ao3 is an incredibly simple website, if you struggle so much that you deem it unusable then you may need to educate yourself of the bare basics of how the internet works
i get they mean like basic computer skills but the idea of primary school computer science is so funny to me. johnny wants to keep track of all his crayons in order of when he got them, while kim wants to know which distinct colors she has in her collection. what data structures should they each be using?
So, okay. It turns out that a “truffle” is some sort of edible fungus spore, and does not always refer to the chocolate treat. And these sorts of truffles grow underground, which is why they have pigs to sniff them out. Which makes a lot more sense than scattering chocolate treats around outside and asking pigs to find them, which is what I assumed a “truffle-hunting pig” was tasked with. I could not quite figure out what the point of this would be.
I figured it was a sort of drug dog situation. I was not sure why this service is necessary but it’s always good when an animal is employed for someone other than the cops. It’s good to have a backup plan in case you drop your truffles, I guess
I love what your mind came up with in the absence of information.
Today you get to be one of the lucky 10,000 who gets to learn about these fungi! Ignore the haters, the truffle lovers have a far more admirable neurosis.
Dogs are used in Oregon over pigs because they’re less destructive to the natural ecosystem, since Oregon trifles are all foraged and haven’t been successfully cultivated yet. The same kind of dogs with good sniffers to detect drugs can inertia be trained for truffles. And the same habitat that Oregon trifles grow in is also prime habitat for psilocybin (magic) mushrooms. Open secret that mushroom harvesters here love the fleshy kind, the flavoring kind, and the psychedelic kind.
Oregon Public Broadcasting’s show Superabundant is about the food systems of Oregon and the passionately intense people at every level of them . They did an excellent episode on truffles that covers what they are, how they function in the ecosystem, how dogs detect them, and some of the people who are very not normal about them.
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In PIG (2021)—the best Nicolas Cage film of all time—he plays an Oregon truffle hunter trying to find his kidnapped beloved pig. This film is also the most accurate depiction of Portlands food culture, and I’m not even kidding. Immaculate dance of passionate burnouts and try-hards. As all the other Superabundant episodes show.
So, okay. It turns out that a “truffle” is some sort of edible fungus spore, and does not always refer to the chocolate treat. And these sorts of truffles grow underground, which is why they have pigs to sniff them out. Which makes a lot more sense than scattering chocolate treats around outside and asking pigs to find them, which is what I assumed a “truffle-hunting pig” was tasked with. I could not quite figure out what the point of this would be.
Sometimes on the internet people will throw an abbreviation at you as if you’re supposed to know what it means and you’ll try to find out what it means but no matter what you do on any search engine all that comes up is some kind of dental supplies logistics company in Malaysia or something
i did ballet as a kid but i never saw most of the terms written down so whenever i want to talk about it over text i have to google for like “on day don ballet” and hope it finds the right spelling
I personally am transmasculine, and throughout my childhood, whenever I would play games that made you make a character, I would always make a woman. I do not know if it was because I was attracted to women, if I thought the women were just cooler, or if I just hadn't unlocked the trans part of my brain yet, but I'm curious. When you played (emphasis on the playED, I mean before you realised you are trans) games that made you make a character, what gender did you make them?
