(Quick drawing I made a few weeks ago)

She mentions multiple times in the books that she despises expensive gifts, and the ones that actually leave an impact on are her Chevy and the wooden wolf bracelet Jacob gives her. The Chevy is second-hand from Billy, and the bracelet was carved by Jacob. They hold value to her because they have personality; they speak to her tastes and were given to her with those tastes in mind.

She loves her Chevy, but it is eventually replaced with a sleek, expensive designer car gifted to her by the Cullens. She adores the bracelet but Edward puts an designer charm on it to remind her of him.

Even her clothes, which she insists are fine and suit her, are replaced with branded sweaters, dresses and heels.

She hates the idea of any kind of marriage but Edward holds vampirism over her head to get what he wants. Even when she agrees to marry him (against her will) she wants to keep it simple, wanting to simply drive to Texas and get married via a drive thru- Alice begs Bella to allow her to plan the wedding and it's easily more ostentacious and expensive than her birthday party in New Moon, which she describes as "a hundred times worse than I'd imagined"

They get rid of her preferred aesthetics in hopes that their consumerist one will stick, and one of the last things they do to her is literally strip her of her humanity.

Its the same kind of fantasy as a bodice ripper: a woman is given what she is not socially allowed to want, something that would be wrong and imoral for her to seek out, but its okay because she has no choice in it! Except with expensive cars instead of sex.

The problem is that at no point do we see Bella actually starting to enjoy these things.

(Except for the vampirism, which she sought out from the beginning and was always her choice.)

She seems to become perhaps more indifferent to them, not quite as bothered as before. We dont hear her complain about them as much after she turns.

But she never seems to have fun with them, which just makes it feel... sad. The fantasy loses part of its appeal.

But here? This reveal? This is a Big Reveal for us, Peter B Parker, and Miles, all on different levels. We and Peter both know Doc Ock is a portly dude, not a woman. We know the name Octavius… Otto Octavius. But when she says her name is Olivia Octavius we’re clued in to the fact that Doctor Octopus is a woman in this universe. And she has Peter captive.

Miles, if he was paying attention in science class earlier in the movie, would have known her name was Olivia Octavius, but that doesn’t mean anything to him, why would it? Liv has apparently been very good about keeping her supervillainy a secret. She’s in educational videos shown in high-schools. So to Miles, the reveal here is this scientist lady, who he knew enough about to know was the head scientist at Alchemax, is a supervillain. He gets the reveal a second or two after Peter.

And the movie? It was dropping hints the entire time, confident in our expectations blinding is to the truth. Olivia’s name was partially visible when Miles got to science class. Her glasses are octagonal. The lights in her lab are octagonal. We know she’s working with the Kingpin. Why wouldn’t she be a supervillain? Because she’s hot? Hell, Peter even says he needs to reexamine his internal biases. Maybe he was telling us that we should too.

My favorite and most elaborate idea is that their mom, Peg, was a lot like Dib. She was over-eager about investigating an alien signal and got sucked through a wormhole to Irk thousands of years in the past. Irk was on the brink of collapse due to pollution making everyone sick and infertile. So in order to save them, Peg developed the Irken’s PAKs and their cloning technology. Peg’s first successful artificially incubated Irken was designated “Male Irken 0”, or “MI-0”, and she got the idea to name him “Zim” after seeing it reflected backwards. Peg raised Zim as if he was her own child, but always lamented that she would grow old and die thousands of years before her actual children were born, and that Zim would never get to meet them.

Peg also developed the Control Brains to help run things, but they eventually turned on her and took over Irk. Zim was killed defending her and Peg was put into stasis and hidden away.

The Control Brains tried to eradicate all knowledge of Peg's existence and present a false narrative to new generations of Irkens, but her story lives on in legends passed around by rebel Irkens living on the fringes of society. Over the years however, details have gotten fuzzy. By the present day she's believed to have been a matriarchal deity worshiped by Irken cultists as the goddess "Pig Mom Brain".

Universal single payer healthcare

Restore reproducive healthcare

Protecting trans rights

Passing the Equality Act

Ending mass deportation

Term limits for Congress

$25/hr minimum wage

Support for rural medical care and schools

$3000/month for stat at home parents

if you'd rather buy a plushie - here's the shop he and his wife run!

his wife also been in an accident and has been down and out due to illness and injury

ppal + gfm + site shop