#shroomers

An international group of qualified mushroom identifiers who do worldwide identification in emergency cases have identified the Shroomers App as a potentially very dangerous system that could kill you if you try to use it to identify edible mushrooms. They use AI to generate almost all of their content, including their identification profiles on their app as well as their books and other materials. Not only is this unethical from a content creation standpoint, it is also extremely dangerous.

DO NOT USE APPS FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES BEYOND SIMPLE CURIOSITY. A MISTAKE WHEN IDENTIFYING AN EDIBLE COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE. DO NOT EAT ANY FORAGED MUSHROOM YOU CANNOT IDENTIFY YOURSELF BY SIGHT OR HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED IN PERSON BY SOMEONE WHO CAN.

ONLY BUY BOOKS FROM REPUTABLE SOURCES AND AT THIS POINT THAT MEANS ASKING EXPERIENCED PEOPLE WHAT BOOKS THEY USE.

Save me, Royal Royale, save me....

(some royal royale and balloon smp doodles)

Status: gotta figure out what to add next. Goal: weird fungi and lichens. 

I feel like it needs a bit of black and a bit of white somewhere. Not sure where, though- give me some input on what and where! Definitely small items. I might spiral black and white together and put something just towards the front of that patch of greenish shrooms, maybe winding up towards the center a bit. A creeping fungus of some sort? Everything on here is loosely inspired by real fungi and lichens, but all of it is just stuff off the top of my head. 

I stabbed myself doing this one! Missed the felt and hit the tip of my thumb. I’ve poked myself a few times, and didn’t realize that this time was different and included blood. Not ‘till I went to look at it. Had to go stick my hand under the sink, without looking at it, so my over-squeamish brain wouldn’t make me pass out. I’m fine, it’s hard to actually injure yourself real badly with a felting needle, but Ouch. Anyway, here are some very fantasy-ish mushrooms.