BumblingBees (sideblog)

Side blog for @bumblingbeees Currently in the process of switching things over from one account to the other because I forgot the difference between a side blog and a main one😖

[ravenwordsx]

on finding love everywhere you look <3

[seaweedoverlord]

finally done with my designs for these monkeys! hopefully for the last time.

sigh. i have redesigned them way too many times.

Here's some headcanons. Wukong owns lots of MK themed merch cuz' he loves his successor but it embarrasses MK like hell. It's another reason why he buys them. Meanwhile Macaque owns lots of Wukong themed stuff but if you ever learned about it you would die.

He probably has some antiques from baaaaack in the day that could make lots of money. Wukong is better with modern stuff. Better than Macaque at least. Let's hope Macaque doesn't have one of those brick Nokia's.

Wukong has a proper sketchbook while macaque's a shitty notepad he stole from a poor minimum worker.

Bonus:

what 4 years of designing monkeys look like

For some reason I always drew Wukong in the left except the most recent one LMAO i have no idea why

[zooophagous]

Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

[qonphuceingey]

I’m really starting to think you people don’t understand what university is for. You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things. It doesn’t matter how you do them.

[zooophagous]

I can assure you if you're going to school to be an xray tech or a surgical assistant it does very much matter how you do the stuff your accreditation says you can do. We aren't all business majors.

[qonphuceingey]

Yes, but you actually can’t do an X-ray without an X-ray machine and you can’t do surgery without scalpels. We already rely on technology for everything. Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more. If you can do your job with chatgpt, but can’t without, you can still do your job. I’m sure you would find university much much harder without access to google or the internet too.

[zooophagous]

Do you think scalpels are magic and do a little song and dance and perform the surgery themselves like Beauty and the Beast characters and the surgeon is there to conduct the background music

[darlingofdots]

What do you think will happen when your employer, who hired you because they saw you have a certificate to say that you have specific skills and knowledge, starts expecting you to have and use those skills and knowledge and you can't because you think a university degree is just a piece of paper that you buy

[ariaste]

"Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more"

When you're in school, the cognitive tasks are there for the explicit purpose of being brain exercises. It's weightlifting. It is FOR building your mental muscles and making you a stronger thinker and planner. "Offloading the cognitive tasks", then, is just Not Doing The Weightlifting. What happens when you pay for your gym membership and just stand around messing around on your phone? Nothing. Nothing happens. Just money leaving your wallet. Nothing else.

Using AI is a short term pleasure that is going to fuck you over in the long term, and by the time you realize that you didn't build the necessary muscles you need for the cognitive tasks required of your ACTUAL JOB (or, like, adult life in general), it's going to be too late to do anything about it... except going back and doing the real work all over again to get you up to speed.

And if your response as a college student is "Ugh i'm already good at this though, i don't need the practice" -- sweetie, you have no idea how good at it you could be though. If you're good at it now but you keep working on it, you're going to ASTONISH yourself in a couple years with how good at it you can get. I was a good writer when I was in college; I am an ASTRONOMICALLY better writer now, because I put in the work. But you have to lift the weights and build your muscles to get there, even when it's tedious. There aren't any shortcuts for this. You can be content with your own mediocrity, or you can believe that you're capable of growing towards brilliance. Which one will you choose, mediocrity or brilliance? You get to pick right now.

[jaydenskyle]

I’m a Surgical Assistant and that ChatGPT stan pissed me off so I’ll use my job as an example. 90% of our job as surgical assists comes down to memorizing the names and usages of the thousands of unique instruments and equipment and sutures involved in surgery as well as having the critical thinking skills to anticipate the needs and expectations of the surgeons we work with. That’s a “cognitive load” that cannot be pawned off on a computer. If I relied on ChatGPT to tell me what instruments to have ready for a case, it would create a composite of what the most likely instruments to be used in a given surgery and assuming that it’s even accurate, it would be effectively useless if my surgeon didn’t use any of those because each doctor is different. Surgeons get pissed off if you give them the wrong diameter size suture, so why would I rely on a soulless algorithm to tell me what my surgeon wants? And if I’m not figuring out for myself what they may need based off my own learning and not machine learning then why am I even there? There’s a reason robotic surgery still requires a surgical assistant and a surgeon to operate the robot, technology is an easement not a replacement for human labor and in college learning is the labor you should be doing.

A common thread with ChatGPT simps seems to be that they truly believe all labor is as easy as their cushy middle management jobs in the tech industry. “Buying an accreditation” might work there but can you imagine someone in the medical field not actually knowing the subject they’re licensed or accredited to know? I’ll give you a hint: the word we typically use is malpractice.

[bumblingbeees]

I for sure have things I should be doing. And yet, here I am with more monkey drawings 💛

Tiny Wukong now lives rent free in my head.

Closeups under the cut!

[rainboopz]

they gonna go to the store real quick ya'll want anything

[bumblingbeees]

Grooming: for when your monkey son disciple wanders through hundreds of miles of brambles but has never held a brush in his life. Bless them, they are figuring it out💛

From chapter 8 of @tuima11 ‘s fic “How to Train Your Monkey,” an absolute delight of a read that can be found below!

The whole series is amazing go check it out! All the found family feels💛

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ningadudexx]

who up journeying to they west ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🐎

the first one is a screenshot redraw of this frame cause it freaking rocks 🔥🔥🔥

the show has been out since 1986 and also the novel has been out since the 16th century.... but ill spoiler warninf just in case... anyone in audience from the 16th century tonite ⁉️🙋‍♂️🙋🙋‍♀️

[bumblingbeeees]

Today I was ✨experimenting with color ✨ lol

I’ve been reading all of @tuima11 ‘s fics and I’m OBSESSED. Her Journey to the West works are amazing. And Wukong!! Definitely The Little Guy Ever!! I adore him and their found family. So I had to draw a little monkey king and I have more inspired drawings in the works haha.

[relmint]

Not me posting at almost 6 am

[zerifunyan]

A simple comic based on @tuima11 's fanfic 'Sleep Training' chap 10 This one is one of my fav scenes, they're both so silly here 👐

I'm not good at making words, but the point is, the whole fic (including the other part) is part of my soul now. So much heartwarming and angst, I'm so well fed. Their imperfect relationship is perfect.

Allow me to use your design. I hope I described it well and hope you like it!

Sorry for the inconsistency anyway-

[tuima11]

I… I don’t even know how to cope with this. It’s perfect?? I think I might cry.

Guys, guys, everyone look at this thing. Look at it. It’s perfect.

[foxbirdy]

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

[bumblingbeeees]

Just a bit of mentorin’

[bumblingbeeees]

Of course I’m fine kid! I’m the Monkey King! The Great Sage Equal to Heaven! Immortal seven times over!

Nothing can hurt me.

[bumblingbeeees]

Of course I’m fine kid! I’m the Monkey King! The Great Sage Equal to Heaven! Immortal seven times over!

Nothing can hurt me.

[bumblingbeeees]

Okay… so I just watched Lego monkie kid (that’s how they spell it, I know it’s wrong lol). And basically I believe I found my newest hyperfixation. It soooooooo good oh my gosh. I just finished the last season and there was laughter, tears, and so many emotions. I know it’s not that popular, by tumblr you would love this show. Seriously.

So here’s a Sun Wukong, okayest monkey dad and my absolute favorite. Maybe I’ll color it later.

What it says:

Baddie: Who am I?! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!!!

Wukong: Mmm, sorry… You’ll have to be more specific.

MK *offscreen*: Yeah that could mean pretty much anyone :)

Wukong: OI

[bumblingbeeees]

Okay but Bruce has to, at least on some level, enjoy being himbo/dumbass Brucie. He surely must. I know he’s often portrayed as really serious and solemn most of the time, especially as Batman, but I think he just really loves messing with people and trying to figure out the absolute most ridiculous thing he could do in any given scenario. To get to the point where the entire world and all the brilliant people in it is CONVINCED that Bruce Wayne could not possibly be Batman he must be constantly in character as a well-meaning buffoon. And I think he finds it hilarious. Brucie time is ridiculous and restorative. He gets to set aside the horrors and the darkness and the storm-clouds and just make everyone within a 50ft radius facepalm by changing the entire Wayne Enterprise electronic system to the language of Isthmus Zapotec or demanding everyone on staff get paid puppy breaks. I just think that he’s gotta.

[bumblingbeeees]

So I’m reading the Stormlight Archive, just about halfway through Words of Radiance. WOW ITS THE BEST THING!! Very much enjoying the series! One thing that is a absolute hilarious to me though is the about of slamming into things that Kaladin has done this book😂

Anyway just for fun here’s

1. Kaladin’s first attempt to run on walls as I remember it lol

2. When Kal gets angry and goes to attack Adolin during the shardblade practice for Renarin. He shakes it off no worries

3. Kaladin’s fear of horses is very amusing to me. Also I feel like the dynamic between Adolin and Kal is so perfect.

Adolin: ha I bet you cant!

Kaladin: *immediately does it in spite*