If you're pro-life you can't kill spiders and here's why:

Life: A spider is more alive than a fetus. The spider knows it's alive and is aware of its existence. It feels fear and it wants to live. Yes, the creepy spider that gives you the shivers wants to live. It is more cruel to kill something that knows it's alive and wants to continue living than to terminate a life that never knew it was alive.

Reliance on you: Like a fetus, the spider relies on you for survival. Rather than actually taking from your body, it just wants to stay in your home so it can be warm and safe. The spider doesn't take, it only wishes to occupy space with you. Outside it may freeze or be eaten, exposed to the dangers of nature and it's cruel ways. Surely, throwing it out to potentially die is not that far behind abortion. What, you didn't want a creepy spider in your house? It's a living thing! And killing the spider? Now that's only a species barrier from being just as cruel as abortion.

Your choices: yes, sometimes you get pregnant when you took precautions or didn't even want the sex to occur, just like how a spider can get inside even when you do everything right to keep them out. But if you don't support people who "made their own choices" having an abortion, then I know you made your own choices when you left your window wide open without a screen. You invited the spider in your house and now you just wanna kill it? No, you made your choices, you can live with Fred now.

Equivalence: No, I do not believe a spider and a human are equal. However, I do believe the fact that a fetus cannot feel anything (even if the nerves are formed, its brain cannot register pain, and it definitely doesn't feel fear. It doesn't even know it exists yet) and the spider can makes it a little closer. Pair that with the fact that a spider is not a lifelong commitment and isn't going to be any bit burdensome for your wallet, free time, happiness, or anything else, and you can make the argument that killing a spider isn't too far behind ending your pregnancy. Therefore...

Values: If you truly believe every life is precious, that all of God's creatures are beautiful, and that abortion is morally wrong because it ends a life, I hope I don't ever see you kill a spider. Let them outside if they creep you out but do not kill them. It may not be a human life but it is, by all means, a life.

This post was made by the pro-choice pro-spider gang. It was prompted by me having a spider on the back of the seat in front of me on the bus today for the whole ride and I didn't squish him. He was a little guy.

The spider I've been trying to catch in my apartment has been evading me for a week now. At this point, it needs to start paying rent and contributing to household chores

project moon is getting me with the girldads double whammy

ryoshu spider bud ego.... ryoshu getting the ego for the abnormality that's so fiercely protective of it's children to the point of murder... combined with how protective the artist is of his daughter in hell screen... she's the best dad on the bus

no matter how hard they tried to pit you guys against each other, they could never make me hate any of you

just cause I like one, doesn't mean I have to hate the others. I love all 4 of my silly little babies.

I haven't drawn this freak in forever.

I haven't drawn this cutie at all either </3

I miss my baby (Maggot Beta, not that monster, he's hot and all but he's still evil lmao) I might draw them more because they just came back to life yesterday so ya

Irondad fic ideas #125

AU where Thanos never happened and the Rogues eventually return. They've been pardoned and they're supposed to get the team back together, but there's still tension. A lot has changed.

Tony has told them repeatedly to never call in Spider-Man for backup. Steve doesn't understand or approve. He assumes Tony is just holding a grudge, trying to keep this new, obviously powerful recruit on his own side. 

One day, Tony is caught up in SI business somewhere when a mission comes up, and they need extra hands. Steve decides to call in Spider-Man.

At first the mission goes smoothly, but then of course things take a turn. All hell breaks loose.

Tony taps into comms not long after to tell them he's on his way. He's left his meeting and is flying as fast as he can, though he's still a long way out. Somehow, Tony figures out that Peter is there. (Maybe he overhears Peter quipping, maybe Steve casually references Spider-Man.)

One way or another, he figures it out. He goes deadly quiet, then switches to a private comm with just Steve.

Tony is betrayed, aggravated, terrified and trying to bury it (and not doing a very good job), and honestly kind of bitter and insulted that Steve can't hear his obvious fear. Steve is annoyed at Tony's childish stubbornness, assumes the man is just mad at things not going his way. Still in the midst of battle, he dismisses Tony's concerns.

Then, Spider-Man gets hurt. Bad. Tony had already been frantically trying to get there faster when he heard the kid was there, but he still doesn't arrive in time.

At some point -- maybe there on the battlefield, maybe later in med bay when Steve arrives to chew Tony out for leaving with Spider-Man instead of staying to help -- at some point it becomes abundantly clear that Peter is Tony's son.

(Bio, adopted, emotional, doesn't matter)

It becomes clear that Tony wasn't making Spider-Man off-limits for selfish reasons. Steve, blinded by his own view of Tony, was unbelievably wrong. 

It turns out, he had just been trying to keep his son safe.

Bonus:

If the reveal does happen later in med bay, there could even be a moment after the battle where Steve, fuming about Tony's lack of help and general inability to be a team player, is intercepted by Rhodey.

Maybe Rhodey arrived just after Tony (flying from the same meeting, but Tony freaked out and raced ahead) and then stuck around to help finish the fight. His reaction to Steve's unempathetic and baseless reading of his best friend is stone cold.

Bonus 2:

Steve fails to notice or understand Rhodey's meaning. Then he gets to med bay and is faced with the image of Tony holding a sleeping Peter on the hospital bed, glaring right across the room at him.

Both of them completely aware of what Steve had assumed, all these years, about the kind of person Tony was

Explain then why did he save quaritch? I think he should have died instead of Neteyam but I'm willingly to listen and understand him if you explain him.

Next time, if you want me to answer a question, ask me a question. That's generally how these thing work. If you're willing to listen to me, you have to actually ask me to tell you something first.

So, there are two major reasons that Spider saved Quaritch. One, because he felt like he owed him. Quaritch put down his knife to save Spider, regardless of wether or not Neytiri would have killed him, which is debatable in fandom. Quaritch believed she would and tried to save Spider's life. Quaritch and Spider had developed a Stockholm/Lima syndrome type relationship. Spider has been neglected his whole life, and attention, even abusive and unhealthy, felt fucking great. Two, Spider was raised essentially Na'vi. All life is precious to the Na'vi. He did not go looking for Quaritch to save him; he was looking for Jake, Neytiri, and Tuk, and hoping to save them. He was unable to leave someone behind to die. He didn't seem to have a problem with Quaritch being killed when it wasn't on his hands, he didn't go looking to save Quaritch from the shipwreck.

Now on another note, narratively, here is why the story would be a hell of a lot worse if Spider died instead of Neteyam. Stories are about conflict, you understand? Neteyam's death and Spider's survival cause a fuck of a lot more conflict and character development than the other way around does. In fact, Spider's death and Neteyam's survival kind of wraps everything up in a neat little bow. All the Sully kids live, Jake and Neytiri never have to confront their neglect of Spider, Quaritch is dead and no longer haunting the family, Neytiri never has to confront her trauma in relationship to humans and Spider, there is no guilt storyline for Lo'ak to have that mirrors Jake that will push him to develop, and everyone can mourn him and move on.

Quite simply put, if Neteyam lived and Spider died, the next few movies would be pretty boring based off of what they had set up in this one.

OK

OK

LISTEN

This was originally going to be a shit post bc I saw a comic panel (idfk what comic it was from or if it was just fan made) and I had an urge to draw Noir in a 1930's Evening Gown for shits and giggles and totally not project but then it turned into a serious study of this one dress I found and I was like

"Damn. I'm spending wayyy too much time on this goddamn"

mokuba: there's a spider in my shower.

mokuba: i should ask niisama to kill it. he promised to protect me. he told me he was my father now. i can't hold him to that, he was ten. he's failed in so many ways, and he's succeeded in so many others. and we're happy now. we're safe. we have everything we need. there are kaibalands all over the world. still, i need him to prove he's looking out for me. if only to know if he's changed. but maybe i should just kill it myself. he worries so much. if he thinks i don't even have the guts to kill a spider, how will he ever trust me to strike out on my own? could i ever leave him anyway? should i? will we ever feel safe enough to leave each other? i don't want to leave him. he's my brother. he's the only person i love. i wish i had more friends, like real friends, like whatever yuugi and his little geeks have. they're so lame. but they stick up for each other. they're nice because they want to be. i don't really get it, honestly. do yuugi and his friends kill spiders for each other? isn't that what we all want - to cry for help, and hear someone answer us? sometimes seto couldn't answer me. sometimes he refused. it's not his fault. it's never been his fault. but he hates it when i say that. he's doing better. he really is. do i really need him to prove it? it's not even a big spider. i can squish it myself. i'm not even that scared. i'm not a little kid. i'm the fucking vice president of kaiba corporation, for fuck's sake.

mokuba:

mokuba, at the top of his lungs: NIISAMA? CAN YOU KILL THE SPIDER IN MY SHOWER?

seto: yeah where is it

spider:

seto, internally: is base violence the only proof of love i can give my brother? is that what he wants from me?! we're more poisoned than i thought! the spider isn't doing anything to hurt us. it's just sitting there! struggling to survive, like all of us are! but gozaburo would tell me strength is th -

with thanks to @danieco

Jonathan 'Jarchivist' Sims and Annabeth Chase would be best friends.

I stand by that.

Is it just me or are there (ironically) more people shipping Gwen and Miles after ATSV than before?

When they had nothing but fluff I always saw "I think they should just stay friends we don't need them to be together" but now when they're angsty I see a lot of "they're so in love I hope they work things out and everything ends well for them".

Mfs were longing to see each other so much they got y'all longing to see them together too, now that's good writing

it seems like all i needed to be happy is reading the tags where people scream how pretty and lovely spiders are.. usually all people around me think they're gross and i know it's probably because they're scared of them, but i don't hear "they're so awesome tho!!"... and now i'm reading all this and it's such a healing experience... peace and love on planet earth

the Sully kids' reaction to Jake saying Spider "knew everything" breaks my heart.

they knew him better than anyone else, better than their parents. they knew his love for Eywa, for Pandora, for The People, for the clan, for their family. they knew he would never tell the RDA anything... not willingly at least.

they knew they were leaving because Spider would be tortured for information, he'd be forced to reveal their home, their plans, their numbers, their weaknesses. their brother would be tortured and they were being forced to leave him behind.

they knew they were being forced to find a new home, without their brother, because their dad knew he would be tortured.

something. Interesting to me is when human characters going up against a more powerful being (alien, divine, transformed human, etc) they use the phrase "we're like ants/flies/mice to them", not only to convey their comparative lack of power, but also to convey the disregard the being has for humans. Because it implies that the human norm is to disregard these creatures, or even dislike them, and doesn't really reflect on what that may imply about human cultures where that sentiment is indeed common.

It reminds me about how I was talking to someone at work and mentioned how much the bugs bother me at work because they get on my papers, and I have to smack my clipboard to get them off without squishing them. He immediately said something like "why? Squish them, they're annoying". It baffled me for a second, so I just told him I don't like to have stains on my papers, since that seemed like a reason he'd understand- but really, when I accidentally squish bugs while brushing them off, I feel bad. They aren't hurting me. They don't even comprehend that they're annoying or why.

WTFFF I thought thirteen would be my new girl crush love of my life heart eyes wife you-came-after-twelve-you-must-be-better-than-they're-all-saying bbygirl and then I had to sit down and watch as she told a man who (if he were not a murderer, of course) literally every regeneration before her would've LOVED and FULLY SUPPORTED that "the systems aren't the problem. how people use and exploit the system, that's the problem. people like you" </33333 !?!?

callout post for baldur's gate III: forces me to either kill kar'niss or trick him into killing himself, and does not provide an alternative option (e.g. kissing him on the mouth)