[MonBon]

I was taking a bath when I discovered a spider in the bath with me
I am frightened and in a ball and crying and why

[SparX]

No oh no poor cinnamon roll! come cuddle on this plate of icing, spiders don't like sugar so you'll be safe ;D

[MonBon]

I had to drown it and flush it down the drain T-T
I'm a terrible personnnn

[SparX]

At least you got it before it got you, crawling in your mouth while you sleep

[MonBon]

WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT

[SparX]

Because I say the same thing to my husband all the time XD
He has a conflicted hatred between moths and spiders. spiders ill the moths but he still hates spiders. I like spiders because they kill earwigs =P

[MonBon]

I like moths, and am *okay* with most other bugs. I can trace my fear of spiders back to a very specific trail of pranks played by my older siblings

[SparX]

That sounds quite terrible =(

[Lawtan]

...me I hate ants and hornets. The latter I have an allergy to. The former comes from fire ants and Argentine ants, both of which have a very good chance to attack/swarm...and as I can't see well, it is sort of like what trypophobia is for others. (I am okay with still images, but they move constantly)

[MonBon]

Oh no :( I implore you to never read a story called the ant king

[SparX]

I did not appreciate that story one bit.

[MonBon]

D: I said to never read it! I implored you to never read it. No one ever listens to me D:

[SparX]

I'm half considering saving it and printing out to read to my children when I'm a sick and twisted parent.

[Espy]

I'm guessing the spider just wanted to say hello; it had no idea it would scare you so badly.

[Lawtan]

Originally Posted by MonBon

Oh no :( I implore you to never read a story called the ant king

I misread that as "read this" - yay, nightmares!

I know enough to know that doesn't match what I know of ants. Some can fly, spit a corrosive substance, inject venom, rend flesh, etc. But the ones that leave fleshless corpses within hours do not look or act like typical ants. Argentine ants try, but don't quite get there.

And I know of very few ant "kings" - ants generally have a eusocial culture that gives the appearance of a hive mind through chemical signals, like breadcrumbs or signal flares (though if that were an actual gestalt entity, you likely wouldn't have fire ants acting in "oligarchies", enslaving other ants, integrating foreigners, etc.)

Bullet ants inject a venom comparable to feeling shot by a bullet, are easily aggressive, and fall from trees while shrieking at you. Also used in indigenous male adulthood ceremonies.
Army ants have no settlement - they travel like a nomadic river of blind saber-toothed starving army engineers with corrosive vomit.


...Did I mention Aliens are based on Giger's biomechanical surreal art, ants, and wasps?

[MonBon]

You put a lot of thought into that Lawtan xD
And maybe Espy! I think the spider just accidentally fell in and then drowned though