#mostly aaron bc i dont draw him enough

[calathazar]

oc + environment doodles or something

[sharkmobster]

spider verse coffee shop au??

Anon im sorry i wanted to draw the coffeeshop au but ive been so tired lately so imma just overshare about what goes down bc this au is just (thick tombstone voice) : “everybody’s traumatized bitch lets get you a latte”

 • this au is incredibly villain centric bc uhhhhh all i do is think about villains

 • its also very aaron davis centric bc time to project my anxiety onto a grown ass man babey!!

 • anyway this takes place in a normal world where there’s no superheros or avengers or what have you, everyone’s super average 

• like i said this is more or less aaron centric and focuses on him readjusting to society and making connections with other people, and just healing in general. Aaron’s whole deal is that he was wrongfully arrested for defending himself against an off duty cop who was harassing him and ended up with a 10 year sentence  (but was let off a year earlier for good behaviour). He’s got a lot of guilt bc of this if only for the fact that he feels like he let down his brother and Miles (who was a small lad at the time).

 • Fun Fact! Jefferson was the one that picked up Aaron at the jail when he served out his sentence! The ride back to brooklyn was awkward! but also jefferson loves his brother and even tho they’ve had their falling outs he never once stopped believing that his brother was innocent. Jefferson also made sure to pull some strings and ended up getting an apartment set up for Aaron (even though jefferson and rio were 100% down to open their home to him for as long as it took him to get back onto his feet but of course aaron denied them bc he didnt want to be a burden) Aaron’s grateful but he tends to avoid his own family…a lot….

• it’s ridiculously hard to find a job bc nobody wants to hire an ex convict no matter the circumstances and Aaron’s legitimately about to lose hope when he spots an expensive looking shop nestled in between an old arcade and a knick knack shop

 • ‘Vanessa’s Cafe’ is neatly printed above the door in fancy gold lettering. it’s obvious that the owner has serious cash bc the shop looks too damn good and too well maintained to be a regular mom and pop shop. there’s a help wanted sign hastily scribbled on a piece of notebook paper in the middle of the window which is odd since it off sets the professional vibe of the place. But hey it’s worth a shot so Aaron walks in ready to be denied another job only to find the weirdest looking group of people he’s ever seen.

 • The first guy that catches his attention is the very large albino man who looks way too stressed out and manic to be working in a coffeeshop, but the job must pay well because he’s very well dressed.

 • “Liv, for fuck’s sake! Clean your goddamn station!” he’s whisper shouting? Is that even a thing? oh look at that he’s got a full set of razor sharp teeth. huh. that’s a hell of an aesthetic he’s going for.

 • The lady in question isn’t even giving him the time of day, just enthralled by her phone with a smile that looks too peaceful given what’s happening around her. She’s got wild hair tied up messily in a knitted bandana, weird glasses (custom made??) and when she glances up at aaron, her eyes widen in interest like he’s some anomaly to be cracked open. aaron looks anywhere that isnt the wild eyed lady at the counter.

• Theres another big guy that’s hanging around the back, heavily tattooed and lifting stacks of heavy boxes. Aaron takes notice of his prosthetic hand and the tattoo guy takes notice of Aaron. 

• “Lonnie. Customer.” The Tattoo guy seems nonplussed about Aaron and walks into the back. aaron assumes that he’s offended him by staring at his prosthetic for longer than necessary which yeah….yeah he’s probably not happy about the staring. 

 • lonnie’s got a bad case of resting bitch face so he’s glaring at aaron without actually glaring and he’s just rough around ALL the edges so his tones got that nice bite to it as he shouts from across the counter (which is not something you do to a customer but it’s lonnie…..)  "Hey! Ya looking for a job, skinny jeans?!“

 • Aaron blanches at the idea of working with these people but he is absolutely desperate for a job at this point.

 •"Yeah. I just got out of-”

 •"Great, you’re hired! We’re speed running this whole introduction thing, string bean.“

 •and that’s all i got other than like small details like:

 •Peter B Parker owns a ”“’'cafe”“” across from Vanessa’s and its literally just a burger joint that h a p p e n s to sell coffee and Parker will fight you if you call his place a deli ahdhdj

 •Liv and May are dating (big shock) and peter b has to constantly deal with seeing his competition over at his place all the time and it’s yikes

 • Tombstone and Noir will 100% throw hands on contact. They don’t hate each other tho??? Its weird they just like to fight. gives them a chance to work on their banter i guess. Noir works the coffee machine at Peter’s “'cafe”’ so i guess he’s the “”barista”” of the joint but he drinks the coffee more than the customers do

 • Miles and the rest of the spider kids “”“”“"intern”“”“” at the cafe which basically translates to free labor

 •  spider ham works there but he isnt a pig he’s just john mulaney. i know its weird. nobody actually sees him tho so he’s a complete mystery as to what he looks like so he could be john mulaney you never know. the only person who’s seen him is noir and that’s only bc they’re  a thing???

 •oh speaking of everyone being gay:  everyone’s gay

 • Lonnie and Gargan (tombstone and scorpion) are 100% dating but everyone legitimately thinks that the both of them are straight old men despite the fact that they live together, go to work together, hang out afterwards together, and they’re just always together

 • lonnie’s  daughter (janice)  visits every other week (def the product of a divorce he went through years ago) she’s alright with gargan but she’s very distant towards her dad and def has that teen angst phase that she’s going through

 • (lonnie can and will talk to you for hours about how much he loves and supports his daughter despite the fact that their relationship is very estranged)

 • you can find janice hanging out with the cute blond punk girl at that weird burger/coffee place across the street

 • oh gargan’s big and strong despite the fact that he’s missing three limbs, liv works in robotics on the side and constantly tweaks and repairs his prosthetics when they start acting up which leads to them having this weird friendship where they both borrow each other when they need something and dont really expect anything in return (like gargan’s good for getting her supplies and doing heavy lifting when she needs it and liv’s always down to run check ups on gargan)

 • oh yeah liv used to be a scientist but immediately lost her license and phd when she started going above some board members heads to buy less than legal things through super illegal sources

.• that’s another thing, kingpin tends to just hire ex cons and criminals to work in his cafe just bc he believes that a person willing to work hard to better themselves deserves a chance to re enter society again.

 • like they’ve all done bad things but still ended up with a job at the cafe. aaron fought a cop, liv did some shady deals for an illegal experiment, gargan used to run a drug ring years ago due to personal reasons but once he was free from jail he never dealt with the stuff again, and lonnie killed a dude (allegedly. he never went to jail bc they couldn’t prove anything but hey word spread around quick and everyone knew not to go anywhere near this guy)

 • kingpin is in this au btw he’s just……a very depressed man who’s still grieving over his wife and son dying in a car accident

.• he rarely shows up to run the cafe bc its too much for him being in the place that his wife loved and built up from the ground. he used to be the manager after she died but couldn’t handle it and mostly left lonnie to take care of it

• which holy fuck lonnie is trying his best to keep this cafe alive and well and there’s only two other people working there so like its enough to have him scrambling all over the place trying to find more help (thanks aaron)

 •miles doesn’t know aaron’s working at the cafe across the street and aaron def wants it that way bc even tho he’s out of jail he hasn’t actually……visited miles yet….. it’s the shame that’s keeping aaron from reaching out to him which is….sad bc miles doesn’t care what happened he just wants his uncle back.

 • oh oh one more thing RIPeter used to run the deli across the street but had to leave brooklyn to go volunteer at homeless shelters across the states indefinitely so theres no telling when he’ll be back, so he left the cafe under the guidance of pb parker (peter b parker voice: my cafe now)

 •and uhhh thats all i got, like i said this au is just found family trope + the healing we all want + bad people getting redemption which is all the tropes that i love all compacted together in the most cliche au you can imagine!

[donsdawn]

This is gonna b long bc im mad as h e c k

School sucks. Its super boring. My and a friend of mine keep making stupid games to pas away time, like drawing contests and collabing on a story

We start writing a story where each of us writes down as much as they can (until theyre out of ideas) before passing it to the other. We can write whatever we think directs the story the best.

Now, it is very clear for both of us we have extremely different interests in the things we write or read, mostly for she is a heterocis girl, and i am an aroace agender person, which if u started writing a story about werewolves together, would obviously pull at two different ends (if you know what i mean)

Well, whatever tho, right?

She starts it up, I continue, its not a GOOD story, but bc nither of us knows what the other is thinking, its interesting.

We keep the main character genderless by using first pov and avoiding pronouns and not naming them, to keep them #relateable

Well anyway theres a first opportunity to makes a charater, and since theyre MY first character, i write them as nb. I csually slip they/them into the story, nothing you’d even notice. No big revele or anything.

And of course, she didnt notice it either. So on her turn, she just kept refering to the character with he/him. I gave some slack, and on my turn added T (he) y to all the times she got it wrong

The second time I corrected her, tho. Which was a back idea.

“What? Where?!” She asks

“Uhh... since they were invented?” I point out at the first paragraph i wrote of them

And then... she takes out an eraser. And replaces all the they/them with he him

“We cant have the best friend nb. The main character is already genderless. We’re re keeping it so we can both see it however we want” she says, unaware how erasing that is to me bc the main character is not genderless, it was just a subject we circled around. They had a little SISTER. they had a MOM AND A DAD but apparently one nb is too much.

“He can be trans. Or gay. Just not nb” she assures me. I give him up.

We keep writing. This character gets mentioned once or twice more, but hes not important. And both me and my friend know

We KNOW they story isnt going anywhere until the protagonist gets in a wood, so thats where i pull to.

And then she drops it. “Theyre gonna go visit their ex girlfriend.” And OF COURSE THEY FCKING DO. WHO CARES IT MAKES CIRCLING AROUND GENDER MUCH MORE DEFICULT. WHO CARES I HAVE THE TINIEST INTEREST AND IS HONESTLY A LITTLE REPULSIVE TOWARDS RELATIONSHIPS.

But i give in again. Sure. And its my turn and im trying to write them as neutral as i can before i give it to her

“I think we’re writing a man character.” She informs me. I have no idea where she got that idea from,( e y e r o l l ) since she insisted keeping the protagonist #relateable

“I dont think that” i say. Bc neither of us r boys and we certainly didnt TRY making a boy. What is making her think that?(EYEROLL)

“Lets read from the start and see what vibe we’re getting” she insists.

I know saying nb isnt even on her mind. The protagonist sounds like a girl to me. She makes me circle a man/woman on a piece of paper. I say woman, growing very grumpy.

“If we do pick a gender it means you changed the roomates gender for no reason” i tell her.

“Who cares about him, hes just there for info dump” she waves me off. The protagonist is now a male. He has an ex girlfriend. I need to write about them sharing a bed. Im growing extremely uncomfortable. I try making a point of making the roommate a more involved character, but she hates that, and waves it off, barley considering making a plot twist of him as a werewolf. Who cares there r only 6 characters, one of which is dead and another is dying, he just isn’t important enough. God bless she made an ex girlfriend. Now he finall has the company of human affection he was starving for for so long.

When i tell her after class something about the name she chose (Aaron) being genderless for all names r a string of letters which we give meaning to, she calls me politically correct, bc i never want to insult anyone and its “honestly? Kind of annoying at some point. Theres a point where ur just OVER POLITE. i can seem to get a word in”

Uhhh i hate my life???