No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |
It’s nobody’s primary kink but a lot of us around here can appreciate a good machine! Especially motorcycles!
Also I don’t know if this also counts but we love like, sex machines and stuff like that. And robots.
Machines. Are great.
Okay it might be one of my (🕷️🛠️) main kinks thinking about it…
In fiction there are two types of sinister schemes and heroic plans that succeed, and two types that fail.
Succeed:
🐭 schemes and plans that work because they are genuinely clever, meticulous, and well thought out.
🐭 schemes and plans that work not because they are as clever as their schemer thinks, but I am the author and I chose not to have any of the many possible things that could go wrong with the plan go wrong.
Fail:
🐭 schemes and plans that fail because they are not as clever as their schemer thinks and something obvious goes wrong.
🐭 schemes and plans that are genuinely clever, meticulous and well thought out, but I am the author and I chose to have something that no possible planner could have predicted go wrong at the worst possible moment.
Fancops won’t let anybody do anything they don’t like.
They very much have an “if you aren’t with us, you’re against us” mentality.
I’m convinced that half the reason they accuse us of being pedos, dog fuckers etc, isn’t because they really believe it but rather because they want to trigger and upset us.
It’s totally okay to gush! We love it!
On their first date:
💖 Mary Jane constantly uses the most up to date, cutting edge hippy slang. Hippies were genuinely considered dangerous counter culture at the time. Violent and sexual! Mary Jane is being portrayed as ultra modern.
💖 “I never thought a tiger who wore his hair so short could be so dreamy!”
💖 She doesn’t usually go for “straight” (normie) guys. Loves that Pete has a motorcycle.
💖 Independent and vivacious, taking drama lessons. Tries to get shy old stick in the mud Peter to dance with her in the living room. Aunt May tried to set them up because she thinks Peter needs to lighten up!
💖 Sees that there’s a supervillain on the rampage, and wants Peter to take her to go see it as part of their date! MJ is bold, adventurous. and kind of a weirdo! <3
💖 Handles (mild) rejection well and has her own life going on. When Peter says he isn’t available for a date the next day, she just moves on because she has tons of cool shit going on in her life!
💖 Calls Pete slang pet names of the time constantly. Tiger, Dad, Son…
Mary Jane is basically the original ‘manic pixie dream girl’ but in the best way possible.
Honestly, anon, this is really common, and not surprising, especially with the way the raimi films reduce and change Mary Jane’s characterization. No offense to the writers, and no offense to the actress but that’s basically not the MJ I know from the comics, or from any of the cartoons.
You probably don’t know this, but in the comics, the original backstory of the relationship is that Aunt May is trying to set Peter up on a blind date with her best friend’s niece.
Peter assumes that aunt May’s best friend’s niece is not going to be someone he wants to date (assumes she will be prudish, boring, etc, basically worries aunt May is setting him up with a dud.)
He spends LITERAL YEARS of the comic avoiding meeting Mary Jane. Literally avoiding it. Dodging the issue, and never seeing her.
And then when he finally meets her?
She’s a vivacious, feminist (in the 70s) knockout, who’s directly coded as a sexual swinger and just all around gorgeous person.
She’s wonderful. She’s amazing.
She and Peter have the most vibrant, ridiculous relationship imaginable.
Mary Jane ABSOLUTELY wears the pants in the relationship. Its’ practically canon that 70s Peter is getting pegged on the regular.
I will be pulling up some panels of wonderful, amazing Mary Jane.
Why don’t you ship it?
Just don’t feel the chemistry. Both of them have such intense chemistry with other characters, and we just don’t feel it there between them, even in Vendetta when they’re kind of at each other’s throats.
I’m not saying they’ve never screwed around with one another, but if so it’s definitely more of a ‘yiu were there and I was horny’ situation than anything I’d consider a ship.
What would have made you like it?
Probably if we saw them spend more time together and they had spent more time together and developed more of a rapport.
I think there’s definitely potential for them early on if we learn into Leon as the funny man and Chris as the straight man. But by the time they meet in canon Leon’s too fucked up to play the goofball.
Alternately, Leon taking charge in the relationship and putting Chris in his place would sell us on it.
Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?
They sure as hell look good together.
Bonus: system status
Both Chris and Leon are in Sinister
What made you ship it?
We can’t imagine not shipping it. We were introduced to Spider Man comics when we were like, six, and it was canon then. It should be canon no, no matter what stupid current editors say.
But let me share a moment with you. It’s from a Spider Man / X-Men crossover novel from the 90s.
Peter, Mary Jane, and their infant daughter are at the zoo. Peter is reflecting on how far he’s come, and how lucky he is.
And then the whole reality is wiped out in an instant.
The line the scene ends lingers in memory. Face it tiger, you just lost it all.
What are your favorite things about the ship?
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
Let MJ be mean and sexy and dangerous! Give her a secret identity! They can fight crime together!
Also they should be poly with Harry and Gwen like they were in the 70s.
AND BRING GWEN BACK DAMNIT
Bonus: sinister system ship?
Yes. Peter (and Ben) are in sinister and MJ is in our partner system
the Claude experience
It’s my personal system tag (or call sign, heh). It’s so people who follow our blog know which system member made which posts.
We use emoji combinations because many of us are fictives with distinctive names, and we don’t want signing our names to make unrelated posts show up in character tags or searches.
🔫🦢 specifically represents me, with the gun representing my nature as a soldier, and the swan representing my connection to sea birds (specifically herons).
Maybe my system should do that but sometimes were on computers and cant get emojis
You can! It’s magic! Hold down the windows key and press the period/full stop key at the same time and it’ll pop up an emoji window! 🕷️🛠️ showed us how to do it
My “computer” is a chromebook and i dont have emoji on a few chromebooks lol
Chromebook huh? This might help.
https://www.howtogeek.com/687592/how-to-type-emoji-on-a-chromebook/
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