mushrooms aren’t what they seem

i’m here to make weird art, appreciate mushrooms, and fuck with gender. and i’m all out of gender elias//he/they//27

[gandalftopsurgery]

it's "surrealism" TO YOU. to me it's normal.

[gastropodsyay]

Cuban painted snail

Polymita picta

[requiem-on-water]

Filip Kvasnak

[ahududulugazoz]

[altcomics]

David Hockney

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[corrodedparadox]

Salmon Cycle

July’s print for print club!

[gamer-0-clock]

When the schemes are gay and sinister

[192929020202020]

[napalmdebt]

[huariqueje]

Meteor Shower - Mia Bergeron , 2025.

American, b. 1979   -    

Oil on panel , 11 x 14 in. 27.94 x 35.56 cm.

[killadelphia]

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[rainbowpollypocket]

Vintage Sandylion Fuzzy Alligator Stickers

[witchrealms]

(x)

[antiqueanimals]

Wildlife in North Carolina, November 1971.

Internet Archive

[victusinveritas]

Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!

[foone]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through the body of a God?

[beautiful-wildlife]

Minister of silly walks by © Jan Pelcman