Bee and Moth, by B and Z (slice-of-life hypertext, 2022?)

[lb_lee]

"I am a bee, living with a moth. We live between two worlds—our inner world, where we interact with each other, and the outer world, where we interact with everyone else. We share a body out there. It looks human, so we have to pretend to be human. We also pretend to be a single person, just to make things easier. We have a few friends who know our secrets—that we're not human, that we're more than one. Some of them are even just like us. But for the most part… we're just a pair of insects trying to make it in a human world."

Blurb: Short vignettes about being plural and nonhuman. Bee and Moth make food, gifts, and cuddle. Moth is nervous around people, and Bee encourages him to come out of his shell.

Why is it worth your time?: It's cute, sweet, and quiet. Also, it's short and free!

Plural Tags: nonhuman [bee, moth], switching, no trauma discussion, queerplatonic

Content Warnings: None!

Accessibility Notes: Text-only, should be screen-readable, also available in Spanish. Short and free!

Read/play it here! (EDIT 2024/10/6: oh shit, it's been deleted and the Wayback Machine can't play it!)

(EDIT 2025/02/12: contacted author, was asked not to rehost or back it up. This is now officially lost media.)

Comments

[yolcatzin]

Hi, we're actually the system who made this game! We're a bit surprised to see this marked as having "in-head romance," since we didn't intend to portray the relationship between the two titular characters as romantic. Looking back on it, though, we can understand how we made it seem that way, what with the cuddling and the "I love you"-s. That's not exactly a wrong interpretation, either, since we never explicitly say what the characters consider their relationship to be.

However, their relationship was heavily based on the real relationship between two of our headmates, which they consider queerplatonic, and as such we feel uncomfortable with this work being presented as "romance." Is it OK if we ask you to remove that tag?

[lb_lee]

Sneak: Absolutely! We're so sorry about that. I will remove it right away!

EDIT: I have removed the tag. Would "queerplatonic" be a tag you'd like to have on the work, or leave it without?

[yolcatzin]

Thank you! And, no hard feelings. We know you didn't mean to cause offense.

Sure, you can tag it as "queerplatonic."

[lb_lee]

Okay! And while y'all are here, are there any other tags you might like to see added to the entry? (Or in general? I'm not from otherkin, alterhuman, or daemonist cultures, so I know my tag system has bias!)

(It's nice to meet you, by the way! :D)

--Sneak

[yolcatzin]

Hm, no, nothing we can think of right now! Thanks for asking.

(Nice to meet you too!)