hob & matthew teaming up to convince dream that "birds aren't real" is 1) a real conspiracy a large percentage of humans believe, and 2) something both of them PERSONALLY believe
dream: matthew, you are a bird
matthew: and I'm not real, am I? the dreaming made me
hob: he's literally a government drone, dream. YOUR government drone!
I recently took a comics course and we had to make a comic about a boy who climbs a tree, meets a bird, and then flies away... What an absolutely uninspiring prompt but here is what I made out of it.
(Don't judge me for the last panels...it was late on the day of the deadline...)
on this lovely day of thanksgiving, i will be attempting to convince my grandmother that i am a “bird truther,” aka someone who believes that birds aren’t real. i want to see if i can convince her that i am a conspiracy theorist.
Hear me out, in splatoon, there are literally so many birds still- existing in the world, and I mean- that's cool and all, but I feel like there is too much of a opportunity being missed here!
First of all, the weird lore implications- that certain birds somehow managed to survive while all humanity is gone ish- frankly incredible, especially since it's been enough years for sea life to evolve into humanoids! (And I know that there is an explanation for how this was made so much faster) But it's still incredible to think that these birds have literally gone through no changes even after so many wars and centuries, like-
Nintendo could have evolved birds too-
Now, I'm not saying that they have to go the humanoid route! I'm just saying that I want to know how these birds survived the post apocalyptic apocalypse so well! Maybe by having birds evolve to be ocean dwellers, like penguins and sucks- so how are sparrows still alive?? And more importantly-
Why are they not some incredibly popular pet?? Like- there are no mammals, there are close to no reptiles from what I've observed, so sea life would only know birds, and wouldn't they be curious about the animals that have tamed the skies? Or even more so, be curious about specifically pigeons given the fact that- pigeons would be a very easy animal for them to domesticate/tame, cause they where already animals that we humans have tamed! Nintendo could have easily just added in Inklings or octolings keeping pigeons as pets! Or even better
War
Humans have used pigeons as an war animal for the longest times! And given the fact this is a game very connected to war, wouldn't that be a very interesting idea? Having pigeons that are already in game as a animal that was used in war just makes sense! Especially given how octolings don't have a lot of electricity (given they have no zap fish) and are a very military based species, the idea of them still having pets that they use to send letters just makes me happy-
I understand the hype on making sea bunnies a type of pet that inkfish keep as pets- but c'mon! Make pigeons the equivalent of a dog in this world- or make a "crazy pigeon lady"-