part 367 bears and wolves oh my

[aphanon_meme]

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

Enjoy part 367!

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Re: ITT: superstitions, folklore or old wives' tales that you like

[zeetee]

A friend of mine comes from a family of beekeepers, and yeah, they get really attached to their bees!

One of the early Wabanaki (the tribes indigenous to Maine) stories says that after the Wabanaki people were created by Kloskabe, all the animals pretty much immediately began attacking them. Because they were all so big (moose, squirrels, raccoons, you name it, they were Big and Angry) it wasn't a fair fight at all! So Kloskabe rubbed the animals down until they were much smaller and wouldn't be such a threat to people. On the one hand I find the idea of a giant furious squirrel both funny and terrifying, and I'm also really intrigued by the theory that this story could represent cultural memory of the era of megafauna in the Americas!

Re: ITT: superstitions, folklore or old wives' tales that you like

[(Anonymous)]

A family of beekepers!! Sounds like the basis of a novel

Re: ITT: superstitions, folklore or old wives' tales that you like

[zeetee]

I saw a post on tumblr where a beekeeper had some REALLY docile bees and they just stuck their face into a handful of them because they loved their dang bees so much

And my beekeeper friend was like "yeah pretty much this"

I get the willies around most bugs, and I have a healthy amount of fear around bees, but isn't there also something really endearing about them, too? They're just these fuzzy flying pompoms that make honey and help pollinate stuff, what'd we do to deserve bees

Re: ITT: superstitions, folklore or old wives' tales that you like

[(Anonymous)]

My friend used to have a bee's nest in their shed that they couldn't get rid of and while I was petrified of bee's when I was little (I would refuse to wear any clothes with flower pictures on them!) I eventually grew to like these bee's. They just kinda buzzed around you when you came to the door then went away. Sometimes they'd come sit next to us on the porch.

I also have a love hate relationship with the carpenter bee's in my shed now... They're all bark and no bite, and I usually just yell at them for refusing to let me in or out of my house on occasion. "Move you asshole!!" But god they're so big it's still scary when they go around you BZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Did you participate in the SAVE THE BEES Cheerio thing from last year, where they sent out packets of bee-friendly seeds?

Re: ITT: superstitions, folklore or old wives' tales that you like

[zeetee]

Yeah, if you don't make a fuss around them or mess with their hive, bees are pretty chill.

/googles them, wow, lookit these muscle bees! At least they don't hurt you!

I didn't, I'm not exactly in a position to plant stuff (I'm bad at raising plants and I live in an apartment anyway...) and I don't tend to buy honey nut cheerioes, I prefer apple cinnamon ;;;

Re: ITT: superstitions, folklore or old wives' tales that you like

[(Anonymous)]

If only hornets and (some) wasps weren't such assholes!

RIGHT. They're SO big, like I cannot exaggerate their size. Even though I know the males don't sting and you'd have to basically try really hard to get the females (who stay in the nests mostly) to sting, their size makes them so intimidating lol.

Aww darn. I'm not great at raising plants either, but I managed to grow some from the seeds we got in our tiny dirt patch in the front yard! Although some of the seeds blew and ended up growing in the sidewalk cracks, so that's neat.

Re: ITT: superstitions, folklore or old wives' tales that you like

[zeetee]

Oh dear, I missed this somehow, sorry anon!

Yeah jeez, if only! Flying jerkwads!

Yeah, the bigger the bug the less I want it near me, stingers or no!

Aw, that's nice! Sighhh maybe this spring I'll try planting something...

/dif

[(Anonymous)]

I do not like to be around bees or bugs of any kind, but after watching some documentaries and reading several articles about the problems bees are having today due to human practices, I feel guilty and sorry for them. Plus, bees certainly embody a lot of traits humans would consider noble (ok, if we overlook the "expendable bodies immutably devoted to the hivemind" horror bit): hard work, altruism, a steady buzzing determination.

I'm crap with plants and only ever mow the yard/lawn, but this reminds me I've been meaning to plant some bee-friendly flowers and may as well make the effort this year. Apparently a significant amount of the problem for bees and other insects is all our bland ass lawns and giant monoculture farms.

Re: /dif

[zeetee]

I've found exhausted bees before and tried to get them over to the closest flowers (I know you're supposed to get sugar water for them but I don't like have that on hand on the regular) all while mumbling "oh eff oh eff" and wigging out if they fall off whatever I was carrying them on :'D I WANT TO HELP BUT I'M VERY SCARED OF YOUR BUTT, MISS BEE!

Sighhh maybe I should try to have some plants on my porch this spring/summer... I'm currently slowly killing a peace lily but maybe something simple and cheery and bee-friendly would be nice.

Also yeah lawns are pretty stupid and pointless, especially if you don't have anybody in the family who enjoys being out on them. Wild lawns for the win!