#stone spider

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A stone spider (Pardosa lapidicina) camouflages amongst lichen in Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama, USA

by Alan Cressler

[onenicebugperday]

@omazake submitted: Hi! I found this spider in the Czech Republic. It was a very speedy runner. Would you maybe know what kind of spider this is? By the lack of boxing gloves I assume this is a lady.

Cute friend! It’s one of the stealthy ground spiders in the family Gnaphosidae, and I think most likely a stone spider in the genus Drassodes. I can’t see the pedipalps well enough to say whether it’s male or female, though. Some species don’t have very exaggerated palpal bulbs so sexing isn’t always as straight forward as it may seem.

[stargazingdustbunny]

My Villain Ships

Stone Spider

This is the ship between my two GSU villains Arachne and Obsidian. Both are super-powered villains with tragic (and not fully developed) backstories. Arachne is a spider mutant (with a full spider abdomen and legs coming out of her back) and a master thief. Obsidian has earth bending powers and can summon obsidian blades. His day job is jewelry making, and at night they out together to steal precious metals and gems that he uses as the raw material for his craft. After all, that museum wasn't using it for anything, and diamond mines are unethical.

This pair is married (he made the wedding rings), and they are NOTORIOUS for flirting while on criminal missions.

I really want to draw ship art of them doing the spiderman-kiss thing, but I haven't yet, so here are two individual portraits.

Blood Bloom

My newest ship, this one features my oc Belladonna, and Bast, an oc belonging to @cutelover76. Belladonna is a dc oc, and she is the leader of a criminal organization in Bludhaven and Gotham that specializes in plants and poisons. Bast is an oc from a different fandom who got access to interdimensional travel and ended up in Gotham, where he met Belladonna. They started doing crime together and well...

This ship is new and still in progress, but you can watch it develop live on our rp blogs @belladonna-ismyfavoritecriminal and @cutelover76. The two characters have not yet realized they are in love yet, but it is very obvious to their gang members.

Riddle Flower

This is really an honorable mention because I'm not doing much with it at the moment, but if Belladonna was ever to end up in a relationship with a canon dc character, it would be the Riddler. On the rp blog, obviously, she has a different ship, but I may right a fanfiction of this one some day.

(No picture for this one sorry)

@loony-lupus @juan1dupree23 @coopbella

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stone spider doodles :)