The giant bees have two languages. One is a sign language very similar to human sign languages, but with more hands, fewer fingers, and a hard-coded method of communicating distance (it’s basically exactly like the bee dance language, just done with the hands)
The other is a tactile language. This one is communicated using light touches with the antennae, similar to morse code with a few more components than dots and dashes. They use this tactile language to communicate with grubs, giving them their first taste of language by associating certain words with the experiences they can perceive, like being held or fed. This also becomes the grub’s first opportunity to understand its own body as nurse bees inform it what it may be feeling.
When adult bees emerge from the comb after pupating, they have near-complete adult faculties but cannot speak the full sign language, since obviously, they have never seen it and didn’t have hands before to speak it with. So for a couple years after emergence they rely on the tactile language, allowing them to function in a rudimentary way while they get a crash course in a full and complex language.
Being a grub, and being a new adult worker are both vulnerable times where they rely a lot on trust and care from their sisters, so the bees associate the tactile language with this vulnerability. Even in older bees it is the language of trust, care and closeness, they never stop using it.
T’challa at age 5: Baba, when I am older, I will join the Dora Milaje and protect the throne and our country!!
Thor at age 5: FATHER WHEN I GROW UP, I’M GONNA BE A VALKYRIE AND RIDE A WINGED HORSE AND HIT THINGS WITH MY SWORRRRRDDDD
This totally happened
But since this likely DID happen – can you imagine how amazed Thor will be once he hears about the Dora Milaje?
the real story here tho
Valkyrie meeting the Dora Milaje, these beautiful strong warrior women who fight as one. Okoye, who looks at her with cool and assessing eyes and nods, a slight incline of her head as regal as any queen.
“Sister,” Okoye calls her, and leads her to the armoury because while they can all fight alone, none should have to.
oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.
Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.
Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.
When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.
Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.
Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed
This is the book you want: The Timetables of History – going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.) Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.
Lyft driver: “Your name, is Slavic? Me too. Bulgarian. I drive fast for you, brother.”
Now he’s waxing philosophical about the Ottoman Empire, imperialism, and human nature. “Humans? We are the most dangerous animal. Other animals, they kill when they need to. We kill when we think we need to. It is not the same.”
He just monologued about climate change and the military industrial complex, and the difficulty of having a Balkan identity when every Balkan country changes hands “every twenty years”. “Our history is getting swallowed by the biggest fish, and that fish getting swallowed by the next biggest fish, and so on.”
He had so many more gems. We compared family names, realized that his daughter shares my grandfather’s name (the feminine version), and then he started talking about The Old Country. The city where he grew up had a population of 300, and the population of his whole country could fit inside Chicago. He came here twenty years ago seeking a better life, but “everything in America is too big, the cars, the problems, the inequality”. He pointed to his phone and called it “stupid little computer” that’s meant to control his life, not to improve it, and how the world is getting steadily worse and the little people can’t do anything about it. He told me to continue my studies so that I don’t grow up to work in the service industry and can instead try to stop the concentration of power into the hands of corrupt people. Then he shrugged and said, “But who knows? Can anyone do it? I don’t know if it’s possible.”
I say: I want the Tony ships in one chart explained
They say: nobody can do it the world is not ready
I say: watch me
starkquill isnt on here but please let me recommend: chaotic stupid
They say: Starkquill isn’t on the chart
I say: Watch this.
And now they ask: But where would Tony/Vision fall?
I said: here.
They say: this is Rhodey erasure!
I say: I am really glad that you noticed that Rhodey isn’t there, because nobody really seems to complain in fanart or fanfics either. I did it on purpose to see how many of you care, and I see now, that you do. So please spread the word and put. More. Rhodey. In. Fanfics. And. Fanarts. Just simply make him a complete valid part in the fandom like Steve or Bucky or Thor.
Imagine being able to detach your titties before bed.. so you could actually sleep on your stomach. Lol
My dumb ass gon over sleep and forget my tiddies in the morning..
Keys … wallet… damn, my titties .
My grandma had one of her breasts removed after a bout of breast cancer (she recovered fine) and never got reconstruction so every morning she had to stick this beanbag fake boob in her bra so her chest would be even since her other breast was pretty big. One day my family drove by her house to pick her up and she got in the car like “I can’t shake the feeling I’m forgetting something” and halfway to church she suddenly shouted “MY BOOB” and made my dad turn around so she could go get it
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