#theres an octopus

[11crowsinatrenchcoat]

So funny thing instead of working on my refs for already established characters I am making an elaborate universe involving sea slug based priests living underwater in a dome that worship the sun. So good people of this hell site, I have but one question. Would anyone be interested in learning about slurch? (Sea slug church)

[vocalaar]

did this thing on tiktok n im running out of ideas of what to post so here

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[dogtoling]

despite the outcome, i am a cuttlefish Believer they deserve the gift of existence.

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

this or that - whump tropes (53)

potentially dangerous flesh wound (and you might have to look out for rabies as well) or venom that a character might not even immediately notice?

[certifiedockappreciator]

[crow-n-tell]

What kind of octopus is Kraken!Moon?

Between the pictures I'm definitely going to be talking about some facts on the octopi, and also how I incorporate certain aspects of them into Moon's overall design. Cause I'm a nerd and I want to.

Oops, I meant "they are adept at using tools to-" sorry, m a bit tired.

Many of the shelters that are made by coconut octopi are made using coconuts (hence their moniker), shells, and anything around they feel they could pull over their heads or curl up into! A really interesting aspect about that is also that when it comes time to move their shelters for whatever reason they may need to, they WALK. Thats right. THEY ARE BIPEDAL YA'LL.

There isn't really a lot known about Bioluminescent octopi. Most of what I saw discussed was how they are deep sea creatures, and how the glow could mean all sorts of things. Maybe for hunting like angler fish, maybe to scare off predators (or perhaps to distract like the Vampire squid does when it uses a cloud of bioluminescent mucous to escape), its also possible its for attracting a mate.

What it is to moon hasn't really been decided yet? I kind of like the idea that it tunes you into his emotions. The more heightened his emotions, the brighter he gets. Sort of like blushing. I don't know, I'm thinking on it.

Also yes, the little bit hanging off the side of Moon's head is actually fins. Fins like you might find on the ever adorable:

Dumbo octopus! But his are incredibly small and do very lil flapping unless he's embarrassed or something. Honestly I see them mostly as vestigial.

There are a lot of interesting facts about the Blanket Octopus. Just off the top of my head, the female blanket octopus is HUGE. The girlies can stretch up to 6 feet. The guys... welp, hahaha. They are like an inch. Very similar to a height difference you guys have already seen with y/n, sun and moon, right?

However whats really interesting is that they are immune to the potent and painful sting of a man-o-war jellyfish. And whats even MORE interesting is what they do with that little bit of immunity. You see they have a tendency to rip off the man-o-war's stingers and use them for defense. How cool is that? also, kinda crazy fucked up. Imagine someone just snatched up your arm and started beating people to death with it?

OKAY I'M OUT

[golby-moon]

I'm gonna pretend this wasn't supposed to be posted for your flavor of December 25th and that I didn't have an insanely hard time with the water as I always do and that this is when I meant to post this. you know, like you do

but yeah here's a gift @lazarus-rose, for you

Dean caught a fish dude to romantically call 'dude' and 'buddy' and such for the next decade+ let's goo

also yeah I did try something new with the water and it turned out...okay. not sure about the camera angle though with having a view into the water while also seeing it in the background though. don't think water works like that tbh but

(12/28/24)

[oswaldthehero]

anna cookie meme

[whalefill]

Favorite octopus ?

i'm more of a squid guy myself but I were to pick one based off of visuals alone, which is exactly what I just did, it'd be the carribean reef octopus. for the obvious cunt she serves

[sinekq]

some Garnek doodles

Garnok 10 minutes after invading Jorvik

[feline-evil]

Dethvanity is really funny to me conceptually as an episode because you can see how little they had to make the characters insecure about for the bit. They swing for obvious lowblow choices with Pickle' baldness and Nathan's weight and even those require some suspension of disbelief because ok. Sure. Nathan '(said extremely proudly) never skipped a meal in my life!' Explosion is insecure about being a big man now. Nathan *guy who everyone thinks is smoking hot 99% of the time* Explosion is a tiny bit larger than usual and is insecure about it now. Lol. Lmao even.

But anyway then we hit Skwisgaar and Toki and there's like NOTHING to swing for, you can see them going uhhh ok Skwis doesn't sleep he probably drinks a lot of coffee, and Toki? Shit, what does Toki have to be insecure about with his looks. He's perfect, he's adorable, he's ripped. Um. FUCK IT, HE'S DOING NOTHING BUT EATING LEMONS. WE GOT NOTHING, WE GOT NOTHING, JUST GIVE THE BOY CITRUS FRUITS.

WOE 🍋 BE UPON YE

I'm sure i could make some smarter points about the attempts at applying vanity in this ep and how outside of this and a few other moments i do actually like that the show rarely takes pot shots at things like Nathan's weight, but you see Nathan has shirtless scenes in this one and so my intelligence is impeded when all the blood rushes out of my head and into my-

[lesbianoctoling]

a lot of people seem to forget that "omg octolings are a metaphor for racism" has always been a fanon idea (and a really tasteless one for the record!) that got like, a single bone tossed towards it once (the ONE cuttlefish comment from NoAs localization)

like they....arent.... they arent. thats fanon. its always been fanon. "this entire species is a metaphor for racism" is a bad take and always has been.

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I'm going to do somersaults about this

[waterwindow]

You're getting old (positive) (affectionate)

Nice try. I mean if disliking stuff getting stolen, retooled and reposted out of context irreverently as an inferior version of itself makes me old then I'm embracing my new primordial status wholeheartedly.