#spiderine

More Spiderclaw :> (dorks™)

Should tell my boyfriend what I been doin'

Been thinkin' of you every time I screw him

We can keep it low-key for the meantime

Got you runnin' back to back, came three times

Had the grip so tight from the inside

Now I'm kissin' on your neck, that's the sweet spot

But if we freakin', I need you to say it

“I SHIP SPIDER-MAN AND DEADPOOL”

Peter Parker x Laura Kinney (No official ship name. I vote for Spiderine) is a rare ship between a friendly neighbourhood vigilante and a former assassin cloned to be the perfect killing machine. Despite their different backgrounds and handful of interactions, I believe that this ship has lots of potential and deserves more attention.

An example would be their shared trauma. At first, you may question what the hell I'm talking about considering how different their origin stories are but consider this. They both feel responsible for the death of their parental figures. Uncle Ben was murdered as a consequence of Peter's actions, while Sarah was killed by Laura because of the actions of someone else. You can also add the deaths of Gwen, Logan, and others based on the continuity.

My point is, Peter, can at least somewhat understand Laura's pain, and help her open up and to move past her guilt. Laura can fill a similar role, understanding Peter's pain better than most.

Their interactions would also be hilarious to read. An example would be Peter trying to talk Laura out of killing his bullies. Another would be breaking the news of their relationship with Logan. For more examples, look at the incorrect quotes that I posted about them.

The ship fits a lot of standard marvel fanfic types. These include Standard Stories, Team as Family, Vigilantism, Superhero School etc. Therefore, it shouldn't be difficult to make it fit in with whatever story you wish to tell. Fanart is a similar thing. There's a ton of potential for that as well.

Sam, I keep seeing the WIP title and may I suggest "the ladyfingers and the tiger" to keep with the food theme?

Sadly for the same reason I could not call it Confit For A King -- there’s no confit nor ladyfingers! But there is a tiger. The tiger is a real tiger but also a metaphor. It all works in my head but it’s proving difficult on paper. 

Also I’m going for a theme where I get progressively more pretentious with each title. Fete for a King is a dumb pun, Infinite Jes is a play on both Shakespeare and David Foster Wallace, and The Lady And The Tiger references an extremely pompous (and kinda sidelong-racist) short story by Frank Stockton illustrating a philosophical dilemma. Soon I’m going to be getting into like, Ayn Rand territory. Perhaps a story about the palace Conservation Corps officers called Atlas Shrubbed. 

spiderine

Are. You. Out. Of. Your. Mind. We spend so much energy wrapping you in metaphorical bubble wrap and here you go dosing yourself with rocket fuel. Must we upgrade to kevlar before you turn yourself into a molotov cocktail?

See, this is making me glad I didn’t go with my original plan of buying Everclear and watering it down to 50% ABV. 

cucurbitapuella

You could probably get away with an "in character" basic but not beautiful map - maybe Noah had to do it for homework, or Eddie made himself one to mark where the cheeses come from?

The idea of Eddie drawing himself some kind of deranged treasure map with CHEESE HERE in the upper left corner is extremely compelling. :D 

sorelylackingsnifters

It is weirdly refreshing to see another person on this site who isn't engaged with every single piece of media out there. I am glad the gay pirates exist! But I'm going to be over here with my point-and-click games instead!

I think one of the downsides of social media with regards to fandom in specific is that it presents a skew of proportion, in a way. It’s not really polite (or...in some ways necessary) to hop online and just announce you don’t like something. We just don’t do it, unless we’re critiquing the media for problematic elements of some kind. And I feel like that’s appropriate, for the most part. But it can get frustrating to be bombarded by other people reblogging content from the thing we don’t like (or even are just indifferent to) to the point where you kind of want to announce your dislike out of sheer perversity.

But like, there’s nothing wrong with people loving something and reblogging content of it, they’re not doing it to pester us. So whenever I find myself getting frustrated with those posts, I immediately go and blacklist the thing -- generally tags but also character names not in tags, just to be sure. I do this because at that point I am officially Reacting and don’t want to harsh anyone’s good time for no reason. But it does kind of create a feedback loop where I think some people go looking for reasons something might be problematic in order to announce they don’t like a thing and have justification for doing so.