#mushroom knowledge

[deerspherestudios]

Would Mycheal accept a Christmas with Mc if he explained how it works? preparing food, decorating, gifts, living together, burning firecrackers, etc., would Mycheal accept?

Of course!

And to that point, he'd be happy to celebrate anything that's meaningful to you: your birthday, your religion, your culture; if you invite him to celebrate it with you, he'd happily do it even if he doesn't understand it most of the time.

He doesn't really get it the way we do but as long as he sees you being excited for it, he's down for anything!

[rui-drawsbox]

comms for @ladyqinn!

[dreamersdwell]

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[reality-detective]

Lions mane counters Wi-Fi Frequencies impacting the brain.

What do the studies say about lions mane mushroom?*

* Lion's mane mushroom appears to promote neuronal prolongation and formation of myelin[21]

* Potential Nerve Regeneration utilizing lions mane mushroom in rats [39]

* One human study using 3g of 98% lion's mane powder showed significantly improvements on a rating scale of dementia in persons suffering from general cognitive decline.[25]

* Neuroregenerative potential of lion's mane mushroom [29]

Alex Collier 🤔

[twisting-in-wonderland]

the presumed problem Lilia vs the Actual problem Jade....

(inedible food vs poisoned food... battle of the ages...

who'd you pick to cook for you,,,?)

[celosiaceo]

Last-minute Arcane theory

Dropping my inactivity streak to write out my last-minute Viktor theory before act 3 drops 🎀

ARCANE SEASON 2 ACT 2 SPOILERS UNDER CUT

I found Viktor’s new commune cult and the iridescent transformations on the people he “healed” to be very interesting, as well as the way that the Hexcore changed to be something more organic rather than mechanical-automatic.

With that I kind of got invested in poking at what exactly the hexcore became and what it was actually doing to people. And I think that it’s all a mushroom!!!

A big part of that conclusion to me is a polymer in mushrooms called chitin — in fungi, some mollusks, sea organisms, and insects use chitin as a structural polymer to build cell walls (in fungi) and exoskelletons (in mollusks, shellfish and insects)

When it’s pure, chitin is pliable, tough, resilient and in thin layers is translucent like in insect wings. In thin layers it can organize itself in stacks of photonic crystals which create iridescent colors when light hits them, which reminds me of a thing or two

(for sidenotes, the shiny marks that the people get seem to have a metallic sorta glimmer to them, which I think references titanium prosthetic implants that are very common in today’s medicine!! the shiny medal combined with iridescent chitin could in theory make something that looks similar visually, not sure if chitin can actually be combined with metal or not tho, and would coincide with the marks being placed on the ailed parts of people like prosthetics)

As chitin isn’t a “native” molecule to mammals or plants, both have immune receptors that can recognize chitin and initiate an immune response to destroy it if it’s detected within the organism

mammals have those receptors mainly in their lungs or intestines, but they can also be on the skin

Plants too have receptors that can set off the defense response against chitin but! Commensal mushrooms (that leech off a host for nutrition without harming or benefitting the host) have a way to shut this defense (it’s not understood how as of now), and some pathogen fungi can release proteins that block those receptors and mask chitin so the immune response isn’t activated — which could be why the “healed” peoples’ bodies don’t reject the transmutation despite not being injected with shimmer like Viktor had been

Because it’s a natural compound, chitin can also be made really biocompatible (compatible with the organism, not rejected by the immune system), and for that it has many applications in real life medicine being tested in the current time! Those include tissue regeneration, wound dressings or cancer treatments (also sounds pretty familiar, as the "healing" cured tumours caused by shimmer and various mobility disabilities and injuries)!

Another thing that further got me convinced in the hex-shroom theory is the prosperity of the commune — when it started, it looked like a barren wasteland with some metal scraps scattered around, but just after 6-7 months (that’s how long I heard the timeskip between act 1 and act 2 was) there’s flower fields and fully grown fruit trees? A mutated ”mushroom on steroids” could in fact be behind that in theory

Fungi are aaancient organisms, and they can form soil from inorganic matter by breaking it down for nutrition, they also very much enrich existent soil, and many mushroom species form symbiotic relationships with plants. and back to chitin, it can be used in agriculture to improve plants’ pathogen resistants, growth and defence against pests! So if the whole place is infused with the hex-shroom, it’s very possible that it’s also behind the agricultural boom, or “healing the land”, in the commune too! This thought train got me really concerned about Vi actually, and made me wonder if her suddenly considering joining the commune after eating several of the local fruits wasn’t a coincidence…

So how do people iridescent markings turn into the things Jayce sees in his flashbacks? I suspect the hex-shroom an be behind that too!

I suspect that the hex-shroom consumes the host over time and replaces their human tissue with itself. People in the commune end up with increasingly more hex-mushroom in their body from the “healing” that slowly becomes harder and takes their bodies over while their natural defenses are silenced, and because everything they eat has grown from the soil that the mushroom formed and with the help of the mushroom as a fertilizer and growth agent

Chitin also explains the transition of the markings to the wood-like material itself. When combined with some additional molecules or stacked in thicker fibrils chitin becomes way harder and stiffer and loses its translucense, becoming more of a dull color as it gains density. In it can form incredibly strong microfibrils that are harder and stronger than bone or steel!! In hindsight this explains why Viktor only ended up with a hole in his chest and not reduced to atoms by Jayce’s shot while the whole roof behind him was obliterated

Since the people don’t have mouths or eyes and appear to be hollow (missing brains or other organs), they look like mushroom stalks a lot to me, since those are often hollow too. By then they’re probably sustained entirely by hex energy from the core in a kinda invisible hyphae network and their senses work off of it too by group communication through the network (through the glowing fingerprint marks) or something.

The way the healing entirely removes the people’s sense of self-preservation very quickly also reminds me a lot of the cordiceps mushroom, which overtakes the host’s body and makes it put itself in open spaces where it’d be easily eaten by predators

Ok but why would the hexcore (and the hex matrix too) turn into a mushroom specifically?

I thought about that too, then I remembered that the hexcore started mutating after absorbing Viktor’s blood, and the matrix probably started mutating after Viktor coughed down the tunnel leading down to it all the way back in s1e5 (thats the only reason that’d make sense to me, since arcane had done insane foreshadowing like that before)…

With that in mind, it’s very possible that Viktor’s affliction is some sort of chronic fungal infection of the lungs — he’d be at a high risk of any given chronic infection, due to growing up in the fissures with health compromised by the Grey.

And so the hexcore and the matrix absorbed his blood and the pathogen fungus within it and mutated, adapting to the fungus’s functions and patterns, even down to looking like mycelium/hyphae while healing Viktor.

If before it acted like nuclear energy, serving whatever purpose it was given without its own motivation, now it has a motivation; to propagate and spread and infect, corrupting the minds of its host to not let itself die out, the way it manipulates Viktor’s, the primary host’s mind to believe that “healing” others of both ailment and identity aligns with his altruistic motives of actually saving lives and the way it removes any self-preservation of its secondary hosts

Anyways I’m shaking and crying over the prospects of act 3 god save us all idk how I'm gonna fall asleep today... preparing my tear glads

[ghostbird-art]

Funguary - Morel Mushroom

[cumagloia]

oughh shaggy manes growing in my planter. i wanna try them but im scareddddd

[h2llish]

hi devil :33 🌷 can I unmmmmmmm can I get uhh stares at menu smth romantic w jade pls 💖

"that's a mushroom?"

"yes, they're called lion's mane." jade smiled almost excitedly as he kneeled down to look at the mushroom attached to the side of the tree.

you followed him, leaning over his shoulder to stare at the mushroom with pursed lips and narrowed eyes, "that doesn't look like a mushroom." jade chuckled, taking a knife to cut off a part of the mushroom and place it into a container. you watched him closely, leaning closer as he closed the container on the odd-looking mushrooms.

"it's not poisonous?" you asked.

"it's actually edible and can make for some quite delicious soup." jade explained, smiling as he went on to talk about what the mushroom can be used for. he always looked so excited when he talked about mushrooms, and you often just let him rant (and you honestly found it cute, nothing like the jade everyone seemed so intimidated by).

eventually your back began to ache the longer you leaned over, and you had to stand up to stretch, cutting off jade's rambling as he turned to look up at you.

"was i rambling again?" he asked. rather rhetorically, "i apologize."

you shrugged, stretching your arms above your head, "it's okay, i think it's cute."

jade went quiet, and if you had looked at him only a moment after your words, you would've seen the way jade faltered, and his neck reddened. but by the time you turned to look at him again, he was on his feet and turning his face away from you.

he cleared his throat as he tucked the container of lion's mane into his bag, "shall we continue, then?"

[deerspherestudios]

Hi :D

Hope you're having a good day/night ❤️

I was wondering- how much math does Mycheal know?

Like- basic subtraction and addition? Long divisions? Can he multiply, do algebra... Rocket science!!! Ok maybe not that last one -

But yee, love the lil mushroom boy, can't wait to see more when you're ready!! ❤️🎉

I've actually answered it here! I'd say he has a basic grasp on it, enough to work out calculations for when he's measuring things out for DIY work, but nothing too complex past what he needs to know.

[paandaan]

it means almost nothing but the dish ey cooked for hj and jw vs the dish hj saw in his dream (?) when he fell unconscious and was in his mom's house ...

[plaguedocboi]

You should give Slimevester an mushoom

I want to but I don’t know exactly what kind of mushrooms he would eat in the wild… I don’t want to accidentally give him something that’s poisonous to snails

[huginsmemory]

There's really nothing like getting into insect pinning/collecting since anytime you now see an interesting insect you get overcome with bloodlust and really most of the time it's like. No. Let it live

[saiintvalentiine]

SAIINTVALENTIINE THAT FIC WAS EVIL AND IT KILLED ME

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

it was so good i explode 543728957423 times

jjjjjjjjjjjj BUT YOU ENJOYED BEING EXPLODED DIDN'T YOU????

real talk im happy that you enjoyed it!!! its so weird and like. complicated for really no reason. but i think it ultimately stands on its own really well even if u know none of references.

[ghostbird-art]

Funguary - Cremini (+button) Maybe theyre going to visit their sibling Portobello?

[delta-m]

Truffle pigs are a thing.

The reason pigs love truffles is because they love the smell. The smell happens to be like the pheromones of the male pig.

Truffles smell like pig dick.

Anyway enjoy your truffle fries.