Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation.
if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and it’s usually frowned upon, but they won’t see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.
Sorry this was not precisely most people’s idea of “nice.” Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.
The “mating in fungi” Wikipedia page is making my brain die, but I think how this works is that fungi that do sexual reproduction can have hundreds or thousands of different distinct “mating types” that are compatible with any type different than themselves. some fungi mate with fungi that are the SAME mating type as themselves though. and some fungi mate with themselves. and some of them do fully asexual reproduction, and a lot of them do multiple of these things.
imagine the discourse
thinking about the concept of Gender in humans too
You can not go Against Nature in the way that you Are because you are nature and nature is only itself. There is not a Rule about how living things can be. There are only living things being.
The words we use to describe Biological Realities are not boxes we are sticking nature in they are flashlights we are pointing at it
“come up with a definition for Woman that excludes all men” we can’t!!!!!! I was reading the book Weird Life by David Toomey and there is a section in it where it talks about the definition of life and how it may actually be impossible to come up with a complete definition for life. My biology textbook in high school had a list of eight criteria for life, but those criteria are full of caveats and exceptions. An obvious one is that life is capable of reproducing, but some things that appear to be alive (mules, for example) cannot reproduce
A lot of people already know that “meme” was coined in the 1970’s by Richard Dawkins, to describe like, a unit of information that is passed down and evolves like a living thing. But here’s the part I had never heard before. By the definition of life we mostly use today, that defines “life” by how it is subject to evolution, memes are not “like” life. They ARE life.
Anyway, my brain is breaking like. There is no Should Be there is only Is and what Is, is Basically Everything, because biology does legitimately whatever it can get away with
it just doesn’t make any damned SENSE. To take an observed pattern in living creatures as like a Moral Imperative like…imagine studying plants and being like this. what happens when you discover a plant that doesn’t photosynthesize are you going to call the cops???? are you going to cry about it???
I think we all know that they absolutely are going to call the cops and cry about it
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
fungi at Sassafras Gully, New South Wales, Australia, by David Noble
Not much fall color yet, but I found some crab apples and a pretty vine. It’s been raining so much, the fungus is out in force. Also featured here, a tree right out of Mordor. Look at the thorns on that thing. All in all, a nice walk if a bit damp.
