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fatehbaz · 2 years

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Ghosts remind us that we live in an impossible present -- a time of rupture, a world haunted with the threat of extinction. Deep histories tumble in unruly graves that are bulldozed into gardens of Progress. [...] Ghosts, too, are weeds that whisper tales of the many pasts and yet-to-comes that surround us. [...] Worlds have ended many times before. Endings come with the death of a leaf, [...] the death of a friendship, the death of small promises and small stories. [...] Whereas Progress trained us to keep moving forward, to look up to an apex at the end of a horizon, ghosts show us multiple unruly temporalities. [...]

Some kinds of lives stretch beyond our ken, and for us, they also offer a ghostly radiance.

The lichen that grows on tombstones is one example.

Every autumn, mycologist Anne Pringle goes to the Petersham Cemetery near Boston to trace the outline of individual lichens, watching their growth on the gravestones of local residents and dignitaries. They grow slowly, and sometimes some disappear. Some are probably the same individuals as those that first found a place to settle when those dignitaries died centuries ago.

For fleeting creatures such as ourselves, lichens are more-than-ghosts of the past and the yet-to-come.

Lichens are symbiotic assemblages of species: filamentous fungi and photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. Lichens are themselves a kind of landscape [...]. Many filamentous fungi are potentially immortal. This does not mean they cannot be killed [...]. Until cut off by injury, they spread in networks of continually renewed filaments. When we notice their tempo, rather than impose ours, they open us to the possibility of a different kind of livability.

Many kinds of time -- of bacteria, fungi, algae, humans, and Western colonialism -- meet on the gravestones of Petersham. The ghosts of multispecies landscapes disturb our conventional sense of time, where we measure and manage one thing leading to another. [...]

These temporal feats alert us that the time of modernity is not the only kind of time, and that our metronomic synchrony is not the only time that matters.

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Text by: Elaine Gan, Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, and Nils Burbandt. “Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene.” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. 2017.

#haunted #more on lichen #halloween #i guess

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mycoblogg · 7 months

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Whats the difference between lichen, moss, mould and mushrooms if they're all fungus? Aren't they all the same sorta thing?

so, interestingly, all of these groups are very different !! instead of naming the differences, let me quickly explain what exactly these organisms are.

lichen :

lichens are symbiotic organisms, meaning they are in themselves the product of a relationship between different organisms. to simplify it, lichens are big part fungus, & smaller part algae (protista) or cyanobacteria (monera). these different forms of life together create lichen, which grows on trees, rocks, leaves, mosses & sometimes other lichens !! to read more about lichens, check out @/lichenaday's blog :-)

moss :

mosses are actually not fungi at all !! they are small, flowerless plants. they grow on trees & in soil. :-)

mould :

mould is a type of structure that fungi can form - it is entirely fungal. it reproduces through airborne spores :-) there are many different types of mould ; some are toxic, some are used medicinally, & some are saprotrophs. (note : slime moulds & water moulds are unrelated to fungal moulds !!)

mushrooms :

so, lots of people think mushrooms are a species of fungus, but they are not. "mushroom" refers to the fruiting body of a fungus ; what a mushroom is to a fungus is comparable to what a flower is to a tree - the part that reproduces !! not all fungi produce mushrooms (e.g. moulds, which do not have fruiting bodies as the entire organism is able to release spores). there are currently only 14 000 discovered fungi that produce mushrooms !! more fungi that don't produce mushrooms include mildew, yeast & lichen.

so, yes !! they're all quite different in structure, cells & function in the ecosystem.

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powdermelonkeg · 2 years

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Okay but given that you can make alcohol from just about any plant, a world built around Minecraft could have SUCH a liquor cabinet.

You’ve got your basics, the potato and wheat vodka, gin, whiskey, then rum from sugarcane or beet sugar if you’re feeling a little adventurous.

Then you’ve got the fancier things. Dandelion and melon wine, spike vodka, pumpkin liqueur, applejack. Zhuyeqing jiu and chocolate liquor if you REALLY want to go for the cool stuff.

You’ve got mead and all kinds of moonshine, everything from carrots to kelp to sawdust brandy if you live out in the Badlands. Sunflower and rose spirits, lilac wine, even milk liquor and advocaat if you want to deviate from plants a bit.

But then you’ve got the plants that don’t exist in our sphere.

Chorus liqueur, dripleaf absinthe, glowberry champagne and sweet berry wine, glow lichen beer and crème de spore blossom, golden apple cider, glistering cordial. For the truly danger-seeking, wither rose lanique.

#minecraft #worldbuilding #alcohol tw #that's not even going into the FLAVORS you can add!!!#mushrooms and shroomlights in beer #nether wart maybe as a common flavoring #all kinds of cocktails and stuff #you've got different woods for barrels too #and allium is technically onion so #that's a WHOLE new can of flavors there #fun fact as i was researching this i found out there's an alcohol made from carrots that's just called C #we should do more with carrots seriously #also also lichens were used to make beer historically!#it was a brief stint but it's possible #also sawdust brandy. that's actually from an old loz project #i was trying to look up what kinds of alcohol would be possible in a decaying world like lorule #and sawdust brandy was up there #edit: if people are seeing this version where kefir is replaced #yes kefir is (minorly) alcoholic #you can fail a dui test if you have enough of it #in the same sense that poppy seed muffins can make you fail an opium test #if your tolerance is super low you CAN get buzzed off it #however #I put it on the list initially to have something milk-based for alcohol #it was originally kumis which is stronger #but it’s mare milk and you can’t get milk from horses in minecraft #I have since replaced it with milk liquor because 1. lithuania somehow has done it #and 2. china made vodka out of milk???????#the site called it lai jiu but I can’t find anywhere else calling it that #so milk liquor it is!

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firelightfoxes · 10 months

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thing!!! with stick legs!!!!!!!

#lichen #11 months #went swimming yesterday :)#i am SO glad that she likes water #she seems to enjoy it more each time i take her to swim

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thelostmoongazer · 1 year

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Hm. i think. i will post my new gay robot oc.

His name is Lichen. he's a 15,000+ year old robot that lives in the woods like some kind of ethereal ancient forest wizard but i assure you he's just a fucking guy (that can kill you)

#moon art #moon ocs #lichen (oc)#okay not entirely just some guy more like an assistance bot made military bot that still thinks hes on duty #and he doesnt know that the humans hes been protecting this whole time have been extinct for a millenia #but its chill

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alllelements · 4 months

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finished my moss and lichen embroidery peace! The mouse skeleton in the center is apparently less recognizable than I thought but yeah it's a mouse skeleton.

#not 100% happy with the result but I'll probably do more and learn in the process #this was kinda a solarpunk idea for a room in my parents house that doesn't get any light and can't have any plants #embroidery #alllel posts #lichen #moss #art

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starkat-cosmickitty · 6 months

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ohh,hh i’m so abnormal

he’s already huge but . makes it worse

#yeahhh i’m doing it #this game was already so g/t-ed up but im adding more becuase yeah #anyway yeah 👍 he’s figuring out his powers #pinkmatter is hard to get adjusted to #i do a drawings #just shapes and beats #jsab #jsab fanart #jsab blixer #jsab boss #jsab lichen #jsab lycanthropy #jsab perrenial au #jsab au #g/t #jsab g/t

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gothvis · 2 months

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#more green :)#i love green #trees #lichen #moss #fungus #algae

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c-kiddo · 1 year

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i need 2 go into critical role universe and show caduceus movie on a laptop in bed (with extremely comfy back support pillow) and also ibuprofen and fidget spinner and ricecooker and taking photos of bug and moss on a phone . .. . ..

#kiddo say #like how my granny takes photos of lichen n sends them 2 me :')#was going to try n be cool n casual and just post unfinished sketch but im scared so i shouldnt force myeslf #but also itd be nice to be able to post art more casually .. . i do not know

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goldkirk · 6 months

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