Day 5: Life

goofy goober

also i just realized that even the giant maybe-a-god shroom doesn't have a black stem. why does sozo get the anura's most specialest little mushroom and nobody else. licherally no other mushroom in anura has a black stem as far as i recalls

yEAH THAT was one of the things we mentioned in our discussion about it before!!! I suggested maybe it was an age thing (older mushrooms get white stems) but now that I'm thinking about it more clearly,

the menticide we can plant in our farms all have white stems. And those would be VERY young shrooms, so no that can't possibly be it

So. Uh. Yeah Sozo is Anura's specialist little guy I guess

(but yknow speaking of color fuckery. Look at the menticide. Now look at the Mushroomos for me:

Look at the. Spots. On menticide the spots are white. But the Mushroomos, who drop menticide upon being killed, and who are eaten by Sozo, somewhat implying that they themselves are Menticide, have. black spots. What is going on here.)

Alyx in Wonderland.

oh my what a perfectly good thunder. it would be a shame if something happened to him

Trip to Mushroom Land 10

The festival is over, time for us to hit the road again. From the depth, through the giant cave system we climb the Pleurotus Cyclopeus to the stratum of Crepidotus Matodons. Luckily, there's less mucus at this season, making our ascension easier.

/* Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook - Porte-mine sur carnet A6 */

Le festival est terminé, il est temps pour nous de reprendre notre route. Depuis les profondeurs, nous grimpons à travers le réseau des caves géantes les Pleurotes Cyclopéennes vers la strate des Mastodontes Crépidotes. Heureusement, le mucus est faible à cette période, rendant notre ascension plus aisée.

"Where mushrooms glow like stardust" for the fake fic game if you're still doing it, these have been so good and a lot of fun to read!

Ooooo thank you!! I’m glad you’re enjoying them! I’m having a lot of fun coming up with stuff and this title is *chefs kiss* 🥰

Where Mushrooms glow like Stardust

George loved to explore the Forest. Whenever he had the chance, he was out in the forest exploring its wonders and discovering its hidden secrets. He’d found so many wonderful things on his explorations. The odd ruined portal with golden apples or enchanted gear. Sometimes he found caves that led to dungeons filled with mobs and chests filled with jewels or the a rare music disc. His adventures often led to something new and exciting, and made each escapade a thrilling time.

So the very pretty glade filled with wild flowers and delicate mushrooms and tiny flowers had him at a stand still in awe. It was breath taking and shone in the soft glow of the afternoon sun. It was gorgeous and as George sat down leaned up against the old twisted oak tree, it’s no surprise he had fallen asleep in a matter of minutes.

When George awoke, it was to the sound of muffled voices. He blearily opened his eyes to the now moon lite glade, eyes searching for the voices but found no sign of anyone around.

But if he thought the glade look pretty during the day, then at night it was STUNNING! The glade had a soft magic to it and felt alive! But what really caught his eye, were the small mushrooms glowing before him.

Never before had he seen such a specimen of mushroom. The mushrooms shimmered and shined and like billions of tiny stars and were laid out in a small ring before him.

Wanting to get a better look, he moved towards them and was just about to touch the top of the closest one when suddenly a loud yell called out from behind him.

“DONT TOUCH THOSE!”

Whipping his head around, he was met face to face with two very small, and very pissed looking sprites. One was bright green and staring with a glare that looked like it could kill him on the spot, and to its right, a bright red and orange sprite that almost appeared to be on fire.

And said sprites were aiming what appeared to be, two very dangerous orbs of light straight at him.

Well that explained the voices.

I hope I did your title justice ❤️❤️❤️

the op of the giant video tweet sells shrooms. and what looks like sex pills? yknow so... giant video my ass

thinking about the equivalents to the three stats in hk

   You were deep in the Amazon rainforest. A recent graduate with your mycology doctorate, you were researching a special species of mushroom that only was said to grow deep in the jungle and only during the twenty four hours of the full moon during the autumn months. According to ancient texts found in the indigenous people's temples, the mushroom was used in fertility rituals and to signify a bountiful harvest during these months before the cold winter. You were curious about the cultural significance as well as the medicinal properties of this rare shroom. You didn't know what it looked like, only that it wasn't foraged for by the locals anymore and that it should look like a mushroom that you don't know.

   Hours of searching later, you begin to grow tired and wonder if you should give up and wait until the next full moon. The sun is starting to set when you finally spot something different. It's a mushroom you've never seen before, which is remarkable seeing as how you've seen them all. The cap is a pinky flesh color with an even pinker button on top. You giggle to yourself as you remark that it looks like a tit with a firm nipple poking out of it.

   Kneeling down, you take out your notebook and a pencil and begin to sketch it. 'I'm just drawing a boob.' You think to yourself. You stare in awe at this shroom as the sun continues to set. Taking your pencil, you poke the nipple-esque protrusion. Immediately this mushroom expells a giant cloud of spores right in your face. You gasp in surprise, sucking into your lungs an ample amount of the potent plume.

   You hack and cough, but its way too late for that, they're already lodged deep within you and entering your blood stream. Your eyes dialate and your body grows hot. You stand and lean against a tree, trying to catch your breath. You can feel your heatbeat in every nerve. Your cells are responding in a way they never have to the new foreign agent that has begun to take over you. Your heatbeat concentrates in your breasts as you feel your nipples grow almost painfully erect. Then you feel your breasts start to press against your soft white cotton top. You can feel the belts on your corset tighten to try and contain whatever is happening to you. Suddenly you shoot up four inches in height.

   Your sudden growth spurt elicits an a forced maon from your mouth. "Mmmph!" You cry out as a second wave hits you. The belts on your corset snap and suddenly you're six foot five with the seams of your jeans splitting. You feel your feet break free from your hiking boots as your toes sink into the damp rainforest earth.

   'This is starting to feel really good.' You think to yourself as you start to regain a semblance of your normal senses. Doing a body check, you can tell that you've grown. Your breasts have at least doubled in size and are now very hot and sensitive to the touch. You can feel a hunger deep in your womb as if ovulating on steroids.

   You attempt to sit down on the cool jungle floor, your now massive ass shredding the back of your jeans as you squat down. You pick up your pad and pen and continue to make notes about the shroom.

   'It is clear that this is how the Amazon women in the lore of this land gained their stature, and I can clearly feel why this particular fungus was revered for its fertility-inducing properties. I feel so full of life, yet I also feel the need to be bred full of babies.' Looking back at your notes, you are in shock that you actually wrote that down.

   You wonder to yourself how potent the flesh of the shroom might be, considering what just inhaling some of the spores had done to you. As the sun began to set, you walk back over to the shroom and delicately pluck it out of the ground before greedily shoving the whole thing into your mouth, quickly swallowing it without so much as trying to find out what it tastes like. Again the euphoria strikes your body. You feel its effects ten fold as you quickly gain four feet in height and explode out of your inadequate top. Sitting back down on the remainder of your ruined clothes, you bask in the feeling of your massive body and heightened strength and senses. You close your eyes and listen to the jungle around you, lamenting that you ate the only specimen that you had found on your journey, and now the only evidence was what it had done to you. When you open your eyes, the realize that the moon has peaked through the canopy. Your dialated eyes can see the jungle floor quite clearly now, and shimmering all across the damp dense expanse before you, you can see dozens more of the mushroom glowing against the moon, as if drinking in its power. 'It would have been so much easier to find at night.' You chastise yourself as you stand up again. You leave your ruined clothes behind as you pick up your foraging Satchel and start to delicately pick as many of the shrooms as you can carry, trying your best to put them in containers without them expelling more spores. 'This will be so great for my research.' You think to yourself. 'And it'll make a great snack for the walk back'. You giggle to yourself as you pop another three into your mouth.

totk cataclysm event wasnt just a great (but utterly missed) opportunity to change the map in techincally little ways that has drastic consequences both in stakes and in gameplay (like i mentioned before, flooding the gerudo desert would have meant devastating consequences for its ecosystem- like imagine little islands of sand still poking out, acting as a sort of last doomed refuge for sandseals- but also cahnged the entire gameplay of it, good chance to introduce some neat new ways to surf on water like a new ridable creature or an ice shield freezing a path while you surf on it, the gerudo being forced to save the city from drowing in various means or now living on the roofs, trying to adapt by building boats ect - also call back to older games?? since totk loves that so much ..-, vah naboris serving as the savest refuge being high above the water, even if non functional; similarly takign away ALL water from the zora region, gaving it all dry out would imemdiately turn into something way different and could mean death for the zora- forcing them to move to the lower parts of akkala for example- maybe vah ruta is still halfway functioning bc the faith the zora have to mipha, dorephan and sidon is, while not enough to keep it fully functional, but enough to generate some water so the most stubborn or brave zora set up around it like a last oasis; i know its somewhat done with death mountain but the gorons dont really suffer from it bc their only problem is a drugged rock that makes them mean and lazy ..- what about collapsing or exploding it, leaving a large crater that over the course of the game could start to grow with plant life since vulcanic earth is so fertile- some never seen before ones that was dormant in the lava and now that its cooled off is springing to life, which might seem good at first but for the area and its wildlife means loss of their habitat; the rito freezing over, but actually having to move, maybe into the tabantha canyon, building their new makeshift homes in between the walls of it- generally just switiching things around a bit would have done so much wihtout having to edit every last detail ((seriously tho, how did this game take so long given that botw took similar but they did that ENTIRE main map as detailed as it is AND made it all coherent with itself and its themes- im ranting again ..)

-but it ALSO would have been the perfect opportunity to introduce new weather types created by the sudden change in environment, somethign like a super strong wind that slows you when walking agaisnt and lets you jump much farther when with it- a darkness thing that clouds the world in utter darkness with only little light getting through anything that is caused by mushrooms from the udnerground invading the surface and their spores snuffs out all light (which could explain the weird darkness in the ruins from botw too!!), or just simply mist! making everything misty changes the entire feel of any environment drastically- you could make vertain enemies spawn only in certain weather conditions, lessening the repetive overuse of them; and that is only on the surface- what if the sky had sunbeams so strong it sets anything on fire if you dare to leave the shadows- to comabt it get a armor with a giant hat!! the underground could have been filled with different environments in the first place, but then of course thered be those dark spores of mushrooms, an entire forest you have to carefully travers other wise making them release their spores and make it all more difficult, glowy mushrooms, MORE glowy mushroms, theres so many weird ass shrooms IRL you could take inspo from!! maybe soemthing like a forest of kelp, long flowy plants obstructing view and making you anxious by any movement- there could be one thats a mimic or infected with miasma, slightly off color and its knobs are malice eyes that open only if it thinks you cant see it

(also for the idea of taking botws stuff and recontextualizing it, the guardians or shrines, now non fucntional, could be infected my miasma sometimes, maybe randomly to keep you guessing- an overgrown shrine suddenly lifting itself up with hands clawing at you when you get too close or do sth wrong to distrub it- similar with guardians tho the effect might be less since you know them as a threat already- or sth i mentioned in another post, a tower being used as a weapon by a gigatic miasma monster- the one in the gerudo region with the bottomless pit for example, perfect for an arena for you to run around in the spiral while its swinging at you etc etc)

JUST taking what botw had and mixing it up, expanding on it, even if technically little change, it could do so much but in the actual game death mountain and rito is the only ones that saw anything of a change like it, and it largely .. didnt change anything or was reversible easily, and had no actual consquences that meant anything, neither stakes nor environmental or narratively (the gerudo felt like it at first but its also largely reversible, its just kinda .. adding a bit of city)

i hhhhhhhhhhhhhh have so many thoughts still, i am just better at holding them back .... also dont wanna annoy lmao

Assets used for Lightcore Shroom Boom's Character page (skylanders.com, 2013/2014)

Neat stuff from today!

Left to right: giant white fawn lily from my spot that blooms early, a baby western fence lizard that ran up my leg because it mistook my black pants for a charred log (also I suspect it’s black because environmental pressure? It was living in a previously burned area), verpas!, some neat wholly birds nests, morel (not sure subspecies), stalked bonfire cup (new shroom!), my fave candy lichen stump, bonfire moss, some sort of bonfire loving cup shroom

🦋🍄🌱 tiny crystalflies and giant shrooms

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Trip to Mushroom Land 11

Between these giants, we feel minuscules. The majesty of this fungal world exposes to us every detail, every nook, every crack. Our perspective is now forever biased, and the next "regular" size mushroom we'll see will be much more "real" to us. An augmented vision…

/* Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook - Porte-mine sur carnet A6 */

Cheminant entre ces géants, nous nous sentons minuscules. La majesté de ce monde fongique expose à nos yeux chaque détail, chaque texture, chaque forme. Notre perspective en sera désormais biaisé, et le prochain champignon de taille "normale" que nous croiserons sera tellement plus "réel" à nos yeux. Une vision augmentée…

If u could create a new power up for a Mario game what would it be

The Combiner Cap.

I'm undecided on what the lore would be, but it's essentially a cap that– if you stuff almost any two powerups into it– combines them into a single powerup.

Sometimes the results are predictable: elephant fruit + fire flower turns you into an elephant that can shoot fire balls, mega mushroom + cat bell turns you into a giant cat, etc.

But other times, the results are something completely new: ice flower + fire flower gives you the ability to shoot firehose-strength jets of water. Elephant fruit + drill powerup allows you to break open massive chasms and create earthquakes. Tanuki suit + cloud shroom allows you to create cyclones that destroy enemies and powerful updrafts.

There are some combinations the hat rejects, of course. Any 1-up you collect immediately goes into your stash of lives and can't be used in the combiner cap. Superstars are so powerful they immediately negate any other powerups you attempt to combine it with. Mega mushrooms + mini mushrooms just end up neutralizing into your usual super mushroom.

You get the idea.

bones……. please …….. spare words for mushrooms? i cant find any in the lexicon …. also love the clanmew stuff :)

I wrote a whole guide and then Tungle crashed OTL

I'll have to make a whole entry on shrooms at some point but for now, I'm going to give you the most basic words for various mushrooms. Know these things;

Cats can taste mushrooms, they describe the flavor as wrale, savory.

This is because mushrooms are full of glutamate, an amino acid that tastes like meat.

Even some poisonous mushrooms taste good. It is very important to teach apprentices of all Clans about mushrooms they can and can't eat, and to never eat a mushroom they haven't identified.

ShadowClan, however, finds this more culturally important because they live in a wetland. Mushrooms are used in more of their cooking than the cuisine of other Clans, ergo, ShadowClan warriors generally know more than the cats of other Clans.

That said, you can actually expect Exampleclaw of any given Clan to generally know more about mushrooms than flowers, on average.

Fungus = Molf All things which grow in moist, dark environments, typically on rotting things. Mold, mushrooms, lichens... AND also moss. The cats aren't working with phylogeny here. Fuzzy mold = Gross moss.

Edible Fungus = Lelof Stuff you can eat. Chicken of the woods, blewit, bay bolete. Smells soooo good, really pungent, rich specimens are shredded, dried, and used as toppings. Yumyum!! Yellowfang's pe-dishonor title name, Shroompelt, was Lelofborrl.

Mushroom-shaped Mushroom = Skubi If you're not in ShadowClan, this is any fungus with the characteristic shaft and cap. ShadowClan will mock you relentlessly if you look at a stinkhorn or funeral bell and call it this, and call you Skubi for the rest of the night. It's a ShadowClanmew-exclusive word for an "undiscerning" or "know-nothing" person. Especially if you ARE a ShadowClan cat and you forget the right word. You say the wrong word ONCE and you see your clanmates' eyes go wide like they're about to get zoomies. Like, it's over. "I'm skubi-dubi-doo for the rest of the night i guess." -poor tawnypelt Even MORE confusing, Skubi Yaywi, "Bright/Intensely Colorful Mushroom-shaped-Mushroom," is ShadowClan slang for someone who is extremely attractive. ShadowClanmew is an ENTIRE dialect just dedicated to fucking with outsiders, honestly.

Polypore = Cholf Shelf-shaped mushrooms without stems that grow directly off trees. Usually pretty hard in texture and not very delicious at all, but often boiled as medicine.

Jelly = Oogaw BIZARRE, squishy, tarry shaped fungi that seem to "ooze" out of trees. Has all sorts of shapes-- cups, clusters, cakes, wavy bunches. Ends up as an "other" category of sorts when they have no idea what to call it. Examples of this is Jelly-Ear, King Alfred's Cakes, Witch's Butter, Poor Man's Licorice, etc.

Ball = Pulf Puffy, solid fungi that balloon right out of the ground. The most well-known of this type is the giant puffball, which gets as big as a cat and is used for eating, wound-dressing, or playing games with.