The pastor at a tiny, cash-strapped rustic church needed to re-paint the church building, but money was perpetually tight. So he got two large cans of paint that were on sale, which he figured would be enough, and he and his deacon set to painting the church. They painted the right half of the church, but were alarmed to see that they had used up two-thirds of the paint painting only half of the church.
They didn’t want to lose face by asking for further donations and they didn’t see any other way out of the situation, so they watered down the remaining can of paint and painted the left half of the church. They did this even though the directions on the paint can said not to. This looked OK when the paint was wet, since it thinned into a smooth white layer, but the next day the bishop of the diocese came to visit, and the paint that they had watered was horribly cracking up and showing through. Apologizing and kneeling down, the pastor and the deacon asked the bishop what they should do.
“Repaint and thin no more”, he said.
I was expecting a wonderful moral story out of this. And I could see how watering down paint and trying to paint over something and it looks okay at first and then becomes all dried and cracked and…. you get it.
But then you hit me with that horrible pun and I hate it.
the two previous movie series of Spider-Man always had it that Spidey was a Big Hit with the citizens of nyc in spite of the negative press/police departments actively hunting him down but we haven’t really seen anything like that in the mcu past Peter’s classmates simply being aware that Spider-Man is a hero who exists, like we didn’t see any slandering articles or angry officers which is WEIRD considering the canonical climate about superheros in the mcu right now so like….I really hope it carries over into this third series because frankly I love the idea of everyone in a post-accords world in constant debate about superheroes like ‘should they be held accountable for casualties’ and ‘does it make sense to give all this power to just a few people and force them to make potentially catastrophic situations’ and ‘do we even truly Need superheroes’ like any and all debate they can think of but at the same time, all the citizens in New York are collectively like ‘Yeah….but we’re gonna leave the Spider-Boy out of this….he just wants to help out….he’s doing his Best..’ lmao
The Entire City Of New York: after all the danger we’ve been placed in since these superheroes started popping up, since the Avenger’s set up a headquarters here- we’re sick of it. superheroes only prevent problems that they create in the first place and cause millions in damages doing it. we want our city to be safe!
Also The Entire City Of New York: we’ve only had Spider-Man for a year and a half but if anything ever happened to him we would kill everyone on this planet and then ourselves
J. Jonah Jameson: writes a scathing article about the ‘spider menace’ ‘terrorizing’ Queens and campaigns for his arrest and imprisonment alongside other ‘mutant menaces’
That Nice Old Lady that bought Peter a churro: *barges into the Daily Bugle office swinging her handbag with deadly force*
Citizens of New York City: fuck the avengers!!
The Rest Of The World: you do realize that your Spider-Man has been spotted helping the Avengers on multiple occasions and many believe him to be an honorable member of the team?
me: why is Smaug lying on all of the gold? it has swords and spears, and cups, and all sorts of unpleasantly shaped things for sleeping. it cant be comfortable at all!
me: oh wait, Tolkien said he was like a cat. That explains it.
Fun Vampire Fact; the reason that Vampires traditionally cannot see their reflections in a mirror is because mirrors used to be backed with a reflective layer of silver — which, as the metal of purity, would not ‘interact’ with Vampires, who are the Devil’s work.
However, modern mirrors have used aluminum as their reflective backing for many years now — and aluminum is not a ‘picky’ metal at all. So Vampires are able to see their reflections in modern mirrors.
All I can think about is a vampire used to not seeing their reflection in mirrors for centuries, and one day they are just walking along and unknowingly pass a mirror backed with aluminum and THEY NEARLY SHIT THEMSELVES.
Wide Spread Interests 