So I was doing some art studies and remembered something interesting! For as horrifying as their bodies and movement are to many people, it’s really difficult to make a spider face look menacing. Their mandibles are freaky, sure, but their eyes are always very cute and round and shiny.

(These are all real spiders btw, that guy in the bottom right is a clown spider, look him up he’s crazy cool and almost certainly the inspiration for pennywise).

Meanwhile, butterflies are considered an “acceptable” bug to many. Their pretty wing patterns and small legs and faces make them appealing to many people who hate most other bugs. The thing is, when you get a closeup of their teeny tiny faces, it’s actually just as inhuman and creepy as most other insects.

(Fun fact, I actually am an exception to the “butterflies are an acceptable bug” rule. I’ll let a little spider or harmless black ants crawl on me all day long but butterflies’ erratic flight patterns and their habits of swarming water sources just freak me out).

Anyway, I decided to take the least appealing traits of both these critters, along with some deep sea creature traits for flavor and throw them together into a beautiful abomination :) :) :)