jellyfish lover

He doesn't actually, because of a very simple reason:

every three months he'll post and in the author's note there's some shit like "sorry this took a while, i got shot seven times :/" or "i know it's been a minute, i literally got hit by a bus and then stabbed in the leg, but i'm all good!" or sometimes ned would log in and post with a note "hey i'm a friend posting on the author's behalf, they're healing from severe hypothermia but promised an update, so here it is!"

and the fic just gets increasingly more popular for the author notes alone. a good handful of the comments are something along the lines of "i'm not even in the star wars fandom, i'm just here to see if the author is good" or "every update i cheer for another day the author gets to live at this point"

and any reader who is a native new yorker kind of pieces together that holy shit the author might be spider-man because the timeline adds up, and they just fully embrace it. spider-man will stop a robbery and the guy behind the counter will ask when the next chapter will be up. spider-man returns a stolen backpack to a girl and she'll tell him that he "really got poe's voice down so well, it's really impressive."

ned thinks it is hilarious. mj finds out about the fic from twitter, to peter's absolute horror, and changes peter's contact name to "friendly neighborhood ao3 author". but the worst thing to happen is after an avengers battle where peter took a pretty big hit and ends up in med-bay. and during a press conference, when someone asks how spider-man is healing, tony just drops "spidey won't be down for too long. the star wars fic will be updated within the week, probably."

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Do you think a monster is capable of fear? I think when he has something he loves, it starts to understand fear.

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Wait!! It's not over!! There is still more! It'll just take longer to post them as I have yet to finish them so please be patient! Thank you for all the love you have shown this au and it's truly my pleasure to be making these stories! There will be joy in the Hail Mary!! Trust!

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hoooo buddy this one is a three-fer. i couldn't fit everything i wanted on the dual pages and adding a whole other double page felt like a lot, ergo: 3 of them

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close ups \/

Cue Grace explaining friendship bracelets to Simon.

Simon’s not sure how their conversation got to that but apparently on earth you make bracelets for your best friend to signify that you’re best friends. They’re normally made from beads and cheap string with little charms in shapes like hearts and stars. Easy to break but they do look nice from what Grace has showed him.

So he decides to make one for Adrian.

He managed to find some smooth rocks and Rocky made him some paint and a small chain made from xenonite so the bracelet doesn’t burn in the outside atmosphere. He managed to drill a hole through the smooth rocks, paint some of the dark green and blue, pull the chain through, and wielded the end pieces together.

The next day as Simon and Adrian were talking in the green house, Adrian had their own little spot where they keep Eridian plants that would die in Simon’s atmosphere, when Simon shyly hands Adrian the friendship bracelet. Adrian is a bit confused at first until Simon tells them what it is and how he made it from materials that will hold up when they wear it.

Adrian starts crying so hard.

Simon is freaking out thinking that maybe he upset them in a way, like maybe this was offensive to Erdians, until Adrian just reassures him that they are very happy happy happy. They immediately put it on then start crying about how Simon was also considerate about how big they were and that the bracket also fits and that the both of them were best friends.

Adrian fucking flaunts the shit out of that bracelet.

‘Oh this? Just yknow, a bracelet my pebble made me to show that he loves me. Yeah it’s not a big deal or anything. Oh what’s that? You don’t have one? Couldn’t be me, my pebble loves me. Made it so it won’t burn in this atmosphere and everything. Yeah he put a ton of thought into it. Even has this odd shape on it called a star. Yeah I know that’s not what stars look like but he tried his best! It’s beautiful! You’re just jealous!’

Rocky then starts hounding Grace about wanting one.