Thursday Thread: Hot, honeyed reader, consider the humble bee... 🐝 😂
How might you enlist them to change your world—more than they already do?
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Hello, Lovelies, How the hell are you?
It’s hotter than Hades where I am and my ‘i’ key keeps sticking, no matter how many times I clean it. Yesterday’s Empress newsletter went out riddled with so many typos—even the little bots at Grammarly overheated and waved us away as if to say, “We can’t be bothered.”
For this late Thursday Thread, it is iris season in the Midwest, and a reader was photographing the above gorgeous purple beard variety right as a tiny sweat bee began climbing into the flower's nether regions and it got me thinking…
Bees already do so much good for the planet, but if you were to put on your Kelly Link or Gabo magical realism hat for a moment…
How might you enlist the bees to change your life or alter a certain outcome in the world? Your projects for said bees don’t necessarily have to be altruistic or planetary, they could be personal and meant only for you.
For instance, if there is a loved one you haven’t seen in a very long time, you might ask the bees to conjure a magical bee flying carpet or a bee-powered supersonic jet to take you to visit them. (I need this.)
Or less selfishly, you might ask them to band together to use their tiny bee’s breath to steer a storm or a wildfire out of the path of a city or a town so that human and animal lives are saved. Perhaps they could blow out the fire like a birthday candle.
You might ask them to do their best work on certain current autocratic or fascistic power brokers such that they reconsider their recent decisions for the betterment of all people.
You might weaponize them in a clever, but non-aggressive way to show those remaining deniers how climate change is real, or employ them to remedy an incurable disease painlessly via a new type of bee song. It’s your magical show.
I know what I would do… it involves some strategic stinging and that bee-powered jet.
OK, now you go. Have at it. Make sure to keep it weird!
🤍🤍🤍 - xoxo - gotham girl
That pic really looks like he's sweating! That's a great pic, btw. I like the idea of "bee song" and making my mother's dementia disappear.
Sometimes I feel like my support the pollinators license plate is the best thing I have ever done. Plus it’s super cute.