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Oh my god, thank you so much!!! So extensive and I appreciate you actually going through everything!

I'm glad it was a fun read for you haha! And thank you for everything you're doing! (As well as your beautiful, big brain! XD)

Yeaaaa....I'm warning you now. I'll probably be coming back to you with all sorts of very random questions. For example, current list starts with "Does Shinsou ever get around to teaching Izumi how to ride a bike?" 😂

HELLO! Completely new reader here who just…BINGED the entirety of what heroes do in the last five days. @.@ What a ride, what a feast, I am OBSESSED, I bow before your writing prowess. It easily became one of my top fics that just sucked me in. So much is just so good, and there were just so many moments where I burst out cackling in public!Seriously, Bakugo/Izumi is my BNHA OTP now. I can’t go back. ToT I do love opposites attracting, but there’s something lovely about two storms colliding and forming an even bigger storm. Izumi is complicated and multi-faceted, and you’ve used that to further demonstrate and expand on the complexities and depth of the canonical characters.

If you don’t mind, I have a…lot of flailing and questions. Please don’t feel obligated to read the entirety of it or answer. Long story short is that I SUPPORT YOU. YOU DO SO GOOD! 

(Sugiwa: I answered them below the cut 🥰)

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handmade drawing references :)

I took these pictures mainly to analyze my hand structure. Feel free to use them for your art, if you'd like to!

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some food art !!

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The biting continues but Megaera IS going to put an end to it

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Surely someone's already done this...but I'm gonna do it anyway.

(Lilo and Stitch: Founders Edition)

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"I'm chasing and hunting. And this time I'm coming for blood."

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The truth is your fave will never be this cool and that is why you're all crying, vomiting and seething at this man's mere existence:

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Witches garden

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you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,

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Just some pretty Kushina

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To me, the most unbelievable part about Spot in the Spider’verse movie was that the American government didn't quietly take him in and keep him in an undisclosed location. 

Unlike the Spider-people, it didn't sound like he was trying to hide his identity or avoid capture. Dude was trying to find a new job and was in active communication with family and former coworkers. And, powers as funky as they were, it was still essentially portal teleportation. And the guy was a top-tier scientist with a working knowledge of a lot of what should be hush-hush technology. I don’t see how he wouldn’t be scooped up by Defense in one way or another. And that’s not even going into how he wouldn’t be scooped up unwillingly because, again, he’s a walking anomaly/phenomenon of portal teleportation. In terms of US interests, he’s much more Interesting than Spider-Man. And not nearly as visible.

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THANK YOU, YES THIS! 

Not that I don’t like all the debate and analysis going online about who’s right and who’s wrong, utilitarianism vs whatever philosophy it was that says every single life matters/the ends do not justify the means, big picture vs little picture, etc. In the end however, it doesn’t actually matter who’s right.

I think Tom Holland’s Spider-Man puts it most concisely, “When you can do the things that I can, but you don’t, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you.”

That’s a core part of nearly every Spider Person, the takeaway in some shape and form from “With great power comes great responsibility”. It stems from the whole idea that Spider Man can be anybody, that anybody can be under the mask, because they’re simply a person who stepped and did something when something bad happens in front of them. That first quote isn’t just for Spider Man himself, but for anybody and everybody. Sometimes, the only thing you can do is to step forward and tell someone to STOP. You might not succeed, you might not be able to affect anything. But doing nothing is also a choice, and choosing to do nothing could make you just as culpable. It’s��not superpowers or genius or the suit, but those small actions and a refusal to back down in the face of wrongs, even if it would be easier. Basically, a (if not the) core point of Spider Man/People is that they’re the antithesis of the bystander effect.

And most Spider People get that. Or at least, they used to. That “Uncle Ben Death” tends to be the one that sets them on that path and philosophy after all. This is further emphasized by the other Spider People the movie chose to specifically feature and focus on in Across the Spider Verse. Pavitr Prabhakar’s uncle died after Pavitr walked away from a scene where a group of men was attacking a woman. His uncle stepped in and was stabbed to death. Hobbie Brown spent a lot of his screen time, in hindsight, trying to prevent the Spider Web/Spider-Society from getting their hands on Miles in the first place (”I don’t follow orders, and neither does he”, then the exasperation), encouraging him to run/warning him (that entire scene when they’re walking to meet Miguel), preparing the emergency watch that he then gave to Gwen (all the things he was pulling from the walls and quietly pocketing during that walk), helping Miles (only one to help Miles try to get out while the others were confronting Miguel), and helping Gwen (way ahead and dropped the watch off). Part of all this is definitely his antiestablishmentarianism views and values, but the way he went about it (including just straight up quitting and fucking off to do his own things rather than even participate in chasing Miles) shows he understands a very basic thing:

There was no other way that confrontation between Miguel and Miles could have gone down. 

Miguel was pressuring Miles to stand aside and let his dad be murdered.

Miguel was pressuring Spider-Man to stand aside and let a good, innocent man be killed.

What he wanted them to do was pretty impossible for Miles, and the way he kind of had an intervention set up says he understood that.

The whole chase scene was incredibly fun and well-done and amazing, while also being something we don’t see as often. It’s a Chase Scene without the Death and Torture stakes. None of the Spider People really want to hurt Miles, just detain him. That’s not who most of them are and it shows, especially with the light-hearted, hilarious tone for most of it. Even the ones who hurt Miles emotionally really didn’t mean to so much as they are just really screwing things up. At no point do we feel like Miles is truly at risk of being maimed or killed, except with Miguel. And even Miguel doesn’t carry the raw feeling and tension of fear that the Prowler/Uncle Aaron did in the last movie. 

(Which may partially be because the sheer exasperation on Miguel’s part until he truly loses his temper and tries to choke Miles out while screaming about him being an anomaly. The fact that he didn’t start off with this and did try to explain it/had Lyla explain it, tells me that he gets that Miles didn’t really have any agenda in this even if his entire existence grates against Miguel’s sensitivities.)

But while the Chase Scene was fun, the actual Stakes is that this managed to probably be even more gut-wrenching than personal, bodily, emotional harm. It’s betrayal at the highest level, not because nobody told him he was an anomaly and that’s why none of them came to find him when he was going to dedicate his life to trying to find them, but because they’re now working at least peripherally to stop him from even trying to save his dad. These are the people that are supposedly able to understand Miles’ pain and troubles and struggles and triumphs the most, that was a big point of the first movie, but look what they’re doing now? That can barely look him in the eye or even say, “yeah, your dad is supposed to die and you need to stand back and let that happen, sorry”, even if that’s what’s implied. It’s gut-wrenching to the audience because Miguel has managed to convince an entire organization of Spider People to essentially stop trying to help or even choose to prevent another person from trying to prevent the murder of an innocent. He’s convinced them to be Bystanders and even force others to be Bystanders. “It’s a canon event and that’s just what’s supposed to happen, can’t do anything about that!”

Ironically for everybody involved, despite all of Miguel’s rants and screaming about how Miles is an anomaly that isn’t supposed to have the role he does...

The fact that Miles stands in the face of it and says, “no, I’m going to try and I refuse to stop fighting”, proves he really is Spider-Man.

EDIT: I completely forgot about Spider-Man: Edge of Time, which actually deals with Peter Parker's Spider-Man, Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Man, Alchemax, and timeline stuff. Specifically, it's a similar kind of timeline shenanigans conundrum. Not going to go into detail, but there's a striking quote:

"You can't mean that. You can't just ignore that she's in danger. What's important is not standing by and allowing someone to suffer or die because you do nothing. If you don't get that, then you don't get the first thing about being Spider-Man."

No but like the biggest thing that Miguel is missing about this whole “you need to understand that you can’t save everyone” is like yes that is true! that IS an important lesson every spider person learns BUT here’s where miguel lost the plot: you should still try. Spiderman ALWAYS tries. Like Pavitr literally said “i can do both” and whether or not he actually could doesn’t fucking matter. what matters is he tried!!! gwen actively stopping miles and miguel trying to enforce these “canon” moments is so just outside of the like spiderman philosophy of “can you always get back up/can you keep CHOOSING to try/to be a hero!!”. Even as far back as toby miguire whenever spiderman was forced by villains to try and choose mj or the children, the people on the train etc he ALWAYS chose both!! he tried!! when miguel stopped trying is when he stopped being spiderman tbh. But also the spider society arguably inherently breaks the “canon” as well like yeah Pav might have failed if he was alone but he wasn’t. Like y’all are in a situation to do good, to prevent a death and if you have the power to do that then you have a responsibility to try!! Like i’m really hoping this is where beyond the spiderverse is going!! that miguel could’ve done so much good with what he created if he just tried!!

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JEREMIAH CROSS FANART!

Thank you so much, Bordin Mark Marsinkul (@hyperbooster), for the Jeremiah Cross commission! XDD 

As One Piece goes on, I dread the approaching end. What comforts me is that, with it, we’ll eventually see the second saga of This Bites! by Xomniac and Co! So in the meantime, I got myself some Jeremiah Cross fanart and I’m thinking of doing some Soundbite fanart myself so I can have both of the Voices of Anarchy. XD Seriously, EPIC fanfiction that made me laugh and laugh and laugh. 

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Zagreus was invited to the surface gods' party as the prince of the Underworld. His consort Death arrived there a little late.

It seems that some of the surface gods to less respect the gods of the Underworld. Some of them might think the son of Hades and death became mates for political reasons? But we all know that's not true😉

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Part 1 / Part 2

sorry the last pages are b&w i got too tired to color them :(

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Part 1 / Part 2

a short comic about going on a date when time and options are limited