurse spoke English. They ran an X-ray and an MRI to determine what had happened (turned out I had bruised my peroneus brevis muscle and pulled the tendon), gave me a ton of very regulated meds for the pain and swelling, including some supports so I could walk…and my poor little 22-year-old ass was sat there, knowing all of this would cost thousands, if not tens of thousands, back in the US. I was shaking.
I’m in the exam room, post diagnosis and with pill bottles in hand, and in walks the one nurse I’ve been able to speak to the entire time. She pats my hand and tells me (and this is verbatim—I will never forget this conversation as long as I live), “I’m so sorry. We had to run those tests, and they are expensive. You don’t have insurance so you will have to cover the full cost.”
I start crying.
She continues, softly, as if telling me someone has died, “It’s going to be three hundred.”
I start sobbing, certain I’ve misheard, certain that I would be absolutely fucked, broke and going into debt in a foreign country. “Thousand?” I clarify.
Her entire demeanor changed, and she looked at me as if I had sprouted four extra heads. “No,” she says, “euros.”
That moment radicalised me.
The thing is, from the US perspective, if you’ve never experienced healthcare outside of this country, these sound like fairy tales.
They’re so completely, utterly ludicrous, that you dismiss them. These are the stories of people whisked to the fae realms and healed by magic.
In America, the costs are in thousands of dollars. And they trick in, week after week. You get charged a few hundred here, another few hundred there. A $1300 consulting fee for a radiologist you never saw, $200 for that pill they brought you while you were waiting to see if that pain in your side was a heart attack or a pulled muscle. Informed consent is a joke. No one wants to talk to you about the cost, none of the staff knows. You’ll just be billed later, is all.
And then we’re told “I was in London when I broke my ankle and they charged me for parking.” and it just sounds like we’re being made fun of. That these American bumpkins don’t understand that of course medical care costs money, and they need to quit whining. It’s all so ridiculous, it has no connection to the world we experience.
And of course we’re so very afraid of the medical field, of the bills and bills and bills, and being sent to specialist after specialist without once being listened to and finally after the cost of a car giving up because this is just our life now - so gods, it must be So Much Worse if you’re a foreigner, we would never dare go to a hospital in France or Japan, we could never afford it.
It’s easy to believe this is just how it has to be.
The fact that this poll managed to be close enough to show a 50/50 result when there was 111,329 votes - and people can't see the results before voting - is a testament to everything good and pure about this hellsite.
UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.
YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.
The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.
Weighing in to say:
The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info
Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.
And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.
But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity
So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.
Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat
The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!
The reason Vergil actually bothers to deflect bullets unlike Dante is that he doesn't have any income. Dante can just bulk buy new red leather jackets on the cheap but he's got the one cool outfit and he's really got to make it last.
What the fuck is Dante’s Inferno about?
Fancreators who never plan to use AI: what is your primary reason?
I think lesser acknowledged in the universal hate for how Peter talks about Harry in No Way Home is the fact that like. Yeah it’s sort of fucked up for him to say that, but it’s also another in the literal mountain of ways No Way Home writes literally everyone out of character.
I yap in the tags of this about how like. I think it’s a pretty reasonable opinion of me to have that Peter is probably more attached to Harry than he is to Otto or Norman, because he knew them both for like five minutes and Harry was both his only friend and died protecting him. But the core of me making this post is more on the nature of nwh’s flaws out of the mouths of fans who don’t want to think that nwh is bad treating this as something fucked up Peter is doing and not something fucked up that the writers chose to do.
Sorry I also talked a lot in the tags lol but I’m going to actually reiterate what I said in another reblog.
He literally did not die after he tried to kill Peter. Like, that’s not at all what happened, not even remotely. It was the complete opposite. He was saving his life. He was finally teaming up with him. They reconciled. His death scene was supposed to culminate their reconciliation, their forgiveness of each other and ultimate acceptance of each other as their best friend.
What was the purpose of that line? What place did it have? It was a completely baseless and uncharacteristic claim made by Peter. And I can’t think of any reason why the writers would have decided it was the best fitting line they could have had Peter give regarding his past relationship with Harry, even if they wanted to have him give a line suggesting the rockier aspects of that past relationship to MCU Peter that could possibly be used to hint at some future tension that would develop between Ned and MCU’s Peter (which, as I’ve already explained in the previous tags, I still have problems with as its own concept).
I should clarify before I say this that I don't necessarily think this was a conscious intentional thing the people writing it did, but it does also contribute to how it sort of feels like No Way Home is BEGGING you not to really take Harry seriously because if you do a massive part of the plot falls apart.
If you take Harry seriously, then its apparent that Norman isn't evil because of the goblin, he's mostly just evil because he's just kind of a bad person. And then you realize that all of these people aren't villains because of their powers, with many having more real and legitimate issues than Norman. Taking the powers doesn't help them, it's essentially the equivalent of telling them to shut the fuck up about the actual core issue, whatever it might be. So they just make Norman say he totally 100% cared about his son enough to spend any energy or time thinking about him. And Peter, Harry's closest connection, doesn't even take his life seriously, so neither should you. Why care about Norman treating his kid like shit? We said he totally gave a fuck and we said Harry isn't worth taking seriously.
Adding to your tags, I don't buy for a second that it was meant to be foreshadowing--MCU Spider-Man doesn't do that. It is the version where it is the most abundantly obvious they do not plan ahead at all, because they're too scared to give Peter character development beyond flaws they introduce and resolve in the same movie and we'd never know he had before then. Which is to say that for all intents and purposes, Peter DOESN'T experience character development.
It's also another area that just proves to me that No Way Home doesn't at all respect the other movies like people claim it does. They'll exploit them for the cheapest possible emotional moments, sure, but they'll also make jokes like this or that feel like they're just taking jabs at the other movies to prop themselves up. They get a massive, incredibly important piece of the raimiverse timeline wrong--and maybe we shouldn't be shocked that the incorrect thing is also a thing that retroactively destroys Harry's character and makes him seem unreasonable! Because this movie is so weird to him for a character who isn't even there! It doesn't feel like whoever wrote it had even seen the movies recently, it feels like they watched them all once when they came out and then read the wikipedia summaries for this stupid ass movie.
