A fascinating read! Thank you for straying into topics not involving film or theology from time to time. The layers are appreciated!
Also, I grew up in the country and kept bees for a number of years. You have clearly done your homework here. There is some specific terminology not mentioned above (e.g., worker bees who lay eggs are called -- guess what? *Laying Workers!* They develop ovaries due to the lack of pheromones from a missing or failing queen.), but I have nothing to critique and quite a bit to complement.
Happy New Year! Looking forward to future writings.
Your reply makes me very happy, Sam! Both because a fair bit of work went into this piece over the last month or so, and it’s nice to find an appreciative reader, and even more because of your knowledgeable eye.
Part of me questions the wisdom of not doubling down on a specific brand—perhaps spinning off more than one Substack publication for different areas of interest. (I do have a separate DecentFilms Substack for readers only interested in my film writing, which I seem to be doing less of lately.) Who on earth is the audience for the hodgepodge of things I write about?!
But then I run into something like this that is an overlap of my science and cartooning interests, and where would I put it? I’m afraid I’m just going to have to hope readers will put up with my odd assorted output.
Well, of facts I didn't expect to be sharing on your board, this is certainly is pretty high up the list. There's a short web comic series devoted to anthropomorphizing the "bizarre" sex and gender behaviors of various species (generally tastefully):
Very interesting, Brian! The HTML on that site is seems lacking, but the drawings are generally cute and apropos (I feel like I need to warn readers about one overtly erotic drawing).
Yeah, this is old-barely-maintained-internet content. Always afraid sites like this are going to vanish into the ether by the next time I think to look at them (usually after years). This artist is somewhat well known for the Scandinavia and the World series (https://satwcomic.com/), which looks to be better maintained.
And fair warning on the art. Been a while since I've actually reviewed the series, so my memories are probably somewhat out of date. Though anyone ok with surprise-exploding-penises from your blog post should probably be ok with whatever is in here!
Dude, seriously, where do you put all this knowledge? I have seen your picture: you do not have the brain of The Leader. (Geeky aside: I can't believe we had to wait 17 YEARS after he was set-up to see him in a movie!) Speaking of green characters, was your self-description of having layers a Shrek reference? Speaking of movies, why didn't you mention before that you had a Decent Films Substack? Did I overlook it?
Christopher, you don’t need subscriptions to both All Things SDG and the Decent Films Substack, because EVERYTHING gets posted here at All Things SDG! The Decent Films Substack is for people who ONLY want movie updates without theology, cartoons, and odd posts like this one!
And thanks for your kind words! One of the things I love about writing about movies is that it’s a little bit of an education in just about everything! At least, the way I do movie writing, I feel the need to bring a little extra to the table for my readers and leave them feeling a bit smarter for having read me than they were before, and sometimes this means learning about things I didn’t know about before! Some of what I know about bee life comes from my disgust over DreamWorks Animation’s BEE MOVIE! I already knew most of what I wrote in my review, but writing the review led me to research a lot of other stuff, some of which I haven’t written up until this post!
I could stop at "The, um, gag here ..." and this piece would still be the funniest thing I've read in weeks. Thank you!
(bows gratefully)
A fascinating read! Thank you for straying into topics not involving film or theology from time to time. The layers are appreciated!
Also, I grew up in the country and kept bees for a number of years. You have clearly done your homework here. There is some specific terminology not mentioned above (e.g., worker bees who lay eggs are called -- guess what? *Laying Workers!* They develop ovaries due to the lack of pheromones from a missing or failing queen.), but I have nothing to critique and quite a bit to complement.
Happy New Year! Looking forward to future writings.
Your reply makes me very happy, Sam! Both because a fair bit of work went into this piece over the last month or so, and it’s nice to find an appreciative reader, and even more because of your knowledgeable eye.
Part of me questions the wisdom of not doubling down on a specific brand—perhaps spinning off more than one Substack publication for different areas of interest. (I do have a separate DecentFilms Substack for readers only interested in my film writing, which I seem to be doing less of lately.) Who on earth is the audience for the hodgepodge of things I write about?!
But then I run into something like this that is an overlap of my science and cartooning interests, and where would I put it? I’m afraid I’m just going to have to hope readers will put up with my odd assorted output.
Well, of facts I didn't expect to be sharing on your board, this is certainly is pretty high up the list. There's a short web comic series devoted to anthropomorphizing the "bizarre" sex and gender behaviors of various species (generally tastefully):
https://humoncomics.com/archive/animal-lives
Ants and a couple spiders are among the illustrations.
Very interesting, Brian! The HTML on that site is seems lacking, but the drawings are generally cute and apropos (I feel like I need to warn readers about one overtly erotic drawing).
Yeah, this is old-barely-maintained-internet content. Always afraid sites like this are going to vanish into the ether by the next time I think to look at them (usually after years). This artist is somewhat well known for the Scandinavia and the World series (https://satwcomic.com/), which looks to be better maintained.
And fair warning on the art. Been a while since I've actually reviewed the series, so my memories are probably somewhat out of date. Though anyone ok with surprise-exploding-penises from your blog post should probably be ok with whatever is in here!
Dude, seriously, where do you put all this knowledge? I have seen your picture: you do not have the brain of The Leader. (Geeky aside: I can't believe we had to wait 17 YEARS after he was set-up to see him in a movie!) Speaking of green characters, was your self-description of having layers a Shrek reference? Speaking of movies, why didn't you mention before that you had a Decent Films Substack? Did I overlook it?
Christopher, you don’t need subscriptions to both All Things SDG and the Decent Films Substack, because EVERYTHING gets posted here at All Things SDG! The Decent Films Substack is for people who ONLY want movie updates without theology, cartoons, and odd posts like this one!
And thanks for your kind words! One of the things I love about writing about movies is that it’s a little bit of an education in just about everything! At least, the way I do movie writing, I feel the need to bring a little extra to the table for my readers and leave them feeling a bit smarter for having read me than they were before, and sometimes this means learning about things I didn’t know about before! Some of what I know about bee life comes from my disgust over DreamWorks Animation’s BEE MOVIE! I already knew most of what I wrote in my review, but writing the review led me to research a lot of other stuff, some of which I haven’t written up until this post!