𝒱𝒶𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓃

Just a silly guy doing silly things C: !!! MINOR !!!

[ali-d-art]

Introducing Petrova! Rocky and Adrian’s dramatic artsy little Pebble. Petrova chose She/Her after watching Earth Music Puppet Show “Hair Spray.” She loves Earth Art, especially music and musicals. “Humans use sound to make art question? Not just for talk and thrum question?! Amaze Amaze Amaze!” Her favorite catchphrase is “Petrova having a moment” after she learned why Uncle Grace named her Petrova.

I love my Pebble OC’s! More are coming soon!

and look!! My friend Annie crocheted Petrova for me!!! 🥹💛👎

[birdbyrne]

me when i hint that simon knows he might have to abandon grace to get his freedom like 2459393 times: omg grace is so insecure 🥺🥺 he thinks simon might leave him thats so sad

you mfers when i mention yao's gun once in passing: simon is going to fuckign kill grace.

[var1an-onl1n3]

the outline for my mostly fluff/fun/filler chapter goes CRAZY. Usually they're kinda short even for long chapters and I just make shit up as I go along - no. The fluff is so clear in my mind and IM SO READY TO WRITE IT HELL YES

I would put proof but I can't get it grainy enough/it can be read. JUST KNOW That ch14 is going to be so goated whenever its eventually released

[var1an-onl1n3]

CHAPTER 10 IS OUUUTTT WOOHOO

Weekly Monday Updates have begun. Unless I gotta take a break or something or other, updates WILL be coming every Monday YAY (refuses to link nicely FML)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87452321/chapters/231681466

Chapters are getting a little longer... Fic is getting pretty close to 40k words :D

[xxspidercatvaper420xx]

LOVING threshold but boy oh boy do I miss this deranged little guy 💔

[var1an-onl1n3]

OKAY PEOPLE WHO ARE READING If you can see this... New upload schedule just confirmed! Every Monday is now Spider-Man Monday and I'll upload the fic then (unless thunder strikes me down or smth, ao3 author curse is crazy)

YOUR GRACEFUL NEIGHBOURHOOD SPIDERMAN MONDAYYYYYSSSSS

[var1an-onl1n3]

WOAH GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT

NEW bloodymary coltland sibs SPIDERMAN AU CHAPTER?? HAS JUST DROPPED (Im not dead YAY)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

35k words my dudes... Good stuff, fun hyjinks... Come read >:)

[chromaticrainarts]

Hi so when I said I was taking a small break from PHM I lied ok?

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[bloodymarybigbang]

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!!

With a couple of reminders; these forms are strictly for participants (see pinned post for details on participating vs contributing), you MUST be 18+ on or before September 5th to join, and to please check out the list of banned topics and depictions. Don't forget to read the description segment of the forms, as well, as these also have extremely important information.

Please note: It is encouraged that you only sign up to be either a writer OR an artist, as you will not be allowed to do both, and will only be accepted as one role regardless of if you fill out both forms. You CAN, however, be a beta reader alongside another role.

These applications will be open until end of day (PDT) on August 15th!!

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Thank you for your interest in writing for the BloodyMary Big Bang!! As a reminder: - Participating in this event is strictly for 18+ fanwo

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[var1an-onl1n3]

Next chapter lowkirk needed an extra day because the action was giving me trouble BUUUUUUUTT The newer stuff is way longer and way more rounded compared to past chapters. Like things are happening

Keeping it vague but I am quite excited to share... Almost 50K words deep into what I thought would be a short fic. The fool I am bro.

Shits getting good though... Expect fun action in the next chapter! THEN I torture my boy again. Not saying with what you guys can guess

[simonslastprayer]

PLEASE when Mark does his stream, keep PHM and Bloodymary out of it. I'm a big fan of Bloodymary but let our boi Simon have the spotlight in his own movie! And Mark worked his ass off to get this movie out, let's keep it focused on Mark and Simon this time, PLEASE!

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

PPS: Image credits, bark and grass.

[spiribia]

The thing about character design theory is I really think we shouldn’t just keep reinforcing our “this is what a sneaky and untrustworthy character looks like, this is what a threatening and intimidating character looks like, this is what an innocent character worth protecting looks like, this is what a smart and competent character looks like, this is what a man looks like vs what a woman looks like” conventions like they’re innate human wiring that we tap into scientifically and not like, heavily societal

[gayteensupreme]

NOT staying in the tags on my watch

[dawdlzdoodles]

unfinished doodles for @kyri45’s absolutely amazing spider-man project hail mary au !! hahaha involve me. involve me jade.

[undoxt]

I’m sorry but people on TikTok are so weird when it comes to Ryland and his characterization… like at the end of the day he is a grown adult man and not some small little cinnamon role baby boy who shakes whenever someone looks his way.

Like canonically (!) in both book and film he is quite assertive as long as he feels comfortable enough. He is shy or can get embarrassed/awkward but he’s not like super insecure. That man went toe to toe with Stratt (and the other characters) whenever he felt like it. He could be downright rude and arrogant when someone questioned his intelligence/ideas. (Hint hint UNESCO conference. Doing that takes a level of arrogance only found in the depths of academia)

And the whole swearing thing? Don’t even get me started. He doesn’t not swear because he is too pure for the world but because he spends his days with kids. He says 'fuck' when he sees Rocky’s ship.

You don’t have to headcanon him as a dom or whatever but the way people pretend like he would start shaking and crying at the mere suggestion of sex is mostly just infantilizing.

(Just to be clear, it’s fine to think about him like that and write about it in fact write more it just becomes weird when they get all holier than thou about it and pretend like it’s canon instead of what they think he’d be like)

At the end of the day, it’s fiction and everyone can make up their mind especially over stuff like his sexual preferences (which we technically know nothing about), just don’t be weird and pretend like your headcanon is religion and everyone else’s is ridiculous 🫶

[bunk12bear]

It's the tropification of characters. This is something I've noticed like no matter how multifaceted or complex a character is the fandom will reduce them to one trope. God forbid a character ever show nerdy excitement the fandom WILL turn them into an awkward flustered uwu bean even if nothing in their character indicates that they would be like that. There's this tendency to treat enthusiasm and curiosity as childlike traits which is annoying.

[anya-ackerman]

Also just to throw my two cents into the proverbial ring: granted, this is my own interpretation of things but I think there’s enough evidence to argue that Ryland is somewhere on the autism spectrum. And, unfortunately, that ALSO leans towards infantilization as well, whether intentional or subconscious...

Personally, I think Ryland is most interesting when he’s someone who WANTS to be that kind of soft, gentle presence but at every turn he’s reminded that he isn’t built like that and that that’s okay.

I’ve always gravitated towards characters in media that are soft spoken, quiet, demure and shy because they’re everything I’ve felt like I wanted to be and maybe a little bit felt like they were the way I could be accepted by others

Meanwhile, I am actually an easily excitable dork with poor volume control who swears like a sailor and a truck driver had a baby because I just get excited about my passions. And being like that doesn’t feel like a performance I have to be aware of 24/7

I think Ryland is super interesting if he’s multifaceted like that. Someone who wants to be the pinnacle of a soft, gentle presence, who maybe (admittedly this is headcanon) has had experience with people in his life lashing out at others in anger and doesn’t want to be that kind of person so he tries to just shut his anger and vitriol out entirely until it ruptures out of him like a cataclysm (UNESCO).

But he can’t help himself, who he is is someone who will fight tooth and nail for what he believes, someone who is not afraid to take a dig at someone for being an idiot, someone who might not have a lot of faith in himself but by GOD is he going to believe in others and someone who, if push came to shove, will fight like a trapped animal. And that doesn’t make him any less of a good, decent person just because he doesn’t fit a stereotype of what “good” looks like.

[trexiva]

Your daily reminder that JUST BC MARK KNOWS WE'RE HERE. Doesn't mean we have to get CREATORS into fandom spaces

In fact, that gets very parasocial!!! Very quickly!!! And it's WEIRD!!!