#weblessed

[krakenshaped]

Still don't have Internet (I am in Pain)

[n1ghtwarden]

not lolthsworn, not seldarine, but a secret, third thing,

but also i think about this section in warrior of lolth a lot. where this paladin of eilistraee smites hordes of lolth summoned demons with one of jarlaxe's men at her side; and he is godless. she asks him if he believes yet, and he says no - i believe in you.

[softgrungeprophet]

the alt colors for the default spidey suit in midnight suns really don't look good 😭

[merakiui]

I know we categorize normal Rollo as a Victorian man who salivates over something as small as a hint of ankle, but I feel like that’s doubled for orca Rollo. The first time he saw you without shoes, he couldn’t help but curiously hyper fixate on them. Why don’t you have flippers? Where is your webbing, how do you swim decent without any? Why do your toes flex like that? And the longer he stares at them, his curiosity turns from something innocent to an unfamiliar feeling of heat in his lower belly. God forbid he touches them, he wouldn’t know what to do with himself.

tl;dr, orca Rollo has untapped potential for a foot fetish. (Tbh, normal Rollo has untapped potential for a foot fetish too-)

👁 👁 both versions of Rollo with a foot fetish is so *chef’s kiss* omg!!!! I think by default mers have a curiosity or attraction to feet/legs because it’s something so unusual to them, so orca mer Rollo being obsessed with your feet is absolutely perfect. orz aaaaaa once he gets past all of the logical questions in his head and fantasizes more to cure his curiosity,,, he gains an appreciation for your feet. They’re just so small in comparison to his fins. So fragile and dainty. He could probably break them as if they were nothing but mere sticks. ^^;;;

He’s an orca, so he has to be mindful of his strength whenever he’s around you and you’re close enough to be within touching distance. He seems almost…miserable on the days when your feet are covered. :( he likes being able to see your strange, finless, webless feet without the covering of shoes or your wetsuit. Sometimes he watches you from the water, his eyes tracking your feet as they carry you across the platform above his enclosure or beside his pool.

[mxwhore]

yesterday while i was webless and powerless, i decided to revisit the comics i neglected because of my thesis research and i realized that JUST the safehouse comic can make a zine in and out itself

[draco-the-voiddragon]

Core Domain: Zvi City and the Drakewilds surrounding (approx Greenland sized)

Sub domains: my tavern and the world of Aegis (where my book is based)

Book/Lore blog: @chaosquetzal-archive

Tavern blog: @hiddendragontavern

Writing/VA prompt blog: @writingwyrm

Enemy/assassin blog: @glasses-pengunforhire

Appearance: a dragon clad in red upper and tan lower scales. On their back, four webless wings and a long razor-feathered tail.

Normal look: Humanoid (5'6")

Dragon Sizes: Smol 1ft / Big Ol' 20ft

Demiromantic/Aegosexual

Humanoid rules:

Just don't make them upset. Closer to Big's personality. Big's magic control.

Smol rules: they a bastard!

Will steal @the-spine-eater 's and @the-bone-theif 's piles with no compensation. Will also steal gems from @absurd-construct with no remorse.

Will hug everything with 13k psi (roughly avg T-Rex bite). They also share a former OC, Schneed's, "size". Wants snuggles almost as much as stuff to eat. Especially cats 🤤

Big rules: More mannered.

Will compensate for stolen items. Will hug with 45k psi (roughly over 20 tons of force). In favor of talking instead of fighting. Will care for others before themselves. Can destroy dimensions.

Power: Burst

Infinite generation of magic, but upon dying must release this magic asap or will risk becoming a multiverse bomb. Usually just makes portals.

Naturally produces a toxin through skin that causes the body to go numb and become paralyzed. This toxin is highly concentrated on my tail feathers.

Lets the use/consumption of all magical elements, create/hop between dimensions, and uses this power to help anyone, even if evil. Most usages thus far in anger, especially at Vyra.

I'm always game to talk Pokemon, Anime, Dragons, and D&D

If I am ever on Tumblr on a Saturday, Sunday or Tuesday before 5pm PST: I am likely at work and on break.

1 weakness is phoenix fire (racial, not magical)

Mutuals:

@cow-stealin-gal @applegameisprollytaken @slimylittlemaggot @stormlendinez @lavender-flowergarden @meltymooncakes @ash-the-nekogirl @crystaza @arttisticcoffeepot @bi-gender-sorcerer @serious-tabaxi @fattocatto-wizard @ignisuadaroleplay

Frenemies:

@the-spine-eater

@absurd-construct

@be-gentle-with-littluns-2

[greatwyrmgold]

There is a post (which I will not be linking, let's not start drama) which reposts a Twitter thread talking about "the internet without the web".

The thread's author, Corry Wang, talks about visiting family in China and being shocked by how they use the web. "For my extended family, the "internet" is WeChat + maybe 5-10 smartphone apps." They don't use web browsers, instead using video platforms and the like to find whatever information they're looking for.

The rest of this webless internet adapted to this status quo. Corry talks about how the website for a museum he wanted to visit; it was useless, out of date, with reservations only available through WeChat, which he found out by looking at Xiaohongshu (which Wikipedia compares to Instagram). Absurd.

I agree with Corry's conclusions about how these "myriad walled gardens" are bad for consumers, clearly worse than the web I know, tumors and all. The reposter also agrees, but went a bit further. Needing to learn about museum exhibits from TikTok is "the most frightening dystopia," and its mere possibility is reason enough to support "Cold War 2.0".

As though the experience Corry described was some unique aberration born from an unique "ideology" (reposter's word choice) unique to China. As though no Americans primarily access the internet through smartphone apps and the like. As though the Anglophone internet is not also calcifying into a series of walled gardens.

And as though any of this would justify another fucking Cold War.

Fucking Sinophobia brainworms.

[halffizzbin]

THE SPIDER UPDATE

Finding orb-weavers just seems like Easy Mode now, so of course my stupid brain requires a challenge. We're going fully webless babes!

It's been a tense, odd week of staring at a lot of stucco walls in the hot sun with very limited success lol CLICK THROUGH FOR PHOTOS

Here are some wall friends, not officially identified but I think maybe Selenops genus? (They camouflage well, and they also tend to flatten themselves to walls or right into little dents or holes, so I still haven't managed any truly clear photos, and no sign of the the eyes, which is usually how I’d ID for sure. Hence the staring at walls all week.)

EDIT: Figured these guys out eventually! Wall spiders (Oecobiidae), probably Oecobius genus.

This one I think is a running crab spider (Philodromus genus, different from the crab spider I found in the rose).

She’s got her eggs! And when I found her the next day, she also had, uhhhhh….

Well. I think that’s one of the little Selenops guys she’s got pinned under her jaws lol oh well! Circle of life!

I do not know who this lady is. False black / brown widow perhaps?

EDIT: Eventually got this ID from iNaturalist: GROUND SAC SPIDER (Trachelidae): Genus Trachelas

And not to play favorites but saved the best for last:

(Oh and because I truly didn't grasp the size of these things until I started looking for them in person, here is the little gray one next to my index finger)

I need you to fully understand how impossible it is that I found any of these lol my passion is overcoming my nearsightedness and severe lack of depth perception

[speakingofnature]

Jumping Spider (Phidippus clarus)

Are you more like the web-dwelling orb weaver that waits for prey to be caught in its web, or more like the roaming Phidippus clarus jumping spider that ventures out webless in search of food? How you answer that question explains a great deal about your life choices.

[dispatchdcu]

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[fatalitycalico]

Spider-Aspin gets stuck!?

Plus a dialogue segment??? I can’t really call it a comic

Webless and hoodieless alts

also I used a webglaze which is why everything looks so crunchy

[stationk17]

A spider who despises all that are unfortunate enough to fall into his web.

Total time: 3hrs 30mins

(Webless version under cut)

[fox-guardian]

If you're still interested about talking about your aus, do you have an idea on how it would end?

Also, what's a moment in either of them that you really like?

Both the stoker swap au and the mallow family au are fix-its, so they both have happy endings!

For stoker swap, I'm not sure the specifics but I figure it would probably end around the end of season 3?? Or halfway through season 4, as far as the usual events go. And for mallow family, it would be a much less plot-heavy thing and more "cat immunity keeps all the horrors at bay, everyone just vibes with cats and jmart fall in love early"

I don't have many scenes or anything for the mallow family au, but my fav idea rn is Ms. Mallow trying to drag Martin around and calling to him like he's a kitten. He is her giant human son, she has to care for him.

But for stoker swap my current favorite bit is from this scene in which Jon and Danny are doing field work and Jon has sent Danny up into a (normal) spider-filled attic. (for context, he's on a ladder leading up into the attic's trapdoor):

“Can you go any further up without getting…. covered?” Jon asked.

Danny looked around. There was a space behind him that was mostly webless. He could stand there if he hunched over, maybe.

“I think I’ve got a spot.” And with that, Danny planted his hands on either side of the floor next to him and lifted his legs off the ladder, hoisting himself upwards until he could plant his feet on the floor behind him. It was risky, but faster. He threw his weight backwards, and rolled easily into a sitting position on the floor. “Alright, I’m up.”

He heard Jon sigh below him. He sounded relieved.

The reason I like this bit so much is that it's Danny's POV, but imagining it from Jon's POV while knowing Things about him is just *chef's kiss*

[backyardchickennews]

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[mini-starfruit]

They made one hundred webless spiders weave a human-sized cape out of pure gold thread and they werent paid even a single worm

[massivemilkbags]

Huh. Not often I bump into a webless spider, interesting every time. The issues with jumping make sense, it can be hard to tell where you're going to land.

And yeah, the younger humans are an... Interesting bunch. I guess their dialect might evolve over time? They've got different languages, so it's not too much of a long shot for one language to change a bit. Still getting brutalised, but you know.

[I begin wrapping the fly in a thin layer of silk.]

Looking at the "I am human" check box and hesitating a little bit too long before clicking it.