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Just popping in to reiterate yesterday's holiday cheer and let everyone know that Notes From an Emergency Meeting of the Institute for the Study of CephalopodProgress , a round-robin sort of piece I did with Matt Staggs, Felix Gilman, and Matt Dyer is now live at Tor.com. Huzzah!
Mostly, I just want an excuse to post a brutally cool video: However, it does raise a fewinteresting questions -- the octopus under study doesn't merely make use of the coconut shell as a hermit crab uses another shell for shelter. The octopus actually selects shells, cleans them out and then carries them with them in anticipation of an abstract need for protection from a not yet present ...
Mostly, I just want an excuse to post a brutally cool video: However, it does raise a fewinteresting questions -- the octopus under study doesn't merely make use of the coconut shell as a hermit crab uses another shell for shelter. The octopus actually selects shells, cleans them out and then carries them with them in anticipation of an abstract need for protection from a not yet present ...
Octopuses have been observed carrying coconut shells in what researchers claim is the first recorded example of tool use in invertebrates. There is a growing record of tool use in animals and birds, from musical "instruments" made by orang-utansMovie Camera to sponges used by dolphins to dislodge prey from sand. Now veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, have been filmed picking up ...
Stayed up late last night writing another thousand words on "The Unicorn Evils," which puts my workdcount for yesterday at a more-than-respectable 3200, which feels like accomplishment. And now I am blowing off yoga class, under the tanaise -originated "World so cruel, bed so warm" protocol, with my own "cats so snuggly" amendment. Also, much of the midpoint of last night was a wash on ...
Hey, do octopuses turn you on? Well, as we all know, it's fairly difficult to get any cephalopod into bed with you, but with this dildo, you can have one eighth of the experience!
Guess where I got this image from.
Tentacle dildos (Did I pluralize that properly?) are pretty strange, but not even close to the strangest dildos you can obtain. Let's explore, shall we?
If you're ...
Title : Illusion of Reality Author : Santa Recipient : the_cephalopod Pairing : McKay/Sheppard Rating : R Word Count : ~6000 Disclaimer : Stargate Atlantis does not belong to me. No copyright infringement is intended and no money is being made from this fanwork. Warning : None Author's Notes : Thank you to both lyndasty and reddwarfer for betaing! Summary : ...
...The original "Clash of the Titans" had a sort of cross between a merman and the creature of the Black Lagoon as the kraken, and Hell, I like that one better. But why not just create a giant cephalopod? You know, nobody has ever captured the way squids and octopi actually move with special effects' how they move is amazing, really, and about as UN-human as you can get. You could do a lot with that....
Holy crap, octopuses are using tools. I, for one, welcome our cephalopod overlords... I am so ridiculously tired. I think I'm going to call it an early night, and then tomorrow all my focus goes onto Yuletide. .... somebody say something about my haircut or I'm going to get even more self-conscious than I already am . Please?
