#(and an ex-master thief's fortune that your girlfriend is set to inherit)

[ask-crimson-weaver]

📠 Can you hold down a regular job/education on top of heroing?

Sort of? The past few years have made things... pretty complicated, suffice to say. Let me explain:

When I first started hero-ing, I didn't have too much trouble keeping up with my classes-- I admittedly already had a bad habit of putting stuff off until the last minute (yet still making it through alright), so the hero stuff mostly just slotted into the space that was already there. The only major shake-up I had through my college years was after the evil me from 42711r dropped in and decided to rip my Shard and soul out of my body. Let's just say... my body didn't really take the rough separation all that well, so even after I made it back to my body, it took longer to heal than most of my usual combat injuries. Ended up staying in the Avengers' med wing for a solid month, and between physical therapy and the general healing process... well, it was kinda hard to keep up with my classes. I ended up dropping half of them to avoid stressing myself out, and took an extra semester the next year to make up those credits. So I guess, aside from that bit of re-shuffling, the education side of things was pretty stable.

The job side of things, though... let's just say it's had quite a few roadblocks.

By the time I got out of college and started looking around for work, I'd been dealing with an existential case of writer's block-- I'd been living with a shattered soul for well over six months (though that's a story for another time), and though it was functionally doing its job, my creative drive was just... broken. So I ended up settling for doing some freelance editing between all the hero stuff... which, in of itself, got interrupted after what those amber shards from Itzi's blade did to me. Wasn't able to bring myself to do much of anything for a while after that.

But now my soul's been fixed up, and though I'm still mainly doing freelance jobs at the moment (which, since I'm the one scheduling my own time, makes it easier to fit in between hero stuff), I'm considering whether or not I should try to get a job... well, somewhere. Not sure where exactly yet, but... I dunno. Over the past year, I've sort of realized just how much of my life is wrapped up in hero-related stuff, and Strawberry has told me that getting some sort of hobby or job outside of that sphere might help with balancing out my life a bit. So who knows? Maybe whatever job I go for will help me on that end of things.

#spidersona #marvelsona #marvel oc #marvel au #spiderverse #into the spiderverse #spider-man au #spider-man oc #marvel comics #marvel character #spidersonas #Melly | Crimson Weaver #ask-the-goldengate-spider #admittedly money isn't too much of a problem when you've got a friend who's totally okay with 'borrowing' some of Stark's money for you #(and an ex-master thief's fortune that your girlfriend is set to inherit) #Han and I still feel like we should still try to be some degree of self-sufficient