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18. Nephila clavipes, or uh, whatever they're called now. The golden silk spiders.
Many related species are golden in coloration but it's their gold-tinted silk that sets them apart from other orb-weavers. There's a tapestry made from the silk of live spiders from Madagascar.
I spent part of the worst night of my life rereading PaIadin's Grace by TKingfisher, a book about reconnecting to the world after the thing you built your life around is gone. And severed heads.
Been trying to draw something every day in 2020, so here is Tab, the perfumer's pet.