That guy probably knows a lot about mushrooms, talking like that.

So mushrooms are Vegan Cthulhu's boners?

This reminds me that I'm writing a story about a witch and one of the first things that happens is that she pisses off the mushrooms and they tell the trees not to talk to her. I should get back to that.

I'm taking a myco class rn and it's amazing. Candida aurus is scary tho

in the air, too; we live in an ocean of spores.

Ok, that's sweet, but don't google 'zombie funghi'. Really, just don't. Like, ever.

People should look up Paul Stamets. Dude is doing amazing things in the field of mycology and showing the power of mushrooms!

The way so many of them look like genitals makes this so much better

Fungi confuse me. I can't figure out what they are. I think the fact that I thought they were plants my whole life and then it turns out they aren't just broke me lol.

Yeah, I saw that X-files episode too.

So we're eating leviathon reproductive organs? Sexy

I was speaking to a guy that looks after an ancient forest and he was explaining the fungi that allow the trees to communicate and it was fascinating but I thought he might be pulling my leg, so I came home and read everything, it's fascinating.

Mushrooms are so fucking cool, and they taste great too.

Bruh

Only kinda related but if anyone wants a good fantasy book with this kind of energy and theme, Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker is the way to go

This post reminded me of the cracking (though widely misunderstood and reviled) folk horror film "In the Earth". There's a lot going on down there in the mud and mycelium.

I discovered The CryptoNaturalist over at the other place, and ending up buying 'Field Guide to the Haunted Forest' and 'Love Notes from the Hollow Tree' by Jarod K. Anderson....

Which is unusual for me as I detest poetry. I think it's a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank...Except for haiku, (because they're short and sweet, and condense things down to their essence, which I like).

I like The CryptoNaturalist though, probably because they write about nature in a weird, beautiful and wonderous way. I want to use the word 'magical' to describe it, but am reluctant, for reasons

Also, thanks to this post I just found out there's a couple of other books available which I'm going to buy tonight 😀

Unless it's been surpassed, the world's largest living organism is a 9 square kilometer fungus that's been growing for about 10,000 years.

It’s true I’ve spoken to them many times.