• Zeppo
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    22 months ago

    Basically the Yukihiro Takahashi song “Grand Espoir”

  • @[email protected]
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    702 months ago

    He’s going to let a spider crawl on his penis in the name of gooning isn’t he? I really want off this ride.

  • southsamurai
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    192 months ago

    Look, everyone tries to fuck shower spider at some point. It’s a rite of passage

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          Most of the time that leads to them dying. So if it’s about saving them, that’s the wrong move.

          If it’s about getting rid of them without squishing them or something, then that works.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 months ago

            Most of the time that leads to them dying.

            Well, squishing has a 100% chance of them dying. With a toddler and a baby, having them run loose sadly isn’t an option.

            We live in a very mild climate, and there’s under-deck and fence space around our house, in addition to bushes, trees, and underbrush — fairly suitable for a variety of arachnids. It’s not the same as indoors, and survival rate certainly isn’t 100%, but it’s not the death sentence of going from a climate controlled house to below-freezing outdoors.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        They’re actually pretty beneficial (eating other more annoying bugs and all that) and usually not harmful to human residents in any way (except if you live in Australia). Killing them because “aah yuck spiders!” isn’t a good enough reason to many

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            I didn’t honestly even think about that. Being from the nordics means throwing them outside is the same as killing them most of the year and keeping them all out is kinda impossible, they’ll find their way in because outside is cold

            *(edit for managing to cut the text in half)

            • @[email protected]
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              Some small bugs will get through fine mesh.

              Open doors and windows let a lot of things in.

              But fucked up gappy houses let everything in all the time. You’ve spent your whole life living in fucked up gappy houses, I’m guessing.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 months ago

                Yeah most new construction is terrible and a lot of older homes need extensive work that people can’t afford.

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 months ago

                  I’m calling it now, some dissertation in the future will be written on spiderbro’s place in contemporary culture as an expression of acceptance of widespread low home quality. Further exacerbated by a generally low competency in home maintenance, and more importantly a huge renting class with feckless do-nothing-right landlords and limited/unclear permissions to take the issue in their own hands.

    • Miles O'Brien
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      272 months ago

      My shower spider gets a reminder of our deal.

      “You know the drill. You stay up there, I stay over here, nobody has to be injured today.”

      Sometimes the spider decides to come over to my side and gets flushed or squished, but they knew what was expected of them.

      • Apathy Tree
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        152 months ago

        I have one of those who knows her place. She’s been there for probably a year now, and I don’t feed her so she must be doing something for me.

        She briefly had a friend of the same species set up shop on the other side of the shower. That one didn’t get the memo and decided to wander all over the place while I was showering, breaking the pact. That one went down the drain. The other is still there, months after that event.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Real talk: people that save spiders and make it a moral thing confuse the heck out of me.

        Like, if you were the spiders size proportionally to the spider, it would web you up and suck your blood for being in its home…

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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            61 month ago

            You’re being humane and grounded with a handle like that, are you good? Like can I get you a drink or anything?

            • @[email protected]
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              41 month ago

              My hyperfixation with a rape simulator doesn’t mean I want bad things to happen in the real world.

              I even save wasps - I fed a dying one until she was strong enough to escape once.

        • @[email protected]
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          132 months ago

          Living a principled life does not rise and fall with what is done to you. That would be transactional.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          Yeah, but we have the mental capability of understanding what the spider is, and that it won’t eat you, nor do you need to eat it. So why cruelly kill for no reason?

    • FreshLight
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      512 months ago

      Be careful, though! This is the first step towards what anon describes!

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      I do the feeding thing, but mostly because it feels wrong to kill a mosquito and then just throw it in the trash

  • @[email protected]
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    382 months ago

    This is one instance where I’d say I’d actually prefer if he had an anime body pillow or real doll he was forming this sort of unhealthy attachment to.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    I know I have hidden spider bros because I haven’t seen a single insect in my apartment in several years.

    It’s just the fact that I haven’t seen any spiders in a while that makes me worried that I’m gonna lift something off the floor and see thousands of them or some shit lol

  • @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    What a freak!

    Just fall in-love with AI like a normal person.

    (I can’t even do that, I literally can’t see AI as people)

  • Zagorath
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    202 months ago

    I had a daddy longlegs in my bathroom for a while. My bathroom exhaust fan broke so the room would get super steamy, and I think the poor spider drowned, because it had clearly died in that spot, hanging from my ceiling.

    I still feel a little sad about that spider-bro.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 months ago

      Probably didn’t drown but might have gotten infected by mold. There’s a reason spiders prefer dry places.

  • qyron
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    452 months ago

    Loneliness affects people. And as gregariois animals we are, the closest possibility to connect, in any form, is taken.

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      Y’know… as lonely as I can get (and I get pretty lonely), that mosquito munching on my forearm is still getting a firm slap. Eventually.