#my dog fungus

[joe-spookyy]

matthew | he/him (any pronouns are ok) | evil fag

hi i’m matty. short for matthew long for matt. i post and i reblog and i answer asks and dms and i love to yap about anything and everything always. and i’m down to be mutuals!

i post: horror (reanimator american werewolf in london the lost boys the thing jaws my beloved) and practical effects and star wars (luke skywalker just like me) and star trek and comic hawkeye (clint just like me) and the x men (iceman and cyclops just like me) and rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead and x-files and buffy the vampire the slayer (oz JUST like me and xander pretty similar to me) and indiana jones and (lego) batman and early universal monster movies and IT (mostly the book and miniseries but eddie just like me) and music especially car seat headrest (but also check out my band one strange dog we’re on spotify). and i like joy and happiness and glee and good things and wonder.

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[serpentface]

What exactly are living gods in the blightseed universe?

Ok here's the (DANGEROUSLY vestigial at this point) Meta Deeplore:

There is a material form of energy that is utilized by biological bodies essentially as an animating force. This IS the vaguely defined, extremely ambiguous magic in the setting. It is what produces the actual experience of Consciousness and can be basically considered 1:1 with conscious experience. All life utilizes this energy (whether actually conscious life in the traditional sense or not).

It cannot be created or destroyed, and rather follows pathways of dispersal between one material plane and a parallel plane. This parallel plane is 'the ether' 'the dreamlands' etc, and has its own matter. Discrete entities from the dreamlands are essentially formed as a byproduct of consciousness and, when interacted with, are deeply susceptible to the influence of conscious Thought (they are essentially matter organized By consciousness and can be reorganized by consciousness)

These are the entities that can become living gods. Dreamlands fauna occasionally slips into prime material reality, at which point they are directly under the influence of consciousness and can be transformed. Dreamlands fauna in of itself is not directly perceivable but produces a sense of Presence, like the feeling of being watched when alone in the wilderness, a 'third man effect', a sense of inexplicable awe or fear, seeing shadows from the corner of your eye, etc. The combination of their tangible effects and their susceptibility to consciousness creates a self-reinforcing cycle that produces living gods.

IE: if one is on a forest and people experience the sensation of its presence, belief that there is some entity there may develop. This will follow the lines of the cultural worldview- say there are already beliefs in spectral hounds that encounter travelers at night, it might be interpreted as a location-specific hound, given a name and identity through stories. This in turn causes the dreamlands fauna to physically embody that form and the assumed qualities, and people will start having absolute materially real encounters with it, thus reinforcing the initial beliefs that created it and generating new elements of the mythology. This is what a living god is.

They need persistent, localized, and coherent beliefs to hold their forms. If a village creates a living god and is then wiped out in a disaster, the god will gradually lose its form and return to its initial state of a sense of Presence. This is also a limiting factor on the 'size' and power of a living god, if an entire religion formed around it and became a widespread phenomena, the living god itself cannot 'keep up'. It is sustained on direct and localized interactions, so belief becoming widely dispersed (especially if the localized belief is lost) will cause it to gradually become less discrete. The effect of this property is that living gods are almost always minor deities or spirits tied to a specific location by a specific nearby culture. A lot of deities in larger religions may have once had a living god component that is now indiscrete.

The living god of the Ur-tree is an unusual exception in that it was created over millennia, basically by the survival instincts of the Plants it interacts with, and has held its form over hundreds of millions of years due to this being ubiquitous and un-susceptible to cultural change. The only thing that could 'kill it' is if its forest was entirely destroyed.

So 99% of living gods can be described as thoughtforms created by the process of folkloric/religious development. They are created BY people and not the other way around, and nothing about their nature confirms or denies the existence of other deities or etc.

And yeah I'm going to be 100% real I am REALLY tempted to dump even this extremely ambiguous magical element like it is soooooooooooooooo fucking NOT important to the setting at this point. I've kind of allowed 'literal god entities created by mortal belief' to be just a tiny part of the world's fabric by their nature, like it works within the worldbuilding for such a hugely significant concept to ultimately be insignificant in the overall framework, so I COULD just Leave It but idk. If it were not for me wanting to still have my big fucking god tree and a talking dog as an actual character it would be out of here soooo fast..........

[syunkiss]

those bitches slaying the bow cut zamn

[1lizard-onemonkey]

Alright, found out that Death Angels do use what they kill to fertilize the fungus

Great

The aliens know how to farm

But what'll happen once they kill everything and can't fertilize the fungus

Well, it can still grow, just without help, the fungus was on the asteroids for as long as the Death Angels

They probably killed immediately once they landed for the purpose of getting people fertilizer right away, if not to get rid of noise

But Frodo was eating the fungus too!

What's gonna happen to him?

What's it gonna do?

[a-birdbrain]

i went hiking today for my stupid mental health

plus the dogs got exercise which is great

saw some freaky mushrooms hell yeah

the dogs got really icky swamp monsters

everyone had a great time yaaaaay

then i got back, and its been 6 hours . i realized, i lost my fucking earbuds in the woods

[pawbeanies]

made a funny post abt my isopods on my insta because they are!! comfy in their environment and are coming out more and not hiding when they see me (their prince and lord and savior who puts yumy treats in their enclosure) (this is the most positively exciting thing that's happened to me in the past two years)

getting a like on the thing. from my friends who are leading exponentially more interesting lives and traveling the world and pursuing their dreams and falling in love and passing their boards and becoming Full Fledged Successful Adults

[oh-good]

Buster hasn't wanted any of the other pets near him today so Fungus had to wait for him to fall asleep to get his cuddles in

[defoozor]

This is Fungus, they’re a changeling. And they can be anything they wanna be :}

[blunderpuff]

oh so now the birds are eating the <25 cherries i've got growing on my tiny tree

literally everything i've planted in this fucking garden has either died on its own or has been killed by birds/bugs

[vampyroteuthid]

ohhhh my god. beautiful freeloader in the succulent pot

[joe-spookyy]

i miss my stupid dog fungus

[locallostsoul]

Found another shroomie!

[asthevermincrawls]

11.01.23, 2:10 PM

[kcdrummergirl]

Patiently waiting for Saturday.

[giantkillerjack]

I've decided to watch The Last of Us in the same way I rewatch John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), which means I'm only watching the parts with the cool special effects and skipping literally everything else!

Like, I'm sure all of the grayish beige misery that makes up the rest of the show is quite well done, but I don't wanna see it.

The main character of the show I am watching is gonna be the fungus. Anything that is not the fungus is of no consequence to the plot line I am following. Fungus don't care if little girl dies. Fungus gotta fung! And fung it shall!!

The plot line I am following, by the way, is "me, Jack, getting better at horror art and monster design, which means if I like these effects enough I will go back through every episode and screenshot literally ALL the frames I liked and then arrange the best 40 or so on a grid in my art program so I can color correct them for optimal tracing and art study. And also sometimes Pedro Pascal is in my periphery lookin' cute." - It's one of my favorite shows!!! Small fandom tho.

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

I would draw fields of mistria fanart but my art style is simply not as cute as the game style. I cannot do 90s anime style I just can't. Plus I'd rather play it than draw it sorryyyyy

Maybe I'll try to draw my farmer tho at some point he's cuuuuuute (I also set it to all pronouns as a little test run to see if I wanna anything other than he/him ever, since I've figured out I'm bi/multi gender)