/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

I miss him so much already..........

>>27006006
My issue with this is that if the mushrooms can also just casually grow on the ground then, from an evolutionary standpoint, just spreading spores normally is way easier and less risky than the parasitic takeover route. The mushroom must absolutely need the host, and therefore to be consumed by a predator so its spores can infect a new host, as part of its reproductive cycle, or it being parasitic at all doesn't make a ton of sense. In the first place, mushrooms are already capable of creating their own airflows in order to spread spores. A writhing host may be able to spread the spores further, but is it enough of an advantage for the mushroom to have evolved that way over staying a normal mushroom? Now, on the other hand, if the host is in fact absolutely vital to the mushroom's reproductive process because it can only grow in flesh for whatever reason, it becomes more important for the host to be consumed, thus the altering of behavior through the increase of bonding hormones when near potential predators. There's no particular reason this should only work on humans, by the way -- oxytocin is found in all mammals, and some other animals besides.

Of course, all this being said, this is a fantasy world. You could very well have a parasitic flesh mushroom that also spreads normally and just kind of developed this way for whatever reason. It could even be that these mushrooms originally worked the way I described, but when /meat/ realized they made host flesh taste better, they specially bread new cultivars that cause intense pain, since that's of interest to them, and then further refined them so that they could be grown normally, so that it would be easy to keep up their supplies of the mushrooms without having to jump through complicated hoops to spread it from host to host.

reminder i love my wife and i will cum inside him (he's ovulating)

>>26719838
Fuuchan love!

fuuchan said something bad happened yesterday which made him lay down on his bed and listen to sadboy songs like a teenager girl