silly catgirlthing

She/they clouded leopard lesbian creature

[benjimint]

prophecy idiots

[isda-bata]

She’d rather die than be separated from her friends. I trust you Susie deltarune. Hopecore

[eggwishing]

I like dragon susie

[faeyuh]

how it felt to fight mad mew mew’s body dysmorphia while hatsune miku serenades me in the bg

[hoodlytheowl]

[stitch-n]

“My escapism is better than your escapism!!!”

[arrgh-whatever]

whoever started drawing her with a green mane is a genius

[iwilleatyourenglish]

my partner and i have become fixated on this stupid comment left by a conspiracy theorist on instagram and we can't stop saying it and i just know i'm gonna slip up and say it to a normal person

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[dogpuppy]

[rslashrats]

[stupid-twink-girl]

apologist

[collapsedsquid]

Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture. The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forests and is a locally popular food, known for its savory, umami-packed flavor. In Yunnan, L. asiatica is sold in markets, it appears on restaurant menus and is served at home during peak mushroom season between June and August.

[str-ngeloop]

i love bizzarely specific hallucinogens

[str-ngeloop]

The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forests and is a locally popular food, known for its savory, umami-packed flavor. In Yunnan, L. asiatica is sold in markets, it appears on restaurant menus and is served at home during peak mushroom season between June and August. One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in. "At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'" says Colin Domnauer, a doctoral candidate in biology at the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah, who is studying L. asiatica. "It seems like very common knowledge in the culture there."     [...]

He and his team are still trying to identify the chemical compound responsible for the hallucinations in L. asiatica. Current tests suggest it is not likely related to any other known psychedelic compound. For one, the trips it produces are unusually long, commonly lasting one to three days after an onset of 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases even causing hospital stays of up to a week. Because of the extraordinarily long duration of these trips and the chance for prolonged side effects such as delirium and dizziness, Domnauer has yet to try the raw mushrooms himself. These mega-trips might help to explain why people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect. There's another curious factor: other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, "the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported", Domnauer says. "I don't know of anything else that produces such consistent hallucinations."

[str-ngeloop]

The patients saw these figures "moving about everywhere", the researchers wrote – usually, there were more than ten tiny beings on the scene. "They saw them on their clothes when they were dressing and saw them on their dishes when eating," the researchers added. The visions "were even more vivid when their eyes were closed".     

[accreature-deactivated20260222]

huh, neat! here's some more info I was able to find: 2008 paper with a few transcribed trip reports:

(PDF) Xiao Ren Ren : The “Little People” of Yunnan

PDF | Xiao ren ren are widely known in Yunnan province, China, at least at the mid-elevations where Han Chinese and Yi people predominate. T

2023 chinese paper (needs translation, use the buttons on the end of paragraphs) that talks about some things I haven't seen in western literature:

I think if you were able to navigate chinese social media, you might find more useful information (the 2008 paper suggests this is a widely known phenomenon in yunnan), but I do not know how to do this right now.

random shroomery thread:

[simpledoggoarts]

I can't come up with a clever caption for this one. From a few months ago.

[friccahacked]

Beautiful trans girl vs patron saint of workaholism

[tahthetrickster]

it’s plain white rice you idiot obligate carnivore

[devotedlystrangewizard]

i think everyone should program at least once just so you realise just how fucking stupid computers are. because theyre so fucking stupid. a computer wants to be told what to do and exactly that and if you make one typo or forget one detail it starts crying uncontrollably

[dogpuppy]