Spiders are little eight-legged creatures that are sometimes mistakenly called ‘insects’.

Some time in my past I had unconsciously made a pact with the Goddess of Spiders and, since then, I have done my best to avoid harming spiders to the best of my abilities.

I’ve been interested in spiders for a long time: as a child, I owned an Usborne book about spiders, which I read multiple times.^A) A memory has been unlocked recently, where I remembered that, as a child, I would watch Charlotte’s Web frequently. This may be the single biggest influence.
As a child, I was also taught not to be afraid of spiders, as they were friends that ate bugs. Considering I dislike bugs with a passion…yeah, this is a plus.
When older, but still a child (entering puberty or such) I played the Spider Queen custom campaign in Warcraft III, which immediately became one of my favorites. It continues to be one of my favorite custom campaigns, though its age has shown.
In more recent history, I read Kumo Desu ga, nani ka…which is the best isekai I have read.