#Cultivated Mushroom

[nemfrog]

"Mushrooms grown on greenhouse benches." Mushrooms: how to grow them. 1901.

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[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[blue-mood-blue]

I have been thinking about the blackening (as one does)…

…and it’s so interesting to me, the penalty Shen Qingqiu is faced with should he not decide to yeet his disciple into hell.

Account termination. Instant death. Sent directly home to his already-long-dead body, and that’s it for the villain of the piece who outright refuses his villainy. The protagonist needs a blackening for the story to continue, and Shen Qingqiu is going to provide it or get written out of the narrative. Either way, Luo Binghe is going to lose him. Either way, this is a turning point.

I wouldn’t claim that this is the intent of the penalty, but it fascinates me that the System has, potentially, backed the plotline into a corner - because Binghe still stands to be blackened even if Shen Qingqiu took the other choice.

Think about what that would look like, to him. He’s at the Immortal Alliance Conference, and everything is going wrong. He’s been outed as a demon, and not just a demon - the top tier of demon, as bad as it gets from the perspective of a righteous cultivator. His beloved teacher, the person who has been kindest to him and opened his home and heart to him, is standing there with his sword in hand, deciding what he’s going to do about what must look, to him, like a horrific betrayal. Binghe is apologizing. Binghe is begging for his life.

Shen Qingqiu hears him. Maybe it shows on his face, or in his voice, that he already knew; maybe there’s no hint at all, but Shen Qingqiu is suddenly talking quickly with an abrupt sense of urgency that Luo Binghe is having a hard time keeping up with. Telling him he’ll be wonderful - telling him he’s the best. Telling him the world will be his, with emotions cracking through that aloof mask that Binghe has never seen on Shizun’s face before, and it’s terrifying for reasons that Binghe cannot identify.

(He will, later. When he has time to think, he’ll realize it sounded like a goodbye.)

And then Shen Qingqiu is bleeding. And then Shen Qingqiu is on the ground. And then Shen Qingqiu is dead. There’s no countdown for Binghe - there’s no System, there’s no warning, there’s no answers.

Luo Binghe is a heavenly demon in the middle of a conference sabotaged by demons. Luo Binghe is alone. His fellow competing disciples are scattered, some dead or injured. The Peak Lord of Qing Jing Peak, the second in command of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, maybe the only person he loved and who loved him back, is dead at his feet. No one will believe him if he says it isn’t his fault.

(He can’t believe it isn’t his fault.)

What choice does he have but to run? The last heavenly demon the cultivation world went up against has been sealed under a mountain for years, and one of the people responsible for that is probably looking for Shen Qingqiu already. They’ll be looking for him, too. There isn’t anywhere to hide; there isn’t any time to mourn.

There isn’t even enough time to ask why. Why again.

There is no closure waiting for him, because there is nothing to explain what happened. It just is.

It would be a different kind of blackening, certainly - less intense, probably, less of a warping, desperate thing. But how many times can one person have all the love and safety in their world torn out from under them before it starts to show? Before they just don’t allow things like love and safety to touch them, because that’s the better option?

Interesting to consider that, simply by offering the choices it did, the System rigged the story to guarantee that Luo Binghe would end up in hell (deliberate or not).

Interesting to consider that, even if Shen Qingqiu made what might have seemed like a kinder choice, there was every chance it wouldn’t have been.

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

No Paths are Bound (the tgcf fic where Xie Lian has a cursed shackle over his eyes) and Whipstitch (the mdzs fic where Wei Wuxian has his lips sealed so he can’t use Chenqing) are in the same niche fanfic sub-genre in my brain and I need MORE

[scribefindegil]

Two years ago, I bought a bunch of wine cap mushroom spawn to inoculate an outdoor bed. However, because of my health and also the health of the friends who were going to help me set it up, I didn't actually make the bed until late fall. We were already having frosts and the spawn was at the very end of its usable shelf life so I knew it might not take, but I figured I might as well try anyway.

I didn't get any mushrooms all last year, so it looked like the spawn had been too old or the mycelium didn't have time to get established before the winter. Which, you know, happens, especially when you are cursed.

BUT THEN. TODAY.

[strobilomyces-strobilaceus]

look at this big ass lion's mane i grew in my kitchen. my son he is going to be pizza topping

[patheticpeoplesupreme]

Just a thought, like, Shang Qinghua’s probably a silly 25+year old pre-death

Maybe his soul resets along with his body growing up or because he died through electrocution, his soul becomes damaged and his maturity and some part of him gets set back a little bit

And it doesn’t heal well through the transmigration

So he’s just a little damaged on the inside and it’s hard for him to grow

#making things up

But like no one ever mentions his electrocution death like cmon…

It’s sounds silly but electrocution is so terrifying man

So, SQH has burn scars from his past life on his hands and through his arm, but it looks like a birth mark because it’s been there since birth

So he can excuse it, tell people his fine, but he has other symptoms like a tingly feeling in his arms even though this body has never been electrocuted, muscle spams(part of the reason why he’s so clumsy)

Or even hearing loss

Heck it almost explains his horrible/mixed up memory

(To be fair to him though, I too would also forget details of my own character despite writing them)(I don’t blame my silly blorbo for anything)

As for Shen Yuan, I like to think he has trouble eating some foods because of the texture and bro always cuts things into smaller pieces to prevent choking hazards

Not to mention, I bet he hates long mushrooms, those things are incredibly chewy and hard to swallow

[hcneypuff]

Okay so I have had a brilliant idea, and I am beginning to plan it out for writing so we will see if ever actually makes it to ao3 or anything, but just imagine little mushroom xainxia/cultivator au! Like maybe it’s because I really enjoy the setting and like those are the primary kind of danmei novels I’ve read, but like I feel like it would work well! So like in this cultivator world, there is still the difference of like xenogenics and stuff, but like instead its species of plant and animal based demons who take over a human body in an attempt to feed off them. At first no one may notice the possession, but after time the human body starts to fall apart as it becomes one with the demon. An zhe, our little mushroom demon, doesn’t have that happen though, but like in the book he accidentally ‘combines’ with an ze, and now he is traveling to the cultivator sects and stuff, and like don’t get me wrong like follows the basics of the plots but of course with added fun stuff, because like imagine Lu Feng taking him somewhere by sword and just ahhh I can picture it and it makes me happy! Like I just want to give Lu feng a sword and both boys long hair and let them go on cultivator missions! So 🤞🏻 I actually finish something for once instead of loosing interest part way through!

[mejomonster]

So Im feeling like... the book title Little Mushroom gave me as widely incorrect a first impression as Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun did...

(For context: I avoided reading 2ha at first because I feared it would be extremely fluffy. Im not into fluff. It was only once I saw how angsty and heavy and dark it was by friends who'd read it that I was like oh perhaps Ill give it a chance.)

(Also related: i suspect, because i keep misjudging certain titles as Too Fluffy for me, that Mistakenly Saving the Villain is probably deeply emotional and developed and angsty and I probably dont need to avoid it from fear itll be fluff city).

Anyway I got Little Mushroom a while ago because any time Peach Flower House releases print english copies of danmei I at least consider getting them, and Little Mushroom is sci fi so of course I fucking got it. ToT but i still fear just a tiny bit, oh man cute title, what if this is too cute for my tastes.

Well im glad my guess was wrong. Ive only started reading, but I love the opening and the writing style, i AM SUPER into sci fi right now (im reading star trek Fanfic Observations by janon and The Expanse series i am in DEEP to sci fi right now mindset wise), and im thrilled by the blurb on the back of Little Mushrooms and the potential im about to get into.

The author blurb mentioned Shisi wrote C Language Cultivation. My head spinned.

I have belated realized ive actually been a fan of this author a WHILE. Ive been reading C Language Cultivation in chinese for like the past year, and the authors novel The Cats Rose is one I was eyeing to buy for a while. I cant believe I didnt connect that the writer of C Language Cultivation also wrote Little Mushroom. I suspect I probably would love all this authors books at this rate.

[loubella77]

I love everything I get from my favorite mushroom vendor, and he does it all small batch! Grow bags, liquid culture, grain bags, spore kits… all sorts!

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[jagritigusain5684]

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I need a friend who knows a lot about mushrooms and is willing to answer odd questions at odd hours. I have to have at least one follower who's willing to infodump about fungus. I promise it's not just endless "can I eat this?". I also need to know if it will eat flesh. I'm pretty sure they're coming up on carrion piles.

And as long as I'm soliciting information from tumblr, who knows things about roses? Specifically cold hardy varieties, like really cold, like it's going to hit -40°

[scribefindegil]

The only reason to grow Golden Oysters is that they're pretty, but in the variety's defense they are very pretty.

[thinksideways]

I've eaten out of my garden for at least one meal every day for like two months. yesterday I foraged for chanterelle mushrooms in the woods. i hate so much about summer but there are definitely some upsides