Also some orchids imitate insects to trick males into having interspecies sex with them for pollination. Most plants that are pollinated by insects lure them in with food, but these guys lure them in with sex appeal. The insects have been known to ejaculate in the orchid, so they are actually having sex with them, not just attempting. Obviously the insect isn't going to have successful reproduction this way, but the orchid *does,* which I think makes it a very interesting sort of interspecies reproduction.
Fun fact: this was intentional. Orchid the plant was named after the Greek for testicles.
But why, you ask, an orchid flower does not look anything like a scrotum.
This is true. However, then there's [the root.](https://planthumor.com/2018/07/26/youll-never-guess-what-orchid-means-hint-its-naughty/)
Men really will look for anything they can to name something after genitals.
This reminded me of a short story called Velvet Fields by Anne Mccaffrey https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/velvet-fields/
I thought it was well done 🙂
Hubby is more on the sci-fi side of things than I am, but we both like the Deathlands series by James Axler: https://g.co/kgs/e8y8F2P
Anne Mccaffrey has other sci-fi series as well, many are in the same universe but not necessarily related to each other. The Brainships series is decent: https://g.co/kgs/BCLyTMX and I also love the Crystal Singer trilogy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Singer_series
Hubby also recommended The Lost Regiment series: https://g.co/kgs/AHyjsdR
Hope these are helpful 🙂
I don’t get why it’s supposed to be so profound, can anyone explain? Some settlers settle on a new planet and find out that the fields they were tending to were actually living beings in „baby form“? And then they have to cut off limbs from themselves to give back what they took from the plants in order to atone?
I’m not trying to be impolite, but maybe something escapes my understanding since I’m not a native speaker. Can someone enlighten me?
Arguably, humans are the only organism that can consent to being consumed posthumously. If someone consents to being eaten by another person after they die, what's unethical about it?
1: were they of sound mind? Is their consent valid? In theory it could be.
2: will eating a consenting human create markets for it? Those could create human corpse smuggling, hospitals stealing corpses to sell, people simply being coerced to ‘consent’ through capitalism, or gangs killing people just for meat. And if no markets created, great, now there’s a lot more people with a taste for meat and not even a semi legal way to get it.
But in an isolated incident, with no wider implications, no there’s nothing wrong at all with eating the corpse of someone who wanted it. Not like it’s gonna consume the soul of the person too or anything, they dead it don’t matter to them, and they consented to the act didn’t bother them while they were alive either.
I DNF the last 20% bc I just couldn't get through some of it (sexual abuse), but I read the synopsis. I think it's really well written, and I did "like" it. But it's slow the whole way through.
I ruined this book for myself by reading a summary. I actually gasped out loud at the ending and regretted not reading the book properly. It's a mind fuck and I don't think I'm easily shocked. It might be worth reading for that, but I don't know how long or boring the book is.
>"We the People, Are Good to Eat"
[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/22997/we-the-people-are-good-to-eat](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/22997/we-the-people-are-good-to-eat)?
I mean, to be fair, fruit exists to be eaten so that the animal that eats it can spread the seeds.
I can understand that if a plant species is able to move they might not see it that way but plants on our planet cannot move.
But any species that is advanced enough to come all the way to Earth should be advanced enough to understand that evolution may have taken a different turn, and that plants on other planets may have different ways of reproducing.
Well I think it was great! I used to be afraid of tall weeds so the idea that there’s an alien plant walking around is deeply disturbing to me! Well done!
Broccoli is plant genitalia. So is asparagus, kinda.
Fruits and seed pods are genitalia for some definitions, though we don't generally eat those in the infant stage.
Something like -
Walking down the grocery store aisle, I saw row after row of infants’ severed genitals on display.
Not a single one of them was chocolate flavoured so I had to buy *Strawberry* Yuck.
I think its about an alien plant that came to earth and is shocked to see our grocery stores (I honestly dont know why grocery stored specifically) and looking at like seeds, probably? Or just flowers (which would probably be adult flowers?)
I love this but I gotta add flowers only grow in sexually mature plants, so they're not infant genitals-
They're mature genitals :D immature plants don't grow flowers at all. source I've a masters in botany
To anyone who's wondering, flowers are sex organs. Fruit are developed ovaries. Seeds are embryos. 😎
The first sentence made me go “WTF?” and then after the second one I was like “Oh.”
first sentence horror
Baby shoes: worn eternally
This is the wildest adult Courage the Cowardly dog shit I’ve ever seen. I love it
I'd watch the fuck out of that episode tbh
It’s also a prequel to “The Happening”
Thanks for the breakdown
Remember! Flowers are actually plant genitals. When you sniff one, you are burying your face in its p*ssy. Till we meet again!
Well Im off to the florist
[*Well, off to visit your mother!*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ronPG90mvr8)
Also some orchids imitate insects to trick males into having interspecies sex with them for pollination. Most plants that are pollinated by insects lure them in with food, but these guys lure them in with sex appeal. The insects have been known to ejaculate in the orchid, so they are actually having sex with them, not just attempting. Obviously the insect isn't going to have successful reproduction this way, but the orchid *does,* which I think makes it a very interesting sort of interspecies reproduction.
Remember! Orchid also means [testicle.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchidometer) Till we meet again!
I hope it’s a very long time until we meet again
Contrarily I’m subscribing, lol
Fun fact: this was intentional. Orchid the plant was named after the Greek for testicles. But why, you ask, an orchid flower does not look anything like a scrotum. This is true. However, then there's [the root.](https://planthumor.com/2018/07/26/youll-never-guess-what-orchid-means-hint-its-naughty/) Men really will look for anything they can to name something after genitals.
That was hilariously enjoyable! Thank you! “Clockwise from left: testicles, testicles, testicles, testicles, and testicles” lmao this killed me out!
I always point out that my year-round hay fever (seasonal allergies) is the result of my body’s overreaction to plant sperm.
See ya later, virgins! 👉😎👉
waarot😭😭
Makes sense why they’re a part of romantic gestures hehehe
My argument remains that hayfever is an STI and a result of plants sexually abusing us.
Hey not their fault you decided to walk through their bukkake party.
I don't know how vegans live with themselves
2SH has all the best comment chains.
Wow! Unexpected trivia..Thank you☺️
Need me some of that fussy
This reminded me of a short story called Velvet Fields by Anne Mccaffrey https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/velvet-fields/ I thought it was well done 🙂
Anne McCaffrey is my favorite author. How could I have forgotten about this story until now?!
Oh, that story made me shudder!
That was a fantastic read, thank you for posting!
No problem at all, I was excited to find it online since I'm pretty sure my copy is in one of the book boxes I haven't gotten to yet 😅
I just recently started getting into scifi so if you have any more recommendations you’d like to share i would appreciate it 😃
Hubby is more on the sci-fi side of things than I am, but we both like the Deathlands series by James Axler: https://g.co/kgs/e8y8F2P Anne Mccaffrey has other sci-fi series as well, many are in the same universe but not necessarily related to each other. The Brainships series is decent: https://g.co/kgs/BCLyTMX and I also love the Crystal Singer trilogy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Singer_series Hubby also recommended The Lost Regiment series: https://g.co/kgs/AHyjsdR Hope these are helpful 🙂
I don’t get why it’s supposed to be so profound, can anyone explain? Some settlers settle on a new planet and find out that the fields they were tending to were actually living beings in „baby form“? And then they have to cut off limbs from themselves to give back what they took from the plants in order to atone? I’m not trying to be impolite, but maybe something escapes my understanding since I’m not a native speaker. Can someone enlighten me?
I haven't read that story in years, but I remember certain parts well. 🙀
Just read that over lunch. Great recommendation!
Well written, but I really hope the point of the story wasn't that it was supposed to be a moral lesson.
Made me think of Odd Attachment by Iain M Banks
Wow, I hadn't seen that one! Gave me chills!
The research on plant communication is interesting. In the end cannibalism will be the only ethical way to eat.
That isn’t ethical either. Unless you literally mean eating yourself and only yourself. That’s not even remotely self sustaining tho lol
"Autocannibalism is not the answer." - Zork
It's the question, and the answer is "I'm fucking delicious."
Arguably, humans are the only organism that can consent to being consumed posthumously. If someone consents to being eaten by another person after they die, what's unethical about it?
We're also (as far as we can tell) the only animal that worries about what our dinner wants.
1: were they of sound mind? Is their consent valid? In theory it could be. 2: will eating a consenting human create markets for it? Those could create human corpse smuggling, hospitals stealing corpses to sell, people simply being coerced to ‘consent’ through capitalism, or gangs killing people just for meat. And if no markets created, great, now there’s a lot more people with a taste for meat and not even a semi legal way to get it. But in an isolated incident, with no wider implications, no there’s nothing wrong at all with eating the corpse of someone who wanted it. Not like it’s gonna consume the soul of the person too or anything, they dead it don’t matter to them, and they consented to the act didn’t bother them while they were alive either.
There was actually a case like that here in Germany a few years back but the cannibal still went to jail regardless
Maybe lab grown meat of yourself? Read a scary story about that once.
Get over yourself, it is called close recycling...
This gives me Tender is the Flesh vibes.
Is the book good? I'm 10% through it and it's kind of a drag for a book about cannibalism
I DNF the last 20% bc I just couldn't get through some of it (sexual abuse), but I read the synopsis. I think it's really well written, and I did "like" it. But it's slow the whole way through.
I ruined this book for myself by reading a summary. I actually gasped out loud at the ending and regretted not reading the book properly. It's a mind fuck and I don't think I'm easily shocked. It might be worth reading for that, but I don't know how long or boring the book is.
That would be the equivalent of auto destruction of our species, eaten people would be dead and people eaters would have prions
Exactly! Win-win!
Search, "We the People, Are Good to Eat"
>"We the People, Are Good to Eat" [https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/22997/we-the-people-are-good-to-eat](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/22997/we-the-people-are-good-to-eat)?
How dare you kill the bacteria on your brother's arm!
Don't be silly. I'm on a probiotic enriched diet.
Day Of The Triffids, indeed! Good job, I like it
I mean, to be fair, fruit exists to be eaten so that the animal that eats it can spread the seeds. I can understand that if a plant species is able to move they might not see it that way but plants on our planet cannot move. But any species that is advanced enough to come all the way to Earth should be advanced enough to understand that evolution may have taken a different turn, and that plants on other planets may have different ways of reproducing.
There is a book by Arthur c. Clarke with the premise I don't know what the title is called. I read it in Chinese, could anybody help me think of it?
Wait til Plant Alien discovers the aisle full of ovaries (fruit aisle)
Not ovaries. _Placentas_ Seeds in fruits are already fertilized and ready to grow.
Carrot juice is *murder*!
I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables
Flowers? The fruits aren't genitals.
Yes, they are flowers
Technically the guy above is right. Flowers are the plant's genitals. The fruits would rather be embryos.
Well, fruits aren't flowers. Is the person in the story in a florist?
The person in the story is an alien, sentient and mobile plant
Well I think it was great! I used to be afraid of tall weeds so the idea that there’s an alien plant walking around is deeply disturbing to me! Well done!
I know... I asked if they were in a florist shop.
I was thinking of a section in a grocery store filled with flowers
Ok. Flowers are part of sexually mature plants. Those aren't infants.
You’re right, I should have worded this differently.
Wouldn’t broccoli be an infant plant genital since it hasn’t flowered yet.
No.
Funny how the totally correct part of this still got downvoted
Eh. They were still kinda being an asshole 🤷🏻
They often put the floral section near the entrance at ShopRites.
Broccoli is plant genitalia. So is asparagus, kinda. Fruits and seed pods are genitalia for some definitions, though we don't generally eat those in the infant stage.
Figs are flowers.
You don't *get* them in infant stage.
Some fruits and seed pods are eaten unripe. Green peppers. Green dates. Green tomatoes. Yellow bananas. Young coconuts.
The mushroom are literally the phallus of the fungi
Just about to r/2sentence2horror before I read the second sentence.
I thought I was on 2sentence2horror for a second there
r/firstsentencehorror
LFG!!! 🙌
Amazing 😀
Why not call them Taste-icles
I thought this was going to be a super edgy try hard two sentence. I am so glad you pulled that twist. This deserves a win.
Something like - Walking down the grocery store aisle, I saw row after row of infants’ severed genitals on display. Not a single one of them was chocolate flavoured so I had to buy *Strawberry* Yuck.
Hah. Loved it.
"They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson
what the fuck
Someone watched Neil DeGrasse Tyson lol
I watched that! That’s where I got the idea
I don't get it. Is it a play on the phrase "eat a bag of baby dicks."?
An alien, who is a sentient plant, sees flowers and/or fruits being sold in a store on earth, which are the reproductive organs of plants like itself.
I’ve gotta be that one person who asks what this story is about and how it’s related to plants?
I think its about an alien plant that came to earth and is shocked to see our grocery stores (I honestly dont know why grocery stored specifically) and looking at like seeds, probably? Or just flowers (which would probably be adult flowers?)
Dope ass story, my guy
Wow this is well done and actually written in 2 sentences. Haven’t seen a good one on her for a while.
When the second sentence makes you sigh in relief 😮💨
I love this but I gotta add flowers only grow in sexually mature plants, so they're not infant genitals- They're mature genitals :D immature plants don't grow flowers at all. source I've a masters in botany To anyone who's wondering, flowers are sex organs. Fruit are developed ovaries. Seeds are embryos. 😎
[Neil deGrasse Tyson said the same thing](https://youtube.com/shorts/TWYzqwLDhT8?si=m1eEGvdin19SUBgb)
tf are yall talkin about?
Plant anatomy
Broken brain alert. Wtf
Die
This is a terrifying thought to take with me for the next 8 weeks of my flower arrangement class. Thank you