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[mageofsleep]

it's double koishi day (514 is koishi's number and 514*2=1028 and that makes it 10/28) have two photos to share, the first one is a rejected photo from last month with blue wood asters and goldenrods but thought it would fit this day more cuz there's two flowers

the second one is that Koishi tiredly brought over pumpkins to Marisa's house asking Marisa to carry them all the way to chireiden but Marisa is not going to carry a bunch of pumpkins all the way to the depths of the underground.

also I bought all 4 of the pumpkins for the total of $5.14

and there is blue wood asters in the second photo too, they're just seeds (its those cottony/dandelion looking things)

[aniemated-steph-1729]

All of Touhou’s Mikos

[floralfumofridays]

Floral Fumo Friday of the Week: Wood Decay Fungi

AS A DISCLAIMER DON'T EAT RANDOM MUSHROOMS FROM THE WILD WITHOUT EXPERIENCE!!

I wanted to post this for Mushroom Day, but it took me forever to find mushrooms.

Yuuka tries to look for more ways to change her "nature" as a youkai. She ponders and walks along a tree branch, but then encounters Marisa Kirisame. She asks Marisa what humans find about plants that are scary, but Marisa tells her that she's "in her way." Marisa engages in a danmaku battle with Yuuka, and defeats her quite easily, albeit too easily. She questions on why Yuuka has downgraded from final boss to just a simple midboss. Yuuka explains once more that she is trying to change her "nature" and wants to become a youkai of flowers.

Marisa tells her that nobody finds flowers as scary, she points to the mushrooms feeding on dead tree branches. "Flowers don't really bloom during fall or winter, and no human finds flowers to be scary. If you want to change your nature, then why not become a youkai of mushrooms? They live in caves, like you! And these ones feed on the corpses of plants, that's something people find scary," Marisa said. Yuuka insists that mushrooms are still something associated with darkness, and that there must be something that humans find frightening about flowers.

Marisa questions her, "If you're a youkai of darkness, then why are your attacks based on light? You could even transform into a ball of light, too you know." Yuuka explains that she was manifested from human fears of the illusion of "light" inside a dark cave. Yuuka tells her that she has been that way for so long, that she has become bored of doing so. Marisa tells her that it's fall, almost winter, and there aren't really any flowers that bloom right now. She tries to convince Yuuka that maybe she might find fears by being a youkai of all florals. Yuuka thinks about it more, and flies off very slowly.

She still thinks about humans not finding flowers and plants to be scary and frightening. She sees the Sun burning her skin, and becomes saddened that she hasn't changed, she still cannot bask in the Sun like plants, and finds shade under trees whose leaves are falling apart. She takes note to bring a parasol next time.

Humans used to think of fungi and multicellular protists as plants long ago, but even those of Gensokyo can differentiate between plants, protists, and fungi. They are however, all still called "flora" to this day. END OF STORY Afterward: I believe, the mushrooms shown are young forms of stereum. There are many species of them, and some are debatably separated into their own species. They are all under an umbrella term called Wood Decay Fungi, which are scavengers of trees. All stereums are poisonous to humans. Most Wood Decay Fungi attack plants when they are alive and act as a pathogen to them, and a pest to gardeners. Some Wood Decay Fungi are terminal to the plant and eventually lead to the death of the plant.

This link below is one of many Wood Decay Fungi.

Although, Wood Decay Fungi prey on trees, it is not without reason. These plant pathogens are just as important as trees in the laws of nature. They revert them to fertile soils with lots of nutrition so more plants can grow in the future.

[gampiyah]

[positivefumo]

Nitori Kawashiro Fumo

[lucinamari]

Yuuka Kazami Fumo 🌻

[sollyatarz]

FumoFumo Ti2

[peach-bbbb]

ω Cute butt like a peach ωฅ(^ω^ฅ)

[reinano]

[veroyatnohot]

黏黏团子兔. Yaokoututu.

🌱🏕️🎀🏞️♨️

[mageofsleep]

Happy World Heart Day

please make sure to take care of your heart and drink water and eat stuff with lots of nutrients and antioxidants etc etc as needed

oh and also i forgot, make sure you take eye drops for when the pupils of your heart get dry or better yet, you can close your heart and not worry about eye drops (or anything) 😉 i also forgot, this only applies to the satori, humans can follow the above message

[mix-girl]

[floralfumofridays]

Floral Fumo Double Feature of the Week Second Part Hallow's Day/Hallowmas/Samhain Edition: Low Smartweed/Dog Smartweed (Persicaria longiseta)

So this is the next day, for Fumo Fridays because it lands on a friday and is also a holiday. This first picture does not have the plant I want to show but is made to follow along for story purposes. This tree is a Norway Maple that was shown before. Click here for Part 1

Yuuka noticed that the youkai carrying baskets were in groups, and remembered how Marisa was able to defeat her so easily, so she tries to search for an easy target. She finds a lone and innocent looking youkai in gaudy clothing sleeping on a tree. Yuuka thought of the youkai as weak, so she decided to attack with her giant spark spell at the poor sleeping youkai. After Yuuka attacked, she noticed that her attack didn't even work. The sleeping youkai surely would have woken up, but it never affected her. Yuuka tried to shoot simple bullets at the sleeping youkai, but then she found a gap that was taking in all of the bullets. She tried multiple times to shoot danmaku at the poor sleeping youkai, but gaps would instantly open just to take the bullets then immediately closed as if nothing had ever happened.

Yuuka tried one more trick: She took one big swing of her umbrella at the sleeping youkai's head, but then she woke up! "Oh dear, I wonder what's with all of the noise?" said the sleeping youkai. As the umbrella was about to hit, a gap immediately opened in front of the sleeping youkai's face and an arm quickly emerged to grab the umbrella. Yuuka became terrified, "My umbrella!" "Don't you know it isn't nice to attack a fellow youkai? Have some manners!" The youkai continued, "Hmm, it doesn't look like you're in no position to be attacking youkai. Maybe I should have picked more carefully which youkai come into the Outside during this time, I guess I'll escort you back... Although I'm supposed to be hibernating right now."

A gap had taken the two back to a much more familiar place. A swampy area in Gensokyo.

"Just what was that all about anyways? Why was I in the Outside? Outsiders don't fear youkai like me anymore," Yuuka questioned her. "Now now, it was just a mistake. I didn't understand that you are fading. Belief and fears in youkai are accelerated during this season in the outside to the point where it becomes much safer for youkai to tour, so I simply bring in many random youkai to participate in the "harvest" around the Outside for a while. I didn't understand your situation so well though," the youkai answered. "Fading? I'm fading?" Yuuka became worried. "Pardon me, I'm Yukari Yakumo, the Youkai Sage. Although I'm hibernating right now like the other sages. It seems a number of youkai are weakening recently. Perhaps I should have Ran investigate for me." "Yuuka Kazami, I've never met you personally before. I just made my own world because not even Gensokyo suited me, but then they kicked me out." Yuuka sighed. "I see, sorry about that. I do not think yours to be an original incident, the number of humans in Gensokyo have dwindled, it's threatening the balance of the world as we know it. Since I am hibernating, I will have my shikigami handle these matters for me," Yukari continued, "In the meantime, you don't look so well. Maybe you should mind your manners and focus more on attacking humans more instead of attacking anyone that you please, though. Especially a youkai in such a dying state as yourself." Yuuka sulked, "Well, where I landed there were only other youkai around. So I thought humans were no more." Yukari giggled, "Oh... You didn't mistake humans dressing in costumes as youkai? Let me explain: It's a western tradition on the Outside for humans to dress up as youkai in hopes that youkai won't attack them! Although, the tradition has spread to Japan in recent years, too. Surely, a youkai as old as you would know of it, right?" Yuuka thought about it for a moment, and became flustered. She flew away out of embarassment

Yuuka was relieved for a moment that her feeling so weak and fading was not her own individual issue, but a larger issue affecting Gensokyo. For a long while after she started her plot to change her "nature," she felt alive, she was in her own fantasy as if there was nothing to stop her. The reality was that she was fading, dying. Surely, hopefully, it has to do with this particular incident occurring within Gensokyo, and not her own plans.

Hallow's day(originally Samhain in Gaelic, pronounced sauin, means summer's end) was originally an Irish-Scots (it was both) holiday about liminality, the many interpretations which were passed through mostly oral tongue is that the boundaries between reality and fantasy that were said weaken through "gaps"/portals to allow supernaturals to travel from the illusion world to the reality, and they would play pranks on humans on this day. To prevent supernaturals from attacking, humans would dress up as the supernaturals themselves. Another more familiar interpretation it was also celebrated at the boundaries between summer and winter (autumn), light and darkness, life and death. so it would be ghosts that would enter and pull pranks. A necrofantasia if you will.

Only the eve is celebrated nowadays instead of the actual day, and thus, Halloween which is a mashup word of Hallow's eve. Because there are many interpretations to the festival because it was mostly passed through oral tongue and tradition, everyone has their own "truth" or their own "world" of celebrating. Also I am a bit late for this one.

The first photo is the Norway Maple, but I already talked about that one. The flowers in the second photo are the Low Smartweed or Dog Smartweed. The name of the genus is a bit hard to explain: Persica is the latin name for peach, but that word was named after the Persian Empire/Persia (Iran) long ago. Persica is often given to a scientific species names that are native to Iran and other surrounding areas (like Syringa persica, Persian Lilac). Persicaria as in the genus of flowers refers to the flowers mostly being pink like a peach, but there are still many that coincidentally bloom in Iran, too.

This flower is native to most of Asia. It is oftentimes confused with the more popular Lady's Thumb(Persicaria maculosa), another plant with a much larger native range, and american persicarias. All persicarias have a characteristic of appearing in swampy areas, and is considered a weed by many. The difference between them is easier to find not by its flowers, but by the leaves (A lady's thumb is smaller and has a spot in the middle of mostly each leaf, while a low smart weed gradually grows dark) and the stringlike parts of the branches. Many persicarias are sometimes foraged and have different flavors, but they tend to be peppery and spicy like a cayenne pepper.

Persicarias are a fragile annual plant that does not last long but spreads quickly. It gives one final cluster of blooms before winter, before its eventual and quick death. Although Dog smartweed is invasive to the Americas like the Norway Maple, and considered a "pest" even in places that it's native to. Unlike the Norway Maple, it is much easier to remove and kill. There are persicarias all around the world, and many nonnative ones in one place are lookalikes to native ones in another. If you can identify them as native to your area then it is best to leave them alone.

The Norway Maple looks like it's dying because of the leaves falling, but it's a perennial plant that is very sturdy and lives, and the tree will grow new ones. The Low smartweed looks like it's living because it blooms flowers, but it's fragile, at its final breath and will eventually die.

Also this post was made so late there are only a few hours until Nov 1st is dead everywhere in the world.

Persicaria... and fumos are a type of doll... Hmm....

[gampiyah]

🌻

[positivefumo]

Toyosatomimi no Miko Fumo

[lucinamari]

Man, this Touhou fest was very fun. I will come back to this place and capture some good memories from there some days.

And yes. I did this festival myself. Good or not, I don’t know. It’s goofy.