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Sorry, lovies, no updates on Silent As Shadows or Weaving The Web yet…been in a real bad funk lately and I’m pretty sure work stole my muse as well as my time and sanity! In the meantime, here’s the finished piece of that little closeup of Rey’ka’s face…
The kids were suffering different types of exhaustion by this point in the story…but they’re in good hands. 🕷️💙✨
#atwow#atwow fanart#atwow spider#atwow oc#rey'akina#rey'ka#spider got his hug#spider’s got a big sister#atwow fanfiction#silent as shadows#ao3 writer
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When words fail…draw!
Tiny preview of something I’m working on…I’m obsessed with her face stripes! ✨😍
#atwow#atwow oc#na’vi oc#rey'ka#rey'akina#atwow spider#silent as shadows#ao3 writer#work in progress
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Oooo, cliffhanger! 😯💙
2/9 pages of my little comic finished :)
(click for better quality!)
I haven't felt up to writing lately, but I decided to try my hand at a longer format comic. It's my interpretation of what could happen in Avatar three based on the leaks, specifically that one where Jake and Quaritch are sitting together talking while Spider is asleep. I kept turning that script page over and over in my head wondering how the hell they went from fighting to the death to having a civil discussion and this is the result! I already have all 9 pages outlined and sketched, but I've only finished the first 2 so far. I can't wait to share the full story with y'all!
And to those of you who have sent me writing prompts: they are not forgotten, they are safely in my ask box and I will get to them some day 💙💙💙
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Ooooo, interesting results to the poll of how SAS should end! 🤯
I wish I had a snippet or even a clue on when both fics will be updated! 😭 I’m so busy and stressed with work these days, my mind has been blank…so sorry, internet darlings, I’m trying to get two brain cells to rub together!
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#ao3 writer#atwow fanfiction#silent as shadows#weaving the web#author is sleep deprived#poll results
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Happy Earth Day! (From Pandora’s perspective) 🌱
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This is how Rey'ka was born, in case any of you wanted to know...
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Curiousity has me, lovies. 🤔💙🐞
A slightly bittersweet happily ever after awaits...bitter for those who deserve it, happy for those who deserve it more... 🕷️💙✨
I know the end of SAS......but............
#atwow#atwow fanfiction#atwow spider#atwow oc#rey'akina#rey'ka#recom quaritch#silent as shadows#ao3 writer#curious#ask the reader
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✨💙 Spreading some love and joy in people's ask boxes 💙✨ If you get this, it means you're awesome and I hope you're having a great day! Now copy and paste this message to at least 3 other blogs to keep it going! Then answer to show you're done: What are your three favorite movies?
I needed this.......
I am so sapped from toxic work nonsense that I can't string a sentence together, even for fun. Sorry, darlings, that means I don't think the next chapter of SAS will be this Friday...but hopefully before next Friday since it's on a free range update schedule? I'll try to get another for Weaving The Web up...
That being said!
Favorite movies of all time?
1.) V for Vendetta (This was a hard choice...) 🗡️
2.) Avatar: The Way of Water (Eek! It was too close, I'm sorry!) 🌊
3.) Jaws (it's ok to laugh at me for this, I laugh at myself sometimes for loving it so much...) 🦈
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Hello, lovies! 🐞 I am SO excited to post this chapter! 🕷️💙✨ So excited, I haven't even edited yet! Haha! Will do in the morning so hopefully it doesn't suck too much.
I presented myself with a challenge for this one...there is no dialogue. A bit of sign language but even that's minimal and no spoken dialogue whatsoever. Enjoy, darlings!
Chapter 34: Finding Your Voice
#atwow#atwow fanfiction#atwow spider#atwow oc#rey'ka#rey'akina#toruk makto#silent as shadows#ao3 writer
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Sorry, guys...this one will be a bit of a heart breaker... 💔✨
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Rey’ka noted how the sky person shifted nervously and avoided eye contact. The nervousness was obvious; they were surrounded by enemies. But avoiding eye contact? She gently placed a hand on his shoulder and tilted her head slightly when he looked at her. She took back her hand with a wide flourish then tapped her right fingertips on the back of her left hand.
Where is Spider?
Ocean dropped his downtrodden gaze again. He went to raise his hands to explain but Rey’ka raised her own hand to stop him. She knew, probably already knew when she woke up in that metal cocoon. Spider wasn’t there. Deep in her heart, she knew he wasn’t there and that was what her brother intended. She knew his injury was serious and that he wouldn’t let the guilt of slowing her down get in the way anymore.
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Something you guys are talking about just made me realize something.........
Jake and Neytiri never told the kids that Spider was spotted with the recoms/RDA after Tonowari told them about the village attacks. As fairly evident as Lo'ak's surprise to see Spider on the ship. Tonowari wouldn't know the significance of this to the Sully kids, but everyone was still surprised to find out about the tulkun hunts as a serious threat only after Ronal's spirit sister and baby were killed.
So...the Sully kids were never let in on that:
Spider was spotted nearby
that he was still in the custody of the RDA (like he was willingly taking part in the evil?)
that villages were being attacked (could be 'need to know' basis but still...)
that Spider was even alive at all after being kidnapped???
I understand the argument can be made that Jake and Neytiri didn't want to risk their kids running off to find Spider. But, also, I don't think the kids wouldn't just run off blindly without knowing where he was in a vast ocean. To me...this means, while I'm sure their hearts were in the right place, it IS another example of them just trying to erase Spider from their lives.......
Spider needs hugs...
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I often see people describe Spider as a neglected child. Do you think that is totally accurate? Would Norm and the other scientists have set rules and boundaries? If Lo’ak and Spider did something stupid together would Jake punish both of them? What would a scene like this look like?
Hello! I know you sent this question to other creators like a month ago. Sorry this took me so long to get to. I’ve been busy and I really wanted to give a detailed answer to this but I could just never make the time until now.
So short answer yes I definitely think Spider is a neglected child.
Long answer:
While I do believe some of his basic physical needs were met like food/water/shelter I don’t believe all his physical needs were met. First is just basic safety and while I don’t think his foster parents the McCosker’s physical beat him they definitely didn’t seem to care about him. From what we see in the comics and in the movie Spider was allowed to leave the base by himself at a very young age, like around 7-8 from the look of him. I personally take huge issue with this. I’d love to know how far away the village is from Hells Gate because maybe if it was super close, like you could see it from base kind of close, then I don’t think it’d be as bad but either way your letting a child, who is already super tiny compared to his huge surroundings loose in a jungle that we are told point blank from Jake’s narration is dangerous! Like it’s one thing to let your kid walk to a friends house to teach them independence but what parent would let their child do that if they could be potentially eaten by a tiger or trampled by a rhino. But that’s exactly what the scientist and the McCoskers are letting Spider do! That is just so negligent to me.
Next is Spider’s hair which I know we talk to death about for a lot of different reasons. So I actually have the exact same hair texture that we see baby Spider having so I can personally attest to it tangling easily when not properly maintained. After looking at 7-8 year old Spider i feel like I can pretty confidently say those aren’t dreads they’re mats. That’s what dry, unwashed, un brushed curly hair looks like after weeks.
From my research children typically need help with taking care of their hair until around age 12 and so the fact that his hair is matted tells me no body is helping him. And that could lead to issues down the line because matted hair can grow mold which will obviously make you sick. Even when we see Spider at 16 he hasn’t learned how to maintain his dreadlocks properly. They’re uneven, there’s unlocked hair sticking out all over the place. Really to me it looks more like he did his best to do something with his hair after all the childhood neglect. So yeah not putting in the effort to properly take care of a child’s hair when they’re to young to do it themselves is a form of physical neglect in my eyes
Now onto bigger issues.
We see from the comics that Spider’s foster parents just flat out don’t care about him. Other creators have gotten into that so I won’t go on about it. What I will go on about though is that I think it’s a failure of every adult that saw how neglectful and uncaring the McCosker’s where to Spider but did nothing. They did nothing because it was easier for them to do nothing. Sometimes foster placements don’t work out and when that happens you find an alternative until you find something that best fits the child. They didn’t do that! They did what was easiest for the adults and that was to turn a blind eye. I’m guessing after the events of the high ground comics that Spider didn’t even really have a guardian to answer to. He was basically just a ward of the rebels. I really do hope we get to see him interact with characters like Norm and Max post his kidnapping because from what we see in the movie Kiri was the only one worried about him. I think it would have been nice if during the scene where Jake and Norm are talking about Kiri’s seizer Jake asked if Norm had any new information about Spider, so we the audience would see that these adults do care about this kid. We don’t get that though.
And honestly I take huge issue with Jake’s treatment of Spider. I didn’t like it when I first watched the movie and never felt like he earned the “son for a son” line because again we never even saw him care about Spider aside from him asking Neytiri not to kill him which is beyond bare minimum. Reading the comics made me straight up appalled. My jaw hit the ground during the climax of the story when they are being chased by R.D.A, shot at, the forest is burning and Jake told Spider to turn himself in because he was slowing them down! And my poor boy just promised to keep up!
And I know Jake believes that they won’t hurt Spider because he’s just a kid but 1. Why would you even think that? Seriously what evidence do you have that the R.D.A wouldn’t hurt this kid. They are your enemy! They’re literally shooting at you as you speak! What makes you think they wouldn’t shoot Spider on site! Why would you even take that chance with a child’s life! Even if they do accept his surrender then what? Are you okay with this kid being sent back to Earth? Or being forced to live on the R.d.A’s base with little to no say of what happens to him? And 2. They do hurt him! A year later when Spider gets kidnapped Ardmore was willing to turn Spider into a vegetable to get the information she wanted! The only reason that didn’t happen was because Quaritch stopped him. This is just going to be an all me rant for a second but I could never leave a child behind like Jake did with Spider. I don’t care how tough you think he is he’s 16! And he was left in the enemies hands on an absolutely insane amount of good faith that they wouldn’t stoop low enough to hurt him. They fucking tortured him. And if Jake had at least payed lip service to being worried about Spider I’d be slightly more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt and say there was nothing he could do to get Spider out of Bridgehead, he had to protect his others kids. But he doesn’t. He says that Spider’s a tough kid and that’s that.
So to wrap this up Spider was incredibly neglected. Based off of everything I said above it seems to me that the adults provided bare minimum necessities and then just let him run wild which is no way to treat a child especially when their young. We’d be here all day if I started up on the emotional neglect of this boy. I truly hope we get to see Jake treat Spider better in the next movie and that we get to see Spider interact with Norm and Max.
Those are my thoughts. If anyone disagrees I’d be happy to have a respectful conversation about it. I’m always curious to hear other people’s opinions. 💙
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So........what would you guys think if I gave a modern ATWOW-inspired AU a shot after Silent As Shadows concludes...? 🤔🤔🤔
The quick summary since I've really only just been thinking about it recently:
Miles 'Spider' Socorro is half Na'vi from his mother's side. Paz Socorro, Eywa rest her soul, was a respected ambassador for the country of Pandora and had a one night stand with a charming young American colonel. The parents shared an amicable relationship, but decided not to humor their relationship further since their careers took them in very different directions.
Spider, his chosen name, grew up in Pandora as one of the beloved next generation of the Omatikaya but is well-traveled due to his mother taking her pride and joy with her to conferences and on other political ventures.
Spider has never met or even seen his father...but his father has seen him.
Paz lost her battle with cancer when Spider was only ten, but the Olo'eyktan took him into his already large family to keep him safe and part of The People.
Four years later, the father he'd only heard about (and not all good things...) wants to meet him. Spider is loved by his adoptive family and, even at his young age, working hard to follow in his mother's footsteps.
He doesn't want to meet the man named Miles Quaritch.
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🕸️🕷️ Weaving the Web 🕷️🕸️
Chapter 17: Let No One In & No One Gets Out
TW: Mention of Suicide
Spider spent the next three days not leaving the apartment for anything. He’d covered the mirror in the bathroom with a towel after washing it multiple times. As if there was any way for him to forget the cryptic words from Eywa knew who...
He was afraid to go to sleep, worried whoever wrong the message might come back. Whoever wrote the message made him feel something he’d never experienced before...
Paranoid.
Despite losing energy from not sleeping, Spider wasn’t making up for it with his appetite. The day after he found the message, he was so stressed he forgot to eat entirely. The stomach pangs were suppressed by thoughts and theories about who could have written it. He had no friends on base with the recoms out on mission. But he hadn’t showered since before they left, so could one of them have written it? Did one of the alters write it? Or did HE write it and completely forget?
Could Spider not even trust himself anymore...? Was he losing time or memories, even when he was in control?
His stomach growled angrily and he growled right back at it.
Letting out a frustrated sigh, Spider slammed his feet down on the floor and wandered the few feet into the kitchen to look through the cabinets for the eighth time that day. And he would likely go back to the next of blankets on the couch empty-handed for the eighth time too. On top of not knowing who wrote the message, the teen didn’t trust anyone not to sneak into the apartment while he slept so the couch it was. At least it was a comfortable couch...
Walking made his stomach really hurt now. When did he last eat? Was it last night or yesterday morning? And what DID he eat? He sure as hell hadn’t cooked anything as evident by the protein wrappers strewn about the countertop. His eyes roved over the same cabinet contents from before; nothing new magically appeared. But something did jump out...
Spider stared at an unassuming can with a bright red tomato on it. Why did that suddenly look so good...?
As appealing as tomato soup suddenly looked, Spider’s head jerked to the right and he rolled the shoulder for it. Maybe later...just water for now for the headache.
Defeated in his hunt for food, Spider went back and flopped into the tangled blankets on the side of the couch against the wall so he could stare at the door. There was only one way into the apartment and he wasn’t going to miss anyone who might creep in.
“They’re just fucking with you, Spider...” he reassured himself quietly, rubbing the heel of his palm into his right temple. That had to be it. Without Quaritch and the rest of the squad around, those RDA sons of bitches had to be messing with him. He didn’t think his alters had the capacity to just write that message without causing any other problems...but that was a hell of a presumption.
He took a slow breath and closed his eyes. The first person to come to Spider’s mind was Kiri. She would know what to do. She’d know how to make him feel better with how fucked up everything had become. His chest felt tight and a pang shot through his head, causing him to drop his head forward and clutch the right side of his head in a mess of tangled locs.
Spider missed her so goddamn much...and Lo’ak...Tuk and Neteyam...all the science guys...Jake...even Ney-...
Before he had a chance to register it, a sharpy cry escaped Spider and was followed by a hiss of pain through his teeth. His head dipped lower and his other hand wove into his wild hair to clutch the other side of his head. It felt like his whole brain got zapped by a static shock. When he opened his eyes again, he was embarrassed to see tiny beads of tears on his eyelashes.
He tried to wipe them away with the back of his hand, but this seemed to just allow more to escape and stream down cheeks. Spider felt overwhelmed by the silence of the apartment. He could hear the almost silent hum of the lights and appliances plugged in the kitchen, but it was still silent compared to what he was used to at Hell’s Gate or High Ground.
Spider’s head shot upright, causing a flashing behind his eyes from the inevitable headache, at the sound of beeping. It didn’t sound like the normal door alert, but were the guards coming in? They’d left him alone...why would they come in now? Did they hear him? Fucking hell...just what he needed...
He heard the beeping again and looked around for the source before realizing it was muffled and coming from beneath the blanket. Pulling back the blanket, Spider pulled the tablet from where it slipped between the couch cushions and thought maybe it was alerting him the battery needed to be recharged or something. Instead, the icon that looked like a projector was blinking green.
“What the hell...?” Spider said to himself. He thought this thing only let him read comics and watch old Earth movies. The elation he felt when he pressed it and a screen turned on to the colonel staring back at him was indescribable. The recom was looking around the screen as if waiting for his end of the call to connect. Wainfleet was on one side, poking at some buttons he couldn’t see.
“Hey, hey!” Wainfleet said, confirming the tablets had connected, “There he is! What’s up, Spider-Man?”
Quaritch shook his head and focused on the stunned kid staring back at him, “Hey, tiger.”
“Qua-...Koaktan?” Spider asked, course corrected his name for Quaritch.
“In the blue flesh, kid, why do you look so surprised?” the colonel said with a smirk. Spider could see Wainfleet mock being offended off to the side. He could see an olive-green tarp so they must be set up at camp somewhere.
“Um...” Spider said, unable to form words.
“Spider?” Quaritch asked, his smirk dropping and a look of concern taking its place. Even though the screen, Spider could see how the recom looked over how he swallowed hard while biting his upper lip and his brows knit together as they rose up. Even Wainfleet caught the strange response and looked concerned, but he didn’t get to ask before Quaritch dismissed him with a wave of his hand. “Spider? You alright there, son?”
“I, um...” he started, failing miserably to form more words. His heart started beating faster and his breath caught in his throat, causing his chest to heave slightly. He blurted out suddenly and unprompted, “Are you ok?”
“I just asked you that, kid, what’s wrong?” Quaritch said, his minor concern turning serious. He leaned closer to the tablet and spoke quieter to make the conversation as private as possible. Though, the squad was family and they’d find out eventually.
“I, uh...yea. I don’t know...” Spider said quickly with a nod.
Quaritch stared at the boy for a second then ran his hand over his chin before asking again, “Spider. Are you alright? What’s wrong?”
“I’m fine...I just, uh...” Spider said with a shrug and tick to the right that Quaritch did NOT miss, “I don’t know.”
“Did somethin’ happen? Anyone givin’ you a hard time?” Quaritch said, his ears pinning back in anger at the thought of any of the security detail he handpicked for this task not performing to his expectations. He was ready to rip a new one into anyone putting the boy through any shit...
“No...” Spider said, his eyes dropping. His cheeks started to feel hot with shame when he couldn’t say what was wrong. He didn’t WANT to tell Quaritch about the message on the mirror. At least not until Spider was sure HE wasn’t the one who’d actually written it to himself. His brain was already fractured, but he was holding out hope he wasn’t going legitimately insane. “Are you coming back soon?”
“Yea, few more days.” Quaritch said, serious worry for his boy taking root.
“You promise?” Spider said quickly, sounding more desperate than he thought.
“Promise, kid.” Quaritch answered firmly. This was Spider he was dealing with, right? The surveillance mission had been just that. Observation and no contact. Maybe he could call it a mission complete early? He stayed patient and asked a third time, “Spider. Answer my question, ya hear? Are you alright? Because you sure hell don’t seem it.”
“I-I don’t know, ok?!” Spider suddenly blurted out, his breath shaking as he answered truthfully, “I don’t feel right.”
“Tell me what doesn’t feel right.” Quaritch said, signaling for Ja to come close enough to hear the kid’s response and what he was experiencing in his own words.
And then the damn burst...
“I’m all fucked up and I don’t know what to trust!” Spider said, closing his eyes tightly and letting the fears he’d been poorly keeping in check with little sleep, eating, and little physical activity. It was like self-imposed solitary confinement. “I’m tired! I don’t want to be here! Fuck this place! I want to go home! But I CAN’T because I’ll hurt someone! I can’t take the risk, I should just fucking kill myself before I hurt anyo-...!”
“Spider, eyes on me!” Quaritch ordered, barking it out loud enough that everyone at the camp heard. Dread seized his chest when he heard his son mention suicide. Spider did his best to not let his lip quiver as he followed the command but couldn’t stop the tremble in his breathing. The recom could see how exhausted, in every definition of the word, the boy was. “I’m comin’ back tonight. But it’s gonna take me a couple hours.”
“But the general said-...if I got in the way-...” Spider sputtered, instantly regretting how his outburst was going to threaten the arrangement Quaritch had worked so hard to set up.
“To hell with the general!” Quaritch shouted before he could reason with his own flaring emotions, “I’m comin’ home, kid!”
None of the squad got in his way as Quaritch stormed out from under the shelter to where Cupcake was almost asleep for the night. He shoved the tablet into Wainfleet’s hands and his second immediately went to calmly talk to the kid. He’d stay on the call as long as he needed to...
And he did.
Quaritch was going to owe Cupcake a long rest after the effort she put in to get him back to Bridgehead. It still took a while and it was in the early hours of the morning when he shocked the security detail outside the apartment. They dismissed themselves seeing how fast the colonel passed them into the apartment; it was obvious they weren’t needed anymore.
Stepping just past the threshold, Quaritch laid his golden eyes on the terrified teen who was still sitting in the same spot he saw on the screen and holding the tablet with shaking hands. Spider looked up at him, pale and sickly. He looked worse now than he did when he first called to see what trouble the kid had gotten up to while they were gone. Goddamn it, why didn’t he call to check in sooner?!
“Spid-...?” Quaritch barely started.
“I’m gonna be sick!” the kid blurted out before dropping the tablet and vaulting over the couch to the bathroom. That was one way to end a conversation and the call disconnected. The recom crossed the room in quick strides and into the bathroom after Spider. The teen didn’t even make it to the toilet, opting to drop and vomit the bile from an empty stomach onto the shower floor instead.
Quaritch dropped a knee next to him and pulled back his wild locs. All that time spent trying to hold back a panic attack on top of whatever was chipping away at his sanity the last few days? He rubbed a large hand in a circle on the boy’s back but did not get the response he was expecting.
“Don’t touch me!” Spider shrieked, slipping on the tile to get away from the recom and falling against the wall in a heap.
“Ok, ok. I ain’t gonna touch you.” Quaritch said quickly. He didn’t know if this was about to turn into a night with Miles instead of Spider if he pushed him. Wouldn’t be the first time...
“I’ll...leave you to your thoughts, ok? I’ll wait out ther-...” Quaritch said calmly, thinking he was offering the best solution until the boy whipped his head up.
“No, no! Please don’t go!” Spider pleaded but recoiled when Quaritch thought this was a green light to help him off the hard tile floor, “No, don’t touch me!”
Quaritch slowly lowered his hands and made direct eye contact with the now crying child, “Mawey.”
“Mawey...” Spider repeated, actually feeling a sliver calmer with Quaritch speaking in Na’vi.
“Yea...mawey. I’m just going to stay over here, ok?” the colonel said soothingly as he sat back against the opposite wall under the sink. As he did, he noticed a towel draped over the mirror. He looked back to Spider hunched over next to the wall, trying not to get sick again and covering his eyes with his hand.
“...irayo...” Spider said through the growing migraine.
#atwow#atwow fanfiction#atwow spider#recom quaritch#spider quaritch#weaving the web#avatar the way of traumatizing spider#ao3 writer
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She is READY!!! And by ‘she’, I mean the new chapter of SAS! 🕷️💙✨
Chapter 33: True Genius
#atwow#atwow fanfiction#atwow spider#atwow oc#spider quaritch#recom quaritch#silent as shadows#ao3 writer
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I don't mean to be a tease but this has got to be the MOST complex chapter of SAS...I really hope I deliver on the hype, lovies. I don't want to disappoint a single one of you... 🐞💙✨
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"Rey’ka looked at them all slowly, but no one could meet her eyes. She let them guide her to lay down on the gurney. She let them fix restraints on her wrists and ankles. She let them wheel her down the corridor of empty Na’vi prison cells without contest. To the death she knew was waiting for her."
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Just some Avatar The Way of Water love. 🌊🥰
Beautiful video… 💙🩵💙
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Jeez, this next chapter is intense! 😳😳😳
...that is all. 💙🐞
And trying real hard to have it done by the end of the weekend, but I don't make promises I can't keep... 🕷️💙✨
#atwow#atwow fanfiction#atwow spider#atwow oc#silent as shadows#slow progress is still progress#ao3 writer
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