#bzz

I resigned her because I've had horrible art block and the only thing I can draw when I have art block are redraws or redesigns

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I've recently happened upon some really Reddit discourse over how unethical it is to keep bees and take honey from them as clearly it wasn't "meant for us".

And it just dawned on me recently that we're talking about a species here, that literally domesticated a fuckton of plant species to the point where like, the natural ecosystem now relies on these gay little bees to exchange their sex work (cross pollination) for the nectar they conditioned all these plants into producing.

If all humans vanished off the face of earth overnight, the biosphere would pretty much instantly begin healing and doing better and better. If bees vanished, there would be massive species die-off and ecological collapse and loss of diversity that nature wouldn't recover from for tens of thousands of years.

Did we really domesticate bees, or are bees successfully domesticating us? Getting us to to develop better and better habitats for them for millennia, shaping much of our cuisine around their honey, and recently, even getting us to change how we use pesticides and how we are legally allowed to handle the bees.