Pride Sure Looks Different These Days

THIS IS FUCKING GORGEOUS ILY

Y'all I finally finished it and I had WAY to much fun

I had to make the flag and background both different like styles cause inconsistency do we like that orrrr

Also color optionssss

Thanks for letting me use you as a reference @spideypunx it was perfect an you're so cool hun

You know what happened last time Spider-Punk visited D.C.?

Canon

Ok, so we all know about the whole things about the United Healthcare CEO, right

Me and my sister were talking about it 2 days ago and she was like, “Hobie would 100% support this”

And yk HELL YEAH

Like United Healthcare literally made money off of people’s deaths

Not to mention the fact the person who killed him was literally an Ivy League graduate, from an upper class family, AND WAS STILL a victim to the United States healthcare system, (cause it’s all the way screwed up)

Hobie literally offed a police officer, he’d be 100% for it

trick or treat 💥

HOW DID I MISS THIS WTF

Video transcript (or at least this was the blurb I wrote for it, so there may be some minor differences):

[replying to a comment saying “Did you make the guitar that’s so cool what?! Could you do a video showing that off because I actually love that so much :0 /nf”] “Yeah, sure, I’d love to! In Across the Spider-Verse, Spider-Punk’s design cycles through a bunch of different color palettes and textures. One of those is newsprint. In the movie, the newspaper clippings seem to be random, there’s even coupons and stuff. But I thought it would be fitting to use clippings from articles about protests and other political news, to sort of pay homage to Hobie’s politics.

So we’ve got everything from the Freedom Riders, the AIDS crisis, the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the Stonewall Riots, Stop Cop City, the Me Too movement, Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, the Kent State shooting, the killing of Freddie Gray, and so on.

The neck of the guitar is made from photos from those news articles, including the Gaza solidarity encampments, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests—that’s the Minneapolis precinct burning, and the 2017 Women’s March.

The guitar strap in checkered black-and-white has meaning as well, the pattern is known as “two-tone” in ska, the music genre, and it symbolizes racial unity, black and white together.

You can turn the tuners and flip the switch, it’s fun to fidget with!

The stickers and their placement is all based on the official character art, and those I got from this post by Jake Panian, who worked on Spider-Punk’s design for Across the Spider-Verse.

And I did the same thing for the spikes on his mask. UnitedHealthcare CEO getting shot… Yeah, this was a really fun project, and I’m really proud of it, and I’m excited to show it off!”

A closer look at the newsprint guitar I made for my Spider-Punk cosplay! This was really fun to research and put together, and I hope you folks like it too :)

One time at a con someone saw the pink-and-blue striped suspenders on my Spider-Punk cosplay and asked me if i was trans lmao. I told them “it’s actually in the official character art, but also yes I am”

Being trans is part of the spiderverse fan canon event.

Showing the spikes off on my rp blog!

Hey man, I like your suit! Digging the spikes!

@nycwa11craw1er

Thanks homie! Feel free to take a closer look at ‘em if you want :)

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN ELON DID A NAZI SALUTE

“Well, clearly you didn’t climb high enough.”

“Is that a challenge?”

“Noooooo!”

Okay but check out the other Spider-Punk’s guitar (the one in the middle) - zoom in on it and look at the pattern. ISN’T IT SO COOL???!?!?!?!!!!

(Pls lmk if this is you so I can tag you!)