sami 🌱

@samiyeh.bsky.social

a lover of dnd, mcr, and life with the curse of being a hater once a day she/her // bi bb // just a gal in her 30s samikerwin.shop

The thing about AI and this mindset that it allows those who “can’t draw” to draw is that is a lie. I taught college level courses on drawing and met multiple students who grew leaps and bounds in their drawing skill sets because they wanted to and took the time to try Everyone can learn to draw

reading again and listening to audiobooks has been such a joy. i’m trying to stick with nonfiction for audiobooks and fiction for my physical books, and it’s been a nice divide of my attention

okay here are all the fungi books i’ve currently read, in order. i actually kind of recommend this order, too, if you’re new to fungi books or fungi at all like i am. i also *just* started Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard last night - which i didn’t know was gonna be so mycological!

the book cover for The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, featuring a light grey bg and a brownish watercolor painting of a matsutake mushroombook cover for Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Melvin Sheldrake - a rainbow of fungi and lichen surround a black bg with mycelium strands connecting thembookcover of How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan. the bg is black with an open window looking up at a blue sky with a single white cloudthe book cover for In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend. the bg is black with a grayscale bunch of mushrooms in the center and strands of mycelium branching out and in from the corners

i’ve been listening to Merlin Sheldrake’s “Entangled Life” audiobook and it has been a real brain balm. highly recommend to anyone who loves lil mushrooms and the fungus among us