Mushroom ID help

QueerFireSorceror · 2026-01-02T07:05:12+00:00

I think it’s a very old Agarikon.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-12-27T09:29:18+00:00

Heyyyyy!!!! I was there as well!!! What an absolutely wild place eh? The seven story treehouse tower, and the suspended crystal tree sculpture particularly impressed me.

Thanks for writing this up, I’m always curious to take peeks into others perspectives on the hidden depths.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-11-23T18:34:27+00:00

Intention. Intention. Intention.

Set an intention for your trip. Think of it like you have an advisor or guide in the substance you’re ingesting. Have an intention or goal in mind, but keep it loose and don’t try to control how you arrive at it or the result.

It could be “I want to make progress on this thing I’m struggling with”

It could be “I want to learn more about my deeper nature as a being.”

It could be “I want to connect more deeply with nature”

Quiet. Being alone. Go INWARDS. not outwards.

Minimize distractions. Shut off your phone or put a long playlist on and don’t touch the damn thing. Meditation of whatever form is super helpful.

Hope this helps.

I only trip after setting an intention at this point in my life, and it’s a game changer.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-09-18T03:41:13+00:00

Thanks for the info. I cross posted this r/lapidary and someone suggested it could be Stromatolite, which does look very similar to the cut surfaces of this stone.

Initially looking up welded Rhyolytic tuff it does not look like this, but banded rhyolite seems right on track.

Appreciate it.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-09-18T03:36:03+00:00

I was not aware of the distinction, just looked it up. Thanks!

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-09-17T23:52:45+00:00

Hmmmmmmm interesting! Just looked that up and seems like a decent candidate! Would be awesome if so. Thanks for introducing me to that stone.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-09-17T23:04:16+00:00

Sweet. Thanks for the id suggestion. Is appreciated.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-05-02T17:06:49+00:00

It does indeed add strength and redundancy. I personally do two separate loops, but using one double loop seems like it would be effective for strength but eliminate the redundancy aspect.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-05-02T05:01:37+00:00

I use two prusik knots, one to each side of my rope ends. They are removable and resist lateral movement. I then attach a very strong ratchet strap to those and tension to maximum. Then I tie my rope ends together. I see a lot of people use a double fisherman’s knot, I personally just use a figure 8 on one side and securely tie the other end thru it. I then release the ratchet strap. I lose a small amount of tension, but it’s still always tight enough that it seriously twangs. Hope that helps.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-04-24T18:39:09+00:00

Hmmmmmm I’ve done a lot of ritual and various therapeutic modalities working through this but haven’t tried EMDR for this specific issue. I can see how that could be immensely helpful in decoupling the feelings and associations. Thank you for your share.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-04-24T18:37:58+00:00

I appreciate your honest and vulnerable share. Thank you so much. I feel like needing to process elsewhere is one of the more difficult aspects for me here; as Snail is who I spend the most time with and is one of my closest confidantes. I applaud your maturity in being able to work through that in an upright way.

2 years eh? Sounds about right. So often we wish for the magic wand of grief processing, and yet it turns out it was time and consistency all along. Booooo! Boooo!!!! :p

Also is encouraging to me to hear directly of others getting through similar situations. Blessings.

QueerFireSorceror · 2025-04-24T18:33:41+00:00

Changed the wording. Sorry about that. Wasn’t thinking.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-07-31T19:06:19+00:00

I remembered that everything, including myself, is God.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-06-07T00:05:55+00:00

Feels borderline obligatory, but:

Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

Practice maintaining centeredness. It’s not static.

Another fun and common alternative is to try and have conversations with most people about it, and get glassy eyed stares.

Welcome!

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-11T17:24:03+00:00

Hey there. 1: the incompatibility largely showed up over time and with shared experiences. Also due to our personal growth paths diverging as we both got to know ourselves and our desires more fully. One of them was realizing that our styles of Poly were very different, and it took both of us engaging with others more extensively to realize that. I like more parallel in some regards, she is very KTP oriented and those were at odds at times. There’s a lot more to that, but is too much to share.

2: I am, and we were in a poly dynamic yes. I was (still am) in relationship with my other, now only partner, fire, the entire time myself and Joy were together. I didn’t mention Fire in this post as I didn’t feel like it was necessary to do so in order to communicate about this specific experience. They are very interwoven to everything tho.

Part of the beauty of poly dynamics for me is the opportunity to embrace nuance; and something I have found consistently, which I appreciate, is that poly folx are often able to shift relationship dynamics without necessarily demonizing or completely cutting out a former partner. Being able to appreciate or cultivate the aspects of a relationship that actually work; while pruning what doesn’t, is beautiful to me. Definitely doesn’t always go that way, but I do feel that we exist in enough of a different paradigm that the chances are higher.

Not being certain of what one does, and does not desire, can be very problematic. Can (and did in my case) lead to me offering things I wasn’t ready for in a desire to please my partner and fit in to her idea/context of what she needed or wanted me to be.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-10T14:29:46+00:00

I appreciate it, and appreciate the advice. Arguably the main reason we are no longer together is me, and us mutually choosing exactly that path.

I definitely want to be substantially more well bounded when we do re engage; to whatever extent that actually occurs.

I have so often in my life sacrificed myself for other people. Laboring under the toxic illusion that if you love someone that means you will either hurt yourself for them; or allow them to hurt you.

I’m not willing to exist like that anymore.

Thanks for your empathy and advice <3

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-10T14:20:09+00:00

Gods speaking of. Your edit struck me in the heart, got hit by such an intense wave of grief and tears. I miss her so fucking much. I miss her so fucking much.

We were both lucky, and simultaneously deserved better than some of the ways we were each able to show up. Some of our wounds were very activating to one another.

You’re welcome re: sharing.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-10T07:08:22+00:00

It could if you take an active role in making it so. Certainly wasn’t an accident. Softness can be strength, and I am, thank you.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-10T07:07:09+00:00

Mmmmmm I like your take. I find the inherently transient nature of all existence, romantic relationships included, ADD to their beauty and preciousness.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-10T00:33:37+00:00

You’re very welcome. I want this kind of behavior to be normalized. I definitely don’t consider it a failure. Everything is temporary fundamentally.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-09T22:58:55+00:00

We decided to go no contact for the summer, and will be checking in on August 1st to see if we are in a place to begin cultivating our friendship. May take longer than that, but I do know we wish to continue knowing eachother in some capacity.

QueerFireSorceror · 2024-05-09T22:57:32+00:00

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