when the book on fungi im reading has a section on gun cells and now i get to spend an hour going down a rabbithole for kaijuworld speculative biology for the sole purpose of torturing anton and jiwoo and other people in kaijuworld

hour two. aboriginal art symbolism. the value of water, rainbows. reinterpretation of mainstream religions in the way druid, pagan, and norse religions have been... rewritten. the popularity of pre-bomb fiction when it comes to monsters due to its inaccuracy. fear of oceans, the value of fish from a status and resource and pet / care / keeping value. how the ocean levels have changed. the usage of kaiju source venom and spores, algae from the altered oceans as religious, recreational, and pharmaceutical drugs. adaptive radiation. i could go on.