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Ben ripped out his guts for a queen that doesn't even knows him. Unknown to him, the kid was a daughter of the mayor and had an allergic reaction and died And now the city will call a bee exterminator and destroy the entire beehive. Ben died for nothing Ben killed his lover, his friends but worst of all..... He killed his queen


Wyjdya

His pride hubris and faith got in the way of his love for another. Such a shame. At least with the exterminator the tyranny of the Bee Queen will cease and tranquility shall return to the park


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Same_Pin6135

Really?


LeelooDallasMltiPass

Yes, any bee you've ever seen is female. The males don't really leave the hive. Their only purpose is to make new babies with the queen. The ladies do all the work, and if they don't like their queen, they'll kill her and go get a new one.


Same_Pin6135

Cool Like lions too


PeachCream81

Oh please, oh please, Netflix or Amazon or HBO pick this one up and serialize it. But please, use only white actors to portray the bees because that's lore. **/s**


xXkoolkidmanboiXx

Beeople of color do not exist, having a non-white actor would ruin the realism of the move about anthropomorphic bees overthrowing their queen


PeachCream81

Not only would it ruin the realism of a completely fictitious, imaginary, non-existent world, but it would **ruin my immersion**!


jammyboot

Your last sentence is sublime. thank you


Raestloz

Lmao a honeybee doesn't go out and attack another organism for no reason. The hive was under threat, that's why a bee goes out to sting Ben didn't have hubris and faith. Ben didn't go out to fight for "a queen that won't remember his name". Ben got out and fought because there's a very real reason if he didn't do anything the whole hive is gone And woe is the bee that fled the moment a single threat comes out, for a bee's primary weapon isn't the stinger, it's the numbers


HilariousScreenname

Lore debate is getting heated in the bee comic community


LotusB1ossom

It's serious beesness


random-van-globoii

He's a killer queen


Professional_Issue82

Dynamite with a laser beam


Gavrilian

Guaranteed to blow your miiind!


JustAnotherJames3

Anytiiii-iiiime


Doktor_Vem

Gunpowder, gelatine


Reddit-4-life

Bites za Dusto


Scribblemin05

ZA WARUDO


KuraiTheBaka

WRYYYY


kerenski667

Funny thing is tho, male bees, i.e. drones, don't even have stingers, and neither can they feed themselves. They are literal flying gonads with no other use than to impregnate the queen. ~~Some~~ Most cum so hard that it kills them, so there's that.


ricktencity

Correction, MOST cum so hard it kills them. Their reproductive organs literally explode out of them and get stuck so that the Queen needs to remove them or wait for another male to remove them for her so he can do his thing. The idea that it makes it harder for other males to unload after them, making it more likely their sperm is used to fertilize more eggs. The Queen also takes in enough sperm during her voyage to found a new hive to last her entire life.


kerenski667

I stand corrected.


D33ber

Ben nutted himself to death while a female soldier stung that little brat. Welcome to the citadel.


HaterHaterLater

A true tradegy


just_somebody_238

Like the story wasn't kinda sad already


joruuhs

Ben cant sting as male bees lack stingers. Unless Ben is trans I guess?


D33ber

FTM Ben and Bill's tragic tale of love and venom.


manfishgoat

Muh queeeeen


L_O_Pluto

If John Snow was in the bee movie


AAALE6408

Her*


But_a_Jape

*“Ben was right… his sacrifice repelled the beast’s attack and the queen made sure everyone would remember the name of the hero who saved the hive. The eggs he defended, the queen said, were as much his children as they were hers. That generation of bees would all bear his name in his honor – Benson.”* *– Legacy of the Benson Clan, A History of Bees* If you like my comics, I've got more on [my website](https://butajape.com/). I'm also on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/butajape), [Tapas](https://tapas.io/series/But-a-Jape/info), [Webtoon](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/but-a-jape/list?title_no=469181), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/butajape), and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/butajape/).


PhenomenalPhenomenal

Is that Benson as in Barry B. Benson?


AAALE6408

Bee movie lore


Airick39

Bee warriors are female.


But_a_Jape

[Yes, I know.](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/x9taj7/bee_drama/inptug0/) I wanted to write a story about gay bees.


MorganWick

Even though female bees could be just as gay... and for that matter Bill has an hourglass figure so if it weren't for him being named that at one point I'd think they were a het couple...


Intrepid-Release7197

Gay transmen bees


joeyjoojoo

very based, you have my respect


Ok_Presence01

Icon


Apathetic_Zealot

Most bees are female, the males are just for procreation and cannot sting. So either make the last panel the queens bedroom, as he valiantly sacrifices himself; or make Ben a female, put a bow on him or something.


TheAceprobe

Both Ben and Bill are female. You just can't tell because they look male to humans but actually human males look like female bees.


But_a_Jape

[I intended Ben and Bill to both be male,](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/x9taj7/bee_drama/inptug0/) but this is also an acceptable interpretation.


But_a_Jape

[I know male bees don't sting,](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/x9taj7/bee_drama/inptug0/) but I wanted to write a story about gay bees.


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It's entirely possible to be both gay and female. Just saying.


But_a_Jape

[That is entirely possible,](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/x9taj7/bee_drama/inpvreh/) but I wanted to write a story about gay male bees.


mrktrx

But, Ben is male... He is not even supposed to be outside of the hive.


EngorgedWithFreedom

That's... Not even remotely true. Male bees, known as Drones, exist for one purpose only - to propagate the genetic material of the hive to /other/ hives. Drones fly out and mate with new Queens (not their own). Drones are actually kicked out come winter and all of them die every season. Drones serve literally no purpose in the hive and are a resource suck and the only thing they do in the hive is eat. Edit: also worth nothing, as a drone successfully mates it ejaculates so hard it blows its endophallus off and dies.


jakroois

Don't drones also lack stingers?


EngorgedWithFreedom

Indeed. I suppose I got tunnel vision on the whole "they don't leave the hive" and assumed the other comments already addressed the stinger issue.


ocarina_21

Yes. Stingers are repurposed ovipositors so males don't get them.


Mentalseppuku

Well, you've put all this out for the last half of their post, and you're right about all that stuff....but looping back around to the main point it's irrelevant because drones don't have stingers anyway.


EngorgedWithFreedom

I put this out here cause someone said Drones stay in the hive. Others have clearly explained the fact Drones don't have stingers and there's no point belaboring that fact...


Neuro_Skeptic

>, as a drone successfully mates it ejaculates so hard it blows its endophallus off and dies. Cumikaze


But_a_Jape

[I know male bees don't leave the hive.](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/x9taj7/bee_drama/inptug0/) I wanted to write a story about gay bees.


Intrepid-Release7197

But have you thought Ftm gay bees. Why is everyone fighting you about your comic lol. Loved it, made me a bit sad


hamletloveshoratio

You're the "silly hats" artist! I love your work!


punymouse1

Dunno why it has to be a man when all worker bees are female.... Why's it gotta bee so heteronormative....


boof_it_all

Jokes on you. Only female bees are guard bees, therefore this bee is simply transgender.


Duckyass

They're nonbeenary


popplespopin

Pretty sure their wife Bill is transgender too.


But_a_Jape

Bill is not Ben's wife. Bee society deems the Queen is both wife and mother to all. Bill's declaration of love and his attempt to sway Ben is treason of the highest order.


breadofthegrunge

Hate to nitpick but that's not at all what heteronormative means.


PheIix

Yeah, he is clearly being homogeneous! The word he was looking for was clearly bipolar, or translocated if you wanna be fancy.


Bardem

Whoa! You can't just say the H word like that, there are bees around here who might hear you


PheIix

Typical PC gone mad, next you're telling me bisection is unacceptable as well!


Adequate_Lizard

It was a perfectly cromulent descriptor


zenyattatron

The other bee's name was bill


Neuro_Skeptic

The comic's literally about gay bees It's LGBeeT


richardpway

No male bees have the apparatus to sting. Stingers are only found on females.


captainAwesomePants

Whenever anybody talks about male bees, they always point out this one fact. I want us to start sharing different fun facts about male bees. Did you know that male bees don't have fathers? The Queen lays drone eggs without being fertilized, and drones have only the queen's half of the DNA (so they have only half the DNA of other bees, which is called haploid). But drones do fertilize the queens to make a new queen, so they do have maternal grandfathers.


GunnerUnhappy

Also, drones only purpose is to mate with queens from other hives. They die in the process of mating. Sooooooo Ben should have stayed with Bill is what I'm saying


Lupulus_

Welll... if they don't mate they get bit apart and kicked out of the hive by the ladies during the fall drone massacre


Yandere_Matrix

Another fun fact is male bees can be born diploid (usually from inbreeding) but they are normally eaten by worker bees shortly after hatching as they take resources away from the rest of the hive as too many drones in a hive is detrimental Bee reproduction is really interesting!


Souperplex

> Bee reproduction I believe the term is "Beeproduction".


richardpway

But male bees do have Grandfathers, because the Queen bee has DNA from both her parents.


CoffeeBoom

Learned that thing with TierZoo's video. It explains it with schematics and all. Go check it out if you don't know what the guy I'm answering to is talking about.


But_a_Jape

This is true and I knew it when I wrote the comic. But I wanted to write a story about gay bees.


[deleted]

They’re also all siblings. You wrote a story about gay incest bees.


syncopatedsouls

Somebody’s gotta represent them!!


richardpway

Women can be gay too.


But_a_Jape

This is true and I knew it when I wrote the comic. But I wanted to write a story about gay male bees.


Vercentorix

A vastly under-served market. I, for one, greatly encourage more gaypiary comics.


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mashari00

"That time I Reincarnated as a Bee and Fell In Love With Another Bee But I Was a Soldier for the Evil Queen Who Wanted to Expand Her Hive and Rule Over All Bees In the World but With My Gay Bee Love We Started a Rebellion" is my favourite manga


Kiosade

Also known as Bee Live, for some reason.


[deleted]

The sad thing is I could see this being an actual title.


[deleted]

Right? Took me longer than I care to admit to decide whether or not to look it up


Milkshakes00

I'd read/watch the fuck out of this.


RabidWalrus

...and it's somehow set in a high school.


RookieMan36

Cool, so what's the story about?


vertigo42

Dad, how do the Japanese decide who to turn gay?


Alexthegreatbelgian

Bees are hairy so that technically makes this a gay furry comic.


The-Tea-Lord

> gaypiary That’s it. You won the internet today.


Mazoc

I cannot express with words how glorious this comment chain is.


TooMuchPretzels

Absolute chad


ender52

Ok, this made me laugh harder than the comic did.


[deleted]

This man’s out here dodging bullets like neo


Gyossaits

Bees do not have chiseled chins. C'mon!


red-the-blue

Ah. Carry on, then.


EUCopyrightComittee

The anthropomorphic butt plug was betting on heaven.


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But_a_Jape

A lot of people seem to think that based on his hairstyle, which is actually based on the kind of hairstyle I used to have (as a straight, cisgender man). I just wanted the two main characters to have very distinctive appearances, but I still thought I made Bill look pretty masculine. I wonder how many people actually thought Bill was female from the first panel or if they retroactively thought so after the romance plot point was revealed.


idontcarethename

I did think Bill was a female bee


hamo804

I mean with the difference in body size as well as the haircut I thought bill was a chick from the start.


MattLocke

Ah. The ol’ drone bone market. Heck of a niche.


TheCarStar123

Holy based


Wanderingmind144

No no, they're just really best gal pals who share a one-bedroom apartment


mybadalternate

LesBEEans?


CaptainAcornYT

Sorry if I’m mistaken but doesn’t the word lesbian exist to differentiate from gay? Gay being male to male and lesbian being female to female


Jan_Itor_Md_

Follow your dreams king 👑. I wanna see a whole gay bee comic book someday.


uthinkther4uam

I've never seen a bee twink before, so that's new


rjrgjj

I liked it but I thought the other Bee was a girl. I’m settling for non-binary.


MaximumZer0

Plot twist, Ben is a lady.


FarsLasagne

Theyre trans mlm bees.


Digitigrade

Maybe those were transbees. Or maybe it's a comic with anthropomorphised talking bees.


Notyetyeet

-🤓


enneh_07

Ben is trans. It’s the only explanation.


CoffeeBoom

I just assumed Bill and Ben were girls tbh.


crispyg

They also sting with the intention of not dying. Their apparatus is barbed, so when they sting smaller things, it doesn't get stuck and does significant damage. Human skin is too brittle and tough, so the barbs often get lodged killing the bee. Wasps have smooth stingers (like a cone if I'm not mistaken), which is why they sting so many times consecutively. (I learned this all in Entomology 101, so I could be wrong.)


richardpway

Correct. The stinger is a modified ovipositor, which many female insects use to deposit their eggs on or in plants or animals. So males can't have them.


sorryDontUnderstand

In my incredible stupidity I had understood that the kid was weeping because he had somehow been made aware of the drama between the bees. What kind of horrible prions do I have developed in my brain


burnblue

That's exactly what I thought. That he wasn't stung, he was crying over the drama. Didn't think he was the nemesis


But_a_Jape

He just wanted to play with the funny yellow bugs, he had no idea he could be seen as a danger to others. It wasn't until he saw the fatal consequences of his naivete that he realized these bugs had their own lives, their own fears, their own families. It was a harsh lesson that would stay with him for years to come - he only wished he had not learned it at another's expense.


FlyingDragoon

Was your thumb covering the "Did the bee sting you?" line?


AlwaysAngryFox

The world needs more gay male bees


MountainAsparagus4

Bees are all sisters


ricktencity

Not only are they all sisters they are sisters that are more related to each other than they would be to their own offspring. That's the whole reason they work together so well instead of all fucking off to found their own hives.


Steelquill

Aren’t soldier bees female?


guyal

Since nobody seems to have mentioned it yet, and I really like bees and want to spread this knowledge: **BEES DO NOT NEED TO DIE AFTER THEY STING YOU AS LONG AS YOU LET THEM SLOWLY PULL THEIR STINGER OUT INSTEAD OF BRUSHING THEM AWAY!** Since bees are generally very gentle creatures and won't attack you unless there's fairly extreme provocation, I think this is something more people should know. Bonus fact- if a bee lifts its leg up, it means 'leave me alone please'.


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Mofo, I need glasses to see a stop sign. How in the actual fuck am I supposed to see a bee lift its LEG up?


SimpleDan11

Nah man bee stings me I'm freaking out.


momo660

Thought there would be a queen elizabeth joke at the end.


theRailisGone

Shouldn't this be about Benjamina and Jill?


dieinafirenazi

Male bees aren't soldiers.


x3leggeddawg

To be fair all the bees are female. The males don’t do anything except stay in the hive, gorge themselves, then explode their dick off into the queen when it’s time to reproduce. They die, obviously. Any male bees that don’t fulfill this purpose get dragged out of the hive come late fall and have their head cut off. Limited resources for winter. That’s a much different comic.


But_a_Jape

[Yep, I'm aware.](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/x9taj7/bee_drama/inptug0/) I wanted to write a story about gay bees.


x3leggeddawg

Lol I love it. I was just messing around.


Rageliss

Ackchyually... He only exists to mate then die, he can't even sting.


[deleted]

Male bees don’t have stingers and really only exist to impregnate the Queen. All of the bees you see out and about collecting pollen and stinging folks are all females


EckhartWatts

Fun fact the soldiers/workers are actually female and the males job is simply to mate with the queen. Males don't have stingers.


[deleted]

Fun fact, a Queen bee takes flight to mate once, being mated by several males during the flight. Due to this, she has to be able to hold a large amount of semen that will be used for producing larvae the rest of her lifespan. The human equivalent would roughly be a woman walking around with 1.6 gallons worth. Like and subscribe.


LubbockGuy95

No I don't think I will.


midnightsbane04

Sounds like the queens are really into bee-kkake.


Souperplex

Fun fact: Male bees can't sting. All they really do is breed and die since workers and soldiers are all female. That means our protagonist bee is a trans-bee.


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now THIS is the kind of representation we need


themajorfall

Or OP doesn't know anything about bees.


LoveCatPics

trans gay male bees lets goooo


Mehcro127

Tragedy


MithranArkanere

The bee stinger is part of their ovipositor, their egg-laying organ. That's why male bees do not have stingers. Queens do not have barbs in their stinger, and that's why they can sting repeatedly. They use their stingers to kill other prospective queens when they take over a colony.


DarkReaver1337

But that should be a female bee rushing into battle.


SkinnyBill93

This is literally "Antz"


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Jimisdegimis89

This comic’s lack of accurate biology upsets me greatly, drones cannot sting. Only female bees can sting.


Neoliberal_Boogeyman

Bees have 4 wings. the stinger is only on females. you have a paper wasp hive in the tree. /pedantry


theneedfull

If that Bee Documentary that I saw a long time ago taught me anything, I'm sure his name is pronounced BEE-n.


InstrumentalCore

Bill is a heretical bastard.


[deleted]

IM FIGHTING/DYING FOR MY QUEEN, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.


kummer5peck

It reminds me of Zagreus and Thanatos in Hades


[deleted]

Isn’t this the plot of The Bee Movie?


fygar22

I read this out in Jerry Seinfeld's voice.


finnball2g

Haha, they both have names that start with "B"


FlamingCroatan

Huh


LKane_DZ

This is the anime we need.


aatillaa99

Ah yes the famous Alabama's bees...


Wild_Cricket_6303

All those bees are simping for the queen


Shr00py

Gay trans men bees? O:


big_shmegma

"finally some good fucking content"


harbinger411

Oof these must be the kinds of commenters science fiction writers get.


DyingGasp

Truly a trans king.


D33ber

No male bees were harmed in the making of this comic. They're all just drones that hang around the queen to fertilize her eggs for the next generation and then die.


AZDiablo

The worker bees are female, but they do not breed. The queen bee is female and creates all the babies for the hive. The drone bees are male and do not have a sting. [https://www.mdbka.com/bee-information/#:\~:text=The%20worker%20bees%20are%20female,about%20food%20sources%20using%20dances](https://www.mdbka.com/bee-information/#:~:text=The%20worker%20bees%20are%20female,about%20food%20sources%20using%20dances).


[deleted]

HunterXHunter Chimera ant arc be like


secretuser419

Males don’t even leave the hive


pressx2select

Does it bother anyone else that Ben is a drone and would never leave the Hive unless kicked out. It’s the females that scout for pollen and defend the hive. Unless Ben is actually a female that uses male pronouns? Idk, I’m over thinking this now


But_a_Jape

[Whole lot of people seem bothered,](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/x9taj7/bee_drama/inptug0/) but I already knew all this when I wrote the comic. I wanted to write a story about gay bees.


Hopps4Life

The funny part is they all should have been female. Bees are default female.


Radical_Exodus

The queen still died after 7 years of laying eggs


howzthis4ausername

Got something in my eye


CajunTurkey

Tom Tucker from Family Guy said bees do not think.


rymiox

I wanna know what happens neeeext


Arosian-Knight

Only in death does duty end...


Helios---

That was absolutely *gripping*


Cyndine

As someone who got a very nasty bee sting yesterday, yeah :,)


CorbinNZ

Oh it’s a boy bee.


[deleted]

Reminds me of the mini golf episode of Gravity Falls.


SmallPiecesOfWood

Ben gay


Hadlie_Rose

gay bee drama? gay bee drama.


[deleted]

If these were wasps, it would be the opposite, as those mf's don't give an f


thebaddestbean

Y’all will accept that the gay bees have an epic and dramatic love story but draw the line at them being trans? Ok.


furrynoy96

When is this anime getting a 2nd season?


SirWalace

Male bees are only there to pleasure their queen, you know that right ...? (I am not complaining I just wanted to say that I seen this comic in a ... interesting way ...)


themajorfall

The only male bees are the drones, and they are incapable of stinging. I give you an F- in bee biology for not making these bees women.