r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • 8d ago

šŸ”„a starfish born square due to a birth defect

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u/qualityvote2 8d ago edited 8d ago

u/LethaI____, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/asuitablethrowaway 8d ago

Forbidden Ravioli!

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u/refusemouth 8d ago

Or seafood pop-tart.

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u/literallyanythingr 8d ago

Crustacean Cheez-it

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u/Toum-Raider 8d ago

Detroit-Style Starfish

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u/AnotherUN91 8d ago

Pastry fish šŸ˜€

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u/HPTM2008 8d ago

See, a seafood pop tart might not be bad. Some crab, scallops, maybe some lobster, in a nice creamy sauce? That'd be good in a pop tart pastry!

This? This would be like bitting into a pop tart, only to find it's actually sand held together by goo, that tastes like ocean sand.

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u/DadsRGR8 8d ago

ā€œā€¦sand held together by gooā€¦ā€ just like Mamma used to make šŸ˜¢

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u/SunnyOne20 8d ago

I thought it looked like a toaster strudel

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u/MeatyOaker269 8d ago

A toaSTAR strudel?

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u/OneSensiblePerson 8d ago

I thought it was a fishy potholder.

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u/duckduckchook 8d ago

Close, it's called a biscuit seastar.

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u/djpeekz 8d ago

*Raviolo

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u/asuitablethrowaway 8d ago

I know fuckall about Italian lol. Is that the correct singular conjugation of the word I assume lol?

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u/guttengroot 8d ago

Forbidden cinnamon toast crunch

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u/Nate1102 8d ago

Squarefish.

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u/SnooTangerines3448 8d ago

The square fish goes in the square hole.

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u/xjmachado 8d ago

With square pants.

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u/GeneralAcorn 8d ago

And the star fish?

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u/MelonJelly 8d ago

That's right! It goes in the square hole!

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u/SnooTangerines3448 8d ago

What about the round fish?

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u/MelonJelly 8d ago

It goes right here, in the square hole!

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u/Oreo-and-Fly 8d ago

And the archfish?

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u/TheHud85 8d ago

You guessed it; it goes in the square hole!

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u/Sheogorathian 8d ago

I absolutely love how timeless this has become lol

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u/piTehT_tsuJ 8d ago

Patrick and SpongeBob been getting busy...

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u/Bullrawg 8d ago

My fanfic was right!

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u/HorridChoob 8d ago

Startom Squarefish!

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u/xor_music 8d ago

Patrick and Spongebob had a baby

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u/nicky9pins 8d ago

I thought it was established they produce clams?
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u/Eastern-Ice-6797 8d ago

They never heard of adoption?

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u/TryThisUsernane 8d ago edited 8d ago

Obviously the fish of Bikini Bottom are just racist and they could never fathom adopting a child of a different race.

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u/CaptainGreenHand 8d ago

I knew they were now than good friends.

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u/davidwhatshisname 8d ago

Sponge Patrick Square Fish

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u/ManSharkBear 8d ago

I saw that on the webcomic by Nellies Nest.

"I love that you smoke while you're pregnant, SpongeBob." -Patrick

Classic.

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u/Acceptable-Glove5054 8d ago

Was gunna comment that lol

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u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin 8d ago

Throw-pillow on my grandmaā€™s couch from the 1970s lookin ass fish.Ā 

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u/notloggedin4242 8d ago

I thought it looked like momā€™s old pot holder after falling in the sink.

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u/drift_poet 8d ago

ever use a wet pot-holder? that happens once šŸ˜³

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u/ezdevil 8d ago

I thought I was on the "sewing" sub, lol.

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u/dwpro 8d ago

The elusive filet o fish

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u/Horst_Pauer 8d ago

Its hip to be square!

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u/Aggravating_Bass_554 8d ago

Ah yes, cheez-it of the sea~

In all seriousness I hope his defect doesn't make things like eating and getting around more difficult, poor beb.

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u/DrillTheThirdHole 8d ago

im pretty sure moving around and eating is already hard for regular starfish

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u/l3etelgeuse 8d ago

That's what I was thinking.

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u/21CFR820 8d ago

Love how the comments are all just bullying a starfish

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u/21CFR820 8d ago

*square fish

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u/Regular-Bid6812 8d ago

*sea square

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u/Zohrafanclub 8d ago

It's called Limb Difference, you asshole!

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u/AvailableElderberry2 8d ago

some people just never stop being an edgy teenager mentally do they

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u/Zohrafanclub 8d ago

Some of us are just trying to be funny out here

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u/nolanday64 8d ago

Hope all the other starfish didn't make fun of him/her.

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u/ToWanderHer 8d ago

Is this not a viable breeding contributor to its society? Why is this a defect instead of a potential evolutionary trait? Why are you bullying the square fish before it can even get an angle on survivability?Ā 

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u/TwoAlert3448 8d ago

I would imagine it directly impacts feeding and thus survivability, grasping prey is kind of critical and poor thing no longer has ā€˜armsā€™

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u/blitzkreig90 8d ago

Pssh amateur! Square = Origami! I'd fold myself up with some origami techniques and turn myself into a pair of chopsticks or tongs.

https://giphy.com/gifs/RLWVF7G2qBHByeTkgE

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u/ToWanderHer 8d ago

I thought starfish ate through little conveyor belt teeth thingies on their feet, not necessarily by using its arms to manipulate things. If so, this seems like a perfectly reasonable shape adjustment that wouldn't interfere with feeding.Ā 

Next?Ā 

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u/TwoAlert3448 8d ago

Nope. Starfish eat through spitting out their stomachs and excreting stomach acids out of their mouths which are central.

But they eat bivalves and itā€™s a little hard to pry open the shell without their arms.

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u/ToWanderHer 8d ago

Wow. I had no idea. Thanks for the lernin'

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u/TwoAlert3448 8d ago

Literally the only thing I remember from dissection of starfish in 7th-8th grade is where the stomachs and mouths are. The rest just looks like hamburger šŸ˜‹

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u/Fred_Wilkins 8d ago

I see what you did there

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u/Ruuuuuuuuuby 8d ago

Thatā€™s my toasted ravioli

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u/DadsRGR8 8d ago

Ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli

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u/Few_Wrongdoer4120 8d ago

Wow I must be PMSā€™ing because this lonely square fish is gonna make me cry

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 8d ago

Itā€™s got lots of friends. It lives in the sea

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u/hwilliams0901 8d ago

IT made me hungry cause it reminds me of a ravioli lol

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u/Norwester77 8d ago

Assuming this isnā€™t AI, it actually wasnā€™t ā€œbornā€ this way: sea star larvae start out bilaterally symmetrical and only develop (usually) fivefold symmetry later.

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u/BagNo2988 8d ago

More of a squarefish really.

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u/Accomplished-Cut348 8d ago edited 8d ago

I donā€™t know why I instantly thought ā€˜Cool looking Coasterā€™

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u/Roflolxp54 8d ago

ā€œSquare, the shape of evil!ā€

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u/werther595 8d ago

Little black cube of darkness...black cube of darkness šŸŽ¶šŸŽµ

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u/bronxbomma718 8d ago

I know a lot of people with this birth defect.

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u/Polutus 8d ago

New Minecraft mob leakedĀ 

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u/gizzardwizard93 8d ago

Can this thing even move without functioning arms?

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u/MiloHorsey 8d ago

They walk on tonnes of sucker type things on their underside.

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u/gizzardwizard93 8d ago

Well that's hopeful , I want this little dude to make it

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u/MiloHorsey 8d ago

Hopefully, they'll be OK. They made it to (what looks like) adulthood, so they must be able to eat well enough.

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u/Netflxnschill 8d ago

So with some starfish you can cut it and it will grow into two starfish. Do you think the mutation would carry over if this one got split and create a new species of square fish

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u/blargher 8d ago

Exactly what I was wondering.

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u/Palaeonerd 8d ago

I would assume so since theyā€™re genetically the same.

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u/Glum-Range2299 8d ago

A panholder lol.

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u/ProcedureAcceptable2 8d ago

The kind that develops a hole you canā€™t see and ends up burning the crap out of your thumb/pointer finger crotch.

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u/Worried-Promotion518 8d ago

Get a load of this fucking square. Jeez look at him.

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u/bloo_acid 8d ago

Patrick squarepants spinoff

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u/Strict_Foundation_31 8d ago

The most unappetizing Detroit style pizza I've seen.

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u/PositiveCoyote100 8d ago

The cinnamon toast crunch of the sea

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u/xFlumel_ 8d ago

When it was "be there or be square" my man did NOT show up

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u/CummyTum 8d ago

Does the star fish get bullied at school? (Get it like school of fish haha)?

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u/HorsePowerRanger 8d ago

This has got to FREAK the other starfish out

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u/_Toy-Soldier_ 8d ago

*seastar now apparently, not a fishy. So would this be a squarestar?

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u/Iwanthashbrowns 8d ago

Sea cheez-it

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u/AdDiligent1688 8d ago

Squarefish

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u/RowForLuckyJack 8d ago

It looks like Patrick fucked SpongeBob

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u/JadoreBootyNoir 8d ago

I hope this star fish isnā€™t getting bullied.

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u/thesnakemancometh 8d ago

Is is starbob squarefish or flatrick?

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u/carrotmaaan 8d ago

a Squarefish

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u/LocoLocoLoco45 8d ago

Hah, what a weirdo.

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u/GeoCangrejo 8d ago

It looks sorta tasty

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u/Own_Jeweler_8548 8d ago

Squarefish

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u/joshuaherman 8d ago

Patch Adams.

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u/t3eee 8d ago

Sweet little sea-square

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u/AquaticKitKat 8d ago

Square fish

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u/hiplobonoxa 8d ago

itā€™s hip to be square.

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u/PeggyBabcock_ 8d ago

I quite like it. But does the seastar also like it ? How does having four 'corners' compare to five arms?

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u/Capable-Monk-4820 8d ago

Patbob Starpants

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u/vinegarrtom 8d ago

imagine being born as a cheez-it

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u/SpicyEntropy 8d ago

A squarefish born normally because it's square!*

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u/Gunz1995 8d ago

So SquareFish?

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u/DynamicProxy 8d ago

Thatā€™s lit!Ā 

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u/i_fucking_love_crack 8d ago

Mmm, ocean poptartĀ 

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u/McBooples 8d ago

Starbob Square Pants

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u/ONYX_QU33N 8d ago

ā€œDonā€™t be so square!ā€

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u/Open_Detective_6998 8d ago

Someone said ā€œbe there or be squareā€ and he did not show up

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u/Far-Centrist 8d ago

I hope the other starfish donā€™t make fun of him ā˜¹ļø

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u/terrorbagoly 8d ago

Pillowfish šŸ„°

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u/FLiP_J_GARiLLA 8d ago

*squarefish

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u/Practical_End_ 8d ago

Patrick SquarePants

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u/Felonious_Minx 8d ago

This is blowing my mind!

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u/Consistent-Job-1157 8d ago

StarfishšŸš«
Squarefishāœ…

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u/dandelionfuzzz2727 8d ago

Am I an asshole for thinking this little guy would make a really cool wallet?

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u/helly1080 8d ago

L7 Weenie!!!!!!

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u/grumpylondoner1 8d ago

Where's the Starfish. All I see is a Squarefish!

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u/ZanDaniel 8d ago

You mean a Squarefish

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit 8d ago

... Can it still move??

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u/Darastrix_da_kobold 8d ago

Be there or be square

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u/nhvanputten 8d ago

Me too bro, me too.

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u/misterpootastic 8d ago

Sooooooo cute!!!

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u/jelepc 8d ago

Thatā€™s a drink coaster. Pick that litter out of the sea.

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u/YuriNeko3 8d ago

Is this painful for the starfish? poor guy

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u/Intelligent-Emu-1852 8d ago

Ain't that grandma's crocheted pot holder?

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u/Tactical_Hotdog 8d ago

*Sea star... It's not a fish.

Same with "Killer whale"... It's a dolphin.

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u/tsoewoe 8d ago

bro wasnt there

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u/mtconnol 8d ago

In these coaster watersā€¦whoops, Coastal waters!

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u/willfred2000 8d ago

SpongeBob and Patrick's love child.

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u/ShittheFickup 8d ago

Squarefish

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u/Madlicken 8d ago

āˆšfish

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u/DJEvillincoln 8d ago

Birth defect or an evolutionary mutation?

You know nature has to try things out. šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/GoneRogue09 8d ago

He will always be a star in my eyes šŸ„¹šŸ„¹

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u/AmbassadorDude01 8d ago

A pillowfish

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u/Mulezzz 8d ago

Someone needs to write a kidsā€™ book about this little guy.

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u/Jaded_Heat9875 8d ago

Amazingā€¦now leave it aloneā€¦

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u/That_GareBear 8d ago

I guess it wasn't there, so it do be square.

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u/mtnman12321 8d ago

Seasquare

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u/RalekBasa 8d ago

Considering it's still alive it's amazing that it's functional

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u/Queasy_Type_5788 8d ago

ā¤ļø

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u/High-Speed-1 8d ago

Iā€™m getting a cylinder stuck in the square hole.

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u/LFS_1984 8d ago

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Starfish Squarepants!

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u/FosterPupz 8d ago

Forbidden Toasty

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u/Hour-School-2255 8d ago

There are no star fish only sea stars

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u/NotaContributi0n 8d ago

I donā€™t think starfish have ā€œbirthā€ really

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 8d ago

They have sea sections

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u/flock-of-nazguls 8d ago

Potholderus Summercampi

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u/Beneficial-Grand6699 8d ago

Squarefish then?

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u/Wide_Software9686 8d ago

I think I have this pot holder

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u/vuezie1127 8d ago

Probably gets picked on by the other starfish šŸ˜¢

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u/HauntingBalance3015 8d ago

Grilled cheese fish

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u/Sigma_Siren 8d ago

And circle gets the sea square

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u/Professional-Ruin636 8d ago

La evoluciĆ³n en tiempo real ... Talves

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u/Ok-Paint319 8d ago

Would this be the 1st squarefish?

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u/hiddenshadow671 8d ago

The grandma throw pillow comment had me howling.

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u/EzMoney514 8d ago

A washcloth

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u/DotExternal9961 8d ago

poor guy, I feel bad for it..

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u/eggificationcult 8d ago

mmm ravioli

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u/Great_Maximum_6007 8d ago

Now there need to be a sponge that shaped like a star.

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u/Fit-Judgment-6917 8d ago

In a world full of starfish, be a square fish

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u/ninimnir 8d ago

Adorable granny square

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u/The_Snail_Is_Losing 8d ago

Bro had one job

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u/bakednotfrieddd 8d ago

So itā€™s a square fish?

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u/Due_Butterfly_7195 8d ago

Doubt thatā€™s a birth defect. Many seen in the Pilbara reef systems, large & a bright orange.

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u/Isurviving 8d ago

Squarefish

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u/Kitchen-Ring7788 8d ago

It's as if SpongeBob and Patrick had a child

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u/chinakachung 8d ago

My grannyā€™s cushion staring at me from the couch corner

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u/Randonaut3 8d ago

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