The Technicolor Out Of Space @neonNeptunian@awoo.space
I'm only as real as I need to be. Are you hallucinating? //Memetic superweapon, playa-stained transdimensional emissary. Queer alien otter boy. [he/they] (NSFW)
pic, weirdo in deermask
hey so I haven't really posted anything about Burning Man
but i found this cute picture of me playing drum out in the desert so ✨ take that for right now
playa prep saga: now with tent
I got a new tent as a belated birthday present!
and it is the Most Me Thing possible, eeeyay. :DDD
(this isn't even at full-bore sunlight, more like 'partly cloudy'.)
The Bloop: Ellu Talks About Ocean Life (bizarre-looking animal)
so today i learned about this thing
this thing is called Hallucigenia sparsa
it is a pre-cambrian worm (called a xenusiid, relatives to tardigrades)
and JUST LOOK AT IT
IT'S LIKE THE PINGU OF ELDRITCH TERRORS
like i genuinely expect it to just go 'noot noot' or something. whossa good monstrosity yes its youuuu~
The Bloop: Ellu Talks About Weird Marine Stuff
Three:
The species are typically *completely immune* to the sting of the Portugese man o' war- these things. They look like jellyfish but they're a colony of siphonophores, they're floating rafts of pain, in some rare cases lethal to humans.
Three-point-a:
When blanket octopi are small (read: male-sized), they *rip the tentacles off of these and USE THEM AS WEAPONS.*
like a whip
made of poison.
[img source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/p/portuguese-man-of-war/ ]
The Bloop: Ellu Talks About Weird Marine Stuff
One:
That bit where I said /females/ were about ~2m long? Males are...~2cm.
Centimeters.
This species has one of the most extreme sexual dimorphisms known, by a weight diff of somewhere between 10-40,000 to 1.
That's like a human female being normal-sized
and a male being a walnut.
Relatedly, that's why it took until 2002 to actually spot a live specimen in the wild. by chance. on a night dive.
(this is a tiny, tiny boy)
The Bloop: Ellu Talks About Weird Marine Stuff
(i mean, yeah, if i was an octopus-eater and i saw this swimming by, i'd probably try to grab it by that blanket too. oops! It comes off, and the octopus swims away.)
But that's not the only interesting bit of intel about this species! They actually have a bunch of fucky shit goin' on with 'em.
https://awoo.space/media/5nsSpgXGqDuSwqp0IPg
[img source: http://tolweb.org/Tremoctopus ]
The Bloop: Ellu Talks About Weird Marine Stuff
so I found tHIS SPECIAL GIRL ON THE INTERNET and had a squeal
what originally was a question about 'hey what are those orb things on its arms' turned into a deep dive on marine biology
so, hey, Let's Learn About The Blanket Octopus!
(img source: https://twitter.com/echinoblog/status/951505827751280640 ) https://awoo.space/media/wARGgKAybScwXwCbK3o
glowtide glow
is glowtide tree, festooned and adorned with love! The orb flashes all the Useful colors. @_@
From @mawr and @kelseyhusky , an ellu now has a big soft ocean friend aaaaa ;3;
look at this friend! https://awoo.space/media/JfFjmfQLYxh_vnUVeRI
please admire my big queer progeny with me
it's a handpan! percussive and musical, like a steel drum.
💜
oh jeez this took off a bit
he-l-l-l-l-l-lllooo there! i am an Ellu
i might be sleepy and quiet and sluggish at times but i am a friend-shaped-friend!
I'm here to just be weird as heck at people and sometimes that's lewd
if that is fun then good! if i am everly overly so, please feel free to tell me to shoosh the peepo; i hope you to be welcome and comfortable!
so uh yes hi it me! (see? it me! (six eyes optional)) https://awoo.space/media/TKw5mhHZYGP62h4Y6-E
I dont think I ever shared pics of my birthplace yet!
Here’s the tide pool I grew up in. S’kinda manatee-shaped!
...the emoji pool floats, that wasn't me. I dunno why those even exist. c..c;
anyway uh now that ive rambled
...
...*sets a spare copyself to attract mode, attempts to sidle offstage* https://awoo.space/media/_V6Lq00e5B-WMhWXxVo
microfiction; pretty picture
Sometimes, at sunset, from high above and away, you can see the light's waves as currents.
Clouds carry them, like outcroppings of foam across a wide sea; amber-gold swims alongside them, ribbons and banners of vibrancy.
For but a few moments, the dance of the skies is for all to see--
the beauty, always-there, alight.
(source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/cygnus-spacecraft-approaches-space-station-in-the-sunset )
https://awoo.space/media/NOeJxEG5o5v95R8HwxM
I'm only as real as I need to be. Are you hallucinating? //Memetic superweapon, playa-stained transdimensional emissary. Queer alien otter boy. [he/they] (NSFW)
