𝔯𝔲𝔟𝔶𝔰𝔣𝔦𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

horror blog 🐝my little ocs and stuff🐝

[rubysfiction]

𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢…

bem vindo

this blog is for documenting my little story i’ve been making as i’m getting proud enough of it that i kind of what to share it now.

i’ve written about all sorts of things, but my current project i’m focusing on is a horror project about a lesbian beekeeper. i was inspired by the nature of vulture bees.

trigger/content warning for:

-cannibalism

-abuse (child, domestic)

-sexual violence mention

-murder

-trypophobia (holes)

-entomophobia (insects)

-blood/gore

-bigotry (ableism, racism/xenophobia, sexism)

^ warnings are tagged accordingly

Vulture bees don’t derive their protein from pollen like typical bees. Instead, they crave the flesh of rotting corpses. Delving into the eyes first, they use their teeth to chew the dead bodies and ferment the pieces into pots to make royal jelly.

Abelha Barbosa is a lesbian beekeeper born in Brazil, where the vulture bee hypogea is from. Her father, however, always told her she wasn’t sweet enough to be his filha, so he calls her “Boy.”

Post by @rubysfiction

part 1: Mamãe rural farm region of Amazonas, Brazil: I met your mamãe in 1990. She worked at the local flower shop with her own mãe, and

[revretch]

Scientists Found 5.5 Million Bees Living Beneath a New York Cemetery

Millions of buried creatures burst forth each spring from beneath the soil of a cemetery in Ithaca, New York.

RISE OF THE LIVING...bees

[orpheuslament]

now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

[orpheuslament]

"yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story" thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code

[rubysfiction]

actually talking to fellow writers on reddit genuinely warms my heart. this was just supposed to be one oc why am i actually enjoying being part of the writing community now

[ledwinged]

[literaryvein]

L. V., drowning myself in literature

[prettysilkk]

“Flame-hot blood on ice-cold snow, Vultures caw and ravens crow."

-a poem by Thomas Ware

[rubysfiction]

this is the second bot comment i’ve gotten with almost this exact same wording. these bots don’t even ask for money, so i can only guess the purpose of them is simply to scare the shit out of people more naive. the pro-censorship purity culture movement that’s been happening as of late is genuinely disturbing. love seeing social indicators we’re falling into fascism

[rubysfiction]

ty for the 1st 10 kudos milestone ya’ll 🐝🫀 🐝🫀 🐝

[eternallyinlove]

[alabama-angel]

[k4nd1z-s0ur-0rg4nz-deactivated2]

Queer people always make the most terrifying horror

[velvetmasonry]

British Bee-Keepers Guide to the Management of Bees by T. W. Cowan (1903) // Frontispiece from The management of bees by Samuel Bagster (1834)

[rubysfiction]

current readings

[homunculus-argument]

Apparently a part of the reason why farmed bees stay in the beehives that humans build for them is because the farm hives are safer and sturdier. I don't know how a busy Discord server's worth of bugs that only have one brain cell each would logically conclude that the humans protect them from outside threats, illness and parasites, but if I understood right, the bees would be free to move away and build a new nest somewhere else any time they'd want, and they simply choose not to.

You know how in almost every culture, people have some concept of "if I sacrifice something that I made/grew/produced to the Gods, they will ward me and my harvest from evil"?

So, in a way, don't the bees willingly sacrifice a part of their harvest to an entity not only far greater than them, but nearly beyond their comprehension, in exchange for protection against natural forces wildly outside of their own control?

So tell me, beekeepers, what are you to your bees, if not a mildly eldritch God?

[cordyceps-sapiens]

I don’t know about other cultures, but in English folklore, when a beekeeper dies someone has to go out and tell the bees.

[baconmancr]

Imagine you’re a neolithic hunter-gatherer, just hanging out, sacrificing stuff to your god, when a new god you’ve never met before shows up and tells you that your god is dead, it’s not your fault or anything, and maybe a new god will come along to take care of you, maybe not, it’s gonna be touch and go for a while

[fox-sama97]

Apparently in medieval Europe they also whispered secrets to the bees.

So imagine the mildly eldritch God you worship talks to you and tells you secrets, but these secrets make no sense to you and are incomprehensible to understand or even know they are secrets. But your God does make vibrations at you, so thats probably a good thing right??

Also occasionally the Swarm decides there is not enough room in the Hive because the eldritch god didn't take the offering of Honey at their normal time. So enough of a Swarm builds up that the second queen is able to leave without decimating the first Swarm. They are all set to search out a new place that will likely not have your God anymore (but really that's not too much of a struggle, they have abandoned you, that's part of why you've left, even though the first Swarm still holds out hope for their return).

And then, the scouts find another Hive right next to the old Hive. Literally right next to it. So the Queen lands to inspect it and wow, it's a good deal. The area already has enough food to support 2 Hives, so it's a not problem to stay in the area now that they have the space, but...this wasn't here before.

And then you see God, they've come to help the Swarm move to the new Hive and take the offering from the old Hive. Truly this must have been their plan all along

[samyazaz]

In English folklore, you ALSO have to invite your bees to your wedding, and decorate their hive, and leave a slice of cake for them, and also bring your new spouse by to introduce them to the hive straightaway. Imagine your eldritch god doing THAT.

[eldritchscholar]

#these polite beekeepers are just modeling the behavior they would like to see from their own god maybe? #perhaps if we could sting God he would tell us secrets

[ednav]

“Perhaps if we could sting God he would tell us secrets” — maybe we can?

[pileofeyes]

[ledwinged]