y'know, at first i was a bit disappointed they didn’t change gwen’s haircut for atsv because i thought that she would look cool with something new since her shaved side would be grown out… but then her hair was used perfectly to express her identity, specifically as a trans person.
throughout the movie, gwen struggles with feeling like she’s not being true to herself, and says that it feels like her dad only know HALF of her. meanwhile, gwen’s hair looks like this and if you spit a picture of her down the middle then you get one side that looks more like a boy and one that looks more like a girl.
not only that, but when gwen was hiding and isolating herself from her dad, her hair turned blue — meaning her currently pink hair turned blue when she was lying about who she is.
and then when gwen does finally start trying to talk about her feelings and express who she really is inside, this is what happens.
not only does her hair (as well as her bedroom) look reminiscent of the trans pride flag, but she’s also mainly turned towards the right in this scene, showing off the longer side of her hair…
anyways, gwen stacy is a tran woman and it couldn’t be more obvious.
On an intellectual level i know that early 20th century megacity concepts are deeply impractical and would cause triple the harm they purported to solve, but damn if the art doesn’t make me yearn to visit.
Hugh Harriss made some of my favorites.
It’s Hugh Ferriss, check out The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929). Some of his work is speculative, some of it is just artistic renderings of existing (or proposed) buildings for advertising purposes, some of it is educational, and a lot of it is New York. All of it is dope.
I love Hugh Ferriss cityscapes so much. I grew up with Batman: The Animated Series, and it’s responsible for a lot, and this whole vibe, the massive, monolithic, Art Deco cityscape, Hugh Ferriss is the epitome of it. Gotham, Metropolis, Rapture, New Capenna. Any fantasy dieselpunk art deco city you’ve ever seen. This guy, along with the original Metropolis, was one of the first.
I especially love that last image from the first post:
I have it saved to most of my computers so I can use it as a desktop occasionally. This tiny human figure standing back in awe of this cityscape view that absolutely dwarfs them, this mass of concrete and light that looks like a dawn beyond them.
And, yes, this is from an early 20th century dream of a future that would have been incredibly bad for us, but the imagery. This is the city as a mass, as an entity, as a pillar to the heavens, as a radiance, as a dawn. The solidity of it. These are cities as the epitome of humanity’s ability to say ‘I built this’. I made this mountain, and I made it radiant. I put this thing here and it is so solid that no wrath of any god could strike this babel down.
(They wouldn’t have needed to. We’d never have gotten them up, and if we had they’d have slowly killed us in and of themselves. But damn they look good)
I’m getting so pissed with people who are saying Gwen isnt trans. Like they’re trying to explain why her dad has a trans patch on his jacket and why she has a trans flag in her room, by saying she supports trans people… wtf???? Literally what ally has a TRANS FLAG, IN THEIR ROOM, BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE??? That’s some shit closeted me would tell my parents when they saw me drawing rainbows. People that are saying this shit are literally just transphobic and dont want her to be trans. Gwen is trans and fuck everyone that argues against that.
which one of these is the so called “american flag”
In Gwen’s universe trans people took over America and made the trans flag the national flag.
