#qwuilleran

[flyingcrowbar]

I must know if there is a difference between what you call apple "jam" and I call apple butter (cook down the apples in a crock pot until they're kind of thick dry applesauce, infused with spices and doused in brown sugar)0

Cubed chunks of apple! Definitely not a jelly or apple butter. It’s delicious. 🤤

[asgardian--angels]

BEES?

BEES

I’m assuming this is for the top 5 thing, I hope! I don’t think I’ve ever ranked bees before, this is tough!

My top five bees:

5. Nelumbo masked bee, Hylaeus nelumbonis. I saw a lot of these during my study this summer, they are only found in wetlands and are one of the most colorful of their genus :)

4. Hoplitis mason bees. They’re little, with green eyes and white furry bellies and they bring joy into my life. 

3. Agh, this is my toss-up spot. It’s tied between eastern carpenter bees (Xylocopa virginica), agile longhorn bees (Melissodes agilis), and squash bees (Peponapis pruinosa). All have fluffy males with them big ol’ eyes and I love to pick them up and generally ruin their day with my love and affection. 

2. Nomad bees, genus Nomada. All of them (I say this mostly because they’re really hard to ID so I don’t know which ones I’m looking at). Adorable little babbies. Kleptoparasites so their larvae kill their host and eat all their food but you know. It adds to their charm. 

1. Small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. My former lab worked extensively with these and they imprinted on my heart. They’re my children. 

I’m sure I’ll remember way more of them as soon as I’m done writing this lol. There’s 400 in my area alone, 4000 in North America, so can you blame me for not being able to choose so easily??

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

@qwuilleran​ replied to your post “I want to give people warmth and softness but I can’t . Abuse drained...”

I'm not crying it's just 3am and I'm sleep-deprived

crying is okay, sweetheart. <3

[mezimraky]

H.E.Y. K.A.I. !! please tell me about your books

BOOKS & YOU thank you @qwuilleran. sending you love 💛

H: What’s the longest book you’ve ever read? my goodreads says that probably great expectations by charles dickens, and i feel it may be true, disregarding page count, it’s the longest story i’d stuck with.

E: What are three book blogs (besides macrolit natch ;D) that I should follow? I personally very much enjoy quotes content, so @violentwavesofemotion, then mil @ivory--and--gold always provides me with much appreciated sillyposting of the classics and also i love her, and and @tinyghosthands creates some of the most magnificent poetry that i’d come across on tumblr, so. there. i’m not sure if it counts but i hope it does.

Y: Do you have a favorite quote? i have a couple. bits and pieces of the picture of dorian gray, and how those wonderful words spark emotion. the whole of richard brautigan’s in watermelon sugar is one lovely quote in its entirety. it sits in my heart at all times. and then there are fragments of czech poetry, that i could not begin to translate as tenderly as they themselves are tender but i suppose i could try. one of bohuslav reynek’s poems starts with “bože můj, hořím nadějí,/  že věci, které se nedějí, / se stanou”, that is ‘my lord, i burn with hope that / the things that are impossible / shall happen” -- in czech it has such strong light in it, just the music of that sentence alone. or of the more eartly poetry let me call on václav hrabě, that wandering beatnik, and his “končím bez potlesku / ráno mne uvidíte / jak krmím racky nad řekou svým povídáním / a plivaje na oblohu dělám obláčky / neboť božský měsíc / má kocovinu / a je potřeba aby to někdo udělal / než pojedou lidé do práce”, that would be “i end without applause / in the morning you’ll see me / feeding the seagulls over the river with my words / and spitting on the sky making little clouds / for the holy moon / is hungover / and somebody has to do it / before the people go to work”. this is starting to get longer and longer, so i will not insert a direct quote of mr bohumil hrabal himself but trust that in his books there are a great many instances that touch me deeply and make me feel. něžný barbar, the gentle barbarian, more than some.

K: Favorite male writer? i have since some time ago given up on writers as someone to look up to, because it’s too complex to judge them as human beings while also appreciating their work, but not being biased by either. i have some that i mentioned before that i feel a connection to, but i am not sure i’d like to put them as a person on a pedestal of a favourite.

A: What’s the first book you see with a red spine? i’m not quarantined at home, so i am not surrounded by my books, but i do know i have kurt vonnegut’s mother night on a shelf right in the front

I: Do you have a favorite poet? same thing that went for the writers question. though perhaps there is a couple more of those, because i’ve grown to appreciate poetry over prose in these past few years.

[angelcatsiel]

How you feelin? Still sick?

💐💐🌼💐🌷💐🌷💐🏵💐💐 🐝 ~~`~~,~~`~~,~~

Still not great but I am definitely improving day by day! Just really looking forward to getting out of this hospital now, I'm not sure I remember what the outside world looks like 😂 Thank you for checking in and for the lil bee and flowers, that's so cute! You are very appreciated ❤️

[flyingcrowbar]

book ask: Tuck Everlasting.

I always liked the ending 🐸

I also thought it was only a movie! I am boo boo the fool.

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

put a book in my ask!

[angelcatsiel]

You like gin? I've never met a gin I like. Do you have a favorite brand/make?

I do but I’m kind of fussy about it! I have one specific brand pretty much and I don’t know if it would exist in the US or anything but it’s called Hortus gin and it tastes pretty good

[super-sootica]

Me tooooo?😎🥸 😫 Whattt? I haven't even clicked on any of them! 😭😭

That’s so spooky!   How are they getting us when we don’t even click on them?