#sixthousandbees

[ponyretirementhome]

hi! can i please request a twishy? I just think they're soft. I love your style!

The softest animal shelter story time ever ✨🦋

[charlie-b-t]

sixthousandbees replied to your post “the owner came, i got him to label every drawer with names, sizes and...”

*gasp* is that YOU in the picture?? with the white snake draped over your shoulders? Well done on getting over the terror!! battling phobias is a hard task, congratulations on your progress

I mean i was never PHOBIC of snakes, i was just regular scared

and im still scared of most of these, some of them move real quick and got real hissy, but 2 in particular were just super chill and i spent like a full hour working up from touching gently with my finger to petting to letting it in my lap to being climbed all over like a tree by the end of it i was no longer afraid of the white snake (other than his head) and only a little nervous around the other friendly one. The rest i still Dont Trust At All but at least just seeing them move is no longer making me go full monkey-brain ^_^’’’’

((((funny story but i have had a couple different nightmares already since they arrived and in one of them they cooked by the heating pad and so i woke up and wanted to make sure they were still alive and i opened a drawer and when i saw a snake sitting in the snake drawer i FLINCHED like i somehow had not been actually prepared to see a snake XD)))

[dank-morpork]

sixthousandbees replied to your post: Post moar FedEx

FedEx does shipping

Right. I’m a dumb.

[xenoqueer]

OK so the question about the cancer episode for Cells at Work. It felt like they were trying for some social commentary. The cancer cell character was rebellious and fighting against the police, after barely escaping being brutally murdered as a child by said police force. Biologically that argument holds up, because they will destroy us, and there is no alternative. Politically, that argument is obscene. The episode was good, but the meta gave me shivers. Whats your take on this?

So, IDK if you wanted me to respond to this ask still, after we spoke privately, but I do think it presents an interesting opportunity to examine the ways that different media can create very different readings even in a very similar audience. 

I can’t recall if I’ve gone into the subject on this blog or not, but I have an autoimmune disease that has been known to leave me bedridden from time to time, and severely impacts my ability to “get out there and live in the real world,” as certain particularly reprehensible individuals have occasionally told me to do. 

I’m also a very politically active second generation immigrant.

And, for me, I feel that the cancer cell was treated as a sympathetic, tragic figure in very stark contrast to the way that the monstrous invader bacterial cells and parasitic viruses that had previously appeared on the show. As someone whose daily reality is existing as the product of a biological system that has “betrayed” me, there was something compelling and cathartic about seeing the disease cell treated as compassionately as possible, while still ultimately needing to be executed for the health of the human being.

As someone whose daily reality is existing as an inborn “invasive” “parasitic” “drain” on the political society, I inhabit (child of immigrants, disabled, rabble rousing, etc), I understand where the discomfort with the storyline comes from, and I think it’s quite valid. But it wasn’t the takeaway for me.

Of the people I know who both have or had cancer and who watched the episode, there’s an almost dead even split (there’s only three of them and it’s two positive opinions, one negative). 

I also think, as I explained earlier, that the show must be considered from the perspective of an edutainment tool aimed at the tween and early teen demographic. For a 12 year old who barely knows what the fuck cancer is beyond “not good,” it’s a surprisingly heartfelt and nuanced representation of something going horribly wrong in your body and needing to be dealt with. Of your body itself being the cause of a disease.

Kids are smart, but even as adults, the idea that sometimes your own meat is what’s making you sick is really hard to comprehend. 

Given the choice between not having this kind of easy introduction to such a hard, hard topic or not, I’ll take the unfortunate implications in exchange for the tool that the episode adds to the arsenal of, “how to enter difficult discussions with kids.”

Is it shitty that one of the implications of the episode is, “if you’re born different, you’re destined to kill everyone around you and then be killed in turn?”

Abso-fucking-lutely. 

The show isn’t flawless or anything.

But I think I would rather have the episode than not, even if it could be dramatically improved in some ways. After all, the same stuff that creates that shitty implication is the stuff that creates the tragic and sympathetic aspect of the disease as being in-born and ultimately out of the human being’s control.

[mlp-hearts]

sixthousandbees replied to your photoset “Some references of Alien Sunset’s tatts because I’m gonna die sooner...”

hEY SO this might be considered """cheating""" but have you considered just ctrl pasting these into place? I've seen a drawing tats tutorial that used transform tool & shit to just whap tats in place.

lol yeah I’m actually making vectors so I have cleaner versions of this and I may or may not have done this in the past (´꒳`)

[ponyretirementhome]

if I'm allowed a second request, please can I have a trixie drawing! perhaps a friendshippy thing of her and spike hanging out? your art is so full of life I love it!

Thank you so much!!! And my only rules so far for requests are no OCs and no romancey ships with Spike (other pedo ships also implied, so no CMCs w any adult characters etc); there’s nothing that says you can’t request more than one thing!

I’m not fond of the fact that they made Spike a dog in EQG but whatever. Here’s my EQG adjacent AU where Spike is as human as anyone else and practicing card tricks with Trixie 💫🐲

[charlie-b-t]

How's the twine story coming along? I've found another hint if you'd like it. You can give some passages the "header" or "footer" tag and they'll be displayed above/beneath every other passage. i.e. I'm going to have one at the bottom saying "the time is $time". hope its going well!!

Would that be just adding it in manually every time or did you figure out a big block of text that makes a clock? I for sure dont have anythign like that hahaIts going okay! i reached the end of the second level (of 4) and am taking a brief break from it to draw (been a rough week and i cant concentrate on writing in this mood, its making everything too melodramatic and embarrassing), figured out how to add a puzzle (im very slow about this stuff) and backtracked a little to add it in fairly. have a few thigns to fix but nothing too bad,mostly just to make it easier to read

I need to draw a layout for the next floor and thats all irl paper stuff ;p

[xenoqueer]

Hi, I'm rereading Night Watch for the glorious 25th of may, and I know you've got Opinions about sex-work. How do you feel about vimes (and by extension pterrys) gentle mocking of sex work, with seamstresses and such. is it purely a cultural bias that sees it as mocking and not playful?

I realize this is practically a personal moral failing as a queer millennial, but I have never read any Terry Pratchett novels. The truth is, there are so many of them, and they’re all held up as such critical cultural touchstones that I’m genuinely intimidated.

From what I know of Pratchett, he was emphatically a good and kind person and I can’t imagine he meant to be cruel to sex workers in his books, if he did so, but I just honestly don’t know.