#ESPECIALLY not spider stuff

[thelaurenshippen]

made to love resident evil games, born to be afraid of spiders

[theshadowrealmitself]

“It’s cause you’re a mutate, not a mutant.”

Nobody really said anything, glancing at each other in assumed confusion, although everyone was pretty confident in their assumptions since they had pretty expressive masks. “And that matters?” Six-Arms asked.

Peter, and god it was so weird to see an alternate version of themself out of mask, shrugged a bit, “The distinction is really only important medically-speaking, although many people act like it’s a huge deal all around.” He scribbled some notes in his journal.

The silence continued till Peter looked up at all the reflective mask eyes waiting for more of an explanation. He set his pen down and cleared his throat. “Okay, so, in this universe and in several other universes I’ve had contact with, a mutant is an individual with an activated X-gene.”

Everyone nodded, that part was familiar.

“A mutate is someone with mutant-like abilities, but no x-gene. That’s important, because an X-gene pretty much guarantees stability, your body was expecting to go through these changes and have these powers so it handles it better,” he waved his hand around, “I mean, that’s the default, obviously stuff happens, and things aren’t always so smooth sailing.”

“Now this,” he gestured to Six-Arms’, well, six arms, “Is a textbook case example of a mutate. You started off seemingly stable, but because your body wasn’t actually meant to go through these changes, it started breaking down. It’s six arms today, eight eyes tomorrow.”

Six-Arms froze, before visibly panicking, arms flailing about. “Woah, woah, woah, hold on, it’s going to get worse?!”

Peter waved a hand dismissively again. This was a weirdly calm version of them. “Don’t worry, my research is exactly on this sort of thing. Well, not my thesis research, the university would never approve anything even slightly mutant-related, too controversial.” He sighed. “It’s awful too, because despite being around for so long, there’s no good research on mutants and mutates, and so hospitals are horribly unprepared to help them. It really just makes everything worse. The whole “no mutants” research rule is ridiculous-!”

“You sound almost sympathetic to mutants.” Norman’s voice cut through the beginning of an obviously familiar rant, voice steady but heavy with warning.

Peter seemed to wither before their eyes, the first real emotion they saw in him fading out. Yikes.

“Right, well.” He focused on back on his notes. It didn’t miss anyone’s attention how his shoulders tensed as he steadfastly ignored Norman. “Like I said, I can help. But I am warning you, I’m still a grad student, so really, going to me is like one step above trusting a guy in a sketchy van. I won’t take offense if you decide to go to someone like Reed Richards instead.”

“I can help.” Norman stated.

“…Or Mr. Osborn can help.” The words sounded pained.

None of the Spider-people moved. Obviously, no one wanted to accept his help, but with the way their spider-senses tingled warningly, denying him wasn’t exactly an option.

They needed to get the fuck out of this universe.

[shadelorde]

Perihelion having an Even Worse Time

(This drawing is based on how the infection manifested physically for TargetControlSystem and how it might feel to be entangled and infected by it - much more abstract but it’s meant to convey the feeling of something so massive being trapped so thoroughly)

[night-crawler08]

If only more video games had arachnophobia modes so I could play them😔

[magic-glasses]

uhhahshhhhhhhhhhgggh I want that old man bad

[orcelito]

Second day of moving... done!!! And now all my furniture is in my new apartment!!! I still have a lot to do with rearranging things and sorting thru boxes and unpacking. And also going back to my old apartment to Finish packing and moving everything I didnt get to before. But it's already been pretty nice staying in the new apartment. I got the internet set up today, and it's working great! Also went to the grocery to pick up a few more essentials. Let the cats out finally, and they've been having A Time poking around and being SoScared. But they seem to be relaxing, bit by bit. Hoping they'll come sleep on my bed with me, rather than just coming and visiting.

Tomorrow, I wanna finish arranging my furniture and take a trip to my old apartment to do a carload of packing and moving boxes. Gotta pick up some more boxes first, but that's no big deal. Also wanna look for a new shower head while im there. Idk if I'll buy one yet, but I took my first shower at the new apartment today, and while I love the shower itself, I do NOT like the shower head. It's like... got a weird empty spot right in the middle??? It seems like a shower head for tall people. Not for me. But ive already been told that I can change out the shower head if I like, so I wanna see what stuff they've got at home depot...

I also wanna go bowling. It's been nearly a week. And ive been so busy and stressed. I deserve a bowling trip. Assuming my body doesnt hurt too much tomorrow for it 😂😂

[permanentbottombunk]

I keep forgetting that I am, in fact, chronically ill and not just lazy.

I got so dizzy I almost fell over because I leaned over to pick up something mildly heavy and the temperature outside was slightly more than lukewarm.

[galacticnova3]

You need to learn to let people enjoy things /nm

Oh I don’t have a problem with people enjoying things nor do I want to get in the way of it. It’s just a situation of Unfortunately The Things Collectively In General Are A Big Squick Topic For Me

[theshadowrealmitself]

Why. Why does no one get Pavitr’s character correct?? Like the movie established that he’s not only booksmart (which pretty much all Spideys are) but that he’s also observant and, what would the word be, emotionally intelligent? With the way that he picked up on Miles’ feelings immediately and apparently has a history of picking up on stuff like that?

Pavitr is an intelligent and confident character, and his flaws are most likely that being a relatively newer Spiderperson, he’s probably inexperienced, and maybe a bit too confident because things tend to end well for him (naturally smart, naturally good looking, etc), he definitely jinxes stuff

And yet I’ve seen so much stuff portray him as,,, it’s very specific but I can’t quite put my finger on it,,, it’s like some people treat him like,, a golden retriever? If that makes sense??

[anthromimicry]

no, because sometimes it just randomly hits me that whenever i was first making this account, that i set the background originally as different SPIDERS ON DISPLAY... even though i could feel myself getting the heebie jeebies from it even before i edited it + that's when i decided to change it to the current one 😭 like why i ever thought it was a good idea to put displayed real spiders as the background will forever elude me jsjs LOL

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Indie Comics Ships

Round 1

You can have a preview of Cheer Up ! Love and Pompoms here

You can have a preview of Briar here

I'm not much of a sports comic fan but I loved Beatrice and Annie !

And here you have Briar and Spider being their usual charming selves :

And cool alternative covers :

[balis77]

Shout out to Ultimate Spider Man for having one of the coolest fucking ideas ever (Gwen Stacy coming back to life as the new Carnage) and proceeding to do absolutely fucking nothing with it before they were like "oh Venom ate the Carnage part of her so she's normal now".

[sp00kypumpkaboo]

Got the guts to go out this morning to the stores. I needed to pick up an order from bath and body works; I got some of the vampire blood body lotion cuz they were having a 50% off sale on the Halloween stuff. Then I stopped by target cuz I needed a couple things, especially a hair brush cuz the one I had snapped and broke in half this morning. I quickly looked at Ross cuz I keep seeing people find cute clothes and shoes (I didn’t find shit, maybe I should try when they get truck deliveries on Mondays/Tuesdays). Then I quickly looked at homegoods, I’ve been trying to find this statue of the bride of Frankenstein, still no luck, but I did find some hello kitty bed sheets for my mom that she liked and I got her those.

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

USM 2024 has a definitive “superheroes in empty worlds” vibe to it that I feel would be alleviated by Peter saving some lives. Make me feel that this world really needs Spider-Man

[katyspersonal]

When you started drawing? And how? Your works are so detailed and you feel the perspective so Q_Q Your drawing of old hunter from DLC is incredibly cool, I am looking respectfully

Oh- You mean this ( x ) one? Haha, yeah, it was an art commission, so I tried to give it the best I could... Though maybe using something I was paid for as a chance to practice perspective was a little irresponcible :') But the customer was happy, and this is what matters!

To be honest, I've been drawing for as long as I can remember...? I have quite the regrets about having basically none of my drawings from childhood survive, because it's been a LOT. But I've been going over the top with details, colors and settings since the age of like, 4-5 I think? I recall the caretakers at kindergarden REALLY loving my drawing of underwater, because I killed it with variety of fish and seaweed, despite having no references or knowledge! Also, fun fact - the very first art criticism of my life from me was towards a girl that colored every woman in her coloring book as blonde with blue eyes! I criticized her saying that there were other colors for people and that it was boring to be so samey dsfjjdshfsd Had to apologize, but.. yeah, it was the ultimate "I've always been this way" moment if I've seen one. :')

I used to visit classes to practice my drawing in elementary school, though! But it was mostly environment and animals, when I was more interested in drawing people at that time! The period from 8 to 12 years was the one where I kept creating OCs obsessively, and stories for them, and I've had like 6 comics I've been drawing and coloring at the same time (mostly comedy + fantasy)! I think what really inspired me to start creating the comics and characters that were mostly young girls with elemental powers was the Russian comic, Rainbow Knights x) (Журнал "Юла", припоминаешь? хд) I was obsessed with it, and I was obsessed with excuse to use more colors, effects and nature/elemental aesthetic. And yes, it was all trdaitional! I love using crayons, markers, pens and pencils for coloring. My clumsy hands were never good for paintbrushes... I moved more onto digital around the age of 14. It was when I've found a summer job, and earned enough money to buy a tablet! So.. I started prioritize digital art since then! But it had the form of me first drawing something on the paper, and then scanning and fixing/lining/coloring it on the computer for a LONG time! Well, it was taking some time to get used to, as well, so I also had some drawings I did with my mouse and vector tool in PS or SAI, like this:

It is one of the only few remaining "ancient" ones, since most of them got lost forever on the old hard drive! ...I still HAVE this hard drive, I just have no idea how to extract anything from it.. It is kinda broken :U But if I get my hands on very old doodles trapped there, I will share!

^ I believe this was the first doodle that I did 100% on the computer AND with the tablet! Without mouse, without first drawing traditonally and then digitally, but just on the computer, from start to finish! But it was still hard to do, so I kept with the use of paper and pencil for some more while. Like- I hoped I'd find some old drawings for this ask, but all I found were traditional versions of some of my drawings!

You could tell that using traditional paper + pencil were beneficial for anatomy and proportions. And that I used to be better at that, VERY much better. And that it was sorta... easier to 'get lost' in the process? It was a simpler life when not only I was far less depressed and broken, not only I had more spare time in schoo/uni years, but also just... I did not feel burnt out. Or guilty over the fact of not finishing new drawing "fast enough" (and thus, looking like a loser). I also had less things online to drain my spare time, less distractions... I kinda miss that time, really...

All in all, I've never learned to draw PROPERLY. I was self-taught but not studying too hard, mostly I was just analysing art of artists I loved to improve my own, and asking advice from good artists to fix this or that! Hence, my skill used to be better! Year 2015-16 was my most productive year artistically! I've been drawing a bunch of (then) popular cartoon stuff, as well as TONS of fanart for Rick and Morty RP community, and all the things were sooooo bright, colorful and full of energy...

And now meet the man that sorta ended my art career :^) I've picked interest in Mark (Endlish localisation called him Marx and I hate it lol), and that pulled me into the rest of K1rby. Except I could not actually play anything (besides 64 Crystal Shards that I emulated), so I compensated with letsplays and anime. And Super Paper Mario was a side obsession. xD But.... yeah, since MARK, dark ages for my art started. No, no, my art was good! Awesome, even! I kept people begging me to "please draw K1rby again" for years since fandom shifting! Words like, 'no one ever cared about this universe and characters the same way you do'... But! Drawing 'creatures' for 2-3 years completely destroyed my prior (already loose) knowledge of human anatomy and proportions, and I am still struggling to recover that former skill! :')

Finally, year later, around February/March 2021, I've gotten pulled into Bloodb0rne! Badly. And thanks to Mic0lash. Huh, it is always some madman, isn't it? xD But I felt very self-consious about my art... I felt like serious, detailed, dark and beautiful atmosphere of BB deserved better than my "overly cutesy" and "tone-deaf" art.... annnnd if this sounds like something I'd never say, but rather as an unfair criticism from some antsy reddit-ish asshole? It is because it is EXACTLY what it was! :')

But in either case, the Doll was the first time I've used paper and pencil again in many years. I felt so... alive? I recall the feeling I could only describe as 'blood returned in my veins' but spiritual, you know? It felt like so much fun! To remember how to draw traditonally, to break out of my 'round cutesy' comfort zone- heck, I even downloaded brushes for my SAI for the first time in my life, just to color the characters better! Learned new coloring style, too: usually my coloring was very rigid and relying on very concrete colors for shadow and base.. but from this point on, I prioritized more 'chaotic' approach, as I felt it was more appropriate!

....and so, now we are here. x)

You could tell that some of the things I am just used to persisted, and that colorful, "childish" energy is still slipping through the cracks. Soulsb0rne games are ideal for how my mind works... but perhaps not for how my soul works. There is just something in me that craves that sillyness, overly colorful designs and settings, and maybe ER is closer to that aesthetic? Yeah, had I not been criticized on my art harshly upon joining BB, maybe my art would've been way more cute and 'free'! I always loved drawing many details, but something about the route I've taken about drawing made it very heavy. My brain short-circuits at the AMOUNT of the details I keep in mind, yet I can't rest unless I got it "at least 90% correct", even when it is a darn shitpost ;-; I will figure out what went wrong compared with the way I used to draw humans..... someday.

Thank you for asking, though! Ha! Honorable mention: tons of shitposty comics and doodles I kept drawing in classes, both school and uni! x)