#this LOOKS like vent art but it's not. i just like angst 😂 sorry peter

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

After ten cups of coffee, I'm thinkin'...

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you ever get a song stuck in your head and feel like drawing about it?

i've been working through a lot of weird finicky not-plot-but-plot-influencing details the past week or two that like... no one is ever going to see (by which i mean things like math and calculations, not prose) and also just thinking about certain particulars and interconnections.

i'll be real, i don't know how to concisely provide context for this set of drawings (well, except for the top right, i think that's pretty self explanatory) so... i'm just not going to.

here's some closeups:

it's the next day and my head hurts but i will provide some context i guess. it's Skip. I have a (fic) WIP that addresses this relationship/incident directly (not just vague flashbacks) but I'm not sure when it will go up or if I should cut parts (not that there's anything explicit just that it has a lot of "after the fact" that might be a case of not knowing when to end)

uncle ben's grave... probably parents' as well. obv peter has abandonment issues and loss. parents, uncle, grandparents, etc. of course he still has his aunt and eventually makes friends again but that doesn't make him feel any less.

The Jackal.

It took me a few minutes to figure out what to do here, but i settled on this as something that is foreboding while also being neither detailed nor explicit.

if you've seen my concepts for Ben's costumes you've seen the Jackal's mask—it's not green and it's not a transformative alias. He is simply a man in a leather mask.

Peter in the hospital afterward. He has a broken shoulder, among other injuries. You know what's funny? This is a year (more accurately, 14 months) before Peter proposes to Flash. Not related, just how it happens I guess.

Anyway there's morphine in that drip.

Flash and Peter. They'll have been together steadily for 3-4 years at this point. I feel like there are a thousand different things I could say here but... *gestures vaguely*

I took the words off because I wanted to put in on Insta and Bluesky but my mom follows me on those places and I didn't want her to be like, is something wrong ??? 😂😂😂 no mom my gay au just gets kind of intense.