Was inspired by the wonderful post by @hailed-marys so me and @sam-i-am-27 got possessed by the demons and came out with this. (NEXT)
HC list under the cut
* Astrophage is more like a virus that either alters people, causing them to commit crimes or violent acts, or a power that supervillains are starting to use.
* Grace is still a middle school teacher who got bitten by the spider, obviously.
* Adrian is the one who stitched up the suit (the Aunt May of this universe).
* He has all the perks of a normal Spider-Man, but he's still Grace, so he's incredibly clumsy. He does have a super-strong spider sense, and that's what saves him 100% of the time, but he absolutely does not have the agility. When adrenaline kicks in, he can do anything, but otherwise he'll trip over the most ridiculous things.
* He was wearing his yellow raincoat the first time he saved someone, so now he wears it over his suit (along with his white Converse).
* The spider was discovered by SHIELD (which is undercover as a scientific research facility that Grace works for part-time). After the original test subjects (who were only able to survive the spider mutations if they possessed a specific gene) were killed in an attack, Eva delivered the spider to Grace so he could be bitten before other villains got their hands on that power. (My boy gets unwillingly turned into a savior in every universe.)
* Simon is still an ex-convict who, in exchange for his freedom, is asked by the evil company of the day to test a series of mines infected by what appears to be blood from a meteorite (which eventually turns out to be the symbiote Ellie!).
* At first, they wanted to kill each other, but they end up becoming besties.
At the end of the day, who really are you if everything you know about yourself stems from the life of a person you're pretending to live as?
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My name is Muto Yugi.
I like games. I like my friends. I like burgers. I have a grandpa at home who loves me.
My name is Muto Yugi.
I go to school everyday with my friends. I wake up at 5AM so I have time to do my hair.
My name is Muto Yugi.
I meet them everyday. We play games together.
My name is Yugi Muto.
I don't like the taste of burgers. I don't like eating.
My name is Yugi Muto.
I wake up at 1AM everyday. I sneak out through the window. There is this guard in my home that I don't know.
My name is Yugi Muto.
He grabs my arms and keeps me trapped in my home. He claims he's "worried" and that "I'm injured" but HES LYING!! HE WANTS TO TRAP ME INSIDE!!
My name is Yugi Muto.
The guard is wrinkled and says my name like he knows me. He's lying. It's a trick.
My name is Yugi.
My friends look at me funny. I don't like looking at them.
My name is Yugi?
I don't brush my hair. I don't wash my face. I don't go to school. Everyone is WATCHING ME at school. I don't know ANYONE AT SCHOOL.
My name is Yugi?
WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP SAYING I'M ACTING DIFFERENTLY??!! I'M NORMAL!!
MY NAME IS YUGI??
I don't know what school is I don't know who you are stop looking at me STOP LOOKING AT ME ST-
MY NAME IS-
I seem to fall asleep for days at a time I'm dressed my face is washed my hair is brushed I'm fed. It is my captive doing it. They're forcing me here. They're keeping me here against my will. I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape-
I DON'T THINK MY NAY NAME IS YUGI.
I don't recogniz recognise--I don't think I'm me wh--
Move eec each limb--the reflection isn't me
I don't know who I a--y myself. Please someon-
I DON'T THINK MY NAME IS YUGI
THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THA-
Sometimes when I wake up I'm a new version of me I haven't met and I don't remember where I am and I think. Like. I belonged somewhere far far away and got trapped here as a form of c o s m i c p u n i s h m e n t. Like. A sinner taken to the slaughter. And I stop sleeping and suddenly I realise these people I call my family are people I don't know OR love. But that's cruel right. And I wake up not remembering days. Weeks at a time. And suddenly the house I thought was mine feels like a prison and when I look in the mirror my face it changes every time and I feel sick and have to look away because that's not me.
And I begin fearing that I don't recognise myself in any of my memories and I dont recognise the friends the me I see in my memories fought so hard to get and I realise that I REPLACED HIM. I AM THE REPLACEMENT. And so I try to gamble my life away and I fill "my" body with meds and caffeine and I pity the "ME" I replaced so much that I run around and s l a u g h t e r everyone who ever hurt him because he deserves to rest in peace. Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually dead and this is my afterlife but haha.
That has to be a lie right. Right. Please. Tell me I'm right. Who the fuck am I now? Him? M-
You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?
hot take possibly? but i actually think it’s okay for things to be marketed for adults. it’s literally okay if things aren’t suitable for children. i feel like we are losing the plot
maybe I'm just not looking hard enough but there is an appalling lack of tiityfucking in the BloodyMary fandom. And after Amy so thoughtfully put Mark's boobs on display with that harness. For shame.
I was never a superwholock or a riseofthebravetangleddragons fan or whatever so I don't know if this is normal for crossover fandoms but I do find it kind of strange that every single bloodymary fic goes with "Simon just shows up one day/Sumon's submarine is found floating in space" instead of like. Just properly combining the 'verses?
Simon even has a whole speech about how he thinks people get the Quiet Rapture backwards -- every single planet and star is still in their original places; it was the space stations that were moved.
So why not go with that? Grace is still a teacher on Earth but he's a teacher on Earth in a reality where humanity colonized the stars, and the Astrophage thing happens as a late-term side-effect of the Quiet Rapture. In order to solve the Astrophage problem, Grace and Rocky need to trace it back to its source, which is in the world the space stations were taken to.
They find Simon, they rescue the humans stranded in the other reality, they retire comfortably in Erid like in canon.
It just feels like a much cleaner and neater solution than awkwardly slamming one character into another's universe.
This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!
so yesss!!!! my hypothetical anthrpology #myhypotheticalanthropology
I kinda wanted to approach Eden and the COI not as Evil Cult Society and Evil Industrial Society (since personally i just find that less interesting) but more as two diverging human cultures that adapted to intense circumstances in different ways. that isn't to say that there aren't harmful aspects to them, much in the way that there are harmful aspects to real human societies.
So anyway back 2 my markiplier space movie conlang
I’ve seen a couple “Simon assumes Grace will want sex in exchange for his food/shelter/medical care/access to his resources” but I have yet to see a single “Simon goes through with making sexual advances on Grace as a result, which Grace believes are genuine and responds to in kind, resulting in Simon being under the impression that this is transactional and Grace being under the impression that this is mutual but purely physical and then Simon starts to realize he misunderstood Grace’s intentions but by then he’s caught feelings and doesn’t want to risk losing these scraps of intimacy he’s managed to steal for himself and Grace meanwhile has had feelings since the early days resulting in tortured mutual pining while fucking until something makes Grace figure out the misunderstanding and he’s horrified at thinking he took advantage of Simon and he’s the one to break things off and Simon doesn’t know how to explain that yeah it maybe did start off that way but he wasn’t upset about it at the time and anyway it didn’t. Stay that way for long, but he can’t say that without feeling like a creep because now he’s realizing that HE was the one taking advantage of GRACE and they stop sleeping together and get pathetic and mopey and angsty about it until Rocky and Adrian like idk lock them in a closet until they talk it out or something.”
I’ve seen a couple “Simon assumes Grace will want sex in exchange for his food/shelter/medical care/access to his resources” but I have yet to see a single “Simon goes through with making sexual advances on Grace as a result, which Grace believes are genuine and responds to in kind, resulting in Simon being under the impression that this is transactional and Grace being under the impression that this is mutual but purely physical and then Simon starts to realize he misunderstood Grace’s intentions but by then he’s caught feelings and doesn’t want to risk losing these scraps of intimacy he’s managed to steal for himself and Grace meanwhile has had feelings since the early days resulting in tortured mutual pining while fucking until something makes Grace figure out the misunderstanding and he’s horrified at thinking he took advantage of Simon and he’s the one to break things off and Simon doesn’t know how to explain that yeah it maybe did start off that way but he wasn’t upset about it at the time and anyway it didn’t. Stay that way for long, but he can’t say that without feeling like a creep because now he’s realizing that HE was the one taking advantage of GRACE and they stop sleeping together and get pathetic and mopey and angsty about it until Rocky and Adrian like idk lock them in a closet until they talk it out or something.”
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