#sixthousandbees

The softest animal shelter story time ever ✨🦋

*gasp* is that YOU in the picture?? with the white snake draped over your shoulders? Well done on getting over the terror!! battling phobias is a hard task, congratulations on your progress

I mean i was never PHOBIC of snakes, i was just regular scared

and im still scared of most of these, some of them move real quick and got real hissy, but 2 in particular were just super chill and i spent like a full hour working up from touching gently with my finger to petting to letting it in my lap to being climbed all over like a tree by the end of it i was no longer afraid of the white snake (other than his head) and only a little nervous around the other friendly one. The rest i still Dont Trust At All but at least just seeing them move is no longer making me go full monkey-brain ^_^’’’’

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So, IDK if you wanted me to respond to this ask still, after we spoke privately, but I do think it presents an interesting opportunity to examine the ways that different media can create very different readings even in a very similar audience. 

I can’t recall if I’ve gone into the subject on this blog or not, but I have an autoimmune disease that has been known to leave me bedridden from time to time, and severely impacts my ability to “get out there and live in the real world,” as certain particularly reprehensible individuals have occasionally told me to do. 

I’m also a very politically active second generation immigrant.

And, for me, I feel that the cancer cell was treated as a sympathetic, tragic figure in very stark contrast to the way that the monstrous invader bacterial cells and parasitic viruses that had previously appeared on the show. As someone whose daily reality is existing as the product of a biological system that has “betrayed” me, there was something compelling and cathartic about seeing the disease cell treated as compassionately as possible, while still ultimately needing to be executed for the health of the human being.

As someone whose daily reality is existing as an inborn “invasive” “parasitic” “drain” on the political society, I inhabit (child of immigrants, disabled, rabble rousing, etc), I understand where the discomfort with the storyline comes from, and I think it’s quite valid. But it wasn’t the takeaway for me.

Of the people I know who both have or had cancer and who watched the episode, there’s an almost dead even split (there’s only three of them and it’s two positive opinions, one negative). 

I also think, as I explained earlier, that the show must be considered from the perspective of an edutainment tool aimed at the tween and early teen demographic. For a 12 year old who barely knows what the fuck cancer is beyond “not good,” it’s a surprisingly heartfelt and nuanced representation of something going horribly wrong in your body and needing to be dealt with. Of your body itself being the cause of a disease.

Kids are smart, but even as adults, the idea that sometimes your own meat is what’s making you sick is really hard to comprehend. 

Given the choice between not having this kind of easy introduction to such a hard, hard topic or not, I’ll take the unfortunate implications in exchange for the tool that the episode adds to the arsenal of, “how to enter difficult discussions with kids.”

Is it shitty that one of the implications of the episode is, “if you’re born different, you’re destined to kill everyone around you and then be killed in turn?”

Abso-fucking-lutely. 

The show isn’t flawless or anything.

hEY SO this might be considered """cheating""" but have you considered just ctrl pasting these into place? I've seen a drawing tats tutorial that used transform tool & shit to just whap tats in place.

Thank you so much!!! And my only rules so far for requests are no OCs and no romancey ships with Spike (other pedo ships also implied, so no CMCs w any adult characters etc); there’s nothing that says you can’t request more than one thing!

Would that be just adding it in manually every time or did you figure out a big block of text that makes a clock? I for sure dont have anythign like that hahaIts going okay! i reached the end of the second level (of 4) and am taking a brief break from it to draw (been a rough week and i cant concentrate on writing in this mood, its making everything too melodramatic and embarrassing), figured out how to add a puzzle (im very slow about this stuff) and backtracked a little to add it in fairly. have a few thigns to fix but nothing too bad,mostly just to make it easier to read

I realize this is practically a personal moral failing as a queer millennial, but I have never read any Terry Pratchett novels. The truth is, there are so many of them, and they’re all held up as such critical cultural touchstones that I’m genuinely intimidated.