Spider-Verse fanfiction idea I’ll never get around to writing:
Teacher: Congratulations, Miles. Your paper on multi-dimensional
physics has attracted a TON of interest from our Science Mentorship
partners. We’ve found you a really wonderful Science Mentor who’s going
to be helping you prepare your Youth Science Innovators presentation
this week.
Miles: Oh, wow, my parents are gonna be so proud.
Teacher: So, let me introduce you to Dr. Olivia Octavius. Thank you, doctor, for being part of this mentorship program.
Liv: It’s my pleasure, I’m just happy I can help inspire the science community of tomorrow.
Miles: … D:
Important additions:
- Liv is 100% legitimately invested in being a good Science Mentor.
After all, today’s young scientists are tomorrow’s reality-warping
coworkers.
- Miles’s paper was an edited version of his research on small, stable inter-dimensional portals, so he can hang out with Gwen/get multiverse
help against major threats.
- Sometimes, Miles forgets to be scared or angry at Doc Ock and starts
actually learning from her, except she inevitably proposes something
super unethical and then unconvincingly adds “…theoretically, of
course” and Miles starts planning how to counter whatever doom-bot she’s
just come up with as Spider-Man.
- May Parker has been helping Miles with spider-gadgets and general science stuff after school. At
some point, she and Liv have an angry shouting match over who gets
science-custody of their science-nephew.
- Miles has to figure out how to turn down a very plush internship offer
from Octavius at the end of the week. His parents insist he take it, he
fails to come up with a good reason not to that doesn’t involve
Spider-Man knowledge. His parents have Liv over for dinner, she speaks
highly of their son and his bright future. The family loves her.
- When Liv eventually figures out his secret identity, she goes full
punch-clock villain and keeps mentoring Miles while fighting
Spider-Man’s attempts to stop her Bad Idea Science.
This is the best and also so good I love
Ock: MILES YOU HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW WHY ARE YOU HERE
Miles: BECAUSE YOU’RE TRYING TO KILL PEOPLE OLIVIA
Eventually…
Someone: “Our primary suspect is Doc Ock.”
Miles: “It’s not Doc Ock.”
Someone: “How do you know?”
Miles: “Because Liv promised to stop causing mayhem on school nights if I agreed not to tell Floyd she’s the one who keeps taking his food out of the company fridge.”
listen I’m just dreading the day when they’re gonna screw us over and close this site for lack of use. you already see people talking like “oh I miss Tumblr” all the time like we’re not still RIGHT FREAKING HERE enjoying our fandom shenanigans in real time…like half the memes on Twitter and Insta are just reposted from here??? uh?? what is that saying???
like I KNOW that Tumblr usage has plummeted and half the blogs that follow me are probably dormant by now. I know that. but if other social media outlets aren’t gonna learn a thing or two about hiding follower counts or allowing tag-based organization or ACTUALLY SHOWING POSTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FOR ONCE, then I don’t want them touching this one
seriously what on EARTH are you talking about
Speaking of lack of use… Guys, please reblog stuff. That is how this website works - unlike something like instagram, which has all sorts of metrics that influence how a post disseminates based on likes, the only way for someone to see a post here on tumblr, other than from the tags, is if someone else reblogs it. Not just in an “it helps the artist” way (although that too), but in a, “this participation is how we keep this website alive” way. Likes make the poster feel good (do them too, if you want!), but the great thing about Tumblr is that is it not (is less?) beholden to those algorithmic metrics that ru(i)n all the other sites, and the only way we have that is because we reblog posts, so tumblr doesn’t have to do it.
