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Spideypool x Spider-sense
I never saw people say stuff like this enough when I was a teenager, so I’m saying it now.
I’m in my mid-thirties and I have never had sex. I’ve thought about it and could have had one or two opportunities if I put in more effort, but I always decided against it because I just wasn’t into it at the time.
I can safely say that I do not feel I have missed out on anything. I was perfectly capable, by myself, of learning about my own body and boundaries without anyone else there to muddy the waters. The immense pressure that was there in my teens/twenties to Have Sex Just Do It is basically gone. I’m vibing. I’ve got my routine by myself in bed that I enjoy, and that’s enough for me.
And in the unlikely event that I ever decide to have sex with someone in the future, I don’t feel at all like I’m lacking some essential Knowledge or Skill that would “make it good” for someone else. I fully expect to ask my partner out loud what they like and to receive an answer clearly communicated and to relax and have fun. And if it’s a disappointing experience, I’m fine with that too. It is what it is.
Sex is just not that big of a deal. I suspected it as a teen, and I’m more sure of it now. It’s fine to have it or not have it. It’s whatever.
nightvale is such a podcast making me sit in silence for a solid 10 seconds before making me realise that i hadn't resumed my episode and the silence wasn't part of it
I feel that. And may I submit the alternate scenario of sound:
Me assuming an episode just had creepy background noises that Cecil was ignoring because of course he was, it was probably going to be revealed later in the episode, and boy would it be such an interesting thing. I was so excited to learn who/what the creepy noises were. Except the episode ended without any resolution for the noises. And then I removed my headphones.
The noises weren't from the episode. They were in real life.
I never did find out what they were.
people NEED to stop gatekeeping making music like ohhhh i don’t have an instrument ohhhhh i don’t know music theory ohhhhh i’m not gonna pay for some program. SHUT UP. take my hand.
you need NONE of that shit!!!!! there’s a website called beepbox.co. literally all you have to do is press things until it sounds a modicum of nice. it’s easy it’s free and it works on anything which has a browser because it’s a website.
if even ONE person starts making music bc of this post it will be worth it.
making bad music is just as important and okay as it is to write badly or draw badly or sing badly. you AREN’T BEHOLDEN TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC. making music is not utilitarian HAVE FUN. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!
love how people will encourage people to just start making shit and see what happens when it comes to drawing and writing but when it comes to beginner musicians (music makers if you wish to be less formal) it’s just COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE. it feels like no one even knows you MAKE music it just sprouts up from the ground one day and some guy picks it up. am i alone in this dark cave
Fuck it
I'm gonna try and make music
Call me betovan bc I'm deaf as fuck /j
HELL YEAH!!!
Alternatively if you wanna get into music producing in a more “proper” way, you still don’t need any money.
Ableton has excellent free websites to learn the basics:
Learning Music
Learning Synths
You can learn basically everything you need on YouTube. I recommend:
Mercurial Tones Academy
Dan Worrall
Bthelick
A lot of your favorite artists, mainly in electronic music, likely have done track breakdowns, you can watch those to learn how they do things.
DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) ultimately all do the same things, and Cakewalk is a great FREE fully fledged one. Sure it has some issues, and doesn’t have many plugins included, but it works just fine. All the music I released so far was made there, before I made the jump to Ableton.
As for VST plugins:
Vital is an excellent free synth
Native Instruments Komplete Start is a good free collection of plugins
TDR Nova is a great free EQ
There’s a lot of others and I don’t wanna name everything I’m aware of here, but feel free to DM me for more (Or if you have any other questions and stuff too).
And as for samples, you can get a bunch of free ones at:
Cymatics
Ghosthack
Having good headphones is nice and what I’d recommend you invest in first once it comes to it, but even your current ones will probably be fine, mainly if you slap AutoEQ onto them to flatten the frequency response. And ultimately, music isn’t all about the mixing, the most important part is conveying an emotion.
I know this goes against the spirit of the original post a little, but I want people to know that getting into music production also no longer costs thousands, you can just do it at home on your computer without no money.
Yeah, there is still quite the learning curve, I get that, though it’s also why it’s managed to hold me as a hobby for so long.
I do however have something of the exact opposite variety too, the most simple way to make music I know of, and a wonderful little semi-social experience, along the lines of the game Journey:
The New PLINK! is the long overdue update of #plink by @DinahmoeSTHLM. Jam with friends and strangers all over the world.
hi op i think you should know that i did indeed make a song for the first time because of this
Today in "How did I not know this?! I'm obsessed with this stuff. How did this most perfect bit of knowledge evade me for so long":
The US federal court of law declared X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man to be non-human entities. For real life.
Okay I know that's Not a Good Thing. In fact it is a Bad Thing and the sort of Evil scenario in Marvel itself. But let me bask in the feeling of reading a real legal document talking about Spider-Man's humanity, okay.
Here is the link for those interested in all 32 pages: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cit/96-10/96-10-2003-01-03.html
For a more fun summary that is basically just the Wikipedia article but pretending that Marvel characters are real: https://wmbsaltworks.neocities.org/fiction/wiki/wiki-ToyBiz
For the TL;DR and some context:
In about 1998, the company making Marvel toys, Toy Biz Inc., decided they could save a buck on tariffs. See, when importing toys from abroad, taxes are applied. And taxes/tariffs are dependent on the type of toy. They were divided into 3 categories:
Vehicles - anything with wheels
Dolls - anything "representing only a human being" (the definition is an important tool we'll need later)
Toys - anything that isn't a vehicle or doll
Toy Biz's Marvel action figures were labeled as Dolls for years, which meant they had a 12% fee on every unit. But Toys only got 6% fees. Toy Biz decided they could cut their tariffs in half if they could get them reevaluated (if they won they would also be reimbursed for previous years tariffs).
Thus began Toy Biz filing against US Customs almost once a year. I haven't read everything, but it looks like they started with the position that "action figures are like tin soldiers because they are made for battle" (tin soldiers were classified as Toys for some reason). Then in 2000 they changed their tune to "action figures are not dolls because these are not human".
(Yes consequentially this also means that federal court also legally declared any inhuman action figures as officially Not Dolls. Insecure boys everywhere can rejoice. Unless you have a human action figure. In which case that's definitely a Doll.)
Finally in 2003, Customs court (which is part of federal court) sat down, examined about 60 Marvel toy items, and wrote up the above declaration that action figures in the lines of X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man are fully non-human characters and thus qualify as Toys. Toy Biz gets their money. And we get an interesting insight into how Law and capitalism can be used to remove human rights (no rights were harmed in the making of this decision. But if Marvel characters *were* real then they absolutely would be harmed).
Now the way they argue this is what's so interesting to read. First they use the established Customs definition of Dolls "representing only humans" to mean that a toy merely looking human but representing someone not purely human cannot classify as a Doll.
"But characters like Charles Xavier don't look inhuman at all!" Customs argued back. "How are we to know without reading an entire lore!" They said. Toy Biz fired back with "it says on the box that he is a Mutant. Thus he is not human."
"But just having one or two parts of you inhuman don't make you inhuman!" Customs disagreed. "Wolverine having claws doesn't make him any less human!" Toy Biz declared it was. That "only human" meant "purely human". Also that their genetics and superhuman abilities absolutely made them not human.
Some highlights that I find mega controversial for fic references:
More importantly for the purposes here, the category "mutants" is like the categories of"robots" or "monsters." (Page 23)
Yes, the court literally called Mutants "monsters". Like, I know we're talking about toys, but their argument is transferable. If a federal court decides human rights only belong to "pure humans with not a single inhuman trait", then Mutants are screwed.
Given the entire context of the figure's appearance and fantastic story, and the fact that it is part of a series where the characters are described as "'super-human," the court finds that ""Mole Man" is also not properly classifiable as a ""doll" (Page 25)
Unsurprisingly we have a case of judging based on looks. Mole Man was not claimed to have been inhuman in comic lore by any means, but he "looked weird" and fought other inhumans and thus must also not be human. Fraternizing with mutants makes you one i guess.
At issue are essentially four figures, "Hobgoblin, "Dr. Octopus, "Kingpin", and "Kraven". ..... Consequently, the court finds that all of the four "Spider-Man" figures before it are properly classifiable as "toys representing animals or non-human creatures (for example, robots and monsters) " (Page 26 - 27)
This one has a lot wrong. First off, in the entire Spider-Man toy line, they only disputed about the inhumanity of these 4. So Spidey himself was easily decided to be non-human.
(Interestingly, in the 2000 filing, the Peter Parker figure was excluded from this argument, implying that the Peter figure remains a Doll and thus human while Spider-Man is inhuman. Despite this court knowing full well they're the same person. Go figure).
Also, Doc Ock IS human! He just has 4 metal arms fused to his back! They're almost prosthetics! And yet he also is declared inhuman.
Kingpin and Kraven get the same treatment of "looks weird so must not be human" like Mole Man.
So yeah, despite US Customs wanting these characters to remain "human" (albeit for money reasons most probably), a company pestered court enough to get a judge to declare them "inhuman" (also for money).
This whole decision did in fact have a Fallout. Marvel had to make an official statement about it (because hello, this is the Evil Plan of so many comic runs). The judge also received backlash.
Thus I'm left to believe that if Marvel were real today, some company would have done the same thing, probably to make Mutants exempt from simple rights like 40 hr work weeks or Healthcare or worse. Much worse.
I shall be using this as reference for my fic and my invented MORPH Act. Peter, I am so sorry for what's coming.
Ok y’all, why have I not seen a SINGLE angst fanfic bad ending of Yaksi Gozen where Lila actually succeeds in stealing Felix’s ring??? I genuinely cannot fathom that this fandom has left such a devastatingly awful possibility completely untouched. You're telling me nobody looked at that setup and immediately didn’t get to writing a 10k multi chapter au of this.
Honestly, it's insulting. We can do so much better, people. 💀
I need approximately a thousand of these fics on Ao3 by Wednesday
Thank you.
(I’m just kidding by the way. But if you’re a fanfic writer pretty please I need this🥺🙏)
Um. So you gave me an idea and then it got out of hand. Enjoy!
Oh and I decided to call Lila "Salvia" here because I don't think she would let Felix know any of her other identities. Adrien mustve told him about Lila so she's not going to reveal that.
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It was happening again.
He said that as if it ever felt like it stopped.
Felix's polished shoes tapped on the cobblestone. This was an old part of London. Not that there were many places in the city much newer, but this alley had been left quite alone. The houses were old and tiny, the wrought iron fences were rusty if they were even still standing, and not a single ray of neon light was in sight.
He could still look around. That was almost always the case. Unless he was told to keep his eye on the prize. That was a phrase best avoided unless he was meant to act as clumsy as Dupain-Cheng.
Felix's hand grasped one such rusted rail as he climbed the half crumbled stairs. His hand curled into a fist to knock lightly before he was able to wipe the rust on his slacks. He could never be sure if he was so averse to certain textures simply because he hated them, or because he was so often left to endure them for far longer than necessary.
There was a muffled voice from within, possibly someone assuring him they were coming. The door looked to be nearly as original as everything else, down to how thick it was. At least the lock looked new. Something burnished to blend in but shiny and quality nonetheless. A lock Felix might struggle to pick. And the matching deadbolt above it would also prove a challenge.
The door did squeal terribly when it opened. Felix forgot to allow himself to flinch.
The woman who opened the door smiled brightly but weakly. Her eyes were sunken. Her hair was stringy. "Hello, dear, may I help you?"
"I'm here to see Salvia," Felix's voice declared not as unkindly as usual.
The smile stretched the woman's thin skin as it grew. "Oh of course! She mentioned she had company coming! I'll go let her know you're here."
The door was left open as the woman walked slowly to another doorway. Her voice didn't carry very far. The other voice dominated the conversation despite coming from the back of the house. "Coming, mum!"
Salvia was smiling equally wide when she made her appearance. Felix examined her closely. This was his first time seeing Chrysalis's real identity, and he wanted to be prepared to reveal it.
If possible.
"Felix! I'm so glad you decided to come!" Salvia said with sweet irony. Her brunette pixie cut meant her face was fully visible. Her hazel eyes glinted. She spread her arms. His ring glinted on her finger. "Give me a hug!"
She didn't say anything like an order. The cadence of demand wasn't present. Intent was enough for the ring. Felix's arms wrapped around her. "Hello again, Salvia." He forced the words to sound bitter. The woman was already walking away to "give the two lovebirds some privacy".
He tried not to thinj about Kagami. About the way he loved her. About what happened to anything he loved. About what could happen. His heart was speeding like a wild hare by the time Salvia ended the hug.
He hated rabbits.
"Come up to my room, Felix. We can hang out there all night if you want." Her words dripped with something warm amber. It could be mistaken for honey until it splashed down and was revealed to be acid.
Felix's hand found another railing, this one wood and dusty, as he followed her up. Why had his mother ever told him to always hold onto the rail with stairs? He had been two at the time, so perhaps it made sense then, but no one had ever told him otherwise. Not even himself. He couldn't bring himself to erase his mother's warm touch on his life. She hadn't held his ring for long anyway.
Salvia's room was decked in purple. Painted walls with cheap sparkling butterfly decals. A simple bed with sheer purple curtains taped to the ceiling. A bookshelf with a multitude of notebooks lined neatly. Another notebook lay closed on the desk with a glittery gel pen beside it.
"Welcome to my humble lair," she said as she sank into her desk chair. The classic villain pose she struck--arms on the rests, legs cross, evil smirk--might have looked out of place in such a room if it weren't literally a lair.
"How kind of you to have me," he bit back. He could have said something far crueler. Cursed a bit too (the words not banned by his mother). But old habits died hard. He was used to speaking in layers always covered in a pristine polish.
Salvia's smirk reached her eyes now. She found him amusing. "It *is* nice to have you! Because you are mine now. Mine alone." She giggled. "You're part of my plan now, after all."
"Is it a plan I'll have any knowledge of?" It was a genuine question. He knew from experience that he might be left in the dark. Knowledge of why he did things was a courtesy. His purpose was simply to do them.
"Hm.... Let's make this more fun for both of us, shall we? Im not going to tell you anything. Everything you're seeing today is already fake. A playhouse built for my newest plaything. But I know that won't stop you from prying. So lets play a game. You can guess what I'm doing as we go a long. You can guess anything! Who am I? Where am I going with all of this? What will you become in my care?"
Felix simply stood there, palms sweating. It wasn't like he was allowed to break anything or examine it or leave. Salvia had made that clear in her initial instructions. "How lovely. I shall be forced to play guessing games while you set me up for a tea party or something." He nodded toward the dolls already set at a tiny table in one corner of the room. "I had been under the impression I was in the company of the latest villain of Paris."
Salvia giggled again. "Chrysalis isnt a villain. Not a recognized one anyway. You know that. Tell me, what do you think of my work so far? Am I more competent than your uncle?"
Asking what he thought left enough room for him to work. Felix decided to test the waters. "I think you're just the same as him, after Ladybug and Cat Noir constantly. You should know your loose veneer of being benevolent wont work in a city already plagued by akumas."
"Goodness is in the eye of the Miraculous holder." Salvia shrugged. "You know how helpful it can be to masquerade as someone far more trustworthy than yourself."
Unfortunately he did.
"We're alike in that way," she continued contemplatively. "We use a lot of masks." She opened one of the desk drawers, pulling out a white domino mask from the Diamond Ball. Do you enjoy the freedom of not being stuck as one thing?"
Felix bristled. "Some freedom i have with that ring always ending up out of my hands! At least you can't be any worse than what I've already faced."
Salvia's head tilted. "Oh I know everything your father did to you. I could mimic it if it made you more comfortable, but that's not much fun for my game, now is it? What fun is there in being forced to hate when you can learn to love life?"
His eyes narrowed. He wasn't sure what was more unsettling: the fact that she might know of Colt's abuse of power or that she might explore all new forms of control.
"You didn't answer my question before. Tell me, Felix dear, do you enjoy the freedom of your masks?"
This question had less leeway. "Yes," he grit out.
Salvia beamed at him. "Then we already have a lot in common! Its going to be so much fun working with you!"
Felix felt like his chest was caught in a bear trap. This was bad. Worse than he had feared. He had assumed Colt had been the worst thing to happen, the worst thing that could ever happen again if someone like that got a hold of his amok. But this was different.
A sweet purple room instead of a palace. There wasn't a rulebook here for him to read and follow. Salvia made all the rules by her own whim.
A grinning girl instead of a scowling scion. Felix wasn't simply a tool for social events this time. He was a toy for her to bend and break.
Love instead of hate. He had grown up with so little love, he started chasing it the moment he had any freedom. He didn't know it well enough yet. Was it a weapon too?
"Come here, let's play my game." Salvia beckoned, swivelling in the chair to open the journal on the desk. "You know you love games." Her smile wasn't visible but it was heard.
And suddenly Felix knew he loved games. And this was a game, and so he loved it. He rushed to her side to peek over her shoulder. The idea of receiving a clue was thrilling!
Written on the page was "Ladybug =" but the name below it was savagely crossed out.
"I'll give you a hint of who I am if you tell me who Ladybug is."
Pff, that was an easy one. "She's Marinette Dupain-Cheng."
"I knew it!" Salvia wrote the name in swooping cursive. "Then I'll tell you, Felix, that I am going to be your best friend."
Felix wilted. "That's not a proper hint!"
"Fair enough." She turned to face him. "I was going to be Adrien's best friend, until Gabriel ruined everything."
Perhaps they could be friends after all, then. Because Felix knew the feeling. They really did have a lot in common.
Who is always on the most random side quests?
Lloyd
Nya
Kai
Jay
Cole
Zane
PIXAL
Does Spiderman have to deal with mosquitoes?
I mean his blood is technically radioactive. And the spider bit him so it's venom transformed his blood cells.
Wouldn't that mean if anything drank his blood it'd be superpowered?
Or does the spider in him release a pheromone to scare mosquitoes away.
But spiders don't do that because they eat bugs like that.
Ugh someone please tell me your thoughts! I WANNA KNOW Y'ALL'S OPINION!!!
As scientific as fictionally possible, I can see 2 options here.
1) With the original Canon of his blood being radioactive, it would likely be toxic. Since it was the spider's venom engineered to transmit powers, there's no guarantee his blood works the same way. In fact, it most likely just contains low level radiation, which would be high level for something as small as a mosquito. Thus toxic. This is evidenced from MJ getting cancer from him in some iterations. Spider-Man's bodily fluids have toxic levels of radiation. So mosquitoes might bite him but would die soon after.
2) If we go with the more scientifically accurate (and fun imo) idea where Spider-Man is not radioactive and is just genetically modified, it depends on how spider he is. If he's got enough spider DNA that his blood has sufficient spider components, or if he is giving off spider pheromones, mosquitoes would avoid him as they only drink non-arthropod blood. They would see him as either predator or not a prey option at all.
Option 1 puts his secret identity in a lot more danger since a Geiger counter would reveal him, plus the dead mosquitoes could be picked up to get samples of his blood. In Option 2, the mosquitoes would never touch him so his blood is a bit safer.
Me when a character starts experiencing an agonizingly, Horrifically, painful transformation :
Hey, did y'all see this?
I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!
I'll share some of the info below:
Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.
What to do?
-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides
- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!
To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!
Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.
Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b
If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.
rbging this on the main blog cause its so important plz plz sign
@ people and make sure you spread the word!
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I HAVE DOODLES—wait oh my god it's not Breaking The Cycle…what the hellllllllllll—-
Ok so uh I'm trying to draw every day, even if I don't have the time for a fully rendered drawing I can doodle on my phone so I have these!! Context is basically a fic I wanna write one day but don't have time right now!!! I love Savage Spider-Man/Man-Spider its really cool to me and I wish they did more with it in the ultimate show >:((( So I've decided to make it worse!!!
Basically, Still Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, Peter gets injected by ancient uh oh venom, but nothing happens immediately. He goes back home, continues with his life while slowly getting sicker and sicker until it gets too much and he ends up collapsing in an alley on the way home where the transformation finally takes place. Panicked, Peter tries to call the team and accidentally calls Harry. (Wow another ultimate fic with Harry as a main character what a shocker) Peter manages to gurgle out a plea for help before his claws crush the phone and the transformation carries on to completely. Harry manages to track Peter down using a tracker I have no idea how he has yet!!!!! And finds the very spidery monstery Peter in the alley. Peter is like 90% spider instincts and 10% remaining scraps of his humanity in utter confusion and panic and pain at what has happened to him, he hardly remembers anything about who he is or what he's supposed to be doing. Peter almost mauls Harry before something inside him clicks and realises he trusts this person…but he doesn't know why??
Harry manages to smuggle Peter back to the penthouse, and the plot gets kinda flimsy from here because I haven't planned literally anything, it's all in my head but—Harry ends up calling MJ because he CANNOT deal with this alone and they both become determined to try and find out how this happened to Peter and how to turn him back. Neither of them know that Peter is Spider-Man because I think that makes it funnier. SHIELD/Team Spidey are so fucking confused about where Peter went and why Harry and MJ—his best friends—seem minimally bothered. Peter is a big cat. Big ol cat that is determined to cause as much problems as humanly possible. He hates water, he’s eating all the raw meat in the fridge, he claims Harry’s bed as his net and Harry has to sleep on the couch in his own house, Peter has separation anxiety now and gets VERY distressed when his emotional support Harry and MJ attempt to leave his ‘territory’: the penthouse. He’s claimed it all. I’d like it if Norman found out, because he’d be a semi-normal person in this fic, but I have no idea how that would fit into the timeline…eh whatever. Norman finds out and is so fucking tired because Peter keeps stalking him from the ceiling and it's disturbing.
Anyways I love drawing Peter, he's like a muse he's so cool to draw to me, even if his design is kinda simple. I have no idea what I could call this fic and when I'd be doing it, it wouldn't be too long I think and it would be mostly fluff and humour I think. At least that's all I'm drawing, but there is a lot of horror involved!
I'm open to questions, like all my other fics, I think talking helps me build it!! I could even give a few doodles!!!
Writing Sam Wilson
With the rampant racism going on in the Sam and Sambucky tags on a daily basis, I thought I’d put together a list of resources that people can tap into when writing Sam. Because idk if maybe y'all don't know any better but it's it getting so exhausting seeing your favorite character constantly mistreated or seeing hate crimes in his tag all day.
And listen, I HIGHLY recommend that you go through the stereotypes and tropes carefully and with a mindset of learning. I also highly recommend that if you get offended, defensive, or irritated about anything you read here, you inspect that. And if your first reaction is to double down and argue, inspect that too.
Addressing our biases is uncomfortable but not as uncomfortable as some of you have made people in this fandom with the way you treat Black characters and fans.
Do better.
Biology of Spiders excerpts @obsidian-black-cat
The quality is not great because my phone is not letting me take pictures anymore, so I had to use my tablet. I did a quick look over and I’m pretty sure you can read most of the text. I’d take better pictures but in the middle of this I got kind of busy lol
Thanks for the info! I might just buy this as a little present for myself! (I'm such a nerd lol) Seems like a decent primer on spider biology.
One thing that gave me an idea already is the fact that heat above 40 C (104 F) triggers "anesthetic behavior" which I'm assuming is some form of sleep (spider sleep is a heavily debated topic). Since human fevers can reach that temperature, getting sick might be horrible for Peter.
The first time he gets sick after the spider bite, Peter makes the naive assumption that his new powers will make him feel better in no time. But when he goes to bed that night, he doesn't wake up until midnight the following night. How did he lose the whole day? It takes a couple such instances for him to realize he's developing fevers like anyone else, but his spider DNA feels it and decides it's naptime until his body is cool enough to operate again.
Technically speaking, it does help him out because it really does stop him from going into dangerous fever territory. But on the other hand nothing can wake him up when he's like that, leaving him defenseless and starving.
In MCU and USM, at least people are around to help. Tony or Dr. Connors will frantically hook him up to IV and administer super levels of fever reducers. But when Peter is on his own, he awakes to hunger pains and migraines.
When he gets a job, he learns to call in sick the moment he feels something coming on. He only made the mistake of falling unconscious at his Daily Bugle desk once. Thankfully, Jameson splashed cold water on him which helped wake him up enough to go home rather than be sent to a hospital. But his coworkers did notice he was very much Not Fully Lucid and Acting Weird as he rushed out. Tony might try an ice bath as a cure, but the temperature shock just makes the illness last longer, so fever coma it is.
A KPop Demon Hunters story with the Ninjago characters...
This has been stuck in my mind for a a bit.
But other than Lloyd as Rumi I can't really fit the characters.
Plus there's (depending on who you ask) like 5 possible people to play Jinu. Unless it's just Sons of Garmadon... then it's obvious.
You could replace Gwi-Ma with the Preeminent (this evil being who commands Cursed Souls).
Lloyd would be Rumi, trying to hide his Oni traits from the world, and the other ninja would take the place of Zoey and Mira. Their task is to send Oni back to the Cursed Realm... without knowing that their leader is part Oni himself.
Wu would be Celine, but with the added angst of being part Oni himself and hating it with every fiber of his being.
And Harumi could be Jinu (with the SoG as the Saja boys?)- maybe she's Oni herself?
Interesting plot idea tumblr user thestoryteller-thedreamer, which relates in no way at all to one of your allready existing fic.
May i also submit for consideration:
Golden song reprise for when Lloyd accepts his golden Oni form. Bonus points if throughout the movie his Oni side is purple like the rest but when he embraces it with love it turns golden.
Dareth as Bobbi. Enough said.
pros of having a favorite character youve liked for over a decade: character brings you joy and excitement
cons of having a favorite character youve liked for over a decade: they have become a permanent part of your internal monologue and you cant get them to go away
Spider-man can’t thermoregulate but imagine someone found a way to track his traces through therm vision
Spider-man is very sneaky and quiet, people don’t tend to look up so he is perfect for stealthy missions, entering and getting out without a trace
Except if it’s his hands are always cold and it’s a hot day his hand prints may stay for a bit in the walls, in a fight if his hands linger long enough he will leave shortly a print, temperature doesn’t last much but it’s an advantage, if you are already waiting for him, then the security cameras may include thermostat vision and they will know when he arrived so they can take Spider-man by surprise before he can gets too far
If Peter climbs walls through small hairs in his body then it makes you wonder how thick his clothes can get till he can’t grip a wall anymore, so at least he needs to let free his hands and feet, leaving them cooler than his body
Or at the contrary maybe his body temperature is whatever temperature the ambient is,
Quick physics lesson- objects are constantly finding an equilibrium in temperature, if I bring a cold glass of water in a room “it gets warm” bc it’s trying to find an equilibrium with the ambient room temperature
So Peter can even kinda camouflage from thermal vision if his whole body is at the same temperature than the walls/ceiling as if his body treated heat like any object would
Imagine a villain going “ha! That sneaky spider keeps hiding but with this thermo vision glasses I can track him easily” and just self sabotaged themselves by accident but this knowledge can actually give them the key to kill spider-man, they are weak to temperature changes
If spiders hibernate in winter then a cold room will slow him down or even kill him
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Oh I never thought of this but you're onto something!
In spiders, the hairs cause a small air gap between them and the surface. This air gap might be enough insulation to prevent temperature changes. But since Peter is so large, the air gap might be negligible.
I can see two scenarios playing out depending on what room temp the villains prefer/need.
Hot Lair
Pros for Spidey would be that he probably handles hotter temps better than typical humans. He would feel just fine, perhaps even happy to let his body run hotter with the rest of the room. This is when he is thermally camouflaged.
Pros for the villains would be that if they make the walls/ceiling heated, Spidey's hands and feet would absorb the heat more than the rest of him. So when he moves away from the hot wall, suddenly he's super bright on thermal cameras.
Cold Rooms
Pros for Spidey would be none. He would have to start up a heater in his suit which would immediately make him visible on thermal.
Pros for villain would be that Spidey is instantly visible, or if he refuses to turn on his suit heater then he's slowed down from the cold.
I imagine the villains mightve discovered this in the summer. For a while they believe it's some tech Spider-Man has that makes him invisible on thermal. But on a hot day, Spidey is warm from the sun. When he enters an air conditioned lair, thermal locks on him immediately and the villain figures it out.
If I were Spider-Man, I'd make the suit heater programmable so he can try to match the ambient temp as much as possible (when it's not too cold).
And if I were a villain.... I'd probably set up a temperature gradient in every room. If I have really sensitive thermal cameras, then the different between one wall and the next only has to be a degree or so. Spider-Man might not even notice the difference (especially if there is that tiny insulation gap of air) and so he's oblivious to the moment he becomes visible on my thermals.
Okay I know it's an old thing everyone's seen a million times, but...
I really do love it when a character gets to safety after some grueling experience they survived and got out of by their own strength and skill and cunning, and... then gets drastically worse very rapidly afterwards. Just utterly collapsing, sick, out of strength, in so much pain, hardly able to get out of bed without help, probably emotionally an utter mess too
Because they've just been pushing their body on and on, to its limits and past, because they had to, because it was up to them to deal with it all, there was no help, no back-up, nothing to rely on but themself. So their mind and body have just burned up all the reserves and endured it all as best as possible, they've held together until they got out of that situation
But now that they're finally safe, their body recognizes it. Now that they're finally safe they no longer need to endure more, they no longer need to keep anything together, to push the pain and exhaustion aside and refuse to feel it in order to go on. They're finally safe to stop all of that. And so- they collapse. All of it catches up with them all at once, and they have no optipn to keep it at bay anymore, they just have to feel it. Have to suffer the consequences of all the injuries, exhaustion, whatever illness they might've picked up, whatever's going on
And they just feel so miserable and weak and vulnerable and tired, and have no real option but to allow whoever's around to care for them and deal with everything while they recover
