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big kibty???

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Deku: The Amazing SpiderMan AO3 Link

Deku: The Amazing SpiderMan Chapters:

Chapter 1: I Thought Spiders Were Friendly

Chapter 2: Can’t I Just Have A Normal Day?

Chapter 3: How Can I Compare to Who I Need to Be?

Deku: The Amazing Spiderman Overview:

This is the reason why I've been so quite on here. Yes, this is a Spideypool fanfiction I've been cooking up.

Fun fact, the only reason why I even decided to write this was because I saw a lot of spiderdeku art depicting Katsuki as either a MJ or "The man behind the chair" and all I was thinking was "You're telling me that this man, Katsuki Bakugo, wouldn't try to get super powers of his own to try to catch up to Deku?! Not my Kacchan." To be fair, in some adaptations MJ actually does play an active role in SpiderMan's life but none of the fanart that I saw showed that. I loved seeing fanart of Bakugo being Deadpool and that's where the ideas really started to roll.

Just for you all to be aware, this is my first proper fanfiction I've written. I've researched how to plan out a story, knows how to write decent story arcs and themes, and stuff like that for years now. I've tried in the past with different fandoms but I always quit before anything really started. I think the pressure of expectations kept me from continuing them. This time I decided to write the chapters without posting them afterwards and draw a panel to accompany them.

I'm a visual storyteller so that's also one of the main reasons why I haven't completed a fanfiction. Even though I enjoy doing fan comics more, I'm a one women army and writing the story is the most time efficient way to tell it.

Here's the Synopsis if you're interested:

Izuku Midoriya is a poor boy who dreams big. He’s set his sights on becoming an epidemiologist and helping the world by analyzing how to prevent diseases. He has the talent and the brains to achieve what he wants, however, that all changed when he was bit by a certain spider. Faced with his new abilities, he was determined to keep his old life which led him to push away his responsibility of becoming something greater than the world he once knew. The more he denied the inevitable, the more losses he faced. Izuku has the choice to completely accept the new life given to him, or cling onto the past for as long as he can.

Schedule/Updates:

Here's how this is gonna work. Every chapter will be posted on AO3 at 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on Sundays.

For now I've worked on Act 1 of the story and will work on Act 2 when the Act 1 is being uploaded onto AO3. There will most likely be a gap in uploads when Act 1 is done but most likely a short one.

All published chapters on here will be in this post. All chapters will lead you to this post and all posts will have both #dtas or #deku: the amazing spiderman if you want to find it through that method.

For reference here are some of the designs I've comed up with. Izuku and Katsuki's designs are heavily inspired by nikkiyan

To be completely honest with you guys, I don't think that this story will gain a lot of traction (maybe until I upload it to AO3). I'll be glad if 10 people kept up with it. If you decide to stick around I'll be glad to hear your opinion on it :)

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NO CAUSE LITERALLY

my entire team and i were convinced that we weren’t getting third kits after they did NOTHING for the ten year anniversary and then just some random fucking Tuesday they drop not only the biggest update + a new game but also a new leaugue??? SHEESH

also technically it wasn’t a random Tuesday! It was the 11 year anniversary of Splatoon’s first reveal at E3 in 2013!

(I'll have some critical thoughts about this in a minute let me just flip my shit rq)

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The Hylian Champion Awakes…

It took me MONTHS to finish this piece <3 I love Zelda and the last game… BOTW 

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My contribution to @eeldealzine, alongside a look at some of the artworks in the charity zine all about Frye. Be sure to see all the Fyre art that has been posted since the book released. Thanks everyone for their hard work!

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💙💔💙🌼💙❤️‍🩹💙

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Every guilty is singing about the night of rude

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Absolutely obsessed with this panel. Shy little guy getting scruffed by a big, strong, older man and immediately going 😳 over it.

Can't believe they captured the exact moment that Ravenpaw realized he likes toms.

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Do I tag this as warriors or bakudeku…

Regardless this looks amazing! My two favorite hyperfixations…

Screenshot redraw of some boys fighting but make it Warrior Cats flavored 🤔 Giftart for TeenyTonnie of their OCs Sparkpaw and Valleypaw (based on Deku & Bakugo) 🐈

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sketch commission for krispies on fr!

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(FORGOT TO POST THIS AAAAH) started playing flight rising (thank you @viscereptile) say hi to Chalcanthite and Weamb!!

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How do you feel about "character joins bloodclan" aus? Im curious about ur thoughts since youre really in tune with the themes of the series but personally i just hate them bc its ALWAYS aimed at 'unfortunate' characters and always ALWAYS ignores the fact that bloodclan is a horrible place in-canon and that they're just reflavoring the abuse and trauma the characters qent through to be more emo or goth themed.

Ravenpaw is ALWAYS a prime target for this and its like. Great. You took the character being abused by their mentor figure and is being harmed from the violent culture the clan has generated... and giving them an EMO mentor figure who will inevitably abuse them and harm them as a result of the violent culture the emo clan has generated. Sasha is another one I've noticed- you've put the woman who lost her kit and is struggling to survive with the others while being controlled and abused by someone who sees her as an outsider (aka alone and easy to isolate), and are gonna put her in a faction who specifically separates kin from one another to easily control them and who have canonically tried murdering those who stick with their family. What was gained here.

Like i know bloodclan is revamped in ur au (thank god for it) but in canon bloodclan is HORRIBLE. People ignore that in favor of putting their favs into bloodclan bc bloodclan is cool and killed tigerstar that one time bc of revenge. Ravenpaw becomes Scourge AUS are SO SO SO much worse bc of this too- sure you manage to point out how scourge and raven has roughly similar stories in their youth but you could also do something interesting and make an au where raven and scourge are FOILS and do a firestar/scourge thing, while pointing this comparison out!! Instead you just went "Ravenpaw emo now and is sad about beating up Firestar his friend" and basically kept everything the same.

Sorry im basically venting here but i just dont like how people forget that scourge in canon does NOT look out for the 'little guy', he's a murderer and abuser who wants to keep his subjects afraid and separated so that he alone has power over them. Bloodclan is not the cool strong goth group, its the group where two cats slaughter eachother over a piece of twoleg scraps, only for the survivor to die bc the food was poisonous to cats and no one knew bc theres no cohesive group that can pass that knowledge around. its a fucking horrible place to live. Im not saying that you cant do interesting "character in bloodclan" aus (a Rusty who lives in bloodclan who STILL wants to do good but is shaped by the horrid reality of bloodclan would be fun imo) but its so often used with already traumatized characters as a 'solution' or 'fix-it with some emotional issues involved' that i just foam at the mouth and howl like a rabid animal on principle at this point.

Hmm... I think for me, it doesn't tend to read that way for me when the fandom makes AUs for it. I'm coming at BloodClan from a point of really deep critique and frustration.

BloodClan's not a REAL place, and what that means is, every speck of how horrible it was is a choice the writers made to justify its treatment. It was something they actively decided, because, BloodClan was a tool to suddenly invalidate the previous 5 books of TPB so that the series could comfortably conclude there was no need to upset the status quo.

If you haven't read it before, I recommend this post I made on how Darkest Hour Is A Personal Disappointment, but anyway;

We spend a whole series on how Fireheart challenges a broken society, because he is different. Their xenophobia, how isolationism and glory get people killed, the way that Tigerstar's greatest asset is how respected he is... these are bad things. They're things that Fireheart fights for several books.

But then, in the LAST book, in the 11th inning, they introduce BloodClan. They're just evil. They have no nuance. The narrative bends over backwards to stress that this group of evil foreigners LOVES murder, hates friendship, and doesn't believe in our good god.

Suddenly, the Clan cats have to be EXTRA xenophobic and glorious to kill these filthy, murderous foreign hordes. Clan cat belief in their good god makes them stronger than the bloodthirsty barbarians. Firestar kills Scourge and we can feel happy and triumphant about it, when Tigerstar was killed a few chapters ago and given a tragic sendoff.

So, I encourage you to step back from an emotional response to how Filthy and Murderous this group was portrayed, and look at it as a writing choice.

When Tigerstar, known cat-racist and murderer of mixed-race people, is killed by Scourge in self-defense, he is grieved by Firestar and commended for his "good qualities". (and then they retconned in that it was actually secretly revenge all along, not just self defense, so this killing is extra evil)

When Scourge is killed, Firestar just thinks about how it's cool he's not going to heaven, and how all of the previously ferocious BloodClan warriors look so inferior to the forest Clans.

And so, with all that said,

I'm 100% in favor of how the fandom widely looks at this, says, "fuck that" and just makes them the Cool Goth Group. I'd argue pretty strongly that the least nuanced idea of that is still infinitely better than canon.

There was nothing there. It was literally just Xenophobia-Is-JustifiedClan. They literally hated love and friendship and banned families so that Clan cats would look good in comparison. Banned families. You don't get this level of stupid evil from anything else but an 80s cartoon.

Maybe I just don't see the AUs you tend to see (I curate my Tumblr experience very well and generally hang out in more adult-oriented spaces, I can imagine a place like Amino being mostly kids who tend to be immature. Edgelord Angstpiddle is just a normal part of growing up), but every project I see that gives me a glimpse of BloodClan Ravenpaws and Sashas come with such tweaks already assumed.

Like, these are examples I've seen,

They'll have Raven be involved with the formation of BloodClan

Scourge will actually be a character with some pity and mercy, like how he was in Rise of Scourge when his abusive siblings begged him for food, and he fed them before sending them away.

no ban on love and friendship. Lol. Lmao, even.

More of the social structure will be based around acquiring food for people in a 'harsh' environment, leading to that battle, instead of just Evil Foreign Greed (which canon!scourge only had after being almost killed by tigerstar, because he said "actually, in light of new information that you are a murderer, i need to reconsider our deal.")

BloodClan will be overhauled completely. I've seen this a few ways. Connecting them to SkyClan, or the Oakstar raids on Chelford, or even as a positive entity; a surprise ally. (VERY common with BloodClan Ravenpaw AUs I've seen).

Anyways... (Shrug), I dunno dude, it doesn't bother me that much.

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"The Merman and his Muse"

Ancient Greek au with Merman!Katsuki and Izuku as Euterpe, child of Zeus and one of the nine Muses. He specifically presides over music and lyric poetry.

I like to think that merfolk, who have lived their whole lives underwater where sound doesn't travel well, wouldn't know what music is.

But one day, Katsuki visits the surface and hears Izuku playing his flute near the shore.

What began as an exercise in curiosity turns into a love story. Cue in some kind of star-crossed lovers drama, because Izuku is a devoted child of Zeus, while Katsuki is a loyal subject of Poseidon and everyone knows those two gods just dont get along.

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"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? I'M RIGHT HERE."

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Jealous Izuku (part 1/?) 🫢

there’s more to this but basically they catch katsuki on a “date” with someone at the same time/place as their own date. The mystery guy is actually just katsuki’s manager and they’re waiting to meet with an important client but Deku doesn’t know that heheh 🤗