#lichen memes

[mossinformed]

I made my family pause Jurassic park bc there were cool lichens

[botanizing]

tfw every specimen you thought was Caloplaca saxicola is just Rusavskia elegans.

(hi I'm alive and I did get into grad school which is why I've been neglecting this blog and will probably continue to do so. but please enjoy this image it took forever to make lmao)

[liches-covered-in-lich]

All I do is post shitposts that only me and my friends understand

@ego-osbourne 's velehk

@kururu666 's skira

my lorelei :]

@mellowstarscape 's hera

@ego-osbourne 's caspian

@the-troll-of-the-bridge 's kyn

and molag bal

[pluralquotebook]

"respect the moots or get the shoot"

-a pissed off lichen

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[pizza-cake-house]

hmm. what's in there. propably not diamonds that's for sure.

[stan-actias-luna]

Shall I liken thee to a symbiotic relationship between a fungus, an alga, and sometimes cyanobacteria?

[jainenkept]

iggy: i think your abilities sound quite useful.

morrigan: oh? you're simply full of surprises, little man, aren't you?

iggy: :)

morrigan: :)

[sp00ky-frog]

Let me join, I’m begging you

[letsjustbecatsok]

Image source Michael Nordeman, Feb 10 2019. @michaelnordeman and michaelnordeman.se

[ID: A meme composed of two photos. On the left is the full photo, captioned “the photo:”. It shows a long-tailed tit- a small, fluffy bird- perched on a branch with some lichen. On the right is the edited photo, captioned “what I see:” The bird has been edited out and the photo is cropped, so that only the lichens on the branch are shown. End ID]

[robotlyra]

Scavengers Reign is like the sci fi version of that wizard war meme

"Shit man, this Planet Vesta is fucked. I just saw a guy go look for potable water, and he ran into a giant flower in colors unknown to humanity which immediately degloved him when it sensed the CO2 in his breath and used his skin as the seedbed for its progeny. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass has a knife and an empty flare gun. I think I just heard a lichen speaking in the voice of my long dead father telling me to step into a car-sized pitcher plant so it can take all the sodium from my body. I gotta get the fuck outta here."

[mossinformed]

We are best friends. We have a joint society, the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS), aka Understudied Botany Bros Society since 1898 🤝 .

Please use these as signs of appreciation on the posts of your Bryologist/Lichenologist friends (or if you are particularly interested in one or the other. Hobbyists my beloved)

[did-you-meme]

[botanyshitposts]

if by earliest living things on land you're referring to Retallack's interpretation of the Ediacaran fauna, literally every palaeontologist and sedimentologist disagrees with him lol

not gonna lie i was talking about prototaxites, but looking at the wikipedia page that doesn't seem to be confirmed as a lichen at all like i thought it was, so i may have spread fake lichen news... ancient lichens are on my list of stuff to research for the lichen iceberg deconstruction video i've been working on, if it ever gets finished, so i can put in a correction there.

if anybody has papers on prehistoric lichens either confirming or denying the statement i put on the lichen iceberg meme. please recommend it to me. i can't go on spreading potential lichen falsehoods on the internet like this

[liches-covered-in-lich]

i'm not sure if the ask is gonna accept the link so for the og of that one ultrakill video look up "She's pretty but, my type is men" on youtube and it's this one :)

Oh shit thanks!!!!

Edit: it's beautiful. I've watched this video over a hundred times now

[kitab00m101]

Bit of an odd request, but can someone please find me a picture of Mumbo Jumbo holding lichen?

Ive got a meme to make lol

(Edit: Can someone possibly photoshop me of picture of our dear Mumby Jumby with lichen in his hand?)

[pearlcatcher-problems]

a few finished projects that I've been vibing with a lot! and their bonus lore rambles under the cut to keep things a little more trim ; w;

» the wives [ Padparadscha | Bunanuhnanuh ]

antique jaguar ᛜ ginger breakup ᛜ terracotta koi bronze piebald ᛜ white basic ᛜ terracotta koi

» the twins [ Naberius | custard ]

stone piebald ᛜ white basic ᛜ spruce koi tarnish pharaoh ᛜ white basic ᛜ brown basic

» acolyte goblin ambassador [ moss ]

white basic ᛜ obsidian paint ᛜ hickory koi

I swear I'm normal about naming dragons-- I'll have serious names alongside dumb meme ones and treat them equally as seriously as characters. I swear, it makes sense in my lair. I promise.

» the wives [ Padparadscha | Bunanuhnanuh ]

Pad and Bun are wives, with Bun being the elegant airhead and Pad being the gruff behemoth. Pad is near twice Bun's size and tends to be more protective/defensive than the wildclaw is. Her pearl tends to stay with Bun when not in her pearl pouch, who keeps it in one of her silk scarves padded with dry moss and lavender sprigs.

The two of them are residing in the Bazaar, currently travelling between there and the Oasis to finalise some trade agreements before the encampments decide to make proper paths between them. While Bun is more than happy to keep the conversation for the two of them, Pad is just.... always listening. The pearlcatcher beast somehow always seems to know what is going on and can quickly get the answer to the most obscure questions if given enough time to think. This includes knowledge from any of their other outposts, somehow able to just.... know. ( Behind the scenes, she's actually a fraction of a hydra, and despite them being split, they are still able to communicate telepathically with each other, resulting in easy relay of information between allied outposts nearly instantly but the only one who controls/knows of this is Quail. )

Bun used to be part of the Roost outpost, which is why her namesake is so strange compared to the desert-dwellers. She's kept her name, although able to change it any time given how Roost customs are, and finds some joy in how hers and Pad's mirror each other in length. Those close to her may call her Bun or Bana, although Pad tends to call her Sprig, Sweetbean, and other soft little nicknames. When relaxing, Pad often gnaws on Bun's horns when cuddling to keep her tusks in check, something Bun doesn't mind as her horns constantly grow regardless.

» the twins [ Naberius | custard ]

The youngest of the Acolytes ( a subterranean clan that only emerges for three weeks a year and spends the rest of the year worshiping the Solstice trio I / II / III and tunnelling. More Info on them is heeeeeere! ) They have the same affliction post-hatchling that ogi and his younger sibling do, where they just haven't progressed further physically or mentally. They have a lot of inherent volatile magics because of what they are, but they can't always act on it in the way they want due to whatever is stunting them. This leaves the two a little hard to predict, scrapping as often as they'd play, all while leaving arcs of fulgurite along the tunnels from their warring elements.

They are often underfoot, eager to help tunnelling efforts and harvesting lichen, but are easy to tire out and will just nap wherever they run out of energy. It's not uncommon to find both of them blocking a tunnel because they need a quick powernap. Good luck moving them.

Naberius and custard's energy came from an old elemental, also named Naberius, who decayed on the Acolyte border after leaving the bounds of the Oasis. The two spawned from his fall and have many of his powers, but with the stunt and divide between them, it is just a grain of what it used to be. Sezha knew what they grew from, and decided to keep Naberius' name for one as a way to honour his fall, while casket was allowed to name the other, resulting in the mock-roost name: custard.

» acolyte goblin ambassador [ moss ]

Moss is the 'ambassador' for the Acolytes when they're out of the ground, or when dealing with people who come to 'trade' ( drop gifts and supplies, they don't actually want anything from the Acolytes in exchange and are just encouraged to do so by Quail and repaid for it in other ways ) at the outposts' entrance during their submerged seasons. She loves the idea of bartering and making a trade, only really knowing how trade works from her few visits to the Oasis grounds and seeing the elementals make pacts.

When trading, she wears The Hat. The hat is a combination of a few hats she's traded for over the years, worn around the edges and lovingly cared for. She often puts feathers, gemstones, or dried flowers tucked into the brim for flair, and will outright refuse to accept offers from other outposts if she can't get her claws on her hat at that time. All business MUST be done with the hat.

When not being Very Important, she spends most of her time tunnelling and setting up the lighting system in the deeper section of the lair. The Acolytes currently use a lighting method that leeches off the ley lines beneath them, giving them an easy method to track the health of the flow of magic and know when their worship is required. These free-floating orbs can be placed at any area of the lair as long as they're still connected to the earth, and so often will be rooted to the walls with vining plants from handsome's farm.