#PERFECT POST. its got my botany brain running. its based on my long beloved persephone. its about gpt (and ashes). and it has horrible pain. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

majorshatterandhare · 1 year ago

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when they finally leave the planet and burn it all down tim has to be restrained bc screaming and trying to go back to save it and also is in A Lot of pain as theyre removing it all from him bc its so in there that just killing him doesnt work to get rid of it.

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uhhummmm plant gore persephone tim

#how have i not seen this post?#i would like to know what kinds of plants you are imagining #these plants would be parasitic and therefore not need sunlight but it seemed to me you were implying tim was drawn back to that place for-#other reasons than sunlight. plants that dont use sunlight tend to be white. however there is also a difference between obligate parasites-#and facultative parasites. the fact that him dying does not kill the plants implies them to be facultative. and thus they would feed on his-#body if he was normal and didnt revive.#mmmmmmmm wanna read about parasitic plants now.#PERFECT POST. its got my botany brain running. its based on my long beloved persephone. its about gpt (and ashes). and it has horrible pain.#also immediately thought of achilles idea of tim always finding his face foreign (? WORDS) re: him seeing the plants around his eyes and-#not even realizing they were there.#anyway. sorry for being a creep and scrolling so far back in your posts. i was looking for something. not this. but this is WAY better #(creep part is /hj)#the mechanisms #gunpowder tim #persephone tim #tim + ashes #very much enjoy ashes’ ‘huh. looks good on you though’#this isnt going in the queue i need to consider these plants now.#its kinda sorta speculative biology too. yeah. checks so many boxes for me great post op #oh yeah and gore too. love this kinda gore (meaningful). forgot that this counts as gore (not blood + guts).#***edit: it is now thought that all plants previously believed to feed on dead material (saprophytes) are actually parasites of fungi or-#other plants. that being said *lots* of fungi are saprotrophic (get energy from dead organic matter)

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