Hey look, a giveaway!!
That’s right, kiddies, I’m holding a giveaway!!
Since I’ve gotten so many followers recently, I thought it’d be a good time!! I’m almost at 200, so I suppose we can consider it made for that?? xDD
Ahhh it’s just I love them all so <33
Anyways, the prizes are:
- All 20 Homestuck stickers
- A pair of troll horns (except Tavros, Aradia, Gamzee, or Equius)
- Official Gamzee and Tavros shirts! (If you are a size medium or small)
Heehee not much, but I hope it’s good!!
Now for the rules:
- You get 4 reblogs and 1 like. I will be counting, so you will be disqualified if you have a 6th note!
- You don’t have to be following me, but I would really, really like you to, since this was made for my followers!!
- Anyone can enter, worldwide. Just only enter once. Please don’t use multiple/side accounts.
- I will send the winner asks once the giveaway is over. If the winner doesn’t respond within 24 hours, I will choose another.
- Giveaway ends June 10th.
That’s it!!
Enter and have fun~!
He scoffed under his breath, taking the tidbit from her fingers gently with his forefangs. After checking up on Honey- the snake hadn’t moved much and the squeakbeast was lying beside him- he retrieved a few different kinds of alcohol from the livingblock and set them on the counter.
“Well, you’ve probably not gathered enough info on me, then, becauthe I’m thtill completely unthure about my feelingth for you. But thankth for being tho thtraightforward.”
“After you’re finished with that, I got thome different kindth of drinkth out of the main room, if you want to look ‘em over.”
“Hmm, now do you mean when I’m done cooking or when I’m done chugging those down? You should know that it takes a whole lot of booze to get me drunk, since my body is, after all, a filter.”
She tossed the two cuts out of the pan, skillfully catching them on a plate without a drop of delicious greasy fat flying away. Turning the oven off, she poured a small amount of water on the hot metal, leaving it on the eye to cool down.
“Well, I thought that since we’re friends… It would be silly to not at least tell you. Friends tell friends things, after all. I doubt your feelings are romantic though, to be honest. You seem uninterested when I make any sort of gesture.”
Not trusting herself to salt the food properly, seeing as she couldn’t taste salt, she offered him both slices, salt shaker resting between them complete with knives and forks.
“Here!”
He clapped a few times at the impressive display, worrying his lower lip with his over-sized fangs.
“What do you mean, ‘any thort of gethture?’ You lick and teathe me all of the time, and thometimeth cuddle me, I guethh- oh. Thankth.”
He stared at the strips for a moment, then cut off another piece and took a bite to actually taste instead of gulp down. Deciding that it wasn’t quite salted enough, he sprinkled it once-over and then dug in.
PSA for my followers
It seems my internet is going to be turned off some time today because my mother is unable to pay our bills.
So, I will not be on for an unknown span of time.
I’ll reply as best I can to what I need to today, but otherwise you will probably hear naught from me for an long while.
Hey look, a giveaway!!
That’s right, kiddies, I’m holding a giveaway!!
Since I’ve gotten so many followers recently, I thought it’d be a good time!! I’m almost at 200, so I suppose we can consider it made for that?? xDD
Ahhh it’s just I love them all so <33
Anyways, the prizes are:
- All 20 Homestuck stickers
- A pair of troll horns (except Tavros, Aradia, Gamzee, or Equius)
- Official Gamzee and Tavros shirts! (If you are a size medium or small)
Heehee not much, but I hope it’s good!!
Now for the rules:
- You get 4 reblogs and 1 like. I will be counting, so you will be disqualified if you have a 6th note!
- You don’t have to be following me, but I would really, really like you to, since this was made for my followers!!
- Anyone can enter, worldwide. Just only enter once. Please don’t use multiple/side accounts.
- I will send the winner asks once the giveaway is over. If the winner doesn’t respond within 24 hours, I will choose another.
- Giveaway ends June 10th.
That’s it!!
Enter and have fun~!
REBLOG : This girl was found dead the morning after this photo was taken. She died of suffucation, and was found with a plastic bag over her head. She loved taking pictures of herself. It wasn’t until a week after she was killed, her sister found this on her laptop. Police investigations have no lead on her murder except for the man hidden in this picture. The mans identity remains unknown. If you dont reblog this in 254 seconds this man will appear in one of your pictures and kill you the same way she was.
dammit..
take no chancesssss
((OOC: Not really reblogging because I’m worried.
More reblogging because I find it hilarious that the beloved sister would bother making a motivational poster of her dead sisters last picture. but.. Hole in the story..))
Ayyyyy….I’m going to reblog this because I was watching a vaguely similar Ghost Whisperer episode and needless to stay I am a bit scared…
Heh…
-sighs-
TAKE NO CHANCES~
wtf….?
i genuinely am paranoid that everyone secretly hates me and thinks i am really really annoying and awful and is pretending to be my friend and it’s all part of some big joke
Untangling the now-rather-long snake from his neck was a bit of a pain, but he was eventually able to lay the snake in the sink. By the time he had finished, the odor of the meat cooking had permeated the block, making his mouth water.
He swallowed.
“It’th no problem, really.”
They sit in silence for a moment.
“How do you know I don’t think of you ‘like that?’”
“Well.. I haven’t seen any signs of it really. You don’t seem to show any interest, in fact you find me awfully annoying from what I gather!”
She stared down at the sizzling meat, turning it over and adding another cut into the pan. There wasn’t much fat in this meat, but there was enough to grease the pan. Meat cooking in its own fat was always delicious in her opinion. Cutting a cooked bit off of the first chunk, she blew on it until it was cool, offering it to him to taste.
“I mean it’d be okay of course if you wanted to just be friends, I just.. Well.. Yeah. I guess I thought it’d be better to stop dancing around it and just give you a heads up on the situation.”
He scoffed under his breath, taking the tidbit from her fingers gently with his forefangs. After checking up on Honey- the snake hadn’t moved much and the squeakbeast was lying beside him- he retrieved a few different kinds of alcohol from the livingblock and set them on the counter.
“Well, you’ve probably not gathered enough info on me, then, becauthe I’m thtill completely unthure about my feelingth for you. But thankth for being tho thtraightforward.”
“After you’re finished with that, I got thome different kindth of drinkth out of the main room, if you want to look ‘em over.”
Hey look, a giveaway!!
That’s right, kiddies, I’m holding a giveaway!!
Since I’ve gotten so many followers recently, I thought it’d be a good time!! I’m almost at 200, so I suppose we can consider it made for that?? xDD
Ahhh it’s just I love them all so <33
Anyways, the prizes are:
- All 20 Homestuck stickers
- A pair of troll horns (except Tavros, Aradia, Gamzee, or Equius)
- Official Gamzee and Tavros shirts! (If you are a size medium or small)
Heehee not much, but I hope it’s good!!
Now for the rules:
- You get 4 reblogs and 1 like. I will be counting, so you will be disqualified if you have a 6th note!
- You don’t have to be following me, but I would really, really like you to, since this was made for my followers!!
- Anyone can enter, worldwide. Just only enter once. Please don’t use multiple/side accounts.
- I will send the winner asks once the giveaway is over. If the winner doesn’t respond within 24 hours, I will choose another.
- Giveaway ends June 10th.
That’s it!!
Enter and have fun~!
All Hail The Queen!
I’m skipping over a couple of hive inspection tales to get to this, but I’m just so stoked that I have to post about this first. Today’s the most exciting day in my (brief) beekeeping career thus far. My girls are so talented. Here’s what happened:
The Problem
One of my hives has been much stronger than the other from the get-go, as evidenced by pretty much everything from wax and honey production to number of bees. They’re just plugging along, multiplying like mad and bringing in impressive amounts of pollen and nectar. For future reference, I will henceforth refer to it as the Hive of Champions.
The weak hive, henceforth referred to as the Underdog Hive, was less productive, but I was told that they wouldn’t be evenly matched so I wasn’t that worried at first. But on May 6, I went out to do a hive inspection and found, to my horror, that Underdog Hive was, in fact, (gasp!) QUEENLESS. This is no good and also very bad.
Now I hear what you’re saying, “Uh, Kimberly, you couldn’t find the queen before, so what makes you think she’s not just hiding out?” Well, because seeing her is not the only, or indeed the best, way to know she’s there. Queens do one thing: make more bees, so if there’s a complete absence of eggs and brood (baby bees), there’s also the complete absence of a queen. For comparison, over in the Hive of Champions, things looked like this:
I circled some things to help you see what’s going on. The orange circle is capped honey. This honey has reached the appropriate level of moisture and has been capped with wax. The blue circle shows eggs that have grown into the larvae stage. The red circle is capped brood, or baby bees who have matured into the pupa stage. This is what I want to see when I go out for an inspection.
What To Do?
Being the newbie beekeeper I am, I had no idea what to do with my queen-less situation so I called Buster’s Bees, where I got my ladies. I explained that I was missing a queen but that I had spotted hatched queen cells. They look a bit like peanuts. You can see them circled in red below.
This means that my hive had indeed created some queens. They choose eggs at a particular stage of maturity and start to feed them tons of royal jelly, a protein-rich magical solution that comes from glands on the worker bees’ heads. These eggs, which would otherwise have been normal worker bees, grow into young queens.
Waiting…The Hardest Part
Buster said he could get me an emergency queen replacement, but since it looked like they had created their own, I should wait long enough to see whether they’d succeeded before trying to intervene. I’d need to try to figure out when the queens had hatched then allow about 18 days for the queen to mature, mate, and lay eggs I could see. So I’ve spent the last two weeks checking vigilantly for eggs, only to find the Underdog Hive dwindling and sad. No sign of baby bees.
Success!
I planned to call for emergency royalty today, but figured since the weather’s nice, I’d check one more time to see if they’d proved me wrong. To be honest, I was doubting them. When I went out to the hive, the first thing I noticed was that they’d glued the inner lid on, something the Hive of Champions does every time I leave but Underdog Hive had never done. That seemed good. Next, I noticed that they’d started adding wax to some of the frames that had been empty. I was getting excited. I pulled the first frame: nectar. The next: tons of honey. The third: BABY BEES!!! Hurrah! I heard a little royal trumpet song in my head and got way more excited than I should probably publicly admit. They made themselves a queen and she is hard at work!
The Making of a Queen: A Fight To The Death
Okay, this was thrilling to me not just because I didn’t have to buy an emergency queen, but because it means that all sorts of badass action has been going on in my back yard. Here’s where things get exciting: Once the queens hatch, it’s battle royale time and they fight to the death until there is only one. They’re like the Highlander of insects. Queens’ stingers aren’t barbed like other bees’ stingers, so they can sting repeatedly without dying. Once my six virgin queens emerged from their queen cells, they hunted each other down within the hive and went on murderous rampages to destroy all heirs to the throne until only one remains. The absolutely amazing bee photographer Eric Tourneret actually captured one of these annihilation sessions in progress:
Brutal.
The Making of a Queen: Slutty + Murderous
Once she’s mature and has taken out the competition, she waits for a windless day then goes out to slut it up with seven to fifteen drones (boy bees), filling an organ called the spermatheca with sperm that she’ll use over the course of her lifetime to fertilize worker bee eggs. She flies high and fast so that only the strong among them will mate with her and usually does not mate with drones from her own hive. The poor drones, who seem to always get the short end of the stick, die after mating because his penis and abdominal organs are ripped out after intercourse. The queen basically leaves a trail of the dead in her wake. She is not messing around.
Bee sex photo also by Eric Tourneret.
When all that’s done, she returns to the hive and begins her duties as queen: laying as many as 2,000 eggs per day (two! thousand!) and keeping things on track with her pheromones. Her Majesty is fed by her attendants, who also have the questionable honor of removing her waste from the hive.
You can see why I’m impressed that all of this happened without a glitch. Go, Underdog Hive, go!
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