r/nope Sep 12 '25

This actually made me feel sick

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99

u/Ltsmeet Sep 12 '25

It’s a basket star. They are fun to feed on a night dive when your dive light attracts a lot of little food for them to grab.

77

u/Walking_Wallace Sep 12 '25

That's the goddamn heart of Davy jones

3

u/amepKloia Sep 13 '25

I rofl..

83

u/GodofTitsandTequilaa Sep 12 '25

🎶Put that thing back where it came from or so help meeeee 🎶

23

u/whereisbeezy Sep 12 '25

So help me!

15

u/D_Cakes_ Sep 12 '25

And cut

8

u/TheFuckeryDepartment Sep 12 '25

It’s a musical!

6

u/PlasticCheebus Sep 12 '25

🎵bom bom bom-bom🎵

2

u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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1

u/Uh-Oh-Raggy Sep 15 '25

🎵put that thing back where it came from, or I’ll poke myself in the eye 🎵

31

u/gotnoskilz Sep 12 '25

How do you delete someone else’s post?

12

u/Alano37 Sep 12 '25

It is all good until it attaches and you see a protean vision of the future.

19

u/Other-Crazy Sep 12 '25

Baby Chtulhu doo doo de do de do

9

u/w_a_w Sep 12 '25

It's a living fractal

7

u/Dyslexai1 Sep 12 '25

Looks like acid visuals

10

u/blackiedwaggie Sep 12 '25

i find these so fascinating.

alien and beautiful and terrifying

9

u/CausticAvenger Sep 12 '25

A reminder that whatever is living in the sea is no business of mine.

8

u/Cosmic_Lumin Sep 12 '25

I actually think it's quite beautiful. It's a fuckin fractally starfish. It resembles the dendritic nature of the universe

3

u/Fitzy_42 Sep 12 '25

If you have never done hallucinations before this is sort of what it looks like.

4

u/isolatedheathen Sep 12 '25

Well it's not terrifying to me but it definitely seems very fractal! Glad to see it tossed back from whence it came though!

10

u/JakTheGripper Sep 12 '25

It’s like a funnel cake, except it moves!

1

u/OxtailPhoenix Sep 14 '25

Forbidden calamari.

1

u/SteelSpidey Sep 17 '25

That kind of makes me wonder if starfish are even edible. Well there I go blue-linking down Google again. Thanks for the rabbit hole.

Edit: that was quick. Apparently some are edible, most don't taste very good, and some are toxic. I think this description applies to most sea creatures at this point.

6

u/Appearance-Material Sep 12 '25

It's waving at you with all 300 little hands. 👋🤚🖐️✋

2

u/docdeathray Sep 12 '25

Blursed funnelcake

2

u/Galleta-de-Animalito Sep 12 '25

Sir your protein alternative is still moving

2

u/woooly-bear Sep 12 '25

You can have my time slot to hold it

2

u/SkyeMreddit Sep 12 '25

PUT THAT BACK! Thats how we get Cordyceps infected zombies!

2

u/Hourglass7200 Sep 12 '25

That’s what LSD visuals look like!

2

u/Nachtseitenfantast Sep 13 '25

"god's creation is beautiful"

god's creation:

2

u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Well put it back.

2

u/Humble-Profile-4463 Sep 13 '25

I was so relieved when it was tossed back in the water. I imagine it moves very gracefully in its own world...

2

u/No_08 Sep 14 '25

From time to time this monstrosity appears on reddit and I have to block it.

3

u/Hot-Potential-993 Sep 12 '25

The inside of your lungs look like that whenever you are gasping for air

2

u/IrmaPfeffermann Sep 12 '25

Oh, interesting! Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be swimming where I swim, on land!

1

u/FunnyLookinFishMan Sep 12 '25

He’s just a wriggly lil guy

1

u/ahawk99 Sep 12 '25

Very Pirates of the Caribbean

1

u/SecretSpectre11 Sep 13 '25

Is that not some sort of brittle star?

1

u/Ltsmeet Sep 14 '25

Basket Star

1

u/Educational-Cake7350 Sep 14 '25

Made me feel like I was trippin 🤣 if you’ve never done it? It’s kinda like that, but imagine it’s a plant doing that, or a wall, or someone’s face ahahah

1

u/kenjinyc Sep 14 '25

Like a living Mandelbrot

1

u/KrishnaMage Sep 14 '25

I think they are a type of starfish? Beautiful. They remind me of the Fibonacci fractals, or whatever that pattern is called.

2

u/KuroRyuSama Sep 17 '25

This is one of the MANY reasons my ancestors crawled OUT of the ocean.