Everything is Spiders

Video Game concept by artist VickyViolet. [tumblr • VickyVioletDraws] ♠ ♦ WARNING: ♣ ♥ This blog contains images of real spiders! They freak me out, too.

[lesbianshepard]

phrasing of this is taking me out

[voregeoisie]

[vickyvioletdraws]

Couple of old unfinished sketches of Anita and Jamie.

[vickyvioletdraws]

Dream Cherry

Making sense or otherwise, new designs within a dream. Might reuse this superhero-ish costume another time.

[asterosian]

This is your reminder that ace rings are as old as 2005

2005

It’s almost 2020 as of writing this so do the math… that’s about 15 years old

AVEN was founded in 2001

The asexual flag was announced as the official asexual flag in 2010

The ace rings are older than the ace flag and only about four (4) years younger than AVEN

Keep this info laying around somewhere, you’ll need it whenever an acephobe on tumblr makes a claim about the asexual community

[asterosian]

@fuckyeahasexual

[fuckyeahasexual]

Tagging me in easy to read ace history posts? *chef kiss*

[posi-pan]

pan and bi definition and explanation psa

pan is attraction to people of all gender identities/lack thereof, or more specifically, attraction to people that is not determined by gender identity/lack thereof.

bi is attraction to people of two or more gender identities/lack thereof. this is according to the definition the bi community as a whole has been using for decades. not two, not men and women, two or more.

yes, there are similarities/overlap; they’re both multi identities, or attraction to people of more than one gender identity. and because bi means “two or more” the “or more” for some people can mean all. because of this overlap, if someone feels comfortable with and represented by both pan and bi, they can identify as both or alternate between the two.

but there is a difference; bi can mean anything from two to all, whereas pan only ever means all. and going back to the more specific definition of pan, the difference can be in the emphasis some pan people place on gender identity not determining their attraction and their feeling that that’s the most important part of their attraction in ways that others might not.

neither pan nor bi are bigoted; pan is not and did not come about to be better than or replace bi. pan is not defined by it’s inclusion of trans and non-binary folk compared to bi. both identities include trans and non-binary folk, and trans and non-binary folk are in both the pan and bi communities. pan is not useless and bi is not outdated. both identities are very much valid and needed and come with important histories of their own that can not be erased or dismissed.

lastly, this is not discourse; labeling this topic discourse either dismisses people who are genuinely trying to inform people about these identities and communities to end the ignorance (hi!) or gives credit to plain old panphobia and biphobia as valid opinions worth considering.

[vickyvioletdraws]

18 - 19

Took one look at the DeviantART 19th Birthday template and thought, “I want to draw my OC’s in that, it’ll be easy.”

One month later… The amount of time I spent on this is stupid but it really represents where I am right now as an artist. What I care about are my characters, my stories, and my personal projects. Maybe one day other people will care too. My characters from left to right: Demitri from Dante’s Mask (webcomic) Vivid Dream (MLP ponysona) Anita from Everything is Spiders (video game concept) Me, drawing these dorks ‘Uncle’ Nicky from Absent Home (novel) Felipe (Dungeons and Dragons) Teya Abner / Black Light from Mental Metas (novel)

[vickyvioletdraws]

Details. 

[vickyvioletdraws]

Sneak peek at my DeviantART 19th birthday prompt where I’m just drawing my silly OC’s over it. I’m here to gush about how freakin’ great Anita turned out, she is perfection, gfabngkfbdslgrfadg.

[vickyvioletdraws]

A positive message

I really needed some positive energy, and my OC’s are pretty good models for it. I’m a huge sucker for anything with flowers and ribbons, so BAM.

[nationalbluebird]

“You dont look ace.” ??? ??? ?????????? ? ??? what does an asexual person look like???? ??

[eyeballsarchive]

[vintar]

hello i have learnt more spider facts

spiders will pull their own legs clean off if they get damaged because most of them can regrow legs during molting, which explains why you often see spiders missing a leg but never any missing half a leg?

some remarkably distressing scientists proved this by getting a spider to pull off all of its legs and then feeding its limbless torso for months until it sprouted a full complement of legs again and then hopefully used them to get the fuck out of dodge

baby spiders don’t get lenses until their first molt and before that they just have baby eyes and while this ought not to be any weirder than the concept of baby teeth, welp,

there are so many spiders floating around thousands of metres up in the air that they’re described as “aerial plankton”

The Sky Is Full Of Spiders

there are spider-parasitising spiders but instead of laying eggs in organs or stealing blood or anything like that they just ride on top of bigger spiders and steal snacks when their mighty steed is eating

there are ant-mimicking spiders that use their disguises to raid ant nests and w/e but there are also ant mimics that just. hang out. they make fake ant colonies full of fake ants. sometimes the actual ants that they’re mimicking find their house and live with them. stealth 100

some mother spiders live in communal family nests, where multiple mothers can work together to bring down bigger prey while all their collected babies are cared for by the babysitters

some mother spiders feed their babies mouth to mouth like birds

some mother spiders carry their babies around and i was aware of this but not the fact that if you steal their eggsac they’ll freak out and search for it for hours and sometimes end up adopting anything that’s vaguely the right size, they will carry around empty snail shells for weeks and lovingly dote on them…

guys i am literally about to cry over spider moms

[interadulation]

I am terribly afraid of spiders and most of this list makes me want to hide in the shower forever but that bit about the spider mom’s adopting anything vaguely egg-sack shaped makes me terribly sad so please give the spider moms their egg sacks back.

[fantastigasmical]

@spideryspiderygoodness

[rockpapercynic]

A VOTE FOR PRESIDENT SPIDERS IS A VOTE FOR SPIDERS EVERYWHERE… IN ALL PLACES AT ALL TIMES… SPIDER ALL OVER YOU FOREVER

PS: I have 2 new books of comics coming out next month and you can pre-order them now https://store.rockpaprcynic.com

[did-you-know]

Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs - so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects. Source

[bogleech]

This has blown my mind for years. It’s so unreal. It’s almost the same exact reason humans and cats started living together.

Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats. A science fact seldom gets to sound that much like meaningless word salad.

[sir-p-audax]

This is legit, guys. And I’m excited about it.

[fedoraspooky]

Someone needs to draw a tarantula person with a tiny pet housefrog now. Please let this be a thing.

[rapid-artwork]

How is this?

[losingmymindtonight]

it all makes sense now

[vickyvioletdraws]

Jamie Redesign. A little update. They have purple shoe laces now.

[ellenent]

Cherry! Contest prize for @vickyvioletdraws !

[eisgame]

I will be making my own video on the subject someday. 

[otherwindow]

Concept: the secret boss of a video game is the merchant you’ve traded with this whole time, and their combat capabilities are based entirely on what you sold them. 

For example, did you sell them Necromancy skill books? Well shit they can summon a skeleton army.

[orbsdotorg]

Yeah I’m really scared of the guy with 30 rusty iron swords and 200 fruit cakes

[scretladyspider]

People who are pansexual are:

attracted to persons regardless of their gender 

and/or attracted to all genders

people with a really pretty PRIDE flag

we are not:

special bisexual snowflakes

calling bi people transphobic 

confused

[scretladyspider]

Also bisexuality is an awesome and valid identity and you can pry my bi/pan solidarity from my cold dead hands

[transswordbian]

People who are bisexual are:

Attracted to two or more genders

Can be attracted to all genders but prefers to use bisexual as a term/label

People with a really cool pride flag

We are NOT:

Transphobic

Disregarding of nonbinary genders

Confused

Shout-out to my pan siblings btw! Y'all are great! Anyone who disagrees can pry bi/pan solidarity from my cold, dead fingers

[scretladyspider]

Woo! Yes!

[violetutterances]

Bi/Pan solidarity, motherfuckers! 💖💜💛💙

[princeanxious]

This cleared so much up for me. thank you for this post 💛💛💛