Healing a broken bone normally doesn't take my symbiote long. But when it's broken in two and stuff, man, would not recommend the experience. Now, I got a big, grim guy--no, not the one on the Fantastic 4--I need to fuck up.

She was moving through the air in the wrong direction. Crashing through a window, through tables. She looked up through bleary eyes. Hey, this was the coffee shop where she had worked. What are the chances? Pretty slim in New York City, given how many coffee shops there were. >

The pain in her arm shot through every nerve in her body. More than the slam against the ground, more than the slam against the wall. Those hits? She was used to those hits. She could handle those hits. She couldn't even curl a fist right now. >

Who was this guy? He was unflinching. She knew it had to have felt that. There were holes in his hand! But that vice-like grip only got tighter. Gwen threw more kicks, but they were awkward as she was caught between that and trying to wrench her arm free. >

It was like kicking a building. No, she would've put a dent in a building. He coughed, acknowledged the kick and just kept squeezing. Gwen's eyes opened, realizing what was was trying to do as pain wrenched down her arm. She couldn't overpower him to get her arm free. He was ignoring her. >

She threw a hard punch. The thing about Spider-Strength is that you always had to pull your punches until you knew otherwise. She wanted to hurt him, she didn't want to take his head off. It was a fine line but it always meant holding back. >

Normally you approach big guys carefully. Don't engage them in feats of strength. But Gwen's favourite trick was to show them how much stronger she actually was. She was also terrible at planning. So with a THWIP she shot off like a rocket, hit the ground, coiled and sprung forward with a punch.

"Okay, but, see, you just let him go. And you've established yourself as a villain. Who now has no leverage except money and you're big. So this is the part where I put your money where your mouth is and punch it repeatedly." She was bad at receiving messages. Good at acting impulsively, though.

Oh, okay, this took a sudden and violent turn. Fortunately such an act led to everyone else in the area screaming and running away, so there were fewer bystanders. Time to play hostage negotiator ... "Okay, alright, Tombstone it is. Touchy about the name. What's your beef, anyway?"

"Alright, Pest Control, calm down. I bet that sounded really cool in your head, didn't it?"

"Okay, so, now there's an audience. Still trying to figure out your deal. Guys like Scorpion or Kraven are easy. Very blunt about their gimmick."

"Is the knock knock supposed to be my head against the ground? Because I've heard that one before."

"Having tried that a couple times, would not recommend the falling off a bridge thing. Also, is that a link? Stiff, Tombstone? Are you trying to quip?"

"Wow, original. That gonna be your new name? A bit more succinct, better than Tombstone. That a wrestling reference?"

quill plugging some more of my art :D

quill it's hilarious how fast i checked out of age of revelation

What's going on here? Some kinda werewolf: the apocalypse?

quill since this account has the most followers out of all of mine, i'm going to use it to shamelessly plug my art. posting it over on my writer account since it's not marvel or gwen related, but sharing here ANYWAY.

quill i've been practicing my inking and colouring lately. the pencils in blue were joe quesada, i wish i could draw like that. i printed them and then inked and coloured them.

quill oh my god did they really need to drop unbreakable x-men and rogue storm in the same batch? no spoilers but wow, rogue storm really just downplays all of the emotion of unbreakable x-men.

@vampirenotspider.bsky.social 📲 : Alright fine I took the bait and did some digging. 📲 : You're still evil though 📲 : Why did you tell me about him? 📲 : I expect a Miguel variant to have machinations. Not just going around stirring trouble. 📲 : I still don't trust you. At all.

Okay, okay, don't panic, Gwen. Her dimensional travel watch was stashed in a safe place for now. (Under a dumpster in a box with 'Season 2 of Zoey 101' written across the top of it with Sharpie). Now she just needed ... someone like Miguel, who knew what to do. Because she didn't.

@vampirespider.bsky.social "Lyla, wanna play a fun game?"

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quill :)

Glad people are glossing right over the whole being thrown off a bridge thing. It wasn't me but I feel like I can still be indignant about it all things considered.

quill i'm disappointed in you all that no one informed me a new season of panty & stocking + garterbelt came out last month. i have to catch up now.

What a terrible day to have media literacy and eyes.

Took a break from my markers, opened up Procreate and tried to be painterly for a bit. :D

quill i wanna write but i have like no focus for the timeline right now i'm sorry

quill so i discovered final girl, a single player board game, where you play as the final girl in a horror movie. kinda been eating my spare bandwidth this week, ngl well, that and the writing course i'm taking started and i've been focusing on being a novelist for a bit

quill guys why am i seeing mass effect on my tl and why was i not invited?

The flying guy wants to impregnate his boyfriend and there's some dorky guy talking about seahorses. Yeah, that about checks out, honestly.

quill just a lil gwen idk

📲 : I'm fine. 📲 : Punched him so hard he burst. 📲 : Or he turned into a cloud on purpose. I'm not pretending to understand how vampires work. 📲 : Be there soon!

The old 'falling off the roof' trick. She hated how much of a Spider he still was. Gwen's suit went back to white, the immediate threat gone for now. "I'm not gonna ask him," she grumped, staring at the edge of the roof. "That's exactly what you want and I'm not gonna!" She was already typing. >

Her shoulder rippled under his touch. The symbiote reacted defensively. Sure, one might see her suit turning black where he touched it as a bad thing, but in this case? Best case scenario. She tensed. "I never pretended to understand the whole vampire thing," she said through grit teeth. >

"He's just like you, for real, for real?" Biding time with jokes while she processed what was just said. She hated the 'go ask him yourself' game. It was always so smug. "Okay but when did that happen? And why? I mean, why even bother doing that?"

"So this is the part where you drop vague hints to try and undermine the good guys and create a rift between us all? Wow, I kinda thought evil Miguel would use an original playbook," she scoffed. "You should meet my dimension's version of Matt Murdock. Guy wrote the playbook you're using, trust."

"Weird way to talk about yourself, my dude," she shot back. She was ready. She knew this situation could escalate rapidly with the slightest provocation. And she hated how Miguel's ability to take charge looked when it was used for evil. "Old Miguel's fun in his own way. Don't know about you."

Gwen was used to variants. She'd dealt with enough of her own. Yet it was still strange how they used the same voice. Her Miguel would never say 'darling', however, so that was an immediate giveaway. "You're right, I was kicking you with my left. This time, I'll use the right foot."

quill the struggle of wondering whether your sick or if the symptoms are environmental. are these chills because i spent the day hiking in the woods at 5°C or because my toddler has a cough? are these body aches because of gym yesterday or because he refuses to cover his mouth? ;;

Honestly if the way I've acted around you qualifies as cool I think that's more a testament to your tastes being weird but also I'll absolutely take it if it means I've been doing things right.

That's a lot of pressure.

Wait, I'm the cool spider? No way. That's ironic, right? I mean, actually, given the other options maybe not ...

I'll take the 'or else'.