#things custom made in a lab for me to be autistic about

[thehallstara]

this is me being late to the draw but i finally listened to/caught up on pulp musicals and holy shit it's unbelievably good.

[wolpatinga]

re: my recent jekyll and hyde posts

everything makes so much more sense in the book if you assume that jekyll's crisis started being visible to his friends when he hit 40 and quit his promising career as a professor of law

1. why lanyon hates him so much. its not that jekyll was researching magic per se, its that jekyll made a huge change out of nowhere into a field jekyll knows basically nothing about and started claiming he's an expert in it. to hastie, that looks like quackery

2. jekyll is a fellow of the royal society, which means he's done "great things for the world of science and mathematics". considering he was a lawyer up until age 40, the idea that he's bribed his way in (and that straining his relationship with lanyon further) makes a lot of sense

3. why utterson clings to the protege idea for hyde. jekyll, being still very new to that field and kinda out of his league, taking on an apprentice (probably a uni student or recent grad) to help actually run things makes a LOT of sense

4. jekyll writing his own will, and the things he says when utterson complains again. jekyll knows he's done a lot of weird shit. he also knows civil law like a mfer and knows he has utterson by the balls on this one. but this really explains why he's like "i know this is just the icing on the cake of weird shit i've forced you to endure. sorry :/"

5. jekyll living in that shitty neighborhood. he saw some doctor died and medicine (especially being a famous doctor) is a special interest of his, so he bought that lab and WILL NOT LEAVE IT. HIS LAB

6. hyde going in and pointing out loopholes in biblical passages. that's what he was doing, right? writing blasphemies? he was bored and saw a buncha laws written out and figured he'd do what jekyll used to do - case review

7. why jekyll's notes on the experiments SUCK. once its in writing, you're fucked, legally. also why he won't admit to any real crimes in the confession other than the already-solved case

8. him insisting on putting MD before DCL or any other title. that's the one he wants to highlight. please believe he's a real pharm-dawg. please take his medicine seriously

9. he's basically a conspiracy theorist who decides to get really into, idk, learning how 5G towers work, and has a friend who works for a telecom company, and suddenly friend finds out the conspiracy theorist quit his "real job" to build his own 5G towers or some shit like that. jekyll is those flat earthers who get lost at sea trying to find the ice wall

10. im still not over jekyll suddenly building a state of the art lab on his own just for shits and giggles. so much expensive glassware... and the labcoat again. he DEFINITELY has a custom leather labcoat that he never wears except to flex on lanyon

11. any adaptation that lets jekyll be a respected physician is just repeating the lies jekyll told us

12. im not against people suddenly changing careers as they age and realize more about themselves. that's part of the reason i'm obsessing over this, is i can't stand the workplace i'm in rn and will be making a similar choice to jekyll when i can afford it

13. re:12 i want to highlight how maybe if his friends gave a shit about his mental health maybe things wouldn't be so bad. my poor autistic king who accidentally ruined himself with overindulging in his special interest and bad coping mechanisms bc his social support was nonexistant. #mecore

14. re:13 fuck lanyon and fuck utterson for doing this. this is what makes the story such a tragedy to me. its like looking in a mirror and seeing the man you MIGHT become. hyde is here for me but please don't let him be the only one here for me

15. jekyll and hyde being each other's only true friends, in their own fucked up way. hyde loves jekyll's medical endeavors and hypes jekyll up to lanyon. he insists on calling jekyll "doctor" as in jekyll MD as in he's a fucking real medical doc and you WILL take him seriously

16. jekyll x utterson lawyer yaoi, like ace attorney civil cases edition

17. lanyon trying to figure out if the career change is somehow jekyll flirting

18. i want to see an adaptation that is this. i also want to think that jekyll got his MD just to flex on vicky frankie

[broken-exfaust-pipe]

i’m only here bc my colleagues wouldn’t shut up abt this hellhole 🫶🏽

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‼️‼️GECS HIJACKS THE INTRO POST‼️‼️

I’ve never made an askblog before, omg! My only complaint, so far, is that my Tumblr doesn’t have an option to make text yellow : )

It’s okay— I’ll settle for weird orange.

Before I got started, I wanted to do a little ‘character summary’ type thing, since Fausta is an OC.

I’m just gonna write some basic lil bits of info, in this section, right here!

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F/N: Fausta Maria Stark

Alias: Cobalt Blue

Age: 17yrs

Height: 6’0”

Nationality: American (born in Malibu California, raised in NYC NY)

Ethnicity: Dominican

Defining features: Wine-stain birthmark (right collarbone), prosthetic left forearm (custom-built)

Languages: Spanish, English

Trivia: Undiagnosed autistic

・Artificial webbing

・Stark industries didn’t ‘exist’ in her universe. Instead, she had Stark International and they sold home appliances (like smart fridges!)

・The AI built into her suit is named Alexa. Alexa has been around since Tony designed Fausta’s first prosthetic arm, and Faust chose the name when she was 10 years old

・Since she took over designing her own tech, her arm has had a plethora of useless functions built into it— kind of like a multitool! A few of these include: a bottle opener, a box cutter, and a flashlight

It’s probably important to mention—

‼️Both Gecs and Fausta are minors‼️

So, hey, maybe don’t send in anything weird.

Oh, and, I cannot honestly tell you if this is more or less important than the previous thing but— I’m autistic. I have a lot of trouble interacting with people I’m unfamiliar with (this is a later edit because it is, in fact, causing issues). If I short-term-memory the hell out of one of your blog’s rules or if I do generally anything that makes you uncomfortable, PLEASE be gentle with me. Don’t automatically assume I’m trying to be antagonizing or whatever. Also, preferably send me a DM and I’ll apologise, reflect, delete whatever dumb thing I said, etc. I get hella anxious, I’ve discovered, when people make posts for me to find— even if they don’t mention me, by blog name.

Oh boy, that’s a long paragraph. : )

I’ll be using these tags to indicate certain content (or whatever—)

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#G— indicates that Gecs is speaking in the tags

#⚙️— indicates Fausta is speaking in the tags

#mod post - this one is pretty self-explanatory

#cobaltposting - posting or reblogging things as Fausta would

Fausta is a character that I made way back when I first watched the Iron Man movies— I was around 11 or 12, back then, and it still shows in some of her writing (mostly her cringefail backstory)… So, y’know, go easy on me.

Edit: I might be up for proper role-playing in the distant future but, for now, this just a casual sort of interaction/ask blog. I’m hoping that doesn’t always deter people, lol!

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so hey i’m going 2 spare u ppl the whole gorey backstory mostly bc i don’t want 2 talk abt it

in summary:

I was adopted by Tony Stark when I was 8 years old. My bio parents lived in a condo not far from his mansion in Malibu. I made a run for it after they beat the shit out of me (for reasons—you know how it is) and ended up in Pá’s front yard. He took me in, during my recovery… and couldn’t get rid of me.

Good for me, I guess—not every day you get adopted by a billionaire who also fuels your engineering special interest.

When I was 14, I was bitten by a radioactive spider on a school excursion to Oscorp Labs. Since then, I’ve developed an insane allergy to most spiders… and wall-climbing, web-slinging superpowers.

I became the vigilante Cobalt Blue (named after the tarantula, not the metal!) and the rest is history.

Oh, and my universe was kind of, sort of destroyed by an anomaly… but we don’t talk about that.

I live and work full-time at Spider-Society HQ on Earth 928-B.

so y’know… ask me shit ig