But then sometimes what you need most is a 20-second-long animated short about a very small, outrageously cute little spider named Lucas. Lucas the fuzzy wee spooder is the work of animator Joshua Slice. Slice had his young nephew, also named Lucas, provide the voice for his adorable arachnid creation:
real talk why do so many fantasy universes think giant spiders are necessary
The sad part is there’s a decent chance a large proportion of them can be blamed on one spider.
The tarantula that bit JRR Tolkien as a child.
He swore he didn’t have a spider phobia and the experience had nothing to do with the man-eating giant spiders in The Hobbit, the even more giant and even more man-eating spider in Lord of the Rings, or the unholy eldritch spider from outside creation that plunged the world into darkness and made literal Satan scream like a little kid in the Silmarillion. Very few people believe him.
Given LotR’s influence in the fantasy genre, there is a high probability that tarantula is the progenitor of even more fictional spiders than Ungoliant was.
wow fuck that one tarantula
So what you’re saying is that every time a spider’s jumped me from out of the ceiling in Dragon Age and I’ve jumped in my seat and yelled, “holy fucking shit!” it’s down to that one tarantula. Well played, tarantula. Well played.
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