#latrodectal

[astromechs]

also 💛 for matt/jessica! (please)

this is the slowest i am ever circling back through anything LMAO but i missed these disaster children, so here we are ❤️ from this list; also on ao3!

When he comes to, everything’s disoriented. It’s the ringing in his ears that overtakes pretty much everything, making it impossible to get any bearings, relentless and painful; all that filters through is the scent of copper — blood, his own blood — and between that and the ringing, he can’t stabilize any sense of balance for more than a second.

Is this a concussion? Maybe; the last thing he remembers is being thrown into a wall, and the crack he’d heard had been an indication that his helmet hadn’t survived the impact completely intact. In the end, though, Matt can’t be sure — and he also can’t afford to waste any time trying to be, if they’re still out there.

Slowly, he reaches for what hard surface he can (pavement), curling both of his hands into fists as he pushes himself up; he tastes the copper as well as smells it now, more intensely than he has over the past few minutes, and he can feel the skin split from his knuckles. He swallows down bile, bites back nausea (literally, with the inside of his cheek caught between teeth), as he finds unsteady feet and wills himself to keep standing.

His heart rattles in his own chest; his breaths are rasping and shallow, caught only with difficulty.

But they can still, nevertheless, be caught. He can still get to work.

The sounds and smells of Hell’s Kitchen come back to him, one by one, as the ringing starts to fade. There’s the scent of urine and burned rubber wafting in from down the block, which, in combination with an entire assembly of every sugary Starbucks latte known to man passing by, almost makes that nausea come right back. Between cab horns being slammed and the constant rumble of engines around, there are snatches of conversation that reach him — discussions of plans for the rest of the night, relationship drama, more than one “Fuck!” about one forgotten item or another.

Nothing from anyone he’d been tracking, fighting. Somewhere in between him making contact with the wall and regaining consciousness, they’d had time to clear the area and go back to wherever their base of operations is, which he still hasn’t been able to track, even after following them every night for weeks.

Matt drives one hand still curled into a fist, which he hadn’t bothered to flatten, into the wall behind him. If he feels, hears, a bone snap, he ignores it; this is exactly what he deserves for letting these people get away again.

Footsteps coming from nearby, though, derail that line of thought and draw his attention, and so does what comes with it: a combined scent of leather, sweat, and whiskey that can only belong to one person he knows.

The breath he hears is hitched, the accompanying heartbeat quick and scattered; he swears he can pick up on a hint of salt in the air, and the realization has something sticking in his throat. There isn’t much time to put all this together, though, because in the next instant —

He’s nearly bowled over from the force of another body colliding with his, of lips crashing into his with absolutely no mercy.

It takes a second to regain what precarious sense of balance he’d managed to find, but he winds an arm around Jessica’s shoulder and pulls her in close as he can hear her heart begin to steady, opens himself up to the taste of salt, copper, and 80 proof, but what also, maybe, just maybe, seems like relief.

Not that she’d ever admit it — but there’s something warm and easy that settles in his chest at the thought.

Breaking apart comes slowly — and with breath much more difficult to catch than before. Her fingers are soft, a stark contrast to everything Jessica Jones nearly always is, as they reach for his face and graze over skin; her inhale is sharp, just subtly so, when they pause over something (where he figures the blood, at least in part, is coming from).

The helmet’s definitely going to need a repair, he thinks — and to be fortified with something stronger.

Her fingers drop, and with a swish of fabric, he assumes that she’s dropped both of her hands back down by her sides. The sounds of the city, never stopping for anyone or anything, fill in the space that’s returned between them; neons buzz, a man yells at a cab driver three blocks away, shoes scuffle against pavement, someone’s phone clatters out of their fingers, faint drops of rain begin to hit brick and metal hoods.

He doesn’t know how much time passes before he finally steps into it, in a voice that’s still raspy even after he’s swallowed down the dryness in his throat. “What happened?”

“Luke,” is all she offers him at first, a shift in the leather of her jacket indicating a shrug. When he tilts his head, she huffs out an irritated sigh, and adds, “He and I beat the shit out of them when they beat the shit out of you. You’re welcome, by the way.”

Under his cracked helmet, he lifts an eyebrow. “You called Luke?”

“Texted him, one-handed, while I punched a guy.” With the way he can hear her eyes moving in their sockets, it’s clear that she’s rolling them; actually, that alone is clear enough from the tone of her voice. “Don’t even start thinking about gift baskets, because he hates that shit, and so do I.”

He can’t help the faint snort that escapes him then. He also can’t help the grin that slowly begins to stretch on his face. “So you were worried about me.”

“Shut up,” Jessica tells him, with much less force than she could. “Or I won’t let you finish later.”

“Is that a threat, Miss Jones?” His grin spreads. “Because if so, I may have to call my —”

She cuts off his joke with another kiss before he’s able to even get it off the ground, and, honestly, Matt has to concede that doing so might be a benefit to everyone involved.

#matt murdock #jessica jones #darejones #* fic #asks #latrodectal #kiss snippet meme

[loisfreakinglane]

ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags, tagged by @latrodectal THX BABES

daisy johnson ~ agents of shield

sansa stark ~ asoiaf/got

nala ~ sinbad

zuko ~ atla

nikita mears ~ nikita

max guevara ~ dark angel

alec hardison ~ leverage

cordelia chase ~ ats/btvs

rafael barba ~ law&order

la'an noonien singh ~ star trek strange new worlds

AND I WILL TAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @mermaidsirennikita @bluetiefling @saint-cecilias @rooftoptag @tchallaas @queenofattolia @herasyndlla @bemybabymp3 @traincat @lesbianaudrey

#personal #latrodectal #meme

[latrodectal]

i’ve now been hugged by an oscar winner and a spice girl what the fuck is life

#it was melanie c/sporty #i cried pretty much the entire time but she was so kind and lovely and complimented my tattoo #i met mel b who was in retrospect one of the earliest crushes i had on a woman #but while i adore her that meeting was more hectic and quicker #my instagram is also latrodectal if you’d like to read the details i don’t know if i have it in me to recap it here #oh and the oscar winner was alicia vikander

[babyprime]

firmly i believe every autistic person on earth has at least one animal or group of animals that turns them into laios touden. mine are cats (housecats and Big Cats like just all cats) spiders and moths. I once inadvertently tricked a fellow museum goer into thinking I was a guide because I could not physically shut up about the family saturniidae in the butterfly room. I gleefully tell ppl about the symptoms of latrodectism. I would risk it all to pet a cheetah. we all have an inner laios.

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #i love animals so much but those are rly the 3 groups of beast that send me into a dissociative state of pure Tism Euphoria

[corpuscaiiosum]

@latrodectal

#bill brasky #dean winchester #spn #supernatural

[thewizardofloneliness]

When God asks me about love, I always respond with cruelty. I know no other answer; know no other question. - Yves Olade

for @latrodectal

#from dusk till dawn #fdtdedit #santanico pandemonium #santanicopandemoniumedit #paloma gutierrez #palomagutierrezedit

[shiegra]

10 characters

ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags (tagged by @latrodectal)

Max Guevara (Dark Angel)

Leetah (Elfquest)

Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher)

Karen Jenson (Blade)

Katsuragi Yako (Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro)

Sohma Isuzu (Fruits Basket)

Serin (Immortal Regis)

Kirishima Touka (Tokyo Ghoul)

Satya Vaswani (Overwatch)

Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries)

I'm too socially anxious to tag people sorry.....anyone who sees this post and wants to answer it, consider themselves tagged

#fandom memes

[pleistocene-pride]

The redback spider also known as the Australian black widow, is a species of spider which originally inhabited Australia but now found throughout Southeast Asia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Japan, England, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran. They are a primarily nocturnal species which inhabits dry forests, scrublands, and deserts but have become increasingly common in urban areas over the last several decades. Webs are usually built in dry, dark, sheltered sites. Redbacks usually prey on insects, but can capture larger animals that become entangled in the web, including trapdoor spiders, small lizards, mice, frogs, and on rare occasions even snakes. Redbacks are themselves preyed upon by black house spiders, cellar spiders, giant daddy-long-legs, and several species of wasps particularly the spider wasps. Reaching around .4 inches (10mm) in length female redbacks are easily recognized by there spherical black body with a prominent red stripe on the upper side of the abdomen and an hourglass-shaped red/orange streak on the underside. In contrast the male redback is .12- .16 in (3–4 mm) long and is light brown, with white markings on the upper side of the abdomen and a pale hourglass marking on the underside. The redback is one of the few spider species that can be seriously harmful to humans, possessing a predominantly neurotoxic venom which gives rise to the syndrome of latrodectism in humans; this starts with pain around the bite site, which typically becomes severe and progresses up the bitten limb and persists for over 24 hours. The redback is one of a number of arachnids that usually display sexual cannibalism while mating. After mating, sperm is stored in the spermathecae organs of the female reproductive tract, and can be used up to two years later to fertilize several clutches of eggs. Each clutch averages 250 eggs and is housed in a round white silken egg sac until hatching. Under ideal conditions a redback spider may live up to 3 years.

#pleistocene #pleistocene pride #pliestocene pride #pliestocene #cenozoic #red back spider #redback spider #spider #bug #bugs

[sibylvanereimagined]

Mb for @latrodectal 🖤

#moodboard #aesthetic

[firelord-frowny]

I know spiders are different than your usual faire, but do you know what this prickly little dude is? He's in Colorado if that means anything

@itsmerandi i dont remember whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy i didnt answer this right away lmao this has been sitting in my inbox for MONTHS!!! but! this is a 'jewel spider'! I didn't recognize it on sight other than that it's obviously an orb weaver, but luckily, it was the first result that showed up after searching "colorado orb weaver spider" lolololol

and omg so, it only seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeems like spiders are outside of my usual faire because online resources for spider ID are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sparse compared to literally every other kind of arthropod lmaoooo. like, it's suuuuper rare for me to come across an insect that i can't ID, but spiders?? i literally have a whole gallery dedicated to unidentified spiders i've taken pictures of lmaooo. There are only a handful of species i've been able to get confident IDs for. 😭i wanna be a spider expert so bad!

BUT the most important things i like to know about any group of animals are which ones are dangerous and which ones aren't, and I do at least know that much lololol. in the US its basicallyyyyyyyyyy only the black widow that can fuck people up, and even then, people don't really die from a widow bite. instead they just experience several hours up to several days of excruciating abdominal pain and muscle cramping and other brutal symptoms known as 'latrodectism,' from the widow spider's genus name, 'latrodectus' 🥰 but you don't die. i mean there haaave been deaths but its like... once or twice in 50 years kinda thing.

now, someone somewhere (or more likely no one nowhere) is going, but FROWNY??? what about the BROWN RECLUSE??? the VIOLIN SPIDER??? don't you KNOW about the DEADLY DANGEROUS BROWN RECLUSE???

to which im pleased to respond, brown recluse bites are actually almost always No Big Deal At All Whatsoever! Some people do experience serious reactions resulting in necrosis around the bite area that take foreverrrrrrrrrrr to heal and require medical attention blah blah blah. but it's waaaaaaaaaaay more likely that, if one bites you, you're not even gonna know about it other than to maybe be like "ow :(" i think most sources claim that something like 20 or 30 percent of diagnosed recluse bites turn necrotic, but the key word is "diagnosed," bc people who don't have serious symptoms or don't realize they've been bitten by something obviously aren't gonna seek medical treatment in the first place!

i know the initial question had nothinnngggg to do with any of this lmfao but i dont often get to infodump about spiders so i decided to Go Wild <3

#submission

[ellivia]

tag nine people you want to get to know better: i was tagged by @latrodectal and @scullyverse, thank you!! ❤️

- favorite color: Orange

- currently reading: Just fic. I have books I need to read, but I can’t make myself start them.

- last song: If I’m Insecure by James Blake (that whole album is great)

- last series: I’m currently watching the documentary about Manti Te’o, which is like a docuseries? Other than that it’s BCS (rip) or For All Mankind

- last movie: The Bob’s Burgers Movie

- currently working on: getting a job and finding a therapist to figure out why I’m not trying as hard as I could be to get that job

Tagging: @storybycorey @baronessblixen @scapegrace74-blog @carrie11 and @dangerscully

#about me

[astromechs]

you already know (matt/elektra cursed to be immortal (caitlin’s version))

and/or jyn/cassian, same prompt

for matt/elektra:

1. matt definitely struggles with this a lot, and he continues to for centuries. he considers himself damned, even (and especially) without a way to actually die. an actual devil, if you will — the symbol really takes on a new meaning here.

2. every few hundred years or so, matt comes back to his beloved new york and starts a new life there, and starts, again, the urban legend of the devil of hell's kitchen. he can't not; new york is in his blood.

3. on the surface, elektra handles this better, using her immortality for gain and to take full advantage of being near-invincible, but she doesn't. not really. it's so achingly lonely, especially when the only person who really understands you is also the only person who can truly hurt you, and she leans into that loneliness more and more over the centuries.

4. but even leaning into the loneliness, she makes a legend of her own. a shadow in the night that slays those who'd dare harm a little girl, a protector of the innocent she was cursed to never be.

5. and, of course, matt and elektra can never stay out of each other's orbits, not for good. they're drawn to each other, they try to make it work every few centuries only for it to fail again between them, lather, rinse, and repeat.

give me an AU, and i will give you five things that happen in the story!

#asks #latrodectal #mattelektra #oof man jyn and cass tho. that'd be SO sad in this au. #doomed to witness the cycles of war repeat over and over despite all they've been through and all they've fought #THAT'S TOO SAD even for me GHFHDHDHD

[loisfreakinglane]

max guevara or daisy johnson?

omg i gotta fight the nostalgia factor on this one. i love max guevara with everything in me and she has been an ICON for me since i was very small but overall...... I think I love daisy even MORE.

#i do think if i was only factoring s1 max in this would be a much more difficult question #but s2 does some really strange things with their max choices #i will love her FOREVER #but it does give daisy the edge #latrodectal #ask meme

[unefemmedamnee]

hisses at u latrodectally

#the top is longer than i expected but also redder orange than i expected which is >:) #i will need to strap the jacket to make it look cuter but eh

[gayhenrycreel]

this is my pet false widow spider (Species: Steatoda Truncata). her names Bleebus. false widows are relatives of true widows, but their venom isnt as strong. true widow venom causes: searing pain, paralysis/muscle weakness (including of the heart and lungs), vomiting, sweating, and one case included cardiac inflammation (though that was an allergic reaction). the illness caused by the venom is called latrodectism. black widows are actually not aggressive unless they get hurt, and they rarely inject much venom, and its not really that common for the bite to be fatal. false widow venom causes mild syntoms of latrodectism and A Sense Of Impending Doom, which is actually a very common and normal reaction to an infection or poison (speaking of venom, platypus venom can and has killed dogs. now platypi are terrifying)

#autistic rambling #spiders #venom #poison #henry creel #black widow #pets

[corpuscaiiosum]

@latrodectal see what you've unlocked

#bill brasky #supernatural #spn #dean winchester