Bee -n really busy.
I spend most of my art time nowadays working at the day job and when I'm off the clock I've kinda preferred to make wall hangings or paint miniatures.
I also finally got married last weekend after a 1+ year engagement, so thats a lot off both me and my wife's minds.
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i love murder hornets. i love those little honeybee hunters. i love those little freaks. i love those grotesque beings.
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Like all the other bruised and hurting survivors of S2 I've been looking for comfort & hope. YouTube edits & Tumblr will have to fill the void until sense prevails & the strike can end. I have to believe that it will all work out for our star-crossed pair because a) God said that it started, as it would end, in a garden & She wouldn't lie (?!) and more importantly, Mr Gaiman promised it would be OK. Plus there's a nightingale with an equity card, on a retainer for S3. They wouldn't keep him on if they weren't going to need him at least once more.
I read a meta very recently (I can't remember who from) that described the scenario the author wanted if there was a sex scene in S3. It involved laughter and awkwardness & a power surge so huge it probably short circuited London. It made me laugh so hard because, well, who hasn't been there. Desire versus a body determined to embarrass you. It set me thinking. Neil Gaiman is on record as saying he doesn't believe a screen kiss is necessary, or even desirable to prove love. The kiss we DID get had nothing to do with signposting love. They'd been doing that for 12 episodes. That was desperation, anguish & despair. See Gabriel & Beelzebub - no kiss - though with nothing more physical than holding hands they caused a power surge that made the lights glow. Newt & Anathema in S1 weren't in love, they barely knew each other when they fulfilled Agnes's prophecy under the bed.
Crowley and Aziraphale have spent 6000 years on earth. They have very human emotions and appetites. Crowley introduced Aziraphale to the delights of the flesh, so to speak, 4500 years ago & has spent millennia enjoying the enjoyment Azi gets from that. There is something viscerally sexual about the way Crowley watches that angel eat. Aziraphale in turn is a toucher. He makes physical contact with Crowley every chance he gets. He also mirrors his movements & expressions. He fills his life with things the colour of Crowley's 'pretty' eyes and between them they broadcast how they feel about each other so loudly that even strangers on the street notice.
Do I think there will be a tearful reunion face eating session? No, probably not, though I will happily do penance if I'm wrong. Do I think they will have a physical relationship? Oh fuck yes! (They will think it's worth the effort)
Then finally, the broken, star making angel masquerading as a murder hornet & the one with a list of misdeeds as long as your arm & a heart the size of a house can build a nest, close the door and quietly devour each other (power cuts may occur).
Somebody get the nightingale into the makeup trailer, his big scene is about to start.
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The "Murder Hornet’s" Invasive Cousin Is Spotted in the USA
A social wasp from southeast Asia (and plaguing Europe for a decade), the yellow-legged hornets’ egg-shaped paper nests are commonly found in trees and house an average of 6,000 workers. To feed these workers, the hornets hunt insects... which is bad news for everyone:
This species prefers to eat honeybees.
Add the larger size of the yellow-legged hornet to their strength and thick exoskeleton, and you get a bad outcome for bees when these hornets attack.
"Vespa velutina are 'true hornets' and are exceptional predators," according to Clemson University's Land-Grant Press.
The vespa genus includes both this yellow-legged hornet and the northern giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia (aka the Asian giant hornet, or, more frighteningly, "murder hornet," for the deadly and violent havoc they wreak on bee colonies).
They're distinct from North America's wasps. Common U.S. insects such as yellowjackets and "bald-faced hornets" are sometimes called hornets, but they're not in the same genus as the Asian hornets. Crucially, those homegrown bugs don't wage gruesome warfare on bee colonies.
Most hornets prey on other insects’ larvae, and many species target nests of other social bees and wasps. The yellow-legged hornet descends upon a bee nest, kills off the workers defending the nest, and feasts on the larvae - true devastation of an entire local honeybee existence.
Note: Please don't go killing insects that look like this bad boy - native wasps and "hornets" might appear the same, but they can help control this invasive species. Report sightings instead.
More info in the NPR story: X
Screenshot from the Popular Mechanics story: X
Georgia's press release, including link to report sightings: X
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The Japanese Hornet. This was as close as I dared to get. They were very large approx 3 inches.
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