#Cephalopod Week

[montereybayaquarium]

Have you ever looked at an octopus and wondered, “What is going on in their head?” Well, first of all, that bag-like sac sitting above its eyes isn’t its head. That sac is called the mantle and it's full of all the animal’s vital organs (three hearts, gills, digestive tract, gut, reproductive organs, etc). If you’re wondering where the brain is, it’s located just between the eyes, wrapped around the esophagus like a donut. So every time a cephalopod swallows food, it stretches out its brain a tiny bit—you could say they always have food on their mind! 

So, to arrange yourself like a cephalopod, you’d basically need to take your torso, stack it atop your head, then arrange your limbs around your mouth—TA DA! You’re kinda an octopus! (Things you definitely needed to know today).

#monterey bay aquarium #cephalopod week #giant Pacific octopus #things you can't unsee #three hearts the more to love you with #your morning coffee and a donut shaped brain

[arthistoryanimalia]

A second and very different piece from the Brooklyn Museum for #CephalopodWeek:

Jesse Krimes (b. 1982) Blackwater, 2021 Assorted textiles Brooklyn Museum

“To counter the dehumanizing isolation of incarceration, Jesse Krimes works collaboratively with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals to create artworks out of old clothing and textiles that evoke memories of home. The artist developed his own practice while serving a six-year prison sentence. In this work, Krimes regards the tentacled animal as "a panoptic state of surveillance" and alludes to the eugenic and white supremacist ideas embedded in American zoology. The title, Blackwater, refers to a prison in Florida.”

#animals in art #contemporary art #American art #21st century art #octopod #cephalopod #quilt #textiles #activist art #Brooklyn Museum #Cephalopod Week #animal holiday #museum visit

[explore-blog]

An illustrated poem about the octopus and the blind spots of consciousness and the ceaseless wonder of this world and our responsibility to wonder. 

#octopus #Cephalopod Week #nature #poetry #illustration #blue #watercolor #Maria Popova #art and design

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream

Huracan, Mandaloceras (that's a cephalopod), Megalancosaurus and Melanerpes shawi.

#sciart #paleoart #palaeoblr #paleostream #triassic #cephalopod #bear #fat bear week #mastodon #drepanosaur

[squephalopod]

Sepia apama

PSA if you

• chunky

• are colorblind

• hrrrrrrnnnnnfffffyeeeaaaahhhhh

you may be at risk of being an giant australian cuttlefish

#scuttles taste the rainbow #squid squaturday #cephalopods #marine biology #squid #cuttlefish #octopus #week 27 #this has now been ruined thank you

[color-palettes]

has there always been a squid in your profile picture?

yup! it's been years though and i'm wondering if it's time for a change...

Please let me know your specific animal suggestions in the replies/reblogs!! some resources to help you vote:

Cephalopod Wikipedia

Anime Girl Reference

#1 week feels too long but 1 day feels too short #palette spam #btw the cephalopod theming is because the domain is colourpod.com #also umiko is based on a nautilus if that wasnt clear

[killartzzz]

Pearlina week day5: Pearlina wedding 💒

#pearlina week #marina x pearl #splatoon #inkling #octoling #off the hook #marina ida #pearl houzuki #lesbian cephalopods

[neo-wolfe]

Happy Lesbian Week, I made a flag with colors pulled from Agent 24 🧡💛🤍💗❤️🦑🐙

#splatoon #agent 24 #lesbian #space debris #it’s lesbian week so I wanna draw lesbians #splatoon 3 art book leaked so I also wanna draw cephalopods #but Big Materials and Techniques class demands I draw from photos >:/ #I feel like it seems like I’m just drawing a bunch of splatoon just bc of the activity recently #and not bc I’ve been hyper focusing lol

[aeriona]

Do you have a scientific(?) explaination for why octolings have suckers on the outside of their tentacles even though real octopuses have them on the underside?

Good question! the answer is: Hell if I know!

Normally I’m very much one to spit in the face of canon and come up with my own headcanons, but I decided to stick with the outward-facing sucker design cause I think it looks cool. From a character design perspective, it gives Octolings a very distinct and recognisable silhouette, and makes it easier and quicker to tell squids and octopuses apart.

As idiotic and nonsensical outward-facing suckers are, I usually just cope with the reasoning that the head tentacles aren’t exactly useful anymore for locomotion? Octolings don't use their tentacles for grabbing things nearly as often as their hands or feet, so maybe their dexterity (and sucker count) would go down accordingly.

Cephalopods can also taste and smell with their suckers, so it would made some sort of sense to have them facing outwards where they're exposed to the air to pick up smells and stuff.

#I got a massive textbook on cephalopod identification last week so I'm locked and loaded with ALL the squid facts lmao #splatoon #xeno tag #speculative biology #inbox chatter

[butchcinna]

Alright, okay! @pearlinaweek fic time!! Let's gooooo!!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

#Marina Iida #Pearl Houzuki #Pearlina #Pearlina Week 2022 #Lesbian cephalopods #Made in Cinna #Written by Cinna

[1-800-simping]

real moots find out what cephalopod they are together

#cephalopod #cephalapod week #IM A NAUTILUSBSNSHD

[montereybayaquarium]

When a squid learns to write, that’s calamarigraphy!

But seariously folks! The word “Calamari'' derives from the Greek “kalamos” for “pen” and the Latin “calamarium” for “pen case”—referencing the translucent, tapered internal shell and ink sac you’ll find in species like our local california market squid Doryteuthis (formerly Loligo)! 

This pen+ink sac combo can be used for writing, if only during an invertebrate zoology lab session—though if a squid used it to sign a check, it’d be proof that they have the quills to pay the bills!

#monterey bay aquarium #cephalopod week #bigfin reef squid #you gotta be squidding me #inkredible facts

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #CephalopodWeek, seen today at Brooklyn Museum:

Object from Crete - Minoan Decorated Jug Late Minoan IB Period, c. 1575-1500 BCE From Lower Egypt; presumably found in Egypt but made on Crete Pottery, painted

“This vessel, one of the world's most famous works of Minoan pottery, shows five mollusks called nautili [argonauts] floating above the sea floor. The sinuous, undulating lines of the water plants and nautili tentacles clearly demonstrate the Minoans' love of bold, sweeping designs. For the Egyptians, Minoan painting must have provided an exotic contrast to their own balanced, ordered designs.”

#minoan art #Crete #ancient Egypt #ancient art #nautilus #argonaut #cephalopod #Cephalopod Week #animal holiday #pottery #ceramics #museum visit #Brooklyn Museum #animals in art

[radiates-confusion]

Today! On the first leg of my journey home I present to you! A nice little line drawing of the Bigfin squid (which @dailycephalopods showed off today (I think)) with some hatching on its head and body.

I am creeped out by this adorable eldritch horror! It is still an eldritch horror to me! However, I also do still think it deserves to have adorable in its description, because it's just kinda floating there like a dude!

#bigfin squid #Wooo #Love a good cephalopod #And this is #AEC's Bus drawings #2/3 for today! #Which I think makes the potential for.... 6 drawings a week! #Wow! That's a lot! #They're all tiny #And relatively simple #But that's kinda what's nice about them #There isn't much to overcomplicate #And that's a much needed stage to get into with art I think #I can't over think these drawings #It's great! #Anyway #I have a lot to do today *screams* #So #Buh bye

[squephalopod]

Opisthoteuthis californiana

i prefer soft bottoms and i cannot lie

#going feral over the second pic #cephalopods #marine biology #squid squaturday #cephalopod saturday #octopus #week 21 #thank god for functional eyes #obibos #some days you share an orange with the ocean and other days you share a shot of tequila with the worm moon and that’s just how it is

[dogtoling]

"Short Post" on something that spawned in my brain this week while pondering ink tanks, and the concept that Inklings fill their weapons directly from their hand to the weapon handles.

Also based on that one sunken scroll that shows the Inkling's internal ink sac anatomy and a tube from the sac going to... their shoulder. (This is stupid and pointless and I've decided it either goes into the arm or the mouth or both and I think the arm makes sense)

The only weapon this really falls apart with are the dualies, which use both hands, but the dualies also have very small ink tanks so their requirements for ink might be met by just the natural increased ink flow on the skin (which I think would generally be stronger on the limbs).

Note that this could work totally well with both arms working like this; I just kept it to one arm only to mirror human handedness, the way Inklings seem to favor one hand in the game, the sunken scroll showing the ink sac tube primarily going to one side, and cephalopods really only having a siphon on one side (despite people often thinking they have two! They can move it; octopuses, specifically.)

Sources for this: - Specials, notably Splashdown and Booyah Bomb emitting ink from the palm of the hand as the main gimmick - NO tube between ink tank and weapons - like a 5-hour discord DM with @rassicas about how ink tanks make zero sense while i was also supposed to be paying attention at the mall - Like every ink-using creature in Splatoon EXCEPT INKLINGS fires ink from their mouth - Most weapons are held in the Inkling's right hand (shooters, largely) - Both Splashdown and Booyah Bomb use the right hand as well - my 1 brain cell - the sunken scroll showing the ink sac anatomy of the inkling pretending it goes to the arm instead of stopping at the shoulder

Also don't like and subscribe because i dont have youtube.

#squidthoughts #its been a while since i did one of these