#miles stokes

[xplainthexmen]

WHAT?! Somehow, we've been doing this for a decade?!

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men will be celebrating our 10th birthday on April 13 in Portland, Oregon, with a live show at Clinton Street Theater (10 AM - 12 PM) followed by a birthday party at Books With Pictures (2 - 5 PM)!

RSVP HERE FOR ONE OR BOTH EVENTS!

FINE PRINT:

Both events are free and all-ages-friendly (assuming you're down with your kid learning a few choice swears).

The live show is mask-mandatory; masks will be provided at the door for anyone who doesn't bring their own. (The party is outdoors and therefore mask-optional.)

There will be both party favors (free) and merch (legal currency or barter), the latter including a fancy new 10th-anniversary print by Colleen Coover!

We welcome costumes and other benign silliness.

#X-Men #Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men #XPlaintheXMen #Portland #comics #live events #podcast #Jay and Miles #Jay Edidin #Miles Stokes #Books With Pictures #Clinton Street Theater

[eclecticpjf]

At the Clinton Street Theater, waiting for the 10th anniversary episode of “Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men” (https://www.xplainthexmen.com) to begin.

#x men #jay and miles xplain the X-men #podcast #jay and miles #Jay Edidin #Miles Stokes

[astrophysician]

tails to warm up, then some OC cooldowns!

#sth #tails the fox #miles tails prower #sonic oc #artists on tumblr #astrophysician #my art #sketchbook #oc: jayd #oc: trace #oc: metal trace #really stoked on how all of these came out #i'm doing it guys i'm doing it

[fauvester]

uncle professor obrien is trying his best, god damn it

#dee s 9 #garashir adoption au #idan is in the command track but he tries extra hard in engineering #so he can do right by his human professor uncle :) #you know lim is stoked about his brother learning a trade. Oh youre home for break! fix our generator. #miles is doing his best to be a loving parental figure! for julian's big goofy son! #whos like sooo much like his father its stupid. strong. confident. almost pathologic need to be loved #plus a deep deep deep feeling that they have and dont deserve an unfair advantage.... #ANYWAYS CARDASSIANISM BE DAMNED MY BOY CAN TROUBLESHOOT A WARP CORE! #i have 1 hour almost precisely of free time a day and i spent it BANGING this out. god damn it

[geminijade]

The Boys of Summer 🥵🔥

#chase stokes #john booker routledge #john b routledge #topper thornton #austin north #jonathan daviss #pope heyward #rafe cameron #rafe outer banks #obx rafe cameron #rafe cameron smut #rafe smut #drewseph #drew starkey fluff #drew starkey smut #drew starkey #miles teller #miles teller fluff #miles teller smut #rooster bradshaw #bradley rooster bradshaw #bradley bradshaw #bradley bradshaw fluff #bradley bradshaw smut #glen powell #glen powell fluff #glen powell smut #jake seresin #jake hangman seresin #jake seresin fluff

[devotedsims]

and on day four- miles spotted a very sad looking esme, she confided in him that she had been searching for her little sister, who was on the flight with them.

miles assured her that she would find her sister, and he and florence would be glad to help!

#ts4 #ts4 gameplay #survive: sulani #s: esme stokes #s: miles emory

[tylernox]

Alt Goosebumps series 2023 poster by: JOSHWRB.COM

#isa briones #goosebumps #goosebumps 2023 #goosebumps series #goosebumps2023 #margot stokes #goosebumps margot #goosebumpsseries #ana yi puig #miles mckenna

[some-11-year-old]

Does anyone else notice the really dark implications of Amy having nearly her whole body replaced with cyborg parts, Knuckles being heavily scarred, and Tails seemingly missing one or both tails?

#sonic prime #sonic the hedgehog #amy rose #tails the fox #miles tails prower #knuckles #knuckles the echidna #rouge the bat #I really hope they go all in on the edginess honestly #there’s so many cool possibilities for alternate universes I’m legit so stoked #also THE POTENTIAL FOR ANGST #quick what’s this show’s rating??

[justhavinfunnn]

Sorry I can't stop laughing at Keleigh's face in the back

#miles teller #2022 #keleigh teller #chase stokes #keleigh sperry #source: instagram

[consider-da-lilies]

These two pairings give off the same✨vibes✨

Badass, independent girl (with cool hair) who rejects him at first

+

Flirty, determined, kind of awkward, soft guy (who crushes on her instantly)

= best ship dynamic ever

#I’m so stoked for Into the Spiderverse can you tell? #just shipper thoughts #into the spider verse #miles morales #spider gwen #Ezra Bridger #Sabine Wren #sabezra

[all-of-the-good-ones-are-taken]

Try | from The Lightning Thief (Bonus, cut) (2019)

#try #the lightning thief #percy jackson #the lightning thief the percy jackson musical #the lightning thief (original cast recording) deluxe edition (2019) #2019 #rob rokicki #chris mccarrell #kristin stokes #jorrel javier #the lightning theif musical #percy jackson musical #music #song of the day #i may fail you #two thousand four hundred forty eight miles

[xplainthexmen]

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 424 - Times Change

In which everything is Havok’s fault; Jay is a bad influence; Polaris makes some valid points; Jamie Madrox is the Bobby Drake of X-Factor; and X-Factor vol. 1 ends with a bang.

X-PLAINED:

Muppet rules

X-Factor, vol. 1, in general

X-Factor #146-149

Sense of place

Jude Black and his inexplicable facial hair

Boundaries

Edible Arrangements

A different kind of sports bar

Kevin

Nostalgia, I guess?

Several confrontations

Temporal insanity

A very specialized course

What happens next

The universe where Dazzler replaced Jean Grey in the original X-Factor

Characters we would like to have seen more of

NEXT EPISODE: Psi-War!

Special thanks to muppets Michal Richardson, Bilal Dardai, and Matt Hunter!

(You can find an mp3 of just the muppet opening in the visual companion.)

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#XPlaintheXMen #Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men #podcast #X-Men #X-Factor #muppets #look we made some choices in this one #Jay Edidin #Miles Stokes

[nicoscheer]

Another angle

I love her she’s giving major mom and best supportive friend vibes

Via

Via

Via

Coup de Grace

Miles in mama hen mode, when fans started fighting

#miles kane #06/08/2023 #stokes #the sugarmill #ever the professional #nothings ever gonna be good enough #Instagram

[fierrochase-falafel]

Thoughts on Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse and being different (Pt. 1: Miles Morales)

Just watched Across the Spiderverse and I think regardless of the argument of Gwen being trans or not (and yes, I will get to Gwen), there's something to be said about this movie's handling of the experience of being Spiderman as an allegory for outcasthood (and yes, this includes queerness pretty heavily), especially through the character arc of Miles Morales. This discusses both Spiderverse movies, so do note: SPOILERS ABOUND!

[I will add a quick disclaimer here to say that obviously my opinions only come from what I have learnt from other people or experienced in person. I cannot claim experience for everything I may mention, and even though certain minorities I mention may apply to me, I can't claim to know everyone else's experiences either, so this is just my take. In the end, I'm just some guy saying stuff on Tumblr.]

Spiderman has always been easy to read as a queer allegory because of, y'know: the hiding in plain sight, the lying, the exhaustion, often risk/danger if you're queer in an unsupportive environment, the suffering of not just the Spiderman themself but the people they love / who love them too. In Across the Spiderverse particularly though, carrying on from Into the Spiderverse, I really love the continuation of a really similar problem Miles had in the first movie. In the first movie, Miles was seen as weak and an outcast, even as he joined a new school where he didn't really fit in. He was someone who was not *really* Spiderman until the end where he was finally able to control his powers, proving himself to the other dimension Spider-people. It was a great arc, yet just when Miles thought his fellow Spider-people were on the same level as him, it was revealed to him that he's been the outsider all this time AGAIN. It turns out they were lying to him and the reason Miguel gives to him is that he is an anomaly, that he shouldn't exist. There's something in that which really hurts if you understand the feeling of thinking you're atleast somewhat understood and respected by people you thought you were equal to, only to have the rug pulled out from under you. I mean, I'd say it's a part of my own experience, moving to different schools / environments in different countries and being made fun of for not knowing things without me even realising until afterwards, and I looked like a downright idiot for not knowing things. It's like when everyone picks up on a joke you don't and you're being pulled along on a string like a puppet to entertain the people around you, just when you thought they saw you as one of them.

Even after Miles proves he is smart and can pull off being Spiderman, it's not enough for the majority of Spider-people to respect him, and he has to reckon with the fact that he will never stop being questioned and belittled for who he is. Doesn't that sound familiar? We see it in ethnic minorities being treated like outsiders regardless of where they are from, women being perceived as less smart, neurodiverse people being perceieved as less capable, trans people being seen as too naive to know what they're doing when it comes to transitioning. For Miles, it's finally at this point he lets go of the image of being Spiderman the way the others are- if he won't be accepted as Spiderman because he has not been through supposed 'canon events' and is disrupting them then so be it. As long as he identifies himself as Spiderman, as someone who protects the people as Spiderman, then who the hell is anyone to tell him he isn't! This is the epitome of reclaiming your own identity- his suffering doesn't define him as Spiderman but his passion and will do, and nobody is allowed to dictate to him who he is or how is story is supposed to go. I really love this: I feel especially many minority communities have people who say you can't really be said minority unless you have suffered enough in x ways, or unless you have gone through y things, but this is a really toxic outlook on people's identities and experiences. It's within debates with transmedicalists (I think that's what they're called?) who say people can't be trans unless they have a certain amount of crippling gender dysphoria, or when people say you need to have undergone a certain set of experiences to really be so-and-so nationality or even race. Miles rejects the suffering he (or other Spider-people, for that matter) is supposed to experience as a 'canon event' (from a queer lens, things like being ostracised from your family for your identity come to mind) and also accepts he is an anomaly, ceasing trying to blend in with the rest of the Spider-people as he knows it is pointless to try- without that, all he can rely on is 'doing his own thing', so he goes ahead to do just that.

It's meant to hurt to watch how much Miles wants to see his friends again with hints throughout the film- his A in AP Physics and future ambition to traverse the multiverse, his sketchbook, everything he does to try and not be alone in his experiences- only to find out the others really could have visited him. He wants to speak to the few people who understand his dilemma as Spiderman, and wants to be worthy enough to be one of them until he realises in this film that his own intuition is more valuable than Spider Society could ever be. And even if it hurts to feel like he's alone in this intuition and that everyone thinks he's crazy, it's still more reliable and worthy than the rules anyone else is trying to place over him...

This is my intepretation of the events from my perspective on how the Spiderverse speaks to people who feel different or incompatible with society- while I add nothing to the plot , I think points like mine are really well analysed in terms of the actual Spiderverse by Sage's Rain on Youtube ("Who deserves to be Spider Man?") which I really love seeing and I'd recommend checking out his video!

~ End of Part 1 ~

#spiderman #spider man #spider man across the spider verse #atsv #miles morales #spiderverse #itsv #spider man into the spider verse #spiderverse meta #a little personal #but not really #I love this movie so much you have no idea it has overtaken me #my love of spiderman has been in the process of being stoked with all these memes and now it's burning down my productivity #also I must shoutout pavitr my guy he's the best Indian rep I have seen in Western media actually #as a 'mumbattanite' can confirm he speaks truths alone #analysis time by me so I can track them in my tags #posts originating from my brain

[devotedsims]

despite being a loner, freya is a big fan of miles she really wants to become friends with him!

#ts4 gameplay #survive: sulani #s: esme stokes #s: miles emory

[tylernox]

Apologies for taking it down the 1st time. Accidentally left Lucas out. Added more characters. This is the final poll.

#goosebumps #goosebumps 2023 #goosebumps series #goosebumps2023 #isa briones #margot stokes #goosebumps margot #goosebumpsseries #isaiah howard #miles mckenna #ana yi puig #will price #rachael harris #justin long #Ben Cockell #hulu #disney plus