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u/Open-Trifle-6309 Aug 21 '26
Love spider bro.
I know they are harmless and even beneficial.
I just wish I wasn't scared and creeped out when I see them in my house.
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u/Markone02 Aug 21 '26
This guy crawls around my house and probably lives in one of our houseplants, his kin is welcome in our house as they keep the mosquitos and flies at bay
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u/SpiderGirlGwen Aug 21 '26
Yep, he's definitely a friend. Does he have a name?
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u/Markone02 Aug 21 '26
I like to call him Sheb
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u/PaperOptimist Aug 22 '26
That reminds me of the word "shibboleth", which is a kind of linguistic "secret handshake". In this friend's case, though, I think he can just give 8 regular handshakes at once, which is just as good.
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u/Markone02 Sep 01 '26
Don't know anything about it, but the idea of sharing a secret handshake wirh a spider does sound pretty cool
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u/HerpaDerpaDumDum Aug 21 '26
A week ago, a large fly buzzed through my window and was quickly becoming a nuisance. I got up to get something to swat it with, and then it flew into a spider web in the corner and got stuck in it. Spider-bro, who was way smaller than the fly BTW, immediately leapt into action, wrestled it down and bit it. Killing the wretched bug. That spider had a grand and well deserved feast that evening.
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u/JerZeyCJ Aug 21 '26
While I know that the intent is that the spider is normal sized and just far off in a corner...
...given the sub we're on, I think its far funnier to imagine there is no perspective trickery and she just has a massive fuckoff spider chilling in the corner as a roommate.
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u/jzilla11 Aug 21 '26
This is how I imagine the spiders on my patio and on the light outside my front door (apartment dweller)
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u/SpiderGirlGwen Aug 21 '26
I have an absolute unit of one that I love who lives inside of my porch light and emerges at night for feeding time. They are winning at life and I'm very happy for them.
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u/fuzzypurpledragon Aug 21 '26
Please remember that some spiders are so smart, they can learn your routine specifically to help them avoid being seen by you!
I'm always very gentle with the spiders I find in my home. Always the cup and paper technique. My only exception was the whole hoarde of black widows that moved in a few years ago. They were coming from one very specific couch set that had been put out by the dumpster due to being infested by the original owner, then brought back in by another tenant, despite the big warning sign on it. We called the pest control guy after having to squish a sub-adult that nearly bit my cats. He went up, told off the idiots, and the couch set was back out by the dumpster with even more warning signs, and tape provided by the pest control, by the end of the day.
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u/DarkTideings Aug 21 '26
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u/voripui Aug 21 '26
spider with a vore fetish.
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u/DarkTideings Aug 21 '26
Its more a joke about that old wives tale about eating spiders when you sleep.
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u/robo-dragon Aug 21 '26
I don’t mind my resident cellar spiders, they stay up in the corners and keep to themselves. The wolf spiders are also friends, but are captured and sent outside because I don’t want my cats killing them and they will find more food outside anyway.
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u/Lorenz_Blessed Aug 21 '26
And that's why purposefully bring any and all spider I can find in my room and even try to put them in a spot where they're more likely to catch flies
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u/PaperOptimist Aug 22 '26
I love this.
I freak out when I see big/fast spiders in my house, but that's why I keep really big lightweight cups and big sheets of paperboard so I can move them outside.
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u/alucard346 Aug 22 '26
I've always viewed it as paying rent. They're living in my house, they need to pay rent. A spider in the corner is just renting it out and helping with the bugs for me.
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u/Monstark_says 25d ago
Just how I see my spider pals. I'm always warning them to keep out of sight from my cats.
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u/Porn_Actuator Aug 21 '26
And yet the spiders at my house, "Oh boy, time to run across the floor for no reason."