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Reminder to Forget is a sci-fi drama/ adventure webcomic I am currently creating. Chapter 1, page 1, here we go

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summer thunderstorm

(just some flash fiction... get it?)

            The sky’s shredded. All around us, the atmosphere is so heavy and packed, it’s lathering you with humidity, like one peck after the other. The skateboard wheels are rolling, our legs are pushing, and there is rumbling, but it doesn’t mean shit to the thunderclaps.

           We are running, rolling and rolling, trying to outrun it. First raindrops splashing down, thick and heavy; warm all over us like a baptism of fire.

           It’s starting. We’re still rolling to outrun this.

           The sky’s split and shredded like paper right before us. Every time there is a lightning bolt, there is a thunder striking, one that makes wipes out the world for a moment, and then it’s back on. Like a heart attack, skipping a beat.

           Every time there is a lighting bolt, there is a thunder striking and a heat of wave is pushing the raindrops back on my skin. They roll together, these two, like we did. Like we do.

           We’re still running. In the summer storm, with rain and thunder. Away from it. At it.

           The raindrops are thick and warm. Nothing to mind really. I’m blinking and everything is getting stuck on my skin: my clothes. My hair. My bracelets. My breath, it can’t leave my body.

           It’s all packed and loaded with tension, with heat. We stop in the middle of the street as lightning flashes, and we all struck a terrified pose. We put the skates over out head to cover up ourselves.

           The warm rain doesn’t stop. There is lighting up ahead, like there used to be.

           We put the skates down and sit on them, waiting it out.

           No more running. We’re waiting there, soaking wet, as hot and steamy as pressure looking for a way out. Maybe pick the next hole the lightning bolt makes to get out of there. Go up to the skies. The thunder would be fine diversion. No one would notice we are gone.

           Riding lighting and thunder on a hot summer storm. We smile on that thought. And the raindrops are seeping in all the lines of our face. Feels nice.

           The storm passes. The rain stops. The lightning we were waiting for to ride never comes. Everything dries up after five minutes and it’s like the storm was never there.

           But we’re still skating together, fast as a flashing bolt and rolling loud, as a crackling thunder on wheels.

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what a writer thinks on a rooftop

you know what's the hard thing about writing? . 

there's always a better word.

Tha.Nostos

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Radio song

How did they meet?

The way people usually meet: someone introduced them to each other and they got to know each other.

It’s like right before the sunrise, when everything from a distance looks like a silhouette with nothing special to it. Then there’s more light and there’s so much more to it.

How did they fall in love? Now that’s something that we can talk about.

It didn’t take them their time so much as it did take their lives. They talked and chatted over long summer days; they went travelling together, hiking, swimming and eating. Even know each wanted to understand their own self in the world they lived in, they begun understanding each other.

They were drinking with their friend and started looking at each other, more that they did at the others.

Each might go for coffee or some place and suddenly realise that the other might like that or they have found something they wanted to show each other.

Slowly, they started thinking more of each other, and at some point, they realised that without the other something was missing from their day.

They loved each other and needed each other.

They came into each other’s life like a song going on the radio. They had no idea of it, but as soon as it was on, they couldn’t stop themselves from moving to each other’s beat or from singing to each other’s lyrics, making this day for them and many more.

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Spider-people who should be in Into the Spider-verse: Jessica Drew

Oh? You thought I meant the ex-Hydra Agent Jessica Drew? Nonononononono. Jessica Drew is her own thing. I mean the only canonically queer Spider-person who Marvel won’t acknowledge and honestly has more to do with Miles Morales’ origin than Peter Parker Jessica Drew.

If I sound a little angry and indignant about this…I am. If you don’t know, she was slated or appeared to be slated for Spider-Geddon and then on fucking Pride month, her image was removed from the cover.

Let me repeat that: Marvel removed the only Spider-Queer from the cover on fucking Pride month.

I feel like it is erasure because if anybody should be called a mentor to Miles Morales, it is this Jessica Drew. Spider-woman or Jessica Drew is the gender flipped clone of Peter Parker. Essentially a trans- Peter Parker. Yes, she is trans and a very weird and atypical way, but we are just have to accept how weird and strange she is because that is what makes her so beautiful.

Instead of writing out her origin, I’ll have her explain just how fucked up the Ultimate Universe was.

All right, I’ll summarize if you don’t quite get it. The CIA and the FBI fear SHIELD is becoming too powerful and everyone hates Nick Fury. So both branches of government want to check his power, but weren’t sure how. They intentionally superseded their jurisdiction and got involved in illegal genetic enhancing. The reason why Peter is so important is that his powerset is already stronger than Captain America while having none of the drawbacks that the supersoldier formula has. What do I mean? Remember in the first Captain America movie when they described why Red Skull was Red Skull and why Steve Rogers was Steve Rogers. The super soldier formula takes the worst parts of someone and sends it into overdrive. This is why Ultimate Hulk is so unstable and why generally most of the Ultimate Universe heroes are assholes except for a save few with Peter Parker being a sole exception(including Ultimate Steve who became more like a jock hardass because he was so insecure about his size). The issue is that recreating Spider-man is a freak accident hence why the government just opts to clone Peter instead of recreating the Green Goblin over and over again.

Back to Jessica Drew, she was one of the many Spider-clones and honestly was the only true success so cloning Peter Parker is now out of the question. And honestly, after reading all of that, I am pretty sure that this is your reaction.

I promise that one day, one day soon, I can just have a write up of the severely under-appreciated complexity of the Ultimate Universe that went from the implied corporate warfare arms race for the next Captain America, the intergovernmental struggle in said arms race, and the recreation of the vigilante filled wild west in the streets. For now, let’s focus on Jessica.

Jessica’s main issue is her identity crisis. She is a woman with the memories of a boy. This creates a dysphoria because she is only limited to Peter’s maturity of sexuality and also that she is not Peter Parker when all she knows is Peter Parker. She also has a huge beef with her creators who do not care about ethics in the search for money i.e. corporations.

This is where Jessica’s sexual orientation starts becoming more organic from her very inorganic origin. She starts wrestling with Peter’s already limited idea of heteronormative thoughts and exploring her own identity. Is she interested in women because she has the memories of Peter Parker or is she interested in men because she is a woman now? Shit like that.

This is Jessica Drew trying to hug Kitty Pryde. Immonen’s art does not do any favors in distinctness, I know. Same face was hardcore.

So yeah, she is a lesbian but because Marvel is filled with the brim with men, lesbian just means possibly bi so I can hook them up with any dude possible to them. 

Jessica’s main purpose was to expose the ones who created her: Roxxon. She hated that people could just play God and create monstrosities such as her for the sake of profit.

Whatever. Anyways, Jessica…grew when Peter died. She started affirming her self. She met Miles.

Her relationship with Miles is that of mentor and mentee. Technically, Miles is her legacy and her responsibility. She ensures that Miles does not get over his head and get killed like Peter did.

The big issue is that Jessica has is terrible communication skills and won’t tell him what he needs to know directly.

And while she is hard on Miles, she genuinely cares about his well-being because she has all the memories of Peter Parker. She knows how hard it was to be Spider-man and tries to steer him from having the same fate as Peter Parker.

She takes a passive role in Miles’ tutelage. She is not holding his hands nor is she being overbearing. She just wants him to stay in a place where he won’t get killed or be over his head. And then Miles’ mom died and Miles subsequently quit.

Here is the thing. Jessica Drew, not Peter Parker, has been guiding Miles Morales since the inception of his character. She is the mentor Peter Parker fans want him to be for Miles, but ignore because she is not Peter Parker. And I am annoyed that Marvel is writing her out in favor of him.

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“It’s a hard thing to look your successor in the eye and know that their time is nearing while yours is almost through.”

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Insa(m)niac thoughts

So, no one will mention how we come into the same work we're gonna die, meaning that the place we live is our own grave?

Damn.

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Sister

@a-lowly-villain is my baby sister and I love her like Procyon loves Gomeisa (Canis Minor). You need the other to make sense of the one.

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vanille & bergamot (Is what my hair tastes like when I chew it) . Ponytail to the side 'cause I'm tired like that . . ? . . . . . . . . #hairstyles #bored #noface #newfragrance https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMky9CnRjY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vlt73vq8mfo2

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1st one is me hollering for attention Been doodling some decided to post them here. . This is Salomone pirata pacioccone, created by Guido De Maria, Ebro Arletti, Luana Sogari, so these aren't mine, but fanarts . Cartooning relaxes me and I really pay no attention to what's happening around me or what music I'm listening to. For now, I'm just copying old Italian cartoons. . . . . . . . . S a L o M O N E #art #doddles #cartoon #drawing #process #blackandwhite #comic #strip #webcomic #fanart (at Sarawak High Sea) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8uD-sn8S9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v95x2zpltj3l

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1st one is me hollering for attention Been doodling some decided to post them here. . This is Salomone pirata pacioccone, created by Guido De Maria, Ebro Arletti, Luana Sogari, so these aren't mine, but fanarts . Cartooning relaxes me and I really pay no attention to what's happening around me or what music I'm listening to. For now, I'm just copying old Italian cartoons. . . . . . . . . S a L o M O N E #art #doddles #cartoon #drawing #process #blackandwhite #comic #strip #webcomic #fanart (at Sarawak High Sea) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8uD-sn8S9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16qejnhiudn99

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Cornerstone to the Skies Sliding smooth down the angle (Sky is Clearer than my Pores) . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . #waddup #dundee #vadundee #clearskies #riverside #sublime #architecture #travelling #still #design https://www.instagram.com/p/BsHE_hjn4j2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b01tc81zfaz1

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να νοιώθεις την καρδιά σου να ξεριζώνετε λίγο λίγο σαν να ειναι ενα κουβάρι απο σκούρα κόκκινη κλωστή μλεξίματος που η άκρη του είναι δεμένη στην καρδιά κάποιου άλλου και όσο απομακρύνεσαι να νοιώθεις το κουβάρι σου να ξετυλίγεται, την καρδιά σου να μικραίνει όλο και πιο πολύ.

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do you ever just sit and think about how cute someone is and get all smiley

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Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)

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Rhyming names for Batfam Part 1

Batman: The Scowl in the Cowl

Damian: The Teen with the Jeer

Dick: The Starlet with the Banter

Jason: The Carcass with the Sarcasm

Tim: Too Bright for His Tights

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Lo-fi tonality . (my girl @misquic took this photo and after remeeting her after one-and-a-half-year it was the best thing) . . mixing words of past friends with the music of your todays till we meet again to remember differently what was once said . . . . . . #travelling #erasmus #cathcingup #edinburgh #lofi #dope https://www.instagram.com/p/BrIJwJjnrPn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zdtnzi97iayx