I love this guitar so much, y’all have no idea 😄
That newsprint pattern is a collection of news clippings from American protest history, mostly from the ~1960s to the present day. I really enjoyed putting it all together, it’s like I was making an artistic tribute to the movement. There’s shoutouts to the Freedom Riders, the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings, the Gaza solidarity encampments earlier this year, the Weather Underground, and so much more. My personal favorite is the headline from the Stonewall riots along the bottom side of the guitar: “GAYS HIT NY COPS” 🫡🏳️🌈
Some of the guitar parts actually work, too! You could flip that switch and spin those tuners. It’s really fun to fidget with when I’m waiting in long lines at cons.
The “stickers” are all accurate to Hobie’s official character art btw!
More pics under the cut~
Almost done with Hobie’s guitar! This is my first time making a prop out of EVA foam, and I’m really happy with it. Just gotta add the strings and it’ll be all done 😊
And it’s not really visible in the pics, but there’s actually a compartment inside to hold my things when I’m walking around at cons. If I gotta carry this big thing around, I might as well make it useful lol
Us punks gotta stick together, yeah?
Just a silly little clip from when I was filming the guitar video
Hi! I'm SpideyPunx (or just "Punx") and I started cosplaying in 2024. Basically, my interest in punk rock and Marvel comics had been entirely separate things before Across the Spider-Verse came out, and now I simply will not shut up about Hobie Brown. I'm also an anarchist and an activist, and I try to find ways to pay homage to left-wing protests and movements, both historical and modern-day, in my Spider-Punk cosplay.
He/they please, both in and out of cosplay—unless you want to she/her or neopronoun my version of Hobie in a fun gay way 😂
All photo credits and other cosplayers’ accounts are tagged in my Instagram posts where possible.
Non-cosplay posts: @spideypunxposts
RP blog: @ask-spideypunx
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Some leftist resources I recommend checking out:
The Slingshot Collective's Radical Contact List (worldwide list of local leftist organizations!)
Your local Democratic Socialists of America chapter
Your local Jewish Voice for Peace chapter
National Students for Justice in Palestine if you're a college student
Your local Food Not Bombs chapter
Crimethinc
It’s Going Down
Your local anarchist book fair
Spider-Verse #2 (2014, which might have actually been before Trump started using the same slogan)
And then Spider-Punk assassinates him. 🤘🏴🎸
Listen…you just can’t keep Spider-Punk away from a protest. From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever! 🇵🇸
(April 5th, 2025 - Washington, D.C.)
“Well, clearly you didn’t climb high enough.”
“Is that a challenge?”
“Noooooo!”
Omg I got a bingo 😂
I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there
Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide
Things included are
The symbol for anarchy
ACAB and 1312
The three arrows pointing down in a circle
Eat the rich
Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist
So if you live in the US please be careful
One of my favorite vendors this year!!!
I bought a pin early in the con, and then later I wanted to buy more things from them, but I couldn’t remember their booth location or shop name, so I spent probably a couple hours going through all the aisles trying to find them again lol. Totally worth it.
Some of their pins are definitely going on another Spider-Punk cosplay I’m working on… 👀
All set up at Awesome Con 2025 - I'll be at table K-31 all weekend!!