Mistress of Passing Shadows

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
alysswit1325
crevicedwelling

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found a chunky male carpenter bee on his back in the rain & took him inside to warm up.

it worked too well and he was moving too quickly for nice photos!

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you’ll have to take my word for it that he was a wonderful velvety texture.

(Xylocopa virginica)

amingethia

Listen I love bees as much as the next person but you’re brave letting her crawl on your hand without fear of getting stung.

crevicedwelling

notice I said “male” and “he”

male bees have no stinger because a stinger is a modified egg-laying tube (ovipositor), an organ only found in female insects. he doesn’t have any way to injure me! I’d still pick up a female carpenter bee though, I’ve never known them to be nasty.

ashedink

Carpenter bees are so funny, have you ever been OBSERVED by one before?

Around here they’ll zip right up to you and then pause, hover in front of you and scan you up and down like a little scifi drone. I like to imagine a little green checkmark appearing in their HUD when they’re done like “OBJECTIVE MET. MOBILE ENVIRONMENTAL OBSTRUCTION SCANNED: NO THREAT DETECTED. RESUME OBJECTIVE: FIND FLOWER.”

It’s so cute.

the-official-red-hood
skaterboighost

consider: billy one day is like "oh god. how can i get out of JL monitor duty when im supposed to be at school. how can i avoid revealing i'm a student" and mary is like "billy you could literally just say you're a teacher" and then billy proceeds to do exactly that, and things start to get REALLY out of hand because suddenly all of the JL members are 1) asking him for advice with their sidekick issues and 2) asking him to TUTOR their sidekicks

damthosefandoms

billy: and that’s how the printer in the library jammed and ate my math homework

everyone: so what? your class just doesn’t get homework tonight? man I wish I had you as a teacher when I was in middle school

overthinkinglotr
overthinkinglotr

I think the reason so many LOTR ripoffs fail is because they make their Aragorn analogue the main character, when the entire point of Aragorn is that he’s “the person the villains think is the main character, but is Not.”

Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.

Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.

And it works! Sauron is so fixated on defeating his Legendary Destined Archenemy with Extreme Main Character Energy that he completely overlooks the two ordinary little guys who were the real threat to him all along.