Speaking Again As A Mall Cop, From Personal Experience:

Speaking again as a mall cop, from personal experience:

Things I don't mind helping with:

Finding a lost child or parent

Giving directions

Assisting non-english speakers

Escorting you between areas if you feel unsafe

Following up with vehicle break-ins

Assisting with missing valuables

Addressing medical emergencies, including overdoses and panic attacks

Hazards such as ice, wet floors, biological waste, and dirty needles

Things that make me want to lay in a hole:

Reports of Dirty Person sighted

Eyewitness accounts of a wheelchair user standing up

Reports of individuals shopping while homeless

Anyone defending their "god-given right" to be naked, park in the fire lane, walk barefoot through the food court, piss on the ground, or fuck in public on the two-dollar five-minute massage chairs

Apparently a part of the reason why farmed bees stay in the beehives that humans build for them is because the farm hives are safer and sturdier. I don't know how a busy Discord server's worth of bugs that only have one brain cell each would logically conclude that the humans protect them from outside threats, illness and parasites, but if I understood right, the bees would be free to move away and build a new nest somewhere else any time they'd want, and they simply choose not to.

You know how in almost every culture, people have some concept of "if I sacrifice something that I made/grew/produced to the Gods, they will ward me and my harvest from evil"?

So, in a way, don't the bees willingly sacrifice a part of their harvest to an entity not only far greater than them, but nearly beyond their comprehension, in exchange for protection against natural forces wildly outside of their own control?

So tell me, beekeepers, what are you to your bees, if not a mildly eldritch God?

I ate a pad of butter today

I’m sure he’d be fine if literally anyone had attempted to explain anything to him at any point!

Something I like to imagine his Shixiong ends up doing when they’re on their way to go and tidy up his territory!

i wish i could say this more eloquently but i really think a lot of y'all love to say "i want a cowboy butch" but aren't ready to be with someone who comes from a wildly different walk of life. i'm not really even cowboyish i'm just lumping myself in because my redneck white trash status (+ the many experiences i've had with people looking down on me for it). do you just want the aesthetic or are you willing to accept that someone might be from poverty or a really broken up home or they have a history with drugs or they don't have the same level of education as you?

Oh shit! These are gorgeous!!

Happy Birthday to Xie Lian! To commemorate, I made a wood burning of him (that I started about 4 months ago... lol). I have a couple more pictures of him and my Hua Cheng wood burning on my IG @/janelle.wilke if you wish to take a look.