#spiderverse ask blog

[itsmiguel2099]

Miguel?

That's my name. Don't wear it out like the Star wars franchise...what do.ya want?

[peter-the-spider-guy]

William guides Peter into a secluded yard, where soft string lights cast a golden glow over the scene. Rose petals are scattered across the grass, leading to a plush red velvet blanket carefully spread out. At its center, a single rose stands elegantly in a vase beside a wicker picnic basket. The air carries the faint scent of flowers and warm summer night.

“Okay, you can open your eyes now,” William whispers, his voice gentle with anticipation.

Peter opens his eyes before freezing and gazing in awe at the scene

“Oh… oh this is gorgeous. You’re an angel”

Peter moves over to sit down, practically giddy with happiness

@dam-that-river

[sunny-spider]

WHY DID I OPEN TUMBLR AND SEE MIGUEL GETTING PEGGED I HATE THIS FUCKING APP

[tikiki05]

The way I screamed in absolute JOY when I went through your blog seeing you were anti timebomb

Oh my God ily 💔

THE SHIP CAME OUT OF NOWHERE

Maybe I missed something? I probably did, but

It's just?? Not?? Good??

Good morninnnng and tysm for this ask! Ilyt🫶🫶

But AAAAHHHH full disclosure, i actually kind of have mixed feelings on timebomb as a ship itself? Like i really do see both sides of the arguments a lot of the time. Granted I would say I edge a bit more on the side of anti-timebomb just because ALL of the ships in Arcane are handled poorly to some extent. And I tend to share more anti-timebomb posts anyways. ALSO the timebomb section of the fandom can be a little annoying and ABSOLUTELY racist

GRRRR i also hate all the comparisons made between timebomb and ghostflower! Are there some similarities? Yes, I’m not denying that, but also be fr it’s just because it’s a kind and artsy Black boy being shipped w a mentally ill white girl w dyed hair, and the sitting scene. Which like wow,, two people who like each other sat next to each other overlooking a nice view? That neeever happens /s

Also other people have said it better but JINX AND GWEN ARE NOTHING ALIKE,, Jinx was a terrorist and Gwen’s just sad and homeless and cringe (said with love) 😭🙏

Sorry, side tangent, but point being I honestly like,, wanna like timebomb? I’m even kind of (in a more platonic way) planning on having them together in my upcoming arcane fanfiction (will be posting very soon!)

Idk, I wanna like it and sort of do but there are also sooo many reasons to dislike it. I’d probably understand everything more if i, get this, actually finished this awful show lmao. But as I try and be open about on my blog, I have no intention of finishing watching Arcane because it’s too upsetting and I really don’t wanna support this show with its creators. First five episodes of season 1 and that’s it im all good i dont want no more👍

Another side tangent my bad lol, tysm for the ask though!! Ily mootie💞💞

[spikedupspidey]

A reporter comes by...

: Spiderpunk, allow me to get your insights. What would be your view on the saying, "Teenagers are too young to get caught up in politics issues." ?

Hobie squinted beneath the shadow of his mohawk, arms crossed, one booted foot resting on the edge of a half-toppled brick wall. He chewed his tongue for a second before fixing the reporter with a lopsided grin.

“Too young, yeah? You reckon bombs wait for you to hit eighteen? That riot cops ask your age before they swing a baton? World don’t give you a grace period. Kids get priced outta homes, poisoned by the air, sent to schools built like cages, and you wanna tell me they’re too young to speak on it?”

He kicked a can aside with a clink, voice rising -- not angry, but undeniably electric with conviction.

“Nah. Teenagers are in it, whether they choose it or not. So they’ve got every bloody right to fight it. Politics ain't just old blokes in suits barkin' in Parliament -- it's survival. It’s art. It’s protest. It’s every kid with a sharpie and a patchwork jacket who ain’t gonna sit quiet while the world crumbles.”

He tilted his head, smug but not unkind. “So if you’re askin’ if they should be involved? Bruv, they already are. Might as well hand ’em the mic.”

[spiderman2-99]

✨:happy-Gabriella

[06.12.2022, TRN-1042]

“Papa. Papaaaa!”

“Hmrgh.”

“¡Vamos! It’s almost noon!”

“HwuAGH?!”

Miguel blearily opens his eyes and is promptly assaulted with, as promised, the bright mid-day sun. And then is physically assaulted by about 100 pounds of over-excited ten year old girl clambering on his bed to wake him up.

“I’m awake, I’m awake,” he says frantically, voice still rough around the edges from the vestiges of sleep, as he futilely wrestles with his daughter in an effort to stop her from turning him into a shaken-up pop bottle. Christ alive, he feels like it already.

  Only once he harmlessly pins Gabriella down so she’s sprawled on her back, himself half leaning over her, does she finally concede, her face ruddy from laughing. How the shock kids can have this much energy is beyond him.

(Then again, it is noon, and he was out all night. So.)

Miguel leans back up when he’s certain she won’t try any funny business again, slowly, like she’s a particularly ferocious little velociraptor.

“You were snoring again,” she states as she sits up beside him, brushing imaginary dust off her shirt.

Though his brain is still trying to boot up, he manages to scoff in mock indignation. “I do not snore-“

“Uh, yes you do. It’s like- HOOOOOONK- SHUUUUUUUUUU”

“-and I certainly don’t sound like that.”

“Yes you doooo- no, wait, actually, it's louder, like,” she throws herself back on the bed for emphasis, “BWAAAAAAAAAA-“

“Alright, missy, now you’re just exaggerating. I don’t always sound like that.” Even with the faux irritation, he can’t help but huff out a short chuckle.

“Noooo,” she drawls, leaning up on her arms. “you only sound like a chainsaw when you stay up all night.”

Miguel winces. After he’d replaced his alternate, he still kept up the mantle of Spider-Man, even though the other Miguel wasn’t spiderman; and that universe, that New York, wasn’t his to protect. Oh, and it was about 70 years behind his native 928. Old habits die hard, even for the most skilled of usurpers.

"Yeah, I do. I just... had a lot of work," he finally concedes, ruffling her hair, making her squawk.

The amount of times she’d caught him sneaking back late and beaten were too much for his own liking— to writ, only four, but still four too many. She doesn’t deserve to be dragged into his shit. Though today wasn’t one of those days, he was still so worn-out that he missed the whole morning with his daughter. He forces a smile, a poor attempt at hiding the complicated feelings stirring in his chest.

"You know how that goes. But don't worry, I’ll make sure to go to bed early tonight. So I wouldn't... y'know. Snore."

She pouts a bit. “You always say that. it's always work and you can't talk about it.”

Ouch.

“You know, if I had a super duper cool secret government job," oh, right, that was the excuse he pulled out of his ass, “everyone would know about it. And I mean everyone.”

"You don't even know what I do for a living," he states, "How do you know it's as cool as you think it is?"

“BecauuuuuuseUH! It’s with the Pentagon! You probably see the President!”

(As far as Miguel is concerned, with the hellhole that this universe’s politics are currently in, he’d rather stick a lit cigarette in his eyeball than meet the President. But that’s neither here nor there.)

“Maybe you stopped World War Three! Maybe you went behind the great firewall of China! Maybe you found the cure for cancer or found aliens and the world will never KNOOOOW,” she continues, throwing her arms out for dramatic flair and flopping back down hard enough to make her whole body bounce.

Miguel had completely bullshat that whole “secret government job” story, and he definitely did not anticipate the amount of implication in it for Gabi to latch onto and try to pick apart. That’s just…

Jesus. Way too much for his sleep-deprived brain.

“Maybe that’s why I’m the one working there and you’re not, princessa. You’d blab to everyone.”

She sticks her tongue out at him. Miguel can’t help but snort in spite of himself. He runs a tired hand over his face and shakes his head.

"The truth isn't as exciting as you think, I'm afraid,” he explains, “I'm like... a glorified paper-pusher, really. I get to read the boring reports and watch security footage all day. Super boring."

“Aw.” She crosses her arms in an exaggerated show of petulance.

“Yeah, ‘aw’,” he murmurs, propping his head up with his hand as he leans on his side. Without really thinking about it, he reaches out to play with the flyaway curls around Gabriella’s forehead.

After a bit of brooding, she glances back up at him. “But are there aliens in the footage?”

"No, honey, there's no aliens," he replies with a dry chuckle. "If I saw something strange on the footage, I would've told you by now."

Finally, Gabriella seems placated with this answer. If there’s anything she inherited from her father, it’s the O’Hara ability to cling onto a subject for ages.

Even if this one isn’t her real father.

“Fiiine. But promise me you’ll be on CNN first thing when it happens,” she says, holding out a pinky.

“When I end up on CNN?" Miguel raises an eyebrow. "You don't think I'm important enough already?”

Her eyes fly open. “I’m just saying-“

She scrambles to sit back up. “None of my friends can say their papa’s on the news! Or that he found aliens!”

"Well... you can tell them I work in a super secret place that I can't ever talk about. That's gotta count for something, right?”

“Yeah, but then they’re like ‘what does he do’ and I can’t even answer it!”

Miguel lets out a sardonic laugh. He should… really work on his lies.

"You don’t need to know what I do,” he chides, keeping his tone light, “it’s boring stuff, anyways. Definitely no meetings with the president or alien ambassadors.”

“Uuuggghhhhhhh.”

“And I should definitely stop letting you watch so much Discovery Channel,” he grumbles, though it lacks heat. Just add that to his list of parenting failures; failing to check if that channel is really age appropriate.

All the obsessive research in the world can’t truly make up for the fact that he barely knows how to be a father. That he’s nothing but a cuckoo in someone else’s nest.

Blessedly, his train of thought is cut short by his daughter’s voice, ever stubborn and ever hopeful. “But what if you do find aliens and you’re on there one day?”

“You’re still on that?!”

“Uh, yeah; I don’t wanna miss when you find aliens! Promise me you’ll tell all about it?”

With a soft sigh, he extends a pinky up for her to hold. She giggles and gives it a little squeeze.

"I promise you’ll be the first to know," he says, with as much conviction as he can manage for this batshit conversation. "And when I'm on TV, I'll tell you 'hi', okay?"

“Okay, papa.” The smile she gives is blinding.

“But right now,” he starts, finally getting up and swinging his legs off the bed (pointedly ignoring the way his body aches from the fights last night) “we need to get you fed.”

“I ate though!”

“What, a donut?”

The silence incriminates her immediately.

“Yeah, that’s what I thought. C’mon, let’s get actual food into you.”

Father and daughter, carefree as ever, make a late start to the day, but a good one. Life is good, even if it’s one Miguel had to steal. He has a tiny little brick house in residential Manhattan, he has a beautiful little girl, and the most pressing concerns are making sure he manages to bullshit his way into being a good parent— no multiversal tragedies. Not yet.

Not yet.

[spiderlong-official]

Woah. Why does it... hurt to look at you? And not in the same way as the Peters. Like a burning at the back of your eyes.

Also. Do you know where I can get one of those watches? Kinda fried the one I got.

@chasmmmm

.. Uh.. er, I don't know, that's scary, haha..? My universe is apparently pretty grainy looking in comparison to a lot of other worlds I've seen, so! Maybe that's it!

Admittedly I don't think I can help you on those hop-watch doohickeys. If you're in contact with HQ, you can probably go to the Help Department and put in a request for repairs?

Also hello, hey! I've never met you before! My names Juno - Spiderlóng. What's yours?

[meilarchives]

NOW I DON'T HAVE A CLUE, WHO ARE YOU?

EIGHTEEN ✶ CHRISTIAN

RE✶LITIES ✶BOUT ME ✶SK G✶MES

[ask-spotter]

Miles sharing a body with a physicist who researches the multiverse and dark matter and Everything He's Interested In means Spot gets hounded with questions (and honestly doesn't mind it that much)

Spot may hate Miles but he'll take any chance he can get to infodump. (Ngl, this is probably the main thing that starts to turn their relationship around.)

They also like to test their abilities. So far, they can travel through dimensions easily and even show up in multiple dimensions at once, and they can see into past and future timelines (but can't travel through time for reasons unbeknownst to both of them aka mun doesn't wanna deal with time travel shit)

Also apologies for the bad theoretical physics, I'm going off what I remember from being interested in this in high school and a few articles I read lmaooo

Inspired loosely by @morriermaggot's mentor AU!

[itsmiguel2099]

You look like you fear Justin Timberlake and rightfully so. He was very stinky.

Well.. ok then…

[peter-the-spider-guy]

I miss you so much, babe

@dam-that-river

I miss you too. Everything’s just been complete shit… can you come over? Please?

[vshiftsss]

What are you most excited for in your spiderverse DR? W

ho is (are) your best friend(s)?

Who do you trust the most?

Who laughs at your jokes the hardest?

GENERAL Q&A - (SPIDERVERSE DR)

thanks for the ask anon!

i’m most excited to be in the future. in my dr, the earth i’m from is set in the far future (cannot remember the specific year, but it’s either 2099 like miguel or something different). i scripted in a bunch of stuff, like holographic watches and hoverboards that actually hover. on top of that, i’m an inventor who works for a huge tech company. which means i can come up with cool shit and become infinitely cooler. i’ll also be able to actually understand coding and science a lot more than i do here, which sounds great!

my best friends in my dr are hobie and noir. noir is also my love interest in this dr, but we would be very close regardless of whether we get together or not. we’re coming from two different sides of time, and opposites attract, right? he’ll teach me about stuff from his time, and i’ll teach him about stuff from mine. as for hobie, that’s just my guy fr. i adore hobie and i think our personalities would mesh well. i might also script some oc spider-people to be friends with but i’m not sure. might make a form for that one too…

who do i trust the most? other than the obvious ones, noir and hobie, i trust miguel the most. just because he welcomed me into the spider society without really questioning it (although, jess did help a lot with putting in a good word), and he’s also eager to help me figure out which universe my sister’s in. we’ve both saved each other multiple times, and by now, we’re locked in. miguel might not show it in the most obvious ways, but he’s there for me.

and for the last question, everyone laughs at my jokes because i’m extremely funny (/j), but miles really finds my jokes hilarious. i don’t know why, but we always riff off each other whenever we’re on missions together. i’m close with him too, but we have a sibling-adjacent bond rather than just being friends.

END OF POST - HAPPY SHIFTING!

[tikiki05]

I saw the anti ghostflower and anti gwen stacy tag and I was kind of confused. I’d never heard of anyone actively disliking her or ghostflower. I went through the tags to understand the reasoning behind it (I find when someone says they’re anti a character it’s more likely they have some reasoning behind it which I like to see and understand) and saw your post on why gwen stacy has been really awful. It was actually very interesting :)! I totally get why you and others don’t like it now! I still love her, I’m banking on btsv to wrap everything up.

Sorry, I’m not looking for a debate or anything!!! I’m just genuinely trying to say this was an interesting perspective to see that I appreciate now knowing about. I understand hating super popular characters with fans who would defend their awful actions with their lives, so I totally get it yeah.

I think I’m too attached to her to really dislike her but I am ALSO more attached to Miles, so it’s really not hard for me to understand where you’re coming from. So much of the cast is AWFUL to Miles and it gets ignored for the narrative... I understand why, but I am still Upset about it. Thank god for Hobie though

I think I may rewatch itsv and atsv when I can with this perspective in mind,, interested in seeing how different things feel. Hope you have a lovely, lovely day!!!! :)

(Also you’re so right about caitvi ‼️‼️)

I AM GOING TO CRY AND EXPLODE I CANT REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I GOT SUCH A SWEET ASK OMG TY💕💕💖

The term anti-gwen stacy has honestly felt a little weird to me more recently after being in the TRENCHES of the arcane fandom and seeing “wow,, the spiderverse fandom isnt quite so bad actually”. Especially because what got me interested in joining the arcane fandom was the caitvi drama and caitlyn also being a proclaimed “complex female character that nobody could handle”. Like it’s very similar to Gwen but also not at all-

Both definitely at least somewhat to me suffer from misogynistic writing, with Gwen being shoved into the love interest box despite spider-woman being made to literally subvert that trope, and Caitlyn being on the opposite end of the spectrum with the “girls are so perfect and can literally commit crimes and should be able to get away with it cause we’re just queer girly girls and when we hurt people it doesnt matter!!” type of writing.

Also Caitlyn I just like full on hate. I haven’t watched the entire show properly and don’t plan on it because it’s too upsetting for me + i dont wanna support the show, and I went into it knowing all the caitvi drama, but I just really can’t see how anybody likes her at all 😭 privileged and naive and annoying and literally doesnt even do her own detective work!

But for Gwen, I don’t hate her entirely herself, I hate what the writers did with her and how the fandom treats her. I love what she could have been, I love what she almost is. And since BTSV still hasn’t released, she still has a chance to be saved. But I feel very pessimistic about that :((

Thanks again so much for this lovely ask though! It totally made my day! I hope your day is lovely lovely too!

[spiderman2-99]

It’s like a full-blown addiction, but instead of drugs or booze, it’s this fictional guy who’s got her wrapped around his finger. She knows it’s fucked up—knows she’s out here daydreaming about someone who’s not even real—but who cares? This guy? He’s everything. He’s charming in the worst ways, flawed in every possible sense, but there’s just something about him that has her hooked. He doesn’t even know she exists, but she’s ready to fight anyone who says a word against him. Seriously, she’ll defend his honor like it’s a fucking life-or-death mission.

He’s a goddamn trainwreck, but he’s her trainwreck. She’ll put up with all his baggage, his emotional scars, his dark sides, because somehow, that brokenness makes him feel more real to her than any real guy could. He’s messed up, but she’ll fix him in her head every single time. Maybe it’s that thrill of knowing he’s dangerous and untouchable that makes him even more irresistible. He might break her heart in a hundred ways, but it’s the kind of heartbreak that makes her feel alive, even if it hurts like hell.

And it’s never gonna happen, right? She knows that. He’s not gonna waltz into her life and sweep her off her feet. But it doesn’t matter. Because she gets to have him on her terms—no messy reality, no awkward first dates, no risking her heart for real. He’s always there when she needs him, in that perfect little bubble of fantasy she’s built for herself. And maybe she’s a little crazy for it, but at least with him, she’s never disappointed. Every time she replays his scenes, reads the fanfics, imagines their future together—it's like a high she can never quite shake. She knows it's all just a mindfuck, but she’s never felt more alive.

…

Jesus shocking Christ, kid, you need to get better taste.

[deepinthegroves]

HII its viperr sending asks on anon bcs i keep forgetting that you cant send asks on ur alt ,,, anyway for the superhero ask game : 🔍, 🕷 !!! (also the new blog theme EATSSS)

ahh thanks viperr <3 (@viperrf1sh / @viperrshifts)

answering for my spiderverse reality...

🔍 : MARVELOUS MAGNIFYING GLASS . . . who was the first person to discover your secret identity? how did they react to finding out?

the first person to discover my secret identity was peter parker. i had managed to hide this for months, and had even convinced my parents to let me move out because i didn't want them to find out. he was sitting in my living room when i entered via the hatch that leads to the rooftop (it's a penthouse apartment), and i was pulling off my spidersuit to throw in the washing machine when he walks into the kitchen to just see me there, mask off and about to take off the suit. we both screamed when it happened, as is the natural reaction, and i banished him to my living room to wait as i got changed (magically).

[for context, the hatch to the rooftop is linked to my kitchen-slash-laundry area and when i drop down from the hatch, he heard me coming in. the area has windows and stuff but i usually have the blinds pulled down (for situations like these) so my neighbours don't see spiderman dropping into my apartment and connecting the dots.]

i eventually explained everything to him and he was kinda amazed? of course he worried over the fact that i'm putting myself in danger but i took the opportunity to explain to him the whole deal with my family to reassure him that i'm fine and know what i'm doing and he made me promise to include him and allow him to help however he could.

🕷 : SLATE SPIDER . . . what is your hero insignia? what symbol do people know you by? what does your hero suit look like? who created / designed it? what is your color scheme?

my hero insignia is like the typical spiderman one but with a heart in place of the usual spider body. there are a few designs on pinterest and i took inspo from that <3

as for symbols, i'd say as long as it's spider-related? obviously, they'd recognise the insignia, it's all over the news, but if someone were to draw a random spider, i think most people would associate it with me too.

my hero suit is the usual spandex one but a dark red with gold lines. there are swirls around the suit that meet and form spiderwebs, but my entire suit isn't covered in it. i wear belts around my waist and i have a bag/ pouch hanging on the right, which i've charmed to make it bottomless (hammerspace, basically) so i can keep things in it and not lose them. i designed the suit myself, and though it's plainer than the things i'd usually design, it was a choice i made so the public wouldn't recognise my style and figure out my identity (because i have a fashion magazine that i'd show my designs in, alongside other designers that work with me).

for my tech, though the original few were made by me, the rest of it were peter's designs. he's great at tech (though i fear there may be some OSHA violations...) and he constantly helps to create some for me, for it to cover the gaps between what's lacking from my spiderpowers and the need to secretly use my magic if i ever end up in a situation where i need to wield it. some things he has made is an expandable shield as a bracelet, smoke bombs that has some sort of gas that's safe and yet disorientates?, and he installed night vision on my mask so i didn't have to use magic for that.

sorry if this is hard to visualise – i tend to change my suit in my imagination and i'm not the best at describing these, which is my only option since i can't draw lol.

[ask-webam]

Harry thinks that with everyone’s help, we can get everything up and running in a few days!

Im so nervous y’all, what universe should I visit first??? Do I even go to a universe? Do I go to that Spider Society headquarters I keep hearing about?

Y’all let me know I’m so excited!!!!