#if I fucked up the episode numbers plz lemme know I did not double check them

[symbiotic-slime]

comparing malevolent and venom (or: why private eyes and symbrock are the same ship in different fonts)

spoilers ahead for the venom movies, various venom comics, and s1 of malevolent!!

Arthur is a PI, Eddie is an investigative journalist. Both of them ran into their body mates through their investigations (specifically movies!Eddie, comics!Eddie does not share this origin)

The Entity takes the name John through experiences with Arthur. When Arthur is in a coma for a month, the nurses don’t know his name and refer to him as John Doe. The Entity notices this and finds solace in it. When Arthur wakes, the Entity tells Arthur to refer to him as John. In the Venom comics, their collective name “Venom” came from Eddie being deranged about losing his job as a reporter. He tells Peter to call them Venom, because that’s what he’s paid to write at the shitty tabloids he’s employed at.

(from Amazing Spider-Man #300 [1963])

Though the Venom Symbiote has a name from its home world, many characters throughout the comics refer to it as Venom, implying they kept the name Eddie gave them.

In episode 9, John and Arthur argue until they give each other the silent treatment, leading to them getting caught by the police because John did not warn him there were officers. After realizing they need to work together, John and Arthur escape from the officers (and the supernatural lake monster). Towards the end of that episode, John tells Arthur that “you and I are one, and I need to begin to see us as one.” In Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Venom and Eddie have a rather dramatic break up that ends with them separating from each other. Eddie then gets arrested and brought in as a suspect in Cletus Kassidy’s escape. Venom, in Anne’s body, comes back and breaks Eddie out of police custody. After some apologies from Eddie (though if you ask me Venom also should’ve been apologizing but alas) they bond with each other again. Later through the power of love symbiosis, Venom and Eddie acting as one are able to defeat Carnage.

In episode 12, it’s revealed that John is a fragment of The King In Yellow. The cult gives the King the ability to fully realize itself and take over Arthur’s body, but the King is unable to. The part of itself, John, has become so entangled with Arthur that it cannot fully erase Arthur from itself. In the Venom 2018-2021 run (I know, I’m drawing on Cates. i cannot believe I’m using him to prove a point), the King in Black, Knull, is trying to take over Earth. It corrupts symbiotes, makes them nothing more than servants for it. Knull was unable to corrupt the Venom symbiote specifically because it could not burn the light (Eddie) out of it.

(from Venom 2018 issue 3; 5)

Other smaller similarities between Malevolent and Venom (some of which I only noticed because I’m insane):

guy named Eddie

Arthur chokes someone out while not in control of his left hand (episode 2); Venom chokes Dan after taking control of Eddie’s hand (Venom 2018).

both John and Arthur and Eddie and Venom bicker like old married couples

Arthur and movies!Eddie are just,,,, such pathetic wet cats of men

[restingdomface]

I would very much like the links everything please if that is okay with you.

I serve at your pleasure my dude. Time to show y’all some borderline shit. 

https://www2.watchasian.to/drama-detail/the-untamed

https://www2.watchasian.to/drama-detail/the-untamed-special-edition

Let’s start with the CDrama because these are two different sites and will show you slightly different methods.

I warn you, these are not complete series files. You will have to download one episode at a time. This is going to take a long time. It took me over three days for the 50 episode series, and almost three days for the 20 episode special edition. I did one episode at a time because my internet connection is hella slow. I’m a pretty dedicated person so I was sitting in front of my laptop the whole time while I waited. 

This site, actually has a download button, but if you’re not familiar with single episode download sites, then you might not know where to find it, so I’ll post a few pics of where it is, and what the download page looks like. I suggest right clicking on the button and opening it in a new tab. 

See, the download button is that second blue button in the bottom row below the video player. You can choose whatever method of download you think is best from this point. You really only need the mirror links if the direct links don’t work.

Be warned tho: The file will not have an icon when you download it!!! Lemme show you.

This is what my list of episodes looks like now. No icons. I double click like it’s a regular thing, it pops up this box, I click VLC media player, and it plays like a normal episode. It’s all good. 

The movie!!! The Living Dead (do not worry about this being a Pirate Bay link, even without a VPN no one is monitoring what you download from China if you’re in another country. It’s what I love about foreign movies, is that you pretty much can’t get in trouble for downloading them.) https://tpb.party/torrent/34980551/The_Living_Dead_(2019)_720p_WEB-DL_H264_AAC_Mkvking

Now, onto the cartoon. https://www.thewatchcartoononline.tv/anime/mo-dao-zu-shi-english-subbed

So. Scroll down, pick the first episode, scroll down to find the player, and click play. As soon as it’s playing, pause and right click it. You should get this:

Click Save video as...

Now. I would like to impress in y’all. Please. Number the episodes. As you download them. In fact, make a new file to put them in. Plz. The site doesn’t want to number them for you. Save yourself the trouble. This site also has cartoons, and it doesn’t track your downloads. You basically cannot get in trouble at all for downloading off these sites. 

https://m.wecomics.com/comic/index/id/236

Now. I don’t yet have an accumulation of the comic yet, but after a quick check of the page, I realize I can save each individual picture... so... I might spend... I don’t fucking know how much of my time... saving them all to files to compress into a PDF or something. Lord help me but I already know I’m gonna do it. 

Also another thing: normally I use exiled rebels scantilations. Just know. They have a major bias and also are full of idiots. Like seriously their translations don’t even flow properly. Part of translating it is keeping the flow, and they don’t do that well. Also they seem to think that WangXian is a non-con relationship where sex is concerned, and their sex scenes reflect that badly. So, I’m actually delighted that they’ve stopped translating the comics. But, warning, I only just now found this site, any issues you have with it are your own. 

On that note. I have all the novel downloaded (also translated by them, but I plan to fix that one day, but y’all, all this copy-pasting and downloading... takes time...) so if you don’t mind a partially sub-par translation of the novel and all, please, send me a message with your email. I compiled all the chapters myself and so they’re... on my computer, and I don’t do well with uploading myself so I sorta need an email address and I can send it right to you.