#adventurer and beekeeper

[too-much-alphabet-soup]

The Adventurer and the Beekeeper

My partner and I started a Co-op Stardew Valley game. We just hit Year 1, Summer.

Our characters are

Vaughn Evans, Beekeeper, Flower and Fruit Farmer, Forager, Lover of Chickens, and Weeb. He has Natural green hair and has the sort of Corn-fed born to farmer's life energy; played by me.

Blair "Straw boy" Evans, Adventurer, Miner, Fisherman, Hater of Slimes, and Weeb. He was adopted into the family and brings a sort of mathematical ruthlessness to the farm; played by my partner.

For the egg festival, Straw boy took the hat, promptly adding it to his wardrobe, while Vaughn blocked out Abigail through basic brother tag team tactics. Obviously due to this sharp competitiveness neither of them were able to secure true dates to the flower festival and ended up dancing with each other.

Both have fallen unconscious in the mines, while searching for copper and iron to upgrade the fairly old tools they started the meadow farm with.

Art by me, pose by @adorkastock

Art is still WIP

[dottdoesstuff]

Watched the new episode of 'My Adventures With Superman' and saw a spoiled bitch, only asking for attention, always on the phoen, and went Derek!

So I drew this screencap lol

Yes Mickey was the one who hung up on him, ofc darnett is everywhere

[anneangel]

Sherlock Holmes explaining, or grumbling, about why John Watson's writing dismays him, canon:

"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province."

"And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records."

"You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—"you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing."

"It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my friend's singular character.

"No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales."

Sherlock Holmes (...) emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings.

"At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, at all. (...) But in avoiding the sensational, I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial."

"The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold to have been novel and of interest."

"Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, can barely tell the difference (...) They do not care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality”.

And

"I must admit, Watson, that you have some power of selection which atones for much which I deplore in your narratives. Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations. You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy in order to dwell upon sensational details which may excite, but cannot possibly instruct, the reader.”

“Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.

"I will, my dear Watson, I will. At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a text-book which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume".

[jabbage]

The Beekeeper's Picnic gets a lovely mention here!

Final week of the Kickstarterrrr!

[beekeeperspicnic]

200 wishlists on Steam!

Thanks everyone!

[naughtygirl286]

We did some movie pick ups recently one of these might be a bit controversial that one being Madame Web on 4K. Now I did not think it was as bad as people made it out to be and I do have my own opinion on it but I did pick it up to be fair. I also picked up the newest DC Animated movie Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two as we always so with the DC animated and we have one more to go to the end I am excited for this and can't wait to watch them all back to back. Also I picked up My Adventures with Superman Season 1 which is only on DVD which I thought was strange it wasn't put on Blu-ray and finally we picked up Jason Statham action movie The Beekeeper on 4K which I had a bit of a problem trying to get. You can easily get it on Blu-ray or DVD no problem but trying to get it on 4K it took me a while which included one failed attempt but I finally got it so I was happy.

[theprofessionalpromptmaker]

Person A is a dragon known for having the ability to create gold which they’ve hoarded for generations - but what the rumors don’t realize is that what Person A refers to as ‘gold’ is honey, and that Person A has been cultivating and tending to their beehives and garden that their bees feed from for many centuries. Person A has been protecting their various species of bees and plants, and keeping these rare bees and plants alive has been their hobby. Person B is a top of the line adventurer, famed for their talent and abilities, who is sometimes considered a con artist by their clients, only because Person B hates interacting with people and so takes long commission work, the jobs others find impossible and not worth the time it would take to complete. But to fund this lifestyle, Person B demands to be paid for their time and effort. So, as long as a set fee from the commissioner keeps being paid and deposited into Person B’s account, they will continue the search for whatever rumor the wealthy client wants to fund them to look for. The jobs go as long as it takes until Person B finds the object (which happens often enough to keep their reputation good) or until the commissioner gets impatient and stops paying them (in most cases where the rumored item wasn’t real but Person B was willing to give it an effort for the money they’d make from the client’s belief that it might be). When Person B is sent to find Person A’s hoard, and finds it’s all just a vast bee paradise, Person A begs Person B not to ought their precious bee colony, since they’d hate to deal with tourists. Person B, understanding Person A’s concern, agrees. But Person A has barely any actual money since they tend to just sell their honey and beeswax products at nearby fairs or to the local shops in towns not far from their hidden paradise. Person B decides in form of payment, they will be in charge of sales and take a cut of that, continuing to travel far and wide but this time to sell Person A’s products further than Person A is willing to be from their home.

[the-imaginative-hobbyist]

Taylor James (The Beekeeper, Justice League) imagined as Conan, reworked from a still from Samson (2018) starring James in the lead role, inspired by Frank Frazetta.

[lavendette]

Almost ready for bees 🐝

[trendfilmsetter]

New IMAX exclusive poster for THE BEEKEEPER featuring Jason Statham.

Releasing in theaters January 12th, 2024

[a-coward-who-is-worried]

[hollywoodoutbreak]

The Beekeeper is now playing in international territories.. Both the studio and the movie's star, Jason Statham, are banking on its international appeal to make the film a blockbuster, and Statham says he thinks The Beekeeper has exactly the kind of story that can be understood regardless of where they might live.

 The Beekeeper is now playing in theaters.

[ranjith11]

The Bee Hotel - Kutu & Ki's Blooming Adventure Begins | Kids Adventure Cartoon TV | kutuki stories

🐝Buzz into "A Bee Story" with Kutu & Ki!🌼 When the duo realizes their garden's flowers need some pollinating power and Ma's guava trees are longing for a bloom, they come up with a brilliant idea: Open a bee hotel

[tamby-teeze]

Okay, so I know a solid 40% of the new Fantasy High was about Tracker "There's still deep attraction here" O'Shaughnessy, but HERE ME OUT

Gertie Bladeshield is the perfect woman for Kristen Applebees.

Cause, like, look, there was a lot of talk in episode 11 about impulsivity and chaos as an aspect of Kristen's character, mainly in how it's mirrored in Princess "Kristen if she had money" Naradriel, but it's also been a general focus this season, especially in how she often uses it to guard her emotions. Think back to "That's what you think", an incredible improv moment, but if you look at the big picture, Kristen's estranged parents make an incredibly inflammatory statement about her religion right after actively bullying her little brother, and instead of honoring any of the actual negative emotions she's being filled with in that moment, she pirouettes away. It's brought up in the adventuring party after this exact episode how Kristen is a cleric, a high-wisdom class that is naturally insightful, but uses these silly deflections to hold other people back from being insightful into her (hence Mac & Donna's lifetime insight disadvantage)

This isn't just limited to small moments, too. To take a broader look at the season so far, Kristen's chaotic, shrimp-jumping, wrangler-wearing, salsa-dipping, middle-school-campaigning, steel-workers-union-supporting bid for class president is often shown explicitly as a distraction from her existentially important job as the only cleric of Cassandra. Even when trying to earnestly apologize to Cassandra and prove to them that she's gonna prioritize her over class presidency, the only way she can articulate it is "You're the meat, mama." Her emotions are always guarded by some amount of chaos and impulsivity.

Now, how does that relate to Gertie "I've had a crush on you for a really long time" Bladeshield?

In both of the two scenes we've gotten of The Best D20 NPC (/j (but I do really like her)), Gertie has shown a pretty similar propensity for making bold, chaotic decisions in the heat of the moment. However, in my observation, these decisions do NOT come from a place of emotional suppression. Quite the opposite, actually.

Think back to her Grand Entrance into the narrative. Gertie, being one of the last people awake at Fabian's party, gifts her longtime-crush a jar of honey, something that connects directly to her passion/special-interest of beekeeping, in a homemade container designed as a pun on Kristen's last name. (in hindsight, the crush was very obvious) Then, in the middle of her infodumping to her about honey, Kristen's rich friend makes an incredibly dismissive remark about her good-natured gift. This obviously pisses her off, but unlike Kristen "That's what you think" Applebees, Gertie "I don't give a shit who's kid you are" Bladeshield lets herself feel those emotions very loudly, immediately starts a duel with possibly one of the most accomplished sword-fighters in the history of Aguefort, and declares him a life-long nemesis. She acts very brashly and impulsively, but in a way that doesn't hide her emotions, instead expressing them.

(I know there's a lot of talk about outbursts of anger being tied to Ankarna, but not only does the scene not really seem like foreshadowing to me, it's more interesting to see it through the lens of being Gertie's actual actions)

This trend continues with the 12th most noteworthy thing to have happened in episode 11 (which incredibly high acclaim), where after being explicitly asked to talk about bees by her crush, and being placed inches away from her face, kisses her on the lips. Now, excusing the albeit upsetting lack of consent, it once again shows Gertie acting very impulsively in a way that exposes her feelings to the people she likes. With these two instances of characterization being literally the only two scenes we get with her, it poses her as a very interesting parallel to Kristen, someone who shares in her willingness to make impulsive decisions, but differs wildly from her in the way she uses them to react to strong emotions.

However, does this really make Gertie the Autism to her ADHD?

(idk if Gertie really shows autistic traits, I just wanted to say that) Well, part of what Tracker a good companion for Kristen was that, as a fellow cleric, she naturally had very high wisdom, meaning she had enough insight to look past the layers of shrimp and salsa and engage with her on a deep level. However, clerics aren't the only class that cast spells with wisdom, so do rangers, including swarm-keeper rangers, which is a subclass that both has a good few abilities focused on spell-casting and was confirmed to be Gertie's subclass in an adventuring party. While her highest stat still could be dex (which, come to think of it, is a hilarious contrast to Kristen), there's no doubt that Gertie has a higher chance than most at being able to look past Kristen's barriers and see the complex hive of sweet, buzzing emotions underneath.

Hell, maybe that's where Gertie's crush comes from in the first place. Maybe, seeing this popular, proudly sapphic cleric be incredibly playful and chaotic on school grounds, she not only saw a bit of herself, but a little more. Perhaps, the type of mind that dedicates itself to allowing small, harmless critters to prosper even when no-one cares to join her club, is also the type of mind able to recognize when someone isn't allowing their truest emotions to prosper, making her wonder if they might have something to gain from sharing some of that chaos, using it not to hide, but to be free.

Or maybe it's just cause her last name has "bees" in it, idk.

[beekeeperspicnic]

Bedrooms

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil,

I've borrowed a copy of Trigger Warning from the library and have just got past The Case of Death and Honey and I wanted to know your thought process behind the story. I've always loved the Sherlock Holmes books and retiring to keep bees never felt like a fitting end for the character, but honestly I never would have considered the route you took.

You referenced Professor Presbury and the Adventures of the Creeping Man, honestly one of my least favourites, but in a way that allows it to be ridiculous. So the solution isn't a fatal dose of monkey testicles but simply Watson taking creative liberties. I really liked that.

Thank you. I'm very proud of that story. I came up with the idea of Sherlock and the honey when I was about 19 and tried to write a story with it in. I wrote a few pages and never finished it (I never finished anything back then.) 30 years later I was asked for a Sherlock story (and I had been a beekeeper for 5 years at that point) and I knew how to tell it.