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user-inactivated · 3656 days ago · link · · parent · post: MBARI researchers capture first ever footage of the rarely seen, spooky-looking anglerfish.
Maybe a whimsical short story in the offing about an anglerfish named Ralph who saves a hapless diver one day who has gotten disoriented in the deep sea and suddenly a little light appears over yonder shoulder and he thinks oh god I've had it, giant anglerfish come to destroy me, but instead the anglerfish is a friendly anglerfish and guides him up, up, like a silent toothy angel taking Enoch to heaven, until he can see sunlight and in those beams of sunlight the anglerfish just sort of fades away, as if Ralph has reached the boundaries of his territory like Tom Bombadil and can go no further so he goes back down down down down into the depths with his little light flickering, fading, finally -- vanishing.