they are like giant mites



with awesome legs

asdasgd xD that's an interesting way to put it

they are of the class awesome under the order of adorable

Taxonomy of greatness. x3

My uncle always told me 'DADDY LONG LEGS ARE THE MOST POISONOUS SPIDERS IN THE WORLD BUT THEY CANT PIERCE HUMAN SKIN CAUSE THEIR MOUTHS ARE TOO SMALL' and I never wanted to slap someone harder.

*hugs Harvestman* ;;

There there. Harvestman may not be able to liquefy you but he can chomp you into pieces instead! x3

EXACTLY which is...much better somehow.

Though yea; every single time I brought up the fact that I study insects/arachnids/arthropods/etc he would chime in with his little 'facts'.

Oh, geez. xD I do keep wondering how such story even began.

I was trying to think of something else he used to say and I remembered.
Every time he would see a cranefly he would kill it saying 'These are mutated mosquitoes and they are deadly' So I had to save all the craneflies by putting them in containers when he was around so I could release them later on ;;

.............. :I
.....RRRRRRRRRRRGH

;___; um, wow. I have no words.

Yea ;; it was depressing.

Though it just strengthened my bond with 'creepy crawlies' when I got older since I tried to educate my (very superstitious) family members about all the critters I would bring in and photograph.

Thankfully now no critter gets harmed! Everyone has learned to leave house spiders alone and come to me if they want a cranefly or shield bug put outside <3

Aww, thank goodness for that. x3

I was told the same thing D:

They're part adorable, part OHGOD GET AWAY FROM ME.

Well, at least the situation isn't this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5598373/

I always wondered where people got that 'trivia' from.

I like Harvestman when he's angry. <3

Yeah! I've so far heard about like, two conflicting sources. ffff.

He looks so intense when angry. D8

Haha! Awesome. I hate hearing that too. It's a shame how information like that can be spread around so much.

By the way, I LOVE THOSE BEADY LITTLE EYES UG

Yep ... And people just take things like that by face value! One thing I learned about on tumblr is that either everyone's in one a giant inside joke or everybody believes something that's obviously fake but presented as though it was real.

X3 Scapegrace's eyes are so much fun.

You know, I've wondered since I started reading DLL. What kind of spider is Scapegrace?

A stupid question solved by your meticulous tagging and some Google. Thank you Google!!

Pholcidae are cool. Now I'm terrified.

They are quite bizarre-looking critters, aren't they? x3

In England where I grew up, cellar spiders weren't called daddy long-legs, instead it was just craneflies and harvestmen. Considering the woeful state of cranefly mouthparts, I can sort of understand where that last part came from.
Man, Harvestman really looks pissed off.

I also had a friend of my mum's shock me a couple of years back by exclaiming: "Watch out, mosquito! D8" when a cranefly flew in the room. I thought he was joking for quite a while, but he really got nervous. This is a 40+ year old man. Eventually I caught it and tried to explain to him that they really are as harmless as fuck, and although they're the same order they're totally different to mosquitoes. He didn't believe me for a while, but both mum and I finally convinced him, and now we still tease him mercilessly about it by going: "Look out, a mosquito! TROLOLOLOL" whenever there's a cranefly in the house.

I've never even seen cellar spiders, but apparently they are called vaaksiaishämähäkki in Finnish (fun fact - vaaksiainen means crane fly and hämähäkki means spider... crane fly spiders? GO FIGURE) ... buuut yeah XD I imagine Harvestman would be picky about accuracy the way you are picky about the number of limbs he has, hahaha.

FFFFFF hahaha, oh dear!
And mosquitos! I don't really mind them anymore. xD I just hate the itching bites. Last night I saw a mosquito that didn't seem too enthusiastic to bite me even when I wasn't even going to swat her or anything. I woulda wanted to see how she'd fill up with blood but I didn't get to see that, grrr.
Or maybe it was a male mosquito??

So THAT'S why he doesn't scare me. c:

The more you know! 8D

Maybe I'm not following your art as closely as I thought, because I didn't know that Harvestman even CAN get this angry ;__;

Harvestmen =/= spiders, gotcha. Please don't kill me, sir.

The original post is just so angry that maybe it was contagious enough. xD
Yeah, it's very rare that he gets angry, whoa!

Don't worry! He'd... probably just eat you. Which would kinda kill you. Hmm.