Texts From Cephalopods by volta_arovet (G)
It's Crack/Humor/Silly Theme Week!
Title: Texts From Cephalopods
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
Pairing: Gen, Octopus & Squid friendship
Categories: Humor, Crack, Texting, YouTube Videos, Embedded Images
Length: Short (1,547)
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: volta-arovet
Author Website:
volta_arovet
Author's Summary: It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.
Review:
As soon as I saw the theme for this week, I thought of Texts From Cephalopods. It's brilliantly silly crack and humor. If you're one of thousands of readers who've already laughed out loud, then this won't be news to you.
So the plot, which I'm supposed to summarize... It's probably best to go straight to this 3 minute video, which is the fandom for which Texts With Cephalopods was written: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording.
Your day is already better, right?
Now you know everything you need to know to start reading texts Octopus sends to long-suffering Squid during his adventures. I love Octopus' can-do attitude and crazy antics! I love the little links -- small, tucked between the images -- to other videos along the way, so that you can see more live octopus action. Though they aren't required viewing, I think it adds something to have seen what he's gleefully texting about. And I love the way this story is told in cell phone images (though there's also a transcription at the end for accessibility. I know someone who uses a screen reader, so thanks for that, volta_arovet!).
There are a pair of fabulous podfics for this too, by bessyboo, Lunate8, Pennyplainknits, reena_jenkins, RevolutionaryJo, sly_hostetter, and XanaTenshi. They do a beautiful job of editing the voices together and adding sound effects.
Since I massacred the vowels a few times while searching for this again on AO3, I'm proud to say I have learned how to spell cephalopods correctly. Which means the story's even educational, on top of everything else. :D
Texts From Cephalopods