You can watch the season finale here
xeppeli
😒😒😒😒part 2
nathanforfans
@mrjoehumphrey “I call this one “The Wizard of Loneliness” Drawn almost entirely with @kyletwebster pastel brushes.”
amazing drawing by Joe Humphrey posted on twitter
teioh
bogleech
bogleech
Science wasn’t actually certain how fungi like cordyceps “hijacked” their host’s behavior, and we always kind of assumed it was causing some relatively simplistic damage to the brain, but now it seems the truth is much more like all the dramatized versions of it in sci-fi horror.
These fungi integrate themselves on the cellular level with the host’s tissues all throughout their body, actually seem to send signals to the host’s muscles and even alter the host’s genes with their own.
And all the while, it turns out THE BRAIN ISN’T TAKEN OVER AT ALL.
These fungi, all along, have been converting their hosts into animal-fungal hybrids they control while the host’s brain and consciousness remain helplessly alive and largely unaltered.
I know most people are probably just joking and having fun when they act afraid for humans, but these fungi have affected only arthropods, like insects and spiders, for hundreds of millions of years without branching into anything else.
It’s probably simply never going to be possible for a fungal parasite to do this to something much larger than a bee or a grasshopper.
There also wouldn’t likely ever be “reason” for it to do so, i.e. no evolutionary pressure to make that change; parasitic fungi already infect us, and we call it Athlete’s foot, and it spreads around very easily without having to invade our whole bodies.
super-mario-rpg
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