#From the INHERITORS

[vampirepunks]

Since Kojima’s been saying that the Death Stranding film is going to tell a story that can only be told through the film medium, I really hope it’s a prequel to the game. There are a lot of background events represented through text and dialogue that wouldn’t translate well to a video game format on their own.

It’d be really cool to see the start of the Stranding, Victor and Igor’s backstory (as seen in the DS novelization), snippets from Sam’s childhood/early years with Bridges, the development and construction of the chiral network, and most of the events described in Higgs’ journals.

Coffin’s decision to leave her family behind, start a terrorist uprising by radicalizing the porters who unknowingly abetted human sacrifices by delivering BBs for the chiral network, and the decision to adopt Higgs as her protégé? That story alone would be worthy of a film.

[thronealigned]

iomedae girl i think you're inheriting the wrong things. girl i think there's a cycle

[madeinkorea-blbambeyond]

MADE IN KOREA

PARK HYUNG SIK

PARK SHIN-HYE

[tortoisesshells]

46 + 201

[lildoodlenoodle]

(A thought process post from a couple weeks ago lol, also when I say spiderverse events I’m talking about the comics)

Rereading spider noir 2020 run and ummm wow they rlly threw the actual chronological timeline out the window Huh. Like the 2020 run is before WW2. The spiderverse events happen after ww2, cause at the beginning of spiderverse it’s referenced that MJ was part of the war effort, WHAT ARE WE DOING. Cause he dies/gets resurrected in spiderverse and the 2020 run references that. WHAT ARE WE DOING?!

Ok, did some research. I lied to you. So MJ was apart of the Lincoln Brigade or smth in Spain. Originally, I just assumed that that was a team/effort during WW2 but it’s not. They were American volunteers who were helping out during the Spanish civil war, which ended in 1939(?). So in all likelyhood MJ doesn’t get back to the states until 1939.

First things first, if MJ is the same age as Peter that puts her at about(assuming 1933 vol.1 HS age 15-18) 21-24 and AUGHHHHH. But either way that means Peter is 21-24 during the beginning of the spiderverse events and the spiderverse events end before WW2 starts in 1939 and the US enters the war in 1941. AND noir 2020 happens BEFORE WW2 aswell. That is too tight of a timeline but I digress(writers YOU’RE KILLING ME).

[morethanwonderful]

[Image description: the epic handshake meme. The left arm is labeled "Xi Shiyong." The right arm is labeled "John Egbert." Their handshake is labeled "Becoming the godlike living embodiment of freedom and ending his story alone and mourning the one person he couldn't save despite all his endless power." End description].

I was going to make a much longer post about this, but my feelings about both characters are frankly Too Big to be concise in any format other than memes.

Anyway, I sure do love a protagonist from a normal happy home that unintentionally fumbles his way into becoming the Unbound God of Perfect Freedom and compartmentalizes all his feelings about being no longer human so hard he doesn't even realize he's having them. Love a guy that rewrites his very universe through a cheat code power that only he has and feels incredibly alone in the happy ending he creates. Love a story about grief. Love a guy that never lets anyone in because playing the lighthearted jokester is all he's ever known and he simply cannot stop doing so.

Though only Shiyong is actually good at pranks.

[entropii]

Maybe Nia can have a drop of an elder demon's blood running through their veins, as a treat

[witchblade]

if i manage to get real long this run i have to backup this save i cant iamginan actually im going to back it up now. i dornt care

[pegasusknightsonly]

byleth/shez isn't even toxic coworkers... if and when they start working together it's because shez has been vocally championing it to the lord! shez has a wider, more pragmatic perspective on things than the lords do and that's part of their charm!! shez is really funny and cool!!!!

[mejomonster]

I started reading Billy Bat manga by Urasawa Naoki (u may know him as the guy who did Monster) and jesus christ its wild. Absolute experience. Judas and Jesus are in it, so are ninjas, so is lee harvey oswald (technically at least 3), theres a bat thats satire about how evil mickey mouse and disney are, there's lying cartoons galore, there's the civil rights movement, the oppressivr terror of the ku klux klan and the structural damage of segregation and fucked up laws, and the pervasiveness of advertising and the coca cola company ("golden cola") there's real events sprinkled with gratuitious fictional shit about manipulative God Billy Bat (or perhaps "administrator/guide to the human race"), a scroll that could control the world, Fake walt disney has hired killers, the looming brutality of imperialism and corporations buying out poorer areas, killing in other countries and breaking laws and whatever else is needed to acquire what they want, there's a cartoon dog kennedy assasination, a baby kevin inherits the powers of an older kevin, there's ninjas and priests, there's a small town out west full of cowboy larpers who are this comic artists biggest fan club, a secret agent Smith with a heart of gold (one hopes), a teenager named jackie whos seeing visions, there's a good and evil fake "mickey mouse" bat but frankly theyre probqbly both evil cause either way they lie and manipulate to get people to do what they want, judas cameos not only in his jesus arc but as a little kiddo, and like. Im not even halfway done. Einstein JUST showed up.

[avatarvyakara]

I am rather reminded that Strands of Webbing does need a proper ending. I am also given to understand that people have started mentioning their own Spiders again on posts.

Seems a decent thing to combine the two and try to work on the next chapter at least…so, without further ado:

The Other Spiders

In rough order of appearance:

Peter Pauker/The Cob: the masked menace of Staten Island, 1787. Carries a sword, known for long-jumps.

Roshni Raj/Jalavai “The Webweaver”: hologram-heavy spider from Navayurka in the year 2670. Much use of illusions, the third member of the “tech support” (along with Peni and Miguel).

Spider-Glitch: the Spider for a Matrix-like world. Mildly exasperated that the multiverse doesn’t come with a blue pill.

Anansi: a version of the African spider-god, prone to easy laughter and the provision of stories. They may save your life one day.

Mary-Jane Watson/Carnage: took over from her friend Steff “Stay” See when the latter died. Both sides agree that Venom (Flash Thompson) is a prat.

Kaine Parker/Webwalker: a surprisingly moral crime boss in 1890s Manhattan. First Spider known to be killed by the Inheritors.

Hida Haraka/Jorōgumo: a young girl in 1840s Japan who happens to be being transmogrified by the spirit of a man-eating golden orb spider. Good at eating bad guys, doesn’t like it much. Looks like Peni’s mother.

Peredur y Parchedig/Spider-Man: protector of the Roman city of Eboracum, later York, and the Britons who live there. Bitten by the Goddess Arianrhod. Likes the Beatles. (Mayday is terribly annoyed at Billie for that.)

Ebenezer Parker/Scion Spider: moneylender in 1874 San Francisco, bitten by a cursed spider hiding in a Hopi idol. Was visited by Peter Parquagh, Peter B. Parker, and Miguel O’Hara on Christmas Eve, and was shanghaied (his words) into becoming a vigilante.

Charles and his 400 siblings/Spiders-Man: Ham’s nephews and nieces in one of 1610-Peter’s old suits. Enough said, really.

J. Jonah Jameson, Jr.: no, really. No masks. A safe home for young mutants, excellent luck on the stock market, and annoying physical strength aside, it’s still the same guy. Annoyingly.

Benjamin P. Parker: for very different reasons, no masks. The son of Earth-1610’s Peter and Mary Jane, born after his father’s death. Miles is the best babysitter in the world.

Olivia Ockham/Spinneret: friend of Mabel Reilly, alias Lady Spider, in 1960s New York. No powers, plenty of webs. Tendency to murder people.

Now, there are more, but they’re more just interpretations of already-existing characters. Not that some of these aren’t, but they’re hopefully less…obvious? I dunno.

In any case, questions or comments are very welcome!

[kellenia]

Hey while the ides of march and history is trending, I have a question for the history side of tumblr. Can somebody tell what the whole "We are the inheritors of greek/Roman culture" thing is about. Sounds racist to me but idk if there's any actual standing for this.

[demonio-fleurs]

THEY GAVE PETER B AN OBI WAN TYPE OUTFIT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

[xamaxenta]

I just want… desperately need… Sabo content…

[glaivegirl]

fuck everyone who hates on the star wars prequels, is it not enough for you to have the man who created the greatest space opera movie of its era prove to you that it was just a fluke and that his soft-magic system is actually as simple as it sounded. just let him run around and have a gaggle of dumb actors look pretty while i just stared in awe at how the lighting looked for most of the movie

also the first movie i ever cried during that i can remember was when i couldnt hold it back anymore during the climactic fight of revenge of the sith

[pricechecktranslations]

Guess we'll never know what the other O,T,H,R stands for or what connection the Asayev had with the Freezis facility under Marlon (you know, regarding the whole circumstance of Lamia Asayev and the Zorach family). It sure feels like OSS: Punishment didn't answer that much question as we hoped it would.

I mean, to be perfectly honest I never expected an answer to those particular questions. OTHR I would have expected just as a simple worldbuilding detail if mothy had lingered more on the queen selection testing (which he did not), and the matter of the Freezis pods was a minor note in a one-off short story that only a select few people would have seen (in the Japanese fandom, at least). So I'm not busted up over those.

But yeah, in general, it brought up more questions than it answered.