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[systimming]

Spore!Mushroom board! For @woopersuper

- Mod Primarina + Mod Spot.

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[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

For your consideration:

The Faces are fungal colonies living on locomotives (they like the heat from them) that took on some human DNA. The first engine to have a face had it accidentally, having had a worker's hair fall on the colony while it was growing on some engine in the 1820s, but by the 1840s samples of this new species, each one being given genetic information from a few new people to hopefully grow unique identities on each engine, were being kept in tins to paint on smokebox doors for their utility in being a third set of eyes. They can also grow around their boilers to reach their controls and have some level of autonomy, but if that's cut down it doesn't kill the colony.

These colonies can swivel around their doors, age differently from humans, and if the original door is damaged beyond repair or is to be scrapped, can transfer over to a similarly sized door.

Which does mean Henry's smokebox door was laying on top of a Stanier smokebox door as a large, grayish peach, vaguely twenty-something face (the actual Henry himself) slid like a melty cheese in folds off the Ivatt/Gresley-built door, the original engine being scrapped but Henry himself moving on to a new, for lack of a better term, host.

I'm having complicated feelings about this one. Top marks for creativity, of course. I think I want to not hear more.

[starsweets]

two commissions for friends i got done during the sale!! (be sure to click on the images, tumblr really hates cropping longer ones lol) these are for @lame-4-u and @aerosolar respectively. my commissions are always open!

reblogs are appreciated!

[gopsnippers]

more scratch posting, yum

[hairscare]

new resident for sleepy brook i came up with last night. shes a fungus thats taken over a human body like a zombie-ant but instead of being scary she just wants to do fall crafts and read magazines and be a #girl

[likeadog]

can u infodump about ergotism to me I don't understand the joke and know you're more interesting than google

ok so basically ergotism (st anthonys fire) is the result of an infection by ergot, a type of fungus that looooves 2 grow on grain and especially rye, which is problematic bc rye for a long time was the best crop to survive over a soggy winter.

it forms these strange purple sclerotium on the wheat (although some disguise themselves as ones that look more like seeds, making it harder to find) which can be accidentally ground in with the wheat if not properly filtered. they have an insane variety of alkaloids that give them their toxicity and while about 50% of them are cooked out, its more than enough to make you sick!

ergotism takes two forms: gangrenous and convulsive. convulsive is the most famous type: it causes convulsions, hallucinations, delirium, etc, but the gangrenous is the most common because ergot is actually used to make medications for migraines and other conditions, and the purified alkaloids only really cause the gangrenous type. you have to od for this tho

gangrenous as the name suggests causes vasodilation in extremities that cause gangrene to develop. you also get full body sores and gastrointestinal distress

the alkaloids in ergotism are also closely related to LSD, hence the hallucinogenic effects. it can also cause euphoria-- but it's really not worth the risk

theres a popular theory that it may be responsible for the salem witch trial hysteria, but ergotism has been known for hundreds of years in western europe, so some say its unlikely they wouldnt recognize it. then again, some argue that it may have been a different type of ergot that would have different alkaloid combinations, so who knows!

[chocolatechipkraken]

Some dudes for Funguary!

[sevenofreds]

The fungi are flourishing today

This last one is my personal favorite just LOOK AT THIS BIG BOI

[muckyz]

CORDYCEPS SOLDIER

[diamondnokouzai]

so i think my cough came about bc of fungus/mold because my dorm sink is full of mold and vinegar wont kill it, ive scrubbed it 6 times this year. so i think theres fungus in my lungs and idk if thats a reasonable fear or not.

[lichenaday]

Collemopsidium foveolatum

Yep, we put some trypophobia on your trypophobia, in case that wasn't enough trypophobia for you. C. foveolatum is a crustose lichen that grows embedded in the shells of barnacles, limpets, and bivalves which hang out just above the average tide level. It has a thin, inconspicuous, beige or gray thallus dotted with crater-like, black perithecia. It has a cyanobacterial photobiont which is what allows it to survive in such a constantly wet environment. C. foveolatum might be widespread but may also be substrate/location specific, but more work is needed to fully understand this cryptic and variable genus. It still just blows my mind that these guys exist. There are lichens living in the driest deserts, and there are lichens living half submerged in the sea. They've got the range.

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[phoebepheebsphibs]

You’ve been spore’d!!

(No pressure to respond!)

(The way I screamed with excitement when I saw this ask)

Donnie's biggest fear....

It's gonna get spoopy

SPOOPERS

Anyways uh spoiler alert i guess teehee

@tmntaucompetition @boots-with-the-fur-club

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[hirochuu]

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Short but somehow VERY eventful moon this time! Sorry to any Cinnamonpaw fans out there </3

[lionfloss]

Cordyceps fungus infects tarantula

[absolutewifey]

Firstly here's a dog tax for everyone:

And here's Mold Jar!

I topped off the water the day before yesterday and the dusty mold from the pomegranate is suspended in the water. Topped it off with snow as a form of enrichment and even made some mini snowmen for it to talk to while I chase my dog around and try not to slip and fall in the cold mud underneath the 1" of picking snow we got last night.

I have a pet mold colony that I grew from rice and my own spit. I'm either going to find penicillin v.1.0.2 or contract a New Illness. I might luck out and find a fucked up strain of yeast! Or because I used rice as my starting starch maybe a strain of koji??? The possibilities are endless!

Molds and Fungi are amazing and we have them to thank for how plant and animals life on our planet grew and developed over Earth's many eons.

Anyway all this to say I found a perfectly rotted pomegranate and added it to my rice jar. So that'll be fun to see what happens!

By perfectly rotted I mean juuuust enough of the husk was damaged as to allow airflow to all the seeds and there was no sign of any animal life on it, only fungal. I have fruit flie flare ups pretty often but somehow no sign of them on this particular enigma of rotted fruit.