wanderer

Well you see, everyone ALSO used to hate bees. Like. You guys are just too young to remember when everyone who wasn't an apiarist or a gardener or an ecologist was militantly aggressive towards bees Because They Sting You. People would burn their hives and kill them all when they were found, not call a bee guy to relocate them, they'd stomp bees in the clover if they saw them. They actively hunted down and destroyed hives.

The reason "everyone loves bees" isnt an arbitrary whimsical choice because they're cuter than wasps. It's because bee lovers made a HUGE effort to encourage people to see bees as valuable pollinators and friendly little guys that just want to defend their hive. They taught people to see bees as cute and fluffy! There were awareness campaigns about the value of bees, there were advertisements, there were little documentaries and articles teaching people how to readjust their views on bees so that the hatred of them didn't cause complete ecological and agricultural collapse.

Bee lovers used to be in the exact same position that everyone who loves other insects is - you say that you like this creature and everyone in a 10km radius comes crawling over to tell you all the ways they personally would kill them.

The fact that it's so common now for people to think bees are cute fun little guys doing an important job is a fucking monumental victory and it was hard won, and it's as recent as in the last 20 years. When I was a kid in the 90s, everyone hated bees except ecologists and bug guys.

I'm houseless trans disabled immunocompromised and I have slept in a car filled with black mold for nearly 5 years.

I'm trying to get into an apartment by myself with my gf for the first time, we've had roommates or been homeless our entire relationship since Nov 2017.

It would do a lot for our physical and mental healths to get out of and get rid of the van. I have EDS, my ribs and shoulders are subluxing in my sleep in the cramped space. I have POTS, I'm not eating enough, I have anemia, I had to get an iron infusion recently because my low iron was concerning my primary care. I'm immunocompromised, allergic to penicillin, I think I'm allergic to whatever is happening in the car, my throat closes while I'm in there. I've also been worried some other sort of respiratory infection is happening, I've had a weird pain in my ear come and go in recent months. gotten UTIs multiple times this past year and had to get antibiotics multiple times. Im not able to do self care sleeping in a car and it's genuinely hazardous to my health as a disabled person with the disabilities I have and recovering from bottom surgery. ;-;

It's my birthday on the 30th.

We need February rent. Help us get somewhere warm and dry. Anything helps.

Venmo@Leah-Esther-Rose

WILL DRAW ✓ mecha ✓ gore ✓ furry ✓ nsfw

great question and I'm glad you asked. in this case I would only draw:

real people, places, or objects

art of media that neither of us are really a fan of

we've already exhausted our options and we feel bad for asking again, in a separate post, but our rent is due in two days. we're not on very good terms with our landlord. we've been starving ourselves to save as much money for it as we can, and we're still missing a lot. any help, including sharing, will be greatly appreciated.

$200/550

I do have notifications still on for this post because I love the sense of community it gives me. We're all just staring at each other blankly and occasionally screaming.