#fungi anon

[thetragicallynerdy]

also (sorry it's me fungi anon again) i read the smau you did with ur friend and WOW it was mindblowing!!! i feel so privileged to be able to read it (and very proud to have inspired it!) and it was the sweetest thing!!! (to go with the patchwork heatmat, please take some scraps of material I bought with the periodic table on!)

ahhhhhh thank you so much!!!! i'm so glad you liked it so much <3<3 it was such a fun fic to write, and thank you again for providing the inspiration for it!!! honestly it's been such a ride writing it, and i'm so glad we did, it was a ton of fun

and ohhhhh i love fabric scraps!!! and periodic table printed fabric?? so cool!!! i have for u a tiny sticker with a lil fox on it :3

[tumbler-polls]

[monstersandmaw]

World building idea I just had while watching a mushroom documentary

Planet with insectoids aliens AND Fungi (the kind that turns insects into zombies/overwrite their behavior) aliens.

They both live more or less peaceful together. Aeons ago they made a peace treaty that the mykonids are allowed to inhabit dying/dead Insectoids. So the death of the one is the birth of the other

I bet they would have a very fascinating culture around death and birth and afterlife. Maybe even a form of "forbidden" love where the myconid "infects" (or travels from is first inhabit corpse to this new body) so they can live together forever. A bond unbreakable by force.

And the possible cults that could grow around the politics and believes of it all

Gods I want to be an extraterrestial xenologist so bad Dx

All the world-building possibilities!!!

[mycoblogg]

what's the most recent mushroom fact you learnt??

THANK YOU FOR ASKING THIS !!

carnivorous fungi : fungi that derive some or most of their nutrients from consuming microscopic or minute animals.

most of these species trap & stun nematode worms (pictured below), making them nematophagous organisms.

other carnivorous fungi may attack amoebae or collembola (pictured below).

fungi trap & eat these tiny animals in two main ways :

constricting rings (also called active traps)

adhesive structures (also called passive traps)

some fungi have a profound ability to "sense" when a nematode worm is near before activating their "traps". scientists are unsure how they evolved this ability without proper brains.

in total, there are about 150 species of fungi that attack, kill & digest animals.

a good example is pleurotus ostreatus (pictured below), which uses a calcium-dependent toxin to paralyse its prey (nematode worms) within minutes, & leads to necrosis of the miniscule animal. it acts as quite a protein-rich food source !!

another fun fact : i used to farm these at home :-)

[firbolgfriend]

I've seen like 1 other person use swamp fever for their infection au which is a shame bc it had a whole episode dedicated to the fact Zecora and Fluttershy were gonna DIE from it unless Fluttershy found a cure

Swamp Fever has such insanely good horror potential it’s a shame more people don’t utilize it

[scopostims]

yi suchong stimboard for 🗺️ anon :•]

[ID: A 3x3 stimboard of 8 GIFs surrounding a central image.

GIF 1: A timelapse of a thick, white mushroom with a brown cap growing, a white net unfurling and expanding out from under the cap.

GIF 2: Orange mold growing on brown leaves, pulsating as it grows.

GIF 3: A timelapse of a cluster of small brown mushrooms dying.

GIF 4: A pan over of various jars with bones and greenery in them.

Image: Yi Suchong from Bioshock.

GIF 5: A light-skinned hand holding up and tilting around a deer jaw.

GIF 6: A timelapse of a dull grey-blue bacteria growing.

GIF 7: A closeup of green mold growing and pulsating.

GIF 8: A timelapse of a thin, yellow mushroom with a flat brown cap growing.

End ID]

[garfieldstim]

can u do a swamp stimboard with related stims, especially alligators? thank u in advance 🐊

swamp stimboard with alligators for anon

x x x / x x x / x x x

[peridyke]

Hell yeah decimate that fungi 🔥🔥🔥

the art room smells like a picklejar now lol

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

I'm afraid to ask this but what the fuck is Marty?

*slams hands on table* Marty, dear Anon, is a menace of a robot that was designed as a kind of "helper" to patrol a grocery store and alert the workers to messes so they get picked up so no one falls and sues the company. But it is USELESS and yells at reflections of light off the ground. Or it would call me a hazard while I was just trying to load lemons, and I'd have to stop to press a button to stop him from yelling about hazards. And thats not even getting into how he's SLOW and if I was trying to get one last load of produce on the floor with 10 minutes left in my shift and I got stuck with him blocking my path, it made me want to commit violence. Also it does not help that they stuck these huge googly eyes on this fucker

[unofficial-ihop]

opinions on mushrooms, unofficial ihop?

I don’t eat, they frens. I like mushrooms, they just lil guys :)

[thetragicallynerdy]

hiyaaa! it's fungi anon back after a few months! i entirely missed pride month :( but not disability pride month!!! so happy disability pride month!!!!! if it isn't too much, can you please rank your favourite traditional woodland creatures (think badger, fox, rabbit etc)? please have this little patchwork heatmat i made the other day! it is made of triangles!!!!

ohhh hello fungi anon!!! it's so good to hear from you buddy <3 that's okay, i missed a lot of pride month too, but yay disability pride month!!

okay hell yes i can. i started this and immediately realized i can't do like, "here's my least fav and here's my most fav," so they're all just getting a ranking on a scale of 1-10. (and i know you meant small creatures maybe but some big ones get included) i will probably forget some of them, and these are Very Canadian, but here goes:

bunny rabbits - 9/10. My favourite little guys. Every time I see one in the city it's like the most magical thing.

foxes - 12/10. Right now I am kind of obsessed with them. Scrungly little guys who can look so elegant or SO sad. Extra points for how rare they are to see.

moose - 6/10. So I have to go up north a bit to see them, but it's SO neat when you see one. Lower points for being dangerous as hell lol.

bears - 100000/10. HAVE I MENTIONED I LOVE BEARS. Also super dangerous and I don't actually want to see one up close but I adore them, they are perfect and can do many things wrong but I forgive them anyway.

squirrels - 4/10. Hilarious bastards. Get into everything. Listen when I was a kid I wanted to be a squirrel, I love them so much, but also they're kind of the worst and one time I had one run up my leg trying to get to the poutine I was eating so really I am justified in the ranking they get

coyotes - 10/10. Look I know they have a bad rep but I adore them. They're so neat!! Highly recommend people giving coyote nature books a read, they're a fascinating species. (I've only read most of Coyote America and it was v good, with big warnings that like, animal death is a big part of it)

badgers - 7/10. Round. Very shape. Honestly I know almost nothing about them, but they get extra points because the videos of badgers and coyotes being friends and hunting together is my favourite thing.

deer - 7/10. Seeing deer is always kind of magical as a city kid. However, I know they're also kind of pests, so, they get a lower rating.

turkeys - 3/10. Listen. I love turkeys. They're hilarious. However. They are LOUD and also did you know they nest in the very top of trees?? It is very disconcerting to walk through the woods and hear turkey gobbles coming from like 20 feet above you

That's all I can remember without googling XD

Thank you for the lovely ask friend!!! And thank you for the beautiful heatmat, it's so cool!!! I love patchwork stuff :D

For you I have a lot of fresh dill, because I have an abundance of it in my garden right now. And if you don't like dill, then I have a banana choc chip muffin for you instead <3

Have a lovely evening friend <3

[victusinveritas]

In what way does fungal sex show or prove anything about human sex? Also sex isn’t even the same concept as gender. Literally nothing about gender identity requires we play pretend like sexual dimorphism isn’t real at all in humans. None of it requires lying about intersex people (differences of sexual development) as though they = “3rd” sexes or sexes outside male and female (all people with intersex conditions are still male or female — no 3rd gamete, no 3rd/other sex + true hermaphroditism in humans doesn’t exist). Yet lying about all this is increasingly popular. WHY

This was asked on Christmas and I promised myself I'd wait at least a month before responding. It's now a been about two months, so there's my response.

[nrc-confessions]

Is there really any "talking to them normally" when it's one of the leech twins?

- 🦎

Thank you for your confession!

Honestly, probably not.

But there are probably better ways to get their attention that don’t include putting yourself in harms way

[mycoblogg]

What's your favorite fungi fact? :)

(i hope this makes sense as i'm having a speech loss episode, which sometimes affects my written language !!)

likely the most wholesome fun fact i've learnt revolves around the relationship between fungi & plants :-)

so, many different fungi form symbiotic relationships with plants. the most common way they do this is through mycorrhizal relationships, meaning the fungal roots "team up" with the plant roots, resulting in a network wherein the tree provides the fungus with carbon-rich sugars gained through photosynthesis, & the fungus shares nutrients from the soil with the tree !! they also transfer water, nitrogen, carbon & other minerals through these fungal roots called mycelia.

in essence, it's almost as if these organisms use the network trails to communicate !!

these mycelial connections can help an ecosystem thrive by building pathways between all sorts of flora, helping it all grow & flourish for much longer than it would have without the help of the fungi. ^^

this also gives us an idea of how a 2 400 year old fungus was able to survive.

here is a lovely diagram that shows a fungal network helping two trees communicate while one is unable to receive sunlight. the image description is in the alt text :-) [source]

[dumbass-effect]

Thing is about the fungi though… those are mating types (which aren’t even the exact same as sexes but pretty close)…. They aren’t genders like. How obvious is it that fungal sex has nothing to do with human sex, let alone gender, which is a human social construct? Are people really THIS widely delusional? Delusional in the way someone is who claims a “miracle” every time something nice happens, or what? Schizophylum commune having whatever number of mating types doesn’t tell us jack shit about how sex functions in humans… which in turn isn’t even gender, just related to it. So what the fuck is up with tens of thousands of people going on and on acting like it does? It’s like going “AHA grapes are purple and also sometimes green, and both taste good. People are also different colors sometimes. So therefore racism is bad. Checkmate racists.” It’s a loony toons argument, a terrible argument, and it does a disservice to the intelligence of anyone who is asked to nod along and act like it makes any kinda sense. Rotting brains as we speak.

dunno why you're mad at me about this but I'm pretty sure the point of that post was

isn't life complex and neat :)

also not everything people say is 100% serious all the time. Sometimes we just like to be silly. Pretty sure that was just a silly twitter post, with some cool information, not a "gotcha" moment.

If people are taking it seriously... again, idk why you're telling me. I moved on. I had no idea what you were talking about for a good few minutes, just staring at this ask in confusion wondering if I was missing some joke

but I'm sorry this is causing you such distress you had to tell me about it

The post I'm pretty sure this ask is referring to is this one, that I reblogged around a month ago - https://www.tumblr.com/dumbass-effect/734612044577456128?source=share

[enden-k]

Just finished the Fungi questline and burst out laughing when the guy revealed why he was doing everything because it was so dumb. Like… my man… Dottore probably doesn’t even know you exist. 🤡 Also he left because he finished his JOB

im sorry i didnt bully him out of sumeru like u thought, mr npc 😭 wish i did, would have smacked his ass too while im at it just to piss u off