Annual Cephalopodmas Post

For those of you who celebrate Cephalopodmas, you will enjoy today's post.

Squids and yetis wouldn't seem to go together. And yet, if you are a giant squid, were you not at one point a cryptid?

In truth, yeti and squid are practically schoolmates. Both are hard to spot and have an air of myth about them. Both are thought to live alone, in the cold and the dark. Both may be quite large, super-strong, and could attack you with great violent force. Both hate whales and have suction cups on the interior surface of their arms.

Granted, the environments they reside in are very different phases of water. Sooo different. That alone makes things awkward between them. Let's hope they will get past that.


Dos amigos: RobbinZombie's Abominable Snowman and Giant Squid plush



Both Gama-Go icons, the two grace this piece of hand art



The artist Hylton Warburton is a lover of yeti and squid. In my view, this art piece is his way of expressing his appreciation of both. I'll be posting about his yeti-specific work in future.

Have a Happy Cephalopodmas!

Yeti Hoodies

Emily alerts me to the existence of this yeti hoodie available at squidfire.

And for Cephalopodmas, my brother got me this one from Gama-Go!

Thank you, brother!

You too can 'Induce Fear with Howls'

For the purposes of this blog, sasquatches are not yetis. It is not just that they are brown, not white, and live in North America, it's also that they live in forests, not icy tundras, and go by the name Sasquatch or Bigfoot and not yeti. I am making an exception in this case by including a sasquatch link(s) submitted by my friend Emily.

Sasquatch Militia from the
Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs

The Militia page does mention something called "Ancient Yeti Martial Arts", so perhaps I'm not breaking my cardinal rule so much.