The World Of Interiors, May 2021. Photo - Joanna Maclennan

I have some advice to writers in fandom: if you start to feel like fandom is making you dislike your own writing, get the hell out. Do not wait, do not pull halfway out, fucking go. Fandoms are vicious and there are people out there who make themselves feel better by tearing others down. Waiting for likes teaches you to externalize your sense of self-worth. Reblogs and follower counts become unspoken competitions.

Leave with your sense of self-worth intact. Loving your writing is worth more than anything you could possibly get out of fandom, I promise you.

Large banded hawkmoth, Elibia dolichus, Sphingidae

Found in Southeast Asia

Photos 1-4 by smithore, 5 by gawenbl, 6 by hanchongchong, 7-8 by ganjarcahyadi, 9 by naomikim, and 10 by davehb

[Image ID: A picture of a bee and a wasp, both labeled. Both are colored yellow and black. Facts are listed about each one in their respective columns.

Bee:

Cute and fuzzy, like a friend

Make honey

Come in pretty colors with different occupations (blue orchard bee, carpenter bee)

Pollinators!

Freeloaders who will come build hives in the walls of your house

Communicate with dancing

According to all known laws of aviatin, honey bees can fly up to 15 mph

Like sweet things

Over 20,000 species--not just honeybees!

Wasp:

Cool and sleek, like a motorcycle

Prey on pests

Come in pretty, iridescent colors (ruby tailed wasp)

Will try to mooch off your drinks (so check your cans!)

Pollinators!

Leave you paper nests that you can sell to collectors

Communicate with smells

Like sweet things

Over 30,000 species--not just [kind I hate]

At the very bottom, in smaller text, is the URL bug-maniac.tumblr.com. /End ID]

NO ANTI-WASP SENTIMENTS ON THIS POST

big stretch

A stag with the normal number of legs taking a drink from an icy lake

(actually a Eulophidae sp. wasp boy getting a sugar snacc while I snap a 100 pics of that rack 😍😍)

2/13/23. N. Florida

Such a good boy 🤎

please dear god everyone look at this przewalski's horse i found on inaturalist

Beautiful Bibury

Hummingbird moth time of year!

Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis)

July 11, 2023

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania

ATTENTION: you WILL look at penny.

thank you citizen, she has been sufficiently looked at. have a good day.