#hive men

[simon-roy]

Here, in its entirety - "HALE-BOPP", a comic drawn back in 2017 for my patreon. Set in the far future, it tells of the Hale-Bopp Dyson tree, the hive men who reside within it, and some extraterrestrial vacuumorphs who attempt to take up residence alongside them.

This story, and more like it, will be coming to kickstarter as part of a sci-fi comic collection called "A Star Called The Sun"... so keep your eyes peeled for it...

[polo-drone-135]

The transformation begins….

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Okay, so... I've been thinking... I'm wondering if I should make a comfort au for myself, to share with y'all. The only thing is, um... it's kinda a drone au...

Why is that trope or specific au important to me? Well, I'll explain. My head is never quiet. Ever. Every time I'm fully awake, even half-way awake, it's thinking, then overthinking, then overnanalyzing every thought and every move I make. Sometimes the thoughts are intrusive or unwanted, like worries over politics or the bad things going on in the world. Sometimes my thoughts are creative, like the aus I make or what materials or colors I want for my hand-sewn dolls and plushes. Othertimes it's just too loud or too chaotic, when multiple ideas are fighting to be remembered or forgotten.

So the idea of a specific trope or au where all of that goes away, by force or not? Well, it's a little soothing. I like exploring the different drones and their jobs and purpose, as well as what their world is like. How does Reader end up with them? Were they an ex drone? Did they have a friend who was one? Are they even human? Or are they something else?

So. Yeah. I wouldn't mind exploring this and making an au. If I do, though, I'm making the characters at youngest 18, though. Since this might be a bit more intense, I guess, for some? No s*x or romance though, only platonic feels and hugging and possible world or planet domination!

So... ye, or no? If so, should it be original characters, or maybe one of my X-Men AUs (one of my own making, so not any media or series, as everyone has to be at least 18)... Maybe mutants are all genetically modified soldiers and workers, but decided humans did not treat them kindly, they themselves would take over amd do better? Or maybe an outbreak happened, but Reader is trying to fight it, but keeps almost getting caught by old friends and foes now obsessed with having their missing piece back? Who knows. ( @sugar-soda @thewickedweiner ) I do feel a little embarrassed liking it, but the idea is I guess I like the calm attitude, or just the warm, fuzzy content, the not oberthinking everything, the sleepy cuddle piles and different sleeping places...

[black-arms-hivemind]

Get you an interest that makes you grin like an absolute idiot every time you rewatch the source material even if it's a brief skim through to remember a tiny detail

[xbasement-baitx]

A haunted house but it’s just a bunch of guys saying they won’t fumble their shot w you like everyone else has lmao

[escapethemojoverse]

Coming soon on Escape the Mojoverse. In May. First though we have tomorrows Young Avengers

Then this Monday we have D’Manda Martini talking Days of future past.

Here’s a sampling of what is coming next!

[guavagyal]

all this stuff with Trump having a 2nd term, planes falling out of the sky, Kendrick performing at the Super Bowl, the Eagles winning the Super Bowl, and Kanye becoming a Nazi makes me wish the Bodega Boys were still a thing. the brand is depleted. they would have been soo fire 😩😭

[hk33b]

headcanons of kuruk with his failed team avatar in the early years (no angst, no suffering, only peace and imagination …) (i forgot many canon wise things.. forgive and forget)

Jianzhu

• He’s Jianzhu’s first true friend, though he’d never admit that. Jianzhu understands Kuruk in a way others fail to. He sees the incredible things Kuruk does and the corrections he’s made upon teacher’s who are meant to be teaching him. It makes Jianzhu think that the Avatar’s greatness is inevitable. He wants to stay around and be a witness to it.

• One of the first things Kuruk came to learn about the young earthbender was that besides them being a year apart in age— he was very afraid of losing everything he worked for. In one of their many talks to pass the time after training, he admitted this. Kuruk tried to understand, using his status as the Avatar— ‘I’m scared to mess up. I don’t want to lose people’s faith in me,’ but Jianzhu shook his head, it wasn’t the same.

“You’re the Avatar. You have something to fall back on. The entire world opens their hand for you.”

And it’s such an intimate thing to learn about him. That he’s scared to lose who he is, what he owns, what his family built. [This ties into evil-old-man-Jianzhu who used his companionship with the late Avatar to his advantage. He’d do anything to maintain control and power; the fear of losing something that’s his stunts him]

• smart on their own, idiots when paired together.

•Kuruk was fired as a wingman for Jianzhu, he’d only been one once or twice, but both times were a shitshow. Jianzhu would try all the moves Kuruk taught him, even said a handful of cheesy lines that made his ears red to a person who caught his sights. And it was a bust, because they barely past a glance at him. No, because they were too busy staring at Kuruk.

“Maybe you aren’t doing it right, friend…”

“Oh, is that what it is.” Jianzhu barely hid the sarcasm dripping in his voice. Either Kuruk’s being polite, or he didn’t realize the problem in question was him! He’s handsome (DOWN).

• Jianzhu lost 10 times over while playing against Kuruk in Pai Sho. On the 11th rematch Kuruk pretends to make a faulty move for his friend’s sanity. Jianzhu knows its a pity win but takes it. He’s mostly amazed about the reckless moves Kuruk uses because it still aides him into victory!!?

“There’s just no way.” Jianzhu gasps, astonished. “Teach me how you did that,”

Kuruk laughs, “Ah. The student becomes the teacher.”

“On second thought...”

• They’re most likely to butt heads over trivial matters like similar folklores that their own nation has renditions of, but they think the other is ruining the story.

They’re all camped out, Kelsang fast asleep, and Jianzhu decides to tell Hei Ran a haunting tale she’s never heard of. Kuruk cuts him off once he’s halfway through the story.

Kuruk groans, “That is so not how it goes.”

Jianzhu snaps his head to the Avatar. “Yes it is?! She back talked to her mom six different times and turned into a lizard-snail for six weeks!”

“Uh. No! She didn’t accept her mother’s arranged marriage for her, so her mom cursed her into a lizard-snail until she did for six weeks! That’s why it’s called Mother’s Curse. Idiot.”

“That’s not—! What—! You…! Okay, let’s say that’s how it went. What would be the lesson? The whole point of Mother’s Curse is that the child shouldn’t have backed talk.”

“The whole point of Mother’s Curse is that the mother was evil, and didn’t care about what her daughter wanted?(???!) It’s to make kids appreciate how their parents wouldn’t do something sinister like that to them!”

“That… is the stupidest thing I ever heard.”

“YOU’RE STUPID.”

Safe to say that Hei Ran doesn’t stick around and goes to her tent, away from the idiots who continue to argue about who is more stupider.

•oh and during Kuruk’s hoe era Jianzhu turned a blind eye and said ‘well shit, he gotta do whatever he can to go about his day. Not my business.’

•silly silly silllllllly vibes. Silly. Ridiculous. One piece level of comedy.

•In conclusion … Jianzhu feels a deep connection with Kuruk. He’s amazed with him!! He believes this guy is the real deal, and its a honor to see what Kuruk could do or will be in the near future. Kuruk isn’t nervous by the blind faith Jianzhu has in him, it actually keeps him going. Friendship Is Magic…….

Song that remind me of their dynamic: It Wasn’t Me

Kelsang

• started off at a rocky start since Kuruk did try to steal his sky bison, but being around someone as silly as Kuruk became contagious. I imagine Kelsang laughing before Kuruk even got to the punchline, and this kinda drew the two together. There’s so much seriousness and rules and customs, it becomes tedious after a point, yet Kuruk makes it all so laughable …? Unserious? A sort of ‘what was I so worried about’ feeling. Childlike almost. FREE.

• Kuruk instantly got air bending in his first lessons from the air nomads, which fits due to his laid back go with the flow personality. He tries showing Kelsang random moves and ideas that keep popping off in his mind like rapid fire. Kelsang thinks it's... pretty impressive.

“This feels so much more different than the other elements. Everything is so… weightless. Are there any personal moves of yours that you’ve created?” Kuruk asked while balancing himself on an airball.

Kelsang shook his head no, confused. At this, Kuruk immediately got up and starting flailing his hands around, creating motion. “Oo! I wanna show you this idea that I haven't shown anyone besides like-- Jianzhu. I think it could really be helpful!

As he demonstrates a peculiar airbending maneuver with ease, Kelsang stands up straight, in awe. Maybe he had judged him too quickly.

• because of his height and rather serious resting face, Kelsang can come across as intimidating, but that is all destroyed by seeing him with Kuruk, he looks his age and more approachable. Kuruk calls him baldy as a nickname, to tease. Kelsang occasionally answers back with ‘pretty boy’, because, *drops hands* well, that’s what #they keep telling us about him.

• It is my personal belief that out of all of them, Kelsang is who Kuruk would’ve confessed to about the spirits. Not that he would ask him for help or go into the exact details of what its doing to his body, but in a complete what-if scenario,,,, the air nomad would have the words that could reassure Kuruk of this enormous responsibility he feels on the daily. [Remember, Kuruk ran into Kelsang with his poem he had written for Hei Ran. It’s less humiliating and less shameful seeking the air nomad out for matters that he can’t hold inside anymore. There’s never judgement. Maybe a shared fear? A frantic voice that could tell Kuruk right from wrong, in his best way. Never judgement.]

• okay i lied a little angst just this once DAMN… So as we know. Everyone who mattered in Kuruk’s life felt this enormous guilt that they failed him somehow. I like to believe that finding Kuruk in his next life, being a parental figure for Kyoshi, loving her like a father would love their own— while believing Yun was the next Avatar. Not realizing until she read Kuruk's poem word for word. To learn that he had still managed to bridge this connection with his old friend again. Without even intentionally doing so? Without even KNOWING. I think the weight of his failures as a companion left right then. Because he made up for it. Whatever it is he believed he lacked in, he pulled through for his final moments with Kyoshi. Not that Kuruk's spirit ever held blame for Kelsang. It’s just so interesting because we know the whole: do you really think friendships could last more than one lifetime? but they usually know who their deceased friend is in their next life. (((Kelsang you reallll as hell. Idc about the typhoon shit, YOU ARE REALLLLLL.))))

song that reminds me of them : Lean On Me

Hei-Ran

• Kuruk doesn’t know when to shut up around Hei Ran, he’s kind of … obsessed. Loser-lover-boy.

• Hei Ran thought of him slightly childish, but overtime, similarly to Kelsang, the atmosphere around Kuruk was drawing her in. There was something contagious about the northern water tribe boy.

While teaching him how to firebend, she wasn’t really surprised that he’d have such difficulty with it. His personality didn’t really mesh with what it would take to punch and kick out bursts of flames. Kuruk’s kind of frustrated with himself because he was getting the hang of all the elements with little to no effort, and here he was in front of the beautiful Hei Ran of all people, huffing and puffing because small smoke was all that emits from his inner flame.

Hei Ran does one last command, tells him to let the fire in him erupt, to let the flame in him out, (don’t you want to go ape shit ? essentially) and finally something clicks within Kuruk and he’s firebending in front of the best firebender he knows.

“I did it! I really did it!”

“Good job, though there’s gonna be many more lessons for you to learn, so don’t get too ahead of— And he’s burning down a tree.”

“Hei Ran! Help!”

• Kuruk likes to stay behind during their group walks to other villages because Hei Ran is usually there walking gracefully behind Kelsang and Jianzhu. She eyes Kuruk suspiciously, wondering what he’s up to. Its a game they play, where he says something to see if he can get that overly serious no-funny-business wall of hers to crack, get her to smile or laugh or even tell him off. All three works most times, and for the other, she holds a set stare ahead and Kuruk grumbles, giving up his charade and walking besides her in silence. Missing the slight tilted ends of pink lips. She likes seeing him try so hard, the dude never knew what it was like to try to win someone over. Is this what Jianzhu feels?

• He’s a great listener. Hei Ran can talk and talk and talk, and he’d retain it all. It makes her feel good. That someone cares, that Kuruk is genuine and (corny alert) wears his heart on his sleeves. She wants to protect him. She wants to know everything about him, and so he tells her everything. There’s this earnest about Kuruk. He doesn’t hide from her. He doesn’t deceive her. She can read him so well, and in turn, so does he.

•Hei Ran never imagined she’d be friends with someone like Kuruk, recalling her bit harsh judgement, but now she can’t imagine knowing anyone else. A part of her yearns to stay by his side. And Kuruk feels like he’s on cloud nine whenever Hei Ran so much as scoffs at his lame mannerisms. His heart thuds, hands clammy, lips forever smiling.

•They’re laying down on a field of grass, watching the sky in an array of pretty colors as the sun sets over the horizon; Kuruk insisted they catch a break after all the firebending training.

“My folks really want to meet you.” Kuruk says.

“You talk about me to them?” Hei Ran tries to keep her tone leveled, but her heartbeat picks up, fiddling around a strand of Kuruk’s hair on her finger.

“Yeah. Maybe too much. Not enough if you ask me.”

“I’d love to meet them. When should we?”

“Hopefully soon, it’s not freezing cold around this time of year. Heh, I can’t imagine you near snow. You’d look so out of place,” he laughs, eyes crinkling. Hei Ran fought off laughing along for dignity sake.

“Please. You make it sound like I’m gonna freeze and die.”

“Don’t you worry, I’ll hug you the entire way there. I won’t let you catch a cold or anything, just stick beside me and—” Kuruk reached for her, face ridiculously close, lips puckered up and leaning. Hei Ran rolled her eyes at this lame show, shoving him away. He burst into a fit of laughter.

Hei Ran turned her attention back to the endless sky while his laughter faded in the background. Going to the Northern Water Tribe. Meeting Kuruk’s family. It’ll be an honor to meet the people who shaped him and made him what he is.

song that reminds me of them : >\\\< You Don’t Know My Name

[palikaraki]

unironically though mitsotakis could start cutting and snorting coke on the parliamentary podium on live broadcast and he would still get a solid 20% in every election prediction poll

[simon-roy]

The hive-men of HALE-BOPP first showed up in print form back in 2016, for the cover of @imagecomics 's Island Magazine. I'm still keen on this piece - a dyson tree's crew receiving trade goods from a Euhumanist vessel, with the euhumanist security trooper eyeing his hive-equivalent suspiciously.

But the look and feel of the hive-men and their living space-suits were codified in sketches the preceding year, while i was still dreaming of an epic tale of hive-men colonizing mars (to be drawn by Matt Sheean).

This drawing in particular, from 2015, ended up getting snuck into last year's book, REFUGIUM, along with the Hale-Bopp Dyson Tree - EASTER EGGS FOR EVERYONE

If you'd like to read "HALE-BOPP" in it's entirety, you can find it on my patreon or on webtoon... and if you like sci-fi explorations of life in the hive without it being another cartoonishly evil stock villain, ruled by a single HIVE QUEEN/BRAIN BUG/etc, and more like a living eusocial community, you might enjoy the story I've got serializing on webtoon next week...

[polo-drone-135]

Polo Drone Bros having a “Hive” moment.

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Dragon Reader dividing up the food for everyone when Ladybird realizes that they didn't set aside any food for themselves.

Reader assures her they ate earlier and tell her she needs food since she's still growing.

She wonders what Reader meant by earlier because she knows they haven't eaten the multiple hours since she joined.

Reader has, for as long as Ladybird (HiveWing Laura) can remember, taken care of her. So have the others, Katydid, Nymph, amd Phasmid (Kitty, Kurt, and Pietro). But Reader has a bad habit of not eating enough, or lying about how much they've eaten. It worries Ladybird, enough that she starts sneaking food over to them, giving them a glare and telling them to eat.

She wishes she knew why Reader was so worried all the time, why they woke up big at night, why they'd left their old home in the first place. But she doesn't. Not until they all have to go back... and Reader finally reveals what little they know about the reason they left...

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HiveWing powers for The Team:

Kitty/Katydid • venomous bite

Kurt/Nymph • stench power + tail stinger (yes, that is a HiveWing power)

Pietro/Phasmid • venomous bite

Reader/Firefly • glowing eyes + tail stinger

Laura/Ladybird • wrist stingers + back claw stingers

(If you want a name for Reader, as a stand-in HiveWing name, I'm open to discussing it. I have a list of over 100+ unused HiveWing names, and a list of canon HiveWing names. So there's plenty of options!!!)

@sugar-soda

[bisexualcell]

im gonna be honest, i love gay headcanons, but a bunch of characters people claim are "canonically" gay just have a close relationship to their friends. like some of you haven't platonically let someone play with your hair. also why do i keep seeing it in relation to incest shut the fuck up shut up siblings can hug each other

[deviousdevilx]

When you look at what celebs are super popular with women, mainly het women, they run the gamut of Chris Hemsworth, to the boys of BTS, and Pedro Pascal. Like you get all sorts; super fit guy, pretty boys, daddy types, men of various shapes really. There is no ONE type of man for ALL women. Also what women find attractive in celebrities doesn't translate into who they only date; an average woman isn't gonna be pulling Chads or whatever these incel types cry about.

But so many chronically online young single het guys think and believe if they get shredded and have HUGE muscles will get them ladies or a at least laid. This is after being brainwashed by the likes of Tate and other Fitness Bro assholes misogynistic grifters, who are rotting the brains of many young male youths having them believe if they follow their advice they will find success in all facets of their lives, but when the exact opposite happens, because they were sold a pipe dream, lies, and sexism (and racism), they get even more angrier, bitter, and more lonelier.

And that's tragic

and also not woman's responsibility to fix; I do think in general though as a SOCIETY we need to address this problem, but again it's not women's jobs to fix men's problems. Especially men who do not see women as autonomous beings. However, if you do have young men in your life, lil bros or cousins you are close to, or especially SONS, who are coming of age, a convo needs to be happened, social media needs to be monitored. Parents need to be engaged, because with schools funding being cut, teachers can't do shit but the basics now.

[hoodzgyal]

“whatever you want, sweetheart” folded folded folded foLDED FOLDED FOLDED FOLLLLLDDDDDEEEEDDDDDD

[widowshill]

random rvb moments: 280.