#THEY'RE A MUSHROOM AREN'T THEY???
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tfw you can't put truffles in the dehydrator
#sdv 1.6#sdv 1.6 spoilers#stardew valley#stardew valley 1.6#I JUST WANNA MAKE DRIED TRUFFLES#THEY'RE A MUSHROOM AREN'T THEY???
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Mold fans and bug fans and small rodent fans, we are all shaking hands in the frustration that is most search results being the direct opposite of what we're looking for, and often being about getting rid of the thing we think is cool.
No, I don't want ads for mold removal services or warnings about black mold, I want to know if a mushroom can get the (figurative) sniffles!
#mold#bugs#mice#rats#idk what tags would fit here#sirius.txt#tbc I know mushrooms aren't mold but they're both fungi
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in a new annual tradition i am once again sick and cannot travel for new years so to pass the time at home i've started up my mini mushroom farm that i got for christmas. Stay tuned for upcoming mushroom updates
#nottrek#plant dad in action#i know mushrooms aren't plants but it's close enough#they're pink oyster mushrooms i hope they survive#build them a little greenhouse attachment out of an old plexi from a broken picture frame#have to spray it twice a day so y'know silver linings to missing out on new years yet again#gripping the bars of my cage with trembling white knuckles everything is fine and cool i'm totally okay with this
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KaeMAYeus Week 3:
Lunch Break | Love Poems
I got struck with the initial idea for the Kaemaeus ship at the beginning of 2023. It started with the premise of Kaeya taking Klee by the alchemy table in search of Albedo, and Timaeus having to regretfully tell them he was still away on Dragonspine. To avail Klee's disappointment Kaeya would take her to get lunch at Good Hunter, on a whim inviting Timaeus to join them. It ends up becoming a regular occurrence, the two chatting about this and that over a shared lunch break. They find that they like each other's company, and over time go from acquaintances, to friends, to more.
Given that it's June, I got more than a little behind on this. I still had fun this last month, trying to do a bunch of pieces for my server's rare pair alongside my friends. Thank you to @throwaway-writing and @tittysuckersworld for nudging me into making the prompt list. And for participating in this silly little ship with me. ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶
(Textless versions of the pictures below the cut)
#KaeMAYeus2024#lunch break#timaeus#klee#kaeya#i'm still going to do the other two weeks' prompts btw#even if they're late it's pride month so its still on theme in a way#kaemaeus#kaeya x timaeus#time for headcanons and notes!#Timaeus and Sucrose are siblings in science to me#over the years he's eaten the mushrooms off of things for her#so Timaeus is just in the habit of eating mushrooms first now#Klee is a mess because she's like four. she has plenty of napkins though so it's fine#Klee's juice box says 'Dawn Cidery" on it#the logo is a modification of the 'Top-Quality Grap Juice' bottle#juice boxes exist because nonsense-writing says they do 👍#Diluc should get on top of that though he'd love juice boxes#Kaeya likes the northern smoked chicken per the spices event#but not the satisfying salad also per the spices event#it's good tho so Timaeus gets one. because it's satisfying :)#minty fruit tea is the closest to a mint lemonade we have#and I have another goofy little thing with kaemaeus and mint beverages#which I will hopefully draw eventually#regular foods instead of specialties because these aren't home made#Sara has to keep things restaurant standard#that's it those are my notes#timaeus genshin#genshin
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Out in the garden 🐌
New follower sticker for: @maskul1ne!
#stickers#sticker collection#New follower sticker!#I know snails aren't like. Officially bugs. But they're Bugs to Me#Snails#Bugs#Nature#Mushrooms#Flowers#Plants#animals#Shiny#Pipsticks brand
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i’ve never mentioned this on here but i view poison mushroom, pinecone, pond dino, squid ink, and sorbet shark all as best friends + buddies :D
THEY’RE THE NATURE NB KIDS they go exploring together in the millennial forest :D they find cool bugs and animals and rocks and shrooms and stuff
ALSO ALSO!!!!! squid ink’s favorite bugs are fireflies :) because they’re shiiiiiiny
they’ll stay up hours past when the other kids have fallen asleep just to catch as many fireflies as they can XD
#lily's headcanons#poison mushroom cookie#pinecone cookie#pond dino cookie#squid ink cookie#sorbet shark cookie#i'm definitely gonna add the new baby dragon from crk into the friend group once they get released#hoping their name is snapdragon so that it'll be 3 kids with p names and 3 with s names XD#hoping they're nb too but even if they aren't they can still be in the group :)
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oh i feel like you guys need to know that not only does my dad LOATHE smile bomb but he's insisting that it has... no melody? he's called it atunal more than once, which isn't a word but whatever. and when we pointed out that it does, in fact, have notes going up and down and shit, something that him disliking the song does not change, he did not retract this statement, and insisted on it several times afterward
#just as an update for you yyhheads#he's kind of a facts and logic guy but when you get into it he's just stubbornly confident about his bullshit#the other day i asked if edible mushrooms counted as vegetables bc like. they're not plants but we don't have a fungal food group#and he insisted that they couldn't be vegetables bc they weren't plants + they're just their own thing and i was like ok i respect that ig#and then he (and no one made him say this) added that tomatoes were totally vegetables as well despite the scientific reasoning#girl you can't pull out scientific classification on the basis of 'theyre used like vegetables not fruits' and then say mushrooms aren't#vegetables bc of their scientific classification despite being used like vegetables. do you hear yourself#anyway he's Silly and when it's stuff like this it's fine so. laugh at my dad with me
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Occupation: Plant
#Mandelbrot#Binary Stars#My art#I very obviously referenced a skyrim spriggan for their pose lol#but there aren't a lot of other spriggans out there#despite being a WHOLE ASS CLASSIFICATION OF FAE#their mushrooms change with the seasons#This is their summer variant#not a lot going on#and most of the growth is in remission#they have turkey tails and reishi#out of all the not!gods they're the least likely to fight you#but the most likely to kill you if they do
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man i know i'm not the smartest person in the world but watching smosh do trivia makes me feel like a god
#i know they're all like. actors by trade. a lot of them were homeschooled or had disruptive schooling of some kind#but bitch so did i that's no excuse#they just released an episode about plants trivia and i'm like head in hands the whole way through like. y'all cannot be this dumb#like this isn't actual jeopardy-level trivia. this is pretty basic stuff#actually no i feel the same at trash taste trivia whenever they do that too but at least they're like just. some dudes who consume anime#man i would love to be quizzed more on random facts and trivia bc my brain has so much stuff in it that i never get to use or say#and apparently that isn't 100% universal. at least not when it comes to schooling topics like. plants#man 1. how do you not know mushrooms aren't plants and 2. how do you not know what carrion is#immediately second-guessing that gregor mendel did genetics studies with Peas as if that's not the quintessential thing to know#about genetics in grade school biology#like again i wasn't spectacular in school nor did i have a normal education but God Damn this is wild to me
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Be careful with the mushrooms!
For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever forage with an app. Especially for mushrooms.
#this is why I only forage gian puffball#they're the only ones distinctive enough to be safe#fun foraged mushrooms aren't worth your life#be careful#mycology#mushrooms are dangerous
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Concept comic for a scene I'm writing for Trod
Takes place in the before-Shamura and mass dissention arc. I think the menticide mushrooms would react horrifically combined with godhood. Instead of seeing things that aren't real, they see real things they're not supposed to
#trod au#the rehabilitation of death#narilamb#finor oc#narinder x lamb#cult of the lamb#doodles#tw drugs#tw poisoning#tw accidental drugging#i wanna provide more context for whats happening here but im torn between spilling everything or keeping my mouth shut lmao
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I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.
Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.
Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.
Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.
I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.
He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).
First, we get this:
Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.
They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.
It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.
We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.
What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?
He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.
In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.
Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!
...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.
Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.
And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.
I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.
And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.
Meals are the privilege of the living.
#Dungeon Meshi#Delicious in Dungeon#Kabru#Kabru of Utaya#Laios Touden#Dungeon Meshi meta#you can have him in the tags too. as a treat.#Dungeon Meshi spoilers#this was directly inspired by livelaughlaios's post about Kabru self harming but I decided it got too long to make it a direct reply#this is a theory I've been working on for weeks because I kept noticing this while skimming for screencaps#I'm hesitant to trigger tag this because of the way certain subcultures on tumblr operate#but if anyone needs me to add a content warning please let me know#also I included image descriptions! I did my best#I think they even help illustrate my points but my god were they sad to write. Kabru is so fucking sad you guys#musings with Dea
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Wait, which animals raise livestock?
Several species of ants will 'herd' aphids around (a type of plant lice)- even picking them up and putting them back with the group if they wander off. The ants will attack anything that approaches their aphid herds, defending them. The aphids produce a sugary excretion called honeydew, which the ants harvest and eat.
Some ants will even 'milk' the aphids, stroking the aphids with their antennae, to stimulate them to release honeydew. Some aphids have become 'domesticated' by the ants, and depend entirely on their caretaker ants to milk them.
When the host plant is depleted of resources and dies, the ants will pick up their herd of aphids and carry them to a new plant to feed on - a new 'pasture' if you will.
Some ants continue to care for aphids overwinter, when otherwise they'd die. The ants carry aphid eggs into their own nests, and will even go out of their way to destroy the eggs of aphid-predators, like ladybugs.
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Microhylids – or narrow-mouthed frogs - have an interesting symbiosis with Tarantulas.
While the spiders could very easily kill and eat the much-tinier frogs, and DO normally prey on small frogs, young spiders instead will use their mouthparts to pick up the microhylid frogs, bring them back to their burrow, and release them unharmed.
The frog benefits from hanging out in/around the burrow of the tarantula, because the tarantula can scare away or eat predators that normally prey on tiny frogs, like snakes, geckos, and mantids. The tarantula gets a babysitter.
Microhylid frogs specialize in eating ants, and ants are one of the major predators of spider eggs. By eating ants, the frogs protect the spider's eggs. The frogs can also lay their eggs in the burrow, and won't be eaten by the spider.
So it's less 'livestock' and more like a housepet - a dog or a cat. You stop coyotes/eagles from hurting your little dog/cat, and in return the dog/cat keeps rats away from your baby.
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Damselfish grow algae on rocks and corals. They defend these gardens ferociously, and will attack anything that comes too close - even humans. They spend much of their time weeding the gardens, removing unwanted algaes that might overtake their crop.
The species of algae that they cultivate is weak and and sensitive to growing conditions, and can easily be overgrazed by other herbivores. That particular algae tends to grow poorly in areas where damselfish aren't around to protect and farm it.
Damselfish will ALSO actively protect Mysidium integrum (little shrimp-like crustacians) in their reef farms, despite eating other similarly sized invertebrates. The mysids are filter feeders, who feed on zooplankton and free-floating algae, and their waste fertilizes the algae farms. Many types of zooplankton can feed on the algae crop, and the mysids prevent that.
While Mysids can be found around the world, the only place you'll find swarms of Musidium integrum is on the algae farms that Damselfish cultivate.
Damselfish treat the little mysids like some homesteaders treat ducks. Ducks eat snails and other insect pests on our crops, and their poop fertilizes the land. The ducks can be eaten, but aren't often, since they're more useful for their services than their meat.
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There are SEVERAL species of insect and animal which actively farm. They perform fungiculture and horticulture: deliberately growing and harvesting fungus and plants at a large-scale to feed their population.
Leaf-cutter ants and Termites both chew up plant material and then seed it with a specific type of fungus. The fungus grows, and the termites/ants harvest the mushroom as a food source.
Ambrosia beetles burrow into decaying trees, hollow out little farming rooms, and introduce a specific fungii (the ambrosia fungi), which both adults and larval beetles feed on.
Marsh Periwinkles (a type of snail) cultivates fungus on cordgrass. They wound the plant with their scraping tongue, then defecate into the wound so their preferred fungus will infect it and grow there. They let the fungus grow in the wound a bit, and come back later to eat.
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I feel like something that really works for Dungeon Meshi is that all the characters are good at their jobs from the beginning. At the start of the show/manga the Touden party is one of the best parties in the business.
They got wiped in the first episode/chapter, but they got wiped on the 6th floor where we don't see another party on a floor lower than the 5th, castle town, even then the only group we meet is Shiro's who was part of the original party and super skilled. Shiro is an expert swordsman who went to the dungeon to test himself, he was the best fighter in the party and the ace to deal killing blows to dragons. Namari is a dwarf who is likely a better fighter than Senshi and takes better care of her equipment. Laios is a good fighter, maybe not the best, but he is good an super knowledgeable. Falin and Marcille are two top class mages, Marcille might be inexperienced as a practical caster, but by the time the series starts she is very powerful. Chilchuck is the leader/creator of the half-foot union, he is good at his job and has survived since he was a wide eyed kid to a grizzled old man who looks like a kid to other races. they were stacked at the start of the series and it makes sense why they are well known in adventurers circles.
They aren't newbies who are blessed with plot armor and being the main characters of the story. They are very powerful and experienced adventurers who just happen to meet the most powerful monster in the dungeon on empty stomachs. Even once the series starts, they're at a disadvantage not because they're lacking skills, just they lose two of the parties best fighters. Marcille, the parties mage, is easily able to knock out/kill a running mushroom that was giving a party of noobs a thrashing.
I get why a lot of stories start with young inexperienced kids, but sometimes its nice to read stories that star older heroes who are good at their jobs instead of something like a rookie red ranger situation. Especially now that I'm older
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#marcille donato#laios touden#falin touden#senshi of izganda#chilchuk tims#namari#toshiro nakamoto#namari of kahka brud
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my mom is getting a LOT better but she's still so... Nature Being Natural Is Scary, Actually
mom: we have all these huge piles of dirt in the backyard! we have moles!!!
me, looking at them: there are all of 3 piles of dirt that could've been raised by nearly anything including mushrooms which are growing rn, also the biggest is maybe 1 inch at the deepest part
mom: we should call someone to take care of the moles :/
me: why?
mom: ...
me: no really, why?
mom: because... they can maybe... damage our foundation?
me: HOW?
mom: ...
me: do you think that three tiny piles of dirt in the middle of the yard are going to create a sinkhole or something?
mom: ...maybe
#I'm just#smh#but yeah it's mushroom season they're pushing up everywhere#genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the dirt was being shifted by mushrooms trying to emerge#but also we've always had a few moles or voles#they rly aren't a big deal
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had the consult for my gallbladder surgery. the doctor told me i need to "lose 10 - 15 pounds" before they'll perform the surgery on me, and that I would need to wait 2 - 3 months before they would schedule it. i told her i have PCOS which makes it difficult to lose weight. she told me that does happen, and offered to refer me to a bariatric surgeon who is used to bigger bodies who could perform the gallbladder removal instead. i asked her for the referral to them instead
i was very angry at her for this, as 10 - 15 pounds do not make any difference when you are 300 lbs. my weight fluctuates between 280 - 340 lbs depending greatly on what i've eaten, how much i exercise, and so on. this will also vary greatly depending on if the stone is blocking my gallbladder completely or partially- if it's fully blocking the neck of my gallbladder, i cannot get enough digestive juices into my stomach to properly digest my food, so i will begin violently vomiting to get the undigested food out, and to get bile flowing into my stomach again. i begin to lose tons of weight when this happens, and i put it back on during the periods where i can get enough bile in my stomach to properly digest my food.
i can't digest my food properly. eating "healthier" will not change this- i can't digest food at all, period. healthy or unhealthy, i can't digest anything, because a good half of my digestive juices are completely missing from my guts. there is a functional issue with the way my guts work, of course i will lose weight drastically and put it back on at times. of course the issues will be episodic.
both her and the student that was working with me kept assuming that i said that my pain got worse after "high fat" meals. both of them put this in my mouth-
the student did it first. she asked when the pain gets worse and i said sporadically, but sometimes after i eat. she literally asked me "so you said it gets worse after fatty meals, right?"
i got frustrated and said "no, it's really random." i didn't get to tell her that raw leafy vegetables and lightly steamed or cooked vegetables make me vomit. broccoli and cauliflower that aren't heavily cooked, salads, raw vegetables, lightly cooked carrots, applesauce and apples in general are all problem foods.
the doctor then came in and said "it gets worse after high fat meals, right? you said that" and i went, again, "no it just kinda happens."
i don't even eat a high fat diet. i cook at home now for every meal now that i have all the tools i need to do so. i make rice, fish, pasta, and certain vegetables that i can digest like potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, mushrooms, and so on. i eat bread, seeds, nuts, dried fruits, and drink oatmilk. i don't eat land meats, eggs, or dairy. i don't have any of those things. i do eat french fries and fish sticks, but not for every single meal. i don't eat chips because they're too salty and irritate my stomach. i don't eat candy or sweets unless the food bank delivers them to me. i don't eat much sugar other than pancakes and certain fruits
she wouldn't listen to me and went "well when you eat fatty meals, your gallbladder has to contract more and it can cause you a lot of pain." you would not believe how many times she came back to "you need to eat a lower fat diet." "the pain gets worse after you eat a high fat meal, so eat lower fat meals and your pain will go down." "just eat a lower fat diet and it'll help."
i just kind of sighed. there were tears in my eyes. i felt defeated. they made a bunch of assumptions just because i was sitting there, being fat. i was wearing long sleeves due to it being cold and they didn't get to see that i have a lot of muscle in my body mass. quite a lot. i wanted to tell them that i'm on testosterone and physically active when and where possible, and that i frequently lift heavy objects and move, but i never got a chance. i wanted to tell them my BMI isn't what they think it is, but i just didn't bother to try
i despise that people assume that fat people are fat because they eat "unhealthy" foods. i ate high fat foods for a few months while i was homeless because i didn't have the resources to cook every single meal. it affected my liver, i'm dealing with some fatty liver. but my gallbladder has more important issues in the form of the literal stone inside. she would not stop pushing for me to eat lower fat meals. all because i was sitting there, existing, as a fat person. i wish i would've told her i can only eat fish and plant matter
i don't understand how a patient telling you they're vomiting and can't keep down certain foods does not sound like a more pressing issue than an arbitrary number. weight as a number means nothing, it tells you nothing about that person's actual body composition. i have trauma with vomiting and yet i'm going to have to keep doing it anyway despite the fact that it could kill me via dehydration or if i just. can't stop
either way i'm very unhappy with result as i already waited for a month for this consult. now i have to wait for a referral for another surgeon to go through, and to do the consult with them, too. all while being in pain and having GI issues the entire time. just because a surgeon doesn't want to take the time to learn how to operate on fat bodies. i'm tired. what a joke
#disabled#actually disabled#disability#chronically ill#chronically chil#our writing#about us#updates#emetophobia#surgery mention#emeto tw
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