#this is an impulsive and drastic redo of an essay I wrote years ago for college

[firecoloredwater]

What species of spider would you prefer to have live on you for the rest of your life?

Two facts, for clarity in the metaphor:

1: these are not superintelligent magic spiders and you are not a mutant that can control them. You are yourself, and they are ordinary spiders, which will do ordinary spider things like build webs and lay eggs and bite. Except that they live on you, now.

2: everyone has their own colony of spiders living on them. They will not judge you for being covered in spiders. They will, however, judge you for not having enough spiders, or not caring for your spiders properly, as well as for which species of spider you choose.

(Obviously I can't list every species of spider out there, so I'm just listing a few of my personal top choices + the reasoning behind them. Vote for the reasoning you would use, if the particular species isn't listed.)

To be clear: this is a metaphor about how I FEEL about gender, not any sort of objective reality or truth about gender or whatever.

I just really really hate being asked for pronouns because they're all wrong and 'no' is not an option.