Wingapo Yo

[Hnilmik]

Sapphire showed Y. Chang showed me Rtil's Newspost on NG while I was talking to him about Halloween contests voiceovers can participate in (directly or otherwise). I also know a few artists here in a distant admiration, in-passing conversation kind of manner.

I heard all the time that this would be a decent place to hang out if I wanted to pick up animation skills (once I get into it), but I'm a mostly conservative individual who'd avoid scary/disturbing people at all costs, so I lurked around a couple times instead. Since it takes time for me to get used to people I'm not used to, I figured the logical and more productive way to build up tolerance rather than to wait around is to simply get started with the immersion method.

Pleased to meetcha and I look forward to the riveting conversations we may have in the future. I like to think myself as open-minded, so I also look forward to learning all sorts of new things here and there.

(Don't worry, I'm less formal when I'm comfortable around people. I'm sure I'll get used to you dudes.)

xx; Oh. And I'll be honest--Sure, I made an account to participate in the Halloween contest (I'm making my entry right this moment), but I mostly became a member so I could change the settings and turn off the option to see sigs. ::cringes at Zekey's festering maggots sig::

[rtil]

haha
don't worry , zekey changes his sig often
welcome to the boards, look forward to your halloween piece

[jjjjjjjjjj]

hiya we have a irc tba chat thingy where most of us are usually at so check thatout

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

don't worry , zekey changes his sig often

fek u both

[SHADOWFOX2]

Heya, I remember your name from a few other places
Welcome to the Boards

[Hnilmik]

Thanks everyone~ I'll try to drop into the chat more often since you guys talk about interesting things.

Heya, I remember your name from a few other places

Likewise! I've listened to some of your stuff~ And I'm glad that my net handle is somewhat recognized despite how weird it is!

[redmongoose]

http://www.thebackalleys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6081

[Hnilmik]

http://www.thebackalleys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6081

brb failing at art

(Cute initiation method though~)

[redmongoose]

[InsaneX]

omg~~uguu!! so kawaiiii!! uguuu!

[Hnilmik]

Pleased to meet you too~

And it appears you too have an interesting fascination with spiders. Me, I tend to be very startled and sometimes squicked by them, but that doesn't stop me from being interested in them. I can study them in pictures, behind a glass, and films, but I'm not too fond of them suddenly scuttling out of nowhere. On my bed. My squeamishness towards spiders lessened after I studied them for zoology class.

I'm sure you've seen these videos already, but if you haven't, they brought a smile to my face and I hope they do the same to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Pu-4qzMkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

...And I agree, spiders can indeed be cute.




I want to go back to Hawaii just to look for Happy Face spiders. They're really tiny, so I must've missed them the first time around.

[jjjjjjjjjj]

geeze that first spider vid gets kinda unnerving after a bit

[InsaneX]

id like you to know that the smiling spider with big eyes is a photoshopped picture of Phidippus mystaceus
thnc u and ***************

[funzop]

[LordZeebmork]

squicked

die

[Hnilmik]

id like you to know that the smiling spider with big eyes is a photoshopped picture of Phidippus mystaceus
thnc u and ***************

I was wondering what kind of spider that one was, so I thank you for enlightening me. All I knew about that one is that it jumps and I assure you that I didn't mistake it for a happy face spider. I didn't notice that picture was shopped (or even smiling for that matter) until you pointed it out.



This is the original picture, right? Still cute.

squicked

die

I will eventually. Don't worry too much about it.

[redmongoose]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsuzv8O-5Z4

[InsaneX]

all jumping spiders are cute
also hey red thats pretty cool
anime girl with sword fighting huge spider even though any arthropod that big would instantly collapse under its own body weight and suffocate
i like wolf spiders! deyr rly cute (-:

[Hnilmik]

Cute video~ However, zoology somewhat ruined all video games with monsters in them for me, particularly JRPG's. On one end I'd be all "Whoa, that's a pretty cool monster" and then say "Wait, I don't think it'd be able to survive with those traits"... Insert something about spiders and their book lungs here.

The thing about big-eyed spiders is that they always look curious and inquisitive~ When they scuttle around a little and tilt their bodies to the side, it just adds to the cute. Sure, I flinch when jumping spiders decide to leap at my face while I'm looking at them, but when I find them again, safely out of reach and observing my spastic reaction from afar, I get back to (carefully) watching them with equal fascination.



I took this picture of one of those guys when I was in high school. The most endearing thing? I pulled out my camera to take a picture and it raised its front legs at me as if to pose and say "Hi". It's hard to see in the picture, but it's there.



Another old picture while I'm at it. I found this recently molted tarantula at the archery range. I think it's a she due to her size (she was as big as my hand) and we had to move her somewhere safe or we'd accidentally step on her while retrieving our arrows. She was really docile for the most part, even though she was pretty scared--Scared enough to bear her huge fangs after being relocated.

[redmongoose]

I like spiders they are cool