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Greetings Fellow Human!

@ahordeofwasps / ahordeofwasps.tumblr.com

Starer of rocks by day, typer of words by night.

What? An About Me Page?

Who am I?

The description of my blog sums it up pretty well. Most call me Horde or Wasps. My pronouns are she/her. I am in my late 20s. I have a website where I share where my writing can be found here: https://daygeonightwriter.neocities.org .

What kinds of rocks do I stare at?

Currently, I am staring at some rocks that I have cunningly tricked into thinking they’re on Enceladus.

What words am I currently typing?

I’m currently working on a short story or novelette called the Haunting of Breadbeard’s Pasta Tavern. It’s about a ghost haunting a failing restaurant struggling with her own incorporeality as she tries to prevent a murder.

One of my main WIPs is called Crying Wolf. It’s a long scifi post-post-apocalyptic (the two posts are important) novel. It’s about the revenge-cycle that occurs after a lonely military A.I. brings the boy who cried wolf back to life as an undead cyborg, dragging truths surrounding a 10-ft tall robot and a gravity worshiping cult into the light. Draft 6, which is a partial rewrite, is complete, so I’m letting it sit for a bit before I edit it some more.

One of my main WIPs is a novella called To Not Falling Off Cliffs. It’s an urban fantasy story about reapers warring against their own creators after all of reaperkind is punished for one of their number altering the Fate of the Universe. I’ve recently completed Draft 1 and am letting it sit for a bit before I begin editing.

WIP Intros!

Excerpts from my WIPs as well as progress notes!

Crying Wolf (Draft 6 complete)

To Not Falling off Cliffs (Draft 1 complete)

Mayday (Draft 1 complete)

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I wasn't tagged, BUT I saw @phenanthreneblue do this and it was so fucking cute!

Look at me being a little guy

What cute little guys we have! Thanks for the tag 🖤

Ooo thank you for the tag!

Tags: @fceriestcrdst @nowritingonthewall @tinyphantomsalad (no pressure but also anyone can do it if they want to :3)

Eeeeee ty for the tag!!!

Tags: @catholicdaredevil, @my-secret-shame, @ninilily (no pressure tags!!! anyone is welcome!! includin' moots i didn't tag <3)

Thank you so much for the tag! Yours is so cute! 💚🫂

Tagging: YOU 🫵

This was exactly the distraction I needed. Thank you for the tag @joyful-soul-collector 😊

@joyful-soul-collector and @monaisme both tagged me teehee

I'm feeling like a grouch this afternoon (surely has nothing to do with skipping lunch until a little bit ago oops) and am yelling at the metaphorical kids to get off my metaphorical lawn.

!!!! fuckin PRECIOUS!!!!!!! I hope the day gets less gromp and that tomorrow has EVEN LESS gromp than that! (but in the mean time gET THOSE METAPHORICAL KIDS)

lookit my lil squonch of a person -3-

no pressure tagging @ahordeofwasps as well as the person reading this!!

This is a cute picrew maker! Thanks for the tag!

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A group of far-future linguists and archeologists suddenly *poof* into existence in front of me. One is holding a tablet. "What is the difference between 'red sauce' and 'tomato sauce?'" they ask me. "The distinction is not clear in extant texts from this time and place."

"Uh, they're the same thing," I tell them. "Who are you?"

"Yes!" the being with the tablet exclaims.

One of the other researchers groans. "No! My thesis...months of writing wasted..." One of the others comforts them.

"Now, what is this object for?" The first researcher holds up a discolored, dinged-up plastic object. It's clearly been buried in the ground for quite some time, but the two holes and the scuffed plastic window are distinctive.

"That's a cassette tape. You record music with it."

"Interesting, interesting." The being enters something on the tablet.

"How are you speaking English?"

"Sophisticated translation technology," one of the researchers confides. "We are students of your society. From the future."

"What does this pictogram represent?" The researcher with the tablet turns it around so that the screen faces me.

It's the eggplant emoji.

"Sex," I say. "Why do you need to ask me this if you can time travel or whatever? Can't you just go wherever you want to go and look around and see how these things are being used?"

The beings shift guiltily and look at each other. "Technically, travel to times and places prior the advent of time travel is strictly prohibited. Paradoxes, you know."

"Oh."

"We must get back before our advisor returns to the lab. Just don't tell anyone you saw us, alright? The space-time continuity depends on it. Can you do that?"

"Uh, sure, I guess?"

One of them pats me on the head. "And don't go to Mars."

"Okay. Wait, why? Is it dangerous?"

"No. Just not worth it."

The group disappears in a shimmering light.

The cassette clatters to the sidewalk behind them.

Out of befuddlement, mainly, I pick it up. It's clearly old, discolored and scuffed, but it still has tape in it.

I carry the tape around in my pocket for a while. The curiosity builds. I want to know what's on that tape. I don't have a cassette player anymore, so I go to Goodwill and pick up the first one I can find, praying that it still works. I plug it in. It turns on.

I slide the tape inside. It's dirty, but it still seems to be in decent shape. I snap the player closed and hit play. The wheels begin to turn. I hold my breath.

A familiar tune starts up. A wobbly voice comes out of the machine.

We're no strangers to love

Its weird how quickly stereotyping cats based on color has taken off online now

I'd say its just people wanting to lovingly tease their pets, but I've come across several conversations recently of people wondering what genetically causes orange cats "to be that way". I think it's because they are a cat.

It's even weirder because people act like "orange cat behaviour" is a long-standing cultural stereotype and not something that popped up in the last five years!

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going to my friends environmental storytelling themed birthday party and theres overturned chairs and blood everywhere and everyone is gone

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