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I'm glad we actually limited his powerset a bit more than that, I guess back in the 60s it wasn't as well known just how WEIRD "all the powers of earth's lizards" would be if true. Amazing Spiderman 6
To be fair, I have met (and herded out of a mildly exploding building) kids like that. Highschoolers, man. Just enough smarts to be so, so stupid.
Because some kids can't even hold onto the instruction of "there is a killer robot loose in the school, evacuate" Amazing Spiderman 8
Ah, the Spider Signal. Truly the exact inverse of the Bat Signal.
Peter doesn't have the same scare factor as Batman but that doesn't mean he LACKS one. Amazing Spiderman 9
The Empty House - part 2
"I struck against an elderly deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. ... I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the eyes of their owner. With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel."
THE EMPTY HOUSE, part 2 - (part 1) - Several reunions, which do not go exactly to plan.
This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!
I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist
(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)
All of the Prehistoric Pride guys in one collective post to celebrate pride month. Choose your fighter and have an awesome time :D
More suggestions are always welcome, I sadly was not able to cover everyone, but I will do more of these in the future!
I am going to add more and more to the collection as I get them done :D
If you would like to support my silly little dinosaur art, then you can buy any of these Prideaurs as stickers from my Etsy shop, which I just set up recently. I am pretty new to this entire business side of art things, but I am trying my best :D so a like or a reblog would go a long way. Thank you guys so much for all your kind words and support!
Here are six more short, spoiler-free ♥️ reviews of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon ROM hacks I’ve played! Part 2 ✨
I’ll leave all the links to the games below! Have fun playing, and please message me if you need help patching the hacks!
Eternal elemental - https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/eternal_elemental
Flames of bravery - https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/flames_of_bravery
Strung up by sketches - https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/strungupbysketches
Let the music play - https://hacks.skytemple.org
Explorers abridged - https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/abridged
Psychic Puppets - https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/puppets
Congratulations, you wrote the fic! The POV/tense choice is a little experimental, but tbh it's really working for me. Plus, pluckin' on the ol' heartstrings like a harp. Ctrl-c ctrl-v this into AO3 already so I can add it to my bookmarks :D
spideytorch angst fic where peter has to stop being spider-man for one reason or another (possibly after aunt may passes and he falls into a depressive episode that causes him to lose his job so he can't afford to do the crime-fighting thing because he can barely afford to feed himself, let alone buy the ingredients for his web fluid and suit repairs and stuff)
He doesn't really expect people to care that much - there are already so many heroes in new york and he mostly dealt with street-level criminals anyways, and the bugle is always going on about what a menace he is so they'll probably be happy for him to take a break for a while.
So fast forward a year later, peter's starting to get back on his feet, and he manages to get a job working for reed. He's a little wary at first, worried that they'll figure out who he is, but this isn't an opportunity he's willing to give up
He gets along really well with reed, and every once in a while he crosses paths with the other members of the fantastic four as well
Sue and Ben are friendly enough with him, but Johnny seems to hate him for some reason. Like, this goes way beyond whatever petty grudges johnny may have had with peter parker when they were both teenagers, and peter can't figure it out
It goes on for weeks before it all comes to a head when peter stays behind late at work one day, after everyone else has already left.
Johnny comes round to find peter, and awkwardly apologises to him for the way that he's been treating him
Peter is obviously pissed, but this is his best friend after all, so he gives him a chance to explain himself.
Johnny looks ashamed of himself as he haltingly explains that none of it was ever peter's fault. It's just that...peter reminds him so much of spider-man (which makes sense after all, johnny knows that peter and spidey were friends, so of course they'd share some mannerisms), and it hurt johnny to see the way reed and the others were just kind of accepting peter into the fold because it felt like peter was replacing his best friend. Peter doesn't know what to say as johnny keeps rambling about how the last time he ever saw spider-man, the two of them had had a fight and had left each other on bad terms. Johnny is crying now because he doesn't know where his best friend is, doesn't even know if he's still alive, and it hurts him to think that maybe spider-man is still out there, has stopped the hero lifestyle and is just living a life that doesn't have room for johnny in it, but that's still so much better than the alternative that he's not out there at all. That maybe he had been done in by some villain who got in a lucky shot and no one ever found out because no one knew who it was beneath the mask.
Peter is hugging johnny now, trying to comfort him and figure out how to come clean, because there's no way he can keep hiding his identity now, right?
Then johnny sniffs, and says that the worst part is that he never even got to tell spider-man that he loved him. He kept putting it off, because they were still young and they had all the time in the world and johnny had to make sure he got it right, and now he might never get to say it at all.
Peter starts crying then, because oh, he had always thought his feelings were unrequited, and it's so bittersweet in this moment to know that johnny feels the same way, but also to know just how much pain he had put his best friend through this past year.
"I'm sorry," says peter, whispering apologies over and over and over again into johnny's hair. "I'm sorry for staying away for so long, firefly. I didn't mean to hurt you so much"
Johnny pulls away sharply to stare at peter in disbelief when he processes what he had said. He freezes for ten long seconds, convinced that he must be dreaming or something. Then, he pulls peter into a desperate kiss. There will be time for explanations later (he knows that peter will be getting an earful from sue when she finds out). For now, he just needs to hold his best friend in his arms a little longer
This exact issue came up in a serious business meeting at a corporate database job I used to have, to the eventual horror of everyone involved.
Took me a while to figure out why my coworker, who jumped to demonstrate on the laptop running the powerpoint, turned beet red and avoided everyone for weeks. Once it clicked I have never been so glad to have been half asleep at a boardtable. Thanks to my being too tired, I was slow on the uptake to volunteer when the bosses asked for an example of this supposedly superior AO3 search feature.
As a result, *I* was not the one who showed poorly punctuated porn to the entire department.
The problem with AO3 is that every online store's search function is bullshit by comparison
IT'S BACK! Oh man I never even considered the possibility of SH bumping into Watson as an accident 🤩
the Empty House - part 1
It is the spring of the year 1894, and Sherlock Holmes has been dead for three years. Watson's Sketchbook returns with THE EMPTY HOUSE - part 1! Bonus points to whoever recognizes what classic of Victorian literature Holmes is quoting on the first page.
notes under the cut:
Holmes references dressing as a woman in the Adventure of the Mazarin Stone - I always wanted to see more of that disguise:
Watson is in mourning. Men did not wear as elaborate mourning as women in this era, but the extra wide hatband was one way to convey a deep personal loss. Who that loss is referring to is probably not something that Watson is entirely honest about, even to himself:
There's a theory from Madeleine B. Stern that Holmes's bookseller was a real life person named Alfred B. Clementson, and that he impersonates him in Empty House, so I nabbed that name.
Looks like these guys are okay, after all :)
GET DUNKED ON BY A DUNKLEOSTEUS!!
I'm sorry but this keeps cracking me up. After nearly 24 years they release a mutant version of one of the most iconic petpets on the site
calmest peter parker evening (he dealt with everything before this dw)
“Spidey, about before. You know I think you’re the best, right? And not just the superhero stuff. You’re a big brain, too. You should be over there with Reed and Tony, saving our butts.” “Right, like I’m in their league.” “Okay, so let them do their thing. You can go work on a fallback plan.” “Johnny, look at the time. There’s no way I could… possibly… come up with… a fallback plan!”
(ASM #648)
i bring a "caesar's assassins mega-cringefailed if they were trying to get rid of tyranny and monarchies" vibe to the ides of march that literally nobody enjoys
In more joking terms: every Soulmate AU that insists that its non-consensual One True Predestined Love setup is right every single time with zero exceptions is being disrespectful to the long history of people poisoning their way out marriage for fun, freedom, and/or profit. 😔🫖🍵
I needed this today...now I can put off the self reflection for aaaaaages!
All of these options feel like saying "ampersand" aloud instead of "and."
It wouldn't be wrong, I suppose. "&" is a symbol for that word, and can be called that.
But why???
Thanks, Anon!
-submit your poll!-
I'd watch this sitcom
They meet at the Secretly Side-Characters Support Group, having all been referred to what they think is a Protagonist Party by well-meaning friends and acquaintances. Hilarity ensues.
A social gathering of dudes who all have serious Main Character Syndrome, but all are wildly different genres. One of them is the "people don't like me because I'm too smart" Misunderstood Genius who isn't actually particularly smart, just mean. Another one thinks he's wisecracking and clever by just talking like a character in a Marvel movie. Third one thinks he's subtly pulling off a mysterious Film Noir vibe by wearing a fedora and spending most of his time internally narrating, and silently staring at people. The fourth one is a deeply dramatic purple prose self-fashioned Byronic Hero who is unaware that he would be a mildly annoying minor antagonist in a Jane Austen novel at best. The fifth one has gotten his entire personality from shounen anime.
Due to my father's infamously questionable children's media choices: the original Godzilla
No, really, it was a heritage art showing. We were thiiiiis close to being scarred for life by the chilling nuclear horror, and then the guy in a rubber suit showed up and it was fine. Our mother was not impressed.
Other gems include cluelessly showing Princess Mononoke to toddlers and letting a still-single-digits sibling watch Jaws right before the start of swim camp.
what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.
Go!!
My friend sent me this with a "this made me think of you."
I feel so seen.
very accurate depiction of the domestic canid, actually
sleeby pubby.....
Scooby-Doo (1977) #7
Oh, cool animation
-wait it's WHAT?!
The Silver Swan, built by John Joseph Merlin and James Cox, 1773.
Source: Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams (BBC)
Just got mine, so very worth the wait!
the real reason why some Watson's Sketchbook orders have been delayed...
just kidding, it's because my printer is taking a really long time and sending them in batches - but orders are continuing to go out and I hope to get everything fulfilled by the end of March. When your order ships, you will get a shipping confirmation email. Thank you for your patience!
For the webcomic - I needed to take some time off to thumbnail a new graphic novel that needs all my attention, but I'm close to finishing that and am SO excited to return to regular Watson's Sketchbook updates! Can't give an exact date but I just wanted to assure everyone that I have not vanished!
I managed to decode the lower speech bubble, got most stumped on the first, and then realized I could and should wait for the expert fandom decoders to do it for me XD . Never has phonetic spelling been so unintelligible, nor fans so dedicated to decoding it anyways.
Zoing's speech
I would like to thank the wonderful folks in the girl genius server for joining me as soon as thenpage dropped last night for us all to collectively transcribe and decode Zoing's speech about what's going wrong on castle Wulfenbach. The best guess we settled on was:
"He came back! Gilgamesh go walk about and father came back! A scary clank lady want to fix a new body in a tank, making new brain to put brain in tank body in a big lab!"
"It’s gonna work and then she in command of the whole ship and empire and everything! It’s bad!"
Which sounds like Lucrezia is on board stealing herself a new organic body that can potentially go queen mode! Uh oh!
Reblogging for this killer tag:
#the pie is standing on the morally higher ground and going ''the next one just might be a brick motherfucker''
