#the spiders

[mars-onthe-moon]

Kurapika, last of the Kurta clan… Listens to Vigilante Shit on repeat.

I wanted to take a short break from drawing the clown 💀 and draw some of my other favorite characters from HXH… (spoiler alert it’s all of them). I was thinking about doing Illumi next but maybe I’ll just put a bunch of names on a wheel and spin fr.

[weirdlookindog]

The Spiders / Die Spinnen (1919 & 1920)

The earliest surviving film from the director Fritz Lang was released in two parts; Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919) and Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff (1920).

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

today as I was settling down and reading a book I happened to look up and one point and I was like. wait. what is that. on my fucking ceiling. is that a cricket? hang on a second

that’s a jumping spider

so I immediately shot out of my chair and went to check my spider enclosures, and WHAT DO YOU KNOW. WE HAD AN ESCAPEE.

here they are cleaning themself and scratching their little butt nonchalantly after being apprehended like they didn’t just give me a stress induced heart attack

[dyingroses]

Whose goddamn baby is this?

Chrollo, reuniting with his team and seeing 10 yro Kalluto

[vendettasfanfictioning]

dark continent ends with all the spiders dead, kurapika on life support after spending 1038928383 hours of his life span, oito killing the king, and one nasty disgusting threesome with adult trio (kurohisoillu) before they fight to the death. I'm predicting this now 😇😇

[relentlesslydreamt]

https://www.wattpad.com/story/342205436?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=thornofstrife3397&wp_originator=PEGY3Bp2LNVx8g4qiBP3lf7g9VM35XJXVZs3nkSYMO24ouhUepnRIZHJpJGBuZ1i%2Bk1FsZK1l6DyG6OgQa4oYtYnn1OkVMpXDGHS1cBFiFbFyfsTe1gBEq%2BA%2BNdh5VaE

[aspoonofsugar]

hii what do you think of the latest hxh chapter?

Hi!

It is one of my favourites so far! We got a lot from just few pages and I am very happy about it :)

Here come some random thoughts:

1- It seems that what I mentioned here and here about the Heil-Ly being the Spiders' mirror is being addressed already:

The Heil-ly are the Spiders' negative foil and Morena especially is Chrollo's negative foil. They are meant to bring to light what the group and its leader have been refusing to face about themselves.

I would not be surprised if the more we know of Chrollo's background the more his connection with Morena becomes clearer thematically. Speaking of connections...

2- Hello Sheila!

For people, who have not read it (even if I doubt there are that many by this point :''')) she is the girl Pairo and Kurapika find and help out in Kurapika's backstory. She is the reason why Kurapika wants to explore the world. Unconsciously she is also probably the reason why he wants to become a Hunter himself. She is presented to us as idealistic, good natured and determined to become a Hunter, even if she is definately clumsy and slightly unprepared to face the world.

This chapter shows a younger Sheila, but keeps her characterization intact. Moreover, it reveals she comes from Meteor City and used to be friends with Chrollo. This info is very interesting because it gives us a hint of what may have happened between the Kurta and the Spiders:

The Spiders annihilated the Kurta and stole their eyes. However, they also left a note with Meteor's city motto, which has been reminded to us this chapter: "We refuse nothing, so do not take anything from us".

This modus operandi feels strange and contradictory. After all, the Spiders are introduced as ruthless thieves that killed the Kurta for their eyes. Uvo's words in YS together with the cruelty they displayed in killing the Kurta (forcing adults to see their children die, so that their eyes become a more brighter red) seem to confirm it. However, the note they left behind seems off... what could the Kurta have ever taken from them?

Well, Sheila might be the answer to this conundrum. What if after Pairo and Kurapika said goodbye to her she was spotted by the Kurta Elders and killed to keep their location a secret? Her death would explain why the Spiders chose to attack the Kurtas of all people... Knowing Chrollo's coping mechanism I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to avenge Sheila hiding his grief behind an utilitarian objective, like... let's take the Kurtas' eyes and sell them at the black market.

I also think I prefer this theory over the more cynical ones I have heard about. Sheila being necessarily malicious towards the Kurta to the point she would help the Spiders to kill them would mean 1) that the Elders were right and the outside world is bad... hence Kurapika's childhood dream (which btw it is Gon and Killua's childhood dream) is worthless and 2) that Kurapika is indirectly responsible for his people's death, which really doesn't work for his arc and his survivor's guilt.

Sheila being an unknown catalyst to violence and tragedy instead works better on mutliple levels. First of all, it would make Kurapika's idealism the right thematic choice over the Elders' cycnism and fear of the other. Secondly, it would fit with the exploration of the cycle of revenge as fundamentally wrong and damaging to all sides. Thirdly, it would be sweet tragedy for both Chrollo and Kurapika... after all, Kurapika's dream comes from a person close to Chrollo, while Chrollo's act of violence hurt 2 friends of Sheila, who had helped her.

3- Kurapika and Chrollo's foiling is now deeper. Their background show them both as sweet idealistic kids, who grew up in secluded places dominated by a hierarchical group of elders. They are both considered prodigies and take an interest in the outside world. Kurapika is enchanted by Hunter D's book, while Chrollo scavenges Meteor City's ruins to find tapes and discover more about other cultures and languages. Still, it is clear that the both of them were deeply traumatized by a cynism catalyst... Kurapika's the destruction of his clan, while Chrollo's is yet to be seen.

4- This foiling makes the structure of the arc overall stronger and clearer. To be more specific, Kurapika, Chrollo, Tserriednich and Morena's criss crossed foiling seems to be the thematic heart of this storyline.

As already stated, Kurapika foils and opposes Tserriednich, while Chrollo has Morena as a counter-part. However, Kurapika also foils Morena, while Chrollo clearly foils Tserriednich as well.

Both Kurapika and Morena have become key figures in the current war and both are trying to spread the knowledge of nen, but they do so in opposite ways. Kurapika hopes that more people learning of the power would mean more princes would survive and the status quo is protected. Morena instead wants to fight the status quo, by provoking a revolution by sharing nen with people from humble origins. Not to consider they are both on a suicidal spirals.

Both Chrollo and Tserriednich are instead collectors of people. Chrollo collects people's "souls" (their nen powers) in his book, while Tserriednich collects body-parts. They are both incredibly intelligent and ruthless and even if they are so far being more passive... they are clearly 2 of the main forces who will influence the war. Not only that, but it is possible both have isolated themselves from others:

It is too soon to say, but the group of "friends", who are clearly smart and talented, but choose to keep their distance from Tserriednich, so that they can preserve their "friendship" with him is interesting... and it touches on something common to all 4 characters: loneliness and isolation.

Kurapika has friends ready to help him and has quickly become the center of an alliance among hunters, but he chooses to keep everyone at a distance. He avoids answering his loved ones calls and tries not to involve his closer ones in his business.

Chrollo is the leader of a group he himself has chosen to treat as an ideal instead than a family. He clearly loves and treasures the Spiders, but probably because of this and of the fear of loss, he has chosen not to treat them as individuals, but as a part of an organism that is immortal precisely because everyone is replaceable.

Morena is the leader of a group she is clearly using for her own great suicide attempt. She acts as the savior and the messiah of her people, but she is really just a gamer using them and herself as board pieces.

Finally, Tserriednich is a Prince who believes himself to be superior than everyone else. He apparently has no problems killing his own friends. And yet, he seems to have people, who are loyal to him, despite it all. People who would like for him to change, but do not believe it to be possible, so they are uncertain on how to reach to him... or even if they can reach to him. Not to mention Theta, who sees him as dangerous and tries to slow his progress with nen. She even plans to kill Tserriednich. However, she is also ready to kill herself after his death. There is clearly something deeper going on with the 4th prince army...

And this is all... more or less... I also have some crack theories and ideas, but they are really just headcanons and not meta thoughts :)

Thank you for the ask and have a great day!

[viktoriavika67]

Day 2. Spiders

Oh! It looks like the spider (somehow) now has neighbors. They seem to be very happy with this factor and friendly, unlike our spider, who're now angry. However, they'll have to get used to their new neighbors in this tree.

[bracketsoffear]

Breeding Ground & Feeding Ground (Sarah Pinborough) "The world is changing. Women everywhere are giving birth to a new life form — hideous spidery nightmares that live to kill — and feed. As England becomes a series of web-shrouded ghost towns, those left alive must band together in order to survive and find a way to fight back . . .

In a sleepy English village Matt Edge and those he has gathered together head for a secret government facility in the hope of finding refuge and answers there, only to find some of their problems are just beginning. In London, a group of schoolboys must take on a crazed drugs lord, determined to create an empire from the wreckage of the city, in order to escape . . .

. . . and everywhere, for each of them, the Widows are waiting . . .’"

The Spiders (Richard Lewis) "Imagine a spider as big as a Goliath bird-eater with masticating jaws, venom that first paralyzes and then kills, a hard crabshell-like exoskeleton, and two evil eyes that you can see looking at you. Now imagine that's just the drone in a social system similar to an ant or bee colony — its job is to find food and bring it back to the hive, which consists of some even larger spiders and an enormous queen. This is what the protagonists of the book have to deal with in order to save England, where the spiders are slowly advancing from the country into the cities."

[mars-onthe-moon]

This is an equal opportunity simping account. I just happen to post the two clowns… a lot. Anyway, Chrollo isn’t wearing anything under his robe. Have a blessed day! 💕

[la-squadra1234]

I was wondering- how would react our yandere hxh boys discover that their darling likes them too even before they kiddnap them ? :D

Ooooo that’s definitely going to be a juicy one!

Btw I am only going to be doing the characters that I can imagine being yandere but I will try my best to get all of the characters

Full credit to la-squadra1234

Feitan-

He would definitely be taken aback he would’ve not been expecting that but that definitely would’ve raised a ego boost for him 

Phinks-

He would act very overly confident and act, like he could tell or something like that, even though he is literally dying inside He is in love that would also give him a big ego boost

Chrollo-

 He would be very calm and wouldn’t really put too much thought into it because either way one or another you were/are going to be his so it doesn’t really matter much to him, but he does appreciate it

Shalnark-

he would be surprised and he would most definitely be happy like very happy. He just kind of wishes that he could go back and not kidnap you, but it already happened.

Uvogin-

He wouldn’t overreact too much about it, but he would definitely appreciate it and be happy about it

Hisoka-

It would be a major ego boost for him, and he would definitely be very happy about it, and he would be less dramatic and rude to you and he would definitely tease you less than usual 

And that is the end for today everybody I hope everybody enjoyed as much as I did writing it. This was really fun!

I will see everybody in the next Post bye now!

[ask-odyssiaoctavius]

Since last year’s Living Depths Halloween Late Night Party was very successful, I’ll be more than happy to announce that it’s officially a yearly tradition now!

(18+) spiders are welcome to partake, but Parkers are on thin ice until proven they can chill. 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Introducing Nyx, the Acanthoscurria geniculata, aka Brazilian Giant White Knee! She’s come to live with us from one of our best friends 🥰 isn’t she a beauty!

[id; Nyx, the acanthoscurria geniculata (Brazilian Giant White Knee) tarantula, in her enclosure with one leg resting on her water bowl. She is very dark brown with white stripes]

[falseandrealultravival]

Somehow, Somehow (The Spiders) Group Sounds

I who met you have been somehow happy ever since that day

My happiness has been like a dream since the day I met you

This is my first time feeling like this.

I want to share this happiness with you.

Rock music became popular in Japan due to the influence of the Beatles, and this is one of their songs, ``The Spiders.'' It doesn't sound like rock, but it's a nice, heartwarming song.

なんとなくなんとなく（ザ・スパイーダース）グループサウンズ

君と逢った その日から なんとなく しあわせ

君と逢った その日から 夢のような しあわせ

 こんな気持ち はじめてなのさ 分けてあげたい このしあわせを

ビートルズの影響で、日本でもロックが盛り上がったが、その一つ「ザ・スパイダース」の曲。とてもロックとは思えぬが、ほのぼのとした良い曲である。

[wordwiilderness]

Addressing the lack of fanart for my favorite Phantom Troupe member by making it for myself

[havnt3d]

i finished hxh in a week. conclusion is that chrollo is a cool guy