What can I hold you with?

This is a fanart I created for the Spideypool fanfic You're Too Sweet by GollumIsMySpiritAnimal（@smeagolmylove ）

(Please go support this fantastic fic on AO3!!! 🥰 The author’s fanart is just as wonderful!)

The idea started back in January. I read chapter 16 and really loved the scene. With the author’s kind permission, I finally turned it into this piece.

A huge thank you to @smeagolmylove for all the constant support! This is my first time creating fanart for a fic I really love, and the gratitude and joy I feel are hard to express.😭

The title comes from a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, which felt very fitting for this chapter:

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”

The good news is that I've completed the full manuscript for John Rich & The Big Picture, formatted it and killed some darlings, and have sent it to my agent. What started out as a practice novel has become, truly, A Regular Novel. That practice worked—I learned so much! You guys taught me so much. With your gasps, groans, and laughter, you showed me what hit and what didn't. Thank you.

The inconvenient news—I will be closing this Tumblr in the next few days. This is, yes, for #publishing reasons. You will only be able to read John Rich & The Big Picture at the dedicated website for the foreseeable future.

Tumblr is where I got my start sharing stories. I love how I can, like, post 400 words of smut and have that up for 48 hours. I can type up a random thought on the current chapter I'm working on. I can rant. Or drop a poll about whether or not you think John is inspired by John Mulaney. (For legal reasons, he's not. Why would you even think that?) Tumblr is a great place to build community, but not the ideal place potential publishers wants certain stories to exist. (That gay hockey comic is an anomaly.)

Chapter 19 and all subsequent chapters will be up on okjohnrich.site. You'll read the ending there. That site, too, will have to be taken down at some point, but I'll let the finale breathe before putting it under lock and key. This means your friends should start reading now before they have to buy the eBook for the price of two Manhattan lattes.

Dragon Rengoku and charcoal burner tanjiro!

Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord and Chris Miller + Rocky