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8. May, 2021

It's officially been three years since the Vanishing.

I realized that that means I've been a vigilante for twice as long as Peter was. It's weird to think about, because every time I think about him, I remember a guy who had (most) things figured out, but he didn't.

Every year without him I learn more and more lessons the hard way. I think about the way things went down with Mysterio, and I can't help but think he'd be disappointed in me for falling for it. But I know that can't be true.

He was sixteen. We were both just kids. If I fell for Beck's bullshit with four years of experience under my belt—

I'm not sure there's a point to this. I guess I'm just realizing that Peter was human. He didn't have all the answers and he fucked up sometimes, but watching him take hits and get back up is why I didn't give up after my first fight with Rhino.

Peter wasn't perfect, but he was my best friend, and I don't want to keep using his memory to beat myself up, y'know?

#aurachnid.txt #may 2021 #spider man

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Is any of this real?

#aurachnid.txt #mysterio arc #april 2021 #unreality #i think???

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Something's not adding up with Beck... It took me a while to notice through the rose-colored glasses, but something isn't right.

I don't know if it's as bad as it looks, or if I'm just catastrophizing, but I intend to find out.

#aurachnid.txt #mysterio arc #april 2021

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Rest in peace to mini me for just dealing with Mysterio like a month ago. That shit sucked, and it honestly doesn't get better. I can't believe I thought Beck was cool. She's an asshole, actually.

#aurachnid.txt #spooky season 2: electric boogaloo #mysterio

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Does this lady have a fishbowl on her head?

#aurachnid.txt #april 2021 #mysterio arc

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Big news everybody!

I'm not dead lmao, but that's not the big news. The big news is that my lease is ending soon and Nicky, my gf, doesn't wanna live in the dorms anymore, so we're gonna get an apartment together!!

Our first anniversary just passed, so we're not rushing into anything, and she knows about the spidery stuff, so I don't have to worry about hiding that.

I'm a little nervous about living with a significant other for the first time, but mostly I'm just really, really excited.

#aurachnid.txt #june 2021 #nicky briggs

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Do y'all think it would fuck up his timeline too much if I warned Tommy about the clone thing?

#aurachnid.txt #fellow webheads #spider punk 13666

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Y'all think Beck knows how much self control I have to not just send Castle after her ass? She should count herself lucky. It's honestly incredible how much restraint I'm showing. ᕙ⁠(⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼⁠‶⁠)⁠ᕗ

Anyway, I've got a lead. I can't wait to shatter that stupid fishbowl into millions of tiny pieces. Square up, Alejandra! (ง •̀_•́)ง

#aurachnid.txt #mysterio arc #april 2021

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It's so unfortunate that the Chrysler building is my favorite perch, because it comes with the massive downside of being in sight of Stark Tower. Talk about an eye sore.

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Met an alternate version of myself. Having a crisis about it :0)

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Honestly, the only thing I dislike about this whole Halloween takeover thing is that I can't give mini-me any advice.

In a month or so they're gonna intern with Dr. Octavius, which is amazing! I met my wife because of that internship, and it was an incredible experience, but what happened because of it...

I feel like I'm supposed to say I'd go back and turn down the internship just to prevent all of that if I could, but the truth is, I'm not actually certain I would.

Maybe that's selfish of me, but here's the thing. There's no way to know if anything would have changed. If I hadn't taken the internship, someone equally as smart would have, and they would have worked on the exact same projects as me. Maybe they wouldn't have thought to use AI to increase the reaction speed, or maybe Dr. Octavius would have thought of it instead.

Sure, I wish I could change the way things played out, but I know that I did the best I could in the moment, and I have to remind myself that that is enough. It was enough, and what happened to Octavius wasn't anyone's fault.

So, yeah. I'd love to go back and tell mini-me to install power-surge protection, but at the end of the day, Fate took its course. And I think that that's an important lesson that all Spiders need to learn.

Hindsight is 20/20, after all.

#aurachnid.txt #spooky season 2: electric boogaloo

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We're back, babey!

Yes! I finally did it! Happy 25th birthday to me, this is awesome!!

Hello! I'm back!! It's Frankie from the year 2026!! Let's go!

Danny helped me work with the time magic, and I should be blogging right around most spiders' October, though it was like... May? for baby me??

It took a little longer this time because we brought the computer out of the infinite realms, so that y'all could hear from more than just me and Danny!

Now you can also hear from my lovely wife Holly, my best friend Peter, my new mentee Miles, and even my murder dad! (If there are others you wanna hear from, lmk and I'll ask them to stop by!)

You could shake us like a magic eight ball again, or we'll be reblogging some fun ask games later.

It's great to see y'all again!

#aurachnid.txt #spooky season 2: electric boogaloo #ooc: [we're starting late this year because I totally forgot to preemptively set everything up but I really wanted to do this again #so i figured i'd start on Frankie's birthday. seemed like a good enough starting point lskdjfdkls #I'm not expecting as much engagement as last year but I am kinda hoping? send some asks & have some fun #Frankie's done a LOT between October 2025 and 2026]

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It's time for pointless righteous anger!

So I found an old family photo album, and in it was pictures from the Halloween in 2009 when I dressed up as Marie Curie. The year before that I dressed up as a Chernobyl technician. In 2010, I dressed as Louis Slotin, complete with a screwdriver and life-sized Demon Core™ replica (I had a BIG hyperfixation on radiation history. Still do tbh).

So anyway, I have an obsessive amount of layman's knowledge on how radiation works. WHICH IS WHY I WILL ARGUE, UNTIL I'M BLUE IN THE FACE, ABOUT THE SPIDER THAT BIT ME (AND OTHER CLUSTER MEMBERS)

It's obviously a bit different for the folks who got blessed by a spider god or whatever, that's pretty much magic that can't be quantified with modern science. I have no fuckin' idea what's going on there.

BUT THIS IS TARGETED AT THE MOTHER FUCKERS WHO CLAIM THEY WERE GIVEN POWERS BY A "RADIOACTIVE SPIDER." NO YOU WEREN'T!

The spider that bit you might have been giving off radiation. For a creature that small, probably the amount you would find in a single radium clock face. So the radioactivity is 1) not a defining quality of whatever spider that bit you and 2) almost definitely not what gave you powers.

Without seeing the research papers from Oscorp (or Alchemax in other 'verses), I can almost guarantee that the best definition of the spider that gave you your powers is "genetically enhanced/modified using radiation"

AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!

#aurachnid.txt #radioactive spider bite

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Sorry for the radio silence. It's been a long couple of days.

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Hey everyone,

Y'all probably noticed that I've been going through it for the last dozen or so posts (everyone, please appreciate how cool my girlfriend is 💛🧡).

It's been a couple of days and I'm still dealing with a few lingering symptoms from Beck's toxin (catatonia, mood swings, paranoia, etc. no big /s), but I am recovering, mostly in the physical sense for now

Castle and Nicky have been so patient. My mood swings were no joke, and they wrote me a ton of lists when I was still confused.

Beck is still on the loose, but I will catch her. She's had free reign for long enough.

After that, I will be spending so much time in Dr. Sims' office (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

#aurachnid.txt #mysterio arc #april 2021

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oh shit

#aurachnid.txt #murder dad arc #october 2019