[#things-non-stem-majors-say voice] lol it’s here, it’s not any more in-depth than that tag, sorry! Just random non-scientist clueless imagination-hopping about how vaccines, as the result of humans cleverly circumscribing and channeling and defanging a controlled concoction of invasive death and destruction in order to make it into a long-lasting resistance against the uncontrolled attack of that same type of death and destruction. And its not only long-lasting, but re-shaping of the body around itself, semi-Theseus’s Ship-style. And doubly cool for how it uses a defense mechanism (the immune system) that is, afaik from ppl smarter than me, so unwieldy and crude that it often destroys what it’s trying to protect faster than the invader does – a vaccines uses that mechanism’s very crudeness and ability to be tricked to create that long-lasting resistance, its perfection only marred by the fact that arms races are the ubiquitous danger of instability. The plot, and variations on that plot, and ironic subversions and deconstructions and reconstructions of all that plot’s variants, pretty much write itself.

Anyway it’s similar to the mushroom thing because THUNDER MACHINE FUNGUS GOD IS RIGHT ON…..in conjunction with this and this, that post about both lightning and human-made shocks making mushrooms more abundant has a super great baked-in metaphor, about how one of the most elemental forms of matter-energy rematerializes out of the atmosphere created by geologic and biological activity or human toolmaking to proliferate one of the most important components of the biosphere. The plot again writes itself, and the plot of can support innumerable variations in the cast of characters and settings…..which is good bc I’m useless as a writer and can’t come up with plots on my own.