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My posting strategies across different platforms:

YouTube: Have pretty good videos scheduled for the next week, unless I'm busy. If upload day is missed, will be very apologetic about it

Tumblr: Usually at night when I have a random idea or something

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@moonthemagical look it's bees

Okay, entomology brain is annoyed by a Tumblr ad

Specifically, this one. First, Albert Einstein never said that.

Secondly, and more importantly, that is NOT a honey bee, or even a bee at all. That is a bee fly, a very important, very cute pollinator. However! They have parasitoid larvae! This means that they lay their eggs in the larvae of other bugs. Those eggs hatch, and those larvae eat the bug they’re in from the inside out. Sounds horrible, but it’s the way of things and I cannot understate how important these guys are.

The reason I’m annoyed about the picture of choice isn’t even that they didn’t picture a bee (not even in the right order- bees are hymenopterans. Flies are diptera.) What’s really grinding my absolute gears about the choice here? Bee flies parasitize bee larva.

If you’re going to use the wrong picture, at least don’t use the picture of something that actively kills what you’re trying to protect instead of the animal you’re protecting.

Also, honeybees, Apis mellifera, don’t need protection. They’re fine. They’re invasive in North America, even. Humans take care of them just fine. I’m a beekeeper, and I love them, but that’s not where our efforts should be. We should be trying to protect native bees, there are a whole bunch that I bet you’ve never heard of that need help.

Anyway, rant over. Sorry, I just could not let that one go.

I literally posted nothing about our show but you can follow along with the quotes I submitted to whatislifebesidesrehearsal!

I loved this show, the new grade 8s were so amazing...

*After the last show*

Tech team and Stage Manager: *singing along to ‘Counting Stars’ by OneRepublic while cleaning up*

Actors: *crying*

Stage Crew: *awkwardly trying to move set pieces without disturbing crying actors*

I'm sorry, but your boyfriend? He's been turned into an eldritch deity. I'm sure he's in a nice forest somewhere.

Production Update

Today at rehearsal, we did a full-cast line run, with a good 5 minutes spent trying to figure out how to number the pages, and a few rearranges.

After that, while people practiced, I stole the director's tape measure to measure a very tall flat that we're (me) gonna paint.

Although, because I am not the tallest, I asked the tallest actor we have (who was conveniently near where I was measuring) if they could help me measure the flat.

It worked, and I kept that tape measure on my belt for the rest of rehearsal, as well as a Sharpie if I needed it. My stage manager, upon seeing my ingenuity, wanted to try, but it didn't work as their pants had no belt loops for some reason.

Anyways, for the rest of rehearsal, because us on tech had nothing to do, the sound designer, the stage manager and I all played Hangman.

Anyways, only 6 weeks left and we've only just started actually rehearsing!!!

Deep Cove In The Snow. Deep Cove, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. December 2022.

Just listened to 'Confrontations' in Jekyll & Hyde, and THAT SONG IS AMAZING!!! The deep parts of Hyde were so powerful, and the rapid switching was great! I especially love when notes were held and stretched out, send shivers all over my body! It also tells a really cool narrative.

If you want, you can let me know the language(s) in the tags, and whether or not you speak it fluently!

Vocal Director: I’m so sorry to all the mentally ill people. Elf: The Musical did you wrong.