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Luna is a strange mare. Cadance is only now just starting to see how strange she is when Luna mentions the unthinkable. Maybe she'll learn something new in the process.
Part of this story appeared as a chapter in Missing Pages & Scrawled Footnotes on May 31st, 2017. It has since been revised and expanded. Contribute to the TVTropes page!
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How dare you write those spiders as if they were alike dogs! Making them seem almost, dare I say, cute.
Great short story apart from this betrayal of arachnophobes everywhere
I think it's an interesting and novel idea.
Both that Luna is different (since that explains why it is so difficult for her to relate to the ponies and why she was treated so badly in her time), and the point of view of the apparent monsters.
As a huge and long-hyperfixated enjoyer of Bugs, Arachnids, and Myriapods alike, Luna's interactions with the big ol' spider makes me very happy!
Most tarantulas have thousands of extremely fine stinging spiny hairs that are distributed over the top, back, and sides of their abdomen.
WARNING: Under no circumstances should you pet or rub your cheeks on a pet tarantula.
I love autistic Luna living her life!
Shelob! As in Tolkien Shelob. Also, spiders are cool and fun to observe
This quite adorable of Luna here.
I am kind of uncomfortable with spiders irl but here you made them cute
Wait until Luna shows Cadence the giant Manti she's befriended.
The autism 👍
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This is news to me. I've seen videos of tarantula handlers and owners petting them with their bare hands without consequence. Most media featuring giant spiders also doesn't include any mention of touching them on top of the head being a bad thing. While I'm not a spider expert (more of just a casual fan) I've never seen a mention of these. Has spider media just been lying to me my whole life?
Any advice on how to make it more spider-accurate?
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You will love and cherish the spiders.
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I have so many story ideas focusing on Luna being autistic much more explicitly; I don't know if I'll get around to writing them. Until then, I have over a million words of her being implicitly autistic written by a Certified Autist™ so there is that.
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I'm only okay with certain types of bugs (part of why I like spiders is because they eat those bugs), but it's good to know my story is reaching creepy-crawler lovers of all kinds.
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The one and only!
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I can make anything seem cute. Probably.
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Delighted to have been able to share a small piece of pertinent information about this family of arachnids.
Obviously I cannot speak for the media regarding spiders that you have consumed, but the fact that this detail has never been mentioned on their part seems to me an oversight.
And the best advice I can give you, that doesn't involve dictating how to write your stories, is to expand your knowledge on any topic you want to write about. In the worst case, you will end up knowing more about the topic even if you consider that the knowledge acquired will not affect your story; In the best of cases it will allow you to make your story much better.
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Yeah as you say, most tarantulas, not all, these are referred to as urticating hairs and are the tarantulas defense mechanism, if you see a spider rubbing its leg against its butt when threatened, thats it kicking up hairs, Most old world tarantulas lack urticating hairs, and the worst part about the hairs is they cause a lot of irritation for breathing and itching of the skin. It's all about knowing the specific species of tarantula, if you aren't using a specific species and a fantasy one it can be without the hairs
rather than mouth, the little mandibles at the front of a spider are called pedipalps which spiders use for many things, wolf spiders will tap them to the ground as sensory organs for vibrations, typically for tarantulas they are for touching and moving prey
Spiders can actually hiss and make noise with a method called stridulating which varies between species, some make the sound by rubbing legs together, some do it by rubbing their chelicerae together (chelicerae are the mouth parts where the fangs and other bits are)
This was a cute story.
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so true, fimfiction user Stellar Underscore
I love spiders btw
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Stellar without the underscore was taken 😔
I love autistic Luna, she reminds me of that girl on TikTok I can't remember her handle right now but if you're on the autistic or bug side of TikTok you probably know of her anyway this story and her and Lucas again me ever so closer to not being afraid of spiders anymore i still am but a little less thanks to the story
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Indeed
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Thank you kindly. I'll be sure to do more spider research in the future. Though, it's good to hear that enjoying the story wasn't diminished in any way.
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That's fascinating! I think I've seen them do that before, but I've also seen it occur in videos where people without gloves handle them... which probably isn't wise.
I didn't use a specific one when writing the story, especially since the spiders Ahgg and Shelob don't appear to reference any one kind of spider. For some of the descriptions, I referred to pictures of the Goliath bird eater because of certain features being prominent and how recognizable they are. Usually for wildlife in central and northern Equestria, I tend to use European-inspired wildlife when I don't have canon examples. Though, the country that Maretonia is based on is this country is in Africa, if I remember correctly. I have no idea if they have any taruntulas.
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I love it when my comments educate me on something. I was vaguely aware of this term but I didn't know which exact part it referred to or if it was used informally or not.
...I wanna write more about spiders acting like that now. Especially because I also love cats, and cats like that.
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Thank you! I try to write stories that are suitable for a variety of audiences, and I think that people sometimes forget that I do write stories that can be suitable for/geared towards kids too.
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Y'know what can never be taken? Autism.
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Her autism wasn't based on any specific person. The main reason I've headcanoned her as autistic is because of how I've written her over the years -- autism recognizes autism.
Glad my cousin could get featured in this 💕
Quite enjoyable, despite my arachnophobia
And on my birthday no less!
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Happy Birthday!
I’ve always thought it odd that while most arachnids and insects are utterly terrifying, every now and again you get one that looks weirdly cute in the right light. Like tarantulas.
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Happy belated birthday!
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I wish I could pet them.
Eight legs good, six legs bad! (as I always tell the Shower Spiders when I rescue them).
One poor long-legged one lost 5 of her legs in the process of being rescued. I thought she was a goner but left her on the bathroom counter with a little water. Over the next few days she eventually figured out how to walk, and eventually disappeared. I hope she molted and got her legs back!
I’ll freely admit to having next to no clue about autism, but Luna feeling a sense of kinship with spiders as another kind of creature that ponies at large just don’t appreciate enough makes perfect sense to me all the same -- and doubly so in a magical land like Equestria.
(Not being much of an arachnophobe myself helps, of course. I don’t really feel much of an urge to outright pet spiders and would probably just scare most of them half to death if I tried anyway, but it’s really not that hard to simply leave them in peace.)
Ok this was cute
11911606 Thank you for being kind to the little fellas.
I never knew that spiders could regrow legs! This is really proving to be an educational comment section. Is it certain types of spiders or just all spiders?
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Some forget that I am indeed quite capable of writing cuteness.
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I am not sure if it's all spiders, but certainly many - see e.g. this Scientific American blog, with a link to a paper on the subject: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/evo-eco-lab/missing-legs-not-much-of-a-problem-for-spiders/
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Thank you kindly!
Luna having Autism makes so much sense and makes her even more adorable
Waay to funny that I stumbled on this today.
I had this idea *before* reading this:
A giant spider is eager to make new friends. When it was young it learned about hugs. And that when people need a good rest a bed or hammock is good for them. And then they need a blankie to keep them safe. Now it is adult and eager to give people hugs. It only finds sad and scared people wherever she goes. So she chases them down for a good hug. Then she puts them in bed with a blanket made of spidersilk.
And then I find this story!
I enjoyed reading it. Good luck with therapy.
If Luna is autistic, and Twilight is autistic, then
who's flying the planedo Princesses have an autism rate of 50%?That's significantly higher than the general population's. Right? Or is the ponies' rate closer to their appreciators' (ours)?
Presumably we don't know how autistic Flurry is. Autism is like 80% heritable and Twilight is amo
ngstus neurospicies, so Flurry might get it through Shining.Ahgg reference spotted :D