myrmepropagandist on Nostr: What if when making a "fear monster" for you fantasy or sci fi story you *didn't* ...

What if when making a "fear monster" for you fantasy or sci fi story you *didn't* base it on a spider, snake, insect, or a slug?

So many creepy things in nature, I'm sick of spider monsters with "glossy chitinous legs" snake-like monsters that "slither sinisterly."

Cut it out.

Base your scary creature on a chinchilla, a capybara, an orchid, a dove, a human.

Leave the arthropods, snakes and invertebrates out of it.

Or if you MUST do an insect do butterflies. THEY can't be trusted.