CryptoNaturalistI bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.
Mรฉdรฉe l'inflexible@CryptoNaturalist Davy Jones being half human half octopus means he's terrifying for the two species.v
Hope ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ SNP
Philipp@CryptoNaturalist "I just read this book and it was just ridiculously gratuitous. A boned monster hit another boned monster on their boned head using ... you guessed it... a bone from another boned monster that had been dead for a while and they just kept the bone around for exactly this reason. I mean... come on!"
Galder Gonzalez 
โ
๐ฌ๏ธ
@CryptoNaturalist "can you imagine, you go to move through some rocks and suddenly, you're stuck! Some strange, hard internal protrusion won't compress and let you slide into the safety of a crack and the more you try to more it hurts, a predator is swimming up behind you and you just can't make your hard boney structures bend! The horror! ๐ฑ๐
Michael Coorlim@CryptoNaturalist Squid Lovecraft writes horror about dirt, bones, and swarthy cuttlefish. Don't, uh, ask what he named his seahorse.
Ricki Yasha Tarr@CryptoNaturalist Humans do too, think about how people react to skellingtons.
Julie the Godzilla enthusiast@RickiTarr @CryptoNaturalist then why do so many of us lovingly paint skeletons or claymation animated them fighting Greeks?
Littles ๐ Verified by the Boss@CryptoNaturalist
They call us vertebrates, Boners. ๐ณ
They call us vertebrates, Boners. ๐ณ
The Doctor@CryptoNaturalist Nope. Just weird. Our cosmic horror stories mostly involve backgrounds we can't hide on and drying out.
MJones@CryptoNaturalist Do you ever think of how creepy we are? We're like bags of milk with sticks and squishy pasta in it.
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! ๐จ๐ฆ@CryptoNaturalist Well, I know MINE do. Especially the hinged joints.
lorddimwit is now @
a normal mouse 
@CryptoNaturalist they're correct
Angus McIntyre@CryptoNaturalist Octopus body horror fiction involves characters slowly developing skeletons.
Best-selling titles include "Boned", "Rigid", and "The Hardening."
Zack Kushner@CryptoNaturalist did you ever read Children of Ruin? you should read Children of Ruin.
Michael Gemar@Xzackly @CryptoNaturalist Seconded enthusiastically!
@michaelgemar @CryptoNaturalist really liked Children of Time. LOVED Children of Ruin. Or did we just hijack this thread? Oops. Sorry? Yay octopuses?
@Xzackly @CryptoNaturalist Iโve just started Children of Memory, and itโs quite good as well (although not yet at the heights of the first two).
@michaelgemar @CryptoNaturalist didn't know that was out yet! will get it now.
Louis Ingenthron@CryptoNaturalist Except for a small subset of them who live in the western Pacific who write graphic erotica about rigid limbs.
Kevin Boyd (he/him) ๐จ๐ฆ@CryptoNaturalist "how do they fit through their spaceship entry port ... a door?? That can't possibly be safe!"
anzhr@CryptoNaturalist Heh. Just yesterday wrote a horror-humour palm of the hand story which has the line: "The Nameless quivered and seemed to explode into a thousand arms with too many elbows and fingers."
Max GuthierI think Ellipsis Stephens has something that fits the bill. Enjoy Mr. Fingers: https://www.goblinscomic.com/comics/20110524.jpg
dmg@CryptoNaturalist not to mention ligments and tendons!
cliff1976@CryptoNaturalist @otterlove and a COMPLETE lack of suction dexterity, plus the same color scheme ALL THE TIME. Must freak 'em right out.
Sean Eric Fagan@CryptoNaturalist But which are scarier to them: lichs or zombies?
Space Burger Steve ๐๐๐คช@CryptoNaturalist
Octopuses ๐คโ Humans
"We eat crabs, but it would be scary if they were huge."
tanoujin@CryptoNaturalist Sad story: I was at seaworld with my nephew some years ago. They had an octopus in a tank. We needed some time to spot them, they played dead in a corner. Then my nephew found a second one, hiding under a stone within a nest of rotten branches, lost in an abyss of depression obviously. Turned out staff had placed an artificial easy-to-find one to prevent people knocking at the window all day longโฆ
Scotchfairy@tanoujin @CryptoNaturalist One of my trips to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I rolled myself up close to the windows of the giant octopus enclosure, who was grumpily ignoring all the monkey brats shrieking "Fite me!"with their tiny, stiff tentacles. Big octopus noticed me in my wheelchair down at kid-height and blinked. Then I taught the kids the proper way to say hello to an octopus or cuttlefish. Mr. Octopus came out of his corner to say hello back. "She talks to octopuses!"
#octopus #tentacle
#octopus #tentacle
undead enby of the apocalypse@CryptoNaturalist new splatoon head canon just dropped
Mark Gardner@CryptoNaturalist Yeah, but thereโs an entire subculture of vertebrate porn
TomatoSoup@CryptoNaturalist to an octopus bones must be like having a cage inside your own body!
Hugo Slabbert โ ๏ธ@CryptoNaturalist octopuses talking to each other after watching a vertebrate horror film:
"That was so unbelievable. I would just slip through a small crack somewhere when you're running away from it. What's it gonna do? 'Oh, I'm a stupid boney stick monster that can't collapse my body to chase you through small spaces'. End scene! Ridiculous..."
"That was so unbelievable. I would just slip through a small crack somewhere when you're running away from it. What's it gonna do? 'Oh, I'm a stupid boney stick monster that can't collapse my body to chase you through small spaces'. End scene! Ridiculous..."
PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyMaybe, but that's probably because they haven't seen this.
Paul Bamford@CryptoNaturalist Probably not big fans of central nervous systems either:
"Having only one brain it was a creature of brute instincts - insatiable hunger, ferocious cruelty..."
๐ธโ๐ญโ๐ฎ
@CryptoNaturalist imagine the octopi-body-horror of osteochondroma :O
Mwangangi, RN@CryptoNaturalist a novel with arachnids v cephalopods -- all of the terrestrial alien horror!
quayโโฆ.,and he could only bend his tentacle through 90 degrees at a single location. He called itโฆโฆan ELBOW!
โAHHHHHH!!!!โ
- Halloween Stories to Scare Children, Vol 2
Kayley Jo Thomas@CryptoNaturalist Most of my bodyโs horror stories involve pesky rigid-limbs and poorly hinged joints. Right there with ya, octobuddies.
mike@CryptoNaturalist I dunno. Cuttlefish seem pretty okay with it.
The Werewolf@CryptoNaturalist Exoskeletons and shells...
Oh and mason jars for no explicable reason... :)
Helena Rigby@CryptoNaturalist I'm going to show this to my son. In his mock exam for English he blanked on making up a story about a random image he was given. I tried to explain just how he could run with anything if he didn't get too caught up in worrying about accuracy in *his* fiction.
Keith DaggettYou could always speak to the Japanese about this.
They are, after all, the pioneers of hentai tentacle porn.
Victoria@CryptoNaturalist like that Ray Bradbury story!
Colin the MathmoCalling @Chartodon LR ...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐@ColinTheMathmo Oooh it's taking parameters now? Very cool.
Scienceandtechnology@CryptoNaturalist no one show them the Walmart Halloween decorations