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This is pushing back against propaganda which is extremely important, she's one of the few Dems who's making an effort to do so instead of sitting back and allowing the right to control the narrative.

I don't think I've seen a single isekai protag try to go back to Earth unless you count the "trapped in VR" ones.

It used to be the standard:

• Digimon Adventure (the first series)/Digimon frontier (fourth series)
• Inu Yasha
• Monster Rancher

The only recent example I can think of is Zenshu from last year.

The intrigue is from how a person from a modern nonmagical culture interacts with a medieval magical culture.

Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf might be up your alley: a guy finds out his lucid dreams have actually been him getting isekei'd every night for most of his life when he accidentally brings a friend/love interest back with him. She's fascinated by modern Japan so they start going back and forth between the real world and magical world together.

It's really common give up on Russula because of how impossible they are to get to species but you can learn to get them to section/group which I personally find worthwhile. It helps if you enjoy eating them like I do, I spent a lot of time figuring out how to ID Russula olympiana and the other PNW xerampelina group species because of how much I like using them to make vegetarian fish broth.

The cap colors are often misleading as you noted but in many cases there are undertones you can learn to look for which are more consistent. For example, R. olympiana has this specific burgundy undertone mixed into whatever primary color the cap decided to be so I can usually tell before picking a Russula if it's possible for it to be R. olympiana or not. R. olympiana, R. emetica, and R. americana can all be "red" but they actually can't be the same shade of red if that makes sense.

I think that's a "pruinose" cap covered in fine hairs which give it that frosted look. Compare to the R. murrillii group: https://www.alpental.com/psms/PNWMushrooms/PictorialKey/Russula.htm#MildDark

And remove the seasoning?

Armillaria sp. aka Honey mushrooms, they're very aggressive so RIP to that tree. One of the world's largest living organisms is an Armillaria that spans over 2000 acres in Oregon.

Coprinus, it means "of poop" because a lot of them grow on dung, though this one usually prefers well-fertilized soil (which may or may not have manure in it).

They're more like nature's Jell-O shots.

People just liked it better that way.

It wasn't a certain group though, it was all Federation citizens being forced to leave a planet which was agreed in negotiations with Cardassia to have been rightful Cardassian territory which was illegally occupied by the Federation in the first place.

Eating them raw sounds gross (most mushrooms shouldn't be eaten raw but jelly fungi are fine raw) but if you candy and dehydrate them, the texture is just like a gummy bear.

It looks like Hypholoma capnoides (conifer tuft) which is edible but it's hard to say for sure.

Hypholoma fasiculare (sulfur tuft) can look similar at this stage of development and is somewhere between "bitter and indigestible" and "mildly toxic".