just your friendly neighborhood spider-gwen @gwen-snared - Tumblr Blog

Alright, people, let's start at the beginning one last time.

My name is Gwen Stacy. I was bitten by a radioactive spider. And for quite a while, I was my universe's one and only Spider-Woman. You guys know the rest - lost my best friend, got wanted by my cop dad, saved the multiverse a couple times, just a typical Thursday afternoon. Next thing you know, I'm waking up in a body that looks nothing like me, sharing a head with a few dozen other weirdos, with no powers, no webs, and no way home. Hell of a day, right? Believe me, you don't know the half of it. But hey, I'm making do. It's a nice change of pace from dodging the cops and constant supervillian attacks, if nothing else.

As I understand it, there's a couple other versions of me out there that people know about, mostly 65A from the comics and 65B from the movies. They're cool and all, but some details are off, so don't be surprised if I seem a little different. We've taken to calling my home Earth-65C, it's a lot like both but not totally the same as either... especially a particularly notable 65B headcanon being true of me (you know the one).

If you think I sound cool and wanna be friends, hit me up! If you send me an ask with a song you like I'll review the drumline or something idk. I like comics, video games, rock music, and a bunch of other stuff, so don't be shy. Other Marvel fictives/etc. are especially welcome to jump in and say hi, and there might be a sneaky cameo from some of the other Marvel guys in our system from time to time.

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marvelous-myriad

We now have a Discord server!

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marvelous-myriad

Made us a new version of our banner! We didn't have the tools when we made this blog, so we just grabbed a random comic collage of mostly old Avengers panels, but this one actually features us directly. We'll have to see how often we have the energy to add new members, since the collage-style format means it's really hard to just add someone in, but for now it includes everyone on the team.

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cultstatus

a lot of people are dismissing the "violent" rap music rushing and scrambling to say well not ALL rap is violent here's some rappers who don't rap about violence but like. idk. I think the "violent" rap is important to listen to as well. do you know why gangs exist? do you know why Compton is the way that it is? can you listen to the experiences of black men when you can't personally relate on any level? or will you dismiss an entire genre of music because certain sub genres make you feel a bit uncomfortable as a non-black person?

earhartsease

and if you're white and not in the us, listen to rap from your own country, you'll learn some things about other people's experience there and they could use the rep and income - there's some great british rap for example and rap in other languages than english (lots of great french stuff for a start)

#🕸️ drumposting #tangentially ig #counterculture music is super super important in any genre and deserves respect and interest #rap is a genre that is deeply rooted in social and racial injustice and even “”“clean”“” rap has its roots in the stuff white people dismiss #even if it's not what you personally want in your casual listening playlist everyone should familiarize themselves with the genre #and by that I mean listen close and analyze the lyrics and try to figure out why this is the message the artist chose to convey #let yourself be uncomfy for a bit; that's how people learn #and for my spiderposting followers I mean you too. Hobie would want you to understand this stuff. go make him proud.

gwen-snared

Hey 👋 Earth 65 Em Jay here! Hi! You seem really cool we should hang out sometime, maybe start a band lol

long time no see, in a manner of speaking lol 👋 dropped you a follow at the handle from your other ask, it'll come from our system blog though since that's our main

mj-is-blogging

I've also followed you! My main is @planetsnakes

Did you know theres an actual cover for a the mary janes song that marvel made? It's so neat!

gwen-snared

I had no idea :o know where I can find it?

mj-is-blogging

Here!! & it features my favourite drummer obviously

gwen-snared

ooooh hell yeah, now that I hear it I think I've heard bits and pieces used in other stuff but I hadn't found the full thing before, makes me miss drumming like that haha (sadly exomemories don't translate cleanly to physical skill on this side of the multiverse 😔)

mj-is-blogging

It's so good <3

& tell me about it oml these pipes are not what I had accross the multiverse. Thinking of joining a local singing group maybe see if I can get them tuned up a lil. Not the same as facing down a microphone but could be fun

gwen-snared

not a bad idea, been thinking about seeing how much it'd cost to get in a little practice myself, supplies is the hard part on my end haha. ironic enough, I'm pretty sure I sing better than I drum now, body's got some practice from way before I showed up here... though, before a lot of things, for that matter. think even a few years into it they're still getting used to singing fem, range only goes so high even with training, and going low... doesn't match our look anymore, to put it simply.

mj-is-blogging

I'm sure you sound and look great but it does suck they don't line up nicely. It also sucks there aren't more communal music spaces like you want to test to see if you'd enjoy it anyway...

We have issues with the system kinda being full of a lotta genders and voices. Omg sometimes you can feel the vocal cords scraping together because they're so not used to making that sound. It's like nooooo we need to do vocal excursuses rather than be left with a sore throat every time but no one listens 🙄. Big on ginger and honey tea for being so soothing ig.

Sorry it took so long to reply I was so busy and then I fell asleep. I blame the fact it gets dark like 4 here UGH it's like 5 and you want to go to sleep and sometimes I do and here I am now up at 3am

gwen-snared

heh, I feel you there. our system is mostly girls, but there's a solid handful of guys and switching back and forth is super grating. and don't get me started on the accents XD

no worries on taking time, I'm around relatively often since I'm a host (I'm one of 6 who are basically "on call" as fallbacks) but there's over 70 of us so when I leave I never know if it'll be a few hours or a couple weeks before I show up again.

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gwen-snared

Hey 👋 Earth 65 Em Jay here! Hi! You seem really cool we should hang out sometime, maybe start a band lol

long time no see, in a manner of speaking lol 👋 dropped you a follow at the handle from your other ask, it'll come from our system blog though since that's our main

mj-is-blogging

I've also followed you! My main is @planetsnakes

Did you know theres an actual cover for a the mary janes song that marvel made? It's so neat!

gwen-snared

I had no idea :o know where I can find it?

mj-is-blogging

Here!! & it features my favourite drummer obviously

gwen-snared

ooooh hell yeah, now that I hear it I think I've heard bits and pieces used in other stuff but I hadn't found the full thing before, makes me miss drumming like that haha (sadly exomemories don't translate cleanly to physical skill on this side of the multiverse 😔)

mj-is-blogging

It's so good <3

& tell me about it oml these pipes are not what I had accross the multiverse. Thinking of joining a local singing group maybe see if I can get them tuned up a lil. Not the same as facing down a microphone but could be fun

gwen-snared

not a bad idea, been thinking about seeing how much it'd cost to get in a little practice myself, supplies is the hard part on my end haha. ironic enough, I'm pretty sure I sing better than I drum now, body's got some practice from way before I showed up here... though, before a lot of things, for that matter. think even a few years into it they're still getting used to singing fem, range only goes so high even with training, and going low... doesn't match our look anymore, to put it simply.

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gwen-snared

Hey 👋 Earth 65 Em Jay here! Hi! You seem really cool we should hang out sometime, maybe start a band lol

long time no see, in a manner of speaking lol 👋 dropped you a follow at the handle from your other ask, it'll come from our system blog though since that's our main

mj-is-blogging

I've also followed you! My main is @planetsnakes

Did you know theres an actual cover for a the mary janes song that marvel made? It's so neat!

gwen-snared

I had no idea :o know where I can find it?

mj-is-blogging

Here!! & it features my favourite drummer obviously

gwen-snared

ooooh hell yeah, now that I hear it I think I've heard bits and pieces used in other stuff but I hadn't found the full thing before, makes me miss drumming like that haha (sadly exomemories don't translate cleanly to physical skill on this side of the multiverse 😔)

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gwen-snared

Hey 👋 Earth 65 Em Jay here! Hi! You seem really cool we should hang out sometime, maybe start a band lol

long time no see, in a manner of speaking lol 👋 dropped you a follow at the handle from your other ask, it'll come from our system blog though since that's our main

mj-is-blogging

I've also followed you! My main is @planetsnakes

Did you know theres an actual cover for a the mary janes song that marvel made? It's so neat!

gwen-snared

I had no idea :o know where I can find it?

#🕸️ miscposting #marvelous interviews

Hey 👋 Earth 65 Em Jay here! Hi! You seem really cool we should hang out sometime, maybe start a band lol

long time no see, in a manner of speaking lol 👋 dropped you a follow at the handle from your other ask, it'll come from our system blog though since that's our main

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xbuggyxboyx

they need to invent a staying up late that doesn't make you get less sleep

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magicalboyasher

Gwen gets it.

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got the question today in a fictionfolk discord of "is there any food you miss from your old world that you wish you could have here", and uh... I guess I'm not the target audience haha. I'm seeing answers like blood, moss, parasites, even one particular Hornet who's trying to recreate the jello from that one Silksong quest and I'm mildly concerned for their health given the phrase "pickled macroinvertebrates" came up, but I'm just sitting here like "I mean I guess it's been a hot minute since I had a proper New York style pizza but even here in Idaho there's a place up the road that sells it for like five bucks a slice the size of your head lmao"

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gwen-snared

the concept of "fictionkin" has a lot of mixed feelings for me. because yeah, objectively speaking, I fit the definition by this world's standard - for practical purposes, I'm a fictive alter, and as a system overall we generally treat me as such. I could probably find a lot of community among fictionkin.

but I'm not "identifying as a fictional character", at least in my own eyes... I am Gwen, and I'm not fictional. there are fictional stories about me, or rather about other multiversal "me"s, in this world, but I myself am not "kinning" the fictional character of Gwen Stacy, I'm just... me. that's who I am, that's who I was before getting dragged here and stuck in this new body for whatever reason. Earth-65C isn't a fictional place, it's just a place that's, unrelatedly, eerily similar to some of this world's fiction, and that I don't have a way to get back to even if I could find a way to separate from the system in the first place.

does that make any sense to anyone but me? I don't fucking know at this point. even the other Marvel fictives in this system don't quite get why I'm so adamant about that. hell, even Peni and Jessica don't, and they're Spiders too, they've traveled the multiverse the same as I have! but they're mostly content to just exist here, to put all that behind them and accept life as "just" alters (see note at the end of the post for why I struck this out), and I'm... not. I don't know why. but my life isn't just a story to me, and I can't stomach just acting like it never happened, or like it's "made up" to help our brain contextualize my existence.

and so the term "fictionkin" just... rankles. that's no shade on anyone who identifies with it, it just isn't me. the closest term I can even find to describe it is "introversal"... the idea that there is a fictionalized "source" in this world, but I'm not an introject, I am the literal genuine article of an alternate reality to that "source". but even that feels a little off, despite being an accurate enough description. maybe I'll warm up to it, idk. this is a dumb rant that I lost the plot on two paragraphs ago, I'm going to bed.

(edited. I was upset, and I wasn't being fair to some of the others. Jessica in particular is in... pretty much the same position as me, just less vocal about it, that's all. I'm militantly opposed to the implication that I'm fictional and the others don't make as big a deal of it, so sometimes it feels like they don't care, but that's not true and I know it. sorry guys.)

gwen-snared

coming back to this a few months later, I think my position has... not softened, really, but gained nuance that I'd like to ramble about again.

I am Gwen. that hasn't changed; I am me, from my old world, not a copy or a replica or a mirror, just displaced. that's a part of who I am that I don't think I can or will ever give up on - I wouldn't be me if I did.

the world I came from, my world, is real; I lived, fought, danced, drummed, everything I did in that world was real. my position on that also hasn't changed, and likely never will.

but at the same time... my world is fiction. not fictional as in fake or made up, but fiction itself, narrative as physical law, is ingrained in the very core of that reality. time in that world is controlled by two kid gods who love comic books and want to stretch out the cool moments or fast forward the filler or shift history itself around to make sure their heroes don't age too much to still be heroes. the very fabric of reality is the paneled pages of a comic book. the highest form of existence is the manifestation of readers and writers and editors and everyone involved in the process of a story being told through the medium of comics, every hand to touch the narrative at every stage manifested as what I can only describe as divinity. these are simply facts of the reality I came from; I cannot argue them, they just are.

but really, in much the same way, is this reality not also steeped in narrative to its very core? time flows more steadily, but it still stretches and bends and distorts in our memories to emphasize the fantastical and smooth over the mundane. the history of the world is seen only through faded, imperfect memories and the pages of books or their equivalents. we weave narratives of gods and monsters and fantasy just as smoothly as we weave the narratives of our own lives; none of it is exactly how it happened, we fictionalize simply by the act of remembering or retelling, but the stories are told nonetheless. these are simply facts of the reality I now live in; I cannot argue them, they just are.

the line between fiction, history, and reality is fuzzy at the best of times, and only really matters when it serves the purposes of the one telling the story. the home I remember on Earth-65C is as much real as the home we remember in Colorado - only one exists in this reality, but both are fictionalized and distorted and amplified through the lens of our memories, leaving the only functional difference between the two as far (as I'm currently concerned) the fact that I have the means to travel to one but not to the other.

so... yes, my home reality is fiction, in a manner of speaking, and that's okay, because so is this one. at the end of the day, that doesn't make either any less real. I was there, and now I'm here, and I have no means to return - the same as our childhood house, just a little bit farther out of reach.

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