so uh i might have cried into my pint of ice cream at an entire squad of past elphabas and glindas singing For Good together for the Wicked 15th anniversary concert
Ok so imagine your fantasy setting with your typical giant spiders.
Ok, now imagine that these spiders have largely been domesticated for their incredibly valuable silk. They help make clothes, rope, textiles, even ARMOR. They’re almost treated like carnivorous cows in the regions that can support them. They might even name these girls the classic names like “Bessie”. They’re great mothers and produce many young; useful for trade and… even food if you like The Crunch.
People in this world are hardly afraid of big spiders the same as we’re hardly afraid of big dogs. Wary of wild ones, but not scream and cry terrified. Smaller spiders…it depends. Would you be scared if you suddenly saw a tiny cow crawling on your wall? The only type of spider people collectively fear are the hunting types: the ones that don’t spin webs, and instead attack their prey with brute force and a much stronger venom.
These large domestic spiders are incredibly lazy. They’ll sit in their webs and wait for their handlers to put their food on the web. Unless you get tangled, they don’t see you as food. This makes them great guards as well. They build traps for you. The venom isn’t deadly to humans…but can still be used as a weapon or in medicine. They’re just so damn useful that millennia ago, people put aside their instinctual fear just to get those sweet benefits.
Week five of the 2018 Month of Fear challenge: “Truth”
“We need have no secrets amongst us. Working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be stronger than if some of us were in the dark.”
Mina working through the night, transcribing journals, letters, and newspaper clippings to learn the truth of Count Dracula. Her work is what comprises the entirety of the “Dracula” novel – all the letters and journal entries are collected by her and typed into a single document as a record of all the events surrounding the mysterious Count, and his nefarious plans…
Yep. It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime. One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility.
it took DECADES of fighting tooth and nail, goons in suits sent by the gas companies sent to offer him large sums of money to stop, being fired due to strongarm tactics by those who would be exposed
theres a whole episode of ‘cosmos: a spacetime odesy’ based on the herculian effort put into this
screaming into the void since '89 