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everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

Jumping spiders hit my “awwww cute!” button as reliably as baby hippos or whatever, and I wonder how common that reaction is, and where it’s coming from. Maybe it’s the combination of their compactness, the “fur”, and two especially big eyes - some spiders have small eyes or more than two eyes that are prominent, but the two big eyes on at least many kinds of jumping spider give them a superficial similarity to mammals. If this is common, should arachnophobes doing exposure therapy start with jumping spiders at any new stage in the therapy? Like, they look at pictures of jumping spiders before they move onto spiders with dangerously gleaming carapaces and gangling legs.

I am sure it’s due especially to the two big forward-facing eyes and also the lack of big long spindly legs. They’re much less alien-looking than many spiders. Plus they’re usually tiny. I absolutely recommend that arachnophobes start by looking at photos of jumping spiders when overcoming their fear!

Ahhhh friggin love these