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Aug. 14th, 2005 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetFinally managed to get some work done on those Anniversary Challenge fics. With any luck, knock on wood, I'll be able to have them done by the time they're a week late. So, here's hoping!
So there was this butterfly this afternoon. It was a cabbage buttefly (you know, one of those white ones; the yellow ones are sulfer butterflies) and it was doing the most absurd things on an ivy plant. It kept jerking around and folding its wings downwards like a moth would. At first I thought it had become drunk/horribly confused and was laying eggs there (they're called 'cabbage' butterflies for a reason, ya see), but when I got closer it turned out that its proboscus (sp? the tongue/nose tube thing that it uses to eat) was stuck in one of the itty-bitty ivy flowers. I did what I could to get it unstuck: I plucked the flower and started disecting it by hand. By the time I got it into little pieces I could see just how stuck it was. It wasn't pretty. When the remaining flower piece was small enough, the butterfly took off; it didn't get far, though. I caught up to it again and tried to trim down the flower again. Unfortunately, I ended up trimming off the end of its proboscus ;_; I felt very guilty after that. Butterflies can't survive without probosci, and I didn't know if it was irreperably damaged or not. Then I felt annoyed for feeling guilty; it was just a butterfly for Pete's sake, and a common one at that! Who cares? Well, I did. I felt really bad that it might die a pathetic or useless death because of me--never mind that I had only been trying to save it, or that it might have died an even more pathetic death stuck to a flower. Heck, I would've felt better if it had been eaten by a spider! I'm rather fond of spiders, after all, and that would seem a less useless death. Plus, most butterflies probably don't survive that long; Luna moths, I know, only survive in a winged state for about five days. (This is probably part of what makes Monarchs so special, in addition to that whole flying cross-country/seasonal migration thing.)
Then I stubbed my toes, and it didn't seem so important anymore. Ouch. I abuse my feet way too much. Still, the rush of natural painkillers is occasionally helpful/nice/calming/etc.
Rising Stars of Manga volume 5 is supposed to be out now, but I can't find it anywhere ;_; My current hypothesis is that it wasn't selling very well, so all of my local bookstores dropped the series. (My previous one was that I got the date wrong; I believe I've disproved this, though I'm saving 'someone mis-typed it' as a last resort.) This means I'll probably have to ask them to order a copy for me, which means dealing with people >_< I'm not much of a people person (though I can fake it like no tomorrow). This is supported by my bad LJ commenting habits. F'LIST, I SWEAR I'M STILL HERE AND READING THINGS. I REALLY AM. I JUST DON'T TALK IN FEAR OF MAKING AN ASS OF MYSELF OR BUTTING IN WHEN I DON'T NEED TO OR SOMETHING and I'm shutting up now, really.
Anyway, no RSoM 5. Disappointment ;_; Bought a copy of Bizenghast to tide me over. (STFU! I like US-origin manga. It's an addiction D: ) It's pretty good :) The art's nice. I'm hoping a new volume will come out relatively soon, though I'm not holding my breath.
Leaving off here. Have more to talk about, but I've taken up enough space already, and I don't feel like cutting today for some reason.
So there was this butterfly this afternoon. It was a cabbage buttefly (you know, one of those white ones; the yellow ones are sulfer butterflies) and it was doing the most absurd things on an ivy plant. It kept jerking around and folding its wings downwards like a moth would. At first I thought it had become drunk/horribly confused and was laying eggs there (they're called 'cabbage' butterflies for a reason, ya see), but when I got closer it turned out that its proboscus (sp? the tongue/nose tube thing that it uses to eat) was stuck in one of the itty-bitty ivy flowers. I did what I could to get it unstuck: I plucked the flower and started disecting it by hand. By the time I got it into little pieces I could see just how stuck it was. It wasn't pretty. When the remaining flower piece was small enough, the butterfly took off; it didn't get far, though. I caught up to it again and tried to trim down the flower again. Unfortunately, I ended up trimming off the end of its proboscus ;_; I felt very guilty after that. Butterflies can't survive without probosci, and I didn't know if it was irreperably damaged or not. Then I felt annoyed for feeling guilty; it was just a butterfly for Pete's sake, and a common one at that! Who cares? Well, I did. I felt really bad that it might die a pathetic or useless death because of me--never mind that I had only been trying to save it, or that it might have died an even more pathetic death stuck to a flower. Heck, I would've felt better if it had been eaten by a spider! I'm rather fond of spiders, after all, and that would seem a less useless death. Plus, most butterflies probably don't survive that long; Luna moths, I know, only survive in a winged state for about five days. (This is probably part of what makes Monarchs so special, in addition to that whole flying cross-country/seasonal migration thing.)
Then I stubbed my toes, and it didn't seem so important anymore. Ouch. I abuse my feet way too much. Still, the rush of natural painkillers is occasionally helpful/nice/calming/etc.
Rising Stars of Manga volume 5 is supposed to be out now, but I can't find it anywhere ;_; My current hypothesis is that it wasn't selling very well, so all of my local bookstores dropped the series. (My previous one was that I got the date wrong; I believe I've disproved this, though I'm saving 'someone mis-typed it' as a last resort.) This means I'll probably have to ask them to order a copy for me, which means dealing with people >_< I'm not much of a people person (though I can fake it like no tomorrow). This is supported by my bad LJ commenting habits. F'LIST, I SWEAR I'M STILL HERE AND READING THINGS. I REALLY AM. I JUST DON'T TALK IN FEAR OF MAKING AN ASS OF MYSELF OR BUTTING IN WHEN I DON'T NEED TO OR SOMETHING and I'm shutting up now, really.
Anyway, no RSoM 5. Disappointment ;_; Bought a copy of Bizenghast to tide me over. (STFU! I like US-origin manga. It's an addiction D: ) It's pretty good :) The art's nice. I'm hoping a new volume will come out relatively soon, though I'm not holding my breath.
Leaving off here. Have more to talk about, but I've taken up enough space already, and I don't feel like cutting today for some reason.
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Date: 2005-08-16 03:45 am (UTC)::scritches head:: Although... what if you had used water to wet the flower? Maybe that would have unstuck the proboscus? I'm thinking some of the sap dried out and the stickiness glued its tongue to the flower.;;; (Sounds like what happens when you like frozen surfaces, like say, a frosted over metal pole.) If so, water should... I dunno, might it less... sticky? ~_~ Eh. Will never know. ._. ::glonk::
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Date: 2005-08-16 03:55 am (UTC)...I'll try that next time. *knocks on wood*