(This sign used to be outside a health food store on my way home from classes)
(I mean it won’t do that to humans, but that’s always my first reflex, too)
OBEY
The reblogs on this post are absolutely priceless.
Hall of fame:
And finally:
are we… looking at the same post??
i see the weird “cordyceps” thing and the general salesperson pitch abt what it does but apart from being cheesy it doesn’t seem out of the ordinary???
cordyceps is a fungus that got famous for hijacking insects (specifically, ants) brains, making them climb a high spot, clamp their jaws down on it and then die as the fruiting boy of the fungus bursts out of their bodies.
it’s therefore sometimes called ‘zombie fungus’ and loosely inspires the zombie things in The Last Of Us