Man-Spider Concept Art For Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse By Kris Anka

Ok but honestly most of the Durge romances in my opinion are cute

Like,, Lae’zel and Durge? LOVE THEM LOVE THOSE TWO RECOVERING FROM BEING FORCED TO BELIEVE THEY WERE ONLY USES WERE BEING WEAPONS!! FINDING SOLACE IN ONE ANOTHER?? LOVE ME SOME OF THAT!!

Astarion and Durge? LOVE THOSE IDIOTS!! TRAUMATIZED DUMBASSES BEING EACH OTHER’S SUPPORT AND BECOMING BETTER PEOPLE!! CONCERNED STABBING PARTNERS MAKING A NEW FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES?? HELL YEAH!!

Wyll and Durge? LOVE THEM!!! PROTECTOR OF THE PEOPLE AND EX-DESTROYER OF THE PEOPLE?? HAVING FAITH IN ONE ANOTHER?? BELIEVING THE OTHER TO BE THE DEFINITION OF GOOD??? LOVE IT!!!

Gale and Durge? LOVE THEM!! UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND DEVOTION AND SHOWING EACH OTHER WHAT TRUE CARE AND LOVE IS?? LOVE THEM!!!

Minthara and Durge? LOVE THEM!! ACCEPTING THE OTHERS REGARDLESS OF FLAWS AND SEEING THE OTHER AS BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT AND SUPPORTING?? LOVE THOSE TWO!!

Halsin and Durge? FINDING COMFORT IN ONE ANOTHER AND HAVING TRUST AND REASSURING EACH OTHER OF THEIR GOODNESS?? AUUUGGH!!!!

Karlach and Durge? ‘EFF IT!! LETS GO BEAT UP THAT GUY WHO SCREWED YOU OVER AND ALSO BEAT UP MY SISTER WHO SCREWED ME OVER AND THEN LETS GO TO THE PARK AND CUDDLE!! LOVE THESE TWO!! THEY DESERVE TO KISS AND HUG AND JUST TO BE HAPPY!!

okay but dark urge and Shadowheart romance and friendship is just so sweet to me and not talked about enough

like look at those two traumatized amnesiac murder babies!! look at them recovering and becoming better than what their gods made them!! look at them!! they’re holding hands!! and defying the gods!! look at them!! good for them!!

Donnie Stimming gifs!

HE DOES DESERVE TO GET ANGRY SO TRUE SO REAL

alright brother. any thoughts on spydad? (i hate it with my whole heart)

I like the idea of spy and scout having a unique/complicated relationship as a result of being related. I really do. But like, spydad in a “spy getting in the way of scout’s romantic relationships/being weirdly overprotective/etc” way has never been done in a way that doesn’t seem like a complete annihilation of Spy’s personality.

He would laugh at someone for stooping to the level of dating Scout of all people rather than threaten them for stepping near him. He cares for scout but he does also combat that with seven different layers of hating Scouts guts- half over-dramatic and half very genuine because scout is annoying.

also, I’ve mentioned it before, but any conversation that spy and scout have where spy finally admits the truth needs to end with scout getting to beat the shit out of him. Sorry. I want them to come to some form of resolution as much as most people but first things first I want to see them yell at each other and resolve nothing. And I want spy to try and save his ego and fail to apologize and I want to see scout just get mad at him. I think he deserves this!

@dreary-giraffe

This is a good question! And the answer is: I think the community made up the 'Fritz' part. Pretty sure that's what his name is in Emesis Blue (which is, incidentally, the video that reached up from my Recommended list and violently dragged me back into this fandom, hahah).

But as far as I know, the only name we know canonically is 'Ludwig,' and we're not sure if it's his first or his last name.

HOWEVER:

This sign is featured in the Man vs. Machine map 'Rottenburg.'

According to the wiki, this is a blurb from the official update that included this map:

"The second of our Two Cities finds the mercs defending the Medic's vaguely European hometown of Rottenburg — a sprawling village famous for its centuries-old traditions of 1) chasing the next in the resident lineage of mad doctors out of town with torches and pitchforks whenever they swapped out too many super-charged baboon hearts,"

Huh. Interesting.

Now, this is just conjecture, but this implies two things:

Ludwig is his first name, and his last name is Humboldt

HIS ENTIRE FAMILY LINE IS LIKE THIS

Of course, it's also possible that he was unrelated to whatever local mad scientist there was when he was a kid, but he decided 'hey, I'd like to do that too' and then grew up to eventually take over the pharmacy for himself. There are plenty of mom-and-pop type places that are operated by someone whose last name isn't actually on the sign.

So until Valve says something, we don't really know what his last name is - this is just an extremely strong hint.

For the purpose of this blog, though, his name is Dr. Ludwig Humboldt. I haven't yet decided what Misha's last name is.

Speaking of Misha... apropos of nothing, but here's a shot from the supply room in the same map.

(Hahaha floating syringe. Why is it floating? Because players aren't supposed to be able to look at this room from this angle. When viewed from above, you don't notice it's floating.)

Anyway, I saw someone else once point out that our boy Ludwig is fucking obsessed with making diagrams of Misha. He studies him like he's the perfect specimen.

What's that? You want a close up of the diagram? Of course!

"This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like." -- Ludwig, probably

Anyway, as you can see, we unfortunately can't read the text when we zoom in. (EDIT: Actually, yes you can, at [this link]!) But I do have to note that it is hilarious that the ammo pouches and bandolier are part of the diagram, as if they're an essential part of his anatomy. That is also literally just an A-posed model they loaded in and slapped a skeleton on top of.

I choose to believe Ludwig made this diagram in Blender himself.

Twitter did something fun yesterday

RULE NO. 1 OF WOUND CARE: ignore itttt :33

i literally love when people realize positive reinforcement works like yes its so silly isnt it. but it literally works humans love juice reward too

Odysseus: I'm a monster. No god or mythical would ever see me as man, let alone my family...they're all going to hate me.

Them:

the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

Ghost got a second therapist