#accidental squid in there

[xamiipholia]

Horizon Machine Idea - The Abyssal

Lv. 55 Combat Class Aquatic Machine. Real-World Megafauna: Mesonychoteuthis

The Abyssal, like the Floodrage, has been designed as a countermeasure to Quen naval supremacy. Imperial expansion has lead to mass systematic machine harvesting as the Quen empire and their need for resources has grown - the abyssal was created by HEPHAESTUS to impede the culling of aquatic machines and is able to destroy aquatic vessels with alarming speed and brutality.

The Abyssal has been built using some of HEPHAESTUS' newly-integrated Zenith tech that allows it to have a semi-decentralized nervous system. Dismemberment will not render the arms inert - they will reanimate after a brief period and can be reattached by the abyssal using Zenith nanotech if left alone for too long. Any dismembered limbs or removed parts must be damaged beyond functionality as quickly as possible.

The Abyssal is armed with twin electrical flails, two crusher arms equipped with grinder saws, auxiliary shock coils, Purgewater jets, an adhesive jet that uses an electroconductive variety of machine adhesive, and a radar jammer. It uses two pairs of dorsal-mounted repulser turbines for propulsion and three-dimensional underwater mobility.

When the Abyssal has firm hold of a ship, it can divert power from its weapons systems to overcharge the thrusters, allowing it to drag vessels underwater.

Extremely dangerous. Do not engage without a machine mount or ship-mounted heavy weaponry.

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Okay actually this was super fun and I don't think I've ever done something quite like this before. It took a week on and off and gave me a chance to play around with a bunch of new painting tools. Still getting used to digital but - happy with some progress.

Horizon font found here: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/horizon-font/

#horizon #aloy #horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #hzd #hfw #guerrilla games #horizon machine #I kind accidentally made a reaper but y'know #if it ain't broke (squid) #don't fix it #horizon 3 #great delta #HEPHAESTUS #GAIA #squid #Idk I just like cephalopods #my art #Abyssal #mesonychoteuthis

[jeeaark]

I make silly reason for team split up So I don't have to draw so many people at the battle

Shadowheart gets an honorary mounted combat feat with Armored Owlbear

Karlach gets a horn-orary mounted combat feat with Strange Ox

Astarion. Has a blast with Ulma

I couldn't think of a silly for the Jaheira and Halsin though. Probably the most professional in these kinds of situations, doing leaderly things with the harpers. Somebody has to be the serious ones around here!

But then there's last-minute-silly-scribble Minsc. I like to think he's helping Nine-Fingers out in the sewers. Putting the fear of Minsc in the hearts of nearby mindflayers. For various reasons.

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #shadowheart #karlach #astarion #minsc #Shadowheart having the time of her life #Karlach trying not to look down #Insert horn-y joke here #Astarion wanted to three days to Gondor as Gandolf trying to fetch them 7000 spawns- #either returning as a hero if the battle was still raging or miss out entirely on the battle : A win-win for Astarion! #Instead Astarion accidentally finds himself from shooting down squid ships #to commandeering one and doesn't know how he got himself into such a mess #becomes the sneaky stealth companion that causes the most most flashy limelight distraction to ever cross Baldur's gate #Greygold is proud of him

[weaselmcdiesel]

omg!! what!! squid?! i heard so much about you!!

#you didnt see me accidentally post this to my spam ^^<3 #time to remember what i tagged it #totally not inspired by any one person in particular ^^ #i play as an octo but if i were in the game id be a squid u__u not cool enough to be an octo #my art #fan art #splatoon #splatoon 3 #lets see if posting this at 3 am will have an effect on the local trout population #wmcd

[inka-boi]

everyone who fucking sees this. go follow @https://www.tumblr.com/karineverse

please. it’s the least i ask. this is @karineverse-deactivated20231022 new blog. please

#squid rants </3 #squid rambling #karineverse #kitty kane #… please go follow them. they accidentally deleted their account.

[squidcandy]

a saga

#squid speaks #no really where is he #im actually crazy souma and kuro have gotten so many gacha 3 stars but keito has gotten literally none ...??? since keito lecture last year #hes got the lowest fan count in the entire game. its getting a little stupid #excluding him from the lotus scout is blasphemous #whatvet...r... souma so pretty and beautiful and he brews excellent houchija there is not a disgraceful thing about him #i did accidentally end up swallowing the cardboard so theres that

[squidsandthings]

the trouble with liking characters similar to yourself is that when you read fanfic it can go from "oh cool i relate to this scene-" to "wow that triggered all my traumas" really fast.

#squid talks actually #i have to walk thin ice reading any fic with dazai #because i love him #but boy does dazai fanfic accidentally trigger me sometimes #now its my fault for playing fast and loose with my mental state #but i wanna read fics man #im tired dude #eepy if you will

[theminecraftbee]

2ND-5 LOG 0004

Another strange thing happened today. I'm not sure if I, uh, imagined it?

So like... I have villagers around now, is the thing, maybe I should start with that. You know how villagers are. I rescued them from the vault, and at first, besides the fact they let me carry them, I thought, uh. Well. Villagers, right? Probably - but they aren't... right. I don't know. I'll uh... get back to you all on that. There's just something...

Anyway, that means I have iron production, and food, and also enchantments, which is good, because I wasn't entirely certain I could get an enchanting table out, uh. Easily. They aren't uncommon, I guess? Like, uh, they're around gilded chests a lot. In fact they're a good way to spot... anyway, the enchantments mean that I have stuff that doesn't break as easily, which is good, because...

So like... uh, after. I didn't meant to attach - you know, last time. I'm feeling better since last time. My island is noisier now. More crowded. You know, what with the village. But - I mean, I didn't - I know I can attach images now, though, so I can... I have a bunch of strange gear. It is far stronger than any armor I have ever worn, and the shield is strange and slows down my enemies. It makes me feel safer in vaults, though.

I'm dying a lot less. That's not the strange - okay. I said I'd explain the strange thing, right?

I saw a cat.

I mean, uh. I guess that's not that weird, right? Especially since I panicked, went to go try to figure out how to get fish in the middle of the void, and by the time I got back, it was gone. But uh... I mean... I don't know, man. I keep on thinking about the cat. I keep on thinking maybe, if a cat showed up, uh, something... something else might? Not just a cat. But even just another cat.

I, uh - I mean, cats don't always, uh... they sense something off about me. I guess, haha, the way I sense something off about... but cats don't always like me, but that doesn't mean -

If I see a cat again I'm naming it Boots, I think. I might not see a cat again. I don't know. It left.

But honestly, between the coconut - uh, that'll make more sense with the picture, I don't - I mean it makes sense to call it a coconut but - you know. Between the coconut and seeing a cat for a moment, I feel more at-ease. More like I know what I'm doing. And it's odd, right? Because I lost the cat. I didn't get to keep it.

I saw it though.

And I mean, uh. Outside of villagers, falling squid, and the box of glow squid I made, most of the things I've seen for a while have been trying to kill me?

Not the cat though.

...you know, there are four types of altars in the vaults. I wonder which one I should thank for the cat, or which one I can ask to try to get me another one. It was cute, you know! I uh... I wouldn't mind...

Well. A question for later, maybe.

[ATTACHED: a picture of 2ND-5, callsign SECONDFIFTH, in front of a vault portal. they are wearing the druid helmet, the spiked chestplate, a coconut shield, iron leggings, and rusty raider boots. they are all enchanted.]

#vh logs #sona stuff #the cat incident is totally real i ENTIRELY FORGOT all my villagers would count as a village and might start spawning cats #and i did 100% accidentally despawn it by panicking and going all the way down to my bottom-of-the-world squid box to fish #however. i will keep an eye out. 2ND-5 /will/ be getting a cat if i have anything to say about it #also i think my vault armor somehow makes them cuter? #i think it's that the chestplate is too big LOL #anyway i've been getting real lucky with the vault gear honestly. i even have an axe that might outclass my sword #i just like swords better and right now the sword has holy damage so it's slightly superior #it's incredible how much safer having a few good skills and ACTUAL VAULT GEAR makes me feel #next stop: trying to scrape together enough beni and knowledge to start getting mods #it feels surprisingly obtainable... #vh talk

[dottedmage]

doodle dump, some of these are from today some are from last month who knows (me, i know)

#splatoon #squid sisters #callie splatoon #marie spaltoon #c4l4m4r #off the hook #pearlina #dedf1sh #calf1sh #yeah i got consumed brain rotted lovee calf1sh and i shoudl draw them more #cringe and free #also plzz do not mind the callie and marie designs im messing with them not a having a hue looks a bit boring.... my old marie design #is still the best #callie with orca patterns and marie with leopard seal ones was accidental but i looove a good evil sea mammal

[shuruzy]

I've been meaning to ask this... Are there any OCs I've made that have stuck out to you, or that are your favorite? I'm eternally curious about stuff like this bc I love my characters & wonder what others think of em, whether that's story/characterization, design, or anything else. I always spare room in my brain for ocs.

#if you know that one part of spunchbop where squid presents him to an audience behind a curtain in the krusty krab & they cheer #i'm both squid and the audience. like GRAGGHH HERE'S MY OC HERE'S MY OC RAAGHHH #i'm trying to not have this post accidentally end up inside the show's tag so thats why the names are like that #also i may sketch any ocs put as an answer.

[yosh-iro]

big man pancake

big man pancake

#back on the shitpost grind (insert like 12 100 emojis) #tbh i have a plate stacked with these fucking things so i can just microwave/grab them when im hungry and dont want to cook #they keep ending up shaped like this cuz i make 2 pancakes at a time in a pan thats a bit too small for that #so they kinda end up oval/manta ray shaped depending on how i pour the batter into the pan #splatoon #splatoon 3 #gay ass squid game #also this isnt the shitpost i mentioned last night but an accidental one once again caused by my sleep depravation #big man #shitpost #yoshi talk

[bragganhyl]

how it started

how it's going

my boy really baldured the gate to say the least

#hablaty #bee gee three posting #like okay for the record there was nothing between berci and karlach ever #there could've been something with wyll had he not picked lae'zel over him at the tiefling party #and then i accidentally started gale's romance at the tara convo #and then the jealousy convo failed to trigger so he could romance both of them #but then the boat ride scene also failed to trigger for me so gale never gave up his plans for apotheosis #berci asked him to choose him over godhood and he said no #and lae'zel dumped him bc he became a squid #so yeah fun times all around #luckily going to hell with wyll and karlach popped up as an option right after so... that's where the adventures of my boy went #i might give his pt another go some time idk when i'll be doodling something for halloween #and even then idk if I'll be posting about it the way I have so hmm idk say goodbye to him for now

[tomwambsmilk]

Ultimately, my verdict on "The Menu" is that it's phenomenal. It's a 5-star film (at least to me). It's visually stunning, it's suspenseful, it's sharp, it's tightly plotted, and it's even morbidly funny in spots. Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy are both incredible actors who are great in general, but when they get to interact with each other directly? Showstopping.

However. I wish people would stop using "it's just like Succession" as shorthand for "this is a story about rich people". Not just because it's a reductive way to view Succession, but because I think the comparison actually cheapens stories like "The Menu". "The Menu" and "Succession" are both stories about the wealthy, but they aren't just stories about the wealthy - and that's actually where their similarities end.

Once you get past that surface level, they have fundamentally different targets. "Succession" looks at how obscene wealth can exasperate already corrupted family bonds, how a culture that places excessive value on "traditional masculinity" has wreaked emotional havoc on several generations, and how capitalist structures allow the dysfunction of a few wealthy and powerful individuals to ripple out across hundreds of millions of lives. "The Menu" is about the relationships between the wealthy and service workers, the ways in which fundamental human needs like food have become a part of class conflict, and how elitism and pretentiousness form a culture that's ultimately toxic to art and creativity. Both are excellent stories!! Both are important critiques!! But to lump them both in as "eat-the-rich stories" ignores what places them above and beyond your average anti-capitalist satire

#almost put this in the main post but it might be controversial #but I would hold them up in opposition to. say. glass onion and squid game #both of which are fine. but I think both of those lack the nuance and depth to be really excellent #and they start to veer towards accidentally arguing that wealthy people are simply ontologically evil #or that wealth is an inherently corrupting force #both perspectives I dislike bc it ultimately serves to absolve people of the things they choose to do with their money #anyways. GREAT film but im just really tired of everyone comparing everything to succession #also this is not an exhaustive list of what succession and the menu are critiquing. but you get the gist

[dooxliss]

alright I'll bite, tell us about your OCs. who they are, fav movies, least fav foods, the works

i have. so many ocs and you can see the ones i’ve drawn in my #gari’s ocs tag :^) but i’ll narrow it down for this ask

Agent 3

jacinthe vermillion (i always forget if i spell it with 1 l or 2. so if it’s different elsewhere no it isn’t)

they/she

was 15 in splat1’s hero campaign, is 22 during splat3’s (valentine’s baby!)

has two siblings (pumpkin who is ~8 years younger and rusty who is 3 years older. jacinthe loves pumpkin but has serious beef with rusty)

prefers short range weapons like the aerospray due to being slightly nearsighted, vision is now greatly reduced due to octo expansion

the world’s biggest fan of squid squad, was devastated when they broke up but still keeps up with diss pair and front roe

based on firefly squids and can glow in the dark naturally :^)

goes for comfort over style 90% of the time

Agent 4

chartreuse ’char’ viridigris

she/her

was 16 in splat2, 21 in splat3 (march birthday)

very academically inclined

met jacinthe bc they were subletting their apartment for the time that they were on a mission with cuttlefish

moved to inkopolis to finish school 👍🏽

budding hyperfixation is vexillology

special interest of nudibranches and owns several

not knowledgeable in pop culture at all but listened to jacinthe’s cds while she lived there

if asked to pick a band tho she would answer squid sisters in front of callie/marie to save face but enjoys sashi mori and chirpy chips

based on glass squids :^)

hydra main! she isn’t very fast naturally so prefers to use weapons where she doesn’t need to cross the entire map

Agent 8

coral ���eight’ (answers to both)

she/her

around 18 during octo expansion, thought to be 23 during side order

in a qpr with jacinthe (jacinthe is sapphic coral is ace biromantic)

has a brother named razz who was with coral when fighting jacinthe before octo expansion, doesn’t seem to remember very much about him in the present

lived with pearl and marina post octo expansion until chartreuse decided to move away, leaving space at jacinthe’s apartment

(the three agents did live together for about a year or two)

bad at pool

tetra dualies main

misses traditional octarian food a lot

bilingual like marina and they talk a lot about the old days

looked up to marina both before and after the military, but probably wouldn’t have tried to leave herself for some time

is very good at cooking but not at baking

Neo Agent 3

marigold ‘goldie’ (vastly prefers goldie)

he/any

14 in splat3

found lil buddy a few years before splat3 and grew up with him, considers him to be a brother

has an underbite

wiper main

battered/fried its hair for kicks

seaweed fiend

hoarder

aro :^)

thinks jacinthe is alright

obsessed with ω-3 but does not engage in salmon run at all

on a very vicious losing streak in splatfest

has a labret piercing and cut an ear and eyebrow in a fall but is terrified of getting an ear piercing

has stolen splatfest decorations

#lakimusings #gari answers #gari’s ocs #squid thoughts #I ACCIDENTALLY BURIED THIS IN MY DRAFTS I AM SO SORRY #but yeah! here you go! #i haven’t played side order yet so we shall see how that plays into my interpretation of coral/eight

[parameddic]

i had such a good and interesting characterisation thought re. TK in the context of replying to this ask but i don't remember what it was very clearly and so i'm just. sitting here. trying to trigger the same thought

#something something tk would believe/deny it blind. because the idea that a team (even a sub-sub-sub-team) could be betrayed that badly #just wouldn't enter his vocabulary of allowable events #it would not Occur to him that someone might have left the boys for dead like that #marjan would believe it. it would occur to her. she especially has the media literacy for it but also she is not a. cis white man #right? right? but i don't remember exactly how i wanted that point to come up in the newspaper thing and i don't know how i decided #the others were going to fall on that line and anyway #tk would not be UNWILLING to see it he just would miss it the first few times someone said it bc he would not #be expecting to see it. he Would Not be expecting to see it. #'vocabulary of allowable events' is a good way to put it good work me #who would do that? who would just Set Them Up? #that's not even. those details wouldn't be In. there's like Steps to this characterisation even appearing at all #it would not be a direct one-to-one conversation about it just a. note somewhere abstractly that even if it DID come up he wouldn't have #the tools to believe it. .... i am getting lost. #i know the thought is in there i just keep sitting down to write it and going ahhhhhh! #''aster could this not be a direct message'' yeah but i wasn't planning it to be a whole talking it out in the tags #and now they're all in the tags #and now u get this. love u squid #tbd #when i actually write the thing instead of sitting here. contemplating #plus also it . does not require a response im just out louding. cause it's neat! #it's about tk! #it's about who he is at his core including the messy and a little bit mean (accidentally) bits! #sighs sighs sighs sighs. i love him

[waywardsalt]

every so often i have doubts abt making bellum x linebeck like. a good relationship at the end of the day like they like each other and care abt each other. but it is for me and i do enjoy bellum being wrangled like an angry cat into situations where he HAS to be nice and HAS to refrain to killing everyone and in the middle of that development realizes he feels differently about linebeck than anyone else

#its not traditional couple shit but it trends softer than youd figure ig #on linebecks end it is just. dating sim and hes decided to go the evil squid route #its not linebeck going ‘i can fix him’ its more ‘what happens happens but maybe we can tone down the kill on sight instinct’ #bellum x linebeck #its more like. bellum just learning to care abt and appreciate shit and it usually starts with him getting emotionally attached to linebeck #and in different aus it is different like bellum has reached the level where hes malevolently chill but still cold and shit but learns to #care a bit more deeply abt linebeck. or its a lot less romantic and. whatever the space au has going on #its usually some flavor of ‘bellum accidentally starts caring about this guy that piques his interest and decides to just go all in abt it’ #i am. hesitant to tag this normally. eh fuck it look at my posts boy #linebeck #bellum #throwing a curveball into the ph tags lets add some diversity to this environment (this isnt my first main tag bellum x linebeck post) #salty talks

[hexeratii]

Little doodle cuz I'm bored at work.

#art #drawing #doodle #sketch #drawing at work #i have nothing to do #I wanted to draw a squid but I accidentally made him an octopus instead #octopuses are my go to thing to doodle when bored #what about y'all?? #my art