whetstonefires:

thoodleoo:

if you ever feel bad for talking about your interests too much, just remember that vergil not only wrote an entire 600 line poem about the art of beekeeping with loving language about how bees are like little romans, but he also included an extensive bee metaphor in the aeneid, a book which is a patriotic founding story about rome and has nothing at all to do with bees

the aeneid was government-sponsored too so virgil is a role model for not letting the need to make a living interfere too much with your artistic vision. of bees.