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Forest afternoon's light.

Hokkaido, Japan.

Amidst rugged hills, a ghost village stands frozen in time. Its abandoned homes, once vibrant with life, now bear witness to nature's reclamation. Collapsed roofs and unhinged doors frame a poignant tale of desertion. Within these stones, echoes of Longobard settlers and Norman conquerors whisper through history's layers. The steps that once connected lives now crumble, as trees and grass break through walls.

What uncertain fate awaits this relic? Will the village's secrets endure, or vanish like the residents who departed in the 1970s? As we contemplate its enigmatic past, we're left to wonder—will time's embrace be its ultimate salvation or demise?

Source: https://jeroentaal.photography/series/villaggio-silenzioso/

badjokesbyjeff

Some people really like Orion’s Belt

But I think it’s just a big waist of space.

lsleofskye

Burg Eltz Castle - Germany 💙 | ilkinkaracan

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Always great to get the gills wet 🐬 | nolanomura

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Go for broke | bryanminear

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Untitled | puraten10

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insomniac-arrest

what is it about fungi that’s so mythical and freaky and set in humanities heads as “fable and Other Folk” fodder

the lore

the vibes

the spooky feeling in the Ghosts and Aliens Section of my brain that goes off

like, look at this and tell me that magic isn’t real and doesn’t want to strip us bare and use our souls as bartering chips in cosmic games of poker

insomniac-arrest

mushrooms are an ancient force of growth and decay, life and rot, collapse and creation; they have been here long before us and will remain long after we’re gone- devouring that which kills us and creating that which forgets us.

it is best you tread carefully.

hyperactivehedgehog

I’m studying biotech and every time someone brings up mushrooms our current professor will look either extremely exited or pained and go “listen.. mushrooms are neither plants nor animals nor something in between. They elude all attempts to categorize them. We do not know what they are. Some are immortal. Some produce live saving substances. Some are so closely related to humans that eating them may cause an allergic reaction against your own body. I cannot teach you about the mushrooms”

frayedcobweb

Oh to be a biotech professor and wax lyrical about the eldritch immortal mushroom.

otteryuri

@lumyri

bonediggercharleston

the largest living being is a giant network of mushroom hyphae somewhere deep in Oregon’s blue mountains, It is thousands of years old, It covers 2384 acres, weighs 35 MILLION KGs (a kg is like 2 pounds) and thrives on sucking the life out of trees. we call it and it’s cousins honey mushroom.

Mushrooms were the first beings to truly conquer land and used to grow 8m up into the air. After the great dying 250 million years ago,mushroom forests covered the earth once more.

Mushrooms developed one of the most potent toxins in the world that kills most oranisms it comes into contact with, so that they do not have to compete with them. You know it as penicillin.

The nitrogen cycle which keeps all life outside of the ocean alive is unthinkable without the mushrooms growing in the roots of legumes.

There isn’t a being as eldritch and superlative yet silly and frivolous as a mushroom.

kedreeva

also I mean, look at this one

like okay I guess that’s a thing

and no one’s even mentioned their 36,000+ sexes yet

jenniferrpovey

There are fungi in Chernobyl that have developed the ability to use gamma radiation as an energy source. They literally use melanin to synthesize energy from gamma radiation.

(These fungi are being studied as a potential source for anti-radiation drugs or for engineering substances that block radiation. This might be useful for space travel, better shielding of nuclear reactors, to reduce the impact of radiation therapy on cancer patients, etc).

Because FUNGI, people.