dingodog54
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This was a really important read for a new adult.
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
I don't think homophobia is at all a thing in splatoon, but Callie is a comphet lesbian.
I drew so much last week and I think I now have carpal tunnel
Send help please
Bro im going to grape vine tomorrow... Might buy a dagger while in there...
has Tumblr discovered McPentagon yet. it will not leave my brain. I need it to spread
I need to keep this on my blog forever. I thought I lost it
ALSO YOU ARE AN ANGEL
Guys I added a bunch of stuff to the resource drive if you wanna check it out,,,,
Ty!
SAVE ME OMG THANK YOU I NEEDEDD THIS
Update! I have added my “Splatoon Physical Media Archive” to my pinned post! It’s under the cut on that post and right here on this post :)
Have fun!
Me and my friends have been saying how much we want to know more about splatbands and the inkpedia has barely anything other than what they play and what they look like. It's so frustrating. There are so many things that I would love to learn about in the everyday life of these inklish man.
I heard about how in Bancala Walker there was a short story about Marina and Acht and their time in the domes. And I'm gonna be 100% honest with you. It kinda makes me mad, and it really highlights a massive problem with Splatoon as a whole, and that's how it treats its stories.
(Yep I'm rambling about Splatoon's storytelling for the 500th time, welcome to my blog.)
Since Splatoon 2, the series has had a weird relationship with its storytelling, the main stories of each campaign are very simplistic and are very video game like plots. "Go get the Great Zapfish back and save Captain Cuttlefish. Go get the Great Zapfish again and find Callie. Find the thangs and get out. GO GET THE ZAPFISH AGAIN AND SAVE CAPTAIN CUTTLEFISH AGAIN!!! Climb up the tower." Splatoon 1 got away with this because it's clearly the most "tutorial" mode out of any of the single player campaigns and it doesn't really try to say any deeper messages or express a character arc.
Now, obviously video game stories must have goals for the player to work towards, I'm not complaining about that, you gotta have that stuff in games to motivate the player, however, what really drives me up a wall is when they decide to add depth and interesting things relating to the characters and world, yet they intentionally throw away that same depth and chuck it to the side. Hell they sometimes retcon the optional hard to find lore or make it more confusing just because!! If you're gonna add depth and something else to these stories, you HAVE to actually explore it and expand upon it WITHIN THE STORY! You cannot add it as "extra lore" when it's stuff that should have been in the main storyline to begin with. It's like not adding seasoning to chicken and that you boiled the fucking chicken and wrapped it in lettuce and mayonnaise.
I could obviously talk about the elephant in the room... you know... this little goober right here. This freak.
And I'm going to.
From the concept art we were given, we know that Callie was originally gonna have more exploration into her troubling mental health issues as seen by her being in the shadows and being comforted by Octarians. It's a significantly different tone compared to the final product.
However in the final game, they tossed MOST of this shit away and say in the game as well as in official media, "naw she was kidnapped and brainwashed forcefully because she's a dumb clutz lmao." They tried to backtrack with an obscure relationship chart, the sunken scrolls and Squid Sisters web prequel series, but then they backtracked AGAIN with the Splatoon 3 artbook that states that she was "brainwashed." It's an incredibly simplified and frankly insulting version of events that are TECHNICALLY canon but Nintendo and others don't treat it as such and i don't know why. I dont know why they treat Callie like this. Is it because she's silly?
Wouldn't it be more interesting and more powerful as a story if they made Callie had more control and awareness of her actions? That she was truly acting upon her mental illness and isolation? Putting DJ Octavio, the fucking funny octopus guy on the same level as Talon from Overwatch and Hydra from Marvel, the literal nazis who damaged Bucky Barnes' brain and removed all of his memories, making him into the Winter Solider, is fucking psychotic and actually insane of Nintendo to do.
There is also Acht and how they were shown between Octo Expansion and Side Order.
Some of the most powerful stories in media have strong character arcs and characters overcoming their struggles and pain. It is inspirating and incredibly real to see a loved one reach out to a person that they care about who have lost their way, either from mental illness or drugs. Trying to bring them back and help them go through their pain together. When someone is under distress and mental health troubles, they can act like a completely different person and the fact that Nintendo half assed serious topics like this and made shit WAY WORSE boils my blood to no end.
In Octo Expansion, we were told that they went under Sanitization willingly in order to remove doubts in their mind and put their all into music. Now due to the unknowns of Sanitization at the time, this made for a really interesting character and brought up a lot of interesting questions as to why they would do this and who they are.
However, in Side Order when they explained Sanitization further and told us that Acht lost all of their free will and were FORCED to make music for Tartar, it kinda damaged their story a little bit. Like sure, Acht still probably wanted to go under Sanitization to clear their doubts and remove emotion, but the added information kinda goes against the interesting story they were trying to tell with Acht. Acht doesn't even mention why they went under Sanitization in Side Order and their reasoning is only found IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST BACK IN 2018!!! THEY DON'T RESTATE IT AT ALL WHEN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT TO DO SO! They kinda tell us via their letters, but guess when you get those, IN THE POST GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This leads me to another big talking point, most of the lore is hidden and hard to find. You have to go out of your way to find most of the shit Splatoon has to offer. Sunken Scrolls are hidden collectables and most people don't wanna go through the effort of finding them all in the stages, the chat logs in Octo Expansion are completely optional due to entries being tied to specific stations and you can choose to easily skip them, the dev diaries are locked behind lockers and some people may complete Side Order in a manner where they can get to the final boss and be done with the main campaign before seeing most of the entries. Now I'm not saying that there cannot be extra lore tidbits for players to find, hell no, i love extra stuff like that, i think Splatoon 1 and 3's hero modes did a really job of that. BUT WHEN YOU HIDE AWAY IMPORTANT DETAILS LIKE CALLIE'S MOTIVATION IN SPLATOON 2 AND MARINA'S AND PEARL'S BACKSTORIES!?!? YEAH I GOT A FUCKING PROBLEM RIGHT THERE!
In other games, these would be cutscenes or a bunch of mandatory dialogue, BUT NOPE! THEY ARE IN HARD TO FIND SPOTS!
Some of the other lore details are found on social media posts and some of them are YEARS old or on Splatoon's dead Tumblr account. Most people would rather go to Inkipedia and even they can sometimes make vital mistakes or have wording that gives people the wrong idea on what happened in particular events, which heavily impacts the community and discussion. When i talk about my perspective on what happened to Callie in Splatoon 2, I've seen people say to me "wait really? Huh?! I didn't know that." The amount of research you gotta do to go into these characters is an absolute nightmare, AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE SPLATBANDS!!! Their lore is literally locked behind Japanese exclusive expensive artbooks!!! WHY?!?!
I really do wanna stress again, is it cool to get cool lore outside of the games and as collectables?! ABSOLUTELY! You know how awesome it was to read the Alterna logs for the first time? The smile on my face seeing Pearl and Marina back in the Final Fest in Side Order. But when the main stories suffer because of important information being tossed to the side and not applied to the main games... I dont know man, it just becomes incredibly frustrating to me personally. Especially with all the misconceptions and other things that occur within the community, the fandom has an information problem and honestly, it's Nintendo's fault. Imagine if Side Order had flashbacks to a younger Marina and Acht, it would have helped with the middle chunk of the story being so... nothing.
ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!! I CAN NOW LEGALLY RENT A HOTEL ROOM
MY PARTNER GETS THEIR SWITCH TODAY!!!!! IM SO CLOSE TO A FULL TEAM NOW!!!!!!
My two fandoms in one 😈😈😈😈😈
Book smart + street smart = book street
Very tragic story but like when you put it like this...
Captain 3 is the funniest Splatoon character actually
Be some kid on the street
You're 14
Get pressured into joining the army by an old man??
Start going by Agent 3. Which is not a name
Never speak a word (you're canonically too shy)
You just start blasting??
Save the world and liberate an entire race of people somehow???
The entire rest of the series can only happen because you did this
Almost kill the protagonist of Octo Expansion (she is in love with you now)
Turn 16
Become a DJ as a hobby??
Your DJ name is DJ Sango. Sango is just "number 3" in Japanese. Still not a real name
Start taking yourself really seriously
Start wearing a cape
Get knocked unconscious multiple times
Get mind controlled???
It's fine you got better
Turn 21. The old man quits and puts you in charge of the army???
You inherit his hobo outfit. Why are you actually wearing it
Start going by Captain (still not a name)
Still never speak (a girl speaks for you) (she's a famous singer and older than you, why are you making her do this)
Do one (1) cool thing and just sit on your ass the whole rest of the game
Say booyah once
Need my fav agent on my dash 😌
Agent 4 icons/pics for the soul (requested by anon)
None of these are mine!
HES EVIL
I'M NOT TAKING ANOTHER PAYCUT!!!
Basically the WHOLE splatoon fandom:
SplatoonNA:
A conspicuous fax from Grizzco has just arrived!
It reads: "The Next Big Run is expected from 5pm PT on 3/7 to 6pm PT on 3/9 at Inkblot Art Academy. There's a possibility of King Salmoids coming ashore, so please take caution. We appreciate your assistance."
SplatoonJP:
クマサン商会から、ビッグランのお知らせだ！
「次回のビッグランは、3月8日(土)午前9時～3月10日(月)午前9時、海女美術大学にて発生する見込みです。
オカシラ連合上陸の可能性もあるため、くれぐれもご注意ください。
シャケからみなさまのくらしを守るため、ご協力をお願いいたします。」
Me when toxic old man yaoi
Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.
Smollusk is a spoiled child 💖
tfw you somehow code a cellular infant copy of yourself into reality (more to come!)
SPRINGFEST GRGRHRHRRRRRRGRGRRRR SPRINGFEST 👹👹👹👹👹👹🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🐙🐙🐙🐙👹👹👹👹👹 BARK BARK BARK
Happy Springfest!!! 🩵🌸🌸🌸
Happy valentine day🎀
Pretty much (except that one time when Marie did it)
This is how Splatoon went, right?
More people show see them 😍
How the fuck does Wasarety do the things that they do? Their mod work is insane.
Go check them out on YouTube, they the goat fr fr.
Hyperfresh Pigmentation
What do I and the corn from thanksgiving dinner have in common??
Being on the back burner of ppl minds. 😁😁😁😁😁
Let me roller blade please
I bet you. IT'S EXERCISE AND FUN.
