They do a decent job portraying the family dynamic but they're trying to cram a lot into a single movie and while they achieved an impressive feat by actually getting it all in there, none of it has the space to be truly excellent.
If you're just looking for a movie that (finally) does justice to the Fantastic Four then this is it. It's not the greatest marvel movie ever but it's solid.
I haven't seen Thunderbolts.
Superman was really good, particularly at setting up emotional stakes. I felt visceral disgust at how awful Lex Luthor was. Lois's relationship with Superman was complex and they challenged each other's ideals. The plot also felt topical without being too hamfisted, characters and situations were reminiscent of real people and situations while still feeling like they had their own identity instead of being cheap stand ins.
Fantastic Four was ok, it doesn't do anything wrong but I didn't find anything about it particularly memorable or groundbreaking. Acting, direction, effects, and writing were all competent and it's definitely the best F4 movie ever made but that's not enough for me to recommend it unless you're a huge F4 fan.
Looks like they're starting to open up so probably just a little too late to eat them.
"Latex" is a botany term for any milky liquid exuded by a damaged plant, mushrooms kept the term from back when they were considered plants but it not the same substance. A "latex allergy" is specifically an allergy to rubber tree latex because that's the only kind of latex that's widely used by humans, it doesn't mean you're allergic to dandelion latex or mushroom latex.
Neither, they're bitter and insubstantial but not poison or psychedelic.
I don't put too much faith in iNat's computer vision algorithm, it frequently IDs anything orange as Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca even if it's a polypore. It also thinks most Amanitas are Inocybe albodisca which is a misapplied name for the PNW in the first place.
This looks like part of the Russula brevipes complex to me. I'm not the most experienced with this complex but nothing about it looks out of the ordinary for brevipes so I see no reason to think it might be anything else.
I've never heard of a Lactarius taking more than a few seconds to bleed (though I once missed the latex on Lactarius pseudomucidus and had no idea what the mushroom was until I finally noticed it when I was going through photos months later).
Agreed, the "shit I'm old" beer coozie in the foreground is a dead giveaway it's a Spencer's.
Any idea why you're getting mutations?
Fair point haha.
Fungi only got its own kingdom in 1969, before that they were a phylum in Plantae. There are tons of people still around who learned "mushrooms are plants" in school, so it's not surprising downstream vocabulary hasn't caught up.
These are closely related to Amanita Muscaria the Fly Agaric, one of the most recognizable mushrooms around. Before I was very familiar with panthers, I used to think of them as a brown "palette swap" of A. Muscaria but they're actually pretty different from each other.
Panther Caps tend to be smaller and more stocky than Muscaria and have an actual sack-like volva at the base rather than the "bulb with rings" Muscaria has.
They contain the same poisons as A. Muscaria, ibotemic acid and muscarine, but in much higher and potentially deadly concentrations. As such, it is inadvisable to attempt to detoxify and eat these as you can with A. Muscaria (the poisons are both water-soluble so if you're willing to take the risk, they can be removed from Muscaria by boiling one or more times with lots of water which should be discarded each time).
A. Pantherinoides found in Western North America, is distinct from A. Pantherina which is found in Europe. The Western Panther sometimes has uniformly dark brown cap like A. Pantherina, but the cap is often two-toned (as pictured in the main photo on this post), honey-colored, or even completely straw-yellow (which makes it very difficult to differentiate from all the other straw-yellow Amanitas).
Genus Parasola doesn't really deliquesce to ink like the other inkys but they're very similar otherwise so they're usually considered inky caps anyway.
Here are the same Parasola two days after the first photo, as you can see they just sort of shrivel and tatter.
I can't say for sure which species of Parasola these are because species within this genus tend to be difficult/impossible to differentiate. Even just within the Pacific Northwest this genus contains many cryptic genetic species which don't even have names yet, much less reliable descriptions.
I thought this was a Hygrocybe at first and was very surprised that the spore print was brown. I love the little grooves on the stem.
I wouldn't even need jokers for mult so much with telescope.
Earthballs are a bit like puffballs except they have a thicker skin and tend to be inedible or poisonous (though some say it's that they just "spoil" so quickly that you almost never find them in a state of supposed edibility).
Earthballs often tricky to tell apart from each other without a microscope or seeing them at multiple stages in their lifecycle but the Leopard Earthball has a few good tells like the brown cracking scales on the surface and the rapid red staining when it's cut in half.
If it's dark enough the tips glow faintly like a candle that's just been snuffed out.
You can see the glow in this blacklight photo I took (sorry if it's hard to see, I didn't turn off color correction on my phone).
The plant it's growing on is a dead piece of a Mountain Ash/Rowan shrub which seems to be bouncing back from whatever killed that branch.
My reasoning for this being A. Adonis: To start with it's a pink mycenoid mushroom of which there are three documented species in the PNW.
It can't be Mycena Monticola because it wasn't found at a high enough elevation for that species (they only grow at over 2000 feet hence the name Monticola meaning "mountain dwelling").
The gills are not marginate (having a different color on the edges) which rules out the other pink species Mycena Rosella.
That leaves us with A. Adonis.
These have beautiful reddish brown pores on the bottom
This is me emailing mycologists to ask if they want to sequence any of the unusual mushrooms I found.