#ensignbeedrill

[ask-vj-and-j]

Valjean, I assume you bought the house on Rue Plumet because of the secret passage and the cottage hidden in the back. How did you find out about these features? When looking at houses, did you find any others with such appeal?

I have learned to be aware of the smallest details in regards to the spaces I inhabit. As for other places you would be surprised what old houses contain that most people might never be aware of. 

Valjean 

[pilferingapples]

I have no game but here's a random question: pick your least favorite character from each of your top three favorite fandoms. Then rank them in order from least tolerable to most tolerable.

OH WOW how do I even pick Top Three Fandoms 

okay uh Star Trek TOS: The Gamesters of Triskelion (who are pretty much indistinguishable from each other). They can Eat Transporter Accident. I trust I do not have to elaborate.Sentai- Basco ta Jalokia, from Gokaiger-- I don’t think I have ever hated  a villain quite so viscerally and satisfyingly??  I was screaming outrage every time he walked into the scene. And this was a show with Space Imperialists! and he was STILL the worst!  Truly Amazing levels of Terrible Smug Villain Energy. I cheered so very loud when he got his Villain Death. Les Mis-- Gillenormand! listen I  know  there are Worse People in the story and also in life, but also; Are There Really?

[thebeeblogger]

@ensignbeedrill: Hello, bee blogger! I saw this interesting bee and am having a hard time identifying it. Could you or perhaps your followers help? I just think the stripes look cool.

Very interesting indeed! I believe it may be a doppelganger fly due to there only being two wings - but its eyes look bee-like. What do you all think? 

[pilferingapples]

Trope: that thing that HAS to happen in every sci fi show: time loop! Character lives through the same day over and over and has to convince the other characters that this is happening.

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

THIS IS SO GOOD, SUCH GOOD TROPES COMING MY WAY it’s just BUILT for an examination of how Small Choices Affect the Larger Story , which is one of my favorite things in A Fiction, PLUS it offers the glorious impossible wish fulfillment of “doing it all again but knowing what you know NOW”  and ALSO the potential wish fulfillment of getting to act without any consequences because HEY there’s just gonna be a big reset button at the end of the day?? A wonder. A Gift.  A nesting doll of glorious narrative potential, and all it needs is a bit of handwavey fictionbabble to get underway.

[pilferingapples]

Your theme song: Deep in the Heart of Texas.

My superpower is forcing everyone to stop and clap 

unfortunately I have to stop and clap too so I don’t get much done with it

[simplyirenic]

Top 5 butterfly species.

full confession i don’t know anything about butterflies so i googled some butterflies and picked the prettiest most iridescent ones

Morpho zephyritis

Papilio oribazus

Limenitis arthemis

Palaechrysophanus hippothoe

Nymphalis antiopa

[simplyirenic]

Top five flowers.

i............i don’t know flowers very well i’m so sorry

bird of paradise

sacred lotus

iris

lilac

cherry blossom

[simplyirenic]

29,42,50

29. What book are you currently reading?i’m currently reading Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw! i am normally deeply allergic to vampires as a whole but the series was advertised to me as “van helsing descendant protagonist is a physician who treats the supernatural community,” and the first book (Strange Practice) was an entertaining enough romp. the second book is...not that i have a right to judge, but sometimes plots can get a little too self-indulgent and i want to go back to the MC, like, actually doing physician things.

42. What is your favourite trilogy?the glib answer: The Lord of the Rings :Vthe more recent answer: the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin; close runner up is the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie

50. What book got you into reading?probably like...any book, honestly, but i remember actively seeking out the Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne in the library as a small child, so i think i’m going to go with that. 

ask me book questions!!