Jul 1, 2025
brokeback mountain x sufjan stevens - the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!
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brokeback mountain x sufjan stevens - the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!
sufjan stevens fan art because of course
Predatory Wasp (Genus Astata), male, taken September 29, 2025, in Georgia, US
A very handsome and somewhat fly-like wasp perching on a bunch of dead flowers! This guy was the ultimate subject, posing at many different angles and holding still for minutes at a time, likely perturbed by my presence. He threw me for a loop when I first saw him because eyes that touch and a fuzzy face are usually traits I associate with flies! I knew he couldn't be one, however, because he has two pairs of wings which all flies lack, even wasp-mimics. This genus is apparently known for preying on stink and shield bugs, so the rice stink bugs that are abundant in these fields better watch out!
Mitski - The Frost / Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!
June 2025: More First Week Of June
The Red Menace in one of his favorite new murder holes behind the volunteer tomatoes:
Thursday's harvest. It might seem meager but I can't remember us every having a summer squash produce a fruit this size this early in the growing season:
occasionally, that wasp sufjan stevens tried to warn me about catches me unawares and then it fucking gets me
north of savanna, we swim in the palisades I come out wearing my brother's red hat there on his shoulder, my best friend is bit seven times he runs washing his face in his hands
// sketch based on the predatory wasp of the palisades by sufjan stevens
something about the human condition or doemthing; somstbing about finding fifty-something covers of the "predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!" on youtube made ten-or-so years ago with cracked voices and grainy video and inconsistent singing voices and just. thinking about people ive never met who have never sang professionally in their lives being united by a beautiful song, being united in the experience and the story it tells, taking to youtube in all of their unpolished glory to share a song that made them feel something enough to bare some vulnerable part of themselves to the world; theres something so distinctly human about that