#spidersandsnakes

[queenbeepottery]

Love or hate🕷🐍🕷? This is my new spider and snakes inspired press-mold to use for hand-built wonky mugs and tumblers. Pretty excited I still get to play around with the fairies, bees, seahorse, peacock and sun/moon press molds. 🤗Fun stuff happening in the clay room lately! #pottery #spiders #snakes #spidersandsnakes #handmadeisbetter #spider #spiderweb #spider #blackwidowspider #blackwidow #marvelwomen #ceramics #wip #workinprogress #etsymudteam

[kmorgantini]

My little black widow spider friend's NEW home (OUTSIDE OUR HOUSE) #blackwidowspider #spider #spidersandsnakes (at Metz)

[sunshinecitypodcast-blog]

Happy Birthday Mr Stafford #jimstafford #thesmothersbrothers #thejimstaffordshow #swampwitch #spidersandsnakes #anywhichwayyoucan (at Winter Haven, Florida)

[wandaluvstacos]

Writing is Cathartic

            "Damnit, Isaac!” Omar snapped, and Isaac jumped.

            “What?” Isaac shot.

            “Don’t do that, please.”

            “Do what?”

            “Cut yourself down! You do it all the fucking time, and you know, maybe that’s why you let Vaughn do it, because you agreed with him. I just—you say these things like they’re so obvious and true but they’re not. You are not all the awful things you say you are, because if you were we probably wouldn’t be friends.”

            “I’m sorry, but—”

            “But nothing. You’re not a coward and you’re not a buzz kill and you’re not worthless. Okay? You’re not. You’re funny and cute and smart and every one of my friends who has met you has told me later how much they like you, but you don’t believe it because you surround yourself with these god-awful people who have constantly torn you down. And I’m sorry I sound mad right now. I’m not mad at you, I’m fucking pissed all these assholes who have fucked with your mind.”

            “Vaughn—”

            “Vaughn went to jail because he decided to deal coke and he decided to be a fucking crazy person and threaten me with a gun. That had fuck all to do with you, and there is no way you are at fault for anything he ever did.”

            “I dated him. I chose him.”

            “So? I chose Wendy. You make shitty decisions sometimes. We all mess up. No one deserves to be shot or abused because they have a moment of weakness, because they see something beautiful in an abusive person, many of whom are hurt and lost themselves. Nothing you did contributed to Vaughn’s problems. In fact, you probably made him better than he was. I hate the guy and will always hate the guy, but me and him had one thing in common, and that was that we both found reasons to love you. Not because we’re crazy or stupid or blind but because you are a lovable, worthwhile person. [. . . ] You can’t save people. You just can’t.”

            “I know,” Isaac whispered. “I just—my life is going nowhere.”

            “You’re, what, twenty-five? Dude, you got your whole fucking life. Who’s to say it’s going to go nowhere? You might win the lottery tomorrow. You might find out you’re a lost Ukrainian prince.”

            “What?”

            “Or whatever! You have time. I promise you, once you’re through this funk, things will be better. Once you’re able to believe in yourself and what you do, things work out. Trust me.”

--Spiders and Snakes, Chapter 19