The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #669

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE RESULTS: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE SCORES SECOND-BIGGEST OPENING OF THE YEAR - Rotten Tomatoes 

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE ROTTEN TOMATOES - Rotten Tomatoes 

Anti-Colonial Spider-Man - Simon Turbill - Twitter 

Pregnant Spider-Woman Actress Explains How Spider-Verse 2 Role Challenged Her Beliefs - The Direct 

'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' swings in as summer's first big hit - Azcentral 

But people have been noticing some very obvious messaging in the film - The Gamer

Grey Fox Lei - Twitter 

Spider-Man fans are convinced Gwen Stacy is trans in Across the Spider-Verse. Here’s the evidence - Pink News

Just lemme have my trans prrriiiiddddeeee - The Green Kasey - Twitter 

Critial Drinker -  The Critial Drinker - Twitter 

Points out that Peter Parker, one of the only white men in the film, is made to look less competent next to the other characters. - The Gamer

IGN posts trailer -  IGN - Twitter

Reasonable complaints about lack of historical accuracy - Possum Reviews - Twitter 

Some mexican archaeologist with similar complaints, except - Rafael Mena Illustration - Twitter 

People need to play more map games - Pilps - Youtube

Medieval filter is a real thing - Chairman - Twitter

But most of the discussion was around politics -Sachin Jose - Twitter

And s posting - Misheru Katorin - Twitter

Which came with demands to play as the conquistadors - Ian Miles Cheong - Twitter  

But bro the spanish are evil - Gabr - Twitter 

Idk man - Evil Arc Trojan - Twitter

The dev team did a cool thing - Paul - Twitter 

I am a big fan of choice - GreenTexts - Twitter 

So apparently the developers of that Aztec game bowed down to the Nazi backlash and are letting you play as Spanish Conquistadors - The Kavernacle - Twitter 

Fair few responses - Mayo Luther King - Twitter 

Steam discussions - Nick - Twitter 

The devs gave into the racists - CDN 

User was banned for this post - CDN 

Add bible - CDN 

Woke vs Nazi - what nazis? - CDN 

Reminder killing millions of natives is not liberation - CDN 

Disagree but whatever - PBS

Saw this posted - Women Posting L’s - Twitter

Im not on the pearl davis train atm - H. Pearl Davis - Twitter 

Woman can be very annoying - Lauren Witzke - Twitter 

OMG PEOPLE DIE UP EVEREST?! - Imgix

Woman, 26, 'poses as man for nine years to trick TWO women into having sexual relations' - The Daily Mail  

Gayle Newland: Woman found guilty of posing as a man to trick friend into sex at new trial - The Independent  

Woman, 40, ‘posed as a man to trick a woman into having sex with her’ - Metro 

Woman ‘posed as man to have sex with teenager’ -  The Times - Archive