Magic Beneath The Forests

This sounds like someone quoting the movie *Phenomenon*.

*Fantastic Fungi*, great documentary!

and sometimes they help me speak to trees.

When you are touching a mushroom, you are touching the fungi penis

In the future scientists will have versions of doom that run on trees and have mycological network multiplayer options.

Imagine the first time a tree gets to talk to the other trees. Like, it talks to itself for a decade or two before someone touches it and now it can hear dozens of voices.

Plugging a book i liked...The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.

Made me look at trees and forests a whole new way.

More like an ad-hoc endocrine system then any kind of speech. Honestly don't really like how that mechanism is portrayed as speech. Certainly it helped the person who figured it out sell a lot of books, but it's quite the misnomer.

In any case, I’m willing to put it in my mouth.

No matter how many times & how much times I think of this Im in aww.

Such neat & smart package delivery system with it's own power and agenda.

honestly it's less magic and more cosmic horror, fungi are literally the source of most of the organic decay we're used to (especially rotting trees), and the fact that they effectively *are* the ground in many places is not in any way magical because aaaaaaa

God damn symbiotes!

Joel : shoot em in the head
Ellie : got it

I wonder how fungi are perceiving and responding to climate change. I bet they're aware, maybe have been for a long time