“Well, Clearly You Didn’t Climb High Enough.”

I really like how the redesigned spikes turned out! 📰

📸: @nerdcaliber

📍 Graffiti Alley, Cambridge, MA

It’s actually legal to graffiti the walls here. Don’t post evidence of crimes!

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!)

here's the hobie emojis i made for discord servers!

feel free to download and use these :) they're low quality on purpose so the image files will be small enough to upload to discord as emojis

I’m just saying, he canonically does kill fascists

Alright folks, gather around and I’ll tell you why we need to overthrow the government!

Noir: “Can you take that down? This is very inappropriate.”

Hobie: “Suck my dick from the back!”

Noir: “Oh lord, I haven’t done that since 1912…”

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Based on fan art by @brown-spider

Captions by @hobiesdump

Photographer and Noir cosplayer are both credited on my Instagram!

(Filmed in a location where graffiti is legal—definitely do not post video evidence of crimes)

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 :)

I gotta tell you, seeing your cosplay of the fourth really made my day! It was a nice break from the boot licking that happens in my town. Keep it up!

🥰 omg thank you!! (also i’m so sorry i didn’t see this until now)