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(Controversial) I Learned to love spiders (Controversial)

I have these spiders that live in my house called flatties and I love them. They are so silly and they are always running around. They don't make webs, they hunt their prey like some kind of crab. Did you know tarantulas live 20-25 years? That's incredible. I have many tarantulas that live in my yard and they love chilling outside their hole and night every summer. Before I moved into this house I was so scared of bugs. I had no choice but to face my fears and now I like spiders. Life will change you, won't it? ps. I wanted to include a flattie picture but i decided not to out of consideration for others who are scared of bugs. so google them if you are curious!

@neigemeow

May 13, 2024

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I’m wishing you luck in your battle against arachnid warfare

* the only recommendation I have that doesn’t involve killing them is trying to seal any areas that go outside because I assume they’re getting in from somewhere? * swallowing the spiders, swallowing a bird to catch the spiders, swallowing a cat to catch the bird, swallowing a dog to catch the cat, et cetera. I don’t know why * getting a cat actually if you don’t have one? Maybe they can help 🙏 (just kidding I just saw you said ‘without inviting a different animal in’) * diatomaceous earth or borax sprinkled around the perimeters of the house * I avoid going into my detached garage because it’s full of spiderwebs and it creeps me out but winter is coming so I think it has to be cleared out to like park in. my dad (nature hippie who ordinarily hates killing any creatures, insects and spiders included) told me to buy a shopvac and vacuum them all up. So like very meticulously vacuuming all nooks and crannies

@taterhole

Nov 1, 2024

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Calling what you fear “buddy”

I’ve slightly alleviated my fear of yard snakes by talking to them like they’re old pals

@leen

May 5, 2024

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Casting adam driver as mr. rochester in jane eyre

“He had a dark face, with stern features… his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair. I recognized his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw—yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake. A good figure in the athletic sense of the term—broad chested. I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much an ease in his demeanor; such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance; so haughty a reliance on the power of his other qualities, intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference; and even in a blind, imperfect sense, put faith in the confidence.” —Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 1847 WHO ELSE COULD PLAY A SORTA SCARY BUT HOT AND SOCIALLY WEIRD BUT ALLURING MAN WHO IS NOT COVENTIONALLY HOT AND WOUKD KEEP A MADWOMAN IN HIS ATTIC, I BEG YOU?? none other quit casting jocks in jane eyre, a book for weird emo folks. thank u for your time

@vicki

Apr 17, 2024