You Do Not Have To Verbalize Your Love . You Show It Through Art And Music And Singing And Cooking .

Just a heads up for anyone female/feminine presenting that has an interest in mushrooms.

The online mycology community is dominated by middle-aged cis men who are generally speaking, hitting retirement age, and have ample time on their hands. They know little to nothing about the online world, but they seem to know a shit ton about fungi and boy are they eager to share their knowledge with anyone who will listen (even if you haven't asked for it).

They will belittle you, they will make you doubt yourself, your knowledge and your skills because they do not like women/feminine presenting people knowing more about something "outdoorsy" than them. Even if you state you are still learning, etc. They will, for whatever reason, assume you are competing with them.

You will get spoken down to in the mycology (online) community more often times than not, but it will always be one of these middle-aged men that's doing the intellectual degrading. If they are called out for their rude behaviour, they plead ignorance under the guise of "just trying to share knowledge."

The online mushroom community is also rather incestuous. Everyone with big accounts is known by everyone, and even most of the smaller accounts all follow each other. That means little cliques within the community form. Mainly again, cis middle-aged men share and encourage, repost, and advertise each other's photography/discoveries/research but will never share a woman's work on their page or even credit a woman on their page.

They also LOVE to find young men to "mentor" but will never offer the same "mentorships" to women within the community (the exception to this being women with PHDs or degrees relating to nature sciences etc.) They will mentor women with higher educations, the woman in that case is usually more knowledgeable than them by a mile but she is made to believe she needs the man "mentoring" her to establish her space in the community or gain recognition in some way.

This is just my own observations. It may not reflect your time in online mycology spaces. But yeah, just a heads up that a lot of the online spaces for mushroom fanatics are male lead and a little bit toxic imo.

Edit: Also, in general, mobile phone photography is still a massive taboo among photographers online. If you don't own/use a camera for your photography, getting it shown/promoted within the online community is damn near impossible.

Dear whatever God is out there,

I promise to be on my best behavior today,

But I swear if you let my grandparents test me, I will not hesitate to express ship them to you.

Love your favorite mentally ill hoe, 🐸

May I have your attention?

My mom's spider plant sprouted a little mushroom friend.

Thank you.

Wassup, Witches?!

This is to help us all through the next week!~

Remember the Magick won't work unless you will it too. It all starts with intention. You don't need all these tools to help you, just you and the universe!

Blessed be, and have a wonderful week my witches!

God I wanna dress like this so bad.... But I need to donate a bunch of clothes I have already. And none of them are like this. I wanna be the trash goblin man.

I forgot I can just make pancakes whenever I want...

Wait.... Sonic the Hedgehog/Leonardo is in Renfield. I was already planning on watching it at some point but now I have to!

Renfield? More like Benfield!

Here’s an extended cut of Ben Schwartz’s (@rejectedjokes) Renfield (@i-am-renfield) Answer Time interview with Tumblr’s head of entertainment, Cherokee McAnelly (@overchers).

I'm sorry... "Carbon monologue"?

Don't y'all hate it when the carbon starts monologuing? Cuz I do. 😆

with the expansion of work-from-home, I think it would be appropriate and delightful if OSHA started investigating landlords for providing unsafe working conditions. "there's no carbon monologue detector in this home office (bedroom). The paint in this home office (living room) contains illegal levels of lead. This home office (tiny studio apartment) contains so many safety violations we are shutting down the entire business (rent collecting) until things are up to code."

Happy holidays all of you! Hope you got tons of yummy snacks this year! I got some rice crackers tea and four different kinds of beef jerky! And a bunch of new crystals! I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your holiday and a wonderful new year! 🥰🎉

Timezones...

It's still Thursday for some people.

welcome to 2023 :) happy out of touch thursday