The Gaunt Apostle

I'm just trying to exist. 36 she/her

[problemsleuth]

a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale

[queef-queg]

[awellboiledicicle]

How do spider people breathe.

Like even if they're a spider centaur sort of thing, the blood situation has GOT to be weird. Is the hemolymph and blood-blood mixed or?

Like spider dont got bones. Spider specifically are hydraulic run, externally supported things. They breathe, and get oxygen to their cells, way different than vertebrates.

But humanoid, presumably, got bone in it. At least two. And internal structures set up in relation to bones.

And while humanoid has a blood pressure, a stab wound would be Bad but like. Outside squishy and repairable. Spider get stab someplace they cant break off at a segment, Oh No. Because while movement in humanoid work only on muscle, spiders work on hydraulic pressure AND muscle-- but less than the pressure.

And humanoid, they have lung. Lung we know and have. Spider also have lung, but Different. Book lungs or tubes that just kinda passively do exchange between hemolymph and the air.

They also generally have tube hearts that go straight through without like. Chambers. Just rubbing the molecules on the hemolymph technically.

Basically I really wanna know if a spider person has hemolymph, and endo- or exoskeleton, and if they lost all their legs but you misted them and fed them enough would they be fine after a molt.

Mainly tho deeply wanna know if they just run book lungs and what the fuck is happening in setting where it's just Dude But Half Spider with no real appearant alterations. Are they secretly only using their noses for smelling and the nasal cavity just goes right to the throat and on straight to the stomach, but air just flows out the mouth. Do they have diaphrams, without our style of lung. How do they talk. Are their vocal systems in their spider section, where the lungs are. Is the humanoid part just kinda a thing they evolved for prey purposes. Was it for hands.

But also they're usually in fantasy so did some creator make them and they just rolled with how they observed other beings acting with their upper parts and they dont know why fucking everyone else is shaped weird. Where do they assume humans breathe from.

Are their arms just treated as pedipalps and the males just have yaoi hands

[awellboiledicicle]

In the absence of other input I'm going to assume that the person mouth has some Fuckery involving retractable fangs and no teeth.

Also that the appearance of the humanoid parts is exceptionally deceiving because it looks like skin but its actually just the same thing as spider "paws"-- aka its exoskeleton with joints here and there in the expected places, but also coated with the same kind of hairs their feet have. Just also distributed in a way that it looks like vaguely uneven skin with body hair on it.

Their hands are super hairy and their fingers-- also segmented-- end in claws. The configuration depends on the spider species it's based in I assume

Also probably are ungodly unnerving to watch eat. Not necessarily bc some do the "wrap and slurp" and others just grind through and work on it like melty cud, but bc like. Their suck stomach (how they pull food in, bc the lacking lips and lungs to slurp like we do) is probably just what people would assume their humanoid halfs abdominal cavity is.

Not to mention what the eye situation would be like.

Are they hunting/wandering spider people or mostly web hunters. Depends but I also wanna know how coloration would have worked out.

Also the hunting ones would have even wilder mouth situations bc they have to fit the serrated bits in there. And their lips might just be more hair tbh

[awellboiledicicle]

expanding on this because i had coffee and if im cursed to ponder this, so are you--

if you peeled the hair off an arachno-being, would the human bit look like an angler fish lure, with the connection to the main spider part being v flexible? If the torso up there is their suck stomach, is the chitin up there thinner, explaining why in most settings they bother armoring that part?

Given they’re almost always sentient as well, how do they culturally handle the tendency for females to eat the males that some spiecies of spider have. Is it just a cultural thing that other groups go “but literally why” and still others are like “no, no, you feed yourself to your children-- like good parents” and others are like “you stick around after breeding? cringe” and then there’s the inevitable group thats like “i made the egg sack after we fucked, i put it in a safe spot, what else do they want from me?”

And then theres like one group that does the ‘frog in nest to keep out bugs’ thing, but in a dnd sort of setting its just this culture of idk drow living alongside these people and getting rid of any ooze or weird mindflayers that wander in. 

Also i’d love to see a mindflayer try to attack a spider person because i want to know if they’d know where to bite. Is the brain in the human bit? Is it more around where the lower back of that would be, so it was centralized in the body? do they have eyes lower down in that case, in addition to the ones seen on the humanoid bit, to provide a wider range of vision? Do they have more or less complex eyes to compensate for the whole thing? Are the eyes on the human bit even functional, or are they also just colored hair?

Basically i’d like to see a mindflayer try to bite one’s “head” and just get hairs that do a bunch of piercing damage. 

That said some spider’s brains and organs spill into their legs a bit from sheer proportions, so its possible theres a sort of secondary brain in the ‘head’ that is responsible for boosting the info from the eyes on the human head--however many that might be- but damaging it largely just means the human half doesn’t move too good and the person loses vision for a bit. has to work by air pressure on their hair feel.

I will keep adding to this until someone as excited about this as i am is found

[creature-crow-deactivated202512]

brb trying this

[hyenangel-deactivated20241224]

[blue-the-flyingpyrochef]

[chromegnomes]

[egregore-engine]

people will see a structural problem and go "is anybody going to attribute to this a surface-level issue that is a symptom and not the cause" without waiting for an answer

[miyoria]

duckduckgo fuck yourself

[miyoria]

trying to search for like the one thing that treats us like any other girl for once!! only to be met with a reminder that we are considered a porn category first. it makes me so very sad and upset.

[miyoria]

you can have this it is real

[cassettecolonthree]

people have lots of pet peeves with guys being/being called grunglers. i dont care abt any of that. my annoyance is that in the original tweet the guy himself was not the grungler, the messed up dark souls character he made while on call with strange transsexuals was the grungler. ur all misusing the term

[bruisedskin-chippednails]

grungler's monster

[cassettecolonthree]

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[happiness--for--everybody]

[catgirl-kaiju]

i find it very very telling that people immediately started going kiwifarms on gooseworx right after the final episode of tadc dropped on yt and the reveal that fan favorite character Jax has been a closeted trans woman this whole time, radically recontextualizing everything about her and her actions. everyone in the fandom has been completely fine with other queer representation in the show, even Zooble who is also trans representation, but i guess a complicated and flawed transfem is just a bridge too far.

i don't care about old social media posts that have coincidentally and mysteriously "resurfaced" following the outrage of transmisogynist fans. you clearly missed the part of this where Jax is reflective of Goose's past behavior of using edgy and harmful humor to play the bad guy and push people away in order to cover up the fact that she is a trans woman. you missed the part where Gooseworx has explicitly grown past that kind of behavior and Jax is an exercise in extending empathy to a past version of herself who was trying everything in her power to be uworthy of love and care. you fundamentally do not understand the art you are a fan of.

Gooseworx's ban by @staff is transparently due to harassment by transmisogynists attempting to turn her into a "controversial figure" for "ruining" their favorite edgy jokey rabbit "man" by revealing she's been an edgy jokey rabbit woman this whole time. i will block anyone attempting to justify this ban. i do not want those who would enable such an obvious transmisogynistic witch hunt to interact with me or my content. fuck off.

[jess-abides]

This is it, this is the one

[yugsly]

Posted up at Cutiefest at Cal Anderson Park today until around 5! 🌹🌹🌹

[pocket-deer-belly]

ah ok gooseworx's tumblr account got banned

[pocket-deer-belly]

extract celebrated culture from transfem and then drop them like a brick

[pocket-deer-belly]

exactlyyyy! you get it! i've seen this cycle like 5 different times minimum

[lovestruck-lusagi]

trans girls are allowed to be annoying and stereotypical and socially inept and hyperactive and hypersexual and various types of animalgirl and there's nothing you can do about it. in fact if you're mean to that skirt go spinny reddit trans girl i'm stealing your entire house

[mephostophilis]

are non brits aware of count binface.

[mephostophilis]

to give some entirely bizarre context, nigel farage (extreme cunt) has stepped down from his position as MP for clacton (due to a scandal where he received £5 million from a crypto billionaire that could have been laundered) only to run again so that he can prove people like him. and the only person running against him is count binface. who has been a staple of british politics for many years. and now the british press is forced to interview him seriously while he sits there with his binface.

[spell-fox]

For context Farage can't be prosecuted for this while not in office. His tactic is to be re-elected to show he is a man of the people beating all other parties (and therefore laws don't apply??). Other parties have chosen not to run ostensibly because it lends legitimacy to his stunt but more likely because it is a Reform stronghold and they are unlikely to challenge him anyway.

Except in the hour of need, a binface stepped up.

So either he gets in and is prosecuted, or he loses to a bin.

[faemorrigan]

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

[faemorrigan]

"this story is misogynistic!!"

>looks inside

>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad

[just-another-guardsman]