This is only of interest to the most diehard of diehard Raimi Spider-Man fans, I know, but if anyone actually wants to read and keep The Final Act, I stuck it in a PDF. Just in case AO3 ever deletes the fic or somehow becomes unavailable, you know?
Sorry this looks so clunky. I have no idea how to upload it as just the link. Still, maybe this looks okay on a desktop?
I just published the last chapter today of something I’ve been working on since 2021. It was a Spider-Man fanfiction called The Final Act. No doubt it’s laughable and (sigh) cringe, because it’s fanfiction, but I took it so seriously, and I loved it so much.
It’s not really about Spider-Man at all, of course. It’s about me, and what it was like to come of age in the early ’00s. That author’s note about the ’00s being a different world but “some things were the same though” is the slash across the heart of the story. Does that matter to anyone? I don’t think I’ll ever write anything as good again.
The Final Act – PanicPixieDreamGirl – Spider-Man (Movies – Raimi) [Archive of Our Own]
I have an ongoing Raimiverse Parksborn fic up on AO3 now.
Well, I say “Parksborn” but it’s not in the traditional sense, because it’s set immediately post (actually, sort of during) Spider-Man 3 and thus one of them is dead. It’s more of a… I don’t know what it is. Let’s call it a character study of Mary Jane, a love letter to the Spider-Man Trilogy and a hate letter to the 2000s, with a LOT of deeply personal things thrown in there that you won’t actually recognize.
I’ve been working on it since 2021. Here’s the first two chapters.
God, I hope this turns out good.
No, that’s not a warning, that’s the title of the fic! I mean, there ARE spoilers, big ones. But the fanfic is also called “Spoilers.” Ya with me? Okay good.
Title: Spoilers
Fandom: Spider-Man
Summary: Two characters from different universes talk about their lives and relationships.
Notes: Disney seems determined to exclude bisexual relationships from their Spider-Man franchise. This is… not the case here.
Read it on AO3, or click below:
(more…)If you’ve been around my fanfiction for long enough, you might remember Faith In Humanity, my 30-odd chapter ode to the Spider-Man verse and the original trilogy in particular. Among the main characters was Emily, Harry’s late mother. Back then (this was the ’00s) she didn’t have a surname or much characterisation at all really. She was essentially the founding member of my Dead Fictional Mothers Club. I was fascinated by how heroes and protagonists never had mothers. Why were they always the ones to die?
So imagine how gleeful I was to realise that in the comics she is now not dead! It happened ages ago, but I only heard about it now. It’s funny, she looks exactly how I imagined her.
And the dyamic between her and Norman (he’s red now, whattya know) is pretty much how I always thought it would be. I love this panel here:
She’s finally got a last name, Lyman. Harry has it too now! And all the Osborn-Lymans (Norman 100% does not count) have gotten to be together:
And I don’t know what happens after this particular story. I know Harry, rather understandably, refuses to call her ‘mom’. But hey! She’s alive!
I’ll always love Harry and the Osborn story. This new (uh, new-ish) development is so pleasing to me, you have no idea. (Emily also features quite a lot in the new Spider-Man game, which is also very pleasing to me, although she’s definitely dead in that one.)
Anyway! I put Faith in Humanity up on AO3 today.
Title: The Storyteller
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Spider-Man, 2002 movieverse / Raimiverse/ whatever you want to call that particular universe
Pairings: Peter/Harry, Peter/MJ, Ursula/Peter
Summary: Peter’s kidnapped, MJ’s injured, Harry’s dead, and Ursula Ditkovich has mere hours to save half of New York.
AN: This has literally been sitting around in various forms for years. Having unexpectedly found myself back in Spider-fandom, I thought it was high time I finished it…
Title: The Storyteller
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Spider-Man, 2002 movieverse / Raimiverse/ whatever you want to call that particular universe
Pairings: Peter/Harry, Peter/MJ, Ursula/Peter
Summary: Peter’s kidnapped, MJ’s injured, Harry’s dead, and Ursula Ditkovich has mere hours to save half of New York.
AN: This has literally been sitting around in various forms for years. Having unexpectedly found myself back in Spider-fandom, I thought it was high time I finished it…
Title: The Storyteller
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Spider-Man, 2002 movieverse / Raimiverse/ whatever you want to call that particular universe
Pairings: Peter/Harry, Peter/MJ, Ursula/Peter
Summary: Peter’s kidnapped, MJ’s injured, Harry’s dead, and Ursula Ditkovich has mere hours to save half of New York.
AN: This has literally been sitting around in various forms for years. Having unexpectedly found myself back in Spider-fandom, I thought it was high time I finished it…
Title: The Storyteller
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Spider-Man, 2002 movieverse / Raimiverse/ whatever you want to call that particular universe
Pairings: Peter/Harry, Peter/MJ, Ursula/Peter
Summary: Peter’s kidnapped, MJ’s injured, Harry’s dead, and Ursula Ditkovich has mere hours to save half of New York.
AN: This has literally been sitting around in various forms for years. Having unexpectedly found myself back in Spider-fandom, I thought it was high time I finished it…
Title: The Storyteller
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Spider-Man, 2002 movieverse / Raimiverse/ whatever you want to call that particular universe
Pairings: Peter/Harry, Peter/MJ, Ursula/Peter
Summary: Peter’s kidnapped, MJ’s injured, Harry’s dead, and Ursula Ditkovich has mere hours to save half of New York.
AN: This has literally been sitting around in various forms for years. Having unexpectedly found myself back in Spider-fandom, I thought it was high time I finished it…