#some kind of octopus

[sarahmackattack]

Sometimes squid babies are weird as hell

Squid reproduce in a variety of ways. One approach is having a LOT of tiny babies. Those babies sometimes hatch into a different looking squid than the adults' form. These are called paralarvae!

Leachia pacifica is one of those squid. Leachias are...*really* goofy looking as paralarvae. They have stalked eyes when they're in their paralarval form, that come back toward the center to look more "normal" (for a squid) as adults.

[sigmastolen]

wake up babe, new hobby just dropped

[blog-of-gourd]

what if mr sands was scary

(ID in ALT.)

[onlineviolence]

merm germ

without bg ^w^

[glazeliights]

as a furry dr fan I was legally obligated to do this at some point

[massiveladycat]

i was scrolling through my old tumblr posts and. gosh i am embarrassed wtf why was i defending octavian and then hating luke in the same breath um

[looniecartooni]

I've noticed a lack of Dimitri fanart lately... Maybe it's just me.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Thunder City

standalone novel set in the Moral Engines universe

when a small wheeled city is taken over by a rebel faction with a small army of dangerous revenants, a history teacher & the mayor’s son travel to find someone with experience fighting them - and find a young woman who’s grown up battling revenants for entertainment, and offer her an escape

along the way they pick up various unlikely stragglers - including an older mercenary, and an artist

[flamboyant-king]

Hey babes, sorry I've been dead, but I coulda been literally dead if I had not gone.

I didn't hurt myself and we're still figuring things out. I would love to share but I've already forgotten what I've learned. I hope I get more guidance and time for healing and learning on how to lead my life in a better direction than where I was. But that takes time and effort.

I hope to get some rest, get some support, and get it together. But right now, I don't think it's healthy for me to worry about art in the way I do now. I may not express it here, but trying to maintain my art endeavors/projects while there's so much bullshit going on backstage is not helping me. Especially since I'm not even obligated to do so. But trying to force myself to do something I am currently unable to do will just make me feel worse. I'll follow my dreams and passions one day, but I've been putting off the healing process for years.

So I guess it's better to get better now so I can get the ball rolling again. Why drive on a flat tire?

[pteropodhair]

Been thinking about this quote this old FART said and how he’s also a fan of Angel’s music

😇😇😇🙃🙂

[phylumhearts]

toxic kinda guy

[sarahmackattack]

I've hesitated to ask this because it is less a squid question and more of a squid cultural perception question, but I have been in a research rabbit hole for an embarrassingly long time now. I got intrigued by an old Addams Family cartoon that had an octopus next to more modern Halloweeny icons like coffin, skeleton, vulture, etc. and have been down a long research tunnel on (a) when and how did octopus/squid become a spooky animal and (b) when and how did octopus/squid STOP being a spooky animal and reach the level of generally liked animal today. I've narrowed down a likely culprit for (a) as being Victor Hugo's description of the octopus "devilfish" and the Crystal Palace exhibition + Verne squid attack inspired by that. It's definitely portrayed as a monster. But when/how did cephalopods stop being regarded as spooky? As of The Little Mermaid (1989) we have a prominent evil octopus (with some good ones thrown in). But it still feels like by then it would be odd to see an octopus on a Halloween decoration, and more recently I have seen them be relatively benign animals, often characterized as friendly or goofy animals for baby or kid media in a way that vultures still aren't. I partly wondered if much of the change came with color photography and underwater photography, or if it took awhile for zoos to be able to safely host cephalopods or do public education, but I really have no idea. Also: I keep finding references to a fashion in Paris in the late 1800s of women wearing squid hats due to "cephalomania", but all the citations seem to go in a circle and I can't find any direct documentation of the hats so far. Any idea if this is a real thing? (And if we know what the hats looked like?) Anyway, this is a bizarre question and fine to ignore, just felt silly NOT asking when I had such a burning squid-related question, I appreciate all the work you do!

This is SUCH a good question, and I really don't know! Squid are still solidly in the "creepy" camp for a lot of people, and show up a lot in fantasy novels and video games as krakens and giant squid. I didn't know octopuses used to feature heavily in halloween decor, though! that's really interesting!

[lesbienneanarchiste]

I don't mean this in a "oh I'm so oppressed for being hashtag not like other girls (even tho I am in the majority)" kind of way but like. Gd I wish it were easier to find social media accounts that talk about the kind of books I like. I simply do not enjoy fantasy, sci-fi, or romance anymore and I am sick to the teeth of hearing about them, which sucks bc those are the genres that dominate booktok and booktube. It's easy to find horror recs etc but I am also getting sick of hearing abt them bc so many people talk abt the same books over and over and also I have no problems finding horror to read. It's not that I don't think there are people out there who read lit fic and nonfiction but like. It's just more difficult to find people I vibe with than it used to be when I was into fantasy, ya kno?

[problemswithbooks]

There's a few minor characters in a later One Piece arc that disprove your theory re: inheritance of fish-like traits, but your world-building speculation is really interesting!

Actually one of Big Mom’s young sons looks fully Fishmen. De-Chat.

Got these two asks so I looked into it a bit more.

Something I find really interesting is that Big Mom's kids, De-chat and his mermaid sisters look nearly the same as full-blooded fishmen and merfolk. Big Mom is interesting because she doesn't really look human due to her size but is apparently just a little to short to count as a giant. It might be possible that she has giant ancestors somewhere in her past--but also who knows, she could also have fishmen or merfolk ancestors as well.

Again, this is just me trying to make sense of One Piece biology that was never supposed to make any sense. Oda only designs characters based on how they look and fit into the story. He's not going to limit his artistic talent to reality or make world building rules that might also put restrictions on what he can draw.

But for me, how I'd make sense of Big Mom's kids looking so much like their seafolk fathers is to say that somewhere in her background she has a fish-person or merfolk parent. Given how Oda says their dna works, with it remembering any secondary species (like whale shark, or goldfish) it makes sense that human hybrids generally get more human traits because one parent lacks a secondary species to pull from. Meanwhile, both fish-people and merfolk are human, so the genes have more ways of combining in a way that emphasis human traits.

But if someone has seafolk ancestors their dna would still carry that secondary species, even if they themselves do not have any fish traits. If they then had children with a fish-man or mermaid that child could have a higher chance of inheriting fish traits. This could explain why Big Mom has such pure looking seafolk children.

Meanwhile other hybrids we see like Sapi look nearly entirely human except for a fin on his head. Dellinger is interesting because he looks almost fully human as well, but most of it seems to be because he can hide those traits. He can choose whether or not to have human teeth, or hide his fin.

I'm no expert on dna or genealogy so my head-cannon is probably nonsense, but to me seafolk kind of feel like eeve in a way, where they're dna is kind of unstable. Whenever they have kids what they look like is a complete crap-shoot, where anything is possible. On top of that it doesn't seem like their abilities or size is always determined by their fish traits. Some of them look nearly human, except with non-human skin tones, while others look extremely inhuman--like Zeo or Hammond.

Which again is very purposeful on Oda's part. He's drawing cool characters. The reasons why they look the way they do doesn't matter to him at all. I just try and come up with reasons because I find it fun.

[livingecho]

vis @ anything in the ocean :

cousin ! sibling ! aunt ! uncle ! family :D

vis @ anything in fresh water :

enemy .

[c-119]

So what if I drew Cabbie and the ‘jumpers as whaleshark/remora merfolk (respectively) for mermay