moss ✩

i’m a firm believer that harry osborn should not be added to the mcu

mostly because i don’t trust them to do my boy justice. like at all

also because i’m a little salty he wasn’t in it originally, and think it would have been better if he was there/mentioned before

and also maybe because i don’t want them to add harry and not give us canon parksborn

maybe it’s controversial idk and maybe i’m actually a gatekeeper but wtv

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.

the spider-man 4 title being brand new day OH IM SICK

i’ve been rewatching the mcu timeline and i reached iron man 3. as a ty simpkins fan, and a harley keener enthusiast, i adore this movie

however, watching it back, i honestly think they did the character of harley keener such a disservice by just up and leaving him in iron man 3. like yes he gets a cameo in endgame, and yes that is one of the coolest things ever, but i hate how he just never got explored and doesn’t seem to be on the list to get explored

yes maybe i am biased, but i loved harley when i saw iron man 3 when it first came out. i remember watching it with my dad, and saying how cool i thought it was that a kid was helping the tony stark. i remember hoping that he’d get brought up again in future projects

then, i forgot about him. until avengers endgame. it was 2019 and my love for his character just went through the roof when i realised he was there. i waited and waited to see how they’d take the now dead hero’s story forward, as well as my favourite niche/minor character in the universe

i fell out of the marvel fandom after the release of NWH in 2021, that being the last film i watched until late 2024. when i was rewatching the entire mcu again, i was once again pulled to harley’s character (and then was introduced to the existence of the parkner fandom, which oh my god). i love him so much!!!

when i looked into him when i got back into marvel, i learnt he’s mentioned in a what if…? episode and he’s a WEB recruit in the disney spiderman attraction, as well as in the web of spider-man comic (2021). so there is stuff there, he is a character that could be explored, there are ways to bring him forward

i’d give anything to have harley even be mentioned again, or have another cameo. of course at this point it would have to be through spider-man which is almost impossible with the way they’ve reset him

i wish he was explored more before. i wish we got to see him even just once more. i wish it wasn’t all just left to the viewers imagination

i know why they did it, and i also know that it probably was the best choice. and i also know that the fanfics and arts and everything else is only so creative because of the freedom we get with his character

i just wish we had more canon stuff with him. i want to see one of his phone calls with tony, i want to see how harley grew, i want to see his reaction to the blip, i want to see him meeting peter/spiderman for the first time, i want to see tony talking about him with pepper, i want to see harley meeting everyone at tony’s funeral, i want to see how he moved on. any of that would satisfy me

letting him be a more fleshed out character than a throwaway would be so incredible. because he is so important to mcu!tonys story and i’m tired of pretending like he’s not!

cannot out into words how obsessed i am with

-writing parkner fics

-reading spideytorch fics

-watching parksborn tiktoks

my three fave spideyships each hold a different corner of my media intake and it’s so funny to me

there is genuinely something so beautiful about Harry and Peter’s relationship in insomniac spider-man 2 like you can see how genuinely important they are to each other, the fully ingrained sense of trust, how they’ve grown together.

like the way they’re so comfortable with each other, you can tell that they are genuinely so full of love and care and hope.

it’s one of those things that i just stop and think about sometimes. i love them so much

the urge to write a spideytorch fic is so real rn but i fear i haven’t seen enough of the source material to feel confident enough in my writing of their dynamic 💔