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[apiphile]

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Cambridge Botanic Gardens & The Commons Cow

I'm getting a lot of great suggestions for perks for potentially crowdfunding a print run of As Simple As Hunger - commonalities are mugs, badges, t-shirts, bags, and additional content - and also people offering to make perks for it which I had never expected to

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[wolfy_writing]

Ooh, you do "Throw a bunch of stuff into a pot and make it spicy, then cook into a tasty mess" recipes, too? (I have what I call "That spinach thingy" which is vaguely curryish and, when made properly, blazingly hot.)

[apiphile]

That's basically all I do! I also do the "frightening protein sources" thing with various tentacular meals which no one but punkstara truly appreciates. But yeah, lots of spice!

[wolfy_writing]

I'm all about the spices. I like my tentacular things alive and underwater where I can look in amusement as they change colors and make varying unsuccessful attempts to hide from me. (One changed colors so it almost exactly matched the coral reef except for the giant obvious eye staring at me, one tried to convince me it was much bigger and spikier than it was, and one built a tiny wall of rubble to block itself off from me.)

[apiphile]

In my secret heart of hearts I like to believe that by eating my mollusc brethren, with their amazing skills and their intelligence and dexterity, I will gain some of these abilities myself.

(Also did you know that due to shrinking habitat in the Mediterranean bringing them into closer contact with each other, Mediterranean octopuses are starting to learn skills and strategies from each other? I was fascinated by this. Of course the abilities are already there in potentia so ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE CEPHALOPOD ARMY I'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF).

[wolfy_writing]

I don't know. The "be a shark" plan suits you more.

Ooh! If you could break the whole "Have sex once and then die" cycle, it's hard to say how advanced they'd be able to get.

[apiphile]

Imagine if octopus mothers were around to teach their offspring. Their hundreds of hundreds of offspring...

[wolfy_writing]

I support this plan and the cephalopod army that comes with it.