#venom island

[shibanagame]

Eddie Brock, Venom symbiote and Flash Thompson commission art by Tom Fowler 2023

[anetherealpoetess]

i'm not reblogging the original post because the op seems great and i don't want to hurt feelings. but this is such a fun-killing take i genuinely want to gnaw my arm down to the marrow of the sea-foamy bone:

"if the most interesting thing you can think of about a character is the ship you like them with, then I don't think you actually like that character very much."

romantic relationships where every lamb becomes the knife and every knife becomes the lamb are not interesting to you? or what about vampiric psychosexual laments full of blood-bound codependency where the lovers are each other's slow descent into decay and ruin? i mean, that's fun! that is objectively fun!

shipping is strangeness and sincerity and terror. it's vault-bright lucy and her irradiated wasteland-rotten ghoul. it's louis de pointe du lac's naked centering of lestat in a narrative other characters keep trying to invade but louis stubbornly just won't let them. it's these violent delights having violent ends. it's transgressing societal boundaries of right and wrong (an inherently empowering narrative for women and gay men who have been told what to do our whole damn lives.) it's paying homage to a cruel god but also that cruel god is an ordinary person traversing a post-apocalyptic landscape with you. it's hand in unloveable hand! it's hand on my cowardly heart!

the most intersting thing about many many many characters are their romantic entanglements. and that's okay! it's more than okay! it's lush and febrile nutritional goodness that incapsulates all aspects of fiction and therefore life, from horror to devotion, from tenderness to gut-shocking betrayals, from loving monstrosity to hateful divinity.

if you ever catch me not shipping, call a priest. i've been possessed.

[herpsandbirds]

Smooth-scaled Death Adder (Acanthophis laevis), family Elapidae, Perth Hills area, found in Indonesia and New Guinea

Venomous.

Photograph by Petra Karstedt

[petrichorium]

YAN KAKU!!! i think you rewired my brain a little i need to lay down

I think abt this soooooo much but like having been his fiance back when he was undercover (unbeknownst to u ofc) that he had to leave behind when it all went down……. And he told himself it was all for the cover but esp during those rocky months when he’s on the run w the others he always finds himself thinking back to you………..

Truthfully I ping-pong between smthn nice and sweet where he’s Pining for forever, constantly dreaming about you but well aware that seeking you out now would only lead to you potentially being used as leverage against him by the world government so he has to stay away until he finally snaps out of it n disappears to potentially return to water 7 (which imo is genuinely possibly where his arc might end up in canon???) and then it’s a fun slow burn bc why on earth would u take him back immediately

But then also horrible yan kaku who returns regularly to keep tabs on you. And at first it’s just to watch from afar—but soon enough he’s slipping into your apartment to pilfer little trinkets and things to bring back with him, pushing the envelope more and more until he’s wandering around your room while you’re sleeping, and it’s only a matter of time before he succumbs to the urge to touch you again. And from there it’s an easy step to slipping a little something into your nighttime tea so he can bask in your glassy eyes and breathy sighs of his name. Clearly you’ve been dreaming of him all on your own, from how little you protest when he kisses you again at long last.

[p0ssyart]

cool, calm, clear like water

[omniversecomicsguide]

Reed_Reads asked for a Spider-Island Reading Order in our Discord, so Reed_Reads got a Spider-Island Reading Order!

SPIDER-ISLAND (2011) READING ORDER

When people on Manhattan island suddenly develop Spidey powers, the real Spider-Man (along with Agent Venom, the Avengers, Spider-Girl and others) hunt down the villain behind it all…

But are they after the wrong guy?

Featured Cover Art:

VENOM #6 (2011) by Tony Moore & John Rauch

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The poison ocellate octopus, also known as a mototi octopus (Amphioctopus mototi) possesses a venom and displays two large blue ocellates or ‘eyespots’ when stimulated or alarmed. Mototi means poison in the Polynesian language; the first specimen identified came from near the island of Rapa, French Polynesia

Octopuses

Photographer: Douglas David Seifert

A giant pacific octopus in the cold waters off Vancouver Island, Canada

[vulpinesaint]

this is also how i react to peaches :)

[katkalis-the-fanartist]

How my naga Silver got his tail wounded. More story in the tags!

[oflgtfol]

Ive never read venom 2003 before https://oflgtfol.tumblr.com/post/751671883581325312/nvm-about-the-comments-people-are-unironically#notes and bc of this post i looked it up for the art style and. I like personally just barely tolerate it tho im somebody whose just Immune to this point to ugly art styles ive seen em all they cant hurt me anymore but my thing is like. Isnt venom 2003 a thing spoof? Like based off the thing??? Why did they get a hyper cartoony guy for this…. Like… huh… isnt it meant to be scary i heard???

ok so a few things

regarding the art style first:

venom comics are quite frankly full of ugly fucking art styles so i too am kind of immune to them. just like, any of the mid to late 90s venom solo comics were butt fucking ugly. HOWEVER. venom 2003 is a specific king of ugly that is particularly atrocious to me. just something about the noses, the lips, the jawlines, it's basically just the caricature art style??? but like, in a comic for some reason??? and i also really hate the caricature art style so much i don't understand why people A. make art in that style and B. pay others to make art of them in that style

but whatever. ugly art is very common in comics of all walks of life. it's fine. but the real kicker, and the real thing i was talking about that prompted me to make that specific post, is this fucking page:

i have such beef with this man over how he draws female characters. it is so needlessly objectifying and dehumanizing. like, the male characters get to just exist, but oh god, how dare a woman wake up from her slumber, we must must must depict her languid curves and the rotundity of her breasts !!! combine this very deliberate objectification with the stupid fucking pouty lips choice behind the art style in general, it's just so gross

and then, the icing on the cake was the comments on readcomiconline about that specific page from venom 2003:

(how dare you put the good name of sleeper symbiote to shame like this!!!!!!!!)

anyway, and moving onto The Thing spoof:

yeah so the "shiver" arc of venom 2003 (because this god forsaken comic run is separated into arcs for some fucking reason) was a riff on The Thing (1982). which, how dare you put the good name of The Thing to shame like this.

and like, i do really think that a symbiotes x thing crossover idea could work. a symbiote who goes rogue, who has no qualms with killing anyone around and doesn't care about its hosts, absolutely would basically be like The Thing and as a fan of body horror i'd love to see a take on symbiotes like that. instead of just oh big claw monster kills people, what about big goo alien assimilates you and rends you apart atom by atom !?!?!?!!? just wish it wasn't in the image of Venom Symbiote, my beloved babygirl who has never done anything wrong ever in its entire life

and yes, the body horror aspect of symbiotes x thing doesn't even hit correctly because the art style is just so atrocious. like, the body horror itself isn't grotesque because the art itself is grotesque, and not in any meaningful way. like Venom: The Hunger (1996) is also quite fucking ugly with its art style but its purposefully ugly - the muted, putrid colors with the heavy black shading are meant to be off-putting, to visually echo the frame of mind that symby, and by extension eddie, is in. because the whole story is about how symby is sick, so a putrid color palette feels sickly, and the grotesque shading makes every character look monstrous, because the sickness is warping their sense of reality and genuinely making them feel like they're surrounded by monsters. IT WORKS FOR THE STORY!!!! but venom 2003 it's just, plain bad art. it's cartoony, it's like a caricature, it does not lend itself to body horror on par with The Thing. caricature art styles are great for like, an uncanny valley feel, but that's not what venom 2003 is going for. it has the chutzpah to show rooms littered with dead bodies, but the art style is so fucking messy and chaotic that i literally cannot make sense of what i'm looking at, so therefore the horror of it doesn't hit me. there is no visual clarity or purpose and worst of all IT'S SEXIST and i hate it

[thepeanutbutterwizard]

Doodling some stuff for Venomous Teachings while i work on the big Ninja post, wanted to drop some stuff here.

So you know how Fugidove is just, like, a random bird person? And how the Storm Amulet is supposed to be tied to the Element of Wind, despite primarily being used for lightning?

Well, a lore thing I forgot to mention was that I’m turning the Keepers into bird people.

I’ll talk more about my reasons behind this choice later, but Fugidove is the same species as the Keepers. Don’t think he came from the village that Amulet is being held in tho.

And I drew a cute little thing with Lloyd!

Around the time Nya and Garm escape the Underworld, Lloyd and Misako are next-door neighbors to Harumi and her parents! They’ve been living in the same building for about a year.

Harumi and Lloyd are friends, and her parents will help watch him when Misako is stuck working or busy with things. Lloyd likes to tell Harumi about all the cool legends that his Mom and his Granny Mystake tell him, like the one about the magic, super powerful Oni Masks!

This surely won’t wind up being painfully ironic in the future!!

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My inbox is open to any questions!

[britneyshakespeare]

james somerton is just one of those people who wants to do whatever he wants and cannot stand the consequences of their own actions, which they willingly chose to do. entitled and self-absorbed motherfuckers. and that's the only way you can think to do the things he's done in the first place. having no base respect for the people you steal from and your audience, of course you think you can somehow do something to win them back. you can't. no one but an egomaniac would do what he's done in the first place, and only an egomaniac would think they can come back from that and still deserve to be praised and respected and have your cozy career like you did before you were exposed for what you've done. people like this cannot be worked with in the public eye.

[ashleybenlove]

Snotlout immediately clocks that a dragon lives there.

And you know what?!

He's fucking right!!!!!!!!!!

[aces-and-kings]

Rank 16 achieved (love the cozy cabin now ngl). Just another milestone in my "achieve as much pre-7.0, pre-7.0" journey.

Meanwhile I managed 6 chibis in 3 days in preparation for the art party but my arm might fall off after, and Texas continues to be a new level of hell. So my pc time has been spotty. FC is going fantastic though! We will be opening more recruitment spots once we have our plot. The crew we have now is helping build a solid foundation. I can't say enough about how awesome everyone is honestly.

This concludes my update. Happy Creating!

[willkimurashat]

I hate my brain