#Death Before Inaction

[rosieburrito]

Based off a chapter from an oh so amazing fanfiction called Death Before Inaction by hppjmxrgosg on ao3 (and here)

Cross posted on TikTok where there’s more relevant text accompanying the audio

[hppjmxrgosg]

Heyo, I really like your very competent and independent spiderman in Death before inaction. Do you have any fic favourites that have the same vibes that you would recommend?

Thank you for all the stories <3

Hey! Sorry this took me a minute to get to. Here are my spider-man fic recs 🫡

Incomplete. This one was a HUGE inspiration for me in writing DBI. Very tragic, very beautiful. Peter is very much doing it on his own in this fic, though, he has a bit more help than my Peter does (though probably not from who you'd expect)

Complete. This one is very good and part of a series (that is incomplete, unfortunately). I have only read this one out of the series. This one had me HOOKED when I read it on live updates. Peter is an adult in this fic, but very much living his "veteran vigilante" lifestyle.

Complete. Supercut is a series of works that was also a big inspiration for DBI. I am still working my way through all of them, but they are fantastic! Like DBI, the author has taken some...creative liberties with the MCU timeline. However, where I went back, they went forward.

Complete. Female Peter Parker. Super fun read! Competent Spidey fs, though perhaps a little more "familial support" and a little less "avenger bashing" than DBI.

Complete. Oh Kidnapped Peter Parker our beloved. And this time with friends!

Complete. That's right. MORE kidnapped Peter Parker. Put that guy in a situation. Let him beat people up. As a treat.

Series, Incomplete. I've only read some of these and it was many moons ago but from what I remember they were FUNNY. Definitely a touch more lighthearted than some of the other recs on this list.

Sorry this isn't a very long list, just the ones I could think of off the top of my head!

[mxrayvyn]

shout out to @hppjmxrgosg for making memes of their fic. I scroll through in universe memes and find new stuff to read

[djh4l0v3rv3r]

Can we see the dynamics with the Mini's and the main cast?

Ragatha and Raggy

Big and baby sister

Zooble and Zoo-Zoo

Cool pibling (this is the best neutral term I found for aunt/uncle) and quiet child

Jax and Jacco

Father and child

Gangle and Gi-Gi

Cousins

Kinger and Coleoptera

Weird nice uncle and favorite nephew

Kaufmo and Taff-Taff

Father and child

Queenie and Aamera

Mother and daughter

Pomni doesn't have a Mini Me yet

[mint-is-here]

OK SO i was reading a spiderman fic even though im not in the fandom because why not and uh

UHM

thats my birthday

i share my birthday with SPIDERMAN

HOW DID I NEVER KNOW THIS

i always though my day was borign but i share my birthday with the fricking spider man

thats so cool

i feel so cool now

[thelaughingmerman]

Franklin is a darling who is indeed like very polite and patient to a fault but also like. If he sees fishermen being irresponsible just leaving shit lying around for sea creatures to get all caught up in he's just. Not going to warn them about the storm that's definitely rolling in by mid afternoon thats a them problem good luck fellows.

[redhead-reporter]

º ✧ 。 sometimes i really miss doing group GVs on disco

[iamthescalesofjustice]

an eclectic group of wardens trying to figure out why they arent being swayed by the calling all the other wardens are getting and figuring out they were all joined either with the substitute archdemon blood from soldiers peak or by this one specific guy who apparently may not even be a warden. and then once anders meets up with them he hears this and gets visibly five times more exhausted and then he opens his mouth to finally start laying out the surana deep lore he has pieced together and well, its good news and bad news.

[arcadian-vampire]

Just realized I never actually Looked at the name of the guild that invited me to join them, bc I was desperate... so I am now part of. EpicSix9.

[beartes22]

Oh? So u dont have enough misogyny if u only apply It to the women? So now you want to copy paste the misogyny in the queer? Go on then! Go on an apply the misogyny in every person on earth so tightly It unravels and reveals it's ugly core, it's clear truth, for kysogyny is nothing but a very obvious power play! Alas, but by then it would be far too late for u to notice! Too late to fix because u are infected too!!

common misconception! actually the only way to tell if someone is a top or a bottom is to know their preferences regarding penetrative sex ❤️

[eliwithab]

OK IM SORRY I LOVE SWANSEA BUT I GOTTA SAY SOMETHIGN

ive seen SOOO many people saying "if swansea knew, he wouldn't have ignored it like curly did!"

but thats the thing. HE. DID.

Two months after the crash, jimmy walks in on anya and swansea having a private convo - this is later revealed by swansea to be "her telling me really interesting things about you [jimmy]." anya told him TWO MONTHS IN.

and when does swansea try to kill jimmy? Five months in. and ONLY AFTER JIMMY LEADS TO DAISUKE'S DEATH.

It took DAISUKE being harmed for Swansea to take action! He knew for three months!

Mouthwashing is about how inaction only causes further harm and this is present in SEVERAL characters! Both Curly and Swansea failed to take action immediately, and this failure only ended up hurting THEM.

its unknown how long curly knew - he was only told about the pregnancy a day before the crash, but anya explicitly says 'i told you.' when asked who the father was, implying curly knew beforehand, which couldve been days or years - so for all we know, curly couldve known about it for less time than swansea had, and any opportunity he had to act was taken from him.

swansea is not better. curly is not better. there is only the fact that they both failed anya and the consequences that had

tldr, i love swansea but pleasseee stop saying he'd be better than curly because he wasnt and thats the whole point

[hppjmxrgosg]

[chaoskiro]

I FINALLY rerecorded chapter 2 of Vertical Limit with my new microphone and I just uploaded it, so now all the episodes are clean and crisp. I love how absolutely salty Constantine is about everything in this chapter. In this sound bite you can hear how absolutely delighted I am when I say "break mark" between parts (I mark them in the sound file that way and edit these bits out later and put in the swooshing sounds).

In short: If you want to be as delighted as me, go listen to the podfic of Vertical limit by @hppjmxrgosg here, or read it yourself here if that's more your speed. You won't regret it either way. It's the most delightful Danny Phantom meets the justice league and the batfamily in particular fic ever and the podfic is nearly halfway caught up with where the fic is currently at.

[storiesfromgaza]

A message to everyone :

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But today, particularly after the recent news confirming the complete shutdown of the internet, electricity, and communications in Gaza, along with the isolation imposed by the Israeli occupation and the brutal and savage bombings happening now as I write these lines, I want everyone to share what's happening. Not just on Tumblr but everywhere you can. Share on WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, and for those who are proficient in Russian, share on platforms like VK. If you know Korean, share in Naver cafes. Share with your family, your loved ones, and those you meet on the street. Let everyone know about the monstrous massacres the occupation is committing against Palestinian civilians, teenage girls and young women who have become widows due to the bombings, young children whose lives were forcibly taken from them while they clung to life, and the elderly who hoped for a longer life or a peaceful death beside their children and families, but the occupation robbed them of this, making the old man witness the deaths of all his family members, his children, and his grandchildren, and then he dies alone, hoping to join them.

O People, humans, whether you are Muslims, Christians, Jews, or followers of any religion, my message is for those of you who have humanity, whatever your identity may be. Your silence today means you are participating in an extermination worse than what Hitler did to the Jews, even worse than the victims of all the world wars combined. At that time, there weren't sufficient means of communication, so everyone's excuse was that they couldn't do anything except publish in newspapers. But today, in our current era, there are many available options. So, what's your excuse now?

Your silence and inaction are permission for them to continue their slaughter and the extraction of souls from their bodies. Let everyone do whatever is within their power, and all of us should know that we can do a lot. Edit: I've created a Telegram channel for us and posted all the articles and stories that have been published here, so you can easily share them with everyone. Join it through the following link: https://t.me/storiesfromgaza

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[bunnynoldo]

Halbrand/Sauron: the Fisher King symbology and meaning in the show

I was wondering why Halbrand's 'King of the Southlands' emblem is a kingfisher of all things. I've looked for some symbolism or meaning but nothing seemed to fit the narrative.

But when Celebrimbor mentioned the kingfishers just before his death, I knew that it must have a meaning, it must be important.

And then I had an epiphany, the meaning is not a kingfisher, it is the Fisher King! This meaning fits Sauron's narrative in the series perfectly.

The Fisher King is an immortal king in Arthurian legend. He is charged with keeping the Holy Grail.

Sauron is a Maia, a powerful spirit tasked with implementing Eru Iluvatar's will and protecting the world.

However, The Fisher King was wounded, and incapable of performing his tasks himself. Often the wound has been a punishment for a crime that the Fisher King has committed, and it would not heal in time.

The King Fisher's wound is Morgoth's corruption. Because of his terrible life choices, Sauron has been corrupted by Morgoth, and is incapable of fulfilling his sacred purpose as a Maia: creating order and peace in Middle-earth. In the show, this is represented by his inability to create the rings and take the leadership role.

His is impotence affected the fertility of his land, reducing it to a barren wasteland.

Forodwaith, and later Mordor, are wastelands - both are affected by Morgoth, the source of Sauron's wound/curse/corruption

All he could do is fish in the river near his castle and wait for the “chosen one” who would be able to heal him. His strength evaporated with his inactivity and his kingdom fell into waste. The only activity that seemed to give him pleasure was fishing in the lakes close to his castle.

After regaining his human form, Sauron wanders the Middle-earth aimlessly and ends up on a raft. He seemed content with staying in Numenor and working as a smith. The "chosen one" is Galadriel of course.

In the Arthurian legend, the Fisher King appears to the youth, Parsival, first in the form of a fisherman in a boat, then of a mortally wounded king who cannot find redemption for his sufferings.

The imagery is all here - Galadriel first sees Sauron on a raft.

And if you think that it is too subtle, behold the wounded king of the Southlands laying under the kingfisher sigil, watched over by a noble knight on a quest to find him:

In the legend, the noble knight manages to heal the Fisher King in exchange for the Holy Grail.

Galadriel unknowingly offers Sauron forgiveness and redemption through fighting at her side. But we know the outcome of this story - Sauron is not healed.

This could mean that it's a reverse Fisher King story - Galadriel, the noble knight, helps Sauron to take back his power as Morgoth's successor.

But that does not fit with dying words of Celbrimbor. He says that it's a pity how Sauron has silenced the kingfishers - therefore I think that Halbrand, the king of the Southlands with a kingfisher sigil, represents a repentant Sauron who wants to redeem himself.

When Celebrimbor says that Sauron has silenced the kingfishers, it symbolises the fact that Sauron has destroyed his chance at redemption with his actions.

And Sauron knows this at some level, even if he's still deceiving himself that he's committing all the atrocities for a higher good. That's why Celebrimbor's words of him never being able to reach the Undying Lands cut him so deep that he looses control.

And how could have Galadriel healed the Fisher King's wound? That's just my speculation, but returning to Arthurian legends, a knight on a quest for the Holy Grail has to ask the right question. And the right question in this case would be asking Sauron why didn't he come to repent to Valinor?

The only way to heal Sauron from Morgoth's corruption would be to persuade him to return to Valinor, because Sauron is a demigod corrupted by a god, and no one in the Middle-earth can heal him.

And we see this in the show - Sauron tries to repent and fails:

"...and he fell back into evil, for the bonds that Morgoth had laid upon him were very strong"

I'm wondering if we will get the exact moment when Sauron has embraced Morgoth again in the flashbacks in future seasons.

If the showrunners would like to make it very literal, he might have returned to Morgoth's service after Mount Doom's eruption - which could have been a magical event (the eruption was a part of Morgoth's plan in case of defeat). It would tie in nicely with Halbrand's actual would representing Morgoth's corruption.

Or coming back to Morgoth could have been a more gradual process starting with Galadriel's rejection.

(I was also speculating about Morgoth's role in the show here if you would like to read more about it)

(And here's something on ambiguity of Sauron's motives in the show)

[cryogonalsmelody]

Might be a little distant. My fathers zoraroak passed away this morning. I was pretty much raised alongside it so the fact shes gone hasnt really registered