#abyss of the web

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[silenab]

THE FIRST LAW OF HOLES, or the law of holes, is an adage which states: "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging". Digging a hole makes it deeper and therefore harder to get out of.

[hearts-and-hands]

"waking from dreams where you are loved" by @canonkiller // "I had a dream about you"- Richard Siken

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[abyss-strikas]

Alright so I didn’t REALLY complete the page for the IU boys, but I got lazy so have whatever I have (I’m referencing this post btw; also this post is very long cause of headcanons so that’s your warning)

As before, Skarra being annoyed with Dingaan wanting to hang out with him, while Dooma looks on, also annoyed but tired he deals with this everyday.

Next, something a bit more on the headcanon side involving Rookie Season. I think that when Automatic joined Invincible United, he still held some resentment towards Supa Strikas, especially towards Shakes, Dancing Rasta, and Coach. Shakes is more obvious since the kid took his place, but Auto hates the fact that his old captain didn’t do much to help him out, as well as Coach. He had hoped Coach could give him a new exercise regiment to help him get better, he would have even taken a harsh pep talk from him. But nothing came out of it, so whenever he sees Supa Strikas from time to time, he can’t help but remember those memories, memories that were once good now have become sour.

The Web tries to get his friend to take his mind off the other team, maybe inviting him to his place where they can play pool or even play board games. I do headcanon that Web was Automatic’s first friend in the team, maybe aside from Skarra who would have looked up to him when he still loved Supa Striks. Web had been the first teammate that Automatic opened up to, probably because the goalie had pointed out that Automatic seemed to fit better as a midfielder rather than a striker. If Coach or Rasta had let him try that position, maybe Auto wouldn’t be with IU, but he doesn’t think too much on it.

Snake on the other hand is there to help convince Auto to leave the Supa Strikas alone, even as he goes on about some of the stuff he seems to be fond of them. The reason is because I headcanon that Snake actually enjoyed having Shakes on the team when they did the Rookie Swap show. I felt like Snake and Shakes could have had a sibling type relationship, with Snake being the older brother that shows his love to his sibling by pranking him every time. I do think Snake is a bit jealous at how well Shakes gets along with Supa Strikas, and he envies that fact. He pretends to not care but in reality, he really does care a lot.

Finally, my two favorite boys from this team because I am such a basic bitch- /hj

The Power Twins! Whose names were confirmed by a concept artist of the show! Now, when this episode did come out, I was the one who asked that concept artist if they knew their actual names, and they found out their names were Stan and Norm!

Now being the naive fool I was back then (affectionate), I thought this meant their full real names were Stanley and Norman. But fast forward and another fan did suggest that what if their names were legitimately “Standard Power” and “Normal Power”?

Needless to say, I really should have thought of that before because the writers do like to make use of word puns as much as possible. After hearing that, I immediately went and changed some things of their backstory. Mainly the fact that Max Power (Maximum Power) is the eldest brother of the twins and he’s joined the Silver Lions, a group that their dad hates with a passion (for the most stupid of reasons), Max has changed his name to Liam, and their dad is an ego maniac who really cares about nothing more than his surname. These guys also have an elder sister by the name of Suzanne Power, who belongs to @yanxioustrikas . In this AU, she is three years younger than Max, but three years older than the twins, and she was formerly known as Minimum (Minnie) Power until the mom and dad divorced, and Suzanne went to live with her mom in South Korea.

With all of that in mind, when the twins returned to the UK after their twin switch plan failed, there was a lot of family drama that escalated to the twins almost getting hurt by their dad. Luckily, Liam and his friends were able to protect them. As the trial gets set up for the dad, since his big booming business in sales had some low-key shady stuff in their books, an old “friend” of Vince, a former player of the Silver Lions before they went on hiatus, asks the IU coach for a favor: take back the twins into the team, as they’re not fully safe in the UK at the moment.

Vince can’t turn down a request from this “friend”, so he signs the twins back up under their shortened names. No one in IU knows about their full names and their family history. Not yet at least.

So for now, the way to differentiate between the twins is the fact that Stan has gotten piercings on his nose and ears, something his dad wasn’t too keen on in the first place. Norm still looks the same but he and his brother have chosen to not conceal their freckles, nor the shadows under their eyes from the restless nights they spent trying to deal with their crazy dad. They still play their best, even if they have to switch for the first couple of games they’re back, but their attitude and demeanor has changed because of the events they’ve gone through. They’re not looking forward to going back to London for the trial, but they’re hoping they can convince a certain striker and defender to join them as support, especially when they decide to change their names, just like their older brother and sister did.

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I’ll start another page at some point and draw the rest that didn’t make it, lol. I know this was a bit more headcanon heavy, but let me know if you guys have any questions or you want to share your own headcanons too!

[felixravinstills]

Katniss Everdeen: The Mockingjay

Creator Notes:

Tumblr ate my long ramble about stuff, but here is a more abbreviated version of what it said. This webweaving and the last one paralleling Katniss and Snow as defined in some ways by their actions. Obviously, the two chose to act very differently, but I like how it emphasizes the importance of agency.

Also this doesn't quite capture the dehumanizing nature of becoming a symbol (an attempt was made: 3rd quote and only showing Katniss' face once), but it does focus more on becoming a symbol/message making you larger than life. You are the message, so your actions are the message. Still, Katniss' choices and actions led to people choosing her as a symbol of the ideals of the rebellion.

Did any of that make sense? I'm unsure. This is much simpler than my last webweave, but it's been rotating around in my brain for a while!

This webweaving combines some of my favorite dystopian/post-apocalyptic media:

First and last quote Ch. 27 of Catching Fire

All gifs made by me from the Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay Part 2 films

Second quote Ch. 29 of Nona the Ninth

Third quote Ch. 3 of Mockingjay

Fourth Quote Ulysses' Final Message (Fallout New Vegas)

Penultimate quote Ch. 26 of Catching Fire

[kiochisato]

♡　＃　𓂃　Abyss Monarch Cookie Graphics ! ❥　.　➶　 requested by anon. enjoy !

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: sixteen rectangular banners, all of which have blinking outlines. the eight on the left have flashing names and wiggling icons, while the eight on the right don’t. the first two have a bright blue background and a black border; they both have the word “moonlight” in the middle, in purple and yellow. the third and fourth have a light blue background and a dull blue border; they both have the words “sea fairy” in the middle, in pastel pink and dull blue. the fifth and sixth have a golden yellow background and a dark brown border; they both have the word “timekeeper” in the middle, in dark brown and light yellow. the seventh and eighth have a dark grey background and a black border; they both have the words “black pearl” in the middle, in cool grey and light grey. the ninth and tenth have a cream background and a pastel pink border; they both have the words “white pearl” in the middle, in warm grey and off-white. the eleventh and twelfth have a dark grey background and a dark teal border; they both have the words “abyss monarch” in the middle, in bright yellow and neon green. the thirteenth and fourteenth have a cool pink background and a hot pink border; they both have the words “sugar swan” in the middle, in dull blue and light yellow. the fifteenth and sixteenth have a dull blue background and a dark blue border; they both have the words “xylitol nova” in the middle, in dark blue and neon blue. END ID.]

a set of legendary cookie blinkies! free to use; please link back/credit if you can!

[horrorlesbion]

in the age of conservative forces doing their best to censor the internet into oblivion, remove all nsfw content and make every site as Advertising Friendly as possible i NEED people to stop acting like tHe dARk wEb is some kind of scary nebulous mystery place of crime. if you have ever downloaded a program or googled something you have the it skills to access the dark web. installing tor takes 5 minutes and "googling" on ahmia.fi or tordex is not harder than using regular google. half of the easily accessible websites on there are just conspiracy shit or scam shops for ordering weed. red rooms are not real you have just seen hostel one too many times. there is messed up shit all over the clearweb too you are not going to get blasted with murder and abuse the minute you click on an onion link. enough fearmongering against what is a legitimately important tool for free speech and not actually inherently all that different from regular early 2000s internet. please.

[for-gilded-cups-are-empty]

Gonna post some of my art now, Heather Morell from Webnovel Katalepsis

[web-novel-polls]

Have You Read This Web Novel?

Shi An is the last Abyss Dragon in the world. Since he was bored, he decided to go into a deep sleep while hugging his treasures. After fifty thousand years of satisfying slumber, Shi An opened his eyes only to discover that he had become a weak human with short hands and legs. He glanced down at his mysteriously downsized body and then lifted his head to look around his empty cave. “……” Where is my powerful and majestic body? My big tail? Most importantly, where are my treasures?! After thousands of years of hard work, sleeping just once has sent me to square one. *** In the year 2202, the conflicts between humans and monsters are becoming more and more intense. Although the monsters are strong, the fantastical species that used to rule the continent have all but disappeared. Shi An, the Shi family’s youngest son, is Mage Academy’s infamous mage who has no magic power. Each student’s magic power is measured at the beginning of the school year. Shi An looked at the three destroyed magic detection equipment and innocently asked, “Eh? Are these equipment’s quality not very good?” During actual combat training, low-ranked monsters fled before Shi An could get close. Shi An looked at their fleeing figures and innocently exclaimed, “Yay, lucky!” Everyone else was speechless. “……?” I believe I am dreaming. *** Mu Heng——human species’ strongest mage——is the only remaining human who bears the noble dragon slayer bloodline. He coldly and arrogantly said, “Dragons? Extinction is their best outcome.” A long time later, Mu Heng turned his head back to look at the dragon cub reclining on the piles of treasure. Mu Heng withdrew his gaze and leisurely asked, “Are there any other jobs? I want a well-paid one.” Extinction is out of the question now. As a matter of fact, I can only earn more money so that I won’t get kicked out of bed at night. - Novel Updates

If you’re in the process of reading this web novel, please choose whichever option best fits your situation. You do not have to be completely finished with it to answer “yes.”

[duckapus]

SMG4: Hm. Bit muggy out today.

SMG3: ...I swear if I open the front door and all our mugs are outside I'm going back to trying to kill you every other week.

SMG4: ... *slowly sips from his bowl*

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CPU: ...What the hell is wrong with you?

Cursor: Would you like that alphabetically or chronologically?

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Tulip: I don't have Daddy Issues, my father has Daughter Issues.

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Abyssal: You okay?

Buffer: *just saw Cursor without her jacket, found out her sweater is sleeveless as a result, and is now Going Through It* I think I have latency issues...

CPU: *under his breath* You've got some kind of issues, that's for sure.

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*after Swag falls off a roof*

Meggy: Think he has brain damage?

Chris: I think that every day.

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Whimpu: Don't worry, My Queen, if the other Saiko comes after you again, she'll have to go through me first!

Saiko, deadpan: I'll treasure those extra three seconds.

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Cursor: I do have feelings besides contempt. I just refrain from expressing them at the drop of a hat

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Bob: I don't need gasoline to start a fire. All I need are these two swords and a lack of supevision.

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SMG3: 4 and I don't have pet names, that's stupid.

Mario: *raises an eyebrow* How do you deal with a stain?

3, confused: Scrub?

SMG4, from the other room: Yeah hun?

3: ...

Mario: Don't ever lie to me again.

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CPU: You have illegal contacts?

Vitality: You don't?

[hearts-and-hands]

[demigodofhoolemere]

Me: Oh yay, an animation for The Celestial Toymaker!

*looks at it*

Me:

[zybilna]

[felixravinstills]

Coriolanus Snow & Felix Ravinstill: What's in a name?

o puer, qui omnia nomini debes. / Oh, boy, who owes all to a name.

Creator's Notes:

I actually really need to be doing grown up stuff right now, so if I'm weirdly silent after I post this, that's why! Unfortunately, I got hit by inspiration, so my attention has been split. The final piece of the puzzle that I started putting together since writing Tu Fui, Ego Eris finally dropped into my lap!

Latin quote from Cicero's Philippics (13.11): Cicero ascribes the quote to Mark Antony referring to Octavius (later known as Augustus Caesar)

Gifs created by me from TBOSAS movie

English translation of felix taken from Lewis & Short's 4th possible definition.

Quote from TBOSAS Ch. 4

Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for "Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus"

Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for "cognomen"

Quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2)

Quote from TBOSAS' epilogue

Illustration of Romulus killing Remus (unable to find a proper source for it. If you know where exactly it's from (book, artist, not all the website reposts I saw), let me know! I got this image from an Ebay seller with prints).

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I've contemplated potential Cain-Abel parallels between these two, but the Romulus-Remus parallel that struck me like a bolt from the blue really blew my mind. It actually really matches with this webweaving(?) because Romulus and Remus did disagree about the naming of the city... Anyway, while making this, I lowkey forgot that Felix's Death-by-Coriolanus-Arranged-Car-"Accident" isn't canon.

I was tempted to quote Shakespeare's Coriolanus for when the titular character receives his cognomen instead of the Wikipedia pages, but I think this helps emphasize the name bestowed because of deeds idea without any distraction from the point. Also putting the two Wikipedia pages really emphasizes it... rip the second screenshot having smaller text, but that's the page layout's fault, and I'm too lazy to fix it.