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xeno-bio-sociology:

jumpingjacktrash:

ryncoon:

jumpingjacktrash:

prince-bergs:

downtroddendeity:

prince-bergs:

real talk why do so many fantasy universes think giant spiders are necessary

The sad part is there’s a decent chance a large proportion of them can be blamed on one spider.

The tarantula that bit JRR Tolkien as a child.

He swore he didn’t have a spider phobia and the experience had nothing to do with the man-eating giant spiders in The Hobbit, the even more giant and even more man-eating spider in Lord of the Rings, or the unholy eldritch spider from outside creation that plunged the world into darkness and made literal Satan scream like a little kid in the Silmarillion. Very few people believe him.

Given LotR’s influence in the fantasy genre, there is a high probability that tarantula is the progenitor of even more fictional spiders than Ungoliant was.

wow fuck that one tarantula

i am going to write a fantasy world where there are giant spiders and they’re cute fuzzy friends you can ride

Yes please!

Jumping spiders would probably be smart enough to easily grasp the relationship of ‘I let the creature sit on me and walk/climb where it wants, then it gives me free food with no risk of failure. Sold!’

I also love the idea of a giant spider-based textiles industry, where the spiders essentially replace sheep. They could either be milked for their dragline silk, or just allowed to crawl around a ‘pasture’ and the fiber could be gathered after…

‘Small’ cat sized tarantulas used as pest control and bred for extra floof and colour.

Competitive peacock spider breeders working to breed even more complex and beautiful dancers.

Messenger spiders who’re taught to run a route between two places with their package webbed to their belly.

Aaaahhh now my head is full of spiders and it’s fantastic~

*shiny eyes* WORLD OF CUTE SPIDERS YES

noocnyr

sir-p-audax:

rate-my-tarantula:

sir-p-audax:

The Diva in the dressing room before the shoot. My darling Ophelia ❤

*Edit: I think the best part about this is I just put her on the set and she crawled up onto the vanity all by herself. All I did was slide the chair under her butt. She is just naturally a diva, I guess!

Lookin good today! hte fuzzy leggins on the stand and lookthe many eye. Redy to go on date! 10/10 best diva spidr

Thank >,<

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phantomqueen:

my storytelling final! or, that week i almost went blind cross-hatching!

it’s a couple weeks old at this point, but i’m still proud of it (all that cross-hatching…) even though looking back at it now i can see a ton of flaws or things i just could’ve done better. maybe i’ll redo it one day.

the page colors are kind of wonky because they’re photographs; i didn’t have a scanner big enough for the pages.

hell yeah monster/human friendships

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