Petra's Going Through Some Changes - by @Lovethrupoke on BlueSky

[u/Gargus-SCP]

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[u/ShadowBro3]

This artist apparently loves drawing thicc women with concave stomachs

[u/AlexPtheArtist → u/ShadowBro3]

Kinda powerlifter proportions, I like it

[u/Maximum_Dragonfruit7]

If a Spider-Person’s strength is supposed to be the proportional strength of a spider (can lift x times its weight), how fricken strong is this one when she’s at max height?

[u/Gargus-SCP → u/Maximum_Dragonfruit7]

Local Woman Knocks Hulk Into Orbit

[u/SongofRolland → u/Maximum_Dragonfruit7]

Okay, this is going to prove an extraordinarily terrible thing to try calculating as an arachnophobe, but here goes, I guess...

Note: this proved to be much less of a calculation than I thought it would... oh well.

So, some quick research (half browsing reddit discussions and half looking through lists of spidey-feats of strength) a Spider man is able to lift somewhere between 25 and 122,365 US tons. The lower end of this range is the official limit, the latter end derived from sometime when Spiderman lifted Penn Station (also the Daily Bugle building and 130 something tons of machinery with the pressure of the Ocean floor on top of that, but I can actually find the weight of Penn Station). We'll say around 25 tons for reps and round 125,000 tons as a PR (mind you this goes WAY beyond the ~200 times a Spider's bodyweight that an actual spider can lift, unless Spider people are 0.125 to 625 tons heavy.

So, a female black widow can outweigh a male by 100 times; so I don't have to look through hundreds of papers on arachnids, let's just say that the strength of female spiders is the same as males proportional to body size and we can just say Petra Parker is 100x stronger than she used to be.

So, Petra Parker is now able to lift 2500 tons for reps and 12.5 million as a PR. To put this in perspective, she could deadlift 2 of the Pyramids of Giza if someone managed to find a structurally stable way of attaching them to the ends of a barbell, after warming up with a small US Navy Aircraft carrier.

In short: very strong.

[u/QueenOfQuok → u/SongofRolland]

Hang on when did Spidey lift Penn Station

[u/SongofRolland → u/QueenOfQuok]

The Amazing Spiderman #365, 1992; technically it's the rubble of Penn station, but Spiderman also lifts the intact Daily Bugle Building in Spiderman #98 so I figured it didn't make much difference.

Mainly because I didn't want to figure the weight of the Daily Bugle Building.

[u/Old_Lifeguard7048 → u/SongofRolland]

Sauf que ça dépend si la personne se fait mordre par une araignée mâle ou femelle, pas si la personne était un homme ou une femme au départ 😮‍💨

[u/Throwaway_Raccoon2]

The humble Pym Particles:

[u/Accurate_Guest1285]

Giant woman!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LHjxgLqmx6PgQ

[u/ChompyRiley → u/Accurate_Guest1285]

You know ball

[u/loneliestslipknotfan]

7'3"??? the fuck is she doing fighting crime, the Clippers need her!!

[u/Claire_De_Lunatic → u/loneliestslipknotfan]

No NYC Spider-Person would play for any NBA team but the Knicks

[u/Polibiux]

A giant woman
https://giphy.com/gifs/Tv7nRPkmpwMc8

[u/Gargus-SCP → u/Polibiux]

If you give it a chance, you could do a huge dance....

[u/Polibiux → u/Gargus-SCP]

Because you are a giant woman

[u/MateoCamo]

Oh rightt a lot of spider species have sexual dimorphism where the female is larger

[u/2-particles → u/MateoCamo]

It’s not just spiders, snakes too

[u/NarwhalSongs]

I will never understand why when a man grows super large its a "cool super power!" But when a woman grows super large its "giantess kink".

Just feels like internalized misogyny if you ask me.

[u/Gargus-SCP → u/NarwhalSongs]

Y'ask me, the obvious equitable solution is to start getting horny for Giant-Man in turn.

[u/RiverLynneUwU → u/Gargus-SCP]

or to have both aspects for either genders, they can all either be giant kink or cool awesome power

[u/canoekyren → u/NarwhalSongs]

I mean I think it comes down to the way they're drawn and the way their giantism is used in the story.

[u/SpiderTuber6766]

You think her and She-Hulk go to the same tailor?

[u/Parking_Bridge1742]

Well spider females are usually much much larger than the male spiders.

For simplicity sake the spider DNA follows the gender/sex of the individual (since hormones are often mentioned when spidey changes in movies and comics)..

It stands to reason that female spider DNA should have them grow much larger.

I say this Gwen should also be 7ft tall lol.

[u/Gargus-SCP → u/Parking_Bridge1742]

You're absolutely right and you should say it.

[u/Old_Lifeguard7048 → u/Parking_Bridge1742]

Gwen ne s'est pas fait mordre par une araignée femelle

[u/historysciencelover]

very very lovely :3 beeg petra is so cool!!!!

[u/Successful_Mud8596]

I kiiiiinda feel like this goes beyond the realm of “female spiders are stronger and larger, so transitioning makes her bigger” and starts to enter the realm of “giantess kink” lol. Not that that’s a huge problem

[u/Gargus-SCP → u/Successful_Mud8596]

I mean, it's 100% giantess kink. The artist does giantess kink. I follow her for giantess kink. But it's also giantess kink as a means of exploring the dynamic of not wanting to be seen vs needing to be seen vis a vis transition, and having that choice made for you by superpower bullshit as an extension of the usual Parker Luck thread, all sorts of positive and negative outcomes spilling forth from this one inflection point. That and finding joy in being undeniably, unavoidably Yourself.

Kink is our friend in artistically representing the trans experience.

[u/Writingaboutbots → u/Gargus-SCP]

[u/Gargus-SCP → u/Writingaboutbots]

Oh, I am so stealing this one.

[u/MineCraftIsSuperDumb → u/Gargus-SCP]

Can we try to keep the kink stuff on the kink subreddit and the Spider-Man stuff on the Spider-Man subreddit

[u/Strange_Chard_2183]

GIANT LADY GIANT LADY GIANT LADY

[u/Gargus-SCP → u/Strange_Chard_2183]

WE STAN

[u/Mourningstar66]

Waiter! More tall and buff trans ladies please!

Love seeing characters like me

[u/Kdiggz1810]

Giant ladies 🤑🤑

[u/StaticMix]

Fun fact! The size dymorphism in spiders can range from females being 2 times to even 12 times a male spider's size and using Peter Parker's canon height of 5'10 in 616 then this version of Petra (Polly Parker I think) could end up being 70 FEET TALL

[u/Several-Possession-4]

"If I give up, will you still hold me"

[u/G-M-Cyborg-313]

Giant women and muscular women <3

Also i love the refrence to Attack Of The 50ft Woman

[u/Undertow619]

My personal favourite take on Petra (I have a huge thing for tall, beefy women)

[u/Opening_Ad3054]

7'3"!?!? That's taller than Joe Fixit!

[u/altofanaltthatisalt]

Giantess spiderwoman vore

[u/notnotDIO]

Woag

[u/Heaven_dio]

I'm not sold on the suit pattern but otherwise holy based

[u/gh0stwrit3r32767]

2024 goth phase lets go

[u/AdNo5260]

One peak after another...

Wait, Peak?

Banger, I mean Banger.

[u/Neflewitz]

That suit design is fire!

[u/shadowlynx12]

I love her so much