[ SECRET POST #2023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2023 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #289.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Never before featured! Puppies! And the obligatory spiders.

[joltymcjolterson]

I'm sorry- I could do that, but I'd actually prefer rather not to if I could help it. The way these posts were originally started by cuteanimalpics was to get people used to seeing spiders or seeing them in a different light as opposed to AAA GET IT AWAY. I understand some people will have that reaction, and I could make a seperate post, but that would sort of defeat the original point, which was to have both cute and/or interesting animals and spiders being placed in the same context.

Re: Never before featured! Puppies! And the obligatory spiders.

[ryttu3k]

For what it's worth, it's actually working on at least one preson. I used to be arachnophobic to the point of shutting the tab FAST if there was a picture of a spider in it, then I sort of forced myself to like... "Okay, you can look at these cute animals, but you have to look at the spider too, okay?", and now I find myself curious about some of them and a few get a nod of appreciation.

The baby spider today is so teeny!

Re: Never before featured! Puppies! And the obligatory spiders.

[joltymcjolterson]

Yay! I'm really glad to hear that. Actually, looking at pictures in a controlled setting is one way that people use to address arachnophobia. There's an article on it here which has lots of pictures- but they're all of cute puppies and dogs and there's no spiders, so it's pretty safe to read about what arachnophobia is and how it can be handled.

Re: Never before featured! Puppies! And the obligatory spiders.

[ryttu3k]

Heh, it'd suck if you wanted to read that but had a dog phobia, too XD Thanks for the link! And yeah, I'm slowly desensitising myself to them.

Re: Never before featured! Puppies! And the obligatory spiders.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm also using these posts as desensitization. It helps that you tend to feature cute-ish big eyed fuzzball spiders and describe them as if they're cats and show them chilling out and being harmless on people's hands :)

(TMI time - things with too many legs in proximity to people's hands used to freak me out so hard - I nearly had a panic attack once from a *description* of a fictional crustacean biting someone.)

BTW, I'm amblypygid anon from the other week. I requested that post partly because whip scorpions give me an even more powerful ohgodnokillitwithfire! response than spiders do, and I wanted to make myself look at them in a positive context. So yeah, thanks for normalizing arachnids for us phobics!