When you are touching a mushroom, you are touching the fungi penis

and sometimes they help me speak to trees.

More like an ad-hoc endocrine system then any kind of speech. Honestly don’t really like how that mechanism is portrayed as speech. Certainly it helped the person who figured it out sell a lot of books, but it’s quite the misnomer.

In the future scientists will have versions of doom that run on trees and have mycological network multiplayer options.

In any case, I’m willing to put it in my mouth.

Imagine the first time a tree gets to talk to the other trees. Like, it talks to itself for a decade or two before someone touches it and now it can hear dozens of voices.

Joel : shoot em in the head Ellie : got it