this lives in front of my house right now.

[phosfate]

Its body is as big as a nickel.

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[goddessdster.livejournal.com]

I know it's al scary and menacing and all, but I think spiders are super-cool in that Zen, purposeless way. Until they bite you, that is.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're lovely and useful and good, but she's RIGHT IN MY FACE WHEN I GET THE MAIL. If she could just, like, move her web back a couple of feet...

[amanda-now.livejournal.com]

Maybe blow on her web with an industrial fan?

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

Looks like a female writing spider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_%28spider%29

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

It's a *fannish* spider?!?!!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You're thinking of the Fanfic Weaver Spider.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Hee! I actually meant to write *fangirl* spider!

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. If that thing bites you, you can beat up all the other Spider-Man clones.

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Jesus god, you haven't killed it yet? Nuke the house from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I...I can't. What if it has friends? Angry friends.

[freudian-lisp.livejournal.com]

If children's literature books for young adults Harry Potter has taught me anything, she probably does!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

;_;

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

OMFG! Hire a hit spider!

[ahli.livejournal.com]

IS LIKE MY SPIDER FRIEND!!

[freudian-lisp.livejournal.com]

Ah, we get ones similar to that all the time around here. I actually think they're rather pretty aside from the swollen-ness of the body. Just take a close look at it's back, the pattern is unique for each spider

Special snowflake spider!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I can't look at its back unless it turns around. It's positioned so I'd have to crawl between the hedge and the house.

[amanda-now.livejournal.com]

Don't do it, it sounds like a trick to get you into prime face-jumping position.

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

I had one of those in front on my window. You need to kill it NOW before it starts having babies. D:

[cybertardis.livejournal.com]

THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!! :D

[aberrant1.livejournal.com]

I believe that's a redfemured spotted orbweaver. Harmless, but sometimes annoying in that they make their webs right across where you're going to walk.

I had one build a web across my doorway one night. I walked through it without seeing it, or I might've just started using the back door and leave it. Since the screen door was broken, it would've been good for keeping mosquitoes out.

[cakemage.livejournal.com]

AGH Kill it killitkillit oh GOD you've got to kill it with fire! It's the evil bitey spawn of Shelob!

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

SEE? I totally stand by my tweet from yesterday - "Holy fucking buckets of jesus! Get the missile launcher! Wtf is that thing? Looks an unholy cross btwn tick & spider! KILL IT!"

Seriously. You need napalm or something.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

A nickle, you say?

You're going to have to move house.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I... don't know how to spell nickel because I'm English

*slinks off*

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

*jumps back a foot*

EW. Jesus.

[amanda-now.livejournal.com]

KILL IT WITH FIRE. What the hell species is it????

This is why I don't go into the everglades, except our spides are the size of your hand. (http://images.google.com/images?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS252&q=Banana+spider&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=RjaoSq2vA9Wvtge-weypCA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1) I've almost walked into one of their webs twice in my life. TRAUMA.

Okay well I also don't go into the everglades because its hot and there are giant alligators and pythons. And apparently a skunk ape. But ALSO GIANT SPIDERS.

[feminesque.livejournal.com]

Pardon for intruding, but... A SKUNK APE?

Imagine the scale of their dutch ovens.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

[whatwith.livejournal.com]

D:

Oh man, lysol the little dude.

[cannellfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, yeah...those. We've got those all over our back yard. One keeps building a web across the stairs to our deck, like it's gonna snag Becky or me for a snack at some point. One's been building webs between the sliding glass doors from the kitchen out to the deck for the past week, and we finally rid of that one yesterday!

I hesitate to say "that's nothing" but...I killed one that crawled out from under the Reference desk at work yesterday that was almost 3 inches wide with its legs extended. *shudder*

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

I love spiders in an abstract way, as long as they are not touching me. They are the totem animals of writers, though, so maybe she is trying to tell you something.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Ooo, a lovely Category 2!

[wolfy-writing.livejournal.com]

Aw, it's adorable!

You'd have hated my bamboo hut. Apparently Giant Bathroom Spiders are standard-issue bathroom fixtures in the Philippines. And I mean giant as if you stuck two hands together, made spider wiggly-legs with your fingers, and your hands suddenly mutated into a spider and wandered off to live in your sink.

[tawg.livejournal.com]

I think it's neat. I'd happily take it off your hands, but I doubt the customs people would appreciate the surprise.

[ymfaery]

I still think it's kind of cute. >.>;;

~There are rainbows...~

[feminesque.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK IS THAT?!