SYMBRUARY

Celebrating Symbiotes all throughout February!

[symbruary]

SYMBRUARY 2024

Symbruary returns with a full prompt list provided by YOU, the slime appreciation society. This February, draw something, write something, make something, and select symbiotes as your subject.

Apart from Marvel symbiotes, we're also celebrating any creatures from any other media (or your own imagination) so long as they bond to other creatures! Think the Tok'ra, Khaji Da, Eddie but not this one but the one from Guilty Gear...

1: xenobiology | 2: culture | 3: instinct | 4: bonds | 5: unusual pairs | 6: fix-it | 7: underappreciated goo | 8: iridescent | 9: hostless symbiotes | 10: in sickness/in health | 11: symbiote mecha | 12: symbiotify a non-symbiote character | 13: symby learning cold vs. warmth | 14: girls' night | 15: FREE DAY | 16: faith | 17: regret/apology | 18: dragons | 19: free! | 20: crunch | 21: research | 22: hive | 23: symbiotes wearing clothes | 24: symbiote ot3 | 25: learning something new | 26: yearning/longing/pining | 27: anti-venom | 28: cozy | 29: sibling rivalry

If your submission is safe for work, you can @symbruary or tag #symbruary to have it featured on the blog. We also have an ao3 collection.

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Lasher!

Unfortunately could not figure out how to draw Riot in a way that looked good so that’s why they aren’t here

Kofi/Commisions!

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all props to the venom artists who draw the symbiote manifesting a little goopy head to kiss eddie but i think a Venom Kiss would look like this

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Agony and Phage!

Decided to draw the Hybrid syms two at a time in honor of @symbruary!

Kofi/Commissions below!

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Necroko, Warrior of Justice!

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Despite posting this in January I figured maybe @symbruary would care for a Necroko

[symbruary]

Idk if you know anything about them but could the darkin from league of legends count? They need host bodies to function but they usually kill the hosts mind when taking over, though there are (kinda) two exceptions to this, one where the hosts weren’t killed despite the darkin taking over and another where the host and darkin are still fighting for control

Of course 😏

[lovestrucklaundry]

rewatched brain damage with my friendzzzz enjoy this iconic line from this iconic movie in this iconic @symbruary smirk emoji

[lovestrucklaundry]

i made a game! a silly little game to find symbiotes in this big house. there’s 10 things for you to find (symbiotes and not-symbiotes) and for each find there’s a gif. try it:

https://find-the-symbiotes.neocities.org/

[lovestrucklaundry]

in honor of @symbruary i am finally sharing this. here’s everyhing there is to find (in case you missed something):

Keep reading

[internalscreeching]

Screw it, OC be upon ye

My character for a Mutants & Masterminds game set in the X-Men universe, they go by Demolition and because I was in the Venom 3 trenches when I made them, they’re a Symbrock ship child! That’s how they got their ‘mutation’ (not really a mutation in the conventional x-men sense), they’re partially symbiote :3

Also yes they’re wearing an MCR shirt, that’s just Demo liking the band tho, nothing to do with them being part alien

[internalscreeching]

In honour of @symbruary I gotta reblog my own symbiote-adjacent OC. I love them dearly despite not talking much about em

[lovestrucklaundry]

symbiote love letter (inspired by venom drawing with goo in let there be carnage)

[symbruary]

While we have no organised event and prompt list this year, symbruary spirit is forever. Please feel free to direct anything you make or think about symbiotes (Marvel, OCs, other media) towards us (#symbruary, @symbruary) and we will be happy to share it!

[venomfest]

FAQ!

Is it kinda like @symbruary where we post stuff and just tag it on here?

It's exactly like Symbruary where you post and then tag VenomFest. Additionally, you can post your fill to the AO3 Community for weekly prompts.

Can it be any kind of media (fic, art, memes etc)?

It can be any kind of media so long as you made it (wrote, drew, edited, ect).

Will you reblog stuff even if that week has passed?

I'll be reblogging things after the week has passed, but not before. So, if you want to do something for a later prompt, you can post and tag as early as you want, but it won't be reblogged until the prompt week.

And what is the difference between the prompt fest and the prompt meme?

The difference between the prompt fest and the prompt meme is where the prompts come from and how detailed they are.

The fest consists of weekly prompts that are a single word or phrase curated by me. Creators are welcome to interpret the prompts however they want to.

The prompt meme will consist of submitted prompts that can be as specific as the submitter wants them to be. So, a prompt could be a whole outline of what someone wants to see/read or a specific scenario (only one bed, an AU situation, or Eddie and Venom doing something). The submitter can be as specific or as general as they want. There's no guarantee any one prompt will be filled, but the idea is to inspire authors and artists to create.

[venomfest]

sorry to ask but 😳 what is a prompt fest? i tried googling but didn't understand how it works

No worries! Fandom terminology can be nebulous...

When I was coming up with this my plan was to have something like a kinkmeme/prompt meme where people would submit prompts (explicit or not) that they wanted to read/see. These prompts would be filled by authors/artists who were inspired by those prompts. This is being hosted on AO3 and opens to prompts on August 2nd.

But it seemed like people also wanted to have something like Fictober or @symbruary! Daily writing/drawing prompts that are posted ahead of time. Since there's such a long time until October and daily prompts can be a little overwhelming, I decided to do weekly prompts. I'm posting the list this Friday, June 21st and the first prompt is for the week of Friday, June 28th to Friday, July 5th.

Of course this is a laid back fest, and prompts do not have to be filled in order, or at all. You can pick and choose what you want to fill. The schedule is mainly just for when I'll be reblogging. And if you decide to post to AO3 there's a subcollection for the weekly fest.

[ihasafandom]

Carnage Re-Write Part 6

Part 6/?

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Awesome, so now we just have to re-arrange our plot list into some semblance of order, add anything missing and remove anything extraneous, and boom! We have a plot outline, organized into scenes.

Villains: mayhem Mulligan: shoot frances Villains: in prison/institute Cletus, Shriek: love you/getting moved to another institute convo

Title Card

Eddie & V: movies/games Eddie & Mulligan: "he wants to talk to you" call Venom: hunger (out of chocolate)

Mrs Chen's out too. Friends =/= food intro Settle on sushi (expensive, not satisfying, dead [non-nutritious]) and fries (doesn’t have any of the stuff V needs)

Eddie & Cletus: demands convo Venom: sensory seeking behaviour Eddie: hush V while trying to work

Eddie: be in a hurry V&Eddie: stop mugger Venom: hungry (rebuffed)

Eddie, Anne & Dan: Marriage Convo Eddie: drive recklessly Venom: save them

Eddie & V: jealousy convo Friends =/= food reinforcement Re: Dan

Villains: pine for eachother (jealousy/pining resonance)

Eddie & V: wakeup sequence (first movie parallel) Eddie: experience depression Chickens: intro Venom: experience sensory deprivation, hunger; exhibit sensory-seeking behaviour

V: try to do something nice for Eddie (backfires) Eddie & Venom: breakfast scene Eddie: experience sensory overload

Eddie: be in a hurry, drive recklessly

Cletus: recount backstory Venom: like the sound of the mayhem Cletus: wants message delivered to Frances Venom: likens to wanting to fight for Anne

Venom: hunger (forbidden to leave apartment) Venom: Sensory seeking behaviour Venom: violate boundaries (go for a joyride)

Eddie: experience violated boundaries and consequences for V's actions (callback to Anne in 1st movie) Eddie & Venom: breakup fight

Venom: breakup aftermath, bad decision Venom: party hard Venom: "coming out" and being persecuted euphemisms Venom: do party drugs Venom: experience sensory overload

Venom: break down and discuss Eddie & bad hosts with drunk girls in bathroom while hiding in bathroom from overload Venom: miss Eddie for practical reasons Partygoers: suggest finding a better partner

Venom: find a better host

Eddie: breakup aftermath, bad decision Eddie: do productive writing Chickens: have needs

Eddie: head to Mrs Chen's for chicken advice Eddie: see someone in trouble along the way, get roughed up trying to help someone

Eddie & Mrs Chen: do business Mrs Chen: chickens=venom re:needs

Venom: break Cletus out

Mulligan: call Eddie re: breakout

Eddie: try to do Venom-style investigation without Venom Eddie: miss V for practical reasons Eddie: get arrested for B&E

Eddie: call on a friend

Anne: girlboss, practice law Eddie: get relationship advice Anne: getting Eddie out will take time

Eddie: experience consequences Eddie: experience sensory deprivation Eddie: sensory seeking behaviour Eddie: miss Venom for emotional reasons

Cletus & Venom: joyride Cletus: rescue Frances & other inmates

Villains: party hard, cause mayhem Cletus: experience minor setback Cletus & Carnage: sensory seeking behaviour Cletus: eats a "friend" Venom: Friends=/=Food Venom & Cletus: breakup fight Venom: experience violated boundaries Carnage: born

Venom: experience consequences Venom: get stranded with dying host Venom: call on a friend

Carnage & Cletus: introductions, insta-bond 100% match Frances: Jealous Cletus: proposes to Frances (carnage can come too) Villains: plan wedding guests

Dan: be helpful and unflappable Venom: explain panic & call for help Dan: patch someone up (temp host) Venom: miss Eddie for emotional reasons Venom: get relationship advice Dan: Liken Eddie to chickens re: needs Dan: confirm that he and Anne will still be their friends, Eddie or no Venom: forgive Dan & let go of Anne

Villains: burst into police station Carnage: gets hit by Scream's sonics Carnage: experience sensory overload Cletus: mediate Carnage & Shriek Mulligan: get kidnapped Carnage: smells Eddie Villains: 2 for 1, kidnap Eddie too Leave Anne alive, tell her to get word to V

Dan gets call from Anne

Dan & Venom: meet Anne and Mrs Chen at Church Anne is better host: She-venom She-Venom downs chocolate & chicken & tots from Mrs Chen

She-Venom: enter church Villains: have hostages Carnage: explain motivation re: venom Frances: explain motivation re: mulligan Cletus: explain motivation re: Eddie

Carnage, Shriek, Cletus: start marriage

She-Venom: Objects Venom: wishes to bond with Eddie instead of Anne for this wedding

Villains: bicker Cletus, Shriek, and Carnage: domestic violence Cletus: Protest Frances: realization Carnage: violate boundaries Cletus: experience violated boundaries

Venom & Eddie: notice the villains are unsynched Eddie & Venom: Needs/wants talk while fighting villains Eddie & Venom: Get the upper hand

Villain: Grab a hostage Eddie & Venom: Lose the upper hand

Shriek: turn the tables on Carnage Carnage: experience sensory overload Shriek: fight Carnage for Cletus Villains: Breakup fight

Priest: the villains are like chickens Everyone:??? Priest: They will peck their own flockmates to death at the hint of blood Everyone: ???? Priest: I grew up on a farm

Venom & Eddie: Win fight

Cletus: complain to Eddie that he just wanted to be his friend Venom: Friends =/= food payoff "Friends are not food. … You, however" Cletus: Get eaten

Fight Wrap-Up Eddie & Venom: escape before cops get there Mulligan: buy them some time

Credits Roll

Mid-Credits Scene:

Eddie & Venom unpacking heavy-duty stim toys while discussing their plan to go on a vacation and have some "them" time to figure things out Venom: mention that they have some time now foodwise, since they glutted while in cletus Eddie: verbally accept that he's going to have to compromise some on the foood thing. Venom: verbally accept that Eddie needs quiet time sometimes, and mention some options for what it could do/who it could bond with in the meantime (Or this could be like a list of options on a whiteboard in the bg.)

End--credits scene:

Spider-man sees Venom break Cletus out of prison on cameras, then Eddie escaping from the Church aftermath

End Credits

Heads up: I'm probably going to stop with the outline, but if anyone wants to take it and make an actual fic, or a modified version of the movie script, or anything like that, be my guest! I'd love to see it, I just have too many wips already to actually get into the fic part. :)

Any other suggestions on things to change in this outline?

Regardless, I have at least one more post in this series: my initial re-write burst from right after I woke up, mentioned at the start of this all. I haven't looked at it since starting to write all this up, so we get to see what I've improved on or forgotten about since then.

Hopefully I will be finished @symbruary by May

Part 6/7?

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Carnage Original Design by Mark Bagley

[krisseratops]

@symbruary this is the one that inspired my Carnage drawing! I mean I had to, just look at her in all her murderous glory.

[krisseratops]

Last line game! Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).

Thank you @anisecandy for tagging me sweetheart! I love tag games, I'm just a bit slow on the ball sometimes :}

So this WIP was meant for @symbruary Girls night, but I didn't have the spoons to finish it on time. Like, this was such a fun concept, and I love drawing wild freaky symbiote hair, but also. Goddamn.

Me, after finishing Carnage: "Whew, I don't think I'll be drawing symbiote hair in a while now."

My brain: "Hey, let’s put Scream, Mayhem and Agony all together in the next piece!"

Now, there are no words in this besides the title, so I guess I'll just tag some peeps then.

@reaperlight @kitausuret @zoeloveconvers99 @hanaotaku95

Hope you enjoy it!

[ihasafandom]

Carnage Rewrite Part 4

Part 4/?

First / Second / Previous / Next Okay, looks like the consensus is that the institution sucks for Frances and the other inmates both, 0-1-3. Good to know. Also apparently her name is Shriek and not Scream. Sorry about that, my bad.

So, how did the movie go again? Lemme grab a scene-by-scene recap and summarize it.

Ok, that's a lot!

So lemme just...

I'll put the text in the readmore, but skip to "/summary" to skip.

Suffice it to say, it's got just as much trash as it does treasure. But it does give us something to work with!

Next time I'll make a list of storybeats from both the summary and the work we've already done here, and then synthesize them into a working outline.

Part 4/?

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obligatory @symbruary even though it's now march orz

summary

Cletus and Frances talk about her powers and her getting transferred to another prison. Failed escape attempt during transfer, she gets shot by Mulligan.

Cletus insists that he get to talk to Eddie, Venom wants to eat the cop who brings him the news cause he’s a jerk but is rebuffed, Cletus wants a haiku printed in the paper for Frances, Eddie and Venom see the drawing in Cletus’ cell.

Venom reproduces the drawings, they determine that they mean that the bodies of Cletus’ victims are buried at the beach, this leads to the death penalty for Cletus.

Venom’s unhappy with their current diet, we see Sonny and Cher, Venom wants to be “the Lethal Protector” taking out bad guys.

Mrs Chen’s chocolate shipment is late, Eddie & Venom stop a mugging but Eddie talks V out of eating the mugger. They get a call from Anne.

They meet Anne at a restaurant (V is hoping she’ll take them back), and she reveals that she and Dan are engaged. Anne deduces that Venom is alive and tells it to take care of Eddie because he sucks at it and drives people away. Eddie drives home dangerously and V saves them.

Eddie goes to meet Cletus again, after a postcard with backstory that IDK about anyone else but I didn’t care about. Cletus provokes them, Venom pushes him, the confrontation draws blood which is visibly alive when Cletus later ingests it.

At home Eddie and Venom argue (Eddie feels unable to live his life and Venom is starving) and have a domestic violence. They separate and V possesses someone else while Eddie cleans the apartment.

Carnage prevents the lethal injection, it and Cletus slaughter the guards and escape. Carnage explains it wants to kill Venom so it will be the strongest symbiote, Cletus agrees so long as they find Frances. They steal a car and hack the internet to learn where she’s being held.

Eddie sees news of the escape, Mulligan orders Eddie to keep him updated if he finds anything out. Eddie investigates St Estes, sees “CK + FB” on a tree, tells Mulligan (who thought he killed Frances when he shot her years ago)

Venom goes thru bodies, but they are bad matches and keep dying. Goes to nightclub, people think it’s a costume, he does a speech and they love him but he misses Eddie. They go to Mrs Chen for help, arriving as their latest body is dying.

Cletus arrives at Ravenloft where Dr. Pazzo is taunting Frances. Cletus kills the Dr with tentacles and breaks her out, renaming her shriek. They kill the guards and go to St Estes to burn it. Cops arrive, Carnage and Shriek fight back, Carnage orders Cletus to keep Shriek under control.

Eddie taken into custody by Mulligan as bait for Cletus. He contacts Anne for help, Dan drives her tp the station and Eddie tells her he needs V so he can fight back.

Anne & Dan go to Mrs Chen, Anne realizes V is there and Mrs chen is compatible, and convinces it to go with them. They return to the station, Anne goes in and she-Venom breaks Eddie out. Venom demands a sincere apology, Eddie relents and apologizes for sending Venom out of his body, they rebond.

Cletus & Shriek plan a wedding, plan to kill respective targets – Shriek Mulligan, Cletus Eddie, Carnage Venom. They catch Mulligan and go to Anne’s Apartment, knock Dan out & capture Anne, leave note. Dan calls Eddie, tells him to go to cathedral.

Eddie, V and Dan arrive at cathedra, Venom panics at Carnage’s size and colour, Eddie promises V can eat anyone they want. They fight, Shriek tries to help but is rebuffed by Carnage despite Cletus’ protests. Dan throws fire at Carnage, Mulligan tries to flee but is cornered & hanged by Shriek.

Carnage collapses ceiling on Venom, grabs Anne to take to roof. V thinks they are not strong enough, Dan points out Cletus and Carnage are not as bonded cause Cletus is fighting against their treatment of Shriek, this inspires V to rise up and fight back and they stop Carnage from eating anne and save her from falling.

Bell ringing causes the symbiotes to weaken, Eddie & Cletus fight as men, Carnage & shriek have V cornered but V knocks Shriek off a ledge and her scream separates the symbiotes before she is crushed by the bell. Eddie & Cletus fall, V uses anne and Dan to catch Eddie but Cletus and Carnage are separated. It tries to crawl back to him but V eats it, grabs Cletus – who tells Eddie that all he wanted was for Eddie to be his friend – declares “fuck that guy” and eats his head.

Eddie & V skedaddle before the police arrive and Mulligan is alive but his eyes glow blue like Shriek’s. Later E&V try to decide what to do. They think about separating for good but decide to retreat to a tropical island instead.

V tells Eddie that symbiotes can see the multiverse, and when it’s about to demonstrate they are transported to the MCU. They see a news report about Spider-man and V growls and licks Spidey’s image.

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