as small as a world and as large as alone

6:17pm May 14, 2013

dduane:

There are two kinds of polyps. One is a type of squishy little sea creature—coral is made by polyps, and a coupla species have polyp forms—which anchors itself to something and then has a head on the other end (for a very low value of “head”) with tentacles and sense organs and a mouth. (Think sea anenome.)

The other kind of polyp looks a lot like that, but is a rogue lump of flesh that grows in your colon, up your nose, etc.

Some sort of story is going on there, but as usual, I’m only witness to a brief scene. I couldn’t tell you what price the polyp is demanding, or why. I just know that’s the title. Nor do I know what the little white creature is—I don’t think it’s a rogue sperm, much as it may look like one, I think it’s more like a relative of the anxiety beast. But even that, I dunno.

At the end of the day, what sort of polyp that squishy thing is really depends on whether this is taking place in some odd little cavernous underground, or inside somebody’s intestines. And that, dear viewer, I’m gonna leave up to you, and how weird, after all these paintings, you think I am. - Ursula Vernon

Why isn’t everybody on Tumblr following Ursula? I don’t understaaaaaand.

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