July 2nd, 2006
Spider Queen
The Spider-Queen was based on my mom who early on in her life had a great fear of spiders and later on a great love of them. Like a totem animal. She got the fear from the time she was washing dishes in her home as a teenager, and when she pulled her hand out of the soapy water there was a spider as big as her hand wrapped around it, leges between her fingers. Super gross. Then she realized that they were good for the environment, not very dangerous, great at building things and sometimes the world builder in some culture’s creation stories.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me! 🙂
March 18th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Jeez. Where did your mom grow up? The wilds of Madagascar?
March 8th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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May 9th, 2010 at 1:57 am
She had small hands.
October 8th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Except black widows. Those things are scary.
But other spiders are nifty. I watched one building its web a couple weeks ago, it was cool to watch.
January 26th, 2014 at 2:04 pm
Well the one princess might have changed if she had used a chrysalis not a cocoon. Only, moths use cocoons. If she was on Babylon 5 and had super advance technology then she could change her DNA because humans are not that far removed from insects.