"Stop Acting Like You're In A Manga"

every girl has that little pouch of fat on her lower tummy, despite what magazines try n show u, you have important organs there that need to be protected don’t try and get rid of ur pouch

ur body is smarter than u think and it knows what to do when u eat more than normal. one bad day, or even week, of eating poorly isn’t gonna ruin anything at all I pinky promise

if u think u look good up until u try taking a selfie, it’s not ur fault - our faces are asymmetrical and when u see ur face flipped it will look unnatural to u, since u don’t see it that way when u look in the mirror. to everyone else it looks perfectly fine

no one’s stomach looks the same at 8pm as it does at 8am. no one has a chiseled six pack after a day of eating, not even the super fit people u see on tumblr, because ur stomach naturally expands after eating and expecting to have a flat tummy before bed is very unrealistic

no one notices if the bags under ur eyes are bad today. no one pays attention to the bump in ur nose or the zit on ur chin or the piece of hair that u missed when u were straightening. literally no one notices these things except you so stop worrying about it ur gonna be fine

*Drums Out Her Angst Over Not Being Able to See Miles Again For Several Minutes*

*Stares Wistfully at a Printed-Out Selfie They Took Together*

*Risks the Entire Multiverse Just to Spend Half an Hour With Him*

*Melts Over His Numerous Drawings of Her*

*Stares at Him Like He Hung the Moon in the Sky*

*Can’t Hold His Hand So She Settles for an Affectionate Shoulder Bump Instead*

*Looks Back At Him For a Second When She Leaves His Parents’ Party*

*Longingly Says Goodbye to a “Faraway” Miles While Hoping That Someway Somehow He Will Hear Her*

*Tries to Stop Miles From Risking His Life Rescuing Officer Singh and a Little Girl*

*Says She Always Thinks He’s Amazing After He Saves Officer Singh’s Life*

*Webs Miles Away From Margo Fast Out of Jealousy*

*Defends Him Against Miguel Even if She Wasn’t Really On Miles’ Side at the Time*

*Looks Heartbroken When He Cuts the Web She Used to Keep Him From Falling to His Death in Nueva York Out of Distrust*

*Cries When He Says Goodbye to Her But Smiles Slightly At the Thought That He Got Away From the Spider Society*

*Gets Kicked Out of the Spider Society for Being Too Much of a Liability When it Comes to Miles*

*Senses That He’s in the Wrong Universe at the Same Time He Does and Steals His Jacket in a Bid For Some Comfort and Reassurance*

*Tells Miles’ Parents That He Taught Her to Believe in the Impossible*

Him looking out for younger teens is so fucking punk of him. He lets Gwen stay with him because she's vulnerable and struggling, he makes her a watch, he lets her keep his shoes, etc. and it's not out of romance, it's because she's family. Same with Miles; he knows Miles is naive and wants to help him, because he's been in the spider society longer and he knows what's really going on. He sees the adults, who are supposed to mentor them, targeting Miles and he just knows it's flat-out wrong and that he wants no part of it.

For background, I'm puertorrican from the island, and I just watched Across the Spiderverse in a theater here, and let me tell you, the people in the theater freaked out whenever these little details came on. It is so clear to all of us how much care went into portraying every single detail.

You guys don't understand how important all of this is to me.

At the party, when everyone started greeting miles in spanish? I've had all those phrases said to me. All of those people had my accent. They weren't a different flavor of hispanic just because finding some puertorricans was too hard. They were all so very puertorrican that it almost hurt.

But even that can be a bit easier to portray. Sure, they all had puertorrican accents, but everything they said is pretty run of the mill for hispanic people. And then I saw the food. I remember the asopao most clearly, because it was just on screen for a few seconds, and my friend started whisper screaming "Pasteles, pasteles!!" into my ear. It was such a tiny thing, but the food was ours, and not cuban, and not dominican. We never get to see our food done right, because no one cares. People just use dominican food and go "close enough."

And when Miles and his parents are talking about spiderman and Rio says that Spiderman is puertorrican?? That's such a puertorrican thing to do. People here are so incredibly proud of our island and our people that I personally know so many people that have gone to see Lin Manuel Miranda shows while having zero interest in musical theater because he's one of us. It makes so much sense that Rio would celebrate that, and when Miles immediately tries to deflect by saying spuderman sounds more dominican? That's peak comedy. Everyone in the theater burst out laughing, and that joke works precisely because the movie doesn't treat us as interchangeable.

And finally, Rio herself. The way all the characters move is so incredibly unique and mesmerizing, but Rio? My girl feels with her mouth. Her expressions were so spot on, with the lips making up so much of the emotions. Puertorricans use our lips a lot when expressing how we feel, and its such a tiny, inconsequential detail, but it means the world to me. So many people in the creative team cared so much for all these little details to make their way in. They really didn't have to, but they did, and I just really appreciate that.

it’s true you can’t draw one continuous line that would do the trick. but if the kitty and bunny set out by going through the doors they’re marked beside and each walked the certain way their colored arrows show at the same time their “collective path” as a team would go through each door only once. The moral of the story is actually about friendship , and cooperation, because in this world there are tasks you can’t do on your own.