#funnelweb

[creatureimages]

mygalomorph puppy eyes. they're just weird dogs.

(Stanwellia trapdoor spider and Atrax robustus, of being the sydney funnelweb fame)

[tummytboi]

thought my belly looked extra cute today

[cyanocoraxx]

cupcake ✨️ (linothele sericata, Colombian funnelweb)

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Spider Webs

When I was a little kid I used to try and find "cobs" in funnel webs because I thought that must be what cobwebs were and surely the cobs must be nearby. I've always always loved spider and I've always been fascinated with their webs in some form or another, whether a child's inquisitive nature or simply admiring their beauty: how the sunlight glints off the strands, or how water drops settle on them like a string of pearls, or the patterns themselves.

All my photos, all unedited (I think; going off memory because I don't have all my working files on account of a external hard drive failure).

[dykegeology]

[shopcrawlys]

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

spideraussie im sorry about these americans and their ignorance of your beautiful australian culture. as a kiwi, i will attempt to respectfully converse in your native language: oi cunt, whats your favourite reno from The Block?

Any thoughts on the mad max films?

so is that the only australian thing you could think of at all

[forcenewz]

List of 10 Most Dangerous Animals in Australia

If you are planning to go on vacation in Australia then beware of the 10 Most Dangerous Animals in Australia. Here forcenewz shares a List of the deadliest animals in Australia with its images. be careful of these animals Great white shark, Common Brown Snake, Saltwater crocodile, Box Jellyfish, Inland Taipan, and more.

[sludgekludge]

What are your thoughts on the sins individually, if you don't mind me asking?

i think viv is really really scared to have her blorbos embody really negative traits so i think half of the sins we've been properly introduced to do a dogshit job at actually embodying the sin they represent because of this lol. why do half of them not suck more as people. why don't they embody their sins, viv.

this ended up being kinda longer than i meant so im dumping it under a read more vv

bephelgor's only my icon because i'm also sleepytired and want to go to bed. her design is endearing to me, but still a mess, and if she's meant to be inspired by baphomet, it kinda sucks she's not more androgynous, imo, at least give her a little goat beard. not much to say because she was more of a decorative vase than a character. fascinating how we see the remaining women sins and neither of them speak!

leviathan. sorry this is a bit meaner than i usually try to be. i hate her design so bad. i don't know what people like about it. you can like it obviously. but god. i could go on a tangent here about it but i won't. her design makes me chew foil. super cool that they gave her more screentime though and instead of talking, she gets to sit there silently while being hit on by a man instead. fascinating how-

asmodeus bores me, all of the haha sex jokes in this show are so obnoxious so whenever they bring up that he's the Sex One my eyes roll outta my head. his design is…not at all my cup of tea but i won't say it's atrocious. the palette is unique, at least, by hellaverse standards. i liked him in his first appearance but he's since been declawed and now he's a weally nice guy actually who's all about consent and his wholesome chungus monogomous relationship, which is so fucking lame. could make a bigger post about him honestly. him and fizz are a couple of the saddest victims to 'super scared to write her blorbos being genuinely nasty' thing imo

mammon endeared me initially, but his mastermind appearance sucks. i like his design for the most part (centipede. why centipede. make him a funnelweb) and the fact he's clearly a silly guy on purpose. dresses like a jester by choice. he's evil, AND silly, that's fun. while he's a bit dense in his initial appearance, he's clever enough to know exactly how to manipulate fizz emotionally, and then in mastermind he's this big lumbering dumbass fat fuck who eats sloppily and he's gross and yucky and stupid ewww!! what a cool way to write your like, 1 recurring fat character vivzienne popsicle. lets make a joke specifically about how he has a big stomach. very cool his asexuality was clearly tacked on last-minute and he's clearly not written with that in mind, also kind of weird to canonise him as such when you're writing him to be this undesirable gross slob. i like him in theory, but he also says a lot about how viv views fat/asexual people and it's kind of soured me to him a little. shame. could go more into him, but i'll stop here.

we can't make beezlebub fat though, that's fatphobic! that's why she's thin! ik her design was a whole debacle and i don't care for it but i think it's blown a bit out of proportion. she's just another vivziepop design, i dont think she's uniquely terrible, maybe aside from being a bad rep of gluttony, but i saw more people talking about the bee thing than that. i do think it was kind of a huge mistake to make her so indistinguishable from hellhounds, biggest problem with her design imo. it's clear they wrote her to be deliberately really cool and likeable because she's Kesha, though. she's a typical nice popular party girl. i watched lps series with characters exactly like her when i was 12. sin of gluttony, don't overindulge though bro look after yourself :(

satan is inoffensive. i find him/his design to be kind of generic? but not overtly terrible. big dragon just feels a bit boring to me to who is apparently the penultimate sin, bar lucifer. admittedly, i kind of like the bit that he's got this little guy he listens too. big sucker for silly dynamics like that when they're played straight. wish i knew why the lil guy's robe kept changing colours, though. he's kinda wishy-washy and generic. don't get why any of the sins are intimidated by him when he gives stolas a slap on the wrist that stolas doesn't even have to grovel for, purely for being royalty lol. what's he gonna do to the sins if they step out of line? wag a finger at them? the whole 'he's lying about ruling before lucifer' thing was dumb and should've been caught before the episode went out.

lucifer i have enough to say about that it could probably also be its own post but to keep it short...ish, i think he's kind of inconsistent and weirdly written. they're really scared to write him as genuinely morally dubious and that's lame. they blended like 4 sexyman archetypes into 1 for him. he's so clearly y/n bait that it makes my eyes roll into the back of my skull…characters should get their y/n fiction naturally god dammit stop manufacturing sexymen in the lab!!! his design annoys me but i guess the whole 'pretty porcelain doll' thing makes sense and since he's a fallen angel, corrupted purity or something, wears symbols of himself (apples/snake) all over so Pride, like FINE, i get it, i still flick peanut shells at him though. thin ice. bitch

basically my favourite is like almost mammon i think but he's got weird uncomfortable connotations so i guess it's bephelgor because she doesn't exist enough to do anything to annoy me yet

[crevicedwelling]

big ole sydney funnelweb (atrax robustus) for today. she was very gracious about me breaking into her house and taking photos.

a fuzzy little pet

[titanfortuna]

In the birders group chat talking about how we all had an unpleasant time in high school and how the transphobic and homophobic people that were there should have 500,000 funnelweb spiders in their house for doing all that and then I was like oh... have any of you heard of taylor hebert and someone HAD

I love when you meet a worm reader in the wild...

[atomic-artronic]

First batch of artfight attacks done!

@wulfums | @spookyboar | funnelweb on artfight | chickensoda on artfight

Really trying to push myself with my attacks this year, been really stoked on how all of them have been coming out so far!

Attack me <3

[catboymoments]

Mittens spinning webs like a funnelweb spider. MITTENS!!!! HOUSE!!!!!!

MITTENS HOSUE!!!!

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTO TAKEN: JUNE 5TH, 2023 | Image ID: One photo of a black funnelweb spider in its web in between two dirty white metal sheets /End ID.]

[hexiva]

Could you defeat a spider in single combat?

According to the D&D 5 monster manual, the Commoner (average human) and the Spider (not the giant spider, just a spider) are the same cr. I think I am a below average human when it comes to combat, but I believe I could defeat any spider in single combat.

Some stipulations:

The spider given in the monster manual is clearly not an average spider, as the average spider is incapable of harming a human. Therefore, I posit that the monster manual spider is in fact the most deadly spider in the world, the Sydney Funnelweb Spider. You can read about them here. Note that spider venom takes time to take effect, and you will likely be able to continue fighting even if you are bit.

The monster manual commoner is armed with a club, so you can be armed with simple household weapons: a stick, a cup, or a shovel. You may not have a gun, bug spray, poison of any kind, or a net.

You may not choose to avoid fighting the spider (i.e., run away), but you may nonlethally defeat the spider if you so choose.

No surprise rounds, i.e., both you and the spider are able to clearly see each other at the beginning of the fight and are aware that you're in combat.

The spider is trying to kill you. This is not normal spider behavior, so we can stipulate that an evil wizard has mind controlled it into trying to kill you in gladiatorial combat.

Reblog for larger sample size, i.e., more average commoner.

[dykegeology]

People are always like 'spiders are so evil!! they're out to get you!!!' I don't have a good number of how many I've interacted with up close, but I've got over 3000 arachnids on inat and that's only the ones that I got decent photos of, and I usually don't upload more than 2 or 3 of the same species from a location so if I had to estimate I've probably got within macro photography distance of at least 5000 spiders over the past 3 years. Of these, only about 5 have actually got 'aggressive' on me and most were ones I accidentally poked (the other one was an annoyed funnelweb but I flipped the bark it was hiking under so like. I understand it's annoyance lol). I've also held hundreds bare handed (though I'm careful to do that in a way that doesn't startle them and only species I know are not bitey or particularly venomous) and have never been bitten...

If spiders really were sinister aggressive creatures well. I would have a lot more photos of spider faces and a lot less of one leg sticking out of leaf litter.