The Biggest Crime In Splatoon Is Not Allowing You To Have The Enemy Octoling's Hair Style

PSA: Don’t smoke, kids!  I actually almost did not include the flashback with Future Donnie for a number or reasons, but decided I wanted to give a little look into my interpretation of his character.  Also I like drawing his eyebrows.  More of my thoughts after the link. 

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normally this isn't what I post but this has been on my mind for a while.

as a straight person, I can say with 100% honesy, the splatoon fandom does not make me feel unwelcome. "but there's not many canonical straight ships!" ma'am there's not many canonical ships at all.

sure, I wish there was for m x f agent content, but does it matter all that much? no.

pearlina is heavily implied, so what?

acht canonically uses they pronouns, good! we need more enby representation!

just ignore those people who are saying they're unwelcome in the splatoon fandom. they're most likely homophobic and trying to deny it.

Busy finalizing and hammering out layouts for Chapter 3!

Catch up on the story: Comic Archive

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

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DONE.  I’m resisting the urge to do a whole TED Talk on future Leo.  However, I do want to discuss something on the matter.  To be brief, while I see a lot of people in the fandom emphasizing the pain and self loathing of this character (all of which I am certain he goes through) that is not what I see in him by the beginning of the movie.  Some one who hates himself that much and is so bogged down with regret would not be the type to speak about still having “hope” as their greatest weapon (especially in such a cheesy manner).  I see a man who has gone through the ringer and come out the other end harder and wiser.  But most importantly he appears to have doubled down on his faith in himself and even more so in his loved ones.  He knows it’s not about him.  That he doesn’t have the luxury to be depressed and ultimately must overcome his own mind to achieve his tenacious goals.  Does he still have bad days?  Most certainly, anyone filled with that kind of regret does, but I really think that this is a battle he fights and wins more often than not by the time of 2044.  He is a man dedicated to his cause and family, and while he still has a long ways to go at this point in the story, I feel like this would be the start of him finally forgiving himself.

I’m not into torture porn (though that may surprise some of you) nor do I think it’s healthy to wallow in that sort of pain for an extensive period (fandoms can be a great outlet for this, but it can have a huge impact on your mental and emotional state if not treated in a healthy manner), and I want this to be a story of healing rather than one completely bogged down with sorrow.  Because no matter how bleak things can be, you are always worthy of love, especially self love. 

Please make sure to give yourself a hug and thank you for all your support and kind words.  We have one last round to wrap up Leo’s arch then it’s onto April.

Lumity and Conflict

            We’ve all talked about Lumity being a really healthy relationship, a refreshingly healthy one at that, but we should also appreciate how the writers manage to have this AND portray conflict in a way that isn’t contrived, too.

         Take for example, Follies at the Coven Day Parade. It’d be SO easy to have the conflict come from Amity going ahead with checking Luz’s videos, and then have her and Luz argue over the breach of privacy, like in a lot of media. But instead, Amity KNOWS it’s wrong, but at the same time she can tell Luz has a problem and a tendency to keep it secret, which forces loved ones to call her out until Luz finally confesses and asks for help!

         So Amity’s conflict is whether or not she SHOULD go through Luz’s phone, and it resolves in a healthy manner because she goes to Willow for advice. That of course continues the plot thread of these two attempting to reconnect after their sorta reconciliation in Willow’s mindscape, and sets up the eventual confrontation between the two in Labyrinth Runners, regarding Amity still continuing to underestimate and condescend Willow, even if from a place of good intent.

         And that’s so much more interesting than Luz and Amity drama for the sake of drama, because now we get to throw in Willow and Amity’s dynamic and check up on how it’s developed, set up how it WILL develop, all while having Amity manage to do the right thing, but with some meaningful struggle and discussion, sympathetic and nuanced given her legitimate concern for Luz (rather than insecure snooping for the sake of it) and her issues of bottling up, on her way to do that!

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bridget arcade mode making me SO happy

ID: the “woe plague be upon ye” meme redrawn with Bridget’s Strive design. Instead of a hamster, she is throwing Roger, and the caption is changed to “Roger be upon ye” to match. The second image is a redraw of a tweet saying “dinner with papaw tonight [heart emoji] he made burgers for the whole roster and I’m the only one who showed [crying emoji] love him”, with the attached photo being Bridget and Goldlewis at a dinner table, Goldlewis holding a burger. His alien friend’s arm is stealing off his plate. END ID

HATERS WILL SEE YOU TELEPORT AND BE LIKE "HE CANT AFFORD PATCH 1.1.1"

Dissonant Melody: Part #7

Deductive reasoning is really not the inkling species’ strong suit…..

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ALSO! I’m planning on posting Part #8 on Aug. 8th! It’s going to be a….somewhat unconventional update. Definitely not the standard 4 pages haha. I don’t want to say too much, but hey, y'all only need to wait 2 days to find out what it is!