..of setting up Deep Ones as rapists, out to steal our women and do horrible things to them. (For example, in the Cthulhutech RPG, there are literal ‘breeding camps’, which what even the hell.) There are a couple reasons why this is awful, even beyond the obvious.
1st: Because Lovecraft was a horrible bigot, the deep ones are stand ins for various minority groups. Making them monstrous rapists in modern day pastiches plays into this same vein of bigotry, with the implication of non-white men lusting after white women to carry them off. Which frankly is the kinda shit that needs to go away yesterday.
2nd: It ignores that the horror Lovecraft felt as a horrible bigot was that people were -willing- to hook up with Deep ones. The dude felt existential dread over the possibility of white people having consensual relationships with POC, as represented by fish-people from beneath the waves.
In summary, Lovecraft pastiches need more consensual loving human/fishperson romances.
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WATCH: Honey on Tap: A New Beehive that Automatically Extracts Honey without Disturbing Bees
WITHOU T DISTURBING THE BEES THAT IS FANTASTIC BEES ARE GREAT
You don’t understand how fabulous this is!!
- This hive structure, if it works like the descriptions imply, would make beehives something super affordable, that just about anyone could install near their home and maintain. AND it would reduce the cost of harvesting honey by more than just the money-
- A typical honey harvesting device costs $200-300, plus the time it takes to use to harvest. For a Langstroth hive, you have to suit up (gear which can be pricey), remove the comb (which is highly disturbing to the bees), install said comb in the extractor (scraping all the caps off the comb first), spin out the honey, RE-open the hive (after suiting up and again disturbing the bees), and put the comb back.
- If you use a method that doesn’t require an extractor, you usually end up destroying the comb, which is damaging to the hive and intensively laborious for your bees because they have to completely remake the combs from scratch.
What this looks like is that you probably wouldn’t even need to suit up any time you wanted to harvest honey (though you would still need the equipment for installation of the colony and for inspections, etc, or if you’re still getting used to the colony). Removing the viewing window on a hive doesn’t disturb the bees at all (ours hardly even notice us), and the shift in the comb to start extraction is unlikely to cause enough disturbance to merit a response.
The bees get to keep/recycle all the materials they created (aside from the honey), and you get fresh, almost-effortless honey.
Perhaps the most important and AWESOME thing about this?? The “Flow Frames” that allow for this type of extraction can be used with pre-existing hive boxes. This means that folks who already own bees that are being kept in most kinds of hives, especailly the standard Langstroth hive boxes, can replace their old frames with Flow frames without having to start from scratch.
The Indiegogo campaign to start production on these launches in just a few hours (11AM AU EST, Feb. 23rd, 2015), so if you want to help these folks revolutionize bee-keeping, I would suggest signing up for their mailing list!
I AM GETTING ONE OF THESE AND I AM SO EXCITED.
Kimchi and Justice 