#sun spiders

[thegoodwitchynki]

I'm completely normal about this movie...

Anyway won't it be cool if all media was treated with this much love and care

[jaybug-jabbers]

Trying to use the Macro setting on my phone's camera. Pictured is a [blurry] teeny tiny Solifugid (sorry he was speedy), a Plant Bug (Miridae), and a cute little Ground Crab Spider (Xysticus).

[soranatus]

“Sun-Spider was absolutely one of my favorite assignments on the film. I poured over Dayn Broder’s original designs to include as many design markers as I could, while trying to see if I could plus up the design. Had to make the wheelchair a mech that could follow her around.” — Kris Anka

[lil-lemon-snails]

Looks like you're caught in his web~

[spiderverseconceptart]

Sun-Spider concept art for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse by Kris Anka

[kinoselynn]

POV you're Miles

[owlpower669]

this is the plot of lmk. right.

[angelcake10023]

“What are you gonna do about it?” 🍵

A messy comic for the Curious MK au. Tang realizing he messed up after giving up MK to Wukong, but he might’ve realized this a bit too late…

ITS RESCUE TIME

[winterpower98]

These were originally meant for Valentine's day, but oh well

[killlerfang1]

I find it so fucking cool that Sun-Spider went from being someone's spidersona that was submitted in a marvel contest to getting a speaking role in a multi million dollar film in only 3 years.

[ninjahaku21art]

The spider's lair~🕷️🐵✨

A redraw of one of my older pieces with the spider lady demons!

Compared to the last one, I wanted to give the spider queen's sisters different looks, and honestly they came out way better than I planned! ;w; Enjoy!

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[ivi-ivisek]

BEHOLD new au. Sun and Moon as jumping spiders

The House Spiders AU

So I got this idea after I spotted jumping spider crawling around in my apartment and my brain was like NEW AU IDEA.

So Sun and Moon are jumping spiders that decided to invite themselves in Y/N's house and Y/N just accepts that.

Now there are three possibilities. One Sun and Moon are just ordinary tiny jumping spiders and that's it. Two they come when they were small but overime they grew up and now they are big, very big. Three they are an embodiment of arachnophobia and they can change size. I like all three ;w;

[cobacou]

stuff

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

oh you are going to regret asking me this, because i love bugs and can't resist a soapbox!

so in dragon age we have historically fought a lot of giant spiders. In one of the DA4 behind-the-scenes videos we got a few years ago, they showed a still frame that showed a very large arachnid with distressingly human hands attached to it. of course some people screamed in horror and some others of us instantly mentally became attached to this abomination bc we are broken people.

next part of post contains A LOT OF BUG PHOTOS so anyone who is arachnophobic you are gonna wanna skip this one probably. i cannot add a read more on mobile im so sorry please press 'J' to skip down your dash now

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So this is (a cropped shot of) the Image In Reference:

Look at that! Eight legs plus two creepy arm-hands! And those big bulbous mouthparts are called chelicerae, and they're huge and stick straight forward rather than curving down! And the back of the body is way more flat/oblong than it is bulbous.

Compare this to the spiders in DAI and earlier, which conform to a pretty standard shape across all 3 games:

It's pedipalps (kind of pre-leg by the mouth) are raised, chelicerae curved under, big bulbous abdomen. your classic fantasy spider shape although spiders do come in a much greater variety than this. which makes deviating away from the 'standard' a pretty significant move!!

So the hands-spider, to me, WAY more closely resembles a different organism that while it is an arachnid is NOT a spider, genetically speaking. This is the solifuge!

You'll notice they have a flatter and rigged abdomen (butt) in comparison to a spider, and those extra big pointy mouthparts. It uses its pedipalps like an extra pair of legs in the front rather than for chewing/holding food... or shall we call them an extra pair of HANDS???

Taxonomically/phylogenetically speaking, they are not within the spider class. Though they are also often called sun spiders, camel spiders, or even wind scorpions (they are also not technically scorpions). I like the term 'solifuge' because it lets them be their own unique thing! Depending on where you live you may never see one, but I live in a desert so I have seen many. They can be freaky but are just one of natures many miracles you learn to appeciate, or else you will be doomed to whimper sadly on the sidewalk instead of finishing your hike.

anyway the similarities between this guy and hands-spider stood out to me instantly. even if the devs didn't know what they were basing it off of, one definitely used a reference image of these guys when building Mr Handsy. since they've announced there won't be any spiders in DA:V it is likely he was scrapped 😞 but in my heart i tell myself maybe thye just realized the taxonomic error the fanbase made, and they are simply being correct in identifying these as "not spiders" and we will see them after all in the game :) (<- delusional)

big round of applause for mr hands spider the solifugae!!! and he can even clap along!!!

im Not Looking at the achievements list or any other spoilers, but it has got me making mental lists instead of what the funniest things to get spoiled could be. like

Bothersome: you "Annoyed Solas" 1000 times!

Stop That: you tried to eat the magic rocks and got possessed by a titan

Veilwhoops: selecting the "maybe he has a point" option as Soals tries to open the veil results in game over when everyone dies in the resulting explosion

Dragonrider: your attempt to kiss a dragon resulted in total party death

Shopaholic: you spent all the Veilguard's gold on outfit upgrades

Illiterate: you refused to read any letters, codex entries, etc you found and only vaguely understand what's going on now

Bingo Night: you interacted most with those Old Men (Emmrich and Solas)

[bismuthfool]

I give you a beautiful spider queen

and… uh… venompeach perhaps?

[kristea9ay]

Has MK ever accidentally gotten himself hurt or encountered a stranger on the mountain? I remember you mentioning that more demons have tried getting into the mountain since MK was born

Since MK is the son of two of the most powerful beings who also have a lot of enemies, he sometimes gets caught in the enemies attempts to get back on his parents.

ShadowPeach parents are really anxious and overprotective because of this and often feel guilty.

This is one of the most traumatizing attacks MK has been through when he was a kid. It also kickstarted his massive arachnophobia :D

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