Lacked that passion, past tense acting
like I made it here from acting
every action led me hereย
so I guess it happened for a reason.
Debilitating mics, put em on ice,
sparking minds, incinerating lines
tryna find the light, spent plenty nights
tryna find a sign to keep on living.
Kept me driven til good Godย
sent hate long gone good songs written
are now just memoriesโฆ
My family kicked me out of the house when I was 16 after finding out I was gay. This song is about finding my passion in writing during this time and using it as a way to cope and process my thoughts and feelings. As hard as it was, there's something beautiful about the strength I found in myself and who these experiences led me to become. I have learned to be thankful for that.
MY NEW SINGLE โNINTENDOโ ๐ฎ๐ฆ IS OUT THIS FRIDAY (11.11)ย
HIT THE PRE-SAVE LINK IN BIO โจ
THIS SONG HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING AND CANNOT WAIT TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU ALL โค๏ธโค๏ธ
Cover Art Credits
Creative Direction:ย @kingparchmentย (Nemar Parchment)
Styling:ย @kingparchmentย (Nemar Parchment)
Photography:ย @amelida.celepijaย (Amelida Celepija)
Edited By:ย @amelida.celepija (Amelida Celepija)
Dorcas telling Pandora about Reg's kissing list when playing truth or dare with veritaserum in last night's party
Pandora: who's number 1?
Dorcas: James
Pandora: James Potter?
Dorcas: Yeah
Pandora: That's cool, it's okay
Dorcas: Evan's number 3
Pandora: That's okay, I thought Evan was going to be number 1
Dorcas: Barty isn't even on the list
Pandora: Barty? Who else was on the list?
Dorcas: Lupin
Pandora: Lupin who? Remus Lupin? Remus was on the list and Barty wasn't on it?
...
Pandora: Shout out my boy Lupin
here's the microfic where it all happened
and that lil wayne interview so u guys get my vibe
Hi, hello, Iโm new to your blog. Iโve made myself at home. Lovely carpet.
Can I please know more about your spider Robbie pie? Canโt seem to find the silverware.
but of course, kind anon
Spider Robbie is an au in which Robbie Robertson takes up the spider mantle after the death of the one before him. He is the third, following Ben Urich and, most notably, Peter Parker.
This au is very much canon divergence from Eyes Without a Face, where Peter makes it in time to save Robbie from his original fate but dies in the process. Peter is shot while rushing Robbie and the others out. In his panic and elation at finding Robbie physically unharmed, Peter outs himself as the Spider Man to his best friend. Robbie stays with him as he bleeds out and resolves to continue to hide Peter's identity.
Peter is buried and remains that way for... an undetermined amount of time.
Robbie is left with a mask, a jacket, and the question of just who was this other half of his friend. As he learns more of who this... Spider Man was, he gets more and more involved in the spider's cases and conflicts. Robbie gets more sure of his own abilities and makes a bit of a name for the Spider Man within his own community, though the people of Harlem are largely unaware that the appearances of a masked vigilante match the interests of one Robbie Robertson.
It is to be noted that none of these aforementioned abilities are spider-god-induced powers like Peter's. Robbie, especially at the beginning of his spidering career, leans more into Urich's role than Parker's. To me, Robbie has been passionate about the press and journalism in a way that Peter never was. For Pete, his job as a photographer and reporter was a job he took until he could get into college and study science. Robbie has a way with words and communication that Peter frankly lacks. Of course, that isn't to say that Robbie won't be kicking ass, because he will. It will just take him a bit of time to get some of those skills as he's, well, a normal guy. Not everyone can get their biology scrambled like Pete.
And just because Robbie hasn't been scrambled doesn't mean he's completely separate from all things supernatural either!
I think the marvel noir universe is at its best when there's a magical, supernatural undercurrent. This concept isn't super prevalent in the actual comics, but HoplesslyLost on ao3 has done some really cool world building with it.
I think in Robbie's case, where he would be the narrator, "magical realism" would be an interesting avenue to take it. I use this term in particular because I most closely relate it to Toni Morrison in my head, when I first learned about it through her work in high school. For Morrison, the concept was inseparable to blackness and I think for Robbie, where his blackness is so central to his character and his motivations, drawing on that could be more of a service to his character. It feels better to do that than ignore how incredibly racialized his society and story is. It will make his relationship with the spider god, Peter (who I will get to very very shortly), his community, and his own mythos as The Spider Man really interesting and complex.
So it's been established that Robbie doesn't have spider powers. And we all know that Peter did-- or should I say does. One of the spider god's abilities is to bring Peter back to life. She does this in the comics, but not in any of the runs from 2008-2010 (the runs that make up this au). When Peter dies on Ellis Island, he does not think he is coming back from that. Waking up again is a surprise.
Here's where I think the au really takes a left turn. Do I think the Spider God is purely evil and spiteful and has it out for Pete? No, not really. Will I be ramping said traits up to 11 for the au? Yeah, I guess I might. This is because I love a little bit of horror and the came back wrong trope. I will hopefully be fleshing the spider god out in the near future, but I really haven't given her the many hours of thought I have the other characters. For that I'm sorry spider god </3
Peter digs himself out of his grave, more spider than he ever has been. For much of his new, waking life he is more animalistic than not. There is clearly something wrong with him; his joints are too flexible and loose, he's got some eye-shine going on, his skin is pale and his veins are starkly dark beneath it. He's possessed. Someone is puppeteering him, someone who knows a lot-- almost everything about him, but it's clear that the someone isn't him.
And Peter--- the body, it can't be Peter. At least, that's what Robbie thinks when the figure catches his eye the first time. Because Peter is dead and buried, and he has been dead and buried for weeks.