Just to give you some background, because I know you're asking, what IS it with all these tentacles anyway?! - I like tentacles. (Well that's clearly a given...) What I mean is, I love the taxonimic class Cephalopoda - octopuses, squids, cuttlefish and nautiloids (and the extinct ammonites). They're incredibly interesting, unusual creatures and tentacles, as an alternative limb structure, are an obvious part of their charm. Clearly I'm not the only person who thinks so, and there is quite a bit of tentacle 'stuff' around, which I tend to snap up when I find it. And yes, of course I have avatars (proper animals, not just my octomer hybrid). So while Halloween gives me a wonderful excuse to tentaculate my castle, I find them fun, quirky and charming rather than spooky.
Cue unduly excessive tentacle spammage. :3 Remember to click on image for a larger format.
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| Implings Striped Tentacle Table & Chairs (mod/copy) |
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| Tea service in detail, with book. |
Anyone for tea? The table can be Mother. It can pour and stir sugar for two at a time!
Also gives out transferable squid cups (as pictured).
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| Something Wicked Kraken chandelier |
While bringing up the chandelier in inventory for credit details, I made a very happy discovery. My giant blue-ringed octopus, which I had thought lost, was labelled KRAKEN! Goes to show the perils of failing to file your purchases. That objects folder is a black hole and it's all very well using search key terms but you have to remember which term to use...
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| MB-CreationZ Pumpkin Brewage, in hearth |
Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble; pumpkin soup, at the double!
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| Audria McCallen Captured Scroll (sold at Gothic Demon) |
The information you seek is in THIS scroll...
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| Yeeek! Knew there was an inter-dimensional rift somewhere around the castle... |
Curio Obscura Friendly Tentacles ~ for floor, wall and ceiling,
5 touch-triggered animated poses each (purchased at the TwoMoons Monster Beach Party)
Properly trained, your inter-dimensional tentacle intruders can make quite
comfortable and avant-garde furniture! Self cleaning and feeding!
comfortable and avant-garde furniture! Self cleaning and feeding!
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| Dolome Designs 'Alice's Nightmare' Hanging Lamp & Picture ~ 'The Pram' MIASNOW Home ~ Bookstack with Rat Gothic Demon 'Carlos' teddy Bed by smudge Boucher, tentacles added by me |
My bedroom. With added tentacles.
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| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... Gothic Demon ghost & werewolf teddies |
My posing 'mirror' I use for matching outfits to the Colour Challenge.
It has sprouted tentacles... |
| Dolome Designs 'Alice's Nightmare' Vanity Set Gothic Demon devil teddy Audria McCallen hatbox stack (actually the purchase box for the tentacle scroll, rather cool!) |
The next three pictures do not involve tentacles. But I wanted to show you anyway.
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| Bloody Mary mirror by Pamagester Darracq |
"Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary."
Nope, nothing. ... Did you just hear something..? |
| AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! |
The legend goes that if you speak her name three times in front of a mirror, she will appear and scratch your eyes out. This was used to fantastically creepy effect (but somewhat stealing from The Ring) in the first season of Supernatural. So I asked Pama to make me a mirror... which I modified (removing the visible mirror parts) and placed over my tentacle vanity mirror :) If you ask me he should sell it. If you want one, I'll ask him for you. Blood drip effect is animated, btw.
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| Grim Bros. The Bloody Countess' Bathtub Gothic Demon zombie teddy |
Et tu, Edward?! Knew I shouldn't have succumbed to temptation and bought those bears. Dragged into my own bath and had my heart ripped out...
Other Credits
TheMaxx Dragon's Castle by TheMaxx Dragonash
MIASNOW Photo FX Halloween HUD (this year's group gift) for the veiny borders - they don't all fit exactly because there was some client window resizing in between photos.
Gothic Demon monster teddy bears. They play music. Each bear comes with its own appropriate sound track, full songs from pop rock culture. I. Could. Not. Resist :3 There are two more bears on sale not shown here (vampire and Frankenbear, so cute he is made of mis-matched pieces from other plushies!) and plans afoot to make more, including possibly a Cthulhu-bear, WITH TENTACLES!
My Outfit
L&E 'slightly monstrous' mesh horns (bought at Monster Beach Party)
Waka&Yuki Hair 30 moca with Truth hairbase
Dead Apples Sinistre Eyes ~ Horror Haute ~ Lifeless Drowned
Amacci Skin ~ Liane (Goth) Silver Tattoo 1 (current group gift)
Bare@Rose Shadow Wizardess Brown Jacket (mesh)
Prism ~ Keira Illusion Dress ~ Mushroom Zebra
Elikatira Secret Boots ~ smoke
DooDads Poison Bottle jewellery
Amaranthus Starburst Halloween Brooch (2011 group gift)
Implings Rose (given to me by a zombie whose grave I was dancing on, so romantic!)
Fascinating! The connection between tentacles and spookiness is an unusual one! You must have had a wonderful time planning and setting up your decorations. The bears are a wonderful addition!
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you about Cephalopoda (I learned a new word!) being interesting. They really have a successful thing going with those versatile tentacles.
ReplyDeleteAs for the tentacle furniture... It's not something I would choose myself, but it looks surprisingly classy! Oh and thank you for the tentacle-cup ;)