You know what those are? Other than eldritch water horrors waiting to devour unwary divers, I mean.
Those are dollar-store pool noodles that have been first slashed with a razor knife and then attacked with a heat gun. I know this because one of my favorite bloggers over at Propnomicon was experimenting to see if he could make tentacles out of pool noodles. I agree with him that these don’t really look like terrestrial tentacles; they do, however, look like something you don’t want to run into while snorkeling, so I’d still consider that a win.
I would be lying if I said I didn’t want to go down to the dollar store and buy an armful of pool noodles the moment I saw these – although apparently the denser noodles from someplace like Wal-Mart work even better. My flowerbed could only be improved by having a cluster of these pool-based horrors lurking amid the more mundane plants, watching people go by on the sidewalk with a single malevolent eye. Or maybe an eyeless mouth full of teeth. Or maybe one eye and a LOT of mouths full of teeth. I’m sure our HOA would just love that.
Scaring the neighbors aside, though, I wonder if I could slash and shrink a pool noodle around a piece of PVC pipe, attach it to a simple pull mechanism, and use it to dispense candy at Halloween. While its more evil siblings watch from the flowerbed by the door, of course.
Source: Propnomicon: More Tentacle Fun
Propnomicon is still in pool-noodle experiment mode – this time he made a fairy mushroom: http://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2015/07/foam-fairy-mushrooms.html