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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 2h

Topsy Playtime 🎪🤹‍♀️🕸️

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 5h

#bugtober #bugtober2025

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 5h

BUGTOBER 🐛🐞🕷️
Day 7 - Queen 👑

Drew my vampire spider queen Marcy as a furry lol

Marcy the jumping spider drawn as a furry

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 1d

BUGTOBER 2025 🐛🐞🕷️
Day 5 - Aquatic 🌊

The Diving Bell Spider! They have hydrophobic hairs and web that allow them to make air bubbles so they can survive underwater to hunt! It’s so cool! 🕸️ #bugtober #bugtober2025

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 13h

tubericans are one of the alien species in me and my friends’ sci-fi project; they’re worker ant type parodies of corporate america and they’re constantly repressing violent urges that they only unleash on one Purge-type day a year called “Friday”.

TUBERICAN STUFF

"TUBES"
- HIGHLY FLEXIBLE, SENSITIVE EARS
- HAIR & SKIN CAN COME IN ANY COMBINATION OF COLORS, HOWEVER, ANALOGOUS SCHEMES ARE THE MOST COMMON

SIZE & SHAPE

TUBERICANS ARE THE SAME GENERAL SIZE
AS HUMANS & CAN
HAVE ANY

GENDER
IS A LONG-PUSHED SOCIAL CONCEPT. ALL TUBERICANS ARE INTERSEX, BUTASSIGNED GENDER IN CHILDHOOD.
STUFF

TUBES CAN FACE ANY DIRECTION, BUT USUALLY HAVE A RESTING POSITION

FACIAL MARKINGS
REACH EITHER THE BASE OF THE NOSE OR EYES

MAMMALS
THEY HAVE NIPPLES AND BODY HAIR

(i am changing this)

TRANSGENDER TUBERICANS
EXIST & TRY TO COMBAT ARBITRARY GENDER
"MARKERS"

TAILS CAN BE
LONG OR SHORT

NOTE: TAILS ARE VERY STRONG AND CAN BE PREHENSILE, BUT ITIS CONSIDERED IMPOLITE TO USE ONES TAIL THIS WAY.

A bunch of tuberican characters of varying bodytyoes

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 5h

also i know it’s not generally good to give pet spiders wild caught food but my boy was so hongry and he was also wild caught so i think he will be fine this one time. the only danger is like, parasites.

🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 5h

dewey got a single HUGE wild fruit fly because we are desperate today for foods (the other spiders i never struggle to buy feeders for it’s JUST dewey cuz he’s so small and babie)

YAYY dewey get dinner !!!

Dewey the colonus sylvanus jumping spider with a big ass fruit fly

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 6h

ughhhh that’s VERY likely honestly . shit sucksss

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 6h

she likes to look at her sister

Marcy the regal jumping spider peaking through the terrarium at the one next door

a closer picture of marcy leaning on the terrarium glass and looking at her sister next door

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 6h

RIGHT lol i think it’s something abt the way they ship them bc they’ve told me they’ll also frequently get shipments of dead feeder crickets

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 6h

Dewey will be ok, he’s an adult now and spiders can go pretty long without food but my poor poor hungry boy . i NEVER feed spiders wild caught food but we have the same types of fruit flies swarming by the garden so i might give him one. he was wild himself so i dont worry abt parasites as much

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 6h

i already had to return one cuz my mom bought it and it was dead and with her i don’t expect her to be able to tell as easily cuz it’s not her category of things to worry about . it would be nice if the pet store ppl would say something or noticeeee im exhausted

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 6h

like it’s not that fucking hard to look at a fruit fly culture and see if it’s sellable . are there guys moving around in there? no? it’s just a dry tub of crumbs? THEN DONT SELL IT I BEG YOU

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 6h

gonna freaking lose my mind bc i just went to every single pet store within 50 miles of my house & no one NO ONE had fruit flies that weren’t dead bc no one ever cares enough to check and restockkkkk it’s so annoying and Dewey is hungry :( i’ve had spider food money saved so i guess ill order online

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 1d

hey im admittedly in a pickle bc of the IRS overdrafting me. im sorry to ask for help but im gonna drop my donation info below. please do not feel obligated!! im very sorry, stuff has been hard bc of being sick all the time :(

paypal.me/ehunt
ko-fi.com/bipley
venmo.com/u/fangciful
cash.app/$bipley

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 12h

it’s all very scary but i can report back that im doing fine and i can feel the antibiotic doing its job! im still very concerned because of all this, it really might be related to something like long covid, which i absolutely believe is real.

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 12h

genuinely can’t believe i’ve just been functioning with Pneumonia for who fuckin knows how long , no wonder i’ve felt like shit omfg . props to my doctor for straight up telling me to go to the ER when i told her i was getting out of breath doing basic tasks.

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 12h

i can almost tell where this is and it’s either by the 7 eleven or by the grocery outlet. anyways now he’s adopted

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 12h

ok fucking CRYING cuz my partner found the most fucked up labubu ever on the streets of portland

The labubu is gray and has chipped paint everywhere

Idk how to explain how fucked up this labubu is: its fur is extremely matted too

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 12h

i love doing parodies of The Purge it’s such a fundamentally hilarious concept to me bc it’s so just . absurd

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 13h

tubericans are one of the alien species in me and my friends’ sci-fi project; they’re worker ant type parodies of corporate america and they’re constantly repressing violent urges that they only unleash on one Purge-type day a year called “Friday”.

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 13h

i should make a few different “mutual aid needed” cards with my spiders for ppl to use for free. sometimes it’s just very helpful to have a lil drawing on your donation posts to grab attention so maybe that’ll be useful !

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 13h

thank you so much for the boosts and help so far!! im getting very close to the goal of $275 (thats how much i was overdrafted; i let it go for a week to try and make it back myself, but a lot of expenses came up with the end of last month)

i truly cannot thank you enough!!

🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 1d

hey im admittedly in a pickle bc of the IRS overdrafting me. im sorry to ask for help but im gonna drop my donation info below. please do not feel obligated!! im very sorry, stuff has been hard bc of being sick all the time :(

paypal.me/ehunt
ko-fi.com/bipley
venmo.com/u/fangciful
cash.app/$bipley

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 13h

yep! i will say it wasn’t the worst i’ve ever seen , but it made me so sad :,(

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 1d

Marceline on her vampire coffin !! ⚰️

Marceline the jumping spider on top of a coffin

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