Cephalopod Gear

For readers with an eye towards purchasing gifts (for me): a single asterisk (*) indicates that I already own the item in question.


Clothing (Shirts, unless otherwise indicated)

• I Love Teuthology
• Cephalopodcast has some very fine zazzle designs:
  • Don't Taste Me, Bro
  • Grimpoteuthis
• Sir Squid: Classy!
• SplitReason's Late Night Snack
• Amorphia Apparel
  • Octo-Love*
  • Squid and Ship
• The Squid Vs. The Whale
• Sucker Octopus Necktie
• Cephalopod Attack Shirt
• Many options are here, if you wish for a spitting quadropus.
• {Terror}
• Free Hugs
• King and Queen Cuttlefish (although the featured potentates are clearly octopuses)
• Octopus Baby Doll Dress
• CafePress
  • Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (including "I was into cephalopods before they were cool" design*)
• SquidFire
  • Squids
  • Squidplosion (shirts plus tote bag)
  • Squid Swarm
  • My Octopi¹
  • Giant Octopus
  • Squid Family
• Threadless
  • Ink Happens
  • Loch Ness Imposter*
  • Octopus on yo' Shirt
• Mule
  • Squid Overlords
  • Angry Squid
• Animal Den
  • Octopus: Nature's All-Star
  • fine line of ceph products
• Supermaggie
  • Octopus girl shirts and guy shirts
  • Octopus and Waves girl shirts and guy shirts
• slightly distressed vintage sea monster
• Squid vs. Wienermobile
• Sinister Octopus says: We were not meant to be! (scroll down; it's purple)
• "Expect a new octopus t-shirt from Moral Fabric every season."
• Gama-go
  • Giant Squid Boxer Briefs
  • Calamari with a rude attitude
  • This is called a Leviathan Reversible Hoodie although we all know the Leviathan is a whale and that design is clearly a squid (the reversible part is RAD!)
  • Seasick Squid Hoodie (how sad!)
  • Squid Polo--classy embroidery!

Non-clothing

• Animal Den's fine line of ceph products
• Etsy is jam-packed with goodness--just search for "cephalopod"--what follows is only a selection:
  • OctopusMe: Apparently cast from real octopus arms, which is kinda creepy, but they do look cool . . .
  • knitting patterns for hansigurumi cephalopods
  • Dr. Architeuthis will take care of you!
  • Octopus Pendant--it's just pretty, and I want one
  • Octopus Soap
• Squid Baster
• Octopus Soap and Scrubber
• Squid Thin Wallet
• Octopus Cake Pan** (Yes, I have TWO! They are awesome but I don't need any more!)
• The Squid Whisk* (great design AND a great tool)
• Octopus Field Bag

Cthulhu-related merchandise
Cthulhu is probably the most well-known cephalopoid character of fiction, although his mythos is not unlike that of Tennyson's Kraken. Cthulhu has gathered such a powerful, merchandise-hungry cult following that he really merits his own section. In fact, there are so many Cthulhu items online that I'm limiting this section to the designs that I find exceptionally creative or classy.

• Arkham Aquarium & Zoo (third shirt down, and here's a zoom)
• cephaloPod
• Cthulhu Knot
• The MacHall/Three Panel Soul store features several Cthulhu designs; my favorite is the Littlest Elder God

Things that would be really cool to buy but they're not for sale anymore, sorry

• The Octopod Love t-shirt*
• Squidleton
• Squidplosion shoes
• Classy Octo Shirt!

1. My gentle readers may be aware that the word octopus is derived from the Greek, not the Latin. As such, the more etymologically correct pluralizations are octopodes (strictly Greek), octopods (combination Greek/English), or octopuses (strictly English). However, in the case of this t-shirt, the question of pluralization is of less concern than the clearly non-eight numbers of arms possessed by the beasts.