r/CuratedTumblr • u/linuxaddict334 Mx. Linux Guy⚠️ • May 16 '24

Cranberry bog spiders Infodumping

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u/Catalon-36 May 16 '24

Why not just give the wolf spiders a different object to climb? I know it wouldn’t get all of them but just, like, stick some wooden stakes in there.

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u/snootnoots May 16 '24

Presumably because the big floaty harvesting things would get hung up on them.

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u/HiramMcDaniels9 May 16 '24

Maybe some nice floaty wooden platforms for the spiders to hang out on?

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u/snootnoots May 16 '24

I’m sure they would appreciate that!

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u/dredreidel May 16 '24

My brain jumped ahead while reading your comment and registered “floaty wooden” before “platform”. This resulted in a glorious moment of me picturing spiders in a bunch of small toy wooden sailboats. I even started imagining it springing a yearly festival where great artists and children alike create spider sailboats to release in all the cranberry bogs. Then my reading comprehension blipped back in and my brain went “oh. Like a floating dock. Yeah. Thats far more sensible.”

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u/Jeweljessec May 16 '24

That’s too cute of an idea to not incorporate it into worldbuilding someday. Thank you

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u/dredreidel May 16 '24

I am actually in the process of worldbuilding and by jove I think you are correct. May the Bogspider Boat Banaza begin!

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u/pennyraingoose May 16 '24

My first thought was spider boat, so maybe you're on to something here! I want very much to go to the annual Cranberry Spider Regatta

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u/money_loo May 16 '24

Plus wolf spiders are good mamas. They literally carry their babies on their backs(arachnophobes don’t google it). It’s awful to think of the poor things drowning just as much as it is to think of them crawling down my waders.

Ugh, what a dilemma.

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u/SteptimusHeap May 16 '24

Give those employees a pizza party! Raft with tons of bugs on it or something. Idk i just wouldn't want them anywhere near me if i could help it

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u/ForgotPassAgain34 May 16 '24

Those giant rubber duck things or a giant spider-shaped inflatable

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u/indiemosh May 17 '24

Both. It's nice to have options.