D'AWWWWCTOPUS: post yr images of adorable octopuses here (no squid allowed)

If only the movie lived up to the title.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MyMKSLQTE_k/UAQmCs75IJI/AAAAAAABLIM/SddZwzU8xoc/s1600/MysteriousIsland29%2B%252862%2529.jpg

The Mysterious Island (1929)

hello im having the best day ever bc i just found out this shiny holographic octopus exists pic.twitter.com/UC9Vw0MrdP

— stacie 🍵 REOPENING COMMS 7/15 (@CthulhuLel) July 7, 2019

(yes, i know it's a cuttlefish; it can't help it)

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0BgUWLD2no/?igshid=2c6upi7w48yz

Good trilobite disguise.

It's apparently pretending to be the venomous flatfish, see more of its impersonations here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos8kouz810

Would not mind being reincarnated as an octopus

they are SO **cking badass it's ridiculous

https://scontent.fphl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67160480_2417718071615858_2978170652789309440_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_oc=AQlI0ssLGizzKW_1_ohiaxMCxLl1RAzWujO6sJFPydmAgp7jQSAZVRU2fDxoNsRLAlY&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl1-1.fna&oh=435df60a3ec5b2d7af59f1fc21fa4fef&oe=5DA26C81
A perfectly cromulent Criterion Collection spine # 1000.

Mimic Octopus/Sanders 2020

Are we ready for a pride octopus?

https://youtu.be/QJcXMPJ9XN8

you’re damn right i am

werktopus

That's what she said.

I apologize for besmirching this pure thread with such an obvious, poorly formed "joke."

you're among colleagues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8wJwERqRw

Amazing to watch

wow

dang

beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vKCLJZbytU

https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-the-mesmerising-colour-shifts-of-a-sleeping-octopus

holy shit

that show looks neat

streamable online now: https://www.pbs.org/video/octopus-making-contact-y8dyan/

Hell yes.

🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
🐙 ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️ 🐙
🐙 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 🐙
🐙 #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
🐙 ❤️ ❤️ 🐙
🐙 ❤️ ❤️ 🐙
🐙 ❤️ 🐙
🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

— 🦑 Monsterey Boo Ascaryum 🎃 (@MontereyAq) October 8, 2019

https://laughingsquid.com/octopus-trades-cup-for-shell/

don’t mess with the octopus 👊 pic.twitter.com/ovQIa52trW

— dave ❄️ 🥕 (@davemacladd) October 9, 2019

APS, that is so goddamn beautiful it deserves an embed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTJbdy097m0

<3

A handful of octopi feeding on a whale carcass 3km deep, streaming live now from the Nautilus expedition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwm3-xKyIzE

https://media.nature.com/w1172/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03390-x/d41586-019-03390-x_17355168.jpg

If the Residents were octopusses

https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2013/10/39714.jpg?quality=45&resize=620,413

https://media.nature.com/w800/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03390-x/d41586-019-03390-x_17350538.jpg
it's party time!

Meet the dumbo octopus 🐙 just one of the creatures revealed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute during an exploration of the dark, uncharted waters more than a mile below the surface in the Coral Sea off Australia’s east coast https://t.co/RGMbQ2poTn pic.twitter.com/YZVpgOTU93

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 26, 2020

Beautiful

well well well

Well, I watched "My Octopus Teacher" on netflix: a flawed but moving documentary about a straight man who has a lifechanging erotic relationship with a female octopus. I cried, then read out loud to my friends the entirety of @amiasrinivasan's 2017 essay (https://t.co/ILun9KMlxz) pic.twitter.com/Azefm8xJjU

— Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia) September 20, 2020

lol, that film is dumb insofar as he befriends an octopus and then doesn’t interfere with a shark attacking it but then feels it’s appropriate to bring it food to heal and then bring his son to meet the octopus and that’s at the halfway mark of the film. narrator says “that’s when my relationship with my teacher deepened” and i peaced out. i’m as avidly pro-cephalopod as the next person but projection on that level is just gross. yes, the photography is spectacular. it’s good oceanography film porn but no, it's not erotic.

actually, i just read that whole tweet thread and i guess lewis is right on!

Some of the reactions to that fun thread..

Bernie would fuck an octopus

is it possible to have a non-erotic relationship with an octopus? or, because octopuses are by nature boundary-negating (in your reading) which is the essence of eros (in your reading), does that make them inherently erotic, meaning all relationships with octopuses are erotic?

— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) September 21, 2020

I have to say, I never much care to hear anything from Elizabeth Bruenig and this goes double for this.

It's an illustration of democratic socialism Vs communism, with an octopus.

I have no intention of watching it but that LRB piece linked is classic and all the tradcaths/bores replying to that thread going “uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” are only telling on themselves.

Wild octopus reaches out to touch his human best friend whenever she visits 🐙💙 pic.twitter.com/VDniOcE1Bi

— The Dodo (@dodo) October 17, 2020

v good boy imo

d’awwww

that's about how long "my octopus teacher" should have been