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Used but nice! 🥰 Bought on faith...power cord found later.

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Beautiful. Yes. 🥹👏

Day 2: Misunderstanding (Miguel O'Hara)

Angstember Prompt Post || Word Count: 875

Notes: it all works out in the end

"You're quitting?"

Miguel’s broad shoulders slumped, the defined muscles of his back outlined in detail by the skin-tight spider-suit covering his skin.

"Yes. I didn't want to tell you like this, but I've been trying to talk to you for a week and you keep brushing me off."

An irritated sigh huffed past his infuriatingly perfect lips as he turned to face you. "I was trying to save a couple of realities, in case you failed to notice."

One lock of hair tumbled over his eye distractingly. He flicked it away with gloved fingers. Pulling at his bottom lip with one fang, he shook his head once. "You can't quit now. Too much is at stake."

Folding your arms over your chest, you tipped your chin defiantly. "I don't think that's your decision to make. I can't do this anymore."

With a heavy step forward, he motioned between your bodies. "You mean this, between us? Or the Spider Society?"

"Both," you emphatically returned.

His hands tore through his hair before landing on his hips almost condescendingly. "I thought you were better than this. I thought you believed in what we're doing here."

Your eyes flashed at the admonishment. "You don't get to judge me, Miguel. You're the one who needs a reality check. The multiverse doesn't actually revolve around you and you're not the only thing holding it together."

He threw his hands up. "When did I say that it does?"

"Look around you. Look at all this! This isn't a life." You motioned to the dozens of monitors surrounding you. "You suspend yourself between lifetimes, between worlds. But you're not living one of your own."

Your eyes softened as you eased closer to him. "I can't be tangled in your web. I need to live. And I wanted to live with you."

Reaching for your elbows, he slid his hands down your arms. "Why can't we? Is it because of…what I did before? To my daught- to Gabriella?" His jaw clenched in anguish.

"No, baby," you whispered, fingertips tracing the shape of his jaw as he drew you closer still. "It's because of what you said."

He frowned, confused.

"You were talking about how we could never be together in any universe. That all we had was here, in the Spider Society." The memory of hearing those words gripped your heart and squeezed the life out of you. No way could you stay now. Not like this.

A wrinkle formed between dark eyebrows, crimson eyes narrowing in confusion. "I never said that. What are you talking about?"

"I heard you," you forlornly whispered. "I heard what you said to Jess."

He shook his head in protest. "It's not what you think. Why didn't you talk to me?"

"I tried!" Pressing your palms against the heat of his chest, you shoved him, but gently. "You didn't make time to talk to me. I really needed you, Miguel and so...I just quit."

"Come here," he whispered, running his hands over the swell of your hips before lifting you up to hold you against him in a body engulfing hug, with your feet suspended off the ground. "You can't quit. Even if you leave the society, you can't quit us."

He pressed a fierce kiss to your temple as you melted against his huge frame. "I don't think you understand anything."

With a final squeeze, he set you down, guiding you by the shoulders to look at one of the monitors. On the screen appeared a lovely blue house with a fenced in yard littered with maple trees and a detached garage.

"This is for you," he whispered against your ear, making you shiver. "I was talking to Jess about where I should get us a house. In my universe or yours. She said both. I wanted to surprise you."

Turning you to face him, he gazed longingly down into your eyes. "I told her that even if we can't be together in any universe, even if all we had was the Spider Society, it would be enough for me. I don't really know how to do this. Or if you would ever want to leave your reality for mine."

Your lips trembled as you realized your misunderstanding.

"You want us to live together?" You whispered.

"I wanted to ask you and...I'll come to your universe if you want, but I've done a hundred calculations with LYLA, because if I ever did anything to hurt you just because I want to selfishly be with you - "

Surging forward, you pressed your mouth to his, silencing his worried rambling. The plush softness of his lips was such a contrast to the scrape of his fangs and it made you shiver with want every time you kissed.

"I'm an idiot," you murmured, lips a breath apart as you parted for air.

Nuzzling your cheek with his nose, you felt him smile against your skin. "I'm an idiot for looking so hard at the future and the past that I don't make enough time for the present." He nodded toward the screen. "This is my attempt to fix that."

Touching his forehead to yours, he wrapped his arms around you reassuringly. "I love you."

"Me too. In any universe."

Angstember Masterlist || Miguel Masterlist || Main Masterlist

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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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Color inspo by @4stralfairy 's post, with Lucy's beautiful hair! 🥰 Experimenting with alcohol markers from Arteza.

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Colored pencil studies for Miguel ❤️💙

Trying to learn how to blend 🌺

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His Grace, the Taiyoukai "Killing Perfection", Sesshoumaru-sama. Why does he have stripes? Because...he's venomous! 💫🤍❤️

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【★】~ Twitter / X | 好大一口锅儿

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😂 I love this--It's so Kagome! @bandsandwristbands great concept!

I have been watching Inuyasha again and I think Kagome needs a bike upgrade

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WIP...✨Miguel O'Hara✨

I just know his neck hurts...

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So excited 🤩 finally got tagged in one of these!

Tysm @pygmi-cygni for the tag...ur fernnn...love those writing techniques...good food and you're so kind! 😭

@greensagephase lilac and lollipop! Everything you write I MUST read instantly 😍...ur such a comfort to me and rly genuine too 🫂

@godhasatenderheart giving lemon, so encouraging, refreshing, positive ⛪

Sadly, don't have a lot of moots...but I'm stumbling around 😂

MOOTS ASSEMBLE.

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so instead of getting a feel for this loom by starting with a simple plain weave pattern I went full in with my first woven band being a Baltic pick-up pattern and I think that was a good choice

(it took me 3 tries to warp because the first time I misread the warping draft and added WAY too much yarn and the second time I started warping on the wrong peg and didn't notice for a lil bit. also had to watch 2 youtube videos to figure out how to read the pattern but now that I've figured it out nothing is stopping me)

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This bends my brain...and I love it! 😵‍💫😎 @mareliini

Updates and some pin harvesting since i ran out.

Also yelling at friends in discord about this stupid fjskdbz model LOOK HOW THOSE FUCKER THREADS GO. UNNECESSARY. WHY IS NOTHING SIMPLE???

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If Miguel didn't gel his hair on top. 😂

my little sister told me miguel looks like “the mean bull from ferdinand” and i cant get it out of my head

Wait…. lil sis may have cooked… hold on-

Um….. guys?……….

AINT NO WAYYYY.

Right, so this is actually insane!!!!! My crew, let’s exit IMMEDIATELY!!!

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Tried it. It works! 😂

im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

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Fantastic research into the way muscles actually pull on the skeleton. It struck me from the first moment seeing Miguel in ATSV that this character just *stood* differently from your average hero. Now I know why. Posture is huge in characterization. Masterpiece!

How difficult was Miguel to animate? I read somewhere that he is 6’9 and over 300 pounds haha what a beast. Were there any specific things to take note of when it came to animating him? It’s insane how through his movements he just exudes power and strength. Even the way he walks just makes him seem like a guy not to messed with. Did his frame hinder anything in animation that would not occur on the smaller models?

miguel was SUPER FUN i loved animating him!! i feel like a lot of 3D animation defaults to super skinny characters that are basically just tubes, so it's fun to work with a character that lets you design the shapes into something more graphic

we had to think a lot about how someone that big moved, but also how they carry themselves when just standing and talking. we referenced idris elba:

when a person has very well defined and built up chest muscles, their shoulders tend to be pulled forward. i did some posture tests early on to help out with finding a good slumped but still powerful, natural standing pose

a lot of tweaking had to be done too whenever he was doing any kind of dynamic action because of how defined his muscles are, extreme poses tended to get off model pretty quickly. here's an example with one of the shots that i animated, i tried to recreate what his model looked like without any shaping adjustments:

i wanna give a special shout out to eric de carolis, who animated a lot of fantastic miguel swagger, he really helped set the bar for how we should handle miguel's massive everything when walking. he animated this shot:

so, yes! there was a lot that went into finding his character through movement and it's always a challenge to animate subtleties on someone this big while still making them feel heavy

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Thank you Alondra! And Happy Belated Spider-Man Day to every Spider variant and Spidersona! 🕸️❤️💙🫂💙❤️🕸️

Hi Alondra! Did you know yesterday, Aug 1st was Spider-Man Day? 🕸️

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/synth-spinner/757568976140238848/happy-spider-man-day

Hiiii, hibiscus!! Thank you for the ask, pookie!!! 🥰

I found out earlier while scrolling! I missed it yesterday 😔, but it's not too late to wish a Happy Spider-Man Day to my fav Spider-Man, hehe!!

Happy (belated) Spider-Man day to my cutie patootie, sweet, amazing, beautiful, gentle, but stressed out, frustrated, desperately in need of a nap and a homemade meal, a back massage, fingers to play with the little curls in the back of his neck, 2D love of my life - Miguel O'Hara!! ❤️🥹

Thank you for the ask, hibiscus!! I hope you're having a lovely day/night!!! 🥹🫶🏼

Alondra❤️

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👀🥹🥰🪷 these babies look so HEALTHY awww

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Beautiful.

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps