Here’s the full set finally!! I've drawn strawberry-themed artworks a few times now, and though I'll be switching back to anime art for a while, I think I'll be drawing galaxy-themed dessert art next! Any suggestions on fruit/flavours that would match, or that you'd like to see in general?
“Can we only imagine fat bodies or brown bodies in the restrictive niches we force them into? Does our only worth lie in making statements of ‘bravery’ or ‘confidence’ with our socially unacceptable bodies? Can we not be fully realised people beyond that?”
I wrote a long essay about the whiteness of cottagecore and why there’s so little diversity in it. Read the full piece on my blog!
I’m a fungi amateur. No doubt about it. Mostly, I just walk around and take pictures.
I love all fungi! But over time, I’ve developed a few favorites. The genus Phlebia never fails to amaze me.
Phlebia tremullosa is one of the beautiful species this mesmerizing bunch offers. It isn’t hard to see where it gets its species name, as its fertile surface wrinkles and forks in trembling patterns.
Its growth habit is called effused-reflexed. This just means that it spreads out like a crust while shelfing out at the tops.
They usually display that telltale Phlebia sunburst pink to mauve coloring, which is part of what makes them so appealing to me.
Their caps are typically lighter and often a bit wooly.
They range from fairly uninspiring...
...to intricate and bizarre.
They are saprobic, meaning the fungi use dead wood as a food source.
I mostly find P. tremullosa on deciduous wood in late fall through early winter.
They’re in that blurry realm where shelved, porous fungi meet spreading crusts.
Their signature “trembling” ridges and radiating wrinkles are kind of weird, so they’re obviously lovely to me