#cw Mycophobia

[bestfictionalplant]

Prelim Polls: Warhammer 40k

2 will go through, propaganda under cut

Spiker: The Spiker is a type of plant found on many Death Worlds, such as Catachan. They are considered by many to be one of the most dangerous plant forms in the entire galaxy. Spikers are vaguely cylindrical in shape, and tend to be man-sized, about 2 meters tall and upright. They are covered with a thick layer of hair-like leaves, out of which protrude the countless thin, sharp spikes that give the plant its name. These spikes, which are fired at nearby animal forms, are what make this plant dangerous. Piercing the skin of an animal, they release a mutagenic chemical into the bloodstream that reforms the victim's body into that of a Spiker. A human taking a spike in the arm will soon find his arm become hairy and immobile, and within a short time his whole body will be covered in spikes. Although the victim remains mobile for some time, the physiological changes destroy the mind, so that the victim wanders aimlessly and is unable to react to the horrifying process. Eventually all mobility is lost, and the host completes his transformation into a Spiker.

Breathweed: Breathweed (Parasitus Respirare) is a type of organism found on Catachan. It is unclear if Breathweed is a plant or fungus, but it is known to grow on the side of tree trunks and resemble a vine. If something brushes against the weed, it dissolves into a cloud of airborne spores which if inhaled, will attached itself to the tongue. At this stage it appears no more than a small blister, but left alone for a day or two it will absorb into the tongue and vanish from sight. Over the subsequent weeks the spore eats the tongue from the inside, growing until it has eventually taken the place of the hosts original tongue. The host has no idea the tongue itself is a growing parasite that absorbs more nutrients that pass over it while producing more spores. The host gradually wastes away and dies; and as they take their final breath the pseudo-tongue dissolves, releasing spores it has grown to seed new weeds.

Brainleaf: The Brainleaf[1a] (also referred to as the "Grey Vine" or "Slave Vine") is native to Catachan and appears to be a small tree. It has a rudimentary animal brain with the lowest level of intelligence and appears to be able to control animals and humans through attaching its leaves to them. The leaves can float away from the tree for many metres using a wing-like undulation, but when they come into contact with a creature, the nerve bundles in the leaf attach themselves and grow throughout the victim's nervous system, effectively taking them over. The Brainleaf can then make use of the creature and its abilities. There is another variant of Brainleaf that appears as a grey, hairy vine wrapped around a tall object. When prey gets too close to the vine, it will reach down and attach a leaf to the back of the creature's neck. The fibers in the leaf then quickly burrow into the spinal chord of the victim, reducing a victim to a brainleaf thrall. The Brainleaf uses its victims to protect itself, and propagate its young. Victims have no intelligence, often lacking the motor skills to use primitive weapons. To protect the Brainleaf, the Brainleaf Thrall will charge at anything that gets too close and beat it with whatever appendages it has. The Brainleaf can be removed from a victim, though it is incredibly dangerous to the victim. If they aren't killed by the agonizing procedure, they will suffer permanent nerve damage. 

Feculant Gnarlmaw: The Warp-flora feature an enormous mouth that run up the centre of their trunks, with dozens of razor-sharp teeth lining it, while the few stunted branches that grow from Gnarlmaws feature Plague Bells, tentacles and pustulent boils. They also gather clouds of fatted Plague Flies around them and the base of the Gnarlmaws' trunks are linked with the skulls of those who have been foolish enough to venture near them. And while they normally reside within the Garden of Nurgle, the Warp-flora will rapidly sprout up outside of of his realm, wherever a large number of the Chaos God's Daemons are congregating or Nurgle's most grievous foulness reigns. On the battlefield they aid the Plague God's armies, as the Feculent Gnarlmaws belch clouds of Daemonic spores and shed rot-wet blossom to carpet the maggot-churned earth beneath their boughs. They also exude an aura of supernatural disease and the dull tolling of the Gnarlmaws' Plague Bells, draws Nurgle's Daemons to the battlefield in swarms.

[setacin]

that mycelium sure can resistance!

[rockosaur]

Wormin'

[bludraws094]

found some old art im still proud of (second is just a pixel art version)

[dragonsmybeloved]

Infected Mirror

Have you seen The Last of Us yet?

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[lexidius]

@foreverwithatinygoat

[dying-acc-idk-man]

if motherspore threw their head on the soil, would a new body sprout???? would the body get a new head?????

if the body is discarded it will, but theres worse things when you separate the head from the body

[icannotgetoverbirds]

honestly i am by no means an expert on the subject, it isn't even a special interest of mine, but this little tidbit alone really makes me so happy because everything we need to solve our problems already exists within and around us, it's just a matter of discovery and distribution!

with that said, have an article i found about this!

one of my special interests, however, does happen to be eating bugs aka entomophagy! supposedly mealworms have a nutty flavor that is versatile and lends itself well to both sweet and savory applications! Epicurious has a really good video on the subject (content warning for all sorts of bugs being cooked and eaten, there's also a bit Joseph Yoon does where he pretends to be missing a tarantula and then it shows up on his shoulder, very silly) called How To Eat Every Insect.

Yoon's enthusiasm is so joyful, passionate, and contagious that i have the video saved on my phone to rewatch, and someday I want to open a restaurant that serves bugs as food!

I personally don't know if the mealworms would be safe for human consumption after eating styrofoam - that's something I'd have to do my own research on. But isn't it incredible how life on earth can adapt?

It kinda reminds me of the fungus at cherynobyl that eats the radiation off of the elephant's foot. Kinda freaky, but also absolutely amazing.

Ayyy just blocked my first TERF, this must be a rite of passage or something

[22ratonthestreet]

still thinking about @calamarispiderart‘s ‘ambitious mushroom’ benrey headcanon ft spores

[griba]

[Image ID: A colored drawing of Rendog, Grian, and Impulse SV sitting together. On the left, Ren has long light purple hair with purple mushrooms sprouting on the top of his head. He has his eyes closed calmly, slightly hunching over with his arms beside his legs holding him up. Behind him, Grian is shown from a side view while his wings rest at his back. He's holding Ren's head while gently picking out the mushrooms. Behind Grian is Impulse, shown with his back slightly turned to the viewer and his legs crossed as he is grooming Grian's wings. A light orange box with brown text on the bottom right gives credit to the artist, cicicitrus. /End ID]

heeheehoohoo.,, preening night :]c

@jupitrr says: MOTHER SPORE GRIAN GIVE HIM FUCKED UP WINGS TOO

ok ok i know that could've maybe possibly meant something angsty, however, my brain said "hhmg.., the Boys" so here's some bros bein dudes :]

[toki-wren]

why isnt there more psychological horror about cordyceps-type infections. the horror of discovering a pathogen now intwined with your body. realizing that it's influencing your thought patterns, producing urges you cannot resist, until your will is not your own; the fungus has become your new mind. realizing that your new behavior will kill you, but not being able to stop. knowing that this is bad, but not being able to do anything about it, or perhaps not being able to care. you're nothing but a vessel for a force older and stronger than the world as you know it.

[cordycepstion]

"Creative".

Sarcasm, this time.

"I'm hazarding the guess that you don't want to bother with choices. Perhaps if your guardians do bother to look for you, they'll decide they value such things.. Like whether or not they want cells close enough to hear you scream, and vice versa. It's an unavoidable noise if one isn't interested in permanently removing the ability to do so."

He draws himself up- a tower of trial and error and mycelium- before crouching down closer to her head again. He's close enough then for her to see the lines creeping down from the actual visible mushrooms, a web of information living in his body.

"As for why, well. You were useful before, to plans that were before. And now that new plans exist, you are useful again. Could be as simple as that. You also bounce back relatively well- and that makes you useful to my projects, specifically. It's a useful... and satisfying trait of your's, among other things."

A gloved finger pokes briefly just between her eyebrows. More testing than adding to her restraints. One hand goes back into his coat, removing another stopwatch. He studies the face of it- then quickly resets it.

"Any more comments before the next test? I'm sure they'd be as riveting as everything else you've been crying about."

"You know."

The spidersilk vanishes from his voice.

"I have rather steady hands. However-"

His grip tightened. A bruising kind of warning, one that was echoed by the slight pressure increase around her throat.

"-your movements are your own. If you impale yourself on their teeth or break the needle, that is your waste. Your corpse, after all, is still a valuable subject. So hold still, or roll the dice on never. Moving. Again."

The loogie was a disgusting display, but it was to be expected. As was the thrashing and the not-quite-hollow threat of that particular duo on a rescue mission. Or warpath. The risks had already been considered, after all. And still, hadn't he wanted a fight? It was still worth having to scrub his boot of that filth. And it would certainly need scrubbing- even if driving the shoe into her side the instant he removed the needle did help with that cleanup.

Speaking of- the reservoir that the blood drained into now filled properly, he removed said needle none too comfortably. Not enough blood had been taken to kill her- nor even make her too wobbly to walk. But it was full, hidden in some pocket of his coat, and that was as it needed to be.

"Now. Do you want a choice?"

[its-elvie-innit]

Hello!! Quick and quiet reminder to please tag your posts about the bad juju egg/crimson vines if you’re referring to them as a fungus or mushroom! Just like spiders this is a phobia that a good few people can have and some of them might have to completely block the crimson vines tag, which is very sad :[

#Mycophobia is the proper term, but tw/cw-ing mushrooms or fungus is also a very pog option. thank you!!

[satur1day]

I’m really excited about the mycelium resistance y’all.

[ID: a close up view of a semi-realistic portrait of Grian/Mother Spore. The line quality is very sketchy. He has somewhat wavy dirty blond hair that Goes a little past his ear. His face is at 3/4 view facing the viewers left and the left side of his face goes slightly off screen. He appears to be leaning slightly forward as if in motion. His eyes are open wide and starring directly at the viewer. He has pinpoint sized pupils that are bright red and 3 mushrooms growing out of the right eye. He has no mouth but a slight indentation of smile lines. He has four moles on his left/viewers right chin two larger two smaller. What little is visible of his jumper appears to be red.

All the colors in the photo are slightly transparent revealing behind him the swirling blue and red of the background. The background appears to be an image of a red and blue ink pour. The area around Grian is solid black except for to the right of his head where the words “Mother Spore” have been erased out to reveal the red and blue background. /end ID]

[mystilotls]

Thanks for letting me have an excuse to not do work :))

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OMFG HIMB

I WILL NOT GET OVER THIS LOOK AT HIM. THE FACE! THE BUCKET LOOKS SO GOOD! AXOLOTL!JEVIN IS BABBY 

[anthropophagay]

self care is making yourself your own birthday art💅

he made a cake! not sure anyone is gonna want to have any, though :/