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I am not scared of spiders usually, but there's spider and then there's SPIDZILLA.

Askerian: SPIDER AS BIG AS MY HAND
Askerian: HOLY FUCK
Sarolynne: O.O
Sarolynne: Where?
Askerian: behind my screen on the wall how did it get in
Sarolynne: ....
Sarolynne: Kill it.
Askerian: ...gnihhh
Askerian: it's gone. phew
Askerian: but first it went to hide behind my heater
Askerian: then it tried to kill me! but i got one of its legs >O
Askerian: thing was so leggy i only got one, and i was hitting it with a ... thing. big. book-big.
Askerian: then i put it on the thing and threw it through the window except we're on the ground floor so WHAT IF IT GETS BACK IN
Askerian: ... suddenly I AM AWAKE.
Sarolynne: *petpets*
Askerian: then mom started commenting about how it could have fallen from the ceiling on my face while i slept and stuff/
Askerian: eeevil

Okay it wasn't exactly hand-big. More like palm-big. ... With its legs half-folded. So still pretty damn fucking big. Maybe it it stretched all its legs it could be hand-sized. Okay I have small hands but. yes. Still. We're in France here, not in some kind of jungle.

Fuck.

What if it gets back in.

sleep is for the weak and spiderless.

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If it gets back in, have hair-spray handy. that will freeze the spider long enough for you to remove it again. *sagely nod*

We don't use hair-spray. Wahh. T__T

Wouldn't it kill it? >_>;; I'd rather just squash it flat, it might be faster and kinder. (just, you know, not on my brand new wallpaper. XP)

It's an idea I got some time back. <_< Just an Idea, yanno. o_o you don't have hairspray? maybe you could use canned air to freeze it. turn the can upside-down and it's supercold! Then move the spider. (I'm tryin' not to kill it, yanno, karma.)

I got very flat, long hair i dun liek to bother with, and my parents both have short hair (in the case of my dad he's kinda balding. a lot.) the hair spray was my brothers' and they've more or less moved out, so. alas! deprivig me of weapons.

No canned air either. What is canned air supposed to be used for? like, clean up keyboards an stuff? emptied my last one some time ago... augh. T___T *DEFENSELESS* come and protect meeeeee.

Yes'm! *Strides across the ocean with huge spider-stompin' boots*

Sleep with your sheet pulled over your head?

I only have a big comforter. T__T *prepares to die of suffocation*

... XD;; *drama queen*

Buy mosquito netting! It's not just for stopping malaria! :-)

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*writes down on shopping list*

I hear it makes a functional window screen in a pinch, if you don't like using it as a bodyshield. Thumbtacks and/or wide-head nails would be useful for hanging it up.

(The lack of window screens was one of the biggest surprises for me when I visited France and Germany a decade ago. I suspect this is because European flies are slow and stupid, and you don't really have mosquitos. *grin*)

cannot use thumbtacks on brand new wallpaper, dad would kill me. auuugh. anyway i'd have to do the whole house if I want it to work. *ponders making self a little tent over the bed* >.>

Hah! We're just too smart to still tolerate insects who are too close to evolving themselves higher than us on the food chain. u.u (... actually I suspect you might be right. Humongous insects! Floods! Tornados! Earthquakes! Why on earth did people ever want to leave good old Europe again. D: )

and don't forget TOTAL LACK OF POISON IVY.

Man, that sucked, when I went to France and had the last bits of poison ivy case, and there was no freaking calamine lotion at the pharmacy-whatever in that teeny town. Itch, itch, itch, and I'd try to explain what it was, and get these blank looks. No sympathy! None at all! Grrrr.

Why on earth did people ever want to leave good old Europe again.

...because America is pretty? :-)

...As someone who has recently begun to develop arachnophobia (as well as insectophobia in general, providing it's not a butterfly or ladybug), I thank you kindly for supplying my imagination with more nightmare-material RIGHT BEFORE BEDTIME. Goodnight.

Sharing is caring. :3

... XD;; ahh, sorry. If it helps, i'm pretty sure it was a very safe sort of spider. Not the bitey kind or the poisonous kind. Just, you know, not in my bedroom thanks.

*has a feeling it does not, in fact, help any* ... :D;; ... I live on the ground floor and the window is old and full of holes. i'm sure you're quite safe? .______.

Well, I guess I can say with some certainty that you will probably never be visiting me or Zania here in Texas, because EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS.

Yes, including what you think I mean it includes.

I went driving through rural areas in West Texas and, for many miles, all these big fat tarantulas where coming out and crossing the road. It was squish... squish... squish.

Spiders are my biggest exception to "try not to kill things" rule. They get into my room regularly, from inside the walls and the roof, I think, because we DO have screens. I'm freaking out inside, while I try to be competent on the outside and deal... which means finding something fast to squish it with before it hides somewhere, keeping me awake all night with the lights on watching for it to come out again.

*shudders*

*turns slightly green* I HATE spiders. I don't start screaming when i see them but I don't want to be near them and god help me if I run into a web. I had one drop from the sealing right in front of my face when I was standing looking out onto the porch *cringe* scared the B-jesus out of me

totally feel with you! i hate spiders... haaaaate! and bugs and everything tiny that crawls on the floor, the ceiling, the walls and looks evil... *shudder*
some weeks ago i had a BIG black bug-hopper-spider-thing on my curtain... and as my brother was as freaked out as i was (in defence - he was sick and couldn't move out of his bed), and my parents were at work i had to call a friends little sister (she lives 2 floors under me) so she could catch the "beast" (and throw it out the window) - she was my hero for the whole day!

hope your spider's got an equally fucked up sense of direction and won't find your room again!

aha hahha...you would hate it here in Australia! We have BIG HAIRY VENOMOUS MONSTER 'PIDEYS with enormous fangs that can jump 2 feet in the air!

mwah hah ha ha

and they are the fun ones! the little black ones with red-backs can kill you. i prefer the big one you can see than the little deadly ones you cant1

sweet dreams

(Hey you're a great artist - why dont you draw some arachnophobic faces on our favourite Naruto characters!)

Australia, huh? Doesn't surprise me, I've heard pretty much everything in Australia is super-lethal poisonous, including jellyfish, most plants, insects, house pets, cars and telephone poles.

When I was a kid I liked all sorts of insects (some kind of tom boy phase) but now I can't stand the thought of them or spiders. I'm fine if they're OUTSIDE but as soon as one gets in the house I arm myself with the hoover.

Can you sleep with the lights on? Spiders avoid bright areas if they can so just aim your lights/lambs at your bed -and under it- and they won't come near, so long as you leave somewhere dark for them to go: like the opposite side of the room.

When my dad moved into his new place there were tons of spiders (ground floor flat in summer that no one had lived in for a while- eek!) but I found that anything sprayable- perfume, deodorant, air freshener, etc. all worked to stun them enough to whack them or hoover them up. A few of them ended up in the shower and it that happens use HOT water, not cold and that'll kill them instantly as opposed to drowning them slowly and cruelly.

Hope that helped a little. ^_^

It seems like this may be a strange thing to post my first comment on your LJ about... but someone has to stand up for the spiders!
I can understand that some people are afraid of or disgusted by them but I don't think that killing them is ever really necessary. While most spiders are venomous very few are actually harmless to humans so it's usually a simple matter of scooping them into a container and letting them go outside. I'm a zoologist, and I can tell you that as a general rule the larger the spider is the less dangerous it is... Unless you live in Australia, there are a lot of large dangerous spiders there.

As far as we know, spiders and other arthropods do not feel pain since they do not have true brains or a complex nervous system (although there has been some debate recently on whether lobsters and their close relatives have a neural response similar to pain but that's a story for another day) but spiders are important animals ecologically. They control many pests, including parasitic insects that spread disease. So, it's always good to have them around.

They are fascinating animals, as are all of the arthropods, and are arguably the most well evolved animals on the planet having weathered millions upon millions of years.

I think I should probably add that I love you writing and your art. You are one of the few people that portrays a realistic and likeable relationship between the members of team 7.

Ah, I'm retarded and wrote that very few are *harmless* instead of *harmful* to humans. ToT

On a totally strange, but related tangent, I hope nothing happens if the first friendly extraterrestrials that we meet are the spider-like type.

You got one of its legs? ewww x__x I guess now you can recognise if the same seven-legged individual is back in XD;

I've never posted here before, but I have vital information! Conkers! Spiders don't like conkers for some reason. I have them in the corners of my room by the windows, and randomly all over my room. Very rarely will a spider wander into my conker filled den!

Wah wah wah wah waaaaaah ;_;

Spiderasjfkdfpalmsizedhowasfkillitkillitahlpldk

Interesting fact: In South America, there's a spider just a little smaller than one of those face huggers from the Alien movies. It doesn't spin webs, but hunts its food down like a tarantula. It usually eats insects, but also *other* things, which leads to its name the "Goliath Bird-Eater". It doesn't inject venom, but its hairs can cause an allergic reaction in humans which can create skin irritation or even blindness if it gets in your eyes. I've seen one down at my local pet store. Creepy.

Anyway, I'm off to despense more helpful facts to people that didn't need to know them. See ya!

Kill those bitches! *coughs*

My attitdue on spiders is something like... "hatehatehatehatehatehate" x200

Yeah. Freak me out. I'm in Oklahoma and we have HUGE spiders. It's really not cool. Anyway, the best thing I have discovered to use against them is the power of windex. (Do not know if you have in France..) But basically, any cleaning product (glass cleaner and so on) can be sprayed on a spider and it will fall over and die. I think it's the Ammonia.

Then all you have to do is extract the body...

haaaaaaaaate spiders... you are brave, asuka O__O I can't even kill the giant cricket living in my basement >_>;;; I keep an eye out for it whenever I go down to do the laundry *such a wuss*

If only I could locate that picture of the spider that lived with lazz while she was in Japan... I don't know how she didn't go screaming in the opposite direction every time it popped up.

You should have taken a picture XDDD

Hrm, I used to be terrified of spiders but for some reason I got over it. o____o

Now I only ever have a tiny freakout reaction if I'm startled by one on my actual person. Otherwise I just make sure I keep an eye on them in case they decide to get any ideas.

And if they're not in a room with me (ie outside) I just avoid them, it's pretty easy to walk around whatever it is they cling to.

I'm actually more generally wary of tiny spiders instead of big ones, because I had a tarantula when I was little and big spiders = not deadly in my brain. Whereas all those evil television shows on animal planet that I used to watch were always like THE LEETLE ONEZ, IT BE THE LEETLE ONEZ THAT EAT U, and I listened intently with morbid, horrified fascination and decided never to touch small spiders ever. >__>;

Hahahaha WAY FOR YOUR MOM TO NOT BE HELPFUL. Oh man. Hope it doesn't get back in!

I hate hate hate hate spiders. I'm fine with then outside where they belong, but NOT in my HOUSE.

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Sorry, I have to say this. WIIIMMMPP! We have tarantulas where I live, and a shit-load of black widows, I think I killed twenty last night when I went out hunting with my trusty can of Raid. A palm-sized wolf spider ain't nothin'! (but would probably still be enough for me to get the hebie-jebies, grab a meat-tenderizer and go on a 'kill it! Kill it!' rampage)

*Brr~rr~rr*

I'm very arachnophobic. Jesus, that's scary. I would've screamed for my mom and stepdad and hid cuz I'm a huge coward when it comes to spiders. (*shiver*shiver*shiver*)

poor Asuka . . .

but it could have been an experience like this instead http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5678964.html

*pats*

.... i've seen bigger. female Sydney Funnel Web spiders are bigger-then-my-open-hand huge and are the fatal type of poisonous. i went to sydney once on a scout jamboree and the only advice they gave us was not to leave our shoes on the ground during the night 'cause they like to hide in them DX.
Come to Australia! We have a crap load of poisonous and deadly animals!

Very large and very leggy, hm? How big was its body in comparison with the whole?

A couple of weeks ago I saw on the floor of the bathroom something looking like a spider, a cricket, and a daddy longlegs - except bigger than any of them. The main body had to be at least nearly two inches long, and maybe that much across at the widest, and looked kind of like that of a cricket (not to mention that it seemed prone to hopping a bit). The legs were roughly the same size in proportion to the body as those of a daddy longlegs.

I put it out the back door (I wasn't about to try killing it on the bathroom floor and then have to clean that up), and I haven't seen any such thing since. I still have no clear idea what it was. Was yours anything like similar, except in the general loose spiderness?

Sounds like a vinegaroon. Good thing you didn't squish as it would've smelt extremely bad. I live in New Mexico, and those that live in the east mountains get them all the time. I thank God I don't live there - I can't even step on roaches...

*is a wuss*

I've never heard that term before that I recall (though I did live in central NM once), but based on the pictures found by Google, that doesn't look like what I was thinking of (those pictures more closely resemble my conception of an earwig).

What I saw had legs arching up well above the body and coming down well beyond it in each direction, much like a daddy longlegs; the body was near the center of the whole, again like a daddy longlegs, taking up maybe a sixth of the total volume (defined by a sphere circumscribing the entire thing), and was generally ovoid IIRC.

I totally feel your pain... Ugh, I hate spiders. I think my worst experience ever was my freshman year at college; there was this giant mutant bug that came through my window and smacked into my laptop. Srsly, it looked like a giant spider had crossed paths with a grasshopper at midnight, then decided to breed with a tick for good measure--that suck had FANGS! And WINGS!

So of course I start screaming, and my RA (resident assistant) comes bursting in with mace, thinking I'm being assaulted, only to find my cowering on my roomie's top bunk, armed with a hanger and boot and looking like I'd escaped from an asylum.

Yeah, needless to say, I feel your pain. Good luck keeping that sucker out of your room o.O

I don't flip when I see a spider or have one on me. I calmly sqish/flick/DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE EVIL BEAST FROM H*LL it, and then I have my panic attack. ^_^

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