*dark matter lifeform voice* hey all! you know what's got n+1 thumbs, a habitation that's even one with your guarded threshold, and a POWERFUL love for individual socks? that's right, this guy! *recursive thumb cascade triggers collapse of local spacetime*
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that's from Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror", from a whole murder-wall rant about the "Old Ones", who are described in several ways as having exactly the properties one would expect from a dark matter lifeform. "n+1 thumbs" ofc starts as being part of the framing reference
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it crossreferences Lovecraft and the tendency of Lovecrafty things to have lots of tentacles, is also slightly a play on Janet from The Good Place referencing the same schtick with one thumb, and develops a conceit of dark matter lifeforms having mathematically strange properties
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