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apprenticenanoswarm:

when judging Eddie Brock’s character and actions over the years, I feel like it’s important to recall that he AND the symbiote have both – together and separately – been subjected to prisoner abuse and, let’s not mince words here, horrifying torture by the police and other powerful authority figures multiple times.

like, clearly this is a pants-wettingly gruesome scene. BUT in the panels just before this happens, one of the guards was literally having himself a chuckle finding out how loud he could make Eddie scream. and, of course, the generally accepted protocol across the Marvel universe when holding the symbiote prisoner is “stick that thing in a tiny jar on its own, with no stimulation or respect for its autonomy, so we can poke and prod it”. and that’s the BEST case scenario. 

so i kinda feel like that’s an important part of their bond. not just that they’ve both endured trauma but that they’ve both endured the exact same type of trauma at the hands of a world and a system that punishes criminality with dehumanization. 

(also, i need someone to come up with a more appropriate word than ‘dehumanization’ pls? because the symbiote…isn’t human, obvs. but i can’t think of a better way of succinctly describing the practice of treating a person like an object. help?)

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rnegastar:

eabevella:

I just realized “I’ve survived the Mike Costa Transformers comic, I can survive whatever 2018 Marvel Venom dish out. It won’t be worse then that.” Must be a very confusing statement to comic Venom fans lol

LMFAO earlier today I was JUST thinking about what a bizarro plot twist this is, as a person in both of these fandoms?

2009: Mike Costa writes some of the actual worst comics in human history, so bad that their notoriety spread beyond the Transformers fandom. Mike Costa claims that the Transformers aren’t real people with real emotions, and can’t have relationships because there aren’t any girls.

2012: James Roberts swoops in with More Than Meets The Eye, decides that all the Transformers are actually gay and live in a homonormative society, and gives us a buffet of canon queer relationships.

(We cross over to a parallel universe or alternate timeline, probably)

2016: Mike Costa writes Venom and gives us a tender, domestic, and fully queer story about a man and alien being struggling to overcome their checkered histories to be better for themselves and each other. Eddie and Venom both make a real effort to improve the communication and trust in their relationship, grow together as people, and have a child that Venom wants to raise in Eddie’s image.

2018: Don Cates writes Venom and begins the process of aggressively no-homo’ing Costa’s run by looping us back to the 2000s and making sure to loudly proclaim how terrible Eddie and Venom are and always have been for each other, how they don’t even like each other actually, and how their whole relationship is in fact nothing more than a toxic metaphor for Angst and Darkness!!11!1

HAHAHHAHA THANK YOU FOR WRITING THE HISTORY OUT

Mike “Transformers can’t love because they have no females” Costa

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?? Alien abduction?? Some sort of Enlightment?? Mirror Verse Crossover??

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Mike “Symbiote and Eddie Brock are in love this is a love story” Costa

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sir-i-venom:

Venom reaches $780M world wide!!

Venom has now passed 700 Million and is rapidly approaching 800M at the global box office.

Thanks to surpassing expectations domesticly, by setting records in the US box office for October openings. Strong box office around the world in places like Mexico, UK, Russia(where it is Sonys biggest movie!), and most of all China (again, Sonys biggest movie!).

Venom had a +100M opening in china, the second largest superhero movie (behind Avengers: IW), and biggest Solo superhero movie. Venom held on strong for its second weekend making anothet estimated $51M.

It will like pass $800M soon and be the 5th biggest grossing movie of the year, behind all the billiom dollar ones.

Venom is beyond successful and we will probably be getting more venom from now on!

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bbegrill:

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Having a bad day? Remember eddie wore crop top on his solo series debut 🙂

I have to thank @beypride for this because if not for their post i probably wont read that comic at all and missed the gem that is spiderman fighting side to side with naked eddie

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quetzalpapalotl:

Let us appreciate that time Venom deviced a plan to render Spiderman unconscious and, instead of killing him right there, they dragged his body to a deserted island specifically researched so that they could have their Ultimate No-Holds-Barred Beatdown because Eddie Brock is just That Much of a Dramatic Bitch.

The fact that the Symbiote went along with this proves that having a fulfilling relationship with Eddie its a priority over killing Spiderman.

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land-of-blitheness-and-catharsis:

i did it. i read all of venom’s original appearances in the amazing spider-man. it was unexpectedly fun. there’s something about these comics. well-balanced. well-paced. feels like a gentle brain massage. anyway.

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i cannot overstate how whole-heartedly eddie throws himself into the alien-attached-at-the-brainstem thing. he’s just so down with every aspect of it. like, their union is in no way a mere means to a villainous end.

obviously step one was “we share a BEAUTIFUL HATRED! spider-man sent us both into a spiral of despair and TOGETHER we can take revenge!”

but by the time of their first attempted murder they are already irreversibly bonded and almost exclusively speak in the first person plural. eddie fully considers himself part of a new whole and comes up with “my other” to refer to the symbiote and basically never ever thinks of it as a power-up suit or any less of a sentient being than himself, unlike, say, infamous speciesist peter parker who only doesn’t kill it because killing it might kill eddie.

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it’s also different for the other symbiosis we see, carnage, wherein cletus speaks alone and thinks of the symbiote as his sidekick. now, i mean, cletus is kind of a dick in general, but… y’know. 

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that they’re just super into being one-in-two in general is never better exemplified than when they think they actually achieved their goal and just kind of retire on a deserted island. the symbiote turns into a goofy floral shirt and they have a great time even without their common purpose.

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they just hang out. they’re just content. it’s incredible.

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they seem so in sync all the time. i’m pretty sure it’s because the symbiote, whose whole deal is being heartbroken by spider-man’s rejection, was so over the moon by suddenly being so fully accepted that it just eagerly adapted to anything eddie deemed important. like, that wacky moral code of theirs? the notion of “innocence”? definitely not its own idea, but it picked it up and it’s vocal about believing in it now.

i don’t buy it as a corrupting influence at all, bottom line. eddie’s just Like That.