#segmented spiders

[briery]

A segmented spider, Liphistius desultor, from Penang, Malaysia. Segmented spiders (from the suborder Mesothelae) are the most primitive living spiders in the world. They have virtually remained unchanged from late Palaeozoic times to today. Sometimes they are referred to as living fossils. (Copyright © Mike Gray, "Spider Origins" Australian Museum).

[inatarachnids]

Malayan Black Trapdoor Spider (Liphistius malayanus)

Observed by talibzuo, CC BY-NC

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I’ve been trying to get better at not drawing totally accurate spider anatomy all the time and also doing more interesting poses for taurs because they’re not just an expressive human upper body on top of some animal legs. So here’s Karleeen doing things !

[cyrakingg]

me if drawing miguel with a neutral, slightly disgruntled expression was a job

[empyreansentinel]

hey chat is this anything.

[nansmenagerie]

A redesign of the Contessa from Sly 2: Band of Thieves. I replayed the trilogy recently (still going through Sly 3 atm) and while a lot can be said about the games for good or ill, I always sort of felt like the Contessa could've been a bit... more spider-y? She just reads as a drider with crab claws, and it always sorta threw me off compared to everyone else. Not to say it's bad, but just that there was a non-cohesive element to her design compared to the rest of the game, in my opinion.

I couldn't decide what color to make her gloves, so I'm sharing all three options: white (to match her skirt), yellow (to complement the red), and the original red (to preserve the original design).

Lemme know what you think!

[st4rstudent]

more rainworld toontown adventures

[weebsinstash]

God why am I hyperfixating so bad for this man. Just look at him. The strong jaw but pouty lips. His thick hair. The broad shoulders. His cheekbones. He's fucking 6'9". He's got a waist smaller than mine. He can be compassionate and caring. He can be a little dorky and call a high-tech piece of equipment a goober. He's fucking terrifying and can chase you on all fours. He has claws and paralytic fangs and red eyes that see perfectly in the dark. He loves his family. He's an insanely intelligent geneticist and inventor. He has super strength and can lift several tons. He's completely naked under his nanotech spider suit which presumably just turns on and off. He is absolutely caked up. He has organic webs. He's a dad and protective guardian figure. He just wants to save as many lives as possible. He is barely holding himself together. This man has taken ahold of me and possessed me like some kind of ghost

[a-polite-melody]

Ever seen a jumping spider scratch her abdomen?

Want to?

It’s very cute, as long as you like spiders (and don’t mind seeing some isopods and a baby snail too).

[deacblues]

obligatory miles drawing. it’s my first time drawing him pretty much, so he doesn’t look right.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I was thinking about anthropomorphising spiders and how to keep their body shape and anatomy similar to the real thing, and came up with the idea that maybe they are built different based on how they live :) Web-building spiders would have three arms, two legs, and running, leaping and ambushing spiders would have three legs, two arms (plus the pedipalps of course)

[calciumcryptid]

In case you are wondering how me playing the Insomniac Spider-Man games is going: I am ignoring the crime alerts and the main story in favor of taking photos of landmarks and collecting backpacks.

[ferallantern]

IM READING ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (2000s) AND I GOT JUMPSCARED BY THE SPOT I DIDNT KNOW HE WAS A VILLAIN HERE 😭

[coffeenuts]

[urhoneycombwitch]

luluuu 😭😭😭😭😭

I'm just about to call it a night when a spider crawls down and lands on my bed and of course I freak and kill it and then I'm like whoo, that was scary, let me go to bed

so I go in the bathroom, brush my teeth, whatever, come back, flick on the light AND GHERES A BIG ASS ONE CRAWLING ON MY FUCKIHG FLOOR

so I freak and it freaks and crawls under my bed and now my arachnophobia is flaring and everybody else is asleep so I gotta kill it and I'm moving things and near tears but I'm telling myself "I'm so brave, I'm being so brave right now" because honestly that's the only thing that helps so I whack that one with a fly swatter so many times until it's dead

but now I'm on edge because that one was fucking big and 2?? in the last 15 minutes?? so then I'm like, okay I can't sleep because there's probably more AND THERE WAS

I moved one thing by my bed and there was a small one that crawled away and then I'm knocking things around by the wall and the curtains of the window and there's ANOTHER small ish medium one on my old LED lights!! so I whack that one with the fly swatter and it falls down between the wall and my bed and disappears and now I'm just standing here on edge waiting for them all to come out hiding right when I get comfortable and eat me alive because they weren't the daddy long legs I'm used to (which still freak me out but I'm coming to respect them because they mainly stay in their corner) but brown and hairy and I could see them without my glasses

Anyways, the point of the story is that while this is going on, I thought, "Damn, if I was reader in your husky!neighbor!Eddie stories, Id just say fuck it, burn the whole apartment down, and then go across the hall to sleep in his bed. and that reader probably doesn't have to be so brave because she could just call him (or roommate Eddie honestly but if there's spiders in my bedroom there's definitely some in his too) to just take care of it"

I was also thinking about this the other day where PNW reader, esp. WA reader is so used to there not being many big bugs and scary shit because we have a pretty mild climate and then they move to Indiana where there's the fucking Midwest scary ass big ass bugs and they're basically on the verge of packing their bags and moving back because they're not dealing with this shit! Like if they didn't have the Gang around to take care of the bugs for them they'd probably be like ��🏃‍♀️🚕💨✈️

listen i ALSO am a big fan of gently relocating insect friends to the outdoors but when there’s a SPIDER near my SLEEPING PLACE… all bets are off. ur story sent a shiver down my spine I truly hope you were able to sleep after all that!!!!

husky!neighbor!Eddie hears your bloodcurdling scream from across the hall and he’s already opening his front door only to find you barreling into his place, panicking, gesturing wildly and rambling through full-body shudders, your approximation of the spider’s size getting bigger with each retelling. he makes you some tea and puts up his hair and goes on the hunt in your apartment and brings you the dead carcass as proof. like a cat assassin <3

roommate!Eddie tho… he sees a big spider and it’s game over. something so sinister about a spider being in his room. you’re just getting home from work but Eddie catches you by the elbow and hauls you outside like “hey so there’s a horrifying cryptid the size of Indiana under my mattress and I’m on my way out to buy twenty gallons of gasoline. and another pack of matches. you comin’?”

[stressedjester]

Saw a long legged white spider in my room last night that got away before I could catch it, so now I'm trying to look up what it was and I'm only getting results for daddy longlegs from the description but I know it definitely was NOT a daddy longleg spider