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The Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Lovecraft’s eldritch horrors.īut cephalopods-a group of animals that includes squid, cuttlefish, and octopuses (not, as I used to think, “octopi”)-can be cute as well, in ways that can easily appeal to a broad range of people. But tentacled? When one is looking at a squid or cuttlefish in a market, it can be hard to think of it as anywhere near “cute”, and far easier to be reminded of H.P. ![]() Two out of three of those descriptors make sense to a broad swathe of people: pastel colours are often associated with infants and, therefore, fall into a commonly-understood spectrum of cute same thing goes for big eyes. Pastel-coloured, boogly-eyed, and tentacled: these are the primary descriptors for a particular brand of cute I’m especially fond of. ![]()
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