I had to explain what was going on in season 2 episode 1 of Loki to my dad. On his second watch.

I actually preferred the first episode to the second. I thought the pacing was weird in the second. All that time on ( spoilers )

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"Spider-Man, Class and Militarization in the Marvel Cinematic Universe"

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This is fairly simpatico with a lot of my thoughts. Iron Man gets mentioned a lot too because you (unfortunately) can't talk about MCU Spider-Man without talking a lot about Iron Man.

Tom Holland is sweet, but MCU Spider-Man isn't the real Spider-Man to me.

When I saw Civil War, ( Read more... )

For the December posting meme,
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I quickly get tired of Christmas songs played repeatedly, and I might be okay in the store but once I'm outside in the relative quiet but the song is still playing as an earworm in my head I have a problem, so I've been counterprogramming my own music. Here's one. It seems that a racing game used it, but it seems a shame to me that it never made ( Read more... )

When I'm having trouble finding a title for a fic, which happens more often than I like, I'll sometimes flip through song titles and lyrics of music I like to find something close. "All That's Mine" is the title of a song on Depeche Mode's Delta Machine album, "Guilty All the Same" is a Linkin Park song, and "Take It Like a Man" is a KMFDM song off ( Read more... )

Today I read the graphic novel Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man and enjoyed it even as the end made me cry, but it left me with a major question: ( spoiler )

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