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i think tumblr needs to find a new word for accounts i follow cause this is too ironic.

@aroacesafeplaceforall

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gen z culture is randomly getting “pen pineapple apple pen” stuck in your head

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If this post hits 20k notes I'll come out as trans to my family.

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Ok ik none is this gonna happen but I wanna get it out of my head so

If this gets 5k notes I'll tell my parents I'm not Christian and don't want to go to church

If this gets 10k notes I'll come out to my parents

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Reblog if

A) you're panromantic

B) you like cats

C) you wish you were a dragon

D) you're hanging on by a thred

But don't say which

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clearly, they didn't

Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

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if this post gets eight billion notes I'll commit arson

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it doesn't matter how babygirl ur fav man is, he will ALWAYS be ten times sexier as a woman

#the comments sre commenting #but anyway #bless me prwtty lady

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"homosexuality is unnatural! there's only two genders! it's a sin-"

I'm sorry, have you seen NATURE???

and there's so many more species than this that exhibit homosexuality, varying genders, etc. SO! MANY!

it's very much a natural thing. it always has been. unfortunately, while homosexuality is found in many species, homophobia is only found in one

ALSO THE ARTIST IS HUMON, FIND THEM AT HUMONCOMICS.COM!! was so sure I had included that but apparently I forgot, so sorry!

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Puki will you leave tumblr because everyone’s acting like it’s dead now :(

oh yeah its SO dead.

1000 notes this post. Now

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Yoshida Hirofumi, the Kraken and Cthulhu, is the octopus with him just an octopus?

When I first saw Yoshida Hirofumi I was convinced the octopus that goes with him couldn't be a normal octopus. Was I supposed to believe fear of octopuses was so widespread there was a whole devil for it? I hadn't ever heard of a person with an octopus phobia! That is, such a phobia surely had to exist but it had to be rare. So, that being with Yoshida had to be Leviathan, the Kraken or Cthulhu, which are well known fearsome creatures that deserved a big powerful devil.

And I was right! but so, so wrong!

That being IS a representation of the Kraken AND a normal octopus. Let me explain (it's long).

Because of where most of us live octopuses aren't something we think about on a daily basis, but it turns out that in places with deep conections to the sea, like Japan, people actually do think about octupuses frequently.

In fact, most places with cultural ties to the sea have fantastical tales of octopuses everywhere in their folklore. Leviathan and the Kraken are said to appear in, or even outright provoke, storms. That's probably because octopuses are good at reading their environment and they may dissapear or appear when storms are close. So, octopuses have been attributed weather powers.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg!

The thing is, octopuses as a species are really intelligent. Incredibly intelligent. So intelligent they get bored in captivity and turn mischievious and start playing pranks on humans or juggling rocks. In fact octopus observers claim they feel as if they are seconds away of getting out of their tanks and starting a conversation.

And that's a problem because, at the same time, they look so utterly... alien. They look weird! And they have weird abbilities! They're capable escape and cammo artist and can regenerate. The way they move and squish their own bodies! They are so, so different from us that apparently for millenia people have collectively looked at octopuses and noticed their intelligence and thought, shaking with fear: It's thinking!! Oh no, what are they thinking! What are their intentions!

(And doesn't that tie up nicely with what manga readers wonder about Yoshida. In fact, the more I researched octopuses in Japanese folklore, the more it apears Yoshida is like the personification of all the Japanese think of octopuses)

So, the respect they earned as a species at some point crossed into fear and creatures like the Kraken where born. The Kraken exists because of the fear of octopuses. They represent how afraid people have been of octopuses over the centuries. It's like, we humans are convinced they hold an annual meeting somewhere where they plot the demise of humanity, because they are certainly capable and intelligent enough and they must hate us for eating them and contaminating the sea.

There's a mean streak attributed to octopuses. In fact, the Japanese have their own version of the kraken, the Akkorokamui, where at first it was a spider, known for laying intricate traps, that turned so dangerous it hat to be banished to the sea. It's just, even scientists today belive the only thing holding back octopuses from taking over the world and becoming the dominant species is their short life span (which is another nice point that beautifully ties into Yoshida worthy of a treatise). The pervasive question of 'What are they thinking?' turns into 'are they plotting humanity's demise?' and for many the answer is a 'maybe' and that's apparently something that also ocurred to H.P. Lovecraft when he was thinking up the creature Cthulhu a being destined to end humans (although of course Lovecraft based Cthulhu in a great number of things. I'm not saying this was his sole inspiration).

I laughed out loud when I saw in the very first text where I heard of octopus folklore, this fear of octopuses hating humans is unfounded and that octopuses are in fact very misunderstand creatures that are impossible to harbour ill intentions towards us. Of course they are not plotting against humans. They are not that advanced, not that powerful. In fact, they are quite vulnerable and easy to hurt. They ought to be protected! They are in danger of dissapearing! We humans have let our fears get a hold of ourselves!

And that ties beautifully into Yoshida again. Actually that's kind of exactly how it seems the author is portraying this character. Look at him: an all seemingly powerful guy, mischievious with an enigmatic smile! Surely he has to be plotting something. Except maybe he's just a teenager who happens to have low people skills and is trying very hard to survive in a hostile world and people overlook his vulnerabilities because he has struck fear into the readers by having a job where he has to predict other people's movements and looks and acts weird. Even he is also plotting something.

I have to concede, if that's what Fujimoto is doing, it's genius.

#holy shit op #that was beautiful and very interesting

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sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs