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You ever wanna talk about your ocs but you dont have anything to say really you just kinda
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was this in anyone’s bingo card
Have you guys not seen the video
Notice: not only do your friends actually like you, they secretly like you twice as much as they let on
An experience that made me feel much more assured in my friendships was at college, a friend and myself were talking about a third friend of ours and how cool and knowledgeable and smart she is and how we feel like we could never be that cool. The next day I was working with a professor on some paper presentations we were about to have and when I came out of the staff room I was informed that these two aforementioned friends were having the same discussion about me. And it turns out we spent a lot of time thinking about our friends who aren’t currently in the room and gushing over how cool and smart and talented they are without being able to say all of it to their face.
Your friends secretly love you a lot more than they already express, just like you love them so intensely that saying it all to their faces would sound clumsy to your own ears. It’s true though
I’ve had more than one friend say “no, listen to me for one second: you are literally and actually one of my favorite people, I enjoy your presence in my life” and if that won’t rock a foundation …
It’s so good to be loved.
“Loved” is something I take for granted, but “one of my favorite people” is like. Oh surely not. I mean there are so many other people? And I’m just. Me
....but if you do click those links, be sure to read the credits! I did a lot of translations and editing, but not all of it, and I had no part in the gargantuan task of typesetting and formatting. @mk_squid (insta link) is especially who made this possible, as well as @wassuppeas!
Be careful guys! Definitely ignore those links!
If your like me and love reading, listening and seeing fanart,music and stories all based around Splatoon...well look no futher!
Do me a favor and reblog this! or...atleast share it! More inkfolk who see thia the better!
HERE IS A LIST OF 76 STORIES ALL LOVINGLY WRITTEN BY FELLOW FANS LIKE YOURSELF.
I reaaaad alllooot. So these are what I get when the game ain't enough. I made this lil list from myself and others. Authors who have taken their time to let us dive into their inky tales or love, danger,action,fluff and... the risqué.
AND THIS IS A PLAYLIST OF....
Yah your reading right. Over 257 songs. Remixes, Fanmade, Originals and so much more!
I'm not counting a player character that you made and never thought about further. i mean like. It can be your player character but at least one that has a name (or you intend to name) and some semblance of a story that you've thought about. bonus points if you've been continuously using this character for several years
Welcome to the amazing sanitized circus!!!
did anyone else think the exit-door office scene was the stanley parable or was that just me.
i will never not reblog this
i cannot stress how much it does for us
a while ago, one of my mutuals was considering quitting writing. her fics weren’t doing as well, and the algorithm wasn’t favoring her writing like it used to.
so as a collective 10-15 writers, we all reblogged her fic once each. that alone put her writing at the top of the tag.
it makes a difference. way more than you think. it doesn’t matter if people see it because of you, it still gets promoted by the algorithm.
please, reblog fics
[Announcement]
I recently have the honour of collaborating with @vogracecreative (@VograceCharms (Twitter)) to produce this Splatoon Glow-In-The-Dark charm. :)
I have been wanting to try making charms for some time now and I have finally gotten the chance to.
I will be having this on my store for sale on 2nd July (Sunday) 9am Malaysia Time. (MYT) I will also restock some of my Splatoon 3 zine from last year for those who missed out! If you’re interested in getting one on these, please feel free to check it out tomorrow. :)
I will share the store link here once it’s open.
making up characters is so fun because you can be like “this is johnson he came from my mind” and all your friends will go “yippe!!! horray!!! we love johnson!!!”
Feeling frustrated? Beaten down? Like you're getting worse? As someone who's played since 2015 Splatoon 1 days, here's a few reminders:
great teamwork everybody!
I'll preface all that I am going to say with the fact that Return of the Mammalians as a story has a lot of problems. Its pacing is kind of wack and basically all of the actual plot happens literally at the end. I think I like it more than most, certainly more than a lot of other high-profile Splatoon blogs here, but there's no denying it has a ton of flaws.
It did, however, leave me with a lot to chew on, and perhaps one of the things it has had me thinking about the most is actually just a little gag in the credits
About three minutes into the credits, Mr. Grizz is shown slowly orbiting around earth, given so little thought that the credits roll right over him, but I genuinely think this is one of the most poignant and evocative images in the whole game.
Now, Mr. Grizz wasn't handled very well in this game, primarily as a consequence of that whole "all of the story happens in the ending sequence" thing, but I think that conceptually he is about as perfect of a villain as they could've made for the supposed "finale" of the story they've been building up to now.
One of Splatoon's primary themes, especially with its villains, has been the dangers of clinging to the past. Octavio is a bitter old warlord stoking the flames of a long-gone conflict mostly to satisfy his bruised ego. Commander Tartar is obsessed with an idealized version of the past and seeks to remake the present when it can't live up to that ideal, even when that ideal never existed. Splatoon 3 even went further, revealing that inklings, octolings, and all the other land-living sea life are in fact humanity's truest successors, and Tartar tried to wipe them all out anyway.
Mr. Grizz continues this trend and takes it maybe as far as possible because he doesn't just want to reshape the present, he sees it as something unnatural and wrong on a base fundamental level, a mistake that can only be resolved by restoring the status quo, giving the planet back to the mammals. Coming as close as possible to literally turning back time. With Splatoon's focus on youth culture and pop media, it's hard not to read this theme as an allegory for the ways that older generations can cause immense harm in rejecting the new and in making futile attempts to grasp a world that once was but never can be again.
But Splatoon isn't trying to tell us that the divides between us are unmendable, far from it. Over the course of the first two games we see how inklings and octolings grow closer and closer until it's a complete afterthought in the third game, and even Octavio, when push comes to shove, is willing to bury the hatchet for the greater good. Calamari Inktantation 3MIX is perhaps the purest expression of this, a mix of old and new, a traditional folk song turned into a pop song, complemented by three artists that each pull from completely different cultures (Frye = India, Shiver = Japan, Big Man = Brazil) all mixed together by a 100+ years old DJ. Calamari Inktantation is old and new, pop and traditional, Inkopolis and Splatsville, octoling and inkling (and manta ray), in a chaotic, messy, beautiful swirl of sheer ecstatic joy. As a song, it is peak Splatoon, clear and simple.
But this isn't about Calamari Inktantation 3MIX, as excited about that song as I am, this is about Mr. Grizz, and after spending so many games exploring the dangers of clinging to the past, Splatoon 3 uses him to show us what happens when you cannot let go.
Mr. Grizz could not accept the present he found himself in. To him it was wrong, it was offensive, and he fought tooth and claw to bring it back with him, into the past, to the glory days, and he fails. Of course he fails, you can't stop time, much less turn it back, and the people of the present will always fight to protect their future. So where does that leave him?
Alone. Gazing down at a planet he was born on but can no longer recognize. From his orbit, he can see thousands, maybe millions, of little lights along the coastlines, each one an entire city, buzzing with life and all of its eccentricities. It's a world that would probably welcome him, if he gave it the chance. But he didn't. He rejected it and sought to return to a time and a place that no longer existed, and in so doing, all he achieved was isolating himself. And now, as he circles the world, all he can do is watch as it moves on without him.
reposting this bc i thought it was really sweet
Splatoon has always been an invitation for self expression, no matter if it fits gender norms or not. The players forge their own safe space where they're happy to exist. But what's important to mention is that even in-game, characters are inviting you to be different, to be you.
I'd say that the squid sisters are pretty "basic" in a sense that they were meant to portray japanese idols. They're meant to be perfect and act perfectly, in a sense. But despite that, there's a little detail that stands out. One that shows that the girls are imperfect. Marie's smile.
A lot of people mistake it for a smirk. But it's not. Marie's smile always looks like that. It's crooked. Despite how perfect she is, Marie's smile is always a little bent. And NO ONE ever comments on it in-game. It's a part of her that just defines her as someone different, as unique. And to me that was just the beginning of Splatoon making their idols stand out
Pearl and Marina stand out in all possible ways. But that makes them welcoming. I've seen many cishet people first react to pearl with disgust, saying that her design was ugly, that her huge forehead was a bad design choice ... But all of the LGBTQ people I've seen love her. Why ? Because she doesn't look conventionally attractive. Because she's surprising. Because she wants to be something that doesn't fit other's vision of "looking good". You like pearl because she's unique.
Even outside of that, Pearl and Marina stand out as comforting because of their relationship. They're gay, of course. Having lesbian idols really helped to make it a safe space for LGBTQ youth. But even outside of that the bond between Pearl and Marina is all about unconditional love. Marina was outed to be an octarian and Pearl's first reaction was to reassure her that this didn't change her opinion of marina in the slightest, that she felt sorry about learning that against her will and that she loved her anyways. Now imagine her learning by accident that someone's gay. I'm willing to bet she would have the EXACT SAME reaction. It's deeply comforting to know that this character you love so much would support you. Pearl was even revealed to be punk when she was younger and punks culture at its core is all about acceptance and fighting for other's rights.
And finally, you have deep cut.
Deep cut is all about embracing your culture and sharing it with others. And remember how much people criticized Pearl for her huge forehead ? Well the Splatoon team looked at these reviews, smiled, said "fuck you" and gave us an even BIGGER forehead for Frye. BECAUSE SPLATOON IDOLS DON'T NEED TO LOOK CONVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE. As for shiver, she wears a sarashi, a cloth that is most often worn by Sukebans, a type of very violent feminine delinquent in Japan. It used to be worn by samurais and has been claimed by these women as a way to show off their masculinity and their power. Therefore, Shiver is made to be gender non-conforming and to defy the rules, so much that many thought she could've been non-binary at first. As for big man ... Everyone wanted a sexy first male idol. We got a goofy and adorable pancake. Once again, Splatoon just wants to have fun with its representation.
Splatsville is the city of Chaos. Here, bigots get banned, but LGBTQ folks thrive. It's a place that grew out of the wish to see this world constantly evolving and keep getting better. It's a place meant to change with its players. And if we keep making it queer and accepting, this world can only grow up to be more and more like that.
