Part of so many fabulous fandoms. If it exists I've likely experienced at least one fic, piece of meta, ship war, or meme involving it. Everything is on the queue, so a post about that crazy current event will probably show up next month. Fashion and art posts are tagged retroactively, but otherwise it's all label-free.
Me, reclining on my Casper Mattress, working on my squarespace site, listening to a free audible audiobook, picking at a nature box, wearing a high quality pair of socks and printing postal orders from Stamps Dot Com: ye why do u ask [i begin to shave my legs with a harry’s razor]
i love watching the olympics. i know nothing about these sports but by hour 4 i’m like, “poor dismount. look at those knees. not enough elevation or rotation on that last move. clear 3/10 points deduction. tsk.”
❝ I think we’ve all had moments where we’ve seen friends and colleagues zoom past us, either to success, or to marriage, or to homeownership, while we lingered where we were—broke, single, jobless. And you tell yourself, ‘Wait for it.’
There is big news in the world of lichens. These slow growing organisms have long been known to be a collaboration between a fungus and a photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. A recent publication in Science may have changed all that.
Researchers have discovered another fungus living in the tissues of lichens. Unlike the dominant fungal type, also known as Ascomycetes, the new fungus is a Basidiomycete that exists as single cells, more closely related to yeast. A survey has found these new fungal cells in 52 genera of lichens, raising the prospect of a previously undetected third partner in the ancient symbiosis.
Interestingly, despite many attempts, it has never been possible to synthesise lichen in the laboratory by combining the two known partners, and now we might know why. Lichenologists have always recognised a mycobiont (fungal partner) and a photobiont (the photosynthetic organism that makes food) and now we may have to find a word for the new fungal component.
