Tw Spiders - Blog Posts
CW: BLOOD, RIBCAGE
I swear to god if this flops im killing everyone on this godforsaken website.
Inktober/Whumptober Day 2
Spiders
Delirium
Human eating fairies
Concept art for school.
They are around 30cm tall with a big disproportionate "insect" head. Their hands and feet have only 4 fingers but they have one more knuckle compared to humans. All fairies have an ovipositor and are sexless.
The fairies have different heads depending on their role in the colony (there are no spider-fairies colonies, moth-fairies colonies, etc.).
For example, the Stag-Fairy is in charge of making a wooden baby, one of the things fairies use to hunt humans.
Humans living near fairies colonies can make them offerings in order to avoid being hunted. The fairies will then avoid hunting these humans specifically. However, if all the humans in the area make offerings, they will start hunting the ones who gave the least interesting gifts.
Offerings can be tools (like a letter opener or a bowl), clothes (doll clothes, cut socks...) or shelter. Clothes and shelter are their preferred offerings as they are particularly sensitive to cold.
While the fairies can live in pretty much any corners of the forest, they absolutely love human-made tiny houses that are much cozier and prettier than just living in a tree.
Fairies have a variety of ways to lure humans in their trap which takes the form of a web with an odd pattern. Despite having very little strings, it is incredibly effective as it is infused with magic.
Other examples of house offerings : birdhouses and doll houses.
Fairies have some kind of pet, big acarids that they use to dispose of waste (like human parts they don't eat).
When a human is lured into the fairies' trap, they start losing control of their body and slowly morph into an animal with a human face (usually sheep or pig). Fairies want to fatten their preys and doing so is easier with a pig or sheep's diet than a human's. It is unclear if the transformed humans are aware of their condition.
The fairies' singing and dancing is their main way of attracting humans in their trap, but when egg laying season approaches, they craft a living wooden baby. They then go into a human's house to steal a baby and replace it with their creation. The humans are affected by the magic put on the baby and do not notice the difference. Eventually, the parents will be lured in a fairy's trap as the wooden baby will try to go back to its creators, in the forest.
When egg laying season arrives, a queen is chosen : it has t be the strongest and most resistant of the colony as its body will not survive the process. The queen will be fed excessively as it begins to make eggs that will quickly fill its whole body. Its arms and legs will atrophy and become completely useless, its organs will be barely usable as well, just enough to keep it alive. Once the queen cannot hold any more eggs, it will use its ovipositor to lay eggs in the human baby the other fairies stole. This will kill the queen.
The eggs will quickly hatch once inside the baby and will start eating it from the inside. The larvae will feed and feed and, once big and strong, start shedding, becoming a young fairy.
The type of head they get depends on how much they fed on the baby.
Fairies do have a natural predator. Affectionately called "hat-worms" by humans, they're a magical being that work somewhat similarly to a mushroom. Their "hat" resembles a brain which intrigues fairies who are always looking for more food.
Once at range, the worm will infest a fairy through the holes in its chest, leaving there their "hat" to plug it. It will make it harder for the fairy to breathe (and resist). The worm will start by going to the brain to take control of it. Once done, it will start hollowing and filling the inside of the fairy with spores. It will then move the fairy close to the colony, fly high and explode, trying to spread the spores to as many other fairies as possible. The spores that do not directly infect a fairy become full worms.
One infected fairy can make a whole colony disappear, so seeing a parterre of worms is a sign of good luck for humans.
This is a pretty good short read!
Spiders In My Hair
A/N: I felt the need to write some ~creepy~ virgil to get in the mood for halloween, so yeah
summary: People always told Patton that he was too sweet for his own good, he never thought twice before giving to others. And well, that generosity might’ve just costed him his life.
WC: 937
ships: n/a
warnings: Spiders, panic, body horror
Tag List: @punsterterry @stormcrawler75 @frostedlover @mycatshuman @mutechild @panicattheeverywhere15 @overlord-winter @analogical-mess @saddestlittlebabe
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Patton had known it was a bad idea to walk into this abandoned laboratory. He had heard the stories, heard the rumors. But he thought…if there really are creatures in here living alone and eating scraps from outside…maybe he can save them? Or at least…give them some food? That was his intention. He had just wanted to help them survive. He just wanted to help.
He couldn’t see them, but he knew they were there.
Why was he so stupid and not listened to the others to begin with?! Why must he be so stupid and blinded by his heart all the time?! Why must-
Thousands of spiders have crept into the room. And he hears them crawling all around him.
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A Small Infodump about Spider Venom
Look, I know the doctor said I need to take it easy and not work myself up but-
Is it really that bad that I'm currently compiling a list of different spider venoms and their myriad of effects, along with categorizing different species of spiders to what venom they inflict? I believe a wise man once inquired, "Can't a girl have hobbies?" . Of course we all know the big four categories–
There is Phospholipase D, a venom that interacts with different cellular membrane components, degrades phospholipids, and generates bioactive mediators. This can cause damage to the tissue through necrosis, as well as blistering near the bite. The recluse spider is one of the most well known arachnids to have this venom.
Alpha Latrotoxin, stimulates uncontrolled exocytosis of neurotransmitters from nerve terminals, causing paresthesia, seizures and myocarditis, which always brings up the image of the infamous black widow spider, with her striking hourglass abdomen.
The Delta Atracotoxin wielded by my personal favorite- the black sydney funnel web spider (did you know that a sydney funnel web spider is capable of biting through a human fingernail?) slows the inactivation of sodium ion channels in autonomic and motor neurons. This can cause circulation failure as well as excess salivation, nausea and disorientation…
And of course the less talked about PhTx 3-4, a calcium channel blocking toxin that also stimulates the nervous system, causing nausea, hypertension, and change in arterial flow in parts of the body.
There's just something about insects and arachnids and all of it as a whole that peaks my curiosity, that runs borderline close to familiarity. I mean, how about I turn the topic at hand onto you all– anyone who would like to share their favorite bugs and why, feel free.
Better yet, why not make it a poll?
Day 78/100
// 18/10/23// - TW SPIDER BELOW - today was the first day of work after an extended weekend and was the first day after my birthday so I got some gifts from my boss (the harness), a coworker (the crochet whale, her mom made it) and the other notaries bought me a special lunch, one of my favorites plates and ice cream as dessert! Also before leaving I saved a spider from being killed by a broom! It was so pretty, look at it <3
Worked
Studied
Ate good food (even healthy I'd say)
Day 23/100
// 24/08/23// august 24th in Uruguay is "the night of nostalgia" so everybody goes to parties and dance to old music. In my case I went to my best friend's house and met with some old friends from highschool <3
Went to sign language
Went to college class and met a tiny spider
Worked
Went to Cele's house
Bought food at the supermarket (kinder eggs included hehe)
Crab spider (Misumena vatia) This tiny spider was in a very awkward place and this was the best picture I could get. They are apparently colloquialy known as a White Death Spider, which seems a little dramatic as long as you aren't a bee or butterfly, as these spiders wait on flowers to ambush pollinators. This image was taken with a Nikon 40mm lens on a 12mm extension tube.
So currently one of the relatives I'm staying with has a UTI and has therefore been prescribed treatment. One of which is a dietary supplement intended to maintain urinary health that happens to boast of tasting like cranberries.
To me, cranberries are famously unpalatable so I cannot fathom why they'd be flavoured this way.
It brings to mind the time the vague recollection of the time the president of a company in the US that makes cranberry juice had to complain about the FDA's desire for them to show the public how much sugar was in a single bottle of juice by admitting that cranberries had an unpalatable taste that needed to be altered.
It also reminds me of how cranberries are farmed; they are lighter than water and so float so every cranberry harvest the farmers flood the fields and collect what floated. Unfortunately that includes the spiders they used to prevent common prey from eating their cranberries. The spiders would grab onto what's closest to not drown and then jump onto the poor human harvesting the cranberries who had to be sure not to make any sudden movements or would be bitten and therefore in incredible pain.
I thought of all of this and it wouldn't leave my head and realised; 'hey you know where you should spew all of this barely organised and cognizant word vomit? Tumblr!'
Miss spider <3
Some close ups :3
Inktoder Bay 2: spiders
Knock knock
I just. I get really emotional about mirror spiders and their reflective scales.
they look like itty bitty bejeweled hatpins and I can’t. cope. i want one to dangle on my earlobe like an earring and whisper its tiny spider secrets into my ear. i would laugh at all of its jokes, and walk slowly and with my neck held very straight, so as not to disturb it during spider naptime.
I’ve been experimenting with horror and the like lately, tell me what you think, and any suggestions!! ^v^
Methinks this is Cassinona
warning: pet death
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I’m sorry, I know this post is a lot more serious than my other posts but I feel really sick. Juni’s gone, she was okay yesterday. I couldn’t even say goodbye to her. I made her a little house in which she wove a web in. I tried to give her all the live bugs and water I could. I knew she was grown up the moment I saw her but I thought she would stay so much longer than a week. I’m really grateful to have met her though and spend time with her despite it being so short. I made some art for her when she was here, and I also made some art now that she isn’t:
Simon and Peter meeting Juni
This was a gijinka I made of her that I never really got to finish
This was a video I took of her on Saturday, rewatching it I think she might’ve actually been a tan jumping spider but ah well… I thought that spinny thing she did at the beginning was kinda cool though.
I might’ve know you for only a week but I’ll never forget you Juni. I’ll miss you and I really appreciate the times we spent together.
Hello Lotf fandom! It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
I would like to introduce y’all to my portable 8th-legged puppy, Juniper the 16th! (also called Juni for short) :D
^ That’s her!!!
If you’re wondering why I’m introducing her to y’all, it’s because I believe people should know about her in general because she’s awesome and also because I might post a few drawings of the characters from the book interacting with her (it’s a guilty pleasure) :D
Now, some info on Juniper:
She’s a female gray wall jumping spider
I’ve known her for less than a week and I absolutely adore her
She likes to eat living ants
She was creeping around in my balcony for 3 days before I decided to keep her
There were 15 “spiders” before her, all called Juniper the [ordinal number]
If you’re wondering why I said “spiders” in quotation marks, it’s because most of the previous Junipers were harvestmen, or daddy long legs which aren’t considered spiders cause’ they don’t spin webs or do other stuff that spiders do. They just look the part.
That’s all! Just some things I think ya’ll should know, hope y’all like her! Have an amazing [time of day]!! ^^
I fear my friend has inclined me to make a transformers oc. So I based him off of some of my favourite things, that cute spider „Skelatorus“ and old ww1 planes.
I know literally nothing about planes and stuff so, I’ll probably change his design later to be more functional and once I finish my research.
refs | V
TW arachnophobia
Ciel: What the f**k is that?
Alois, with a tarantula in his hands: ..My cat. :P
Ciel: That is NOT a cat!
GBBluegender!
A gender related to the aesthetics of green bottle blue tarantulas, it can be like being one, having one, looking at them, or anything else!
G(Green)-B(Bottle)-Blue-gender
Flag colors taken directly from an image of the spider!
TW: SPIDER
He kinda mutated
Based of this fella cus I love them
even more bleach arrancar tomfoolery exept this time its 95% Luppi
(this post is for me and the other -2 Luppi fans that exist)
Og screenshots below:
