Post Av9d7srcJYTchUcwaG by schuemaa@ecoevo.social
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(DIR) Post #Av9VewDU4S9F1P6cC0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-15T10:59:35Z
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Speaking of Military Parades?Ants do it better.Here is a chapter from a story that I was working on two years ago "The Planet of the Ants" it's very different from the Book I am working on now but this was my favorite chapter: "The War Memorial Parade of the Ants"I was going for a more fantasy tone. It's the story of an academic who is sent by Earth to spy on the ants and what she learns living with them, and the dark secrets of the history of their world:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OTdijXKxAKszeeudaMzYtkEO7DYrzhKlKF3KXfZj7_E/edit?usp=sharing
(DIR) Post #Av9WYpcRmpxUmEQyfI by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T11:09:37Z
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@futurebird This is brilliant! Especially love "the Hour of the Wasp." 😱 I wrote something similar in 2015 but about caterpillars in the rainforests of China. You have a Provost, I have the Magistrate. And there's also a mantis, but not so friendly!
(DIR) Post #Av9Xuy2hFWDBE6pak4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-15T11:24:55Z
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@freequaybuoy I love stories with interesting bug people. If you ever share any of it please let me know.
(DIR) Post #Av9YN1LyX5urbUE2j2 by Sroot@mastodon.me.uk
2025-06-15T11:29:57Z
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@futurebirdThtasya great read, thanks for sharing
(DIR) Post #Av9aeihKpdtYrimeBM by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T11:55:34Z
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@futurebird Me too! Just after I started it The Bees by Laline Paull came out - must've been something in the air. It was my first short story in print, in this collection, but looks like there's only one physical copy left, though there is a Kindle edition (sorry for Amazon, only place that has it). I could send you the PDF proof if you'd rather, but these days I'm afraid of LLMs, but that's silly, we must still share our work - and I would love to read more of yours.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mechanics-Institute-Review-2017-Stories/dp/0957583389
(DIR) Post #Av9bOjwCYRzQ20gIwy by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T11:58:10Z
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@futurebird Fun fact that inspired me to write it - the bagworm caterpillar makes an actual pagoda out leaves and silk.
(DIR) Post #Av9cVWV30zSQKrmLFw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-15T12:16:19Z
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@freequaybuoy This kind of storytelling comes from a long beautiful history of insect people from all over the world. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/670951
(DIR) Post #Av9d7srcJYTchUcwaG by schuemaa@ecoevo.social
2025-06-15T12:23:13Z
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@futurebird @freequaybuoy that looks like a graph showing the insect declines in the 20th and 21st century ...
(DIR) Post #Av9sFSKuKG8o3WOd4C by Sorl@goblin.camp
2025-06-15T15:12:39Z
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@futurebird excellent read!
(DIR) Post #AvAFEyzDkHQRyUznOq by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T19:30:16Z
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@futurebird Ooh not heard of this - thanks! While writing it I found out Kafka was sometimes thought of as similar to Chinese writers, for he liked his anthropomorphised characters too, like The Giant Mole. And of course, Gregor Samsa but I suppose that's more anthropomorphises?!
(DIR) Post #AvAFe225YZU8f7HVyq by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T19:34:35Z
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@futurebird Ah but it gets even more amazing - sometimes they build, I kid you not, log cabins...https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/01/log-house-like-cocoon-of-bagworm-moth.html