#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.

#Squidtember #Some kind of octopus #A doodle 4 u

[sigmastolen]

wake up babe, new hobby just dropped

#linocut #block printing #octopus #i made this #some kind of octopus #my boss let me try making a linocut for her block print program next week :) i like him so much :) :) #there are some refinements i want to make now that i see how it printed but he turned out pretty good for my first time

[blog-of-gourd]

what if mr sands was scary

(ID in ALT.)

#sso #starshine legacy #star stable online #my art #sso fanart #mr sands #garnok #for the record THERE IS NO COMIC THIS IS A HYPOTHETICAL COVER #click here to get a free octopus god delivered right to your doorstep! #idk i just like to imagine that mr sands isnt just a random henchman to garnok but is like a seperated bit of him with a specific function #kind of like if the zooids of a siphonophore could act independently while still being connected to the main body through a mental link #ever since i played ssl for the first time ive thought of sands as just an extension of garnok #and considering that mr sands is the only piece of garnok capable of moving freely the remaining body should act as the 2nd in command #you dont want the one guy who can free you going rogue and falling in love with some earthling and having a child with them now would you

[glazeliights]

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

#some ideas that I havent drawn yet: kazuichi is a cockatoo w dyed pink feathers. gundham is some kind of owl. kiibo is a robodog #bc team dr reaally wanted to push the makoto parallels. imposter would perhaps be an octopus cause they change color to camouflage so #danganronpa #dr #thh #sdr2 #ndrv3 #junko enoshima #mukuro ikusaba #ibuki mioda #nagito komaeda #shuichi saihara #kokichi ouma #sonia nevermind #chiaki nanami #makoto naegi

[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?

#i was in there for a week and ill continue partial hospitalization for a few weeks #i hope i learn more and i hope i get specific help to my issues. because whay i learned there didnt directly pertain to me #but having structured daily life felt nice. but it wasnt all relaxing because there were still responisibilites on the outside world #tapping on the window or calling me on the phone. chose the best time for a meltdown. i have taxes and credit card bills to take care of #but if i stress about it now ill jsut be going back to the ER and thats no good. the hospital was so cold dude im glad im home with blankets #this is mr octopus again. im glad i broguh hom to work. i went straight to er from work and if i had no plushie with me #i probably would have stayed longer or be even more mentally unstable and distressed. its good to have comfort items #i dont think i want to know ehat if be like without some kind of companion or grounding item with me. i dont want to imagine me without em #its okay to have a little friend with you. i would be so distraught. everyone loved me there #the nurses the patients the residents yhe social workers the students #mr. octopus made them happy because of his big smile and mine too. the people there did not expect the mass amoutns of stress and depression #in this bubbly happy baby witb a happy pink octopus. one of the patients thought it was the meds the happy pills they gave me #no im jsut naturally like this. or artificially like this. i still dont know how to express or understand my feelings #if what im showing is real or not because i know ill be the happiest in the room wherever i go. maybe its a front or a mask #but when im like that kinda hard to know whats really underneath. they always ask me if im okay but i turn to myself #and its nondescript like ive put a blanket over how i really feel. its weird. the bubbly energy is blinding. #words #mr octopus #mental health #doodles

[hollowsart]

So I had a dream with Doc Ock in it again.

Here's my attempt to draw him from memory, but like.. spiced up just a touch. it doesn’t really look how he looked in the dream, nor is it even the same style (not sure how to replicate exactly what I saw, it looked good tho, very simple)

[further elaboration under the cut, do read!]:

For once it wasn’t Molina lol (I’m surprised?? where’d you go, man?)

However.. this one was like.. some animated cartoon Doc Ock. Looked like his usual cartoony comic self. I am disappointed it's not from a real cartoon because I so badly want to see what people thought about that Doc Ock. He was really fun, silly, goofy. Like a lighthearted cartoon with a touch of seriousness. Probably one of the few top really great Spiderman cartoons out there.

Anyways, I think people would have liked him and enjoyed him if the cartoon was real that he was from. the feeling I get is like.. he had all the elements about Doc Ock in general that people like, all rolled into one green spandex wearing package. with an optional brown coat over top. So people would have definitely liked him, he was silly, playful, but not played down as a joke nor was the show something for little kids, but it wasn’t anything too dark or serious.

..I think he was the main focus, not Spidey. like.. it was mostly revolved around him, the main character. Which is definitely something I would watch lol

#my art #phone art #doc ock #doctor octopus #otto octavius #in the dream the neck piece was removable like some kind of high tech device thing. he used it for something and had it-- #--come back and wrap around his neck again when he was done with it. it was interesting? #//long post

[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?

#i have a few beloved accounts i follow that i swear by but like. some new blood would not go awry #also doesnt help that i read science/nature/history nonfic and its a broad truth that most nonfic people online read bios/political nonfic #which i dont hate obv but its not really what im looking for when i want someone new to watch #'passive consumption is bad put some effort into it' yeah yeah but have you considered that i like complaining? #and also like. it just kind of is a fact that fantasy and romance dominate book spaces online these days #its not the end all be all obviously but its a huge factor to be worked around if you dont like those genres #it just is what it is #disgruntled octopus

[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.

#ask #thanks for the ask!! :) #one piece #fishmen #merfolk #i would also like to know how these people know what their fish type is because they rarely look anything like them #how does Jinbe know he's a whale shark fish-man? #he has 0 whale shark traits #how does arlong know he's sawshark and not a sawfish? #cuz it'd make way more sense if he was a sawfish given he has no barbels #and also sawfish are way bigger then sawsharks so wouldn't he prefer to have that as his secondary fish species? #also how come Kurobi is just a ray? or Dosun a hammerhead shark? #that's not a singular species #I mean I assume Dosun is a great hammerhead because that's the one people know #and Kurobi is a manta ray of some kind for similar reasons #also Hatchan is just an octopus #but the giant octopus is the one people know the most so maybe he's that #did these guys just decide they didn't need to pick something more pacific?

[illiana-mystery]

I had to draw my favorite Behind-The-Scenes NWH Photo.

#i'm not very good at drawing the actuators #yet anyway #maybe i can get some more practice in #i think i need more references #but this was kind of a quick drawing #doc ock #doctor octopus #doctor octavius #otto octavius #dr. otto octavius #fan art #fanart #no way home #nwh #nwh otto #spiderman no way home #alfred molina

[phylumhearts]

toxic kinda guy

#he looks like a little octopus I think #my body is full of ouch and my brain is full of codeine so this is some kind of manifestation of that situation #hello #xaldin #kh #hearts arts

[theriu]

I see where they were going with this, but also, NO

(weird medieval guys)

#bats #medieval art #humor #faerie #this is some kind of octopus hand fae creature #River babbles

[sarahmackattack]

Today's cephalopod weirdo: The Pyjama squid

No, it's not a melting scoop of stracciatella ice cream. It's the Pyjama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata)!

Like their cousins the bobtails, they often bury in the sediment. They're in the order Sepiida, which includes bobtails, cuttlefish, bottletails, and these cuties.

Some articles on the internet will say stuff like "These animals are technically cuttlefish" and... listen... I don't know who said that, but whoever said it is wrong, and now sources all over the damn internet are repeating it, and like... I shouldn't let it bother me, ya know? But it does, unfortunately, make me feel like my eyeballs are going to fall out of my head.

Because words MEAN something, you know? And the word cuttlefish means an animal with a cuttlebone in it. The cuttlefish are a distinct bunch of critters. Their fins go around their whole bodies*, they have W shaped pupils, but most critically, they have a buoyancy device called a cuttlebone. That cuttlebone keeps them neutrally buoyant- so they neither float nor sink. They just chill. They're able to control the buoyancy with gas exchange between their blood and the little gas chambers in that cuttlebone. The other members of the Sepiida, the bottletails, pyjama squid, and bobtails, they don't have any of that. Sure, they're totally, 100%, most closely related among the cephalopods to cuttlefish, but... cuttlefish... are their own little group within that branch of the family tree.

*Ok to be fair, it's very easy to confuse cuttlefish and reef squid, but that's a whole other post.

#Squidtember #Some kind of octopus #cephalopods #squid #marine biology #cephalopod #cuttlefish #marine life #squid facts #sealife #science

[autistickaitovocaloid]

really like this genre of thing like and subscribe if you agree

#art talks about stuff #i'm this type of beast i'm pretty sure. not always maybe #more times i feel like some kind of deep sea octopus with huge pathetic eyes #id in alt text

[i-sexually-identify-as-a-bitch]

#me to myself after the like 6th watch through of Jjk really just noticing how hot toji is #toji fushiguro #toji is so hot and watching him kill the octopus guy really changed me #i be foaming at the mouth like some kind of rabid dog #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #my posts

[c-119]

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

#planes: fire and rescue #planes 2 #disney planes #cabbie mchale #the smokejumpers #cabbie #my thoughts #so? #I mean I’ve thought about it way too much at this point #and also y’all get sneak peeks at my human designs #hehehehe #pick and choose #it will be fun methinks #and y’all could give requests as well #honestly? Windy would be a squid or octopus #Dipper would be a seabird #or like. something semiaquatic #Pelican? #blade would be some kind of shark methinks #Maru would be a pilot fish maybe #Dusty would be like #a wahoo #or a black marlin #idk #I would say Cherry Barb for Patch #but that’s a freshwater fish #so I kinda wanna say red/vermillion snapper #not sure where they are tho lol #anyways. goodbye again

[baby-prophet]

hello baby prophet sorry things have been stressful lately, hopefully they calm down soon and you can smoke in pure tranquility ( ◜‿◝ ) also when u get a chance what is ur fav type of tree (both fruit bearing and non-fruit bearing)?

hii hopefully things should calm down sunday night after I move in 🙏 then I could smoke in peace and love on planet earth lol

we had this corkscrew hazel tree at my grandparents that was beautiful and weird that died earlier this year that was one of my favorite trees there... big fan of ginkgo trees and willows but how can you not be lol my great grandma had a ginormous willow on the edge of her property that I would hide under and I have a soft spot for the black walnut tree that grew right outside her front door bc I remember summers collecting the ones that fell and rubbing them to smell them. idk how to describe the smell but google says it's a spicy citrus scent lol to me it smells like summer in TN :)

as far as im concerned, all fruit trees are good trees and could theoretically be my favorite bc i love fruit but i dont have any personal connection to fruit trees sadly :(

those are what I could think of off the top of my head, I love trees

#idk what kind of tree it is in the woods behind my grandparents #i believe its some kind of oak.. #but its growing weird up a steep hill and is tryimg to hold on to rock faces #it looks beautiful holding on #it looks like an octopus and a god #norm.allie #asks #anonymous