Could a homosexual lend me, an asexual, a single use of the word flaming?
YOU have obtained:
- 🔥 ×1
I, a flaming asexual, need someone to please call the fire department. It is an emergency.
Perfectly executed joke, no notes
Apparently a part of the reason why farmed bees stay in the beehives that humans build for them is because the farm hives are safer and sturdier. I don't know how a busy Discord server's worth of bugs that only have one brain cell each would logically conclude that the humans protect them from outside threats, illness and parasites, but if I understood right, the bees would be free to move away and build a new nest somewhere else any time they'd want, and they simply choose not to.
You know how in almost every culture, people have some concept of "if I sacrifice something that I made/grew/produced to the Gods, they will ward me and my harvest from evil"?
So, in a way, don't the bees willingly sacrifice a part of their harvest to an entity not only far greater than them, but nearly beyond their comprehension, in exchange for protection against natural forces wildly outside of their own control?
So tell me, beekeepers, what are you to your bees, if not a mildly eldritch God?
I don’t know about other cultures, but in English folklore, when a beekeeper dies someone has to go out and tell the bees.
Imagine you’re a neolithic hunter-gatherer, just hanging out, sacrificing stuff to your god, when a new god you’ve never met before shows up and tells you that your god is dead, it’s not your fault or anything, and maybe a new god will come along to take care of you, maybe not, it’s gonna be touch and go for a while
Apparently in medieval Europe they also whispered secrets to the bees.
So imagine the mildly eldritch God you worship talks to you and tells you secrets, but these secrets make no sense to you and are incomprehensible to understand or even know they are secrets. But your God does make vibrations at you, so thats probably a good thing right??
Also occasionally the Swarm decides there is not enough room in the Hive because the eldritch god didn't take the offering of Honey at their normal time. So enough of a Swarm builds up that the second queen is able to leave without decimating the first Swarm. They are all set to search out a new place that will likely not have your God anymore (but really that's not too much of a struggle, they have abandoned you, that's part of why you've left, even though the first Swarm still holds out hope for their return).
And then, the scouts find another Hive right next to the old Hive. Literally right next to it. So the Queen lands to inspect it and wow, it's a good deal. The area already has enough food to support 2 Hives, so it's a not problem to stay in the area now that they have the space, but...this wasn't here before.
And then you see God, they've come to help the Swarm move to the new Hive and take the offering from the old Hive. Truly this must have been their plan all along
In English folklore, you ALSO have to invite your bees to your wedding, and decorate their hive, and leave a slice of cake for them, and also bring your new spouse by to introduce them to the hive straightaway. Imagine your eldritch god doing THAT.
For all my fellow Aussies remember, voting yes in the referendum quite literally means that Indigenous Australians will get a proper spot in parliament. If someone tells you to vote no they are racist, there is no reason why Indigenous Australians shouldn’t be allowed in parliament.
Vote Yes!
VOTE YES!!!!!!
also, "the referendum wont do anything" It's gonna do a hell of a lot more than what we've got now I'm telling you right fucking now
if your not Australian please reblog this, reblogging this will help show this to more Australians who will (hopefully!) vote yes. The people who are on the front lines for voting no are incredibly racist.
The referendum is going to be held on the 14th of October. If you are unable to make it that day remember to apply for early voting. This is something incredibly important, please even if you aren’t australian reblog this
Don't Call It Mystery Omnibus Volume 1: The Mystery That Isn't Mysterious
I'll cut to the chase (and completely ignore my terribly bad subtitle for this post), I think this is definitely a story that a lot of people will be interested in. Of course, there's reasons for that, but if you find the concept of a mystery series intriguing, you're bound to enjoy this unique rendition of it from the expert mangaka Yumi Tamura. So, allow me to walk you why, in a spoiler free fashion (spoilers: it's because it's so good you shouldn't read spoilers until you've read it).
anehan asked:
For the opinions on Steve, Bucky, etc. thing: Would you consider expanding on this? "What I think they think they have written is a foil to Captain America. And funnily enough I think they did write that, only the Captain America they wrote is not the one they thought they wrote."
keire-ke answered:
So shortly after Endgame the writers were floating the idea that they wrote Steve and Tony as being on antiparallel journeys from selfishness to selflessness, and that’s true for Tony (eh, sorta, arguably). The Captain America they thought they wrote was this paragon of virtue who slowly becomes a real boy and claims a normal life, and Bucky, on a parallel path, starts off wanting the normal life and doing his part under duress (given his service number he was drafted while Steve tries so hard to enlist, then being lost and needing to atone). Steve slowly becomes disillusioned with the good fight and claims the life he gave up, while Bucky ends up accepting his place in the fight and staying in the present.
Here’s the problem: Steve’s never been selfless. His drive to do the right thing is motivated primarily by his need to prove his value, even if it’s only to himself, and Bucky challenges him on those grounds in the first ten minutes of their first movie. Steve throws himself at grenades in the middle of a training exercise, which is effectively a competition, for people he doesn’t know or like, Bucky (in a deleted scene) surrenders to the enemy to protect himself and his men. Bucky throws himself into the line of fire to protect Steve, but he also fights like hell not to die, where Steve sits down and decides to go down with the plane.
So hey, brace yourself for a hot take: the Steve Rogers they wrote is fundamentally selfish, it’s just that his selfishness is not aligned along the usual axis of “objective gains for me” “objective losses for me”. At no point does Steve want anything that the Good Fight gets in the way of (okay, once, arguably: in CAWS, when he needs to disable Bucky long enough to stop the helicarriers). He needs to switch the particulars once or twice, but that’s about it. Even him literally sacrificing his life isn’t all that sad, because he was throwing himself at grenades literally first chance he got, so he’s sacrificing something he didn’t care about all that much. All Steve has ever wanted is to advance the cause of Good, and if he dies along the way, he dies, no biggie.
And that’s where Bucky’s contrasting him: at every turn you have the sense Bucky just wants to be left the hell alone. He wants to go to science fairs and dance halls, but he has his orders and he needs to go to war. He’ll throw himself in the line of fire to protect Steve, but he will fight like hell not to die. He’ll join the fight to stop potential supersoldiers, but only because he doesn’t really have another choice. He’s is vulnerable to hijacking, so he’ll go into cryo until that can be fixed. Bucky’s choices inevitably net him a loss, because he wants the things he gives up.
They effectively contrasted a man for whom doing the abstract right thing is the goal in itself, with the man who doesn’t want to do the thing, but does it anyway, because it is, in his own words, best for everyone.
And that’s why the Steve/Tony antiparallel is bogus: it was a parallel journey all along, it’s just that Steve’s was more nuanced and not as in your face.
fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.
hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.
hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy
hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it
hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently
hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love
horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho
The seething continues.
What does Steve want?
tl;dr going back in time fulfills neither Steve’s narrative wants nor needs, because the former are too broad and the latter are negated by foreknowledge.
Aside from other reasons for disliking how Endgame ended, I find Steve’s arc narratively unsatisfying, and it comes down to one simple thing: because what Steve wants to do and what he believes is right were always consistently the same thing, I never had the sense Steve wants anything except doing the right thing, and as such the absolute selfishness of leaving everyone to deal with the present and going back in time to get a life comes out of nowhere.
This is not necessarily the wrong narrative choice, but it also isn’t one that feels like an ending of an arc that set a character up to face the difficult choice between the right thing and the consequences of the right thing (and never delivered).
Contrast with the beautifully clear and coherent arc for Iron Man: Tony wants to go home to a family and Tony wants to save everyone. We know this about him from very early on, and his story is consistently about navigating between those two wants, so when the choice comes to sacrifice going home versus saving everyone, we feel the gravitas of the moment. This is the culmination of his two warring wants, finally coming to fruition.
What does Steve want? What does Steve sacrifice on the altar of doing the right thing, what has he given up in his quest to fight for the world that he needs to reclaim to grow and be happy?
I honestly don’t know.
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