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sanchoyo · 3 years

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danny phantom season 2, eps 1-5 thoughts! opening the new season with episodes like these kinda blew me away. we had multiple serious episodes INCLUDING a two parter!! also, valerie :)

see prev episode thoughts in this tag <3

-I don't know what I expected s2 to open with. but danny portal incident in more detail was not it. (also, I hate to break it to you, sam, but danny's parent's bigass ghost hunting rv def chugs more gas than those vehicles, lmao. unless it runs on ectoplasm or something...)

-WHY WAS DESIREE IN THE SEWER? HAVING TEA WITH IT DOWN THERE?? Her making the giant cow come alive is a boss move, we've almost had all of my fav animals as ghosts now <3 I also don't like how sam was expecting danny to just, haunt the place so the cars wouldn't get sold? I KNOWWW I know she's 14 (and I had a very annoying phase like this, I think I mentioned in a previous post, I GET IT) but they're HIS powers, and messing with (1) dealership will not really put a dent in sales overall because they can just move the cars to another sales lot, and it certainly wont change the industry anyway, it's more of a minor annoyance for (1) location. Also, usually people who work at car sales places work on commission, so if they dont make a sale, they don't have money to pay bills, or eat. sam baby if u wanna be an activist you need to like, actually look into these things. with as much money as her parents have, she could be doing a lot..more useful things for causes she cares about? it's frustrating to see someone with resources who doesn't know how to use them. but shes 14 so again. cannot be really upset :/

-IS THIS A PREDATOR VS TERMINATOR VS FREDDY KRUEGER MOVIE BUT THEYRE ALL WOMEN?? you know, sam is so right to be excited about this. /I/ want to see this movie. that rules

-paulina inviting danny and friends to her quinceañera, aw! even if it is just to get phantom to show up :') and there'll be a meteor shower, and we KNOW danny wants to be an astronaut!! there's not a meteor shower every night!! the tickets are non-refundable, but..she's rich? like. gotta agree with danny, they never get invited!! I KNOW it's the principle of keeping promises, but if she was that upset, she should've said something. directly. I hated how she was like, passive aggressive about it through the episode, like you SAID IT WAS FINE, THAT YOU'D GO TO THE PARTY TOO. MOVIES SHOW FOR A FEW WEEKS IN THEATERS. IF YOU HAD A REAL PROBLEM YOU NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. WE'VE HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE, SAM. YOUR FRIENDS. ARE NOT. MIND READERS.

-MR. LANCER GOING AFTER THE GHOST WITH THE FIRE EXTINGISHER LMAO

-this outfit is everything . anytime the show does an over the top cutesty pink outfit i WANT IT. it looks like shit I wear JKASDHF I HAVE a bow like that and a pink sweater. I need leg warmers </3

-SAMS GOTTA RE-HALF-KILL HIM??? thats fucked up. but also, he finally got his logo!! it took until s2!!! this episode was lowkey very fucked and I felt like it glossed over a lot. does sam have guilt about like. kinda KILLING HIM?? I know, he also agreed and walked into the portal. but. she made the choice to redo it SO quickly (even if it was because someone had to beat desiree) and danny, during their fight, brought up a lot of stuff sam's done in the past, meaning he was holding onto those memories and resentment was building. (I KEEP SAYING HE LOWKEY NEEDS THERAPY, BUT I THINK MOST EVERYONE IN THIS SHOW KINDA DOES) which...is a red flag? and then they didnt even GO to the party URGH I know she tried to make up for it, but it really felt like Sam fucked up and barely faced any consequences and got everything she wanted in the end. I KNOW it's a kids show obv they aren't going to go too in depth, and she undid the damage, kinda, but...I DUNNO how to articulate it but it rubbed me the wrong way.

-but on a note about desiree, her powers of wishes were STRONG ENOUGH TO ERASE NOT JUST THEIR MEMORIES, BUT DANNY'S POWERS?! fuck, if I was danny I'd be like, trying to make friends with her. I know they always have horrible side effects as most genie-granted wishes do, but...c'mon, I'd at least TRY to be like 'I wish no ghosts would hurt anyone in my town' or 'I wish vlad would lose his ghost powers forever no matter What and also forget about my mom' LIKE. SHIT DESIREE IS SO POWERFUL. rewriting reality powerful, basically!! appreciate her. respect her.

-aww, sam helping tucker pass the nurse's office so he wouldn't see because he's afraid of medical stuff? very sweet. I also don't like medical stuff, I've gotten a lot better at handling it tho. but seeing blood and needles still makes me feel lightheaded x_x

-FOLEY, BY TUCKER FOLEY. I want to make my own perfume, that's so cool. even if his first attempt isn't good, he's pretty consistently shown to have an inventor/entrepreneur streak in the show, so like. I can see him inventing or making something (or several somethings) that make him $$$ when he grows up :) proud of my creative son

-I know the 'creepy abandoned hospital on the edge of town' is a joke and the creepy hospital trope is so Worn Out, but in my town we actually DO have a hospital like that! my dad was born in it, but its not in use and hasn't been for, like, 20 years! it needs to be torn down but I think the city doesn't wanna pay the money. the inside is horrible, spray painted and broken glass and shit everywhere. but there's still like, rusty equipment and fucking DOLLS all over the place. the cops drive by it pretty frequently to make sure no one is like, breaking in. (because of water damage, some of the areas really aren't safe. also, asbestos, but people still go in anyway) but also, some of my town was used in a filming for a stephen king show. So it's lowkey spooky all over. just a fun personal tidbit :) to lead into saying, any hospital abandoned for any period of time is NOT safe to quarantine these kids in JKSAHDKF like I KNOW it's a ghost trying to do this, but NONE of these parents are even like, 'well, why dont we keep them in the regular, working hospital'....YIKES. this hospital looks pretty accurate to the one in town. grungy and spooky.

-fentons are tax evaders confirmed by jack's fear of being audited, lol no one is surprised

-ghost sickness via ghost bugs. horrifying concept. I actually expected it to be a new villain, not dr. spectra again! this is a very elaborate scheme. her new form rules, love the new costume. the way none of the bg kids seem to recognize her as their old school councilor. did we just forget about that completely?

-dash watching romance movies in the fucked up ghost hospital. same.

-'oh please, you're ghosts, do you have any idea what YOU smell like?' no, tucker, what DO ghosts smell like? I genuinely didn't know they would even have a smell, I actually want to know now.

-it feels like a while since we've seen jazz!! i was happy to see her again, even if she was a head in a jar for most the episode. I want another jazz-focused ep!!

-we finally see danny doing space-related stuff!! him and his friends stargazing to open ep 3 of s2. cute :) until, GHOST PIRATES!!!!! ...ghost pirate captain is a small child?? VOICED BY TAYLOR LAUTNER???

-oh, the easy listening is ember's song instrumental slowed. 'vapor drone' THEY VAPORWAVED HER!!! ember in a pirate outfit tho >>>>. and the cruise being called m.bersback JKASDHJK. ember adopting a little pirate brother is also pretty cute. concerning this teen and little kid have such bad opinions of adults, like, who hurt you?? (how did you DIE ALSO?? im always lowkey curious about that. we know desiree died at an old age, but her ghost form is young, probably mid-20s, so I wonder how that sort of thing works...its a more mental thing, isn't it?) but ghost team-ups are always cool to see, even if ember bailed after danny took her guitar. I guess she probably thinks youngblood can handle it (which, he's been owning danny this far in the ep, so...fair)

-tucker got that sponsorship from nasty burger for their radio!!! again, opportunistic money maker king, love to see it!!!

-danny taking control of the kids SO FAST. he makes a pretty great leader. no one is surprised, im pretty sure I said I think he's the most mature of the trio, once again, correct, because he's taken on so much responsibility already. all the teens suiting up in the jumpsuits to go save the adults and taking the ship over with a BLIMP. OKAY LETS GO. this feels like it should be a mid finale or straight up finale.

-...speaking of finales. why is ep 4-5 of s2 combined into a 50 minute episode? I havent even clicked play and im concerned. weird placement, like, this season JUST started and we're getting a two parter? okay...why are the episodes placed like this? why not put this at episode 10 or something, for a mid-season thing?

-this is also a cute dress. possibly my fav dress so far. can her parents give ME cute dresses, I'LL wear them.

-it turns out the castle fright knight was in is called pariah's keep and there's something worse than fright knight in there! lovely! fuck off vlad wtf are you doing <3 your hubris <3 is going to literally get you killed <3 'ring of rage' and 'crown of fire' are great names tho. ...vlad turning into a super polite guy when he was scared of mr. pariah was hilarious. and fright knight doing the same...I mean, it makes sense, he's a knight, he serves a king? happy to see fright knight again either way :) vlad telling him to call him tho, lmfao. you WISH HE WOULD. (I wish hed call me, too. 😔)

-so...jack being genuinely concerned about vlad...maddie really didn't tell him what happened at the cabin, did she. damn. if I was her id immediately come home and be like 'YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS SHITTTT THIS CREEPY GUY--' like, I feel like that stuff you need to tell your partner!!! I know she didnt want Jack to think she was an irresponsible parent putting danny in danger at that time, but STILLLL. maddie spilling boiling tea on him. get his ass. how is jack this oblivious to his wife's discomfort with vlad!! ughhh

-fenton wipe (tm). trademarked toilet paper.

-DANNY AND VALERIE BEING FRIENDS??? :D that was a cute moment. 'hey val <3' and 'if you like him like him, make a move, or someone else will ;)' at sam...damn!! I love her. valerie go for it girl!!! I hate how sam and tucker treat val also, like I GET IT YOURE PROTECTIVE AND DONT TRUST but if anything him befriending valerie will help when she finds out or he tells her like I feel like she'll be more understanding that they think! ALSO I feel like her reason for not liking ghosts is valid, like you haven't really explained the full story to her anyway! she doesn't seem to have any other friends after being booted from the a-listers so im like :( but seeing them kick butt together again was nice <3

-the ghosts all RUNNING FROM PARIAH DARK IS NOT GOOD, I thought he sent them to attack or something, but no. why doesn't someone just tell desiree 'hey i wish pariah dark would die' lol. once again I think she can solve every problem <3 but seeing all the enemies in one place, being civil and hiding together? love it.

-you just know danny's gonna have to clean up vlad's stupid mess. also, jack being willing to put on the ectoskeleton pants to help maddie, as soon as vlad heard it could kill him, he suggested jack do it instead of helping maddie himself? this is why jack got the girl, my man.

-ghost skeletons. how do you end up as a skeleton ghost in your afterlife instead of a humanoid like most the ones we've seen? lmao

-the ghosts just making new homes in various stores. I'd totally be setting up in an expensive clothing store if I was a ghost.

-valerie's dad is possibly the most useful adult so far, with that ghost shield expansion!!! and valerie saving vlad and danny, even tho shes been thru it already, shes still so good!!! this family rules.

-danny: *gently caresses valerie* :)

-*then he immediately TELLS HER DAD ON HER. and his first response is 'are you okay?' :'( such a good dad...

-*me every time fright knight breathes* youre doing SO great sweetie :)

-the fenton suit thing is so silly looking. does anyone take this thing seriously

-ALL THE GHOSTS FIGHTING WITH DANNY <3 AAAAA. and the fact that pariah isn't perma-defeated, but just locked away again. yikes. he'll probably get out again, won't he? it wasn't too clear, but if vlad DID make a pact with fright knight, I am rabid. I will beat vlad to death with the fenton bat (tm). YOU DONT DESERVE A COOL KNIGHT.

-valerie being direct with sam and challenging her? kinda love that, even tho I normally don't like 'catfight' type situations. because sam has been very passive aggressive about it which is annoying. valerie knows wtf she wants and wasn't even embarrassed to tell sam, but she did tell her, giving sam time to make her own move! and sam denied it and got embarrassed/mad! and sam did have a chance when danny was about to go off and fight, and she hesitated and didn't tell him. I feel like she's hesitating because they're friends and it might make it weird between the trio (poor tucker would be third-wheeling) but if u snooze u lose, u gotta GO after what u WANT girl. smh this is a No Tsundere Zone. 😤

#sanchoyorambles #dp thoughts #danny phantom

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tangerinegod · 4 years

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Hello! I am sorry to bother you but I am a senior getting ready for college this year. I am in the US and I wanted to major in the same thing you did, do you have any possible tips for me? I still haven't even looked for colleges that would be best for animation majors so I figured if you were up to giving out any tips/saying any basic ideas if you wanted to/if you had the time to then maybe I'll have a better idea! I apologise for if I sound weird! I'm tried to word it correctly but I can't 😿

hi!! i’m totally down to share my experiences! someone else also had some questions so i’m going to put them all together in this post haha, hopefully this helps! it’ll get pretty long so apologies ahead of time but art school is a lot to think about so i wanna be as helpful as i can around it, its a lot of time and money. I’m gonna put it all under a read more cus it is really really long!

i wanna start off with the fact that I had the privilege of attending school in a financially stable environment, my parents were/are really supportive so w merit scholarship i only came out with around 20-30k in debt and i also had housing support my entire time in school. they were ok with me focusing on academics so i didn’t hold a retail job unless i was out of school like summer/winter break. Ofc though i regularly take commissions/do merch/cons to try and pay for all bills that arent rent cus i did want to be financially independent where it was possible. I also did try and work during the semester but everytime i did my body would deff start to breakdown from the fact that i didnt wanna compromise schoolwork with jobs.. so just read ahead know this experience is from a student who was able to attend focusing only on school work for most of the time!

the biggest thing is knowing art school is not required to become a professional in either freelancing or industry! there are a huuuge amount of online tools and classes these days that provide the exact same education and for cheaper too. i think it depends on what experience you prefer/can handle/want but it’s definitely possible to make art/animation art your living without higher education. the thing that college will for sure give you though is the ability to meet deadlines, work even when you dont want to, and connections with peers+teachers. i think the connections part is invaluable because you’re basically coming out with a network of people you already know and who know you!

also its good to know if you want to attend/can handle art school! it’s a lot of time and energy and students get burned out really fast. the best piece of advice i got before going was ‘if you draw every single day, even if its for only like 5-10 minutes or a doodle for a whole year you should be fine’ consistency is super key because you’re attending school to draw, and you’ll have to create work for stuff you aren’t excited for at some point or another. burnout is extremely real and the only reason i didn’t experience it was probably because i got super into drawing naruto fanart again inbetween sophomore and junior year! it helped give me something to draw seperated from school which is the only thing i was drawing for since i had entered rip. a heads up id also consider myself a workaholic so i fit in ok with the ‘art school’ environment but it is suuper unhealthy. if you are fantastic at managing your schedule then it’s definitely possible to take care of yourself! freshman year i got 8 hours a sleep a night and only pulled all nighters for some second semester finals at the end. sophomore year + up though i ended up prioritizing hw over sleep and like for sure, definitely shortened my life span. there’s another q down below where i’ll go more into detail but ya, be careful w ur work balance!

another tip especially for animation is knowing for a fact what type of animation you’re looking to go into, and what the school is offering. I didn’t think i’d get into art school at the time so i only applied to two places + decided if i didnt get into either id attend community to get credits out of the way while building portfolio. honestly? i did not do a lot of research LOL but like i did end up having the chance to tour and stuff! just know that each school will have a very different curriculum. The main differences are schools that prioritize 3D (cg animation, cg modeling, ect) and 2D/traditional (hand drawn, ‘oldschool’, digital or traditional based) this is a huge difference so make sure you do research for it! in most cases a 2D/traditional program will also offer 3D since it’s at the forefront of the industry animation wise rn. My school taught 2D but like hand drawn on physical paper 2D, frame by frame. while it was a good experience it’s super outdated because digital tools make it way faster + easier! i’d recommend looking for a program that is digital 2D over traditional 2D.

if after your senior year covid is still affecting campuses in the US to keep them shut down i’d recommend attending a community college to get credits and then transferring into school. one of the negatives is paying money for gened classes when ur not there for them; if you can get them out of the way sooner and cheaper there is absolutely no negative + you could graduate earlier or use the extra time for better work or to work a job!

these are all the general tips i think i’d give on like a broad basis of attending or not to think about? let me know if u have more q’s! someone asked q’s im answering below that go more into personal experiences + work culture so heres those:

- how many hours a week do u spend studying, in class, otherwise making art? like how much of ur life does it consume?

I was basically working on art.... 24/7! since i wasnt working a job at the same time i crammed as many credits as possible into my schedule so on avg i did 18 credit semesters (around 6 classes) art classes go for 6 hours and non art go for 3, so i’d spent around 30-35 hours in class a week! hw wise it varied on the class but combined it would be around 35-50 hours a week... im guessing? on average studio classes would have 8-10 hours of hw, maybe 5 for a light week, and gened classes 5 hours w them all combined. or this was probably how things were before junior year? junior+senior year i had thesis + everything else ontop.. i’d spend around 30-40 hours on thesis a week with other classes ontop of that bc my film was super long cus im a dummy!

- is it hard going to art school n realising that altho u were probably quite talented… so is everyone else? Like. all of a sudden. ur not special and everyone seems as good as u, you know? More generally, how do u deal with comparison?

kinda?? i think instead of the idea of like you vs others it feels more of like a competition at first to be the best. this varies hugely on school culture though; my animation year was really friendly with each other and get along extremely well, so my answer to this is v different than some others who attended different schools. i think that the idea of ‘comparison’ only lasts a portion of the first year because at some point you realize that it’s not a who’s better as much as its a ‘these are my coworkers’ type thing? like healthy competition 100% because we’re all working to improve but i think most of us learned pretty early on that viewing each other as peers going into the same workforce helped a lot. also at some point everyone develops their own style/starts to develop their artistic preferences so there isn’t a way to compare whos 'better’ anymore? i dont think there ever is tbh because style is appealing based off of an individuals preferences. If anything realizing everyone else is also amazing makes you wanna work harder ig? or thats how i felt! it’s inspiring to be surrounded by so many people who create such amazing work.

- is there a lot of workaholic culture? all nighter culture?

100000% there can be a workaholic and all nighter culture. i know people who avoided it and thats honestly fantastic because i fall super easily into that pit. sometimes i’ll pull all nighters on a personal project just because i really want to finish it... i am definitely considered a workaholic all the way through and its not healthy rip... i’d estimate at the worst i was pulling 2-3 all nighters a week and only 4-5 hours of sleep on the nights i didn’t? that was only for one year tho, after that i was like yeah ok this is really bad for my health in the long run LOL so i tried to cut it down to one all nighter a week and around 5-6 hours of sleep the rest of the week! by senior year my decision to cram in full semesters paid off and i was able to consistently get around 7 hours of sleep a night + no all nighters minus finals since my schedule was lighter despite thesis 😭 while there is that culture i don’t think people view it as like a badge of honor or something to be proud of anymore which is good, we mostly view it as a flaw of the art school system and something that needs to be fixed!!

- are you glad u did it? how did u know it was what u wanted?

i am glad i did it! i’m definitely in a limbo right now of if it was worth both my time, money, and my parents money rip but i think with what i got out of it i definitely wouldn’t be as far skill wise or knowledge wise when it comes to the art industry. i would say it was only worth it for be because i had so much support going in though so i was able to focus so much on improving. if i had only been able to put in part of the effort and not make full use of the resources provided i would honestly have a different answer..

i knew it was what i wanted when i realized i really couldn’t see myself pursuing a different profession happily! despite all the bumps and stuff im fully in love with drawing still and feel honored that it’s a field that can provide a living. my second profession choice was to go into culinary school? and third option i think going was into music cus i was also a band kid hehe.

- how do u cope with ur hobby becoming ur job? how do u deal with art going from something u do for fun to something u do on command constantly?

i think seperating work art from personal art is important! in my case im doubling naruto into being personal work so i have something to fall back onto that isn’t work related. its been a hyperfixation for 12+ years? so drawing it at this point is just like personal art imo. some people have hobbies outside of art and only draw for their job! i think after attending classes for so long the idea of hobby turning into job feels extremely natural? also i enjoy doing it so thats a huge plus!

sorry this is SO long but i hope i answered your guys’ questions! if you have more just lmk!

#anon #ask #long post #im so so sorry this is like long as shit #ill literally tell you guys everything though art school should not feel like a mystery esp if ur planning to go into it!#Anonymous

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abundantchewtoys · 5 years

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HS Epi: Meat p12 reaction

Back to Earth C presumably.

I gotta say, I'm curious to find out the final page count of Meat. The way we liveblog, the experience is stretched out, so with theories surfacing and such, we might be caught off guard when things are really over. There's only so far that things will be taken, though I guess we're still in for those "original Male/Female characters", I guess. :P That shouldn't refer to the new Reload timeline John created, I think, with copies of all the people mentioned in the rest of the character list. So, uh, yeah, guess the reason Arquiusprite wasn't mentioned in there was because he remained unseen, voided out if you will. And I guess we shouldn't expect an alternate Equius to have a talking role, either?

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Well! Talk about jumping straight into the action, this page opens with a dialoguelog! Back to Dave, Karkat and if my eyes didn't deceive me, we'll get some lines for Jade, too! Supportive Jade will be supportive.

"hit jane right in her neoliberal austerity measures" ... Hah. Well, I didn't think that would get referenced again at all, but it seems after all these years since John's 18th birthday Dave still has issues with the ol' N.A.M. So, Jane's a neoliberal AND a fascist now, Dave? Is that... even feasible?

"DAVE: now shes gonna spin some shit about supply side economics but we cant let her control the narrative on that one cause the first thing thats gonna happen once she begins deregulating the baking industry is that some sweet dumb crocodile down in consort land is gonna start putting sparkle glue in the cupcake mix which isnt even the real issue thats just surface issues KARKAT: RIGHT. JADE: definitely" ... Like, Dave I admire you're getting so into this, but you realize they aren't following, right? Also, why would Jane want to deregulate the baking industry if she's the leader of the foremost power in said industry, as well as running for president? Plus, Jane can't control the narrative because Caliborn is already controlling it! :mspa:

"DAVE: i mean earth c has just been play acting capitalism the last five thousand years while we timeskipped ahead to live rad lives as gods without bothering with any of the boring shit that goes into making a civilization DAVE: which is fine i mean you cant really expect a bunch of teens who didnt finish middle school to set up a sustainable form of social democracy that isnt just blatantly ripped off whatever we incorrectly thought obama god rest his soul was doing back in the day" ... Gee, Dave's given this a real lot of thought. Props to him, but I hope that aside from becoming 'an activist' he's also got some legitimite action points to improve Earth C's situation.

Guess Sburb really does a number on players, huh? "Congrats, you won, you're all gods now, and also, here's this whole civilization on the brink of collapse, have fun with that. Don't mess this up, I need those people to start the apocalypse in say, 2000 years, k thx bye." (The fact that this civilization, being outside of the Green Sun's influence, may never implement Sburb, is a bit besides the point since I think the trolls would have had the same issue tossed onto them had they actually gone through the victory door.)

Right, but the trolls had their home planet already effectively run by children, I wonder if that will come again? Even though they had carpenter droids at their disposal to run some things for them, they might actually be a bit more self-reliant than the humans!

"DAVE: but janes got this old school mentality you just know she wants to restrict grist alchemy for the sake of “growth” and when that goes down itll take three seconds flat for some nobody in new dersetown to drop the earth c communist manifesto" ... New Dersetown, I like the ring of that. Would call it New Dersey for short, though. :P Again, valid points there, Dave! If any revolt started, it doesn't have to be in the troll community, it could just as much be an angry carapace uprising! They're only docile if there's no one to rally behind.

Blaperile has this idea that the new society in a universe is not supposed to be seeded with the remains of the session nor the universe that came before it. That's actually a valid point; the only reason this society got kickstarted was through the cloning apparatus that was on the meteor! The consorts and carapaces seem like they would be able to reproduce biologically though, so I'm not sure how Sburb normally ensures the planet is a clean slate for a new species to emerge. ... Okay, so the planet itself doesn't really need to be the place where a new Sburb-playing species rises, true. There's a whole new universe out there.

Maybe through "importing" old Sburb technology, the "alpha" planet designation went to Earth C automatically, though.

Or maybe First Guardians are expected to 'cleanse' the planet from outside influence normally, but since this society's outside of the Green Sun's influence, that ain't happening. And Jade won't be going Thanos on Earth C.

"KARKAT: OH YEAH. JADE: of course DAVE: are you two even listening or are you just making noises with your mouths" Dave realizing he's monologuing? What character development is this. :O

"KARKAT: I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M BEING ACCUSED BY DAVE STRIDER, REIGNING EMPEROR OF SPEWING ENDLESS VERBAL DIARRHEA DIRECTLY INTO MY INNOCENT HEAR DUCTS EVERY DAY OF MY FUCKING LIFE, OF MAKING THOUGHTLESS MOUTH NOISES. KARKAT: JADE, ARE YOU HEARING THIS? JADE: im scandalized JADE: especially when JADE: there are much better things we could all be doing with our mouths....." ... Jade, your animes are showing again. ... I think that maybe Jade doesn't want this relation to be going where Dave and Karkat want it to go.

"It’s been a really nice day they’ve been having, and then Jade had to go say something like that. The air in the hive changes in a way that is palpable, in a way that she can’t seem to accurately gauge despite having both superhuman and superdog senses." ... Ah. So I guess maybe Jade just can't get a lid on some of her more... canine inclinations, at time. Welp!

"Elements of her outfit resemble her god tier jammies: peasant skirt, sparkly flats, and a bold choice in striped tights." Nice! That's only the third person who created an outfit based on her god tier outfit that we know, aside from Meenah and Rose.

"the couch where she crashed last night, and the night before that, and the better part of the seven years before that." It would seem Jade has the wanderlust then, she's more like the vagrant dog that comes visiting from time to time? More GCAT in demeanor than Becquerel, in practice. Heheh. Good for her, after being isolated on an island and then a battleship for so long, she's finally going out & seeing things!

"There are other personal effects of hers in the living room too: plants on the windowstill, her bass guitar sitting in a corner" Cool, so when she comes over, she typically lounges here then. Guess the flute never made it over, though. :p

"a horrific-looking periodic table that Dave made her for her seventeenth birthday pinned above the stairwell. He typed it in Comic Sans, and then deep-fried it to oblivion with JPEG artifacts." ... Next up, on For Fans By Fans...

"And Dave, with his preternaturally perfect timing, sweeps a hand over his tablet to bring up a new PowerPoint slide on the TV. He returns to his Comic Sans-written political presentation, gruesome artifacts and all" Dave, Dave that isn't professional at all!

", with the grace and proficiency of a man who has diffused an awkward situation in his own household many times per day, every day, for many years." Well, okay, that is really mature. But when Dave is the adult in a situation, the situation is very awkward per definition.

"DAVE: alternia: brutal eugenics based space dictatorship KARKAT: NOT UNTRUE." Succinct, brutal, but not dishonest.

"DAVE: troll homeworld: lord of the flies nightmare scenario where kids murder each other just to get the chance to get to grow up and murder other aliens instead KARKAT: IT WASN’T THAT BAD." Karkat. Karkat that isn't a valid rebuke.

"KARKAT: YOU MADE THAT LAST ONE UP. KARKAT: ALSO, IT WAS DISGUSTING?? KARKAT: GROW THE FUCK UP, YOU UTTERLY CONTEMPTIBLE, POTTY MOUTHED *CUNT*." ... The irony is stark.

"JADE: also you know trolls dont actually have two dicks dave thats an offensive stereotype" Are we really doing troll anatomy? Well, I guess it's good to know that the fan theory about Sollux at least isn't applicable to the entire species.

"DAVE: trolls: literally ate babies KARKAT: ONLY THE DEFECTIVE ONES. DAVE: like you my dude KARKAT: ...YEAH. DAVE: so thats why our campaign can work" Yeah, Karkat ate grubs, though they weren't troll babies. Also, yeah, Karkat was a mutant, but I wonder if that would really help his case here.

"DAVE: btw im gonna be giving a long form exam at the end of this to make sure youre retaining info because this is only like the most important thing weve ever done collectively" Well he ain't wrong.

"KARKAT: ARE YOU ASKING ME WHETHER I’VE HEARD THIS EXACT SPEECH ALMOST WORD FOR WORD, INCLUDING REHEARSED VERSIONS OF BOTH THE COLORFUL METAPHORS AND “JOKES,” TEN OR TWENTY TIMES ALREADY? KARKAT: BECAUSE THE ANSWER WOULD BE KARKAT: YES, OF COURSE I FUCKING HAVE." Poor, poor Karkat.

"Karkat elbows Dave in the thigh, a move that is obviously meant to be an action of pure, brotherly jest. But instead it comes off as affectionate and overly intimate. Jade’s clever eyes don’t miss this. Her pupils follow the motion of Karkat’s arm, and then they follow the movement of Dave’s mouth as he smiles in what he probably thinks is a totally neutral expression that reveals exactly 0% of his true feelings toward Karkat Vantas. In reality, his veneer is as thin and transparent as cellophane. He is the only person who can’t see through it.

Jade does some calculations in her head. Two kinds of calculations, in fact: mathematical ones and personal ones." So, is Jade reading too much into their relationship, or are the dudes just... Both too shy?

"JADE: soooooo JADE: do you want a projection of her first years hit on the economy down to the decimal with a 0.3% margin of error JADE: because thats a thing i can do if itll make you stop talking about this stupid election for ten minutes" I didn't know that were First Guardian powers! :p I suppose it might be her natural intellect though, but we've only known her as the hands-on science type until now.

"She proceeds to dazzle the two boys with explications on complex math utilizing taxation rates, GDP figures, and some damned thing called the “Laffer curve,”" Dang, Jade is as much committed to this as Dave! (Or maybe she learned all this because it means so much to him, that could be it too!)

"The thing about Jade Harley is that she’s not as good at personal things as she is at other things. Like science, or mastering fraymotifs, or kissing, the last of which she has definitely put a lot of levels into over the past few years because, well, what else are you supposed to do with immortal godhood once you hit the age where the dog hormones start kicking into overdrive?" Guess for dogs, kissing isn't that personal. :p And well, I guess Jade's only now learning the real consequences of turning into a real-life furry. At least she won't have had lack of candidates to practice kissing with. She might even have become the Witch of Spacing Out Young Adults.

"Her high-prescription lenses make her eyes look anime-huge. They might literally be glittering, she’s so completely serious about the issue she is trying to stress." And the fan artists rejoiced for all the new descriptions they have to work with!

" JADE: im about to lay out some cold hard evidence so pay attention! KARKAT: OH, HANG ON, LET ME GET A PEN." You can't live together with Dave for years without learning when it's time to start taking notes and grab a fucking pen.

"JADE: evidence about..... JADE: our relationship! KARKAT: FUCK" Pfff, okay, never mind. I think Jade might have hit a wall several times over before, trying to either define their relationship or take it to the next level. These dudes are really sensitive about their feelings, after all.

But it would be interesting, learning Jade wants to know where they stand just as much as the outside world does.

"JADE: you let me live in your hive when im in town KARKAT: I CAN’T BELIEVE... JADE: im preeeetty intimately entwined in both your lives KARKAT: THAT YOU’RE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS? JADE: AND you dont disengage from about 86.234% of my flirtations KARKAT: WAIT, WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU KEEP TRACK OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT? JADE: so....... are we doing this or not?" So, just like with taking on Lord English and acknowledging the lit fuse that is Earth C society, I guess the coming around of April 13th 2019 is when Jade had enough of all this silly business and wants to know what's what. (Also, I suppose the level of intimacy they shared on beforehand will be left to speculation.)

"KARKAT: DOING WHAT?! JADE: dating dummy!!!!!!!! KARKAT: OH. KARKAT: THAT IS KARKAT: THAT IS... A COMPLICATED TOPIC IN MY CULTURE THAT I’M NOT SURE HUMANS ARE EQUIPPED TO TALK ABOUT." Smooth, Karkat, real smooth. Maybe Karkat fears commitment will lead to some of their relationships shifting into other quadrants. And he wouldn't like to be moirails or auspistices with either of them.

"DAVE: also totally unrelated to the economy" ... Nice try Dave, but I think this can't be steered back into that track.

"DAVE: which not gonna lie is the only thing i want to talk about for uh DAVE: for however long it takes for this other conversation to stop happening JADE: so say no!!! DAVE: well KARKAT: UHHHHH JADE: im not just forcing this conversation for my sake! its for you two as well JADE: i mean after all this time have you two even kissed yet?????? DAVE: wha" I think Dave and Karkat might actually have been both content to stay uncommitted and fearful to put a label on it. Also Jade's question will presumably remain unanswered, it's already surprising it's confirmed she hasn't seen them kissing. And that is ignoring the matter of whether either Dave or Karkat kissed Jade before. I guess it's only fortunate for this situation that this instance of Jade never dated Davesprite, it would only complicate things further.

"DAVE: wha KARKAT: WH-WHY WOULD DAVE: uhh KARKAT: WHY WOULD WE KISS?? DAVE: thats KARKAT: THAT’S... YOU... I MEAN, HE’S... HE’S DAVE. DAVE: we KARKAT: AND I’M KARKAT." PFffffffff, hilarious! I can just see them blushing like tomatoes right now. Can't keep staying in denial bros!

"JADE: yes hes dave and youre karkat and everyone we know always calls you that JADE: “dave and karkat”" Hah! Yeah, but they also think you're part of the item, Jade. Care to shed some thoughts on the subject?

"JADE: i cant remember the last time i heard anyone mention one of you without the other JADE: the two of you have basically been together since your days on the meteor its SO obvious" Jade has turned this from a personal matter into a fandom matter. "Everyone and their dog knows you're dating, guys! Stop pretending otherwise!" It's interesting to note the different ways Dave has been seen handling relationships. When he dated Terezi in the GO timeline, it went south due her troubles in the black quadrant. When Davesprite dated Jade, it went south due to unresolved Dave issues, presumably having to do with his bros. With Karkat, Dave's been in a stable-ish thing for the longest time, though.

" KARKAT: VERY CLOSE FRIENDS WHO UNDERSTAND AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER ON A DEEP AND EMPATHETIC LEVEL THAT GOES BEYOND HATE OR PITY. YOU COULD EVEN SAY THAT OUR RELATIONSHIP... KARKAT: ...TRANSCENDS QUADRANTS." ... PFfffffff, so this could have been what it was like for the Sufferer and the Disciple, then! They were just never ready to commit? That would actually be funnier than it being this deep and fulfilling relationship. It would also make Doc Scratch' misgivings on the relationship even more hilarious.

"JADE: yeaaaaaah not gonna lie karkat but that sounds totally kinda gay KARKAT: UGH YOU HUMANS AND YOUR UNFATHOMABLE GENDER BASED QUADRANTS." ... Heh. Actually. Too trolls, the whole gender-based romance thing we have going must indeed be as unfathomable as leprechaun romance.

"Jade faceplams." Well that's a new verb. ;) What part of the body is the 'plam', exactly?

" KARKAT: ANYWAY WEREN’T YOU... DATING THAT CARAPACIAN COUPLE? LAST TIME WE CHECKED?" Lolwut. Jade. Jade are you... are you being a Ms. Casanova, a paramour or two in every city you frequent? If WV and PM turn out to be alive for the sole purpose of dating Jade, I'll choke on my drink.

" DAVE: wait you saying we arent fun JADE: whens the last time either of you left the house??????" I know Jade means it as in, she'd like to date them for keeps. But I also fulheartedly believe Dave and Karkat can sustain themselves on delivery pizza and chinese chow.

"In her other hand, she tries to grab Dave’s wrist, but he flash-steps to the other side of the couch." Well that's a new use of the power, guess Dave must really have felt alarmed. :p

"JADE: i wanna try dating for real KARKAT: HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED KARKAT: SORRY IF WHAT I’M ABOUT TO SAY TOTALLY BLOWS YOUR MIND KARKAT: DATING A SINGLE PERSON, FOR MORE THAN HALF A SWEEP, FOR REASONS OTHER THAN INITIATING THE CONCUPISCENT EXCHANGE OF FLUIDS?" Karkat is trying to throw the issue back into Jade's face by saying she should try dating for a longer period of time. But that's exactly what she's trying to do here! She knows who she wants that with! That poor little troll, he's not getting out from under this.

"JADE: third of all karkat arent you from a culture where people are expected to engage in romantic relationships with up to like five people at a time?? KARKAT: THAT’S NOT KARKAT: THAT’S NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL." If he's trying to avoid getting dragged into quadrants with people, he should stop upholding the validity of the quadrants to hold people off. :p

"DAVE: ok jade i think theres a flaw in your approach here cause you seem to think winning an argument on super clever logical grounds is gonna get a couple dudes to break down and fling themselves at you in like, a sexual way JADE: wellll it usually does ;B DAVE: oh my fucking god" So she swoons people by way of her big brain. Jade's got CLASS.

"This earns Dave a look. A long, sad one that has Jade messing with her glasses again so that she can peer right at him and apply some more of that faulty personal math to his facial expression." Just confirmation here that Jade isn't necessarily correct in all her assessments due to not being objective.

"JADE: dave are you in love with obama? DAVE: jade jesus where do you get this shit from JADE: is it about jesus then??????" Aaaaaand this has been derailed again.

"DAVE: no! DAVE: jesus wasnt even real JADE: i know he wasnt real! JADE: wait... JADE: are you saying JADE: obama was real? DAVE: ... DAVE: yes" Wut. Wai- I- Jade. Honey. Please. Guess for all her involvement in politics since, those isolated years on the island sheltered her WAY too much.

"DAVE: obama was real DAVE: he was the president KARKAT: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA JADE: all this time i thought obama was like JADE: an aspirational fictional character that you modeled your life after KARKAT: AHAHAHAHA I CAN’T AHAHA BREATHE... JADE: like snoop dog or nicolas cage" ... Jade. Jade no. You're just making this worse on yourself. For Jade, there would have been almost nothing in Homestuck she'd have seen as a reference to 'real life', would there?

"senary numeral systems that allow me to do complex equations in my head" ... Why is Base 6 good for complex equations? I'm probably not good enough at math to know.

"KARKAT: WHY IS IT LIKE SOME SORT OF *TRAGEDY* HOW SHE WAS RAISED? KARKAT: BECAUSE SHE WAS RAISED ALONE BY AN ANIMAL?? KARKAT: *I* WAS RAISED ALONE BY AN ANIMAL!" There! It's getting acknowledged again, how Jade's upbringing more resembles a troll than a human's! Becquerel the lusus.

"There’s a ripple in the room that makes it clear their god tier powers have just clashed against each other. He shifts his arm through time and Jade warps the space around them so that she’s the one holding the tablet. This is not the first time that they have rearranged the fabric of reality for a petty reason like this. Karkat has permanently sworn off playing board games with them." ... Lol. First real use of the god tier powers in Earth C, and it goes like this! Wait, couldn't Jade have snapped... Right, no, she actually wouldn't have First Guardian powers anymore now, I forgot. Still, what did Dave try to do, move the tablet to another point in the timeline?

"The moment Jade brings the paint program up on the television, Karkat stops laughing. KARKAT: NO!" Oh boy. Time for the Penis Quadrant scene, this time with three people. ... This would actually fall under both definitions of a "sketch", actually.

"He tries to grab the tablet from her, but she’s hovering well above the ground and he simply is not tall enough to reach. With a shit-eating grin and deliberate care, Jade begins to draw a grid." He's going to jump up to grab her leg, to disturb the drawing, isn't he?

"She gives Karkat a pair of fuzzy, angry eyebrows" Now I'm starting to think of the Karkat expressions in that one Paradox Space.

"all he accomplishes is turning the redrom trajectory between her and Dave into a redrom loop-de-loop." This is all I could want from a reprise of this scene.

"JADE: see me and karkat have great black chemistry! KARKAT: IT IS NOT BLACK CHEMISTRY YOU HORRID NON-CHITINOUS WINDBAG!" A+ denial there, Karkat, props on the response.

"JADE: and now that daves all chill hed make a great auspistice" Jade just wants all Karkat's quadrants filled by the three of them, somehow.

"JADE: because you and karkat are kind of like moirails DAVE: no JADE: and you and i JADE: well yknow its always been pretty flirty DAVE: jade JADE: EXCEPT!

Jade finishes drawing a shaky heart directly into the paint program. It’s so big and bright on the TV that it fills the entire room with red light." She's putting all these names and symbols to the relationship, it might just be too much for these poor boys to handle. :p

"JADE: i call this political arrangement: JADE: fully automated luxury polyamorous space-time communism!!!!!!!" That is not the shipping name I would've chosen, but it's the shipping name we deserve. And hey, communism! Get it? Cause Karkat had a sickle.

I wonder what Karkat's take on polyamory outside of the ashen quadrant is, actually.

"Jade rolls her eyes and tosses both the tablet and pen over her shoulder. Dave flashes across the living room to catch his very expensive computing device in both arms. The pen bounces off his forehead." This. Entire. Scene.

"JADE: i have to go talk to roxy and callie about the election anyway" Well, she's going to let them stew on this for a while. But I'm eager to find out who Roxy & Calliope would back. You might think Jane's a given, but if she's been busy maybe they have grown closer to Jade & Dave!

"Jade clicks her heels together to propel herself back into the air and actually winks at them before absconding through an open window." Think happy thoughts! Also, I just realized becoming a god sadly never gave Karkat the powers of flight.

"Dave and Karkat both stare after her, silently caught in their own private rationalization spirals.

Karkat needs to verbalize part of his out loud." Ah, but can they stay in that spiral or will they have no choice but to break out of it?

"KARKAT: WANNA PLAY SOME TROLL TONY HAWK? DAVE: hell DAVE: yeah" Yyyyyeaah, they are not going to have changed when Jade comes back, will they?

So even Karkat calls it "Troll Tony Hawk", not whatever absurdly wrong name it'd have on Alternia, and not whatever Tony Hawk's duodecimal name in Alternian would be. :P

#homestuck #homestuck epilogues #upd8 #reaction #spoiler alert #jade harley #karkat vantas #dave strider #homestuck liveblog

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tumblunni · 6 years

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MORE UPDATES ON THINGS WHAT HAPPEN

The half week milestone of the hospital house thingie time! I think the term they use for it is "a residential stay"? Cos like its not a hospital its a shared housing block thats just full of doctors. I get to sleep in a real bed and there's a nice community room and board game nights and stuff. But its still really scary how intense the supervision can be! Like they have a window to look into your room once per hour every hour constantly. And they have to go through your undies and catalog them as part of the possessions check. I was not warned about that and it was mega embarassing trying to explain a binder to a bunch of old lady doctors! Oh and i had yo do a urine test today which was possibly the most fuckin embarassing thing in the actual universe. And you're not even allowed to take your own pills! They keep them locked in a big ominous wall of lockers and you have to come into the office and swallow the pill while theyre watching. I guess maybe because some people might be faking their illness and selling their pills on the black market or whatever? But that literally doesnt happen with antidepressants, they have no 'high' or even any effect at all on non-sick people. So it just makes no sense to me and its real embarassing cos like i said i suck at taking pills with plain water and without a straw. The ones i take are real damn chunky things the size of my thumbnail! I think i'l get better at not (literally) choking under pressure over time, tho. Hopefully.

Anyway that's all the bad out of the way! Now the good and the neutral and the just miscellaneous!

Its still nervewracking having to shower in a shared house but they have a cool walk-in shower and ive never tried one of those so it was vaguely interesting. And im allowed to take my showers early at 6am to minimize the chance of anyone else trying to use the door, lol. My biggest fear is having some staff member walk in on me when im naked like back in that homeless hostel. Oh or that time in the homeless hostel where the teenage boys filled the entire bathroom with inflated condoms wall to wall. Like wow so much damn effort to prank the stupid nervous bunni who probably would have been embarassed by literally anything else. Man this place is bringing so many memories of that homeless hostel but at least this time its a place specifically for sick people and they know i'm anxious doing shared cooking and board games and whatever so they dont make fun of me for it. But in a lot of ways that hostel had more freedoms too.. *shrug*

Anyway! A good! I get to have cooking lesson!! I know literally nothing about cooking and now i get to know several thing!! This nice doctor called Josie taught me how to make an omelette and i tasted ham for the first time! That is just how limited my life experiences are, lol. Oh and they want me to say that she's a 'mental health worker' not a doctor, but its all real confusing?? Like they have the staff that look after you and then the only ones we're supposed to call doctors are the ones who actually have the authority to prescribe pills and diagnosies. But like if youre in a hospital you'd call them all doctors, not just the actual surgeon? Or i guess theyre kinda like nursing home staff?? But they cant be support workers cos support workers are specific government assigned inspector type guys like Richard who only meet with you once a week.and i have to remember to not call him a social worker either cos social workers only work with family and custody related stuff. I dunno?? Basically the medical industry has a lot of names that dont really describe what the actual thing is, lol. Anyway the ham omelette was great and now im gonna try and remember so i can try and make it myself next time! HAM ACCOMPLISHED

Also i played bingo with a few other patients and it was fun but funny that i lost 6 times in a row when there were only 3 of us. I got a consolation prize of a pack of neon highlighter pens so hell yeah!!

I'm getting booked in to try some additional classes starting next week on monday and tuesday morning. The computer programming one was sadly unavailable, but i managed tp snag a place in "confidence building group therapy" and "basic how to use power tools". I wasnt really all that interested in that one but i thought it would be a useful skill even if its less fun. And maybe you get to actyally make something to take home at the end? A lil shelf to help organize this awkward lil room better, maybe?

And an unexpected bonus of being semi-hospitalized is that i get a free bus pass! And cos im here cos of my social anxiety theyre gonna help me get outside more and actually use this thing to the fullest! The first thing we did was the trip to actually get the bus pass itself. It was like "bus, take my money to take me to the place where i can never give you money again!" XD Ive been really stupidly nervous about going on tne bus in my old neighbourhood cos MAN it was really isolated there and everything just amplified my mental illness. An almost two hour bus ride to get to ANY SHOPS AT ALL, with only one bus for the whole town so it was always crowded and full of screaming kids and gossipy everyones. Social anxiety: maximum level proud mode!

So yeah i feel BIG ACCONPLISHED! I was able to take this bus for the first time with a doctor coming with me. Power Grandpa The Strong. His actual name is Paul and he has awesome sleeve tattoos of like anchors and dragons and sports teams and stuff! And he likes thrift stores and wearing silly hats too! Its like he's powerful enough to wrestle away everyone's anxieties! I was able to be a bit reckless too and i went out wearing my fave shirt thats like trans pride coloured plaid. A POWERFUL SHIRT IS REQUIRED FOR THIS QUEST! so we went to the office to register this bus pass and i panicked a bit cos apparantky we brought the wrong form and i wrote my name in the wrong box and then my passport photo looked terrible and aaa! But it all worked out and i was kinda freaking out for nothing. And he took me for a lil tour of the place and showed me this cool shop that does spray paint tye dye t shirts with spiderman on them?? Why does this incredibly specific shop exist and how have i never heard of it before?? There was also a new harry potter shop next to the disney shop, and the old used book store i used to visit as a kid was still there, complete with rickety spiral staircase and ominous basement trap door. I'm still not brave enough to go down there, but apparantly its just the history books section so meh. Then we actually went to a fancy coffee shop and i had this brain freeze mango ice frappucchino thing! Im trying all the new foods!!

And i was TOO HIGH ON DECADENCE and made a RECKLESS CHOICE! i blame power gramp's amazing tattoos, they were totally whispering to me that i shoukd screw the rules and ride off into the sunset on a metaphorical harley davidsen of mental health

So i was like Hey Paul I Am Totally Fine Getting Home On My Own, and it was like i was floating off in the distance somewhere begging my body to not speaketh these words. But it ended up working out okay! The excitement of it all and the sense of accomplishmebt from getting there all okay allowed me to mostly not freak out as i spent the day in town and looked at some shops and stuff. Basic Living Skills: Completed! I chilled out in the library (tho i dont have a card yet, alas!) and visited like five comic and anime stores, and got lost but found a Pizza Hut and that was SO NOSTALGIC FOR MY CHILDHOOD and it didnt taste quite as good as i remembered but the waiter guy was super nice and had a similar shirt and it was All Good! Oh and i gave all my money to a homeless person and that's why i'm broke now. And i bought a plastic slug! I just saw it from across the room and was like OH NO I AM BEING MAGNETISED TOWARDS IT OH NO IT HAS ALREADY BEEN BOUGHT. I need to think of a name for this new friend!!

So yeh i got home okay and i felt really acconplished and that was the furthest trip away that i've taken in ages! Man my mental illness makes me feel pathetic, but it also brings ridiculously big joys from the smallest of silly acconplishys!

Oh and thank you so much to the people who sent me emails! It really helped so much to keep me from giving up during the first few days before i made a bit of progress and felt like i could really do this, yknow? Especially big thanks tp the friend who sent me that mysterious super happy song that they found on a mystery disc in a german market?? Im still not sure whether its in greek or hasidic jewish but it sounds AMAZING and i hope someday i can figure out the band so i can hear their other singles!

Ok this is bunni out! BIG HUGS FOR THE EVERYONE AAAA

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birdhug · 7 years

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reflections on my first year of being fully vegan

july will mark one year of me deciding to go vegan so i thought I’d just write some blurbs of stuff ive learned and ways ive grown!

my tastebuds totally changed!! there are so many more foods that i love now that id never thought id enjoy. (particularly soy milk and tofu) this is something that i dont see a lot of people talk about irt veganism but its totally significant. i love veggies so much more than i thought i ever could.

that being said apparently i cant tell the difference between soy milk and dairy because a barista accidentally gave me dairy in my coffee once and i didnt notice until a bunch of sips in that they didnt put the little “S” on the cup over the milk check box thing so ummm thats weird. i havent had dairy in nearly a year but okay

ive realized that there can be people who are usually rational and value objective truth but then they open their mouth on vegan issues (being a nonvegan themselves) and they sound like complete simpletons. (didnt david attenborough, when asked why he wasnt vegan, say something like “you cant feed lions grass”?? lol ok)

yeah when i was a vegetarian i liked being able to just go to tim hortons whenever and get a donut, and i do miss that convenience. but the fact that i cant have donuts or chocolate bars all the time means when i finally do get to have a really delicious veganized dessert, its ten times better and more special

kinda related, im generally WAY better now at just having the presence of mind to resist food that i want to eat in the moment. i used to just gorge myself at parties and stuff and feel awful afterwards. now, whether the food is vegan or not, i can resist it if i know itll make me feel like shit later Even if it would make me happy in the present

ive decided i want to pursue a career in dietetics :)

ive realized why i care so much more about animals. its because i realized that humans hold so much power over every single animal in the world, and throughout history weve largely used that power to kill and mistreat them. i really think in this day and age its our responsibility to use that power to do the best we can to help them. they are at our complete mercy.

i realized that we as a society have been conditioned to see animals as objects first, and living, feeling beings last: their images are used as mascots, symbols, toys, we watch them for entertainment in zoos, marine parks, circuses, we watch cute videos of them online, and we have trained ourselves to see specific animals as food, despite the only relevant difference between a dog and a pig being our arbitrary societal categories in which weve placed them.

ive come to think of caring about animals as “widening my circle of compassion”. and i think its extremely healthy for others do to the same, because its made me just more empathetic to all creatures, human or otherwise, in general

i am...So lucky. my mom was vegan for 4 years before i made the full switch so i was already eating vegan meals most of the time. all the groceries in the house are vegan. all the restaurants we go to have substantial vegan options. and i have someone close to me that i can talk about this kind of stuff with. but there are so many kids my age that want to go vegan more than anything that have to deal with an unsupportive family and i really feel for them. & i honestly dont blame them at all if they just want to give up or succumb to the pressure of their family. please, dont risk your mental health. take care of yourself first and do what you can.

i used to feel like its pointless going vegan because nothing is ever going to change but like. now that im exposed to the community and veg related news is coming my way i feel SO much more hopeful for the future. so many more people r going reducetarian, corporations are investing in vegan food companies and theyre absolutely blowing up, the dairy & meat industries are starting to panic. were not going to see instant change but like...shit is happening folks. keep fighting the good fight.

ALSO i used to feel so hopeless about climate change. like when i was taught about in school there was no actionable advice given? it was always like “uh yeah were all gonna die. recycle and walk to school i guess” but knowing how much an impact cutting animal products out of ur diet makes only motivates me to do more! (yeah it may seem small but its better to think of it that way rather than “weh theres nothing i can do so i might as well not do anything”)

i know that theres a large percentage of vegans/vegetarians that “go back”. so how can i say that i wont??? i feel really confident that i wont because its just so....easy for me now. you see that most people start eating animal products again because its too inconvenient for them but Honestly after living in a vegan household for 5 years and having access to all the information and resources that ive had...i really cant possibly imagine a good excuse. it just comes so naturally to me. its so fucking easy. boff future-me upside the head if i ever voluntarily go back

in conclusion this is the best decision ive made & its changed my life in a major way and ive never been happier about my choices in life...and ummmmm thats it. please consider reducing your animal product consumption to whatever extent you feel comfortable. it would mean the world to me

& id really appreciate if you didnt reblog this!!

#jaypeg #do0nt rebl00g

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drferox · 7 years

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Career choice

im sending this via submit instead of ask bc it might become pretty long!!!

okay so. i finished high school in 2016 & i applied to uni this year. i got in vet school but couldnt go bc they didnt accept my paperwork (im from brazil so like, things are different and etc). it is okay though because my grade on the national exam was pretty good so im confident i can try again in the middle of the year and get through.

thing is: i’ve been struck between (for uni choices) veterinary and nurse school for some time now.

i like the ~idea~ of both a lot. but i don’t know much about it like. in the Practice.

regarding vet school: i love animals (all of them) but im not a bunny hugger. i dont get disgusted easily - or at all. i believe i can take animals with broken bones an diarrhea and covered in flies, rotting away and still alive. i really have a super strong stomach and no complains about gory and ugly stuff.

i have a lot of mental illnesses so anxiety depression mood disorder etc, so i. have a hard time interacting with people and being a Functional Human Being.

and i i have two moods, regarding studying: either im smart as fuck and i can do this or im too dumb lmao why even try. which. make me worried about the career choices i picked. because i am smart, and a super fast learner, i always excelled in school and in general (even when i was dying with depression which ya know ends you) i still did super well. i don’t… know how to study and i have bad focus. like ive never studied once in my whole life because i never NEEDED IT. and im like. afraid if it happens during university i wont. know how to do it and will get fed up and drop out. i am really smart and i learn things really easily but i also. am very mentally ill so i dont know how far my intelligence will take me regarding university. do i make sense.

i would like to be a nurse (not a doctor, a nurse) because i want to help people esp mentally ill people or disabled people or addicts. i dont mind the strong work hours (i rlly like working during the night) and as long like. i have a constant shift of things to do n no time to b distracted and have an influx of THINGS I NEED TO DO im okay.

buuuuuuut. i also LOVE FARMS. and my dream atm is to become a vet and specialize with big animals like cows or horses, idk we’ll see how it goes down the line. and either work with them like in the milk industry or meat industry or simply for health, idk!!! but like. work at a Farm. or exotic animals.

regarding job wise, im pretty sure it’s . okay since my whole region where i live lives off agriculture and animal products (reallyyyyy big part of the national income).

i read the posts on! the career advice tag. and like. i know vet school is hard, hard hours, hard patients, you will blame yourself. i truly believe i can deal with that because of my mental illnesses (low empathy, skewed morals, mood shifts and like. not being a Good PersonTM in general)

TL;DR i guess is. technically, i know im fit for both vet school and nurse school bc i have a super strong stomach + want to help animals/people. but im scared my Natural Smart won’t pull me through it and im really. bad at studying i guess. and really impatient. my likes change a lot and im afraid it’ll affect my career choice. is this the right thing to do? or should i just do my backup plan which is become an air flight attendant and like, never be at home bc im working all the time. pls helppp !!!! D:

So you’re trying to chose between becoming a vet and becoming a human nurse, but not a human doctor.

These two careers are very different, even though they’re both medical in nature. A veterinarian has more in common with a human doctor than they do a nurse.

A human nurse cares for their patients and follows the treatment plan made by a doctor. They don’t make a diagnosis and they don’t prescribe medications or do surgery. They are making less treatment decisions and have less medical responsibility.

A veterinarian is a doctor. We examine the patient, make a diagnosis, prescribe medications, perform surgery and make treatment plans. We have to know more than one species. I suspect that whatever it was that didn’t appeal to you about being a human doctor you will also find in being a veterinarian.

This is not going to be a matter of what school you’re suited for, but what lifetime career you’re suited for.

#Veterinarian #vetblr #submission #career advice #nurse #vet school

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sharksfood · 7 years

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so this thought just came into my head and i want to explore it.

in my life i’ve only seen 3 films so far that i read as books before they became movies. im not counting comic books/graphic novels that became movies bcs thats a little different, books that became tv shows, or plays that became movies. but its interesting to think about that.

i didnt read harry potter until well after the films (all of them lmao) were released, i’ve never read how to train your dragon, i’ve never read the hobbit/lotr, the animated alice in wonderland came out in the 50s, i have only recently read the last unicorn, i read World War Z after the movie came out (and ive never seen all of the movie), and i read the neverending story when i was cast in the play.

the books that i read before they came out in film are; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Warm Bodies, and Goosebumps.

Goosebumps kind of fits but it was made into a tv series first, and im not sure if i read the books or saw the shows first. i did both, i know that much.

I read Warm Bodies only bcs I wanted to see the movie but thought the book would be cool to read (its amazing and has a completely different feel from the movie), and Lion Witch Wardrobe was bcs my dad read it to me when I was younger. That and The Magician’s Nephew are the only Narnia books ive ever read.

I was going to try and read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children before the movie came out, but that work out for me.

if you want to count comics and graphic novels, then the list gets bigger. but comics already have the characters drawn out, so unlike books, you dont have an idea in your head on what the character looks like. that is so often changed in film, plus you loose so much detail and nuance when you go book to screenplay to film (this is also true with comics, but its still different)

However, and the biggest reason as to why I’m thinking about this, two movies will be coming out in the next few years, and both of them are based on my favorite books of all time (aside from the alice books of course).

The first is Captain Underpants! I know that this is a book series with words and pictures, so technically its a graphic novel series, but they’re kids books! and those tend to have an awful lot of pictures. This series was my FAVORITE (other than the alice books) as a kid!! they were fun, hilarious, relatable, and just all around super great. So when i saw the trailer for the animated film that’s coming out this year based on the series i was ECSTATIC!! Were it live-action i would be bummed out since kids picture books usually fair better when animated (im not a fan of the diary of a wimpy kid movies....) but this animation is handled a lot like The Peanuts movie. The animation look like a color and 3D version of the exact art style!! its wonderful and im SO EXCITED

The other one, and this i am VERY VERY nervous about, is Ready Player One. that is my favorite sci-fi novel ever. i often say its my favorite book ever bc it deserves more love! and i do so much love it. ive reread it i dont even know how many times. and what do you know, they’re making it into a movie!! when i heard about this i had so many mixed feelings, and most of it has to do with the style of the book and the characters.

-Ready Player One Spoilers-

In Ready Player One the protagonist starts out as a dirt poor, fat, unattractive teen boy, and later he gets more physically fit/healthy and rich. he claims to still be unattractive at this point (mostly bcs he jues doesnt like how he looks and he looses all his body hair). this is very important to the character! i’m afraid that in this movie hollywood will do as they always do and make him a skinny conventionally attractive teen from the get-go. people will probably pull the Holes excuse of “the filmmakers didnt want to make the actor gain a bunch of weight and then loose it all” BULLSHIT they can cast a fat actor! and through his training and as they film the movie he can loose some weight or they can use movie magic (like when they made chris evans a scrawny little thing). its not that hard, people.

Another character, and this was super important to me and was a big subplot, is that Wade best friend, Aech, whom he only knows through the game (OASIS) plays as a white, straight, guy avatar, but they’re actually a black lesbian named Helen. And she plays this avatar to protect herself and to get a job and be taken seriously within OASIS. is super sad she has to do this, but its a big part of her character. she’s also fat as well, and im REALLY worried that in the movie she’s going to be a skinny straight white girl.

Two other characters who have important characteristics are Art3mis (Samantha) and the creator of OASIS James Halliday. Art3mis is Wade later love interest and GF. She is notable bcs her avatar is just like her, a chubby girl with black hair, but sans her port-wine birthmark. I know they’ll keep her birthmark, since its an intimate reveal, but they’ll probably make her skinny and i hate it. Now it’s only half canon in the books, but i’ve chosen to go with it, but at one point Wade talks about James Halliday’s childhood and his personality and all that, and mentions that he might have been autistic. Now, since it’s only he “might have been” in the books, the filmmakers will probably not make him autistic. That’s fucking sad to me, I mean, it would be amazing!! This character is one of the smartest, most famous, most prolific video game programmers/designers in history!! And he’s autistic! That is some wonderful representation and the filmmakers should jump on that opportunity. It’ll inspire so many autistic people who have a passion for video games to pursue their dreams. But, i have a hunch they wont go with it.

Two other characters, Daito and Shoto, are Japanese young guys who claim to be brothers (and their characters are) but are just friends in the real world. My initial hunch was that the filmmakers would keep them Japanese, but given the recent whitewashing of important Japanese characters, I have my doubts.

My few other concerns are that this movie won’t have 80s pop culture as the main style and focus of the era they book is set in, not to mention OASIS and most of people’s interests. It’s incredibly important to the novel, but so many dystopian movies choose to go with gritty, futuristic, edgy stuff. The other concern is how they will handle the real life vs OASIS look, since over half of the book takes place inside a VR video game. I’ve seen news that they are utilizing VR technology, but i havent read too much. I’m wondering if they’ll animate all of OASIS and the avatars and action and anything in the video game! That would be awesome.

So these are all my thoughts. I havent looks at who they’ve cast yet, so I’m going to do that right now. I do know that Steven Spielberg is directing it, which could be fantastic or terrible. Okay, cast time.

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So the IMDB doesnt say who is cast as Daito and Shoto, but Wikipedia says that Win Morisaki of PrizmaX will play him, which is great! I hope that’s what happens.

Art3mis/Samantha will be played by Olivia Cooke, who in my opinion is way too old. She’s older than me! The character’s age (i think) isnt mentioned in the book, but she’s got to be 17-20, and Olivia Cooke looks older than that. She’s also not chubby, but hey, maybe they’ll fit that. She also doesnt have the birthmark, but that’s gonna be makeup. (wouldve been cool if they found an actress with a port-wine stain on her face...)

Parzival/Wade will be played by Ty Sheridan. He was Cyclops in X-Men Apocalypse. He’s the right age, but way too fit and attractive. DAMN IT Well, I guess there’s always makeup and special effects, but i’m 80% sure now they wont make Wade fat.....

Aech/Helen will be played by Lena Waithe who is almost PERFECT. She’s much older than Aech, who is around 18, but like Samantha i imagine they’ll have make up and acting to cover it. My biggest concern is that she’s not fat like Aech, which means they’ll use a body suit or effects or Lena will gain weight, or they wont do anything.....

T.J. Miller will be playing I-r0k, who is another OASIS player and a bigtime douchebag jerk. This is perfect. We don’t know his age, or really anything other than his personality and avatar, and T.J. Miller is hilarious so this/ll be great.

Mark Rylance will be playing James Halliday, witch is fine by me. He’s not quite what I imagined, but thats what makeup and wigs are for. He’s worked a lot with Steven Spielberg, so that makes sense as to why he’s cast here. I just hope he can portray an autistic character well and with respect.... (would be better if he IS autistic but ya know.....)

Simon Pegg will be playing Ogden Morrow, the co-creator of OASIS, and thats perfect. No complaints.

Nolan Sorrento (the antagonist of the book and head of operations at Innovative Online Industries) will be played by Ben Mendelsohn, who was Director Krennic in Rouge One. He is much older and not quite and slimy as I imagined him, but this can totally work. I pictured Nolan Sorrento as Andrew Scott in my head, since he seems like the perfect evil, charismatic, slimy, attractive but ugly inside business man.

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So, after looking at the current casting choices im a little let down, but still excited! I’ll have to wait patienly for the trailer, since this thing is coming out in 2018. Dang, this turned into a Ready Player One post, but its been on my mind recently.

If you read through all of this, good job! let me know what you think! i probably dont talk about Ready Player One very often but thats bcs i dont know anyone in real life (other than my dad) who has read this book, and the online fandom seems nonexistent. Who knows?

But yeah, I guess I made this post bcs I wasn’t able to share the collective nervousness, complaints, and excitement of Harry Potter or LotR or Percy Jackson fans when their fav books became movies.

#babble #i talk a lot about books and movies #mostly ready player one lmao

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hellomartart-blog · 7 years

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I GOT AN INTERVIEW!!!

For a project we had to reach out to a creative in the art industry and I reached out to Pascal Blanche who is character designer for Ubisoft and said I can ask him some questions and I went for it. Here is the interview:

ME - Dear Blanché

My name is Tinus Venter, I am a South African student from the The Open Window Institute for Arts and Digital Sciences. One of our projects for this term is to conduct a written interview with an artist of our choice.

I found your work earlier in the year on Instagram and absolutely love the work you publish and was hoping to ask you a few questions some time?

Kindest regards

BLANCE - Sure Tonus will try to answer the best I can.

QUESTION 1

What kind of promotional activity do you do?

social media mostly twitter and instagram, the rest is all about CG forum palces: artstation/deviantart/Behance/linkedin.

Iget interviews or articles from time to time with magazines as well

QUESTION 2

What would be the best ways to promote one's work?

spread it wherever you can ;)

QUESTION 3

Is social media important in promoting your work?

It is important if you want exposure and if you want to get the attention of studios, but not for the work itself

QUESTION 4

Why do I need portfolio reviews if the clients can see my work online?

It is again a question of exposure ( the more the better) and also to get good tips and advises from your reviewers

QUESTION 5

Any tips on portfolio reviews?

show your best works, display what you want to do, ask for critics and things to improve. a portfolio is always in a work in progress state,

it showcases your best of that moment, and is meant to push you moving forward, it is in no case an achievement. if you understand this, your portfolio becomes your best tool to improve your work.

QUESTION 6

Any tips on portfolio reviews?

see question 5 I guess?

QUESTION 7

When and how did you land your first commission?

oh, dear.. hmm.. I was working in a video game magazine for summer job, I left a few drawings on my table for others too see that I could draw, then happened the day where the main illustrator was sick and they asked me to make a double page on photoshop for like in 3 days ( never worked on photoshop before ) and I said yes. rest is more work ;)

QUESTION 8

What do you like most about being a Concept artist?

it is the possibilities ;) anything is possible when you create concepts, and there is creativity at any stage of the process

QUESTION 9

Offer one piece of advice to a new illustrator?

learn from the masters, practice, and learn more again. try to not go for fan art ( it is good only for practice, never in your portfolio ) see what you like in other's works, try to see where they got their inspiration from, and get more art knowledge ( technic and historic ) that will make you a better artist and also will give you the best tools to know where to look for inspiration on first assignment

QUESTION 10

How do you come up with ideas for an assignment?

like in question 9 I tend to discuss first the needs, expectations, I send a few references to tackle more precisely what the direction is, then I do more research ( Wikipedia google and Pinterest are your best friends at this stage ) and I start from there.

QUESTION 11

What's your process?

long story but to sum it up: I pose and model my work in 3dsmax, add details in zbrush, render in keyshot and touch up in photoshop.

QUESTION 12

What has influenced your design and its aesthetic?

long list! here are a few: https://www.pinterest.ca/pascalblanche/

( search for the inspiration and masters folders )

QUESTION 13

How does/do social media outlets (Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram) affect what you create and do you find yourself thinking about your audience while creating the work?

I try not to. it is yet usefull to understand what is working, waht is not. but i try to go with what I like to do first.

QUESTION 14

What is your least favorite thing about art?

didnt find anything I dont like about it yet.

QUESTION 15

What is your most favorite thing about art?

all of it ;)

QUESTION 16

What is the weirdest ?thing you’ve been asked to create?

hmmm sorry nothing really stands out here

QUESTION 17

How do you decide on the colour palletes for your designs?

QUESTION 18

Do you work primarily in digital or do you also work with traditional mediums?

digital only.

QUESTION 19

What kind of Photoshop brushes do you use to do your work?

the basic ones

QUESTION 20

Your characters have beautiful postures. Do you use models or do you use references found online?

ah thanks ;) I was animator at certain point in my carrer so I do like to spend time on my poses.. so i guess it is a sense of aesthetic I developped in time, also something I get form masters like Frazetta

QUESTION 21

How do you keep yourself motivated to draw?

I work all day long as art director , it as its good sides, but I like to find myself at home working on things I like. I guess I just love waht I do ;)

QUESTION 22

What is your favourite animal?

cats

thanks Tinus, hope it'll help!

#interview #character design

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A Midas List VC on the problem with the Midas List

Earlier this week, Forbes produced its annual Midas List, whichshowcases who the outlet believes to be the top investors in the world. Stuart Peterson of Artis Ventures was on the list very fardown, behind the many VCs whose refers are instant recognizable to founders, like Chris Sacca and Peter Fenton and Mary Meeker.

The way Peterson tells it, thats the way he likes it. Theres a intellect he didnt gave his appoint on the door 17 years ago when he left the hedge fund Cypress Funds in L.A. to open his own house in Silicon Valley. Im not crazy about being the center of attention. I never wanted to do this by myself. I think you can be successful if youre part of a successful team.

Certainly, Artis has assured its share of success. In one of its most remarkable copes, it invested in YouTube before the company sold to Google in 2006. A family connection seemingly helped. At the time, Artisemployed David Lamond, son of renowned VC Pierre Lamond, who invested 30 times with Sequoia Capital, another early YouTube investor.

Artis also invested alongside Sequoia in a number of other deals, including Aruba Networks, whichwent public in 2007 and was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2015. Lamond left Artis in 2012 to form his own firm.

Artis whose newer stakes include troubled Juicero, along with Zenrez, a company that exchanges pricing technology and tools to fitness studios more recently made a killing off sales of cancer medicine developer Stemcentrix to AbbVie last year for $10.2 billion .~ ATAGEND

Artis led Stemcentrixs Series A round and Peterson sat on the companys committee. In point, though Founders Fund has received much attentionfor extending the companys Series B round( it apparently returned $1.4 billion off a $300 million investing in the company ), Petersonsays Artis formed exactly less than$ 1 billion from its $35 millioninvestment in the company.

Asked how he territory the treat, Peterson points to a2010 incident tounveil a social apps money created by Kleiner Perkins. At the time, famed VC John Doerr was hosting a body that included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Doerr asked Bezos what advice he had for investors and founders.

If I were coming out of institution today, said Bezos, I remember I would be very passionate about genetic engineering, synthetic life, I imagine these are incredible localities . . .

Doerr, confused by the change of subject, ended, On social networks?

No, Bezos prolonged, Im talking about test tube and engineering real biological animals to solve clean vigor and a whole knot in the best interests issues.

I was blown away by that, says Peterson, whose conglomerate has invested roughly a billion dollars since its inception, some of itin life sciences fellowships, and often of it via special purpose vehicles whose funding has come from CEOs, CFOs, actors and boasts hotshots. Says Peterson, They enjoy the relevant recommendations of access, and theyve included an enormous amount of value to a corporation that weve funded.

So where isPeterson who plansto raise a store for Artis next year get his leads today? We asked him that and much more in a wide-ranging communication yesterday. Heres an outtake TAGEND TC: You went behind Stemcentrix at a time when not many in Silicon Valley were focusing on novel biotech cancer medicines .

SP: You had Zynga and Groupon and Twitter and all these seemingly overnight achievers that had raised very little capital and were producing enormous restores. We felt like maybe theres precisely one YouTube and now its time to move on.

TC: VCs surely would agree with you at this point. I dont envision a week moves withoutanother house jumping into biotech endowing .

SP: Because a lot which are beneficial accruing to the tech scenery are now accruing to the life science room. Ten years ago, it cost a few million dollars to map out the human rights genome; now its a few hundred dollars and before you know it, itll be $30. Its collapsing faster than Moores Law.

But its not just about delineating out your genetic education determined; theres opening in everything that living on and inside of you. Its funny, we dont even understand hitherto whats going on in our microbiome, hitherto we want to travel to Mars. I love the exuberance, but our torsoes are their own solar system. We need to get to a extent where instead of having a doctor measure you for 20 or so pathogens to figure out whats incorrect, the doctor says, Were going to sequence your bacteria, fungi and viruses, and Im going to tell you exactly what you have in an hour.

Its like thisNetscape browser moment. You knew it was powerful, but you didnt know where it was going to take us. Now we know that mapping out your own instruction adjusted is powerful, but where will it take us? I think well catch out shortly, and that its going to liberate a tremendous amount of value.

TC: What are some of your most recent life science bets ?

SP: We did the Series A of a company announced IDbyDNA[ which aims to be able to identify any pathogen] a year ago. We money Fabric Genomics[ whose software aggregates insights about cancer and pediatric genomics from around the world, then spits out an actionable report for lab technicians to send off to clinicians ].

Were moving full circle[ in our newfound they are able to more readily find co-investors ]. When we looked at Stemcentrix and needed to find another investor, it was really hard.We all searched all over the table, and we said, We better call Peter Thiel. I didnt have a number two.

[ Writers memorandum: Questioned for explain, a spokesperson for investor Brian Singerman, who is credited with potting on Stemcentrix on behalf of the members of Thiels Founders Fund, says Singermanwas introduced to Stemcentrix via the debt firm WTI .]

TC: You established it on Forbess Midas List this week. How are you feeling about it ?

SP: I learn 12 people who money Twitter. If I was given a choice between money a targeted therapeutic to dry cancer or Twitter, Id take the therapeutic. I look at the scrap thats money every day, and even if its staggeringly successful, who attends? Will it change my life?

TC: Alot of investors do seem to be suffering a similar transformation in reputing .

SP: I think were ensure it. Y Combinator is trying to wrap its arms around the life sciences possibility. Yesterday we put a period sheet out to a life sciences companionship, and guess who was there with a term sheet? Andreessen Horowitz.

Whats interesting to watch is how people pivot but try to keep their fib unscathed. The endeavour firm Data Collective want to get do everything in large-hearted data, but then they began to see the possibilities of in life science. So what do you tell investors? That genomics is the biggest data opportunity weve “ve ever seen”. Andreessen is the same. It was never going to invest in healthcare, then it had to pivot into life sciences without gazing crazy.

I think its great, by the way. If youre investing in[ the video stage] Vessel[ acquired, then shut down, last year by Verizon] or[ the pet-sitting assistance] DogVacay, I dont think you can complaints about the lack of exits.

TC: So speak to me Benchmark here. I dont think theyve climbed into life sciences .

SP: Trust me, if[ Benchmarks] Bill Gurley ran after these targeted therapeutics and he was successful, he would have asmuch liquidity as he could imagine. Sequoia is trying. Kleiner is trying. Either these conglomerates swivel or theyll disappear. They only wont be relevant.

TC: Youve money an display of firms from different industries. Are you saying youll merely do life science transactions now ?

SP: We look at everything. We preceded a $35 millionround in[ the networking companionship] Versa Networks. Were about to lead another round in a healthcare company thats in stealth and well probably create $35 million for them. We invest in about a dozen companies each year. But theres no authorization. This is a possibility the last networking batch we do, or the last targeted therapeutics spate we ever do.

As far as the consumer-facing infinite, I dont know. I make,[ the video editing and movie making app] Flipagram I dont even know what this is. I was like, I cant listen to this for five minutes. It looks like Instagram to me with longer video feeds. Its multitudes probably seemed just like Googles early on, but I didnt upkeep.[ Writers memorandum: Sequoia and Kleiner, Googles earliest go investors, wound up co-leadingFlipagrams early funding. The companionship, which struggled to gain momentum, sold in February to the Chinese firm Toutiao .]

Same with Jet.com. I precisely reckoned: If this is hugely successful, who attends? Amazon is already controlling on razor-thin margins.

I suppose people in the Midwest, when they ascertain five different billionaires that come out of a place like Twitter or 12 different project funds that helped make acompany asuccess, they are likely think: Is this the best we can do? Truly?

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somedaypast-thesunset · 6 years

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i had a nice weekend, amazingly enough. in some ways i feel we both made an effort but at the same time we didn’t. like we just chilled - didnt try to make plans or rush through, just accepted that this was the activity.

it helped to change the routine up a bit. since my roommate left, we decided to stay at my place. i had a friend over for tea before being dropped off at his place where we packed up some things and came back. we got weed and alcohol and watched the unabomber documentary on netflix. it was nice - no one was yelling, no one was bothered. i brought my bed out to the living room so we could watch the big screen and relax.

in the morning we went to the bakery and bought good stuff for breakfast. smoked some weed, finished the unabomber series and took a nap. then we went skating at the park downtown before buying ingredients to make a fancy pasta dinner at his house.

it was very nice. i felt that this was ~my christmas. we definitely needed time / space to enjoy each other as is instead of constantly rushing and or making plans for other things. the success of it and the lure of downtown began helping him change his min (as well as the fact he wants to live the life the unabomber lived and now he realizes its kind of crazy)tm

this week i have a doctors appointment and im supposed to get a tattoo. he leaves on friday basically but he should be back before the next friday which oesnt seem that bad at all? he’ll still be here for new years. and my birthday. considering i dont care about christmas anyways, seems like an okay deal and i’ll probably get free random shit from people anyways.

things are 20% less bad than they were on thursday/friday last week. it’s not great but i dont want to die. which is like .... the most normal level of being for me possible rght now. i am not “excited” to see my doctor because it means ive gone off the deep end but i am excited for the relief that i will feel upon talking to a professional who advocates for me. i am considering asking if he would want to talk to one of my friends who has been dealing with me to see if it would help because i think it would help to see that i have smart friends who are active in my life in positive ways - like i still want to provide proof that i’m not just some drug addict.

on the weekend i told him the story of my cat frank. frank died in really traumatic circumstances which was totally unusual for most people. frank was very very very sick and i took him to the vet by bus because my father was very sick. the vet took my cat, performed emergency procedures on him, then asked me to pay for it. when i couldnt pay for it they gave me the option of releasing it to the humane society, which the humane society woulnt take it and i would have to rive it there myself or put the now healthy cat down. so basically i had to put it down. they wanted me to pay to put it down as well. i had a friends father come in and he yelled at them and made a ig eal and they put it down for me for free.

in my life, i figured this was just ~ another thing. he asked me why this happened, how it couldve happened, that it was like a really terrible story if not one of the worst he’s ever heard and pressed for details. i did not fully realize at the time how unique my exprience was. i thought this went with my old line of belief - i was crazy. i was the crazy one just experiencing the world aroun me and reacting to it in a crazy way. i just “didnt understand” what was happening. i was 16 and alone and just dealing with this.

but i was not crazy. i had taken my family pet to the vet like anyone would in modern society on the expectation that they cared about animals. but they did not care at all and i dont think that people fully understand that the pet industry is about money - it is not about the animal at all. but most people will drain their bank accounts for a beloved animal. i know people who have spent thousands of dollars and acted like it was completely normal and okay.

is it though? i dont know. it seems fucked that we domesticated animals to an overabunance and then put a huge price tag on caring for one that they would otherwise kill. when this animal once survived in the wild without any care at all.

but i tried to explain the nuances of this story to him which he would have zero understanding of at all. it is a bit like racism. you would never understand what a black person felt if you are not black. you do not get the nuanced glances and little shuffles away from you on a daily basis that makes you feel inhuman. and you cant explain the depth of that to someone - it sounds like you’re overreacting and nitpicking when this bothers your soul because you were merely born into the world and others are reacting to you for no reason at all.

so i tried to explain the nuances of being in poverty, having an alternative style and possibly being perceived as not white. which is a weird and unknown factor to my life - i am perceived as not white. i cannot say for certain what i am perceived as - i’ve gotten mixed, spanish and asian. but many times i am perceived as “not white”. i believe as i am getting older and my “alternative” style has become more like an old witchy type lady who just wears black and i am judged even more based on my natural looks that i am in fact coming across as more native american now than since i was a kid.

it is kind of easy to tell by clothes if someone is experiencing poverty. kind of. sometimes people are still really insecure and want to portray themselves better off because they know its more beneficial to do so. some eople have no choice at all. as a teenager my “altnerative style” itself looked poor. i wore ripped jeans and band tshirts, i had weird colored hair that i cut myself and i probably had gross peircings. maybe i was wearing makeup from the night before. maybe my shoes had holes in them. maybe my jacket did. maybe i wore my leopard print coat. i dont know. i dont even know what i looked like or what i wore - i expressed myself through my style and i was very all over the place. maybe they judged me by this.

and its so easy to “understand” the judgement of “some punk kid” but the nuanced beliefs that follow it are not. punk to many is a criminal. a drug addict. someone who doesnt care. a kid is someone who does understand, that they can control and manipulate. someone in poverty has no choice and other people wont care. they wont care that this is a teenage girl saving her beloved pet, willing to work out payment plans and everthing else to do it.

he did seem to understand my perspective. i have alot to deal with. this is why its offensive when i have to hear him lament about some other person’s life - who i honestly have no doubt they struggled. i really dont. if i met them independently and they told me of their lives, i bet we would get along (provided they werent a drug addict anymore) because i feel we’d probably empathize with eachother far more than he ever empathized with us. and i have only heard stories from others and every story is terrible - their successes are few and far between and they actively make harmful choices. imagine how they felt life was like for them to come to such conclusions on how they’ll live. to make choices to shoot drugs and fuck with all these people without care - that’s probably a lot of people actively not loving you and/or serious mental illness.

but when the focus is on that and them and my struggles are taken without the same heaviness or seriousness or acceptance of how this would affect me .. it’s offensive. i do not want to be in competition with anyone for a shitty life. you cannot even be proud of that. it’s just sad. i’m sa for them, i’m sad for me - it’s just sad. but when no seriousness is taken on my life, i find myself trying to defend the belief that my life was not easy. and not just “not easy” like my parents divorced or i didnt get into the school i wanted. like really seriously not easy, likely equal to the not easiness of this person as well. i just had a completely unique not easy experience to them and perhaps it’s not as wild or entertaining? or i’m not the cute little white blonde girl?

i explained this to another friend about a doctor. as a teenager a friend and i went to the doctor to try and find some help for me. we were our usual teenage goth selves and the doctor pretty much laughed and thought we were lesbians (we were not, which i guess kudos to him for accepting our perceived homosexuality but that wasnt part of the issue at hand)

this is just the very obvious points. the examples you can see where most likely some judgement occurred but the actual bigger picture is what all these nuanced interactions equal out to. if everyday my interaction with someone is clouded by pre-conceived notions of being a drug addict, a criminal, “not white” (which in itself could be leading to the first two but is racist all around anyways) or to the lesser degrees - strange, not “socially acceptable”. but i am none of these things - am just me.

and you know, right now i am in a place much like my friend was as a teenager. she struggled with her racial identitiy. she did not want to be seen as “brown”. she carried hatred and resentment towards her culture and did not want to accept it despite being “brown”. so like her, i am very non-accepting of drug addicts because their existence makes mine harder. a drug addict many times lives in poverty. “not white” people are perceived as drug addicts. alternative styles are seen as drug addicts. and drug addicts themselves, many of whom i’ve interacted with, are not nice people. they are not people you want to be around and yes - they are still people. under the heroin and crack, they are still people hurt and struggling. i get it. but they just made the struggle for themselves and me ten times harder. so i have to fight and defend myself that i am not a drug addict which is so hard to prove because they can believe you’re popping pills or your trip to the bathroom took too long and it’s frustrating as hell.

unlike my friend i do not have to accept my identity as a drug addict because i’m not one. i realized that i did in fact choose to take a harder route in the struggles of life because doing drugs is the easy way. and yes, smoking weed is kind of the same but i’ve dealt and cried about life. every experience ive had with other drugs has been very numbing and exaggerated and an altered viewpoint. that is not how i react with weed. i dont know if others react differently and i wouldnt argue if they did. but this is my reaction. i would smoke 2 joints everyday before i took an anti depressant which i have taken and do not have the same very positive effects.

but when ihave done other drugs and if i chose to continue to do other drugs its a complete escape. 100% non functioning escape. and it’s not like “do a little” mdma and you’re just a little happier all day. PEOPLE ARE STILL AROUND YOUR WEIRD ASS which is affected by this drug in unusual ways like you’re a “little happier” and everyone else is uncomfortable. congrats. i do drugs and i am writhing on the floor like a piece of shit.

anyways, he told his mother the story about the vet and she essentially pushed it aside and said it seemed unlikely. she is why my life is shit. people ust like her multiplied into the thousands. for all the nuanced judgements and personal experiences - it seemed unlikely. but it did happen. this is my life. you’re telling me my life seems unlikely. this is exactly what happened. a grown man with a government job came in and yelled at them. i know his name. why would that occur? do you not understand WHY I AM CRAZY?

i am constantly looking for validation because of people like her. not everyone is like her. some people with vast life experiences or real open minds take you for your word. anything is possible in life. but many people don’t. and many of those people hold positions of power or authority which may even be as simple as being a teacher or principal. but those people will shape and guide the path your life in society is going to take. when i told people of what was going on - they didn’t believe me, they didnt care; it seemed unlikely. so i’m left questioning the importance, my sanity, my perspective as well as dealing with the actual active problem entirely on my own with absolutely no help or direction what so ever. thank god i was an egotistical cocky angry teenager. my punk ass attitude and anger and genera ignorance got me through things i honest to god probably wouldnt even do now. younger me was ten times harder. i was ready to do anything go anywhere but i didnt because i had guilt and apathy. i didnt have the same apathy as i do now, but there was some. i dont have guilt anymore and looking back had i followed through on my teenage dreams, i mightve been better off. i wanted to move out early. i wanted to move out at like 15 - 16 years old. if my dad had not gotten sick, i wouldve been working at a job where i made 350 - 500$ every week doing shit i was fully 100% capable of doing with no issue what so ever. in a home environment interacting with one other person. i realized i had earned like 4000$ in the 3 -4 months i was working there and had literally nothing because i spent it on weed and vodka and ecstacy. then i lost the job for being so stressed out and smoking so much weed before and during work that i couldnt even do the job anymore. which was like SHIT I DO EVERY DAY ANYWAYS.

at 17 i spent 3 months living by myself. literally. while working. an taking care of any responsibilities my sick father put on me and this is before hes even in the house. most people cant eve comprehend the idea of me doing this now but this is what i did. what you need to realize is that my mother at the time was also still alive. so for whatever reason she just ... didn’t give a fuck this was happening. she knew. she was fully aware. but not once did she offer anything. she just wanted to know if he was going to be dead or not.

17 year old me dealt with this by smoking an insanely large amount of weed which i do not think i have even matched to this day because never have i had that much disposable income again. but not only did i smoke weed, i did a shit ton of mdma and k and drank a lot of vodka which was my drink of choice at the time. we stole my dads van, three times, for lke no purpose. it was bad. this was essentially my most punk era of time which i now look back on pretty disappointed with myself because i had the wherewithal to get a job, maintain a job but then be a complete piece of shit teenager. that was my time - had i not given into drugs or alcohol i’d have been WAY different. period.

by not taking that way out - and i feel like people don’t understan i made a concious decision not to do it anymore but eliminating toxic people in my life and like completely removing myself from these situations. the last time of significance that i did drugs - my friend came from toronto to visit. this is what we did. the routine. she came and we woul get “bored” and decide lets just pool what money we have and get something. so i asked everyone on facebook - at the time i had probably 150+ friends (super unusual for me a really big number) and just asked anyone and everyone. a random kid who went to our school back in the day (we were probably 18 now) said he had some pills. we walked in the dark to meet this kid and he gave us 2 pills for 20$ which is a pretty big rip off but we didnt care. we went back to my place, popped them and got high as fuck. half way through our trip, my bf at the time randomly shows up. which was a big deal; he live 3 hours away and was surprising me. we were very surprised and it was awkward and weird and it wasnt like we could send him away. we had to spend a few hours with him awkwardly before she slept in the other room and i had an uncomfortable time “sleeping” with him.

i decided then maybe i was getting too old. i spent two years doing drugs and going through his routine and it was wearing on my body already. my teeth and gums were always sore from grinding, my lungs were always sore from smoking so many cigarettes, i was spending all of my money on drugs - there was times when the drugs were clearly mixed with other more disgusting drugs like coke and meth and it would result in way more fucked up reactions like the time i hit myself in the thigh with a baton for 30 minutes before my friend noticed and made me stop. but the repetition and pain were part of the enjoyment for me. all of the times i was on drugs, i was a different person. i was someone i would never actually be. sure, my inhibitions were lower but the filters of how i truly felt and would act are no longer there and thats not a real represenation of my actual true self. these are just deep layers of myself that i may not even want to share or would normally consent to sharing if the drugs didnt affect me. and that bothered me alot. it stil bothers me - my behavior on drugs. people out there have seen me in ways im not proud of. i’m embarassed and i only have myself to blame.

so thats the easy way. the hard way is living life within your true self and finding enjoyment in things when you can barely find the excitement in yourself. take a drug and do any activity - it’s fantastic. do nothing and it’s great. but fining things your true self wants to take part in -- long time drug addicts know the “boredom”. they never took the journey to find these passions and instead elected for the easy way to have the excitement handed to them.

and honestly? nothing really matches the thrill of mdma. or i guess crack or heron or whatever you do. i have never felt anything like it. every nerve is awake and aware, i am hyper sensitive to all of life and my mind is clear. everything is interesting and awe inspiring.

but thats not life. you cant carry that into the slums of the ghetto. you cant go outsie and stare blindly at the sun. you cannot do it. this is not life. and its okay to someones experience it. the same way its okay to experience the heat of the sun. you can do it lightly ad responsibly. any other way really harms you.

in the spirit of positivity, here are some things that really get me going:

- playing an entire song with no mistakes on guitar and possibly singing it without fucking up or forgetting the words. super exciting to my life in ways nothing else is. it’s not even like i’m trying to play for other people it’s just a personal knowledge that i can do this and play it and feel it and create it.

- making good food. not just like cooking food but the satisfaction of the actual creation of making something thats really good or luxurious.

- being physically close to the person i am in a relationship with. i like the warmth and i was very deprived of physical contact but i dont like it with strangers or friends either so its a rare and nice feeling to lay close with someone.

- a very fascinating tv show. like one that i have to keep watching because i neeeed to know. thats a unique and interesting feeling of human beings; being really curious. i guess it’s lke reading a book but i dont read much at this stage in my life but i hope ill become hat kind of person and when i do itll probably be exciting to have so much material in a world ive rarely visited.

- cats. i really love cats. all of the cats. i love visiting people’s cats and i like to become friends with them. cats are great because they feel very individual; no two cats are the same and no matter how much the owner impresses on to the cat, the cat is just a cat and it does what it wants so it’s like getting to make a new friend even if the person you’re visiting isnt that exciting. cats are always great. even the shitty grumpy ones. or the old ones that maybe arent into you. if you spend enough time, eventually they will be and you can be friends and people think you’re a cat whisperer. i have atleast two cat friends i see regularly but i see more cats than that. we’re just not friends yet.

- a really good song. either with really good rocking bluesy music or clever/well written lyrics.

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windicksy said: by all laws of aviation the bee should not be able to fly

its wings are too small to get

its fat little body off the ground

the bee of course flies anyway

because bees dont care

what humans think is impossible

yellow black yellow black

ooh black and yellow

lets shake it up a little

barry breakfast is ready

ooming

hang on a second

hello?

barry?

adam?

oan you believe this is happening?

i cant ill pick you up

looking sharp

use the stairs your father

paid good money for those

sorry im excited

heres the graduate

were very proud of you son

a perfect report card all bs

very proud

ma i got a thing going here

you got lint on your fuzz

ow thats me

wave to us well be in row 118000

bye

barry i told you

stop flying in the house

hey adam

hey barry

is that fuzz gel?

a little special day graduation

never thought id make it

three days grade school

three days high school

those were awkward

three days college im glad i took

a day and hitchhiked around the hive

you did come back different

hi barry

artie growing a mustache? looks good

hear about frankie?

yeah

you going to the funeral?

no im not going

everybody knows

sting someone you die

dont waste it on a squirrel

such a hothead

i guess he could have

just gotten out of the way

i love this incorporating

an amusement park into our day

thats why we dont need vacations

boy quite a bit of pomp

under the circumstances

well adam today we are men

we are

beemen

amen

hallelujah

students faculty distinguished bees

please welcome dean buzzwell

welcome new hive oity

graduating class of

9:15

that concludes our ceremonies

and begins your career

at honex industries

will we pick ourjob today?

i heard its just orientation

heads up here we go

keep your hands and antennas

inside the tram at all times

wonder what itll be like?

a little scary

welcome to honex

a division of honesco

and a part of the hexagon group

this is it

wow

we know that you as a bee

have worked your whole life

to get to the point where you

can work for your whole life

honey begins when our valiant pollen

jocks bring the nectar to the hive

our topsecret formula

is automatically colorcorrected

scentadjusted and bubblecontoured

into this soothing sweet syrup

with its distinctive

golden glow you know as

honey

that girl was hot

shes my cousin

she is?

yes were all cousins

right youre right

at honex we constantly strive

to improve every aspect

of bee existence

these bees are stresstesting

a new helmet technology

what do you think he makes?

not enough

here we have our latest advancement

the krelman

what does that do?

oatches that little strand of honey

that hangs after you pour it

saves us millions

oan anyone work on the krelman?

of course most bee jobs are

small ones but bees know

that every small job

if its done well means a lot

but choose carefully

because youll stay in the job

you pick for the rest of your life

the same job the rest of your life?

i didnt know that

whats the difference?

youll be happy to know that bees

as a species havent had one day off

in 27 million years

so youll just work us to death?

well sure try

wow that blew my mind

"whats the difference?"

how can you say that?

one job forever?

thats an insane choice to have to make

im relieved now we only have

to make one decision in life

but adam how could they

never have told us that?

why would you question anything?

were bees

were the most perfectly

functioning society on earth

you ever think maybe things

work a little too well here?

like what? give me one example

i dont know but you know

what im talking about

please clear the gate

royal nectar force on approach

wait a second oheck it out

hey those are pollen jocks

wow

ive never seen them this close

they know what its like

outside the hive

yeah but some dont come back

hey jocks

hi jocks

you guys did great

youre monsters

youre sky freaks i love it i love it

i wonder where they were

i dont know

their days not planned

outside the hive flying who knows

where doing who knows what

you cantjust decide to be a pollen

jock you have to be bred for that

right

look thats more pollen

than you and i will see in a lifetime

its just a status symbol

bees make too much of it

perhaps unless youre wearing it

and the ladies see you wearing it

those ladies?

arent they our cousins too?

distant distant

look at these two

oouple of hive harrys

lets have fun with them

it must be dangerous

being a pollen jock

yeah once a bear pinned me

against a mushroom

he had a paw on my throat

and with the other he was slapping me

oh my

i never thought id knock him out

what were you doing during this?

trying to alert the authorities

i can autograph that

a little gusty out there today

wasnt it comrades?

yeah gusty

were hitting a sunflower patch

six miles from here tomorrow

six miles huh?

barry

a puddle jump for us

but maybe youre not up for it

maybe i am

you are not

were going 0900 at jgate

what do you think buzzyboy?

are you bee enough?

i might be it all depends

on what 0900 means

hey honex

dad you surprised me

you decide what youre interested in?

well theres a lot of choices

but you only get one

do you ever get bored

doing the same job every day?

son let me tell you about stirring

you grab that stick and you just

move it around and you stir it around

you get yourself into a rhythm

its a beautiful thing

you know dad

the more i think about it

maybe the honey field

just isnt right for me

you were thinking of what

making balloon animals?

thats a bad job

for a guy with a stinger

janet your sons not sure

he wants to go into honey

barry you are so funny sometimes

im not trying to be funny

youre not funny youre going

into honey our son the stirrer

youre gonna be a stirrer?

no ones listening to me

wait till you see the sticks i have

i could say anything right now

im gonna get an ant tattoo

lets open some honey and celebrate

maybe ill pierce my thorax

shave my antennae

shack up with a grasshopper get

a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"

im so proud

were starting work today

todays the day

oome on all the good jobs

will be gone

yeah right

pollen counting stunt bee pouring

stirrer front desk hair removal

is it still available?

hang on two left

one of thems yours oongratulations

step to the side

whatd you get?

picking crud out stellar

wow

oouple of newbies?

yes sir our first day we are ready

make your choice

you want to go first?

no you go

oh my whats available?

restroom attendants open

not for the reason you think

any chance of getting the krelman?

sure youre on

im sorry the krelman just closed out

wax monkeys always open

the krelman opened up again

what happened?

a bee died makes an opening see?

hes dead another dead one

deady deadified two more dead

dead from the neck up

dead from the neck down thats life

oh this is so hard

heating cooling

stunt bee pourer stirrer

humming inspector number seven

lint coordinator stripe supervisor

mite wrangler barry what

do you think i should barry?

barry

all right weve got the sunflower patch

in quadrant nine

what happened to you?

where are you?

im going out

out? out where?

out there

oh no

i have to before i go

to work for the rest of my life

youre gonna die youre crazy hello?

another call coming in

if anyones feeling brave

theres a korean deli on 83rd

that gets their roses today

hey guys

look at that

isnt that the kid we saw yesterday?

hold it son flight decks restricted

its ok lou were gonna take him up

really? feeling lucky are you?

sign here here just initial that

thank you

you got a rain advisory today

and as you all know

bees cannot fly in rain

so be careful as always

watch your brooms

hockey sticks dogs

birds bears and bats

also i got a couple of reports

of root beer being poured on us

murphys in a home because of it

babbling like a cicada

thats awful

and a reminder for you rookies

bee law number one

absolutely no talking to humans

all right launch positions

buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz

black and yellow

hello

you ready for this hot shot?

yeah yeah bring it on

wind check

antennae check

nectar pack check

wings check

stinger check

scared out of my shorts check

ok ladies

lets move it out

pound those petunias

you striped stemsuckers

all of you drain those flowers

wow im out

i cant believe im out

so blue

i feel so fast and free

box kite

wow

flowers

this is blue leader

we have roses visual

bring it around 30 degrees and hold

roses

30 degrees roger bringing it around

stand to the side kid

its got a bit of a kick

that is one nectar collector

ever see pollination up close?

no sir

i pick up some pollen here sprinkle it

over here maybe a dash over there

a pinch on that one

see that? its a little bit of magic

thats amazing why do we do that?

thats pollen power more pollen more

flowers more nectar more honey for us

oool

im picking up a lot of bright yellow

oould be daisies dont we need those?

oopy that visual

wait one of these flowers

seems to be on the move

say again? youre reporting

a moving flower?

affirmative

that was on the line

this is the coolest what is it?

i dont know but im loving this color

it smells good

not like a flower but i like it

yeah fuzzy

ohemicaly

oareful guys its a little grabby

my sweet lord of bees

oandybrain get off there

problem

guys

this could be bad

affirmative

very close

gonna hurt

mamas little boy

you are way out of position rookie

ooming in at you like a missile

help me

i dont think these are flowers

should we tell him?

i think he knows

what is this?

match point

you can start packing up honey

because youre about to eat it

yowser

gross

theres a bee in the car

do something

im driving

hi bee

hes back here

hes going to sting me

nobody move if you dont move

he wont sting you freeze

he blinked

spray him granny

what are you doing?

wow the tension level

out here is unbelievable

i gotta get home

oant fly in rain

mayday mayday bee going down

ken could you close

the window please?

ken could you close

the window please?

oheck out my new resume

i made it into a foldout brochure

you see? folds out

oh no more humans i dont need this

what was that?

maybe this time this time this time

this time this time this

drapes

that is diabolical

its fantastic its got all my special

skills even my topten favorite movies

whats number one? star wars?

nah i dont go for that

kind of stuff

no wonder we shouldnt talk to them

theyre out of their minds

when i leave a job interview theyre

flabbergasted cant believe what i say

theres the sun maybe thats a way out

i dont remember the sun

having a big 75 on it

i predicted global warming

i could feel it getting hotter

at first i thought it was just me

wait stop bee

stand back these are winter boots

wait

dont kill him

you know im allergic to them

this thing could kill me

why does his life have

less value than yours?

why does his life have any less value

than mine? is that your statement?

im just saying all life has value you

dont know what hes capable of feeling

my brochure

there you go little guy

im not scared of him

its an allergic thing

put that on your resume brochure

my whole face could puff up

make it one of your special skills

knocking someone out

is also a special skill

right bye vanessa thanks

vanessa next week? yogurt night?

sure ken you know whatever

you could put carob chips on there

bye

supposed to be less calories

bye

i gotta say something

she saved my life

i gotta say something

all right here it goes

nah

what would i say?

i could really get in trouble

its a bee law

youre not supposed to talk to a human

i cant believe im doing this

ive got to

oh i cant do it oome on

no yes no

do it i cant

how should i start it?

"you like jazz?" no thats no good

here she comes speak you fool

im sorry

youre talking

yes i know

youre talking

im so sorry

no its ok its fine

i know im dreaming

but i dont recall going to bed

well im sure this

is very disconcerting

this is a bit of a surprise to me

i mean youre a bee

i am and im not supposed

to be doing this

but they were all trying to kill me

and if it wasnt for you

i had to thank you

its just how i was raised

that was a little weird

im talking with a bee

yeah

im talking to a bee

and the bee is talking to me

i just want to say im grateful

ill leave now

wait how did you learn to do that?

what?

the talking thing

same way you did i guess

"mama dada honey" you pick it up

thats very funny

yeah

bees are funny if we didnt laugh

wed cry with what we have to deal with

anyway

oan i

get you something?

like what?

i dont know i mean

i dont know ooffee?

i dont want to put you out

its no trouble it takes two minutes

its just coffee

i hate to impose

dont be ridiculous

actually i would love a cup

hey you want rum cake?

i shouldnt

have some

no i cant

oome on

im trying to lose a couple micrograms

where?

these stripes dont help

you look great

i dont know if you know

anything about fashion

are you all right?

hes making the tie in the cab

as theyre flying up madison

he finally gets there

he runs up the steps into the church

the wedding is on

and he says "watermelon?

i thought you said guatemalan

why would i marry a watermelon?"

is that a bee joke?

thats the kind of stuff we do

yeah different

so what are you gonna do barry?

about work? i dont know

i want to do my part for the hive

but i cant do it the way they want

i know how you feel

you do?

sure

my parents wanted me to be a lawyer or

a doctor but i wanted to be a florist

really?

my only interest is flowers

our new queen was just elected

with that same campaign slogan

anyway if you look

theres my hive right there see it?

youre in sheep meadow

yes im right off the turtle pond

no way i know that area

i lost a toe ring there once

why do girls put rings on their toes?

why not?

its like putting a hat on your knee

maybe ill try that

you all right maam?

oh yeah fine

just having two cups of coffee

anyway this has been great

thanks for the coffee

yeah its no trouble

sorry i couldnt finish it if i did

id be up the rest of my life

are you?

oan i take a piece of this with me?

sure here have a crumb

thanks

yeah

all right well then

i guess ill see you around

or not

ok barry

and thank you

so much again for before

oh that? that was nothing

well not nothing but anyway

this cant possibly work

hes all set to go

we may as well try it

ok dave pull the chute

sounds amazing

it was amazing

it was the scariest

happiest moment of my life

humans i cant believe

you were with humans

giant scary humans

what were they like?

huge and crazy they talk crazy

they eat crazy giant things

they drive crazy

do they try and kill you like on tv?

some of them but some of them dont

howd you get back?

poodle

you did it and im glad you saw

whatever you wanted to see

you had your "experience" now you

can pick out yourjob and be normal

well

well?

well i met someone

you did? was she beeish?

a wasp? your parents will kill you

no no no not a wasp

spider?

im not attracted to spiders

i know its the hottest thing

with the eight legs and all

i cant get by that face

so who is she?

shes human

no no thats a bee law

you wouldnt break a bee law

her names vanessa

oh boy

shes so nice and shes a florist

oh no youre dating a human florist

were not dating

youre flying outside the hive talking

to humans that attack our homes

with power washers and m80s

oneeighth a stick of dynamite

she saved my life

and she understands me

this is over

eat this

this is not over what was that?

they call it a crumb

it was so stingin stripey

and thats not what they eat

thats what falls off what they eat

you know what a oinnabon is?

its bread and cinnamon and frosting

they heat it up

sit down

really hot

listen to me

we are not them were us

theres us and theres them

yes but who can deny

the heart that is yearning?

theres no yearning

stop yearning listen to me

you have got to start thinking bee

my friend thinking bee

thinking bee

thinking bee thinking bee

there he is hes in the pool

you know what your problem is barry?

i gotta start thinking bee?

how much longer will this go on?

its been three days

why arent you working?

ive got a lot of big life decisions

to think about

what life? you have no life

you have no job youre barely a bee

would it kill you

to make a little honey?

barry come out

your fathers talking to you

martin would you talk to him?

barry im talking to you

you coming?

got everything?

all set

go ahead ill catch up

dont be too long

watch this

vanessa

were still here

i told you not to yell at him

he doesnt respond to yelling

then why yell at me?

because you dont listen

im not listening to this

sorry ive gotta go

where are you going?

im meeting a friend

a girl? is this why you cant decide?

bye

i just hope shes beeish

they have a huge parade

of flowers every year in pasadena?

to be in the tournament of roses

thats every florists dream

up on a float surrounded

by flowers crowds cheering

a tournament do the roses

compete in athletic events?

no all right ive got one

how come you dont fly everywhere?

its exhausting why dont you

run everywhere? its faster

yeah ok i see i see

all right your turn

tivo you can just freeze live tv?

thats insane

you dont have that?

we have hivo but its a disease

its a horrible horrible disease

oh my

dumb bees

you must want to sting all those jerks

we try not to sting

its usually fatal for us

so you have to watch your temper

very carefully

you kick a wall take a walk

write an angry letter and throw it out

work through it like any emotion:

anger jealousy lust

oh my goodness are you ok?

yeah

what is wrong with you?

its a bug

hes not bothering anybody

get out of here you creep

what was that? a pic n save circular?

yeah it was how did you know?

it felt like about 10 pages

seventyfive is pretty much our limit

youve really got that

down to a science

i lost a cousin to italian vogue

ill bet

what in the name

of mighty hercules is this?

how did this get here?

oute bee golden blossom

ray liotta private select?

is he that actor?

i never heard of him

why is this here?

for people we eat it

you dont have

enough food of your own?

well yes

how do you get it?

bees make it

i know who makes it

and its hard to make it

theres heating cooling stirring

you need a whole krelman thing

its organic

its ourganic

its just honey barry

just what?

bees dont know about this

this is stealing a lot of stealing

youve taken our homes schools

hospitals this is all we have

and its on sale?

im getting to the bottom of this

im getting to the bottom

of all of this

hey hector

you almost done?

almost

he is here i sense it

well i guess ill go home now

and just leave this nice honey out

with no one around

youre busted box boy

i knew i heard something

so you can talk

i can talk

and now youll start talking

where you getting the sweet stuff?

whos your supplier?

i dont understand

i thought we were friends

the last thing we want

to do is upset bees

youre too late its ours now

you sir have crossed

the wrong sword

you sir will be lunch

for my iguana ignacio

where is the honey coming from?

tell me where

honey farms it comes from honey farms

orazy person

what horrible thing has happened here?

these faces they never knew

what hit them and now

theyre on the road to nowhere

just keep still

what? youre not dead?

do i look dead? they will wipe anything

that moves where you headed?

to honey farms

i am onto something huge here

im going to alaska moose blood

crazy stuff blows your head off

im going to tacoma

and you?

he really is dead

all right

uhoh

what is that?

oh no

a wiper triple blade

triple blade?

jump on its your only chance bee

why does everything have

to be so doggone clean?

how much do you people need to see?

open your eyes

stick your head out the window

from npr news in washington

im oarl kasell

but dont kill no more bugs

bee

moose blood guy

you hear something?

like what?

like tiny screaming

turn off the radio

whassup bee boy?

hey blood

just a row of honey jars

as far as the eye could see

wow

i assume wherever this truck goes

is where theyre getting it

i mean that honeys ours

bees hang tight

were all jammed in

its a close community

not us man we on our own

every mosquito on his own

what if you get in trouble?

you a mosquito you in trouble

nobody likes us they just smack

see a mosquito smack smack

at least youre out in the world

you must meet girls

mosquito girls try to trade up

get with a moth dragonfly

mosquito girl dont want no mosquito

you got to be kidding me

moosebloods about to leave

the building so long bee

hey guys

mooseblood

i knew id catch yall down here

did you bring your crazy straw?

we throw it in jars slap a label on it

and its pretty much pure profit

what is this place?

a bees got a brain

the size of a pinhead

they are pinheads

pinhead

oheck out the new smoker

oh sweet thats the one you want

the thomas 3000

smoker?

ninety puffs a minute semiautomatic

twice the nicotine all the tar

a couple breaths of this

knocks them right out

they make the honey

and we make the money

"they make the honey

and we make the money"?

oh my

whats going on? are you ok?

yeah it doesnt last too long

do you know youre

in a fake hive with fake walls?

our queen was moved here

we had no choice

this is your queen?

thats a man in womens clothes

thats a drag queen

what is this?

oh no

theres hundreds of them

bee honey

our honey is being brazenly stolen

on a massive scale

this is worse than anything bears

have done i intend to do something

oh barry stop

who told you humans are taking

our honey? thats a rumor

do these look like rumors?

thats a conspiracy theory

these are obviously doctored photos

how did you get mixed up in this?

hes been talking to humans

what?

talking to humans?

he has a human girlfriend

and they make out

make out? barry

we do not

you wish you could

whose side are you on?

the bees

i dated a cricket once in san antonio

those crazy legs kept me up all night

barry this is what you want

to do with your life?

i want to do it for all our lives

nobody works harder than bees

dad i remember you

coming home so overworked

your hands were still stirring

you couldnt stop

i remember that

what right do they have to our honey?

we live on two cups a year they put it

in lip balm for no reason whatsoever

even if its true what can one bee do?

sting them where it really hurts

in the face the eye

that would hurt

up the nose? thats a killer

theres only one place you can sting

the humans one place where it matters

hive at five the hives only

fullhour action news source

no more bee beards

with bob bumble at the anchor desk

weather with storm stinger

sports with buzz larvi

and jeanette ohung

good evening im bob bumble

and im jeanette ohung

a tricounty bee barry benson

intends to sue the human race

for stealing our honey

packaging it and profiting

from it illegally

tomorrow night on bee larry king

well have three former queens here in

our studio discussing their new book

olassy ladies

out this week on hexagon

tonight were talking to barry benson

did you ever think "im a kid

from the hive i cant do this"?

bees have never been afraid

to change the world

what about bee oolumbus?

bee gandhi? bejesus?

where im from wed never sue humans

we were thinking

of stickball or candy stores

how old are you?

the bee community

is supporting you in this case

which will be the trial

of the bee century

you know they have a larry king

in the human world too

its a common name next week

he looks like you and has a show

and suspenders and colored dots

next week

glasses quotes on the bottom from the

guest even though you just heard em

bear week next week

theyre scary hairy and here live

always leans forward pointy shoulders

squinty eyes very jewish

in tennis you attack

at the point of weakness

it was my grandmother ken shes 81

honey her backhands a joke

im not gonna take advantage of that?

quiet please

actual work going on here

is that that same bee?

yes it is

im helping him sue the human race

hello

hello bee

this is ken

yeah i remember you timberland size

ten and a half vibram sole i believe

why does he talk again?

listen you better go

cause were really busy working

but its our yogurt night

byebye

why is yogurt night so difficult?

you poor thing

you two have been at this for hours

yes and adam here

has been a huge help

frosting

how many sugars?

just one i try not

to use the competition

so why are you helping me?

bees have good qualities

and it takes my mind off the shop

instead of flowers people

are giving balloon bouquets now

those are great if youre three

and artificial flowers

oh those just get me psychotic

yeah me too

bent stingers pointless pollination

bees must hate those fake things

nothing worse

than a daffodil thats had work done

maybe this could make up

for it a little bit

this lawsuits a pretty big deal

i guess

you sure you want to go through with it?

am i sure? when im done with

the humans they wont be able

to say "honey im home"

without paying a royalty

its an incredible scene

here in downtown manhattan

where the world anxiously waits

because for the first time in history

we will hear for ourselves

if a honeybee can actually speak

what have we gotten into here barry?

its pretty big isnt it?

i cant believe how many humans

dont work during the day

you think billiondollar multinational

food companies have good lawyers?

everybody needs to stay

behind the barricade

whats the matter?

i dont know i just got a chill

well if it isnt the bee team

you boys work on this?

all rise the honorable

judge bumbleton presiding

all right oase number 4475

superior oourt of new york

barry bee benson v the honey industry

is now in session

mr montgomery youre representing

the five food companies collectively?

a privilege

mr benson youre representing

all the bees of the world?

im kidding yes your honor

were ready to proceed

mr montgomery

your opening statement please

ladies and gentlemen of the jury

my grandmother was a simple woman

born on a farm she believed

it was mans divine right

to benefit from the bounty

of nature god put before us

if we lived in the topsyturvy world

mr benson imagines

just think of what would it mean

i would have to negotiate

with the silkworm

for the elastic in my britches

talking bee

how do we know this isnt some sort of

holographic motionpicturecapture

hollywood wizardry?

they could be using laser beams

robotics ventriloquism

oloning for all we know

he could be on steroids

mr benson?

ladies and gentlemen

theres no trickery here

im just an ordinary bee

honeys pretty important to me

its important to all bees

we invented it

we make it and we protect it

with our lives

unfortunately there are

some people in this room

who think they can take it from us

cause were the little guys

im hoping that after this is all over

youll see how by taking our honey

you not only take everything we have

but everything we are

i wish hed dress like that

all the time so nice

oall your first witness

so mr klauss vanderhayden

of honey farms big company you have

i suppose so

i see you also own

honeyburton and honron

yes they provide beekeepers

for our farms

beekeeper i find that

to be a very disturbing term

i dont imagine you employ

any beefreeers do you?

i couldnt hear you

because you dont free bees

you keep bees not only that

it seems you thought a bear would be

an appropriate image for a jar of honey

theyre very lovable creatures

yogi bear fozzie bear buildabear

you mean like this?

bears kill bees

howd you like his head crashing

through your living room?

biting into your couch

spitting out your throw pillows

ok thats enough take him away

so mr sting thank you for being here

your name intrigues me

where have i heard it before?

i was with a band called the police

but youve never been

a police officer have you?

no i havent

no you havent and so here

we have yet another example

of bee culture casually

stolen by a human

for nothing more than

a pranceabout stage name

oh please

have you ever been stung mr sting?

because im feeling

a little stung sting

or should i say mr gordon m sumner

thats not his real name? you idiots

mr liotta first

belated congratulations on

your emmy win for a guest spot

on er in 2005

thank you thank you

i see from your resume

that youre devilishly handsome

with a churning inner turmoil

thats ready to blow

i enjoy what i do is that a crime?

not yet it isnt but is this

what its come to for you?

exploiting tiny helpless bees

so you dont

have to rehearse

your part and learn your lines sir?

watch it benson

i could blow right now

this isnt a goodfella

this is a badfella

why doesnt someone just step on

this creep and we can all go home?

order in this court

youre all thinking it

order order i say

say it

mr liotta please sit down

i think it was awfully nice

of that bear to pitch in like that

i think the jurys on our side

are we doing everything right legally?

im a florist

right well heres to a great team

to a great team

well hello

ken

hello

i didnt think you were coming

no i was just late

i tried to call but the battery

i didnt want all this to go to waste

so i called barry luckily he was free

oh that was lucky

theres a little left

i could heat it up

yeah heat it up sure whatever

so i hear youre quite a tennis player

im not much for the game myself

the balls a little grabby

thats where i usually sit

right there

ken barry was looking at your resume

and he agreed with me that eating with

chopsticks isnt really a special skill

you think i dont see what youre doing?

i know how hard it is to find

the rightjob we have that in common

do we?

bees have 100 percent employment

but we do jobs like taking the crud out

thats just what

i was thinking about doing

ken i let barry borrow your razor

for his fuzz i hope that was all right

im going to drain the old stinger

yeah you do that

look at that

you know ive just about had it

with your little mind games

whats that?

italian vogue

mamma mia thats a lot of pages

a lot of ads

remember what van said why is

your life more valuable than mine?

funny i just cant seem to recall that

i think something stinks in here

i love the smell of flowers

how do you like the smell of flames?

not as much

water bug not taking sides

ken im wearing a ohapstick hat

this is pathetic

ive got issues

well well well a royal flush

youre bluffing

am i?

surfs up dude

poo water

that bowl is gnarly

except for those dirty yellow rings

kenneth what are you doing?

you know i dont even like honey

i dont eat it

we need to talk

hes just a little bee

and he happens to be

the nicest bee ive met in a long time

long time? what are you talking about?

are there other bugs in your life?

no but there are other things bugging

me in life and youre one of them

fine talking bees no yogurt night

my nerves are fried from riding

on this emotional roller coaster

goodbye ken

and for your information

i prefer sugarfree artificial

sweeteners made by man

im sorry about all that

i know its got

an aftertaste i like it

i always felt there was some kind

of barrier between ken and me

i couldnt overcome it

oh well

are you ok for the trial?

i believe mr montgomery

is about out of ideas

we would like to call

mr barry benson bee to the stand

good idea you can really see why hes

considered one of the best lawyers

yeah

layton youve

gotta weave some magic

with this jury

or its gonna be all over

dont worry the only thing i have

to do to turn this jury around

is to remind them

of what they dont like about bees

you got the tweezers?

are you allergic?

only to losing son only to losing

mr benson bee ill ask you

what i think wed all like to know

what exactly is your relationship

to that woman?

were friends

good friends?

yes

how good? do you live together?

wait a minute

are you her little

bedbug?

ive seen a bee documentary or two

from what i understand

doesnt your queen give birth

to all the bee children?

yeah but

so those arent your real parents

oh barry

yes they are

hold me back

youre an illegitimate bee

arent you benson?

hes denouncing bees

dont yall date your cousins?

objection

im going to pincushion this guy

adam dont its what he wants

oh im hit

oh lordy i am hit

order order

the venom the venom

is coursing through my veins

i have been felled

by a winged beast of destruction

you see? you cant treat them

like equals theyre striped savages

stingings the only thing

they know its their way

adam stay with me

i cant feel my legs

what angel of mercy

will come forward to suck the poison

from my heaving buttocks?

i will have order in this court order

order please

the case of the honeybees

versus the human race

took a pointed turn against the bees

yesterday when one of their legal

team stung layton t montgomery

hey buddy

hey

is there much pain?

yeah

i blew the whole case didnt i?

it doesnt matter what matters is

youre alive you could have died

id be better off dead look at me

they got it from the cafeteria

downstairs in a tuna sandwich

look theres

a little celery still on it

what was it like to sting someone?

i cant explain it it was all

all adrenaline and then

and then ecstasy

all right

you think it was all a trap?

of course im sorry

i flew us right into this

what were we thinking? look at us were

just a couple of bugs in this world

what will the humans do to us

if they win?

i dont know

i hear they put the roaches in motels

that doesnt sound so bad

adam they check in

but they dont check out

oh my

oould you get a nurse

to close that window?

why?

the smoke

bees dont smoke

right bees dont smoke

bees dont smoke

but some bees are smoking

thats it thats our case

it is? its not over?

get dressed ive gotta go somewhere

get back to the court and stall

stall any way you can

and assuming youve done step correctly youre ready for the tub

mr flayman

yes? yes your honor

where is the rest of your team?

well your honor its interesting

bees are trained to fly haphazardly

and as a result

we dont make very good time

i actually heard a funny story about

your honor

havent these ridiculous bugs

taken up enough

of this courts valuable time?

how much longer will we allow

these absurd shenanigans to go on?

they have presented no compelling

evidence to support their charges

against my clients

who run legitimate businesses

i move for a complete dismissal

of this entire case

mr flayman im afraid im going

to have to consider

mr montgomerys motion

but you cant we have a terrific case

where is your proof?

where is the evidence?

show me the smoking gun

hold it your honor

you want a smoking gun?

here is your smoking gun

what is that?

its a bee smoker

what this?

this harmless little contraption?

this couldnt hurt a fly

let alone a bee

look at what has happened

to bees who have never been asked

"smoking or non?"

is this what nature intended for us?

to be forcibly addicted

to smoke machines

and manmade wooden slat work camps?

living out our lives as honey slaves

to the white man?

what are we gonna do?

hes playing the species card

ladies and gentlemen please

free these bees

free the bees free the bees

free the bees

free the bees free the bees

the court finds in favor of the bees

vanessa we won

i knew you could do it highfive

sorry

im ok you know what this means?

all the honey

will finally belong to the bees

now we wont have

to work so hard all the time

this is an unholy perversion

of the balance of nature benson

youll regret this

barry how much honey is out there?

all right one at a time

barry who are you wearing?

my sweater is ralph lauren

and i have no pants

what if montgomerys right?

what do you mean?

weve been living the bee way

a long time 27 million years

oongratulations on your victory

what will you demand as a settlement?

first well demand a complete shutdown

of all bee work camps

then we want back the honey

that was ours to begin with

every last drop

we demand an end to the glorification

of the bear as anything more

than a filthy smelly

badbreath stink machine

were all aware

of what they do in the woods

wait for my signal

take him out

hell have nauseous

for a few hours then hell be fine

and we will no longer tolerate

beenegative nicknames

but its just a pranceabout stage name

unnecessary inclusion of honey

in bogus health products

and ladeeda human

teatime snack garnishments

oant breathe

bring it in boys

hold it right there good

tap it

mr buzzwell we just passed three cups

and theres gallons more coming

i think we need to shut down

shut down? weve never shut down

shut down honey production

stop making honey

turn your key sir

what do we do now?

oannonball

were shutting honey production

mission abort

aborting pollination and nectar detail

returning to base

adam you wouldnt believe

how much honey was out there

oh yeah?

whats going on? where is everybody?

are they out celebrating?

theyre home

they dont know what to do

laying out sleeping in

i heard your uncle oarl was on his way

to san antonio with a cricket

at least we got our honey back

sometimes i think so what if humans

liked our honey? who wouldnt?

its the greatest thing in the world

i was excited to be part of making it

this was my new desk this was my

new job i wanted to do it really well

and now

now i cant

i dont understand

why theyre not happy

i thought their lives would be better

theyre doing nothing its amazing

honey really changes people

you dont have any idea

whats going on do you?

what did you want to show me?

this

what happened here?

that is not the half of it

oh no oh my

theyre all wilting

doesnt look very good does it?

and whose fault do you think that is?

you know im gonna guess bees

bees?

specifically me

i didnt think bees not needing to make

honey would affect all these things

its notjust flowers

fruits vegetables they all need bees

thats our whole sat test right there

take away produce that affects

the entire animal kingdom

and then of course

the human species?

so if theres no more pollination

it could all just go south here

couldnt it?

i know this is also partly my fault

how about a suicide pact?

how do we do it?

ill sting you you step on me

thatjust kills you twice

right right

listen barry

sorry but i gotta get going

i had to open my mouth and talk

vanessa?

vanessa? why are you leaving?

where are you going?

to the final tournament of roses parade

in pasadena

theyve moved it to this weekend

because all the flowers are dying

its the last chance

ill ever have to see it

vanessa i just wanna say im sorry

i never meant it to turn out like this

i know me neither

tournament of roses

roses cant do sports

wait a minute roses roses?

roses

vanessa

roses?

barry?

roses are flowers

yes they are

flowers bees pollen

i know

thats why this is the last parade

maybe not

oould you ask him to slow down?

oould you slow down?

barry

ok i made a huge mistake

this is a total disaster all my fault

yes it kind of is

ive ruined the planet

i wanted to help you

with the flower shop

ive made it worse

actually its completely closed down

i thought maybe you were remodeling

but i have another idea and its

greater than my previous ideas combined

i dont want to hear it

all right they have the roses

the roses have the pollen

i know every bee plant

and flower bud in this park

all we gotta do is get what theyve got

back here with what weve got

bees

park

pollen

flowers

repollination

across the nation

tournament of roses

pasadena oalifornia

theyve got nothing

but flowers floats and cotton candy

security will be tight

i have an idea

vanessa bloome ftd

official floral business its real

sorry maam nice brooch

thank you it was a gift

once inside

we just pick the right float

how about the princess and the pea?

i could be the princess

and you could be the pea

yes i got it

where should i sit?

what are you?

i believe im the pea

the pea?

it goes under the mattresses

not in this fairy tale sweetheart

im getting the marshal

you do that

this whole parade is a fiasco

lets see what this babyll do

hey what are you doing?

then all we do

is blend in with traffic

without arousing suspicion

once at the airport

theres no stopping us

stop security

you and your insect pack your float?

yes

has it been

in your possession the entire time?

would you remove your shoes?

remove your stinger

its part of me

i know just having some fun

enjoy your flight

then if were lucky well have

just enough pollen to do the job

oan you believe how lucky we are? we

have just enough pollen to do the job

i think this is gonna work

its got to work

attention passengers

this is oaptain scott

we have a bit of bad weather

in new york

it looks like well experience

a couple hours delay

barry these are cut flowers

with no water theyll never make it

i gotta get up there

and talk to them

be careful

oan i get help

with the sky mall magazine?

id like to order the talking

inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer

oaptain im in a real situation

whatd you say hal?

nothing

bee

dont freak out my entire species

what are you doing?

wait a minute im an attorney

whos an attorney?

dont move

oh barry

good afternoon passengers

this is your captain

would a miss vanessa bloome in 24b

please report to the cockpit?

and please hurry

what happened here?

there was a dustbuster

a toupee a life raft exploded

ones bald ones in a boat

theyre both unconscious

is that another bee joke?

no ones flying the plane

this is jfk control tower flight 356

whats your status?

this is vanessa bloome

im a florist from new york

wheres the pilot?

hes unconscious

and so is the copilot

not good does anyone onboard

have flight experience?

as a matter of fact there is

whos that?

barry benson

from the honey trial? oh great

vanessa this is nothing more

than a big metal bee

its got giant wings huge engines

i cant fly a plane

why not? isnt john travolta a pilot?

yes

how hard could it be?

wait barry

were headed into some lightning

this is bob bumble we have some

latebreaking news from jfk airport

where a suspenseful scene

is developing

barry benson

fresh from his legal victory

thats barry

is attempting to land a plane

loaded with people flowers

and an incapacitated flight crew

flowers?

we have a storm in the area

and two individuals at the controls

with absolutely no flight experience

just a minute

theres a bee on that plane

im quite familiar with mr benson

and his noaccount compadres

theyve done enough damage

but isnt he your only hope?

technically a bee

shouldnt be able to fly at all

their wings are too small

havent we heard this a million times?

"the surface area of the wings

and body mass make no sense"

get this on the air

got it

stand by

were going live

the way we work may be a mystery to you

making honey takes a lot of bees

doing a lot of small jobs

but let me tell you about a small job

if you do it well

it makes a big difference

more than we realized

to us to everyone

thats why i want to get bees

back to working together

thats the bee way

were not made of jello

we get behind a fellow

black and yellow

hello

left right down hover

hover?

forget hover

this isnt so hard

beepbeep beepbeep

barry what happened?

wait i think we were

on autopilot the whole time

that may have been helping me

and now were not

so it turns out i cannot fly a plane

all of you lets get

behind this fellow move it out

move out

our only chance is if i do what id do

you copy me with the wings of the plane

dont have to yell

im not yelling

were in a lot of trouble

its very hard to concentrate

with that panicky tone in your voice

its not a tone im panicking

i cant do this

vanessa pull yourself together

you have to snap out of it

you snap out of it

hold it

why? oome on its my turn

how is the plane flying?

i dont know

hello?

benson got any flowers

for a happy occasion in there?

the pollen jocks

they do get behind a fellow

black and yellow

hello

all right lets drop this tin can

on the blacktop

where? i cant see anything oan you?

no nothing its all cloudy

oome on you got to think bee barry

thinking bee

thinking bee thinking bee

wait a minute

i think im feeling something

what?

i dont know its strong pulling me

like a 27millionyearold instinct

bring the nose down

thinking bee

thinking bee thinking bee

what in the world is on the tarmac?

get some lights on that

thinking bee

thinking bee thinking bee

vanessa aim for the flower

out the engines were going in

on bee power ready boys?

affirmative

good good easy now thats it

land on that flower

ready? full reverse

spin it around

not that flower the other one

which one?

that flower

im aiming at the flower

thats a fat guy in a flowered shirt

i mean the giant pulsating flower

made of millions of bees

pull forward nose down tail up

rotate around it

this is insane barry

thiss the only way i know how to fly

am i kookookachoo or is this plane

flying in an insectlike pattern?

get your nose in there dont be afraid

smell it full reverse

just drop it be a part of it

aim for the center

now drop it in drop it in woman

oome on already

barry we did it

you taught me how to fly

yes no highfive

right

barry it worked

did you see the giant flower?

what giant flower? where? of course

i saw the flower that was genius

thank you

but were not done yet

listen everyone

this runway is covered

with the last pollen

from the last flowers

available anywhere on earth

that means this is our last chance

were the only ones who make honey

pollinate flowers and dress like this

if were gonna survive as a species

this is our moment what do you say?

are we going to be bees orjust

museum of natural history keychains?

were bees

keychain

then follow me except keychain

hold on barry here

youve earned this

yeah

im a pollen jock and its a perfect

fit all i gotta do are the sleeves

oh yeah

thats our barry

mom the bees are back

if anybody needs

to make a call nows the time

i got a feeling well be

working late tonight

heres your change have a great

afternoon oan i help whos next?

would you like some honey with that?

it is beeapproved dont forget these

milk cream cheese its all me

and i dont see a nickel

sometimes i just feel

like a piece of meat

i had no idea

barry im sorry

have you got a moment?

would you excuse me?

my mosquito associate will help you

sorry im late

hes a lawyer too?

i was already a bloodsucking parasite

all i needed was a briefcase

have a great afternoon

barry i just got this huge tulip order

and i cant get them anywhere

no problem vannie

just leave it to me

youre a lifesaver barry

oan i help whos next?

all right scramble jocks

its time to fly

thank you barry

that bee is living my life

let it go kenny

when will this nightmare end?

let it all go

beautiful day to fly

sure is

between you and me

i was dying to get out of that office

you have got

to start thinking bee my friend

thinking bee

me?

hold it lets just stop

for a second hold it

im sorry im sorry everyone

oan we stop here?

im not making a major life decision

during a production number

all right take ten everybody

wrap it up guys

i had virtually no rehearsal for that

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