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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 24

Spotting a nice building to climb, she glanced around before ducking into an alley, and scaling the side of the building with ease. Once she was on the roof, she sent another text.

📲 “We should shoot some hoops together sometime. Been a minute since I’ve done a 1 on 1.”

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 24

📲 “Wait is this stuff addictive?”

There was a pause in her texts, followed by another, more well informed text.

📲 “Okay, I looked it up. Online it says it isn’t. Phew!”

May had some time to kill, so she looked around for a nearby tall building to hang out on top of.

(C)

𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓 ♦️ 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄『黑』 @aranehenna.bsky.social · Jul 24

She had no doubt that any, and EVERY, Bodega owner would understand 'can I get a pack of Raws'. It was the literal brand name, equivalent to saying 'let me get a box of newports', but -

Ding! Oh, look at that. The obvious outcome.

📲 Proud of you, kid. You're on your way to a life of degeneracy.

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 23

Experience with this sort of stuff than she did. Then again, she was a goody-two-shoes.

Another text came in a few minutes later.

📲 “I seriously hope he gets the lingo.”

Another text.

📲 *1 image attachment*

It was a selfie of May with a reusable shopping bag.

📲 “I got the stuff! 🤪”

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 23

May looked at her cell phone’s screen, bewildered by all of the lingo she was completely unfamiliar with. She blinked a few times, reading the messages again.

📲 “Okay I have no idea what any of that means, so I’m just gonna repeat what you said and hope for the best.”

April had so much more

(c)

𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓 ♦️ 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄『黑』 @aranehenna.bsky.social · Jul 23

📲 Go down to the nearest bodega and ask the guy behind the counter for a pack of raws.

📲 If they're selling fronto, get a pack, too.

Eh? Big order for a first time.

📲 Forget the fronto. Just get the raws. I got the rest.

Smoking stolen weed with her sister after school? Her life was a comedy.

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 22

📲 “Maybe we could smoke together? I’ve never tried it before but I’d REALLY want you to be there for it when I do. Pretty please skip that teachers event? 🥺”

No way she’d turn down something like this. It was another chance to bond over a potential shared interest, May knew it.

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 22

📲 “Okay okay, chill. I did have something I’ve been meaning to try out, maybe you could help with it?”

There was a brief pause in the texts before she sent another.

📲 “I snagged this big bag of buds off of some crook the other day and I don’t know what to do with it.”

(C)

𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓 ♦️ 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄『黑』 @aranehenna.bsky.social · Jul 21

For a fleeting moment, she understood her 'father', and disliked him just a bit less.

📲 ' I'm supposed to go to this 'teachers get together' for the art department. 🙄'

📲 ' give me a good excuse to get out of it and i'm all yours. '

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 21

A third text followed.

📲 “You free tonight? Pizza & drinks? I’m buying. Just us I promise.”

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 21

May checked her phone, knowing full well that her text had interrupted April’s class. She burst out laughing at her response, nearly dropping her phone. Good to know she understood the acronym.

📲 “Lmao. Make me. 🤪”

Another text followed.

📲 “Actually don’t I just painted my nails.”

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 21

It was time to annoy a certain someone again.

She sent a text to @aranehenna.bsky.social , grinning as she did so.

📲 “SDIYBT. 🤖”

As she sent the text, she tried her best to hold in her laughter, eagerly waiting for her response.

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Jean Grey @psychicqueen.bsky.social · Jul 12

To the world, she’s an Omega-level Mutant. But honestly, she’s just Jean.

🧠

[Descriptive 18+ RP, N/SFW, more info in this thread. 🧵]

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 3

“If Ice Man had pubes, would they just be shaved ice?”

She muttered to herself, while perched atop one of NYC’s many tall buildings.

“How would you even ask someone that?”

She shuddered a little, picturing what it would look like.

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 3

May snaps her fingers, nodding a little bit.

“Okay, that makes a lot of sense. But people are more hot headed in the summer, being hot gets people riled up.”

She explained, before switching gears in the conversation once more.

“Hey are you free tonight? You could totally join me at that party.”

Jean Grey 🐦‍🔥 @psionicphoenix.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m surprised given how hot it is. If I were a criminal, I’d do this closer to winter.

“But for my telepathy, I can tune out people’s thoughts. Making it just a quiet walk right now.”

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Well I was going to go to a party tonight so I figured I should get some patrolling in before then. Summer is the biggest time of year for petty crime you know.”

She placed her hands on her own hips.

“But coming into the city to clear your head? Aren’t everyone’s thoughts kind of loud?”

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Well really the phrase is ‘cream OF the crop’, which comes from the observation of cream, the best part, rising to the top of milk.”

She tapped her foot a little bit.

“So really there is no innuendo at all, but it’s more funny to think of some dude going to town over some plants.”

𝕊ℍ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝔼ℝ @thesh0cker.bsky.social · Jul 2

"Why is it a sayin' though? It makes no sense!"

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Wha- It’s a hypothetical scenario! I doubt anyone has ever really done it. Plus there’s probably like nutrients in there somewhere. Maybe the plants like it.”

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Wha- It’s a hypothetical scenario! I doubt anyone has ever really done it. Plus there’s probably like nutrients in there somewhere. Maybe the plants like it.”

𝕊ℍ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝔼ℝ @thesh0cker.bsky.social · Jul 2

"That feels so mean to the farmers."

:(

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“What’s not funny about jizzing on plants? It’s incredibly funny.”

She was smiling under her mask just thinking about it.

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Well I was going to go to a party tonight so I figured I should get some patrolling in before then. Summer is the biggest time of year for petty crime you know.”

She placed her hands on her own hips.

“But coming into the city to clear your head? Aren’t everyone’s thoughts kind of loud?”

Jean Grey 🐦‍🔥 @psionicphoenix.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Well it’s good to meet you May.”

She returns the kind smile.

“Thank you and no need to apologize. As for me I’m just out for a stroll, just trying to clear my head. What brings you around?”

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Normally I don’t exactly share my name, but you could just read my mind to get it anyway. I’m May.”

She gestured to her mask, smiling warmly.

“This is just so you can hear me better. That is such a cool power! Sorry, fangirling big time right now. What brings you to my neck of the woods?”

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“What’s not funny about jizzing on plants? It’s incredibly funny.”

She was smiling under her mask just thinking about it.

𝕊ℍ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝔼ℝ @thesh0cker.bsky.social · Jul 2

"...I don't get it."

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“The last time there were crops in NYC was 1982, and it was wheat. So no, I don’t.”

She paused.

“It kinda funny to think about though.”

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“The last time there were crops in NYC was 1982, and it was wheat. So no, I don’t.”

She paused.

“It kinda funny to think about though.”

𝕊ℍ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝔼ℝ @thesh0cker.bsky.social · Jul 2

"...Do you cream on people's crops?"

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Country boys make do.”

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Country boys make do.”

𝕊ℍ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝔼ℝ @thesh0cker.bsky.social · Jul 2

"I never got the term of creaming on someone's crops. I just feel like I makes no sense."

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Normally I don’t exactly share my name, but you could just read my mind to get it anyway. I’m May.”

She gestured to her mask, smiling warmly.

“This is just so you can hear me better. That is such a cool power! Sorry, fangirling big time right now. What brings you to my neck of the woods?”

Jean Grey 🐦‍🔥 @psionicphoenix.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Well it’s good to meet you, err do you have a name?”

Jean watches as the energetic woman pulls her mask up.

“Also you do know I don’t need skin contact or anything to read your mind right. And your also thinking of Pokémon, and now pizza.”

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“So cool! And we haven’t, but I know all about you. Or at least what has been shared online about you.”

May explained, before rolling up her mask to her nose.

“Okay okay, what am I picturing right now?”

She thought really hard, creating a mental image. Only Jean could know what it is.

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“So cool! And we haven’t, but I know all about you. Or at least what has been shared online about you.”

May explained, before rolling up her mask to her nose.

“Okay okay, what am I picturing right now?”

She thought really hard, creating a mental image. Only Jean could know what it is.

Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

“No way, an X-Men!”

May said to herself as she spotted the familiar ginger head of hair of none other than @psionicphoenix.bsky.social ! She swung on down from the rooftop, landing just behind her.

“Hello Jean! I’m a huge fan of your work.”

She was probably reading her mind already, so cool!

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jul 2

🕷️ Writer here! Been crazy busy lately since my brother just got engaged.

Looking forward to writing with you all more very soon! In the meantime, feel free to hop in my DMs. Don’t worry, I don’t bite. Much.

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Mayday Parker 🕷️ @backboardspider.bsky.social · Jun 30

There is nowhere in the world where she would rather sleep.

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Mary Jane Watson @nycsjackpot.bsky.social · Jun 27

All this heat has really been getting to her.

MJ’s curls are back in full force!

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