Chris Trottier
myrmepropagandistI'm not going to be popular for this... but neither.
Both commit the cardinal sin of making half the worker ants male, rather than making male alate characters. It's petty but that drove me nuts even as a kid.
Frigid Crystal Tormented WrathThe bee movie also does this. Drones are not fucking yellow and they are good for EXACTLY one thing and they die immediately afterward.
The real social lives of bees &ants are so much more interesting than just projecting a typical human story template on to them. Male protagonist with a hero’s journey & a “love interest” gag me with a stick!
I want 1000s of sisters and a distant and enigmatic mother— strange little brothers with alien desires to fly far from home— the joy of service and the art of “absconding” — Young queens full of ambition— wicked step mothers and baby kidnappers
@Rasp @atomicpoet Let’s not forget that our sisters come in many sizes, the colony calling them to many purposes. Some are warriors so large you could ride on their back without them even noticing your presence (their hearts long for war) — others, the tiny obscure sisters of the deep garden, know the secret language of the mycelium— these small sisters are so tiny we can hardly hear their pheromones when they speak in the language of plant networks.
isaacs@futurebird @Rasp @atomicpoet I would love to see "ants in reverse". A story with human characters, but as if written by ants. All workers in the city are sisters, with their mother a giant living in the most guarded building downtown. Warriors standing 30 feet tall. Their brothers angsty explorers who leave home as soon as the weather is right.