#you cannot kill in a way that matters

[foldingfittedsheets]

If you really loved that iconic mushroom post you might enjoy this design in my Threadless, Redbubble, and Teepublic.

Sales support a broke queer art student and you get cool art on your stuff!

#art #my art #mushroom #fungus #tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit #you cannot kill me in any way that matters #fungi #mycellium #death #existentialism #existential dread

[kaijuno]

I remember when I had necrotizing pancreatitis and I was like “hmm this ain’t right” and my parents were like “the hospital will just send you home with Norco they’re not gonna do anything” so I wait a few days and see an urgent care and they took one look at my urinalysis and were like “babe you gotta go to Detroit you’re experiencing kidney failure and your pancreas is rotting inside you”. So 10 days and 100 pounds lost later I get home feeling pretty okay and my dads like “So you managed to beat multiple organ failure ay?” And I just sent him this

#you cannot kill me in a way that matters

[diaphonizedcadaver]

DECAY IS AN EXTANT FORM OF LIFE

Edit; sold! Commissions open

#image is from an 1878 agricultural magazine #embroidery #hand embroidery #my embroidery #hand embroidered patch #mushroom #mushrooms #decay is an extant form of life #you cannot kill me in a way that matters #shitpost #tumblr shitpost #tote bag #art #for sale #embroidery for sale #mushroom embroidery

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

yall check out this recent commission

(no this can't be a print I usually contact OP's of shitposts I turn into prints and this person's deactivated)

#you cannot kill me in a way that matters #mushroom #calligraphy

[headspace-hotel]

Oh, God, it's so important to learn to NOTICE though. When I first started learning about plants I realized that the real world—the REAL real world, and that's what I'm getting at here really, the natural world is so much more REAL, because human made environments are like...very dim, simplified simulations—is boggling to the mind in its sheer level of detail.

It feels like there's so much happening on the screen when you look at the internet, so much visual chaos in the form of ads and sidebars and videos that play automatically, but, God, just look at some dirt. Look at a regular patch of grass and weeds and look at how much there is going on.

How many species of plant are in a weedy, overgrown lawn? Whatever number you guess, it's too low, because you haven't learned to see. You can only see big and obvious shapes and colors. But I realized I was trapped in this...almost toddler-like simplification in my perception, and I realized that the more I cracked my brain open trying to identify plants and trees, the more I could zoom in on the parts of nature that had once seemed like the finest level of detail and see higher and more intricate tiers of complexity.

To almost everyone, grass looks like just grass. Do you know how many kinds of grass there are? Do you know how many I've found in my own yard? There are at least 15 different grass and sedge species in our yard. And I have no idea how they all looked like just grass to me before. There are dozens and dozens of species of plants and wildflowers in our "lawn."

And there are trees! Tiny saplings, the children of great and mighty trees, constantly sprouting in lawns and roadsides and ditches, unable to know that they are destined to be unnoticed and cursorily mowed down.

Today I saw a tiny oak tree, maybe six inches tall, poking from the grass in a green, well-maintained lawn, and I felt so much grief, because that little tree is never going to grow up to be a towering giant, because—why? Because of the kind of world ours is. Not because we don't want to live in a world of towering trees, but because we've genuinely and through no malice or transgression of our own become unable to see and recognize those trees as tiny seedlings. Every patch of grass is the same as every other patch of grass to us.

And, because of the kind of world ours is, it doesn't really occur to us that there would be trees in our back yards if we looked. Trees? For free? Nothing in this world is free. Trees are forty-two dollars apiece, at the garden center at Lowe's. Trees are an asset to highlight when you are selling your house. 1.2 acres, fruit trees on property! 1.4 acres, mature trees!

Anything that begins to grow in your lawn unprompted, without your permission, is a "weed," automatically in our minds, because...it doesn't make sense. Beautiful flowers and sweet, edible fruits happen because of hard work, fertilizer, landscape fabric, weeding, watering, soil testing kits, hundreds spent on potted perennials. We all know that. Nothing generous or beautiful ever just happens to us, so every little stranger that germinates in our lawns is a "weed," threatening to take away what little we do have.

And yet. And yet blackberries are ripening in the shaded thicket out behind my house. And yet wild chicory and dandelions are blooming in the tall grass to the brush pile. I show my family a picture of what the purple passion flowers will look like when they bloom, and it's like it's hard for them to believe—that's native to here? they just grow wild?

They do. They do. And so do majestic oak and sycamore trees, elm and tulip poplar. The seeds of trees that may outlive us by hundreds of years have germinated in our lawns and sidewalks and drainage ditches. This place was a forest once, and in all its little edges and corners it is always starting to become a forest again.

I think we HAVE to see this. I think every single person needs to break their brain with 25 hours of trying to identify plants using Wikipedia, Google, and pure confusing-sedge-induced rage until they get their third eye blown wide the fuck open.

People need to see this happening with their own eyes, the Happening that is always happening in nature, the activity and life always flourishing and living in every square millimeter of every yard and walkway and roadside, how absolutely absolutely bursting with species even a crack in the pavement on the side of the road is, how mind-numbingly simplified and static our concept of the natural world around us is next to the real thing.

There are so many kinds of lightning bugs. Did y'all know that? I'm seeing them now. There are many different species, with different colors and markings, and I'm noticing them chilling in the foliage around me in the daytime. I'm listening to the songs of birds and learning to recognize them, and there are so many more birds around me than I really realized.

I heard the call of a bird today that I did not recognize. Why didn't it register in my mind before that birdsongs I couldn't recognize were gaps in my knowledge?

Why doesn't it feel essential, immediate and necessary to seek knowledge about the other living things in our immediate surroundings? To at least know their names?

If I don't know my neighbor's name after living next to them for ten years, I haven't done anything to be their neighbor; they're just a stranger that lives near me. Are the trees and birds around me not my neighbors too? People will look up the name of an actor they've recognized before in a show, the name of a song they heard. Why are grasses and trees so far outside of what immediately seems relevant to us? What has our world done to our curiosity? To our sense of belonging in a world that is fundamentally interconnected and generous and alive?

Out there, on a pristine green lawn, a tiny seedling of an oak tree sprouts, barely six inches high. I saw it earlier on my walk, and I felt so sad. I'm sorry that we cut down a forest and turned it into this place. That's what I thought. But something changed in my mind as I thought it.

I realized that a forest was not a thing but a process, and not a process either in the sense that there's a beginning and an end result, but in the sense of things happening and being connected to other things, and I understood that the immensity of this thing far transcended what the word "forest" denotes.

A baby oak tree growing with nobody's permission on a flat green lawn belongs to this thing, "forest," just as much as a massive hundreds-of-years-old oak tree in the depths of the woods belongs to "forest," because a forest is growth, survival, persistence, the fight of a place that once was a forest to become forest again

I'm sorry I said to the tree you cannot kill me in a way that matters said the tree in reply, and I saw my own insignificance next to the indifference of the universe, and it was so infinitely gentle and merciful

#gardening #my writing #trees #i'm feeling a way about nature #this place never stopped being a forest #because the processes that make a forest a forest never stopped #you cannot kill me in a way that matters

[lyss-butterscotch]

Mushroom.

#rain world #rainworld #five pebbles #saint #rw saint #slugcat #downpour spoilers #you cannot kill me in a way that matters #why the fack did i render all this for a meme? who knows #gijinka #also off quality drop i need to stop drawing everything in 1920x1200 #the mushroom post #my art #comic #krita #lyss art

[horrorlesbians]

Labour by Paris Paloma + Hannibal

#mine #abigail hobbs #hannibal lecter #will graham #murder family #you cannot kill me in a way that matters #brought me up tough; but I was a gentle human #the ghost of you; it keeps me awake

[nihidea-art]

That mushroom post (you know the one), and this line in particular, has been living rent-free in my brain ever since I first read it. So I decided to make it pay rent.

(You can now buy this on a t-shirt btw)

#mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #mushroomcore #you cannot kill me in a way that matters #make good art #digital media #digital painting #decay as an extant form of life #mushrooms are hardcore ok? #1000 #portfolio

[anniilaugh]

I represent to you A Cursed Calligraphy Painting of An Ancient Wisdom from The Deep

The R and S are my favorites, they're like running and slithering away! And the K design is just bonkers, I struggled a bit : D

Tools: pentel parallel pen, microns and graphite on coffee tinted 270g/m³ watercolor paper.

My friend Vivilan commissioned me this piece, it was so fun to make! May it shine cursed wisdom on your wall.

It's inspired by this beautiful typography creation thread below, mostly @theshitpostcalligrapher s version with some extra curses. :D

#you cannot kill me in a way that matters #cursed #calligraphy #typography #anniinart #vivilan #commission #I haven't drawn in 83 years but do calligraphy at work so this was a nice middle ground and reminded me that drawing is fun again #it was nice #I miss drawing but starting is hard nowadays #the metal band logo aesthetic is there now that you mention it lol #mushroom metal #I'd listen to that

[girlweepinginstairwell]

i really love the way some of u phrase things. so honored to follow the preeminent prosaists of our generation

#i should clarify that this is about my girlmutuals & not like the ‘you cannot kill me in a way that matters’ mushroom post or whatever

[dishsaop]

the thing abt astarion and baldurs gate 3 is that while i do like astarion, hes an interesting character with some cool plots, im fairly neutral on him compared to most of the cast. but. he rolls over a 30 nine times out of ten when lockpicking and disarming traps. which suits my playstyle so well.

when i started playing the game i first tried to regularly swap out characters (habits kept from rpgs where characters not in the party dont level up/dont level up as fast) but i realized pretty fast that the flouncy traumaguy is actually so useful. hes really reliable in battle and he destroys traps and locks with so much ease i just Cant leave him at camp. he disapproves of 95% of what i do bc im trying to smooch karlach this run, but im spending all my gold to put him in schmancy little outfits that keep him from getting one-shotted.

hes my little purse dog. if a purse dog had a gun and a set of lockpicks. sure im allergic to dogs and this dog hates me whenever i open my mouth, but look at him, look at how cute the gun is in his little paws when he snipes mind flayers.

#if party makeup for battles didnt matter id have my tav jaheira halsin and karlack. unfortunately that would #be three druids and a barbarian. i like the well roundedness of a druid but jesus christ we would all die #im playing a fucking rogue next time. #I NEED TO BE CLEAR THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE HATING ON THE VAMPIRE. I LIKE THE VAMPIRE #but i literally cannot use wyll bc i hate the way warlocks play and its killing me. i love wyll. i wish i could take u with me buddy #but astarion just picked a dc 30 safe with no rerolls man and you have two spells lots #m text #*KARLACH. SORRY SWEETIE IM ON MOBILE AND I CANT FIX TAGS IM SO SORRY I MISSPELLED YOUR NAME

[simplyender]

miguel holding a webshooter to spot: tell me the name of god you anomalous piece of shit

spot: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters.

miguel, tears streaming down his face: IM NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

#miguel o'hara #the spot #atsv #spiderman #spiderman: across the spiderverse #spot #johnathon ohnn #miguel ohara #across the spiderverse #spiderman 2099 #for the record this is black hole!spot #not regular spot #fun fact! comic spot is immortal. #you literally cannot kill him in a way that matters. #spoilers #atsv spoilers #technically

[probablybadrpgideas]

All power words are just unexpectedly raw quotes from tumblr shitposts

#RPG #Roleplaying game #D&D #fantasy #spell idea #“I cast Touch Of Death” #“You Cannot Kill Me In A Way That Matters” #“Holy shit”

[shinelikethunder]

hey guys did u know. i mean i know past me kept saying this and you canNOT trust that bitch's taste but. DID YOU KNOW. that nbc hannibal is actually legitimately really good

#just rewatched the first two episodes and yeah. yeah. you cannot kill my brainrot in a way that matters #hannibal

[foldingfittedsheets]

Mushroom Redesign

Hey! When I have a popular design I get nervous to revamp it but I feel like these mushrooms needed more love. But I don't want to lose the magic. So please weigh in!

#art #my art #mushroom #you cannot kill me in any way that matters #existential dread #artists on tumblr

[rhnalli]

au where they died and came back wrong (they’re zombies)

originally posted in the bird app but now that the series is complete I can post it here too

anyway: fell off building. etheria. zombies now. left the horde. work directly for the planet. 😎🤙.

#spop #sratpop #zombie au #adora #catra #decay exists as an extant form of life #you cannot kill them in a way that matters #glimmer #bow #spop flex monster mash #never again posting from my phone this thing is fighting for its life!!