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Bumblebees look like passive, cuddly, and docile creatures; and they generally are- but they won’t hesitate to defend themselves if they feel their warnings aren’t being seen!

I.e. below, when a bumblebee feels threatened they will raise one or more of their legs into the air, signaling to whatever or whomever may be bothering them as a message essentiality saying: “hey, back off, too close!”

species: top, bombus pascuorum / bottom, bombus impatiens

If their defensive posture goes unnoticed or ignored, they may be pushed into defending themselves by stinging (which is an all around sucky experience for not only you, but also for the bee. (Note that bumblebees do not die after stinging, but it is still stressful for them.) If you ever find yourself getting close to a bumblebee while taking pictures, trying to move them, or just admiring them, remember this posture! If they do this, it is simply asking you to take a step back because it feels it is being threatened! You might get stung.

I went to a Q&A with Martha Wells last night and asked 'Has Murderbot ever smiled?' and she said it does in private, not so much at people.

As a now former Murderbot-never-smiles truther, I couldn't be happier to have my headcanon disproven :')

I hadn't heard about this so I had to look it up and see what the fuck happened. And Christ, she was just 21 years old. Just 21. She graduated three years ago. She would have had her first legal beer just two weeks ago. And now she's fucking dead.

I'm not here to entertain the radfem bandwagon, so don't even start on that. My concern is that this more than likely had lead-up and warning signs that just... didn't get taken seriously. Bad interactions, comments, weird feelings. These two should never have been left alone together.

I'm just. Wow.

Just... wow.

- Eridian scientists and doctors doing their best to help him when they first get to Erid. A few weeks in, he's in and out of consciousness but doing better, a doctor (in a xenosuit obviously) comes in to check on him, sees he's asleep, so goes to examine him closely, because, you know, alien. Grace, who was only dozing, jerks away so fast it gives poor Dr Limestone a heart attack.

And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:

To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and

Change is happening.

Who let Nosferatu become a cornerstone of vampire cinema? Literally The Worst vampire representation ever put to celluloid. I tell people I’m a vampire and they don’t believe me because I’m not bald and surrounded by an army of rats. Vampires don’t look like that!!!!! And we can control rats obviously but we don’t have them follow us around.

Also, the movie was using the rats as a visual metaphor for the plague, perpetuating yet another harmful stereotype.

And!! Nosferatu doesn’t even mean vampire.

I wish Florence Stoker succeeded in getting every copy of that horrid film destroyed. If people want to understand what vampirism is really like there is already the perfect five film saga.

🧑🏽‍🦲 bald-ur-gayass-tarion Follow

speak for yourself op

🐀 ratsss-ratssss-ratsssssss Follow

op fuck your entire unlife

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@edwards-colon is a fakefanger FYI.

here’s a link to the ghoulgle doc.

tldr; they’ve been making posts romanticizing vampirism for years. they talk about older vampire issues to fit in with the undead community but they’re mortal. block and report.

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I got turned dumbass. And my sire is 103, it’s the one who told me about this shit. Keep your fangs out of necks they don’t belong in.

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103? so it was a baby when nosferatu came out? a little baby? little babybat vampire going to the cinema? to watch nosferatu symphony of horror? as a little baby? little baby vampire?

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wait backup nosferatu doesn’t mean vampire?

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the word nosferatu was popularized by bram stoker’s novel to mean undead in romanian, he got it from a travelogue by emily gerard, no one’s really sure where she got it.

🧛🏻‍♀️ Christabel-deactivated

Good L*rd, I knew Miss Gerard! She was a dear friend of mine. 😃 Oh my, I remember Emily telling me all about her The Land Beyond The Forest research. It’s a funny story, actually, the etymology of Nosferatu.

I’ll tell you all about it in just a heartbeat— A sweet young damsel has wandered into my castle and I must perform my duties as hostess.

I’ll return shortly.

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hey chrissy make sure it’s not a hunter. lotta slayers are damsels nowadays

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chrissy????

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THEY SLAYED CHRISSY

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now we’re never gonna figure out where nosferatu came from this fucking sucks

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fucking sucks 😳🥴🥵🤤🫦

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