ship ask game 😁1 Who would be first to to bite down anc consume the flesh of the other, euphoric in the taste and the heft and the slide of the blood 2. who is the ant and who is the ophiocordyceps fungus? 3. who is the dog and who is the master? 4 when the roles are blurred or reversed who would be first to die and how? would it be by bulletwound? the phallic blade? strangulation? 5. Cocaine or Heroin? 6. who licks up the other’s cigarette ash? 7 who is julius caesar and who is brutus? 8. who is jesus and who is judas? 9. did jesus want it? did julius caesar know it was coming? are the betrayed ever proud? 10. who is irrumatus and who is irrumans? who is pedicatus and who is pedicans? 11. did they ever kiss and why not? 12 if they are two sides of the same coin who is heads and who is tails? 13. and if the coin was the holey dollar? 14. And if the dog bit back? 15 and if the dog bit back? 16 and if the dog bit back? 17 and if the dog bit back? 18 and if the dog bit back? 19 and if the dog bit back? 20. Who buys the other flowers?🥰

Cordyceps fungus infects tarantula

On Wither Roses

I think wither roses function like cordyceps.

For those of you that don't know, cordyceps is this mushroom here:

[Image ID: A clump of bright orange mushrooms being held up, against a foresty background. End ID]

Certain strains of it infect insects' bodies, threading mycelium through their nervous systems, replacing their muscle tissue with its own, flooding their brains with chemicals, and turning them into zombies to more optimally spread. In leafcutter ants, it makes them clamp onto a leaf above their anthill before the fruiting bodies sprout, raining spores down upon their brethren.

Incidentally, this is what the zombie condition in The Last of Us is based on.

Anyways.

[Image ID: A pixelated black rose from Minecraft, planted on magma, with lava in the background. End ID]

We get wither roses from the Wither killing things, and the Wither attacks any mob, hostile or passive, in its line of sight. Then the Wither itself is made of three Wither Skeleton skulls, plus soul sand.

Without cheating to make Potions/Arrows of Decay, there are only four ways to get the Wither effect—a direct attack by the Wither, direct contact with Wither Skeletons, direct contact with a wither rose, or eating a suspicious stew made with a wither rose. Furthermore, wither roses are still dropped when /gamerule doMobLoot is set to false, and fall as items when they have nowhere valid to plant; you can't avoid it happening, no matter what you do to influence the world.

So my theory is this: Wither Skeletons function the way they do, going towards the player rigidly and inflicting the Wither effect, because they're carriers of the wither rose's infestation. They're skeletons of the briar's former victims, repurposed and puppeted to find it better planting grounds somewhere in the Nether.

When you create the Wither, you're weaponizing that infestation. You're taking an infected host, giving the rose the fuel it needs via soul sand to not only survive, but thrive, and with the structure you make, you then give it everything it needs to start replanting itself.

The Wither isn't hostile out of malice. It's hostile out of survival—just not its own.

Infected Mirror

Have you seen The Last of Us yet?

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Posting this for Funguary! It's a drummer!

Bonus:

Since we're talking cordyceps, I figure I should upload these old "fairytaurs" from a while back, too!

An example of insect-attacking fungus

These photos were taken by a family member. Parasitic fungi, from what I’ve found in this area, usually attack flies, spiders, and moths. These fungi often has a very strange affect on these insects. Giving them a melted appearance.

Fungi: Unidentified, family Cordycipitaceae

host: genus Asota

16/06/22

New year new sona baby 😎🐝

some oc things i drew recently, redesigns mainly

Another old adoptable (maybe from 2020?) with a new custom pre-evolution for @smolebleat! Thank you again for your support <3

For the Umbreon/Parasect fusion design (right), I took the concept of the cordyceps fungus and went darker with it- really emphasizing the zombified, overgrown, and deteriorating host body- and added various other types of fungi and molds to increase visual interest. There are things I would change if I were making this adopt today, but I still like it a lot!

I wanted to keep things a bit simpler with the Eevee/Paras pre-evolution (left). You can see in the eyes that something is going on in their mind, but for the most part, the spores and mushrooms on its body are only superficial, and are not influencing their host (…yet).

Please consider sharing my art if you like it, thank you! My commission details and available pokemon adoptables are in my pinned post. Please PM me if interested!

cordyceps-infected dragonborn eidolon :D

When your tummy hurts and you are Not Being Brave About It.

Rudoe is the leader of the Creed of the Colony... Unfortunately a false prophet has been literally whispering in his brain. 

The cult/leader needed a little more love so I tweeked the designs. 

TW body horror

I’m still unsatisfied with the regular form of this robot. I want it to be more unnerving and have a style of entertainment. idk horrors hard.

They’re supposed to be based off of cordyceps and electric ants.

I do have a ideas that i like for the body horror but advise is still welcomed.

Thinking of a AU Map idea... A bit hesitant on it since, while being canon compliant, it has like, a few OCs of my own...

Warrior Cats, but bugs. It's like a cordyceps situation, where normal cats are insect-cats and the Dark Forest are parasite/fungi-cats and uhh lots of body horror anddd Idk does it seem appealing at all??

It'd probably be a "you can add your own OC as an insect/parasite in the bg" type of Map

Wouldn't want to work ages for only 2 people to join, or something, so would anyone be interested if it came out like next month or so, anyone at all

Here's some brief concept/character art of what I'm thinking of so far:

Sorry I thought it'd be obvious, by canon-complaint, I mean there will be canon characters present, like Brokenstar, Clawface, Stumpytail, Tangleburr, Deerfoot, Blackstar and Littlecloud, to name a few.

I will make references for them if this gets any kind of recognition

Moros: OH! So you don't really want ME you just want ONE side of me. You only want me when I'm fun and flirty and pin you against trees wanting to FUCK ME. But what if I'm depressed, or angry, or having an episode or isolating myself or tell you I have a BREEDING KINK!

Eli: I-

Moros: Yeah!

Parasitic Fungi on Queens

Found these two on opposite sides of the tree. I guess these queens just got unlucky.

Parasite - Unidentified, family Cordycipitaceae

Host - Oecophylla smaragdina

22/02/23