I worked on my spider drawing skills! To make Viro's spider pet a bit less cartoon-y haha! But still cute : )
Spinny is based on a tarantula, and since Viro is a tiny fairy she's huge! Eventhough she is a spider, vibe wise I went for an Old English Sheepdog (big and friendly, eyes covered)
There’s The Many-Colored Land, Artemis Fowl, that one Pratchett and Baxter teamed up on if you squint, kinda, the Stross book where they blew up Yorkshire and one of them hooked up with the vampire, I think there’s an SCP story about them but it’s been a while
Warhammer has them
I suppose, to tie it into my blog’s actual purpose for a moment, there might be a connection with stuff like Shaver’s Dero, Vril, the whole aliens-and-saucers-as-modern-fairy-myth thing, etc. MCL and that one Laundry book were pretty explicit about that, maybe Fowl too I haven’t read those in years