#tarantula when if I get to you

[blobbei-art]

Taranza was also a character whose floaty limb design majorly bothered me (especially since I really like tarantulas).

So just like the kitty Magolor one, Taranza deserves some limbs too. He now has spinnerets to make string with and uses a pair of puppet arms to help him. He can still float, although unlike Magolor, his floating is magic based and thus a little more limited.

[torrikor]

returning to my roots of Solid Colour Square Background and White Outline

[tarancho]

spidersona sketches + her and a teenage variant of johnathon

fun fact: the soul of a tarantula merged with her body, and now it won't shut up.

also she molts (and might grow some extra legs in her spider form, still figuring out how that will work); will sketch that out later.

[baconcolacan]

Bc I want to eventually also get to the rest of the gang I started looking up the other spider species and it’s so funny how most spiders are itty bitty little things (less than an inch in size) meanwhile, tarantulas, with an average size of 5 inches

This is really messing with my hcs about Tom. Except one!!!! Those really really really pretty bright blue beauties are all female!!! My trans Tom hc is still going strong!!!!! (Surprise surprise they’re also bigger than the males)

YAAAURRR THIS IS SO COOL ACTUALLY

I would LOVE a trans tom peacock T that would be so slay HEHAHAHFJ

[bambeebirdie]

Alright so I just finished Earthspark and boy fucking howdy do I have opinions, but I’m not talking about those right now because I’m tired and the ending broke me in such a way I no longer care about anything.

What I would like to say though is I think Tanatulas should have been replaced with Shockwave in that on episode he had with Nightshade. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Tanatulas. He was literally so good, I loved his designs and his vibes and the only bad thing about him is that he never said his pronouns back. But really think about it. He didn’t have to be there. Earthspark spends too much time with the Maltos to really develop anyone so the more characters you add the more everything struggles.

Tanatulas showed up for one episode, he’s not even in the finale. Shockwave was there though and vaguely important, but it doesn’t make sense for him to just suddenly be okay with the Maltos. Unless he took Tanatulas role. Then his sudden willingness to help them would have made so much more sense. It also wouldn’t have been a very hard change, just as a whole, because neither Tanatulas or Shockwave are that important.

Just give Nightshade a line about how they should save Shockwave because they trust him and well everyone else acts the same.

Shockwave even fills a similar general role as Tanatulas being a weird scientist who care more about their science than the war. So it really wouldn’t be a hard switch and would make Shockwave make more sense. If you want to go further too Shockwave doesn’t even have a normal vehicle mode so he really could have given similar lines about alt modes to Nightshade.

Obviously Shockwave actual introduction episode would be different or maybe he’d just get replaced entirely but I really don’t think any of those changes would be too hard. Because again, he’s just not important enough for any changes to his character to be hard.

Tanatulas in Earthspark doesn’t validate his existence much as is. I really do love him, but he’s replaceable and just clutters an already poorly handled cast. While I think it would be cool if he was just more important they clearly didn’t want that by not even giving him a finale shot. So I do think just swapping his episode with Shockwave (and whatever other alterations are needed to make that perfect) fixes the problem with having too many underdeveloped characters since it removes one character and in the process developes another.

[healingheartdogs]

Quickest way to start fights in animal related ares of the internet is to say simple factual statements that people don't want to admit to themselves like

"your dog is not displaying guilt and does not know what it did wrong, dogs do not feel guilt or make connections between actions and delayed consequences like that, you're just attempting to rationalize wanting to punish your dog out of anger or frustration"

or

"your pet is not doing this thing you find annoying or hurtful out of spite, animals are not spiteful, you are projecting your own feelings on them because you're upset and want to feel justified for your upset reactions"

or

"handling your exotic animals is for your own enjoyment and benefit, not theirs, your spider/snake/mantid/gecko/whatever is not asking you for 'uppies' because it loves you and wants you to hold it, it just recognizes you as the warm creature that gives it food sometimes if even that, that behavior you're definitely misinterpreting is probably just them seeking warmth, seeking food, or even actually a threat display because you are a giant potential danger to them"

[featherymainffins]

I think it's a hatecrime against me that there aren't any slugs as big as the giant African snail. Why do the snails get to have all the fun I just want a giant slime noodle.

[mephiles-the-jester]

i hate when the mosquito eaters come back,theyre too big for my mental health, i enter a staring contest whenever i try to get some water from the kitchen and one of those bitches are in the corner,i cant let them out of my sight or theyll start flying and im gonna run,and i hate running,,i hate those little shits get out of my house

[risingsunresistance]

died to a t5 rev after i got block glitched on some stairs and some absolute saint in my lobby, instead of telling me im bad or something, showed me a spot where a t5 just wont spawn tnt if you stand there for some reason

anyways i've been doing slayers while jerry's been here (except for the mining fiesta) and im getting to that warden heart there SHOCKINGLY fast

[rxttenfish]

DEEPEST SIGH

i love my little baby rcf rosehair so much, but i swear to god. yesterday i fed her and she didnt finish eating. and so she, in her little spider brain that loves putting all her food-remains in her water dish, just. dunks a half-eaten mealworm carcass in her water. and i swear it went RANCID.

[mossiestpiglet]

[ID: a photo of a baby tarantula, freshly molted in a small naturalistic enclosure. The limbs are pale and abdomen dark. In the background is the molt, revealing the fangs. End ID]

Caught my darling baby freshly molted the other night and got a good picture of her all pale and soft <3

She was given to me free with either another tarantula or an enclosure (don’t remember) and at the time I was told she was a “pinkfoot birdeater”, but having looked at more pictures of Theraphosa apophysis slings her hairs seem much sleeker. My guess now is that she’s actually a Lasiodora parahybana (salmon pink birdeater), because that matches the sleeker hairs and the color contrast between the rear abdomen and rest of the body much better.

I try not to pick favorites with my animals but this little beastie has such a special attitude and appetite that I can’t help but gravitate towards her. Really need to give her a name!

[blackwldcw]

tags.

[byzea]

The very simple to fix grammatical errors I made in the tags are killing me but I also don't know how to edit tags Tumblr just gives me to option to delete them and moving them work weirdly and I don't want to rewrite the whole thing so I surrender to my fate of suffering

Day 38 of posting cute creatures we found on our field trip:

Sheltopusik also known as European legless lizard or blavor (Pseudopus apodus) is the largest European lizard. This animal is completely harmless, so don’t panic if you see it. They feed on insects, other small animals and eggs. They rarely bite and usually just poop on you in self defense:

They look very angry from the front:

And very sad and confused from above:

They are very big, over 150cm long at most. I love them beyond words. They can be kept as pets, but please don’t do that, they are all wild caught, because we don’t know how to breed them in captivity. They are super chill and fun to interact with, but don’t support wild animal trade please.

Legless lizards have ears and eyelids which snakes don’t have. They also have much different belly scales and much longer tails than snakes.

[hedgehog-moss]

I didn’t realise this until adulthood but handmade birthday piñatas are the apex of parental devotion. I spent the week cooking for my ravenous teenage cousins and felt a bit crestfallen at times that I was spending so long making something that was going to disappear within minutes—but with piñatas it’s so much worse, they exist to be savagely maimed. Year after year my father asked his kids what shape they wanted this year’s piñatas to be and he spent weeks painstakingly making them in the basement after work, only to watch a bunch of oversugared bat-wielding kids gleefully destroy them in less than 10 minutes. 

I mentioned this to him and he said he remembered researching tarantula anatomy for the giant spider piñata I asked for when I was 4, trying to make the fangs the right shape and to cut the crepe paper into very thin ribbons so the thing would look appropriately fuzzy, and I was like “and I don’t even remember it because I was four!! spending so long building a beautiful object only so your kids will have fun destroying it, knowing they won’t even remember it, is such a selfless endeavour” and he said “my other motivation was that you said you wanted the spider to look real & scary so the kids at your birthday party would be terrified of it and you’d get to scoop up all the candy and I wanted to support your slyness & ambition”

[ex-vespidae]

wish that when people were like "here's my spider sona 🥰" they were talking about actual spiders not like... spider-man sona

this is definitely a problem only i have

[alphacrone]

Ranking animals i’ve had to move out of the road

deer - 1/10

you’ve heard of ‘deer in the headlights’ but have you heard of its much more deliberate cousin, ‘deer who are grazing on fallen acorns in the middle of the road and know you’re there and don’t give a fuck about your murder machine or how loud you honk at it’?

neighborhood dogs - 4/10

i love random surprise dogs as much as the next person but not when i’m driving. not when they’re muddy and wet and want to get into my car but won’t let me read the number on their collar. not when their owners don’t answer and now i’m just responsible for keeping their idiot golden retriever alive when i just wanted to go home.

turtles - 7/10

if you know how to pick ‘em up proper then it’s kinda fun to zoom a little guy over to where he’s trying to go like he’s just minding his business and now he’s flying

snapping turtles - 0/10

you want for that motherfucker to cross at his own speed. dni

baby owl while all his siblings and very scary mother watched - 10/10

i’ve never felt more alive. lil idiot kept hissing at me but would move to i kept having to scooch him over with a shoe in place of a stick or shovel. genuinely thought mama owl was gonna attack me but seemed to realize i was helping her dumbest son over to where she was. scariest minute of my life tbh. he was nothing more than an angry ball of feathers and i fell in love instantly. sky cats indeed.

tarantulas - 0/10

i’ve never tried to move one i just wanted to remind everyone that they’re big enough to see on the road lmao