nerdiestnug:

haiiro-no-kami:

naxzella:

finding out people dont usually add numbers by first adding something to make a ten (for example 7+6= 7 plus 3 is 10 plus another 3 is 13) & that its actually an adhd thing is the WILDEST shit literally ive lived like 10 years (or however old i was when i learned to add and stuff) thinking thats how everyone does it. what the fuck

WHAT

What? How the fuck do other people count? 

atomicwrongs:

Horror Game: “Press [button] to run”

All gamers simultaneously, beginning to sweat: “…Why do I have to run”

Horror Game: “You can hide in closets”

All gamers, colour draining from their face as an instinctual, primal terror grips them: “WHY DO I HAVE TO HIDE”

beautiful-like-sin:

trickerydickerydock:

I am dying as I think about how low-key powerful it was to switch up Venom’s MO for the movie. I love Comic Venom: they’re just a pile of slime that wants a friend/partner/Love and to Do A Good Job (which incidentally leads to a whole lot of bloody mess, but hey, they’re trying to help). But Movie Venom? 

For the majority of the film we see this asshole 1) Hijacking some poor dude’s free will and entire body, 2) Eating people and thereby forcing the same poor bastard to eat people, 3) Helping his alien supervisor plot the invasion and/or consumption of the whole goddamn Earth, and 4) Taking stealth nibbles out of his host’s organs between meals–granted, with the intent of spackling shit back together once he’d finally realized he liked/loved/wanted-to-marry the guy, but still

By the time Anne MRI’s him out of Eddie’s system, anyone who didn’t know better–and frankly, folks who were already Comic Venom fans–saw that Movie Venom had proven himself to be a dick and a half. Movie Venom does whatever the fuck he feels like, working on pure impulse 25/7, no sugarcoated sweetheart symbiote to be seen. Which brings us to the scene in the woods.

With Anne. And the kiss. And returning to Eddie like a shot. And telling Eddie his mind was changed, he’s all for saving the Earth, fuck Riot, we’re all good now, Honest and For Real

So think about this. He bonds with Anne–apparently another perfectly compatible host–and doesn’t immediately run off with her to join Riot. (No longer thinking just about the mission)

 Steers her straight back to Eddie. Kills goons. Does that good symbiosis make out session. (Now showing he’s very specifically, very explicitly, into Eddie)

He claims that he wants to stay on Earth/protect it because he’s Cool ™ here, humanity’s great, rah rah. Eddie calls bullshit. Venom admits the obvious–I’m here for you, Eddie~–and then they rush to the rocket. Now think back. 

Think about the Venom who said, “We have no secrets,” and then proceeded to wait until the last possible second to mention, oh, ha, funny thing, I was actually planning to help my boss feed your whole planet to my species, my bad

Think about the Venom who conveniently forgot to mention he’d been gnawing on Eddie’s innards and tried to murder the man who brought it to Eddie’s attention before he could fix it–the symbiote equivalent of sweeping a mess under the rug before Mom finds out

Think about the Venom who proved over and over throughout the film that he was 110% in control of Eddie’s body, Heroic Willpower Does Not Apply, and, upon realizing he wanted to be bonded with Eddie for keeps, could still have very easily marched that man, screaming and kicking, into the rocket anyway. It would have been nothing. It would mean following orders. It would mean keeping to the mission and offering up a new world to his species. And he would still have had Eddie with him, whether Eddie liked it or not

But he doesn’t do it. 

Eddie was right to call bullshit on him suddenly falling in like with the human race–who does Venom know besides Eddie and Anne?–but Venom still, for the first time in the film, does something self-sacrificing. He goes against the grain of what would be easiest, what would be most beneficial to him, and fights Riot. Knowing he could die. He does throw himself into the (literal) line of fire to save Eddie from the explosion, accepting the 99% chance that it will kill him.

It’s at this point–the twofold move of betraying his world and sacrificing himself for Eddie–that the seeds of a conscience and the potential for something like a hero are planted.

Venom did the hard thing. Venom did the moral thing. Venom didn’t just do ‘whatever he wants.’ Because of Eddie. Because Eddie was mad at him, hurt by him, and way back in the MRI room, that hit the pile of space sludge like a brick. Because as it turns out, he doesn’t want to just ‘have’ Eddie. He’s in love with Eddie. And having the person you’re in love with pissed at you fucking sucks.

So Venom did the math.

Get Eddie Back + Take Over World = Eddie is Sad/Mad/Will Never Forgive Me

Get Eddie Back + Save World = Eddie Forgives Me

But then there was the impalement:

Eddie’s Dead = Fuck That Noise Entirely

Followed by the explosion:

Eddie Shielded from Fire = I’ll Probably Burn to Death  Eddie Lives = Good = Goodbye, Eddie

Which is all a very roundabout way of saying: Movie Venom, known asshole, completely overhauled his core of pure organic assholedom just so Eddie would not only live, but would live to not be upset at him anymore. 

So it all kind of makes me laugh when I see versions of these two where Venom is still the 25/7 Dick © to Eddie he was in the first part of the film.  Like, I get the playful bickering stuff, but let’s be honest

Eddie: -expresses 0.000002 ounces of displeasure with anything-

Venom: WHAT DID I DO I CAN FIX IT WHO DO I HAVE TO FIGHT

This is a lot of writing and every word is right and perfect, thank you