Tentacle Rape Roundup

When I began this post months ago BSD was back on the front page of Google's Tentacle Rape results and clocking in at number 9. We're since gone again.  With some of our former slimy glory gone here's my attempt to reclaim what's been lost. (As always my tentacle interaction is tainted with some Lovecraft lovin' so please forgive any variations in the follow.)

Before the future of BSDs Tentacle Rape is taken any further I'd like to give you a brief history of Tentacle Rape.  In the 1820s Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai produced an erotic woodcut called The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.  In it a woman is sexually taken by two octopi, a larger and smaller.  Not until years later would Tentacle Erotica reemerge in Japanese culture.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

In 1987 in an attempt to dodge Japanese pornography laws which prohibited the depiction of animated phalluses Toshio Maeda created the tentacle rape monster.  (Similar laws brought about the creation of Bukkake in Japanese porno as well.)  No phalluses, just tentacles.  This new incarnation of tentacle rape premiered in Urotsukidoji and quickly found a cult following.

In the 90s and 00s with the advent of the internet there was a dual flood of Anime among it and friendless teenagers alike.  Two things Matt and I have spent a lot of time with.  We were fated to come into contact with TR eventually, and reluctantly we did.  Now with everything up to speed on tot he round-up!

Someone at Threadless Tees combined what BSD most likes (SciFi) with what it most hates (T-shirts?) to illustrate the danger of sending octopuses into space. 

I was surprised and delighted when I saw that Jones Soda made a Barack Obama flavored pop.  I was less delighted and much more shocked when I saw that Mnemosyne made a Tentacle Grape flavored pop.  

SomethingAwful.com' Photoshop Phriday are working to make sure even Tentacle's are conscious and aware of safer sex habits.  Introducing the Rape-Tentacle Strength Condom!

Artist Rune Olsen may have accidently created one of the most impressive and beautiful works of Tentacle Rape since The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.

Some things should never exist.  Like this, the complete works of HP. Lovcraft online.  Truly a horror of unspeakable measure.    

The Perry Bible Fellowship (one of the internets greatest webcomics) has a Cthulhu inspired strip that is just as scary and much more realistic than anything Lovecraft ever wrote.  All hair Zuthulu!

Until next time have a happy tentacle~

Cthulhu's Day Out

Ackbar for Christmas

Merry Christmas form my mom. The Amigurumi (or crocheted doll) below was made by her.

"We have no choice General Calrissian! Our cruisers can't repel cuteness of this magnitude!"

After she'd completed my Cthulhu, the pattern for which came from Creepy Cute Crochet, she asked me for a gift idea for my girlfriend. And of course I thought who is there better to immortalize in amigurumi than my second favorite aquatic killing machine, Admiral Ackbar, the true hero of the Rebellion. After some quick interwebing I found that an amigurumi of Ack already existed, however the pattern did not. Lucky my old lady's a wiz and whipped one up in no time herself.
She also had time to make Matt his own Cthulhu, who is slightly more menacing due to his longer and larger tentacles. I'm working on a pattern to make an even better Cthulhu so if anyone has any ideas of what might make a creature of unspeakable horrors like Cthulhu more unspeakably horrible please try and find someway to articulate it in the comments. Also, if you have any other ideas of who or what might make a nice Amigurumi let us know.

Here's a delightful little song that Matt's girlfriend Stef (of Snowden's Secret) wrote about his new Cthulhu-

"Who had a head that is full of fluff?

C'thul-lu, C'thul-lu!

Who has beans up in his butt?

C'thul-lu, C'thul-lu!"

Cthulhu... I love you

Please add to the ranks of the gay film classics (The Bird Cage, The Crying Game, et cetera, et cetera)- Cthulhu: or Welcome Home to the End of the World (2008)

I first learned about this movie the same way I learn everything about Cthulhu, throught ambient noise, the only way anything Lovecraftian seems to travel. As if from the belly of some long lost god-creature my T.V. set, unaccompanied by my attentions, ran an ad for Here!- Gay Television on Demand .  And through the waves of radiation something in the Cthulhu center of my brain, along with my Gaydar, was triggered and I heard the call of the beast; the call of gay Cthulhu.

It'd seem that sometime in the sadly Dickianless movie making period of 07-08  a littl Lovecraft novella called "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" was adapted by the up-and-coming gay production company and cable channel Here!.  From what I understand the movie is a two way metaphor where the fear and pressure that Russ (the films gay protagonist) faces when returning home to his small-town roots in order to attend to his mothers estate is matched by the realization that his father is part of the Cult of Cthulhu, a cult that worships the greatest evil know in the universe, a large, flightless bird, generally found hibernating in the Pacific Ocean in the submerged ancient city of R'lyeh, who is most assuredly the sign of the end of days.  It's pretty scary stuff.  

Now truth be told I haven't seen this movie, as of yet, so I cannot say for sure that Cthulhu is gay in this movie, or if it even makes an appearance at all.  But I'm hoping he does, and I'm hoping for some gay-tentacle love finally done tastefully. 

PSA: National Coming out Day is October 11th.  Remember, you've got a friend in BSD.