Thursday, July 14, 2011

this photo creeps me out


This is a 'handfish',as identified in this National Geographic item.  I keep imagining a bunch of these guys, maybe about goblin height, clutching wicked little spears.  Maybe they aren't overtly hostile to man, just inhumanly indifferent to our non-aquatic lives.

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  1. How did Lovecraft ever get his ideas without to internet to provide him pictures like this?

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  2. And now we know what kuo-toa are supposed to look like.

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  3. Looks more like a Murloc to me.

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  4. Bow down before Dagon and despair!

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  5. Dip him in some batter, fry 'em up, and he won't be so creepy then.

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  6. Anonymous1:58 PM

    Nasssty Whisssk! :)

    Although, I may now put a vendor stand in Shrine of the Kuo-toa module and call it "Creepy Crisps"

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  7. I love that picture. Perfectly alien.

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  8. I like the Perspective The Happy Whisk is bringing to Monster Discussions. :)

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  9. Anonymous5:54 PM

    Ahh, another weird beastie from the state I live in. This thing is even creepier when you see it "walking" on film.

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  10. Not spears...tridents.

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  11. Anonymous11:08 PM

    I hope that this things is not psionic.

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  12. @Bob

    Not only do we know what they look like, but now we know they are real

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