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  1. embertine says

    How inviting does the turquoise water behind our octopedal friend look?

    In my mind it’s saying “wooooooooooo!” quietly to itself as it drifts down.

  2. Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says

    @llewelly:

    Not true. The enemy’s gate is down.
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    Also, that’s one gorgeous octopus.

  3. gillt says

    A generally great gathering of how the octopus was portrayed through the millennia, especially the Victor Hugo lines. However, it was deficient for not quoting the surrealist Comte de Lautréamont.

    How astonished [God] was to see Maldoror, changed into an octopus, clamp eight monstrous tentacles about his body: any one of these strong thongs could easily have spanned the circumference of a planet. Caught off guard, he struggled for several moments against this viscous embrace which was contracting more and more