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Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
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It's #WorldOctopusDay!

While I already have a post for #OCTOtober, here's a bonus of some octopus shitposts from personal collection
"Is it really worth it?" meme. Text says "is it really worth it?" and below it is two pictures. The left picture is a flapjack octopus (Opisthoteuthis sp.), probably Opisthoteuthis californiana. It is a small, adorable orange octopus. It has arms that are all connected with gelatinous webbing. It is big round black eyes with orange pupils, and two adorable fins on its mantle that look like cute little eats. The image on the right is a scoop or mango ice cream, which vaguely has the same shape as the octopus. The octopus is circled with a red circle and a red arrow extends from the circle pointing to the ice cream. A photo of a Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa) sitting in a tide pool with its head and mantle out of the water. It is surrounded by mussels. Text in a black box says "unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing." A "live slug reaction" meme, except it is "Live Octopus Reaction" and the image is a low quality image of a glowing sucker octopus (Stauroteuthis syrtensis) Its arms are going out and down with its webbing out. Its fins are tucked in. It is staring at the camera as if you just caught it eating your potato chips at 3 AM. A blurry photo of a Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa) in a shallow pool on a beach. The octopus is partially out of the water, with its head sticking out and facing forward to the camera. Its arms are spread out. The camera is almost level, slightly from above, so it almost looks like the octopus took the photo, although the photographer's reflection is visible. The beach is brown and muddy. The octopus is orange, with the part out of the water being shiny. A grey, transparent box with white text is going across the image to help make the image look like a Snapchat message. The text says "hey i think you accidentally left me on read haha"
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Octopuses tend to be solitary, but the Friendly Octopus (Octopus laqueus) is one of the exceptions.

Although they prefer to be on their own, they are willing to tolerate other octopuses if it means they can have a den. I guess even cephalopods have to worry about having roommates...

#OCTOtober
A Friendly Octopus (Octopus laqueus) sitting on the left side of a rock. Its arms are together, but they go from the top of the rock to the bottom where there is an over hand. Its head is sticking upwards, especially its eyes, but its mantle is dangling down. It has its papillae raised, and it is beige with some dark orange, and it has some sea foam green, especially on its mantle and papillae. The rock is covered with some grey stuff, like algae covered in sand. There is some taller rocks to the left. A Friendly Octopus (Octopus laqueus) sitting on the sea floor. It is quite small, and it is a behind a rock that is slightly larger than it. The sea floor is covered in irregular small pebbles. The octopus has its arms in a messy pile and has its mantle handing down. It is mostly light brown with some brown and off white. The underside of its arms are slightly translucent and a desaturated purple colour. There are some thin sea plants in the background. A Friendly Octopus (Octopus laqueus) in a clear plastic. The octopus is in the corner looking out of the container. Its mantle and head is light brown with some light cyan around the eyes. Its arms are light brown and a slightly translucent white. It has two rows of suckers. It is quite small. The water is black, probably a night dive. A Friendly Octopus (Octopus laqueus) peeking out of a wide crevice. It appears to be hanging from the underside of an overhang, then holding its head and mantle out and up out of the crevice. The arms are mostly hidden in the crevice. The octopus is white, and the surrounding terrain is a sandy beige.
October 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) are known to use tools. They will carry around shells to later use as mobile shelter. They can often be found hiding in shells, cosplaying as another mollusk.

They are also known to sometimes walk on two legs, perhaps to spite Plato.

#OCTOtober
A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) sitting on a conch on the seafloor. The octopus has its head and most of its arms and part of its mangle out of the shell. It is waving its arms around. It has a sandy brown colour with dark brown areas and its papillae raised. The inside of the shell is white but the out sides is light brown cream colour. A coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) walking on the sea floor with two arms. The rest of its arms are curled and held near its body, giving it a typical octopus shape. The arms it is walking on curl at the halfway point, then go on the floor like a foot, then curl up like long pointy jester shoes. It is mostly beige with some brown, and it has its papillae raised. A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) hiding between two bivalve shells. It is pulling each half quite close to its body, although you can clearly see the octopus inside. The octopus's suckers and eyes are visible. The shells are standing vertically on on the seafloor. The shells are quite covered in stuff such as sand. The octopus is white with red around its eyes. A coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) holding a shell underneath them while standing with their arms. There are also holding a long white thing, which might be wood or a cuttlebone? The octopus has some papillae raised above its eyes and on its mantle but otherwise it is smooth. It has a purplish brown colour.
October 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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They CAN handle the heat, so they are staying in the kitchen.

Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis don't mind a little hot weather. They live around hydrothermal vents and are capable of surviving in water as hot as 91°C.

They are small, with males having mantle lengths less than 6 cm.

#OCTOtober
A vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis octopus walking on the sandy seafloor. It is pale white and has black eyes. A vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis crawling around a rocky hydrothermal vent. It is pale white and has black eyes. Its arms are curled. There is a sea anemone on the right of the image. A vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis octopus walking on the sandy seafloor. It is pale white and has black eyes. A vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis octopus crawling around a rocky hydrothermal vent. It is pale white and has black eyes. The tips of its arms are curled. There is a sea anemone in the bottom right of the image, and there are several white crabs nearby.
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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We used to think that the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) was single, widely distributed species.

As it turns out, they are of a species complex, although we have yet to figure out exactly how many species belong to this complex. (So far, at least 6)

#OCTOtober
A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) on the sandy seabed. It is touching some debris on the sea floor, including some shells. The octopus is an orangish-red. A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) clinging to the side of a rock, with various sea plants around. The octopus is staring at the photographer while inking. Its orange siphon is visible on the right, and a large column of brown ink is shooting out like a geyser. The octopus has a whitish colour, with slight reddish eyes and suckers. It has its papillae raised, giving it a bumpy appearance with some much taller bumps (almost spiky, but still rounded and fleshy). A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) floating just above the sandy sea floor. It appears to be mimicking a piece of seaweed: its mantle is deflated, its its arms are curving upwards (except for one that it is standing on) and the arms are in a tight corkscrew shapes. It has its papillae raised on its mantle and its head, and it has a green and dark purple colour. The sea floor has a wavy pattern, like a bunch of sand dunes. A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) sitting in a glass bottle. It has its arms reaching backwards into the bottle, so all you see is its head, the base of its arms at the mouth of the bottle and some of its mantle deep in the bottle. Its is a beige to grey colour with brown around its yellow eyes and orange at the bottom of its arms. The bottle is an orangish brown and it is covered in things growing on it. There is a small pile of rocks at the bottle's opening.
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Got a new fic for spoopy season

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In the End - Chapter 1 - DarthWittebane - The Owl House (Cartoon) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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October 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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This is a very appropriate response to cephalopods
A tumblr post from the user weaver-z. Their profile picture is Totoro or a cat that looks similar to Totoro, that is coloured dark red against a seafoam green background. The text says: "I think the only person I've met in real life with 100% career satisfaction was this gal I knew who was a presenter at a children's science museum and delivered every line like she was running a WWE match. Every time you passed the room where she was giving a presentation, you'd hear something like "WHO'S READY FOR CEPHALOPODS?!?" and the kids would go absolutely nuts cheering."
September 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Octopoteuthis deletron don't have their tentacles as adults, leaving them with only 8 hooked arms. They are even capable of detaching an arm in order to escape from a predator.

The male squids will mate with any O. deletron they meet - male or female.

#SQUIDtember
An Octopoteuthis deletron floating in the deep sea with a silly pose. Its mantle is sort of horizontal pointing downwards with its arms raised upwards. You can see the zigzagging rows of hooks on its arms Its fins are out to the side. It has an orange colour. An Octopoteuthis deletron swimming with an extremely silly post. It appears to be swimming away from the camera, flapping its fins. Its arms are raised up and back over its mantle, and you can see the zigzag row of little white hooks on its arms. Its blue eyes are blocked but its fin and you can see its siphon on the underside. The squid is orange. An Octopoteuthis deletron inking. Its body is horizontal and its arms are raised up and back over its body. You can see the zigzag row of little white hooks on its arms. Its fins are flapping and you can see its siphon on its underside. It has big blue round eyes. It is orangish red with orange on the underside of its arms. The ink is wafting upwards like a cloud of smoke. A close up of an Octopoteuthis deletron face. The squid is upside down, with its mantle down and to the left, siphon pointing up, and its arms going up and then down. You can clearly see the row of hooks on each arm. The squid's eye has a big blue spherical pupil, with a brown iris around it, and a white sclera. The squid is orangish red to orange, white big purplish white splotches on its face.
September 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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They certainly aren't a no-frills squids.

Comb-finned Squids (genus Chtenopteryx) are small squids with unique fins.

Their fins have muscular ribs that give them look like a swimming ruffle chip.

#SQUIDtember
A Chtenopteryx sicula floating above the sea floor. The squid is translucent white. A purple organ is visible in its mantle, and the part of its black eyes that is inside of its body is visible. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip. A blackwater photo of Chtenopteryx squid. It has translucent skin, but it is covered in brilliant orange chromatophores, which completely cover the mantle, most of the head, the upper arms and lower fins. Its arms and tentacles are neatly spread out. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip. Six photos of Chtenopteryx sicula individuals observed during the ROV survey. Each squid is translucent white. A red/pink organ is visible in their mantle, and the part of their black eyes that is inside of their bodies is visible. Their fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip. Each image, left to right, top to bottom, is labeled with a letter a-f. a) Frame grab from the HD video of the first individual of C. sicula detected during the research cruise; b) image of a male having a large dorsal light organ (white arrow); c) swimming near a longnosed skate (Dipturus oxyrinchusd) e) f) particulars of the chromatic pattern and stationary behaviour. A Chtenopteryx squid floating in the ocean as observed by an ROV. Its mantle and head are bright orange. Its limbs are translucent white. It has black beady eyes. Its fins are translucent and have an orange stripe near the out edge that goes the length of the fin. You can see the translucent fin ribs white are at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip. The squid is roughly horizontal, with two limbs extending and curving upwards.
September 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Chapter 29 is out
darthwittebane.bsky.social Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Firefly squids (Watasenia scintillans) are covered in blue and green photophores, making them a beautiful display of bioluminescence, especially when they gather to mate.

They are also the only squid species known to have colour vision

#SQUIDtember
Two firefly squids (Watasenia scintillans) swimming in the dark. It is too dark to see their bodies except for their glowing blue photophores which cover their whole body. A Firefly Squid (Watasenia scintillans) swimming just above the sandy sea floor. It is illuminated, so you can see the squid clearly but its photophores are not glowing (or at least you cannot see their glow). It looks like a typical squid, although at the end of each of its two tentacles is a cluster of three black circles, which are photophores. The squid has translucent flesh with orange chromatophores. Several firefly squids (Watasenia scintillans) swimming in the dark. It is too dark to see their bodies except for their glowing blue photophores which cover their whole body. A firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans) swimming in the dark. The top side is illuminated, letting you see its orange mantle, large eye and translucent white arms. The bottom is not illuminated, and only their glowing blue photophores are visible.
September 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙
A large orange octopus with white spots and a long thin body wrapped in a semicircle around a large algae covered boulder
September 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
darthwittebane.bsky.social
Chapter 28 is now out
darthwittebane.bsky.social Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
September 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Humboldt Squids (Dosidicus gigas) got a bad reputation. Nicknamed "diablo rojo" by Mexican fishermen, they are known for being big, aggressive and sometimes cannibals.

They also hunt in packs and communicate with each other by changing the colour of their skin.

#SQUIDtember
A squad of Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) swimming in the sea. They are large, white squid shaped squids. They are all swimming in roughly the same direction. It is dark, so some of the squids are hard to see in the background and edges. A POV shot of a Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) grabbing a divers arm and camera. Two arms are raised up and curling back, two are grabbing the camera or are about to, and the other arms are out of the shot. The squid is quite large, and its mantle is pointing away from the camera. Some fish are in the background. The whole image has a green tint. A fisherman holding 52lb Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) caught off of the Southern California coast. The squid, including its arms, is almost as tall as the man, maybe 10-15 shorter. The squid is a deep dark red. The fisherman is wearing a camo baseball cap, camo jacket, jeans and sneakers. Another fisherman is behind him with a fishing rod. A Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) caught on a fishing line. It is being pulled out of the water. It is coming out head first, so its arms are flailing and its beak is visible. The squid is orange.
September 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Chapter 27 is now published
darthwittebane.bsky.social Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
August 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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It’s incredible how my fic has given me more depressive episodes than moments of joy
August 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I need to start doing something here
August 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Chapter 26 is out! Go check it out
darthwittebane.bsky.social Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
August 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
darthwittebane.bsky.social
Chapter 25 is out! Go read it! Unless you haven’t read the other chapters than do that first
darthwittebane.bsky.social Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
August 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The Owl House | For the Future (S3E2)
Frame: 21080/69977
August 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Chapter 24 is out go read
darthwittebane.bsky.social Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
August 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
darthwittebane.bsky.social
Well it’d be great if our starters stopped getting injured
August 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
darthwittebane.bsky.social
Chapter 23 is now out
darthwittebane.bsky.social Ethan 🌹🎶💚 @darthwittebane.bsky.social · May 31
My fanfic is here: Two Shades of Green

After escaping Emperor Belos, Luz quickly discovers that she is not the only human on the Boiling Isles. A young boy named Oliver must learn to live his new life and deal with the shadows from the times of old. Link below!

#TheOwlHouse #TOH
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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About to see Superman
August 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM