#spider lightning

[wombatsrus]

Rare upward lightning, known as spider lightning, shooting from the summit of Guatemala's Agua Volcano during sunset.

[aethtalon]

So I have a lot of... unusual conversations with friends and acquaintaces and usually I do not remark upon them.

But one I had recently got so absurd that I had to share (with permission and encouragement from the other conversationalist)

Its been a few days so I don't remember the exact wording, but it went something like this:

Me: So I watched the first Sam Raimi Spiderman movie for the first time in about a decade this past weekend. And honestly I thought it was gonna be way worse based on how people rag on that trilogy. Actually, I think its biggest weakness was the amount of time it covered while trying to only hot the highlights left a lot of gaps I had to fill in for myself. The only other thing that bothered me about the movie was something that I don't actually want to complain about, my brain just kinda fixated on it.

My Friend: *curious noises*

Me: Well, its the spider. The spider that bit Peter. The spider that gave Peter his powers.

It escaped from containment and we see it up by the ceiling. And it descends, bites Peter, gets shaken off by Peter, and then crawls away. It was still alive. Are you telling me that it never bit anyone else and gave them powers even tho it descended and bit Peter for literally no reason???

Friend: Well, ya know, it ended up on the floor so it probably got stepped on

Me: okay fine, sure. But that still begs the question of why it bit Peter in the first place. There was no reason for it to leave its web in the first place and much less reason to bite Peter!

Friend: well maybe it just had a feeling about him.

Me (incredulous): are you trying to say that the spider had a Spidey Sense moment telling it to bite Peter?

Friend (enthusiastic): Yeah! Or, you know, spiders can float on electrical currents for (some large numer) (500?) miles! And Peter was kind of a Negative Nancy for most of that film. And the spider just escaped so it had to be feeling pretty good. And you know, opposites attract, maybe tgey were like, ionized-

Me (baffled and agog): are.. are you trying to claim... that Peter got hit by Spider Lightning???????

Friend: YEAH!

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Spider Lightning

Kitchener Ontario March 28, 201

Model: Canon EOS 700D Lens: Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM focal Length: 18 ƒ/14 Exposure Time: 25 ISO: 100