#except when other creatures do it in the natural course of predation. yknow

[merlions]

There's this fuckin. Enormous daddy long legs that has been absolutely. Going ABOVE AND BEYOND the call of duty keeping bugs out of my room. He has his little fuckin web right outside my door and there are sooo many little corpses he has dispatched. I appreciate him. So fucking much.

And it is worth noting. I have a really really really bad phobia of insects and arachnids!! Makes me sick, used to be genuinely paralytic, like I go pale and can't move, I'm too scared to touch the page of a book that contains the image of a bug or spider. It has taken me years and years of working on it (and working on a farm which was!!!!! Quite a time in my life) to be able to cope with a fuckin. Daddy long legs right outside my room.

So why!!! For the love of god. Did my little pal decide for the first time ever, to come down and sit on my light switch!! I almost didn't see him before trying to hit the light and would have squished him!!! Listen. The only thing even close to a bug physically being near or on my person. Is the idea of SQUISHING A BUG??? Horrible horrible horrible the actual worst. If I really need them away from me and no one is available to do so for me I will, despite near syncopal terror, force myself to cup them and put them gently OUTSIDE. AWAY FROM MY PERSON. I will put the cup down and run at maximum velocity. I would never squish a bug on purpose that's not a mosquito actively biting me and that's just evolutionary instinct tbh

And now this fuckin guy??? My pal??? Who I am very afraid of but have allowed to live in proximity to me , so that we may have a partnership??? A symbiosis of sorts????? My good friend daddy L????? He tries to trick me into killing him, something which makes me want to scream in terror??????? Sir please??????? We don't need this, no one needs this, PLEASE go home sir