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Advice from 4500 years ago.

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HE DESERVES SO MUCH HAPPINESS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MY NEED TO SEE HIM HAPPY, I WATCHED ATSV TO SEE HIM HAPPY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I also miss my drawing setup TT This was all done in Magma because I can't use my laptop NOR my trusty wacom and I'm sad... So borrowed my sis' lappy and my friends tablet to make this work HSBJSBDJDNSJS

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Peter B Parker and Mayday. Happy Father’s Day!

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The most based Spider-Man writer

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Putting this on Tumblr because I don’t want to do one of those twenty-tweet long threads on Twitter.

I think there are two kinds of writing: autonomous and improvisational.

Autonomous is your classic novel writing. The author makes up a setting, characters, worldbuilding, optimizing all of it for the plot he intends to tell. If he’s writing a mystery, he makes the main character a detective. He doesn’t have the main character be a dogwalker who becomes a detective for some reason, unless that serves the plot.

Improvisational is almost as classic, because it’s taking a preexisting story and adding to it. The lines already exist, you’re coloring inside them. If you’re writing a Star Trek episode, assuming the series isn’t a reboot (and even kinda if it is), you’re not going to be defining what a Romulan is, or a Klingon, or a Vulcan. If you introduce a Vulcan character, they’ll generally act logically and without emotion. If you want to write a mystery and your story is a sequel to TOS, you have to justify why Kirk or another of the main characters is acting as a detective.

And I call this improvisational because, as with improv, you can’t or (usually) shouldn’t say “No” to what’s gone before you in continuity. You have to say “yes, and.”

This is complicated by the fact, in the chain of continuity, there will always be weak links. No long-running story can eternally get top-tier writers doing top-tier work. Eventually, someone’s going to drop a deuce on the living room floor and you have to clean it up–saying “No,” to return to the prior metaphor–before you once again have people walking around the living room, socializing and having a good time.

So in the X-Men comics, if someone writes morally gray antihero Magneto as pimping out a seven-year-old girl or something indefensible like that, you can’t go back to treating him as a sympathetic sorta villain… you have to reroute the story and explain that actually that was a hoax, or he was being mind-controlled, or it was an imposter, or something. Then you can get back to writing Magneto as an antihero without people thinking “wait, why are the X-Men being nice to him, he’s a fucking child pimp!”

The problem here being that these deuces on the living room floor are different to everyone’s eyes. There are people unfortunately employed by Marvel who think that Spider-Man and Mary Jane being married is worse than, well, at least twenty things I could list that are totally in continuity, and has to be undone before they can get back to writing Peter having an endless string of meaningless relationships that will never go anywhere because he made a deal with the Devil to get rid of the LAST relationship that went anywhere.

So, that’s the problem there. You don’t want writers to come onboard and suddenly throw out something like “Peter and Mary Jane love each other” or “Iron Man isn’t a fascist,” but you do want them to throw out the bits about sympathetic characters being child pimps. This makes things complicated.

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Rest in Peace John Romita Senior

#mary jane watson parker #mary jane watson #mj watson #john romita sr #john romita senior

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A blog about comic books and geek culture in general and Spider-Girl and the MC2 universe in particular.

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"The great thing about MJ is... when you look in her eyes and she's looking back in yours... everything... feels... not quite normal. Because you feel stronger and weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time, terrified."

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The Amazing Spider-Man #74 (InHyuk Lee)

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Spider-Man and Mary Jane Kiss Preliminary Drawing for Spider-Man 2 by Alex Ross

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Spider-Man and Mary Jane by Kerry Gammill

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Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 ad by Bill Sienkiewicz

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Spinneret by Chrissie Zullo

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