#( open to any verse )

[kuurosakiis]

Pops a sleepy lizard-cat on your dash, he's under a blanket. Handle with care.

[valtsv]

i'm a disgusting little centrist when it comes to the was shrue's family real or fake question because to me that matters much less than the way it illustrates the experience of paranoid stress psychosis. like i never want a definitive answer because it just doesn't really matter. do you understand me. like. either way, they experienced that loss and heartbreak. they were confronted with an unflattering portrait of themself as a destructive absence in other people's lives, sacrificing human connection for sociopolitical status. they were exploited and had their mind fucked with and were made vulnerable to manipulation. answering that question makes no difference to the fact that what they experienced was real and horrifying to them. they were vulnerable and someone noticed and took advantage. there is no absolution nor satisfaction to be found in certainty, only further pain and regret. the end outcome is the same.

[fiepige]

Hobie and Noir both doing a two finger salute

[siblingsoflight]

Valentine's Day crash out-open starter

Her chest rose and fell in rage. How dare she? How dare that bitch message her now as if NOTHING HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM! LIKE SHE DIDN'T CHOOSE THAT NO GOOD FUCK BOY OVER HER!

A plate made contact with the wall as a scream tore through Celeste's throat, no her whole body. So much pent rage and emotions, years worth, was finally let out as Celeste threw a mug at the wall, and another scream tore loose. Next came the tears. The hot, bitter tears of pain. So much heartbreak. More screams found their way out of her throat. Sobs followed.

Celeste finally collapsed at the foot of her bed and curled up into a ball. She was so tired. So tired of being forced to suppress her emotions. So tired of being led in circles. Tired of lies.

She heard footsteps outside her door and it opened slowly. Great. Someone heard and is now telling her how to feel and behave. Instead of letting it happen, she screamed at the person.

"GET OUT! GET THE FUCK OUT!"

[whereheartscollide]

Lance still wasn't entirely sure how he ended up in Red's control seat in the middle of traffic right smack in the middle of the busiest part of a big city. A big city he didn't recognize at all, for that matter.

It was a couple of weeks after Sylvia had left to go back to her own time and Lance had been trying to figure out how to travel after her using what he knew of what he could do with his own quintessence. He'd been experimenting with a few things, but there was one day he'd felt a nudge from the back of his mind -- Red, he knew, because it was warm air nudging at him.

So he'd gotten into Red and taken off in the air, above the Academy, before both he and Red felt a very sharp, very painful YANK that originated in his chest and very nearly made him pass out.

And quite honestly, Lance was sure he'd passed out briefly, because being right in the middle of traffic, in the middle of everything, was the next thing he knew, still in the control room and hands gripping the control levers so tightly he was pretty sure his knuckles would have gone white.

"...Okay, where am I now??" came the question, finally forcing himself to let go of the control levers and moving to head out of Red's mouth, only to, yes, find they were in the middle of a quiznacking intersection of cars which Red was now apparently blocking. And where several police officers -- at least, Lance guessed they were police officers -- were standing around Red, one of them looking up at him as he stood there at Red's mouth hatch.

".....Oh, quiznack."

[petitsdieu]

( c ) 𝒇𝒕. @houseofwisteria

He takes the orange and all that it means, without a second guess. Ecstatic? Understatement. She warms, tongue pressed to the roof of her mouth, until she allows exhale—

❛ You would, wouldn't you? ❜

[c0mplex-heroes]

near miss open starter: maggie rogers open to marvel muses/verses or modern verses

It had been a few days since the news had been flooded with her face. A murder of a senator. And one soul suspect. Margaret Natasha Rogers. Of course she would never. Someone was playing a game here... And right now all Maggie knew was she couldn't afford to get caught.

Instead she'd ran, not telling anyone where she was going. Last thing she wanted to do was drag anyone else into her mess, make them a fugitive too. So alone she set off, on alert and looking for answers.

The abandoned building she now found herself in was silent. Almost... Hearing something behind her. Maggie takes a chance, whipping out her gun to fire off a warning shot.

"Whoever's there show yourself and keep your hands where I can see them."

[flameandindifference]

Why no, he hasn't snuck into the kitchen when he should be in bed. Why no, he isn't sitting there eating pudding. You must be mistaken.

[rotinthedark]

He's flopped back in a bench, expression calm and at peace, completely uncovered by any sort of protection as the rain fell in a steady downpour and uncaring of how soaked he is.

After a long winter, he's missed just exactly that.

[volamus]

elaborating  a  little  bit  on  the  default  verse  blurb  at  the  bottom  of  my  carrd  —  volo  has  been  cursed!  quite  literally  cursed  by  the  divine,  because  when  you  (  a  squishy  mortal  )  purposefully  drive  the  gods  of  time  and  space  mad  in  an  effort  to  draw  out  the  creator  out  of  hiding  and  commit  even  further  acts  of  hubris,  those  actions  will  have  consequences!  he's  been  plucked  from  his  original  universe  and  flung  to  another  across  time  and  space  alike  —  this  is  my  excuse  for  how  he's  able  to  interact  with  muses  from  the  modern  timeline.  he's  effectively  been  placed  in  multiverse  exile  until  he  learns  his  lesson,  which  he  won't  because  he's  volo  and  he's  too  stubborn,  too  driven,  too  obsessive  to  ever  give  up  entirely.

as  part  of  his  curse,  he  literally  can't  die  and  he's  entirely  immune  to  aging.  the  wording  is  very  important,  however  —  because  he  can  still  be  killed.  it  simply  won't  stick  for  very  long;  his  body  will  disappear  and  anyone  in  the  vicinity  will  normally  be  afflicted  with  memory  loss  that  causes  them  to  forget  volo's  death  altogether.  (  as  if  receiving  a  small  yet  potent  burst  of  the  energy  from  a  space-time  rift.  )  he'll  reappear  somewhere  that  he's  been  recently  —  most  often  within  a  five  or  so  mile  radius  of  where  he  was  killed.  it's  disorienting  and  unpleasant  to  experience,  though  beyond  that  volo  is  very  much  in  the  honeymoon  phase  of  not  being  particularly  bothered  otherwise.  on  the  contrary,  he  certainly  isn't  above  trying  to  engineer  ways  to  use  it  to  his  advantage.  due  to  the  aforementioned  memory  loss  effect,  it's  difficult  to  actually  prove  what  he's  capable  of  —  however,  volo  has  always  been  more  comfortable  the  closer  he  plays  his  cards  to  his  chest  to  begin  with.

it's  effectively  a  built  in  respawn  mechanic.  volo  is  the  only  one  who  never  forgets  because  forgetting  would  defeat  the  purpose  of  the  curse.

[knightedgales]

He works on some flower crowns.

"Not going out there?" Henry asks them. Why not? Beyond them, lit by candle-glow and the stars alike, the crowd is hop-hopping and the honeyed mead pours. Lately, it's been a luxury to see this, hasn't it?, all this rosey-cheeked merry-making and unabashed carousing. Quietly, Henry would eye it fondly as he wondered if this party was a happy stroke of luck. A wood-maiden, he wagers, might have chalked it to the moonglow! And indeed, very silvery, very glimmery, and very fattened it is. Anyway... "Are you afraid?" he prods them, sat there busying as the tavern cheers. Ah. Afraid to join in the frolicking, are they? The dancing? Good lord! "I hadn't thought you'd be so precious."

OPEN, any verse.

[astravates]

Open Starter for all mutuals || Silly drunk Caleb inspired by this video

The potent effects of the many, many ales he had consumed throughout the evening were quite apparent in the deep, rosy flush that spread across Caleb's freckled cheeks, giving him a charmingly disheveled appearance. His ginger hair tousled and unkempt, evidence of a carefree state so unlike his usual brooding demeanor. With each slurred word, his thick accent became even more pronounced, a result of his lowered inhibitions. "You see," he explained passionately for what was likely the third or fourth tangent in the span of an hour, "it is all about the somatic components." His hand gestured wildly as he continued to ramble on, completely enthralled by his own thoughts and theories. "Magic is a lot like cats," Caleb trailed off, losing his line of thought very quickly, perhaps growing a bit distracted simply thinking of cats instead. "I’m… I’m not entirely sure where I was going with that, but it made perfect sense within my head."

[fiepige]

My concept for Venom!Hobie

Okay here goes

DISCLAIMER: I CANNOT DRAW

I've made another post where I mentioned it as well but I'll reiterate it here:

I don't think Hobie would ever canonically accept a symbiote due to his history with them and how they're used in his universe.

Now with that out of the way let's speculate!

This is my concept sketch for Venom!Hobie

Before I go into details about the design and the possible way he would work in universe:

I wanna give the world's BIGGEST shoutout to @levionok for being the coolest person ever and actually make some AMAZING drawings of Venom!Hobie:

(Like how cool is this!?!?!!! I love these so much!! aaaaahhhhhhhhh<3 <3<3)

Okay so, first I wanna talk about his design and then I wanna speculate about the most "realistic" ways I think Venom!Hobie could come into existence/what his personality would be like.

Design:

I wanted the symbiote to exaggerate some of Hobie's physical features so I kinda went with the idea of Venom!Hobie being even lankier and spikier than regular Hobie/Spider-Punk (since the symbiotes seem to take more after the actual suit when it comes to their design I based most of their looks around how Hobie looks as Spider-Punk)

Since Hobie is already tall I of course imagine Venom!Hobie as being even taller/lankier.

Though due to his longer limbs he has a bigger tendency to walk crouched down on all fours (sixs technically?) as beautifully illustrated by @levionok above. (and less beautifully illustrated by me in the top right corner of my drawing lol)

Since Hobie also incorporates spikes into his looks I did the same for Venom!Hobie and added even more! He now has more rows of "mohawk" spikes, his choker spikes become longer and the same goes for the spikes from his jacket + he gets extra spikes along his back. He also gets spikes along his wrists! - He's a spikey boy!

Also all the spikes are made from symbiote "teeth" and could in theory be moved around on his body if he wanted to (though they mostly stay in place).

The "running mascara"-look (Idk what to call it lol) also carries over from Spider-Punk's mask and is once again even more pronounced in Venom!Hobie.

Now one of the more noticeable traits are the arms! I haven't figured every detail out yet, but so far the idea is that his arms split into two at the elbows but he's able to "fuse" them back into one arm if he wishes to (which he rarely does).

Also to get the idea across that it's his arm being split up I tried to add some symbiote goop between the two parts of the arms!

I kinda like the idea of him being able to change his "design" (changing his spikes and arms as he pleases) so to say, kinda referencing to him not believing in consistency and how he changes "filters" in his animation style! Though I picture him as looking like in the concept drawings above most of the time.

I'm also kinda toying with the idea of giving him barbed wire like webbing since I remember reading somewhere that Hobie apparently has used barbed wire instead of webs in the comics from time to time.

But I also headcanon Venom!Hobie as being more animalistic and more likely to just use brute force instead of webs.

He is fast when he's down on all fours (again sixs? idk lol)

Of course he also gets most of the classic Venom abilities and weaknesses (I haven't read the comics so I'm going off memory of the Venom movie which I've seen once like 5 years ago so please bear with me ^^')

The most noticable weakness being sound! I'll take a closer look at how this affects Hobie when I get to his personality/origin.

Okay that's all about his design for now, I might come back and add more stuff later if I come up with anything as this is still a new concept I'm workshopping (and inputs are greatly appreciated!)

Now we're moving on to his personality/origin as I feel like these two are very intertwined. Cause I feel like the way Venom!Hobie originates will affect his personality too! Let me explain:

So far I've come up with two possible ideas/reasons for Hobie to even bond with a symbiote in the first place and depending on which version you choose I feel like it would end up having different effects on his personality/how he handles the situation:

Scenario 1:

The symbiote is passed onto Hobie without him knowing!

Possibly from an encounter with the cops where a symbiote manages to latch onto Hobie as he kills its former host.

(Or maybe a villain manages to plant one on him somehow).

This would lead to a slow gradual "fusion" between Hobie and the symbiote as it would be very aware that Hobie is NOT exactly a fan of it and would do whatever he could to get rid of it/kill it if he found out about it.

If I recall correctly Eddie also wasn't aware of his symbiote in the beginning and only found out about it when it decided to make itself known. -(referencing the movie)

So I'd imagine a similar scenario here but instead of making itself known, the symbiote hides its presence from Hobie as much as possible while making small gradual changes to Hobie to prepare for an eventual fusion/take over.

Like slowly Hobie starts getting migraines whenever he plays his guitar or listens to loud music so he does so less and less without being even consciously aware of it.

At some point he even stops bringing his guitar with him on missions since he never uses it anyways and hey why did he even bring it in the first place? - I like to think that the symbiote is somewhat able to manipulate Hobie's thoughts over time to make him more susceptible to it.

Going to concerts also becomes a no no.

Hobie also changes his diet; the thought of going to the community garden just not appealing to him as much anymore for some reason. So he visits it less frequently until he also just completely stops going (affecting both his diet and his social life- the symbiote would want Hobie to be as isolated as possible to make him easier to manipulate).

Hobie doesn't realise it at first but he starts craving meat more and more and as time passes he also prepares his meals less and less until he basically eats meat raw. (I'm once again thinking about the movie and that lobster scene, though his symbiote would have to be a lot more sublte for him to not notice what's going on).

At this point Hobie would have to be almost completely isolated and under the influence of the symbiote for so long that it would finally feel "safe" making itself known, preying on his hunger (having been homeless Hobie has known hunger before but I imagine that the hunger that comes with a symbiote is its own unique thing and that it's rather extreme) and his declining mental health.

While a part of him would still very much hate it, Hobie would begrudgingly accept the symbiote and chaos would ensue.

And then of course the Spider-Gang would try and stop/save him cause they know that Hobie would never want this. Wether they're gonna be successful or not is up to interpretation.

Now personality vise I imagine this version of Venom!Hobie is gonna be mostly taken over by the symbiote and thus being more feral and animalistic. It most likely wouldn't talk a lot and mostly be focused on feeding (and like in the movie, its favourite food is gonna be humans. Hobie would try to make sure they only target cops but sometimes the hunger would win over reason).

I know this is pretty dark but I really can't imagine a positive scenario where Hobie would willingly accept a symbiote so this is my first "solution". (Though I also feel like his friends would intervene before he reached this point but still, I kinda like the idea of the slow corruption and the person not realising it until it's too late)

You still with me? Good, cause it's time for:

Scenario 2:

I'd wish that this one would be more positive but I guess that sadly isn't the case

In this scenario Hobie would have reached his breaking point.

He would have been through an experience so traumatic that he feels like a symbiote is his ONLY option.

(If I recall correctly he's reffered to himself as a "suicide machine" in the comics and this would really come into play here).

He'd become way more reckless and not really caring what happens to him in battle. He views this as his last resort.

Like maybe there's a new kind of symbiote that isn't weak to sound or fire and Hobie has no other way to defeat them than to get one himself.

The only positive is that Hobie would be more mentally in control as he's fully aware of the symbiote and how it can influence his mind.

He'd still have cravings for raw meat but he wouldn't have been as mentally unstable and only target cops/other symbiotes becomming kind of a double cannibal.

Once again his friends would try to stop him and he'd definitely be more resonable in this scenario than in the first one.

But he'd still push them away both to protect them and out of shame over his situation.

This time more of Hobie's personality would shine through but it still wouldn't be a very positive version of Hobie as I imagine any scenario with him having a symbiote would really have a negative impact on his mental health.

But still there's room for a happy ending if the Spider-Gang manage to get to him in time!

So yeah, both of these scenarios are kind of a bummer for Hobie (to put it mildly lol) but I honestly can't imagine a positive situation where Hobie would willingly accept a symbiote! (I'm more than happy to hear any takes you guys might have that prove me wrong though!)

Okay, I think that's everything for now!

I'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions of Venom!Hobie!

Also let me know if there's anything you want me to elaborate on! Or of you just wanna talk Hobie or Venom!Hobie in general <3

If you made it this far you are honestly a champ and deserve all the gold stars in the world. As I sadly can't give you that have a GIF of Hobie smiling to cheer you up!

Also I wanna give another huge shout out to @levionok! Both for the amazing drawings of Venom!Hobie and for giving me the courage and motivation to share my concept of him! <3<3<3

also have another Venom!Hobie cause I can't get over how cool she made them look! If you haven't already you should really check out their tumblr! They have made some AWESOME ATSV art there!!!

[ask-the-druggieverse]

Is dreamberry canon in this AU?? :o

Yes they are :>

Originally they were only friends and were going to slowly get together but then the story changed drastically and Starfruit appeared in the picture, so now they're married w/o rings!

((Unlike my other stories ATDV is being written as it goes on because of asks, only certain events are planned out way ahead of time :3))

[sharpsuite]

" Why are you giving me that look? " A statement punctuated by the rather loud crunch in the otherwise silent space as Chishiya bites into his snack.

[victorluvsalice]

Valicer Multiamory Month, Day Nineteen: Chatfic/the polycule groupchat (Running Headlong Into The Bullshit AU)

We're almost out of the teens in Multiamory March (as seen on @polyamships), and it's time for another interesting prompt: "Chatfic/the polycule groupchat!" A look at how a given polycule might gather together technologically. And much like with "Day Twelve: Explaining/mapping the polycule," I immediately decided that this one had to involve my Running Headlong Into The Bullshit mega-polycule. Because if any of my polycules need a group chat to keep up with each other, it's THEM. XD Anyway, here's a glimpse of said group chat, with them trying to coordinate a night where they could all actually hang out together -- and not succeeding very well...

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MakeYouSmile: okay folks

MakeYouSmile: we really need to do another Whole Polycule Movie Night already

MakeYouSmile: when’s everybody free?

ButterflyBoy: The ninth works for me.

VorpalOne: Unfortunately, Nanny’s invited me to dinner that night to catch up. How about the eleventh?

CommonwealthMinuteman: I’ve got a meeting of the Creative Anachronism Society over at the local history museum, and that shit always runs late. Twelfth?

MoonlightDancer: no can do :( have to cram for a test in my business management class. fourteenth?

10/6: Have an appointment to adjust the fit on the old arm and leg again, and I doubt I’ll be up for much socializing afterwards. Let’s try going backwards instead – eighth, anyone?

KnightlyCuisine: I’m hosting my brother and sister for the day – eighteenth?

RepressedFlower: I’m afraid my parents will be hosting me then – Mother has been very insistent I come home and visit, and that was the latest date I could get away with. The nineteenth, perhaps? To give me something to look forward to?

PublickOccurrences: damn it – I’d technically be free, but Nick and Ellie are gonna be out of town – going to see Nick’s weirdo brother – and I don’t have anyone else available to keep an eye on Nat. How about

MakeYouSmile: hang on hang on HANG ON

MakeYouSmile: what are we all doing TONIGHT?

ButterflyBoy: ...nothing?

VorpalOne: Just some studying, and Wonderland’s already distracting me from that.

CommonwealthMinuteman: I am free and clear!

RepressedFlower: Just some embroidery – I can certainly set that aside for later.

MoonlightDancer: free :D

KnightlyCuisine: I can bring my ‘gunpowder’ popcorn!

10/6: Want me to bring the special iced tea?

PublickOccurrences: ...let me just check with Nick – fingers crossed he doesn’t put a damper on the evening, everyone!