Exactly what says on the title.
I thought Henshin! would be the stupidest story I would ever write. I was wrong, this one is even more stupid.
A parody of arachnophobics, written by an arachnophobic himself. They say self-criticism is important. WARNING: Contains censored swearing and a picture of a big spider repeated several times. If you don't like eight-legged critters, maybe you should go read something else.
Audio version here, and here with silly voices, both courtesy of the The Living Library Player Society.
Read the Polish translation here, courtesy of bester.
I'm Spanish, so expect to find grammar mistakes. Feel free to correct me at anytime.
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And I'm sorry.
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I'm really sorry for writing this. I'm really, really, really sorry. I apologize to all the giant huntsman spiders of the world, all the arachnophobes, all the arachnologists, all the ponies and all the bronies of the world. I also apologize to everyone in this site for wasting their time with this crap. I'm really sorry. If you excuse me, I'll go drown in my own shame now.
Oh, one more thing... although they're mostly harmless to humans, don't try to rub the abdomen of a giant huntsman spider in real life, unless you're Fluttershy. You'll never know what could happen.
Hilarious. I wish you had actually stretched it out a bit more, perhaps had a scene with each of the Mane 6, with it ending with Fluttershy actually managing to tame it (sort of).
Oh, the pictures' subtitles were pretty damn funny.
'I fought Cthulhu once. There was only one survivor. Guess WHO.' I lol'd
...What.
*reads the story*
...............................WHAT.
*checks the author*
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*Emergency Glados Imitation Sequence Activated*
Oh. It's you.
How have you been?
I've been really busy being dead, you know, AFTER YOU MURDERED ME WITH THIS CRACK-FIC.
....Was good. Seen worse. Keep it up.
I love the random stories on here like 'Celestia Hates Tea'; good job
Came for pictures of spiders. Disappointed to find the same picture each time. Down-vote, needs more hunstman spider variety.
I once woke up with a Giant Hunstman Spider on my FACE.
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I then calmly took it out to the garden and set it loose.
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JUST ANOTHER DAY IN AUSTRALIA.
Strange idea but funny! XD
783897 Then I also apologize to all the people in Australia.
I knew I was forgetting to apologize to someone...
That...made my night. Thank you sir or madame.
783893 Sorry for that. I've changed the description to let know that it's the same picture over and over again.
This is Equestria we're talkin' bout here, right? This isn't some Equestrian Australia?
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I should also add, this was an amazingly funny fic and I quite enjoyed it.
Appologies aren't really necessary, the only things that offend a majority of Aussies is to call us Brits (people from England) or Kiwis (people from New Zealand).
So, spider. We meet again. Have at thee!
I'm an Australian, and I d'awwed. I wish to get a pet one at some stage. That is all.
I missed Discord breaking out of his stone prison as soon as the spider began crawling over him, or maybe the opposite, turning into stone as soon as he saw that cosmic horror.
Aún asÃ, me ha encantado la historia
784453 ¿Español tú también?
Pues sÃ, ahora que lo pienso, hay muchas escenas que podrÃa haber incluido, con Discord y otros personajes, pero tampoco querÃa hacerlo muy largo.
Now for english speakers: Yes, now that I think about it, there are several scenes which I could have included, with Discord and other characters, but I didn't want to make it too long.
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Español para lo bueno y para lo malo
La verdad es que sÃ, empiezas a meter personajes y se hace largo y cansino :-/
Malditas arañas, lo único peor son las avispas.
The only thing worse than spiders:
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Oh god I love this
That spider needs to have his own episode.
The only thing scarier than the Wasp:
:BBBBBBBBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ:
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Great story, by the way. Actually, the spider probably fought Cthulhu at his Dinosaur BBQ, and then ate the rest of the dinosaurs after defeating him.
They should have called the Batman of Flies: The Robber Fly
You know what you should do next?
Ponies Travel to Australia and Get Scared By Everything
This was pretty fun to read though
Why are people so afraid of spiders? They're our first line of defense against the swarms of insects that want to eat your food, shit all over what they don't eat, and lay their eggs in your nasal cavity so their larvae can feed on your brain matter. It's up to our eight-legged friends to patrol your attic, your basement, your porch, your dirty clothes pile, and under your bed so the swarms don't eat you alive.
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DO YOU TWO IMBECILES EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK A JAPANESE HORNET IS!?!?!? I CANT POST A FUCKING PICTURE FROM HOW BRUTAL AND MIND-FUCKINGLY HORRIFYING IT IS. IT MAKES YOUR WASP STING ITSELF IN ITS LITTLE BITCH-ASS FACE REPEATEDLY UNTIL IT SUCCUMS TO ITS OWN POISON BUT ONLY AFTER FUCKING STRAPING BOMBS TO ITSELF AND DIVE-BOMBING ITS OWN HIVE IN ATTEMPT TO SPARE EVERY SINGLE WASP A QUICK AND PAINLESS DEATH AND GRANT THEM IGNORANCE TO THE ONCOMING FUCKING DEATH STORM THAT IS THE JAPANESE HORNET. OH BUT IM NOT DONE, NOT BY A FUCKING LONG SHOT. YOU SEE THE PUSSY "HUNTSMAN" SPIDER UP THERE? YEAH THAT ONE, WELL GUESS WHAT A LITERAL MOTHER FUCKING JAPANESE HORNET WILL DO TO IT, IT WILL RAPE IT, KILL IT, AND RAPE OT SOME MORE AND IMPREGNATE THE DEAD BODY AND THEN LIGHT THE CORPSE ON FIRE WITHT THE BABIES INSIDE CAUSE THE SPIDER WAS TOO MUCH OF A BITCH TO BE WORTHY TO CARRY ITS EGGS. AND YOU MR.GRIMM..... YOU KNOW WHAT IM NOT EVEN GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT A JAPANESE HORNET WILL DO TO THAT SAD EXCUSE FOR AN INSECT CAUSE ITLL ONLY MAKE YOU PISS YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR TEARDUCTS.
788940 Well, several reasons. Some people think they look freaky. Others think they are freaky (which they are, considering that they trap their preys in a sticky silk, wait for them to nearly die of exhaustion trying to free themselves, and then they melt their entrails into a soup in order to eat). Others live in areas where spiders are truly dangerous to human beings, so their fear is pretty justified. I guess other people just don't like the spiders to eat some of the beneficial insects (bees and butterflies who pollinate flowers, ladybugs and mantises who eat other damaging insects... because spiders don't select their preys according to our necessities, they're animals and they mostly don't care about us or our gardens)
But I think most people just have arachnophobia, which is an anxiety disorder (says Wikipedia) which causes theirs (ours) primal survival instincts to activate at full power and throw us into a panic attack whenever we see a spider, whether we want it or not. Some or most arachnophobics realize that their fear of spiders is irrational, myself included, and I wrote this fanfic to make fun of that; but we can't do anything about it, except going to therapy.
Personally, I have a case of low-level arachnophobia (I just made that term up, I think it sounds good). I can perfectly work with pictures of spiders (as the fanfic demonstrates) and I can watch documentaries about them without a problem. If they're little, I can even pick them with a paper of something and take them out (because if I let them live inside my house, my mother would kill them sooner or later); but I'd prefer for the bigger spiders to be as far away from me as physically possible.
Interestingly, my arachnophobia is pretty selective. Spiders with thin long legs and small bodies (like the giant huntsman spider pictured above, or the Opiliones, which are arachnids but not spiders [oh, the irony]) scare me more than spiders with proportionate body dimensions. I think the spider which scares me the least, to the point I think I even like it, is the Jumping Spider.
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Ain't it cute?
And yes, I know that most spiders are harmless to humans, and I know that, like you said, they're helpful because they eat annoying insects. Although I think the argument "without spiders we would be overrun by insects" is an exaggeration, insects have more predators besides spiders: birds, lizards, frogs, plants, and even (specially) other insects. Without spiders, the insect population will increase a bit, sure, but I don't think they would overrun us. Mostly because they already overrun us
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And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords!
I hope this helps to answer this and any further question of why people fear spiders. Sorry for such a long text.
790079 If that's supposed to be a joke, the swearing and the caps are unnecessary.
If that's not a joke: dude, calm down.
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Japanese hornet?
Take a look at the indonesian giant wasp.
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lolwut :unsuresweetie
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that gave me a massive boner
Im sorry
Its claws/fangs/whatever look like a moustache
I had to do this
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Epic image, you're my new hero.
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Next time I make a joke, I'll be sure to add even more hyperbole.
791196 Oops
My fault. Sorry.
791579 actually, the huntsman spider was a good chocie...BECAUSE it is harmless, yet scary looking.
The Indonesian giant wasp?
The Japanese giant hornet?
Those...are genuinely WORTH being scared about....
Japanese giant hornets genuinely DO kill about 65 people per year.
They should've been like "ALL HAIL THE TIMID SALVATION" at the end. but thats just me.
We had pet Huntsmen. I called it Hairy Harry.
Now if that were a Funnelweb, then shit would get real.
OH GOD THAT WAS EPIC.
Have we ever met Before? Because my reaction woulda been the same as Everpony else. Mainly,
"OH F!!K SWEET BABY JESUS KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! IT'S FU!!!NG ENORMOUS!!! FLEE THE VILLAGE!!!!!! FLLLLEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"
You've earned yourself a follower, good sir.
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As a whole, humanity is scared of spiders because from a survival perspective Spiders provide nothing good and can kill you. Oh, sure we can talk about how they can kill insects harming our crops and what not but a bajillion years ago it was more "Food" and "Not food". Not to mention biological responses are unlikely to trigger because of only a certain kind of spider when it's easier to just avoid them all. Part of the reflex is the spider's size and presence. So viewing a spider on your TV up close is easy because your nowhere near the spider and it's Blown up to an unrealistic size. (Of course I may be off about all that, this stuff has no real citation)
As for your personal response to Spiders, think about what humans find "Cute" and "Ugly":
-Plump creatures with proportionally smaller legs, larger eyes and a recognizable facial structure are cute. Hence we like Humans, Dogs, Cats, and Ponies. But we REALLY like Babies, puppies, kittens and cartoon ponies with huge eyes, plump bodies, and short legs.
-Spindly creatures like Huntsman spiders are the diametric opposite of that, and spiders in general are dangerous to boot. So it stands to reason we would hate them.
So, the more plump and smaller-legged spiders like household tranchulas are more likable to the point of being cute and being kept as pets.
Edit: Would you consider a sequel, with a Giant Huntsman Spider scaring the show's villains?
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I hadn't planned any sequel for this story, but that idea sounds good
I'll think about it.
780141 this is stupid.......ly funny XD seriously though read this 5 times now and laughed every time
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You do realize this is the classiest spider ever because he wears a serious hat, AND a monocle AND a serious mustache, correct?
I hope to see a sequel. With Fluttershy introducing Mr. Giant H. Spider to every pony in Ponyville.
Now that'd be a laugh.
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You know, you think they're cute and fuzzy, and then they jump half a meter from the door you just opened, onto you, and off onto the wall next to the door. I learned to tolerate spiders better that week - less instinctual "oh jeez stay away!" to a more calm, "oh, what's that tickling? Alright, off you go now." Granted, that was a rather small specimen, but still.
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AW HELL NO
... Is it wrong that I now want to firebomb all of Indonesia? It probably is.
Personally, I try to tolerate spiders, cause they eat other bugs, including bugs with wings, which are what creep me out.
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You know what's the scariest thing about those abominations? The biologists have never encountered one alive. My guess is that anyone who finds one of those alive doesn't survive the encounter.
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... Add one more reason to the list I'm not getting enough sleep these days.
If anyone wants me, I'll be underwater. At least there's no hornets/wasps there, and if there are, I can sic an army of sharks and squids on them.
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PARDON ME...
BUT I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU...
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ENJOY...
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A third of a year later...
What do you mean by 'mostly harmless'?
1452571 According to Internet, its venom cannot kill a human, at least not a healthy one, and they prefer to run away rather than to attack larger animals.
However, like all animals (I assume), they can become violent if you pester them too much. And again according to the Internet, although it's not lethal, the bite of the giant huntsman spider can be painful.
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Of course it's gonna hurt, it's a giant fucking spider. Fucking spider.
Hey everybody,
we did two live readings of this story and posted the recordings here:
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Silly version
More serious (but older) version:
Hope you all enjoy, we certainly did
Love and tolerance,
TheLiving Library Player Socieety
783897 Good old Australia. Slogan being "More deadly animals per square metre than anywhere else on earth."
Very hilarious crack fic. Definitely going to read moar and sending a pm with typos.