I loved this, from the illustrations to the music to the lovely writing, this was a wonderful fairy tale, a little spooky but first and foremost incredibly magical, just a gorgeously woven (see, what I did there) story and I loved the spider (not so sure about the bride, though).
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What a lovely playthrough and comment! Thank you!
Admittedly I'm pretty happy things like the rule of three and the deliberate obfuscation of the spider's gender was noticed!
I do understand the lack of love for the bride, though, haha. I didn't want to over-characterize them and take away from the fairytale simplicity, which resulted in the bride coming off as a bit of an airhead.
The other main ending does elaborate a SLIGHT bit more on her and her kindness to the other critters, though. (Don't worry, it won't make you feel bad for doing what a spider does!)
Oh, I might have to play the other ending to see it after all, that sounds interesting.
Yes, I figured there was reason for the shadowy spider figure which I really loved. And yes, fairy tale princesses quite often tend to want the moon and nothing less but it's part of the genre, so my outrage was of course not as serious (which hopefully came through, haha) since I know they can't help themselves.
Honestly, I loved that this story really felt like from my old fairy tale books. Really brought back good memories, thank you so much.