☀ the second

[andthorns]

Mistletoe is an obligate hemi-parasitic. It draws mineral nutrients from its host and will sometimes strangle the life out of it to its own eventual detriment. Druids used it in celebration and believed it to be an antidote for poision, which is of course patently ridiculous since ingestion causes a variety of stomach ailments and lowers the pulse

Comments

[hot4engines]

... magic?

[andthorns]

It's real.

[hot4engines]

I'd say "now I've heard everything", except I ain't sure this is the last bizarre thing I'll hear...

[andthorns]

I think you're taking it all pretty well.

[hot4engines]

I think I'm still trying to make sense of everything. Maybe some time down the road it'll catch up and I'll break my old brainpan.

[andthorns]

I've been reliably informed that the best way to deal with things you don't understand is to not think too hard about it and try not fuck things up.
I think you're on the right path there.
No magic on a spaceship, I take it?

[hot4engines]

Yeah, that sounds about right! I prefer being happy, anyway.

Nope. No aliens, neither.

[andthorns]

That's two on you then.
Aliens aren't all they're cracked up to be, honestly. With some notable exceptions, of course.

[hot4engines]

I guess once you're used to something, suddenly it ain't all that special, huh? Only time I ever came close to seeing one is when a guy running a sideshow tried to pass off a mutated little cow as an alien...