Picture yourself as having mastered the cultivation of your desired mushrooms, whether they’re oysters, shiitakes, or morels. You’ve achieved a bumper crop of consistently high-quality mushrooms, surpassing the needs of you, your family, and friends. Now, you’re eager to start selling them. While cultivating mushrooms is one skill, marketing and selling them is another challenge altogether. Not…
One thing I’ve been thinking about for the past couple days, but something I’m not the biggest fan of with Kingdom is how the majority of the Cookies of Darkness are played more for jokes than they are for serious. And thus in doing so, the CoD itself doesn’t feel like that much of a threat
Like yeah, I like seeing stuff with the CoD just doing silly stuff, and I don’t need them to be super dark and serious 100% of the time, but like, of the Cookies of Darkness, the only characters that are consistently treated like an actual threat are Dark Enchantress Cookie and Pomegranate Cookie, though even then sometimes she��s part of the gag. And sure, some of the characters in the main story may be treated like a threat, like Red Velvet (despite his one appearance) and Affogato, but then also you’ll have them in a boy band or chilling at the rock festival, totally incognito
And again, it’s not that I don’t enjoy this stuff, but it’s just, how am I supposed to take the Cookies of Darkness as a serious threat when you’re putting them in boy bands and school AUs? Especially when more often than not, it’s the jokey route they use with them?
It’s part of the reason I don’t really see why we need all these Legendaries and Dragons and armies to fight Dark Enchantress, because 80% of the CoD are a bunch of silly little guys. I know realistically DE is powerful and has her Cake Army, hence why they need all that power, but that impression that they’re actually a threat doesn’t typically come to mind for me. But maybe that’s a me thing
And like, honestly I’d say Ovenbreak does it better when it comes to having the CoD seem like a threat. Sure I haven’t seen every event with them involved and I know they only show up like, once in a blue moon, but they usually cause actual problems, and if anything the fact that we see them so little makes them feel more significant, and like Dark Enchantress is more of a looming threat
In Kiki’s Delivery Service it’s established that Kiki has to spend a year away from home and find her witch specialty. Her mother’s specialty is potions, and the the witch girl she meets who just finished her year can tell fortunes with a concentration on fortunes about love. This is supposed to be like some coming of age rite of passage and an internship before a lifelong career or something, right? But Kiki focuses on flight the whole time, a skill which all witch’s have obtained before their year away and is a prerequisite to even take this childhood gap year. And she didn’t spend that year working on becoming the fastest flyer ever, didn’t invent specialty brooms or some new technique to set her flying apart from all the garden variety flying; she just used a skill she already had to make a delivery service.
Now you may think I’m being extremely hard on some 13-year-old’s accomplishments - it’s not like I could have lived away from home and had my own business at fucking 13 - but did this bother anyone else as a child? Like did no one else worry about her not having a special speciality like the other witches?
I did the original copic and pencil version of this art for Inktober 2019, but I'd never got around to doing a digital version. Finally did it today and uploaded it to my Redbubble store, because I decided I needed a mushroom tshirt.
If there's any literary quotes you like that you'd like to have on a water bottle, or tshirt or laptop case, let me know. I haven't uploaded anything there for a couple of years, so it definitely could use some new art.
[ID: 3 photos of making mushroom and egg toast, showing 1) a cutting board with mushrooms, purple garlic, and a shallot, 2) a frying pan with sauteed mushrooms and two fried eggs, and 3) a plate with two pieces of toast piled with sauteed mushrooms and a fried egg each, plus many cherries next to the toast. End ID]
an extremely farmer's market meal featuring purple hardneck garlic + tart cherries + crimini and shiitake mushrooms from the market this morning, plus a shallot + fried eggs + toast + honey diijon + salt and pepper and maggi sauce for my favorite meal i've made this summer, inspired by lucy knisley's sauteed mushroom recipes + leanne brown's things on toast
How To Grow Mushrooms Outdoors With a Mushroom Bed. The Ultimate Guide.
If you’re interested in cultivating your own mushrooms but prefer not to engage in indoor cultivation, an appealing alternative is the outdoor mushroom bed.How can you cultivate mushrooms outdoors? Several mushroom species, such as King Stropharia, oyster, shaggy mane, pioppino, or elm mushrooms, can be grown outdoors in a designated mushroom bed. All you need are wood chips, a bag of spawn, and…
entire enchanted forest collection (plus a sneaky unlisted one that'll be available at an upcoming market 👀) giving us a cute little spin. really love how it all looks together.