im getting a little cynical reading spideypool fanfic stuff while reading the actual spider-man comics because. like. why isnt he Peter Parker??? why is he a 1-d bratty twink and nothing else? why does he have the god-like virtue and only-able-to-do-good personality deadpool falsely thinks he has?? why is deadpool allowed to tell jokes but he isnt? why is deadpool allowed to fuck up but he isnt? theyre both characters that mean so much, so why are we making peter a blank slate of Good Guy Who Is Annoyed With Deadpool and nothing else??? did we forget the reason he was shipped with dp in the first place?? did we forget that, while poking fun at deadpool, he also pokes fun at everything else because he doesnt know how to shut the fuck up either??? its not 'deadpool and random soft boy who can do no wrong' its deadpool and THEE *Peter Parker.*
i love arrogant, snarky peter parker growing into his powers and feeling like the whole world is at his fingertips as he conquers highschool, i love tired photographer peter parker trying not to lose his dead end job at the daily bugle as every week someone new dies, i love haunted, destructive peter parker who realizes just how serious it is and just how little he can do while norman osborn settles over his shoulders like a physical weight, i love wonderstruck every-man peter parker seeing just how much the rest of the superhero community has that he never did, i love mellowed good-guy peter parker learning to help in smaller ways through his time as a science teacher and all of the matured, complex, less shallow imperfection he shows there in, i love autistic science nerd who doesn't get a single hint peter parker, i love peter parker when he always has a joke on his tongue because the alternative would be admitting none of this has ever been funny, i love cockroach peter parker who never, ever, stops even when his body is failing and his mind has gone fuzzy because he knows if he stops now he'll never start back up again. i love peter parker when he's alone in a rundown apartment after everyone he loves has died, starving on a too-small paycheck, and Still going out and fighting every night because he has always been Spider-Man and it is impossible for himself to find it in him to stop now.