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[hummingwolf]

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HUMMINGWOLF'S JOURNAL WILL CONTAIN FREQUENT REFERENCES TO CICADAS UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE BUGS DECIDE TO STOP MAKING NOISES AT TWO IN THE BLOODY MORNING.

Hey, does anybody know where I can find some good periodical cicada fanfic? Surely there must be some Buffy/Brood X crossover fic by now.

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[a3hourtour.livejournal.com]

I don't recall them ever keeping me awake.. they were here some 12 or 13 years back in huge numbers. But I had central air at the time and windows were closed.

Course this time I have no air and windows may be open but the 3 fans in my bedroom should pretty much drown them out anyway.

As a kid, we heard that noise rising and falling in the evenings too- I never saw them but I guess they must have been in the trees. California had them yearly, I think- they are on many different cycles. So I actually find the noise familiar and, dare I say: soothing somehow.

Yeah- weird.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

So I actually find the noise familiar and, dare I say: soothing somehow.

That's not weird at all--the sound of annual cicadas is a lovely, summery sound I enjoy too. It's a bit different with these 17-year cicadas. These guys so numerous that they've been piling up on sidewalks in some places, and as far as I can tell, cicadas in these numbers can be heard from a distance simply if they're all flapping their wings and not even deliberately making noise at all. Of course in the daytime, the little guys do make as much noise as they possibly can in order to attract mates, so that many people are investing in earplugs to keep themselves from losing their hearing when they go outside.

I still like the sounds cicadas make, actually. Well, I'm less fond of some than others. Until this year, I had never realized that sometimes cicadas scream.