#i like the squid a lot

[void-within]

Baldur's Gate 3 spoilers ahead...

I'm pretty sure the Emperor is the mindflayer that tadpoled Tav & co. His appearance (mostly) matches, eye color and bare feet aside. No other mindflayer in the game is dressed like this.

His location and role as the captain of the nautiloid that kidnapped you matches.

The timeline...gets a bit weird. As in, did they really grab and tadpole Wyll and Karlach in Avernus? While the ship was being wrecked by dragons and devils both? But since Lae'zel and Tav get their brain worms just before the githyanki attack (some time after the artifact theft, I would presume), odds are he was free of the Absolute by then and did it of his own free will too.

#baldurs gate 3 #the emperor #this is not emperor hate btw #i like the squid a lot

[salamispots]

inhales I really like this color combo but not sure if I'm going with it haha

#wip #like the colors as a whole with the other 2 feels like a LOT hhaha #if I put more pink it might work?? we'll see #also all the tags yelling about squids and bigfins on the other wip made me giggle mdhjfgdjg

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

thinking about the great uk squid hijacking at Splatoon 1’s release and that they never caught the guy. they would have had to hold onto them for at least a while and then sell them *slowly* and secretly, cuz if they were the only ones in the country you’d be basically handing yourself into the cops. so you’d have to be super careful or you might just have like. every preorder’s worth of green squid amiibo. forever. anyway happy server shutdown day to the owner of hundreds of tiny green squids from 2015 in particular-

#I think about this a lot I’ve had this screenshot in my phone for like 6 months #any given green squid amiibo in the UK could have been involved in organised crime and you just wouldn’t know :) #teh scenest cephalopod #<<my splatoon tag btw in case anyone needs to block it #notscene.txt #splatoon #splatoon 1 #Nintendo network shutdown

[rassicas]

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

#splatoon oc #splatoon #my expectations is that a lot of people made ocs in 2018 #also i wonder how many s1 era folks are still making ocs or have been using the same one lol #or if theres anyone who was crazy enough about squid game to make an oc after e3 LOL #anyway i made cress in 2016 i consider him my first proper oc. he didnt have a name for several months tho #he as well as a few other characters i made at that time started out from concepts that i thought were stupid or funny #all the others i drew like maybe once or twice and got scrapped but cress the shitty headphone squid survived and got Deep Lore

[ghosthoodie]

STUPID BAKA DOODLES FROM MY STUPID BAKA LIFE…

#my art #BY THE WAY i stole the dotted brush idea from my mutual miniyellow5… ur art is awesome homie #LOL i truly draw like a lot but its never quite nice enough to post on its own!!! #so here yall go….morefood…. #sicily(3) #kait(8) #trikaya(3) #mitsuo(3) #khari(3) #agent 3 #agent 8 #new agent 3 #splatoon #splatoon oc #mark(oc) #agent 24 #nishi(24) #persimmon #squid squad #<- referenced in one of the last drawings #sketch #digital art #artists on tumblr #inkling #WHEW i love tags

[next-hero-in-line]

This is as done as this is gonna get lmao- @ikaishere I hope you like it anyway

#my arts #wow me actually coloring something for once? #a lot happened in the past few days and I kinda lost motivation for this sorry #squids running on like…. fumes of motivation at this point

[nebulaeyedfish]

"Scar-!"

Man it's actually been like a year since I first watched 3rd life with @secondarysourceblock and I can't believe it's taken me so long to draw something from it. It was a very different style of MCLP than I used to watch back in the day (race to the moon, anyone?) but it really is a lot of fun haha.

See pinned for Commissions!

#third life #3rd life #3rd life smp #third life smp #limited life #traffic smp #traffic series #hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #grian #mcyt #nebulaeyedart #I've been watching a lot of grians hermitcraft serieses now too they're pretty fun #good as bg noise #I've just started scar's season 9 series too #but yeah massively different style to back when i watched stampy & squid and that #like i say probably closest in style to RTTM? #mannnn i WISH they'd done the 3rd life style of session for rttm #can you IMAGINE #i know the proximity chat mod probably wasn't a thing then but the best bits of rttm were when they were messing with the other teams #if ONLY

[true-squid]

ok but you dont fucking get it. i love you and it doesnt mean what you think. its not heteronormative and its not nuclear and it cant be described in a way that has words. there arent words for it. its not queerplatonic. its not romantic. its not platonic. its none of those things. its incomprehensive. its unwordable. its not because youre my lover or my mother or my sibling or my friend its none of those things. you dont fucking understand. we fuck and we share our feelings and we abandom the status quo and part of the point is that we dont make sense. isnt it? isnt it?

i feel alterous. thats the best word for it because there isnt one thats better and i dont think there ever will be. its not about not wanting to be romantic or sexual its about being different. its about a new fucking category, a secret third thing, yes and no, what happens when you mix everything and nothing together.

its because i see love differently. ive recontextualized it, made myself to view it in a way that is outside of the general conception of love. i want to explain it to you but i just cant. i want to but i dont know how. you need to feel it. you need to know what its like to be alien

im aromantic and im asexual

#aroace #aromantic #asexual #poetry #squid writes #this is meant to be a poem #the “you” is just part of the poem #its not directed at anyone #ive just been thinking about this a lot #and what its like for me being asexual #i dont know where to look for people who experience asexuality the way i do #so sometimes i feel pretty alone #like an “other” #i dont think its bad to be other i just wish i could find the other others

[endlesslytired]

I just downloaded the splatoon text font onto ibispaint x and I decided I should try out something.

#splatoon 2 #squid sisters #marie cuttlefish #callie cuttlefish #dialogue edit #my shitpost edits #i would go up to these two a lot to listen to their dialogue #this Tumblr meme always seemed like something they'd say

[moonsidesong]

quick design note draft thingys for miss mari because I Am Never Satisfied With My Own Designs but she is very nice and i like her and i need to draw her more

just a fun headcanon obv, since the games always have set colors on the player characters, but i like to think of a lot of the way inkfish naturally present their colors as a genetic thing, especially in how tentacle colors work! mari's secondary/gradient color is always a warmer tone, but ruby and jade's are always a cooler tone, and some people (like squid sisters/OTH/etc) have totally unrelated colors for the main body of the tentacles and the actual ink color is in the gradient part at the end. i also like to think those traits are something you could get temporarily changed though, kind of like hair dye irl.

i also feel like there'd be a lot of little genetic mutations that end up in family lineages (like mari's eye color, in this example) but if it looks cool the squid fashion world ends up finding a way to artifically copy it so it's not actually very special to have those mutations naturally lol

#i think how likely a lot of these traits would appear would also be really dependent on the species of squid/octopus they are but yknow #i dont know enough about squids to make a big list of dominant/recessive traits headcanons in every species of inkfish #its just an idea i like to play with #moonsidedoodles #ocs #marigold #2024

[bucketsquid]

Religion in the World of Splatoon - An Analysis

A thought struck me when I was thinking about the Horrorboros and how it’s pretty strongly intended to be an Eastern dragon-- “there really isn’t much discussion on the topic of religion and spirituality in the Splatoon world, even though it’s quite There”. I think that’s really interesting, because while it’s not a detail that’s front-and-center, it’s still pretty present in aspects of the world.

So, I offer you: a quick look and breakdown of religious + spiritual aspects in the funny little squid game. It’s not catch-all, I may miss fine details or this or that, but there’s some stuff that people often miss or are surprised to hear when I bring it up.

The tl;dr is that “yeah, it’s there. Squid Shinto is alive and well and we have, at least, canonization that the Squids (and Octopuses) acknowledge Christianity existing”.

But that’s not nearly enough for me, so read on if you want to see the details!

With the whole game taking place in mollusc-era Japan, there’s a good deal of “leftover” spiritual and religious aspects that remain or have otherwise been adopted by its cephalopod residents. I have a pretty strong case to say that Shinto still very much exists, and is a part of life, for Inklings and Octolings. Shinto at its core isn’t something that people with only a Western experience with religion and spirituality might easily pick out, simply because it’s treated and integrated into society somewhat differently. It’s something you have to approach after discarding your expectations, experiences and baggage involving what you know of religion. But it’s there, and really smoothly woven into Inkopolis.

(Pic from Splatoonwiki, higher res here.)

Skipper Pavilion is pretty intensely and obviously a center of traditional Japanese celebration and Shinto spirituality. It’s a theater first and foremost, not necessarily a shrine, but it has Shinto aspects present. Its two mudskipper statues are direct parallels to komainu statues, which you’ll often find guarding a shrine; they even have the “one with closed mouth, one with an open mouth” detail found in paired komainu statues. Clever attention to detail!

(Pic from Splatoonwiki, higher res here.)

Note these little areas with the blue curtains, too. The boxes of objects being sold remind me quite strongly of windows at shrines where you obtain omamori! Shinto shrines regularly offer these to people who give a donation, and they provide the shrine’s blessing to those who carry them on their person. (We never say that you buy or sell omamori.)

Finally, while I can’t find visuals of them, Splatoonwiki also says that there’s collections of ema plaques on the Skipper Pavilion stage as well. These are small wooden plaques that one typically writes wishes or desires on, before hanging them up with other ema. Like with the omamori, you can regularly find these at Shinto shrines, both in terms of ones you can obtain, and in space for you to hang them up. (If someone can find a screencap of the ema in this stage, I’d really appreciate it!)

...

Moving on from the Pavilion, there’s some other small details and indications of Shinto or a derived form of it in Inkopolis culture. One familiar sight is the Splatfest fax machine.

It’s the super-special fax machine that delivers our Splatfest themes! And it’s also implied to have a divine nature: the NA localization names it The Voice on High according to Splatoonwiki, while in Japanese it’s Kami-sama. That’s a very esteemed title for a fax machine: this implies that it’s seen as a divine being, and quite respectfully too.

While kami is often a catchall word for “god”, “deity”, and so on in Japanese, it also refers to the inherently Shinto concept of kami: a spiritual being that may be anything as great as a deity of heavenly power, or something as modest as the soul of an ancient tree. It’s a kind of difficult concept to fully explain in a brief thing like this... but it’s a huge deal. Given the attention to detail with Shinto aspects in Inkopolis, I think it’s no coincidence that the fax machine is called this. And I think that’s incredibly charming that Inklings saw this still-functioning relic from the human age and attributed divinity to it and its abilities.

(More obvious, but note the ofuda (paper charms) attached to it in the photo; ofuda have a ton of different meanings and uses, but we can pretty safely assume it’s of a protective or otherwise spiritually-significant nature here.)

I’ll also go ahead and mention the message that comes with this Sunken Scroll: "Why are we here? For what purpose do we exist? We must not dwell on these questions. We can merely trust in the will of the universe and spend our days and nights in harmony with the world, celebrating this festival called Life."

Yeah, that feels very “practical Shinto thought” to me, speaking as a Shinto practitioner. While “contemplation of existence and purpose” are still perfectly good subjects, there’s also, often, an emphasis on living practically, focusing on the present day and your community, and being in harmony with the world. This fits in perfectly with that philosophy.

One more detail is that, originally, the Squid Sisters were meant to be shrine maidens of a sort. They were meant to pass on the messages of fax machine Kami-sama to everyone else... or in other words, announcing Splatfest themes. While you can’t see this shrine maiden DNA in their designs anymore, they kept the Splatfest announcement detail through development. In a sense, I guess all of the news announcers and Splatfest hosts have a relationship with the divine.

...

“Alright, that’s all super cool, Marine, but what about the other stuff? They have Squidmas and there’s those Sunken Scrolls too!”

Yup, they sure do. But from what we see in canon and from observations of the cephalopod world, these details feel like a case of “things that Inklings borrowed from humans and played with because they thought they were cool”, rather than “things Inklings kept and adopted because they were a part of the human culture in this region”. There doesn’t seem to be much of a presence of Squid Christianity much at all, at least in Inkopolis: Squidmas exists, but when discussed there’s absolutely no talk or evidence of any religious aspects that may have been lifted from humans. As far as we know, it’s “winter holiday that has some Christmas stage dressing”, which is a very Inkling thing to do with how much they like to borrow from humans. They love to do it so much.

Secondly, yeah, these two Sunken Scrolls do very much point at evidence of “the cephalopods found some traces of Christianity and made content based on it, or inspired by it”. The Book of Madai scroll is particularly pointed in its name, writing and artwork styles. But while this proves that this exists in some form, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s particularly established in Inkopolis. We don’t have nearly as much evidence for Squid Christianity as we do for Squid Shinto, and it’s pretty safe to say that Squid Shinto is much more of a thing in Inkadia.

So what are we taking away from this? Mostly “yeah, religion and spirituality are very much a thing in the Mollusc Era, and it’s very elegantly woven into the setting”. Pretty cool if you ask me, it makes me really happy to find these thoughtfully-placed details where I then go “oh, I know what that is!”. It really adds to the hopeful post-human setting, that even after humans have long since gone extinct, their legacy still remains, and is celebrated and cared deeply for by the Earth’s new peoples.

I’ll probably add a small reblog to this later with my thoughts on the Inkantation and Salmonids, but this is definitely enough for one post.

#splatoon #worldbuilding #shinto #long post #anyone can reblog this! #in fact please do if you like it. i have a lot of warm thoughts about this topic in funny squid world :)

[m0rt1mersgr4ve]

noritaro plus the lil emojis i made for the tik tok !

#noritaro #jotakak #jotaro kujo #noriaki kakyoin #jotaro x kakyoin #stardust crusaders #i just think they're neat #ok i may be experiencing brainrot #they are all i ever think about everything ties back to them #I think about avdol a lot too like i giggle and kick my feet #in a stim kinda way #oh wait im posting noritaro #jotaro is a shark actually #and kakyoin is a squid #i had to look up the differences between squid and octupus

[lemonsweet]

People making fun of that kid singing the skibidi toilet song while he's getting a shot as if you've never been 8 singing a funny song reflexively when you get scared

#while i ofc dont like a lot of internet series stuff gets targeted at kids i think ppl are way too serious abt this stuff #like i remember when people freaked out abt kids obsession with squid games and playing games based around it #as if kids didnt use to roleplay hunger games on the playground

[satellites-halo]

my favorite weird girl

#inspired by sanguine-squid s one post about weird girls in splatoon #splatoon art #splatoon oc #Frostbite (oc) #splatsona #fuzzy octarian #fuzzy octoling #splatoon rotm #return of the mammalians #octarian oc #oc art #splatoon oc art #wow thats a lot of tags #halos-expression #my art #this was my first time like ever rendering metal btw 💀 #i think i did pretty good #eye contact

[clannfearrunt]

If I understood physics and bones enough to design skeletons I’d be unstoppable. You just KNOW the splat era fish folks are hiding strange skeletal secrets in there. Those are not tetrapods they are New

#Con stop yapping #like I figure a lot of things would look similar bc convergent evolution #but like. if someone who knows bones saw it it would make them go. hm. hmmm. #Squid 2 the evolution of the squid

[larrythefloridaman]

WOAH, HE'S BIGENDER? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

#hey. hey. im just saying. he LITERALLY 'transed his gender' in a diagetic bit in orange. and if that wasnt enough. #in blue he disguised himself as squid jenny specifically with larry's powers (the only thing hes done with them on screen) #got caught by his god-assigned roles-obsessed caretaker. and was given the label of being something intrinsically unescapably deceitful. #while 'pretending' to be trans girl. #like. if i wasnt pretty sure it was all an accident i might even call the allegory here slightly heavy-handed. #with the nccts emphasizing a theme of 'youre not just what people say you are #you can be more than one thing at the same time' with crim #i think crimson can have boygirl swag. some bigender pizzazz. i think he deserves it. #is it REALLY a cpu kerfuffle arc without a subversive narratively relevant gender-transing. #am i supposed to believe the spirit of deviance himself is cis? get fucking real. grow up. /silly #also a lil crimtoinette in there. just for flavor. because i cant help myself. #also sidenote the nccts have given him this cute lil tendency #to tip his hat down to hide his face when hes trying to be Genuine or Thoughtful or Poignant. and i enjoy that little touch #i maybe like this guy a little too much. hes most of what ive drawn for months. #but what do you want from me. i read him as a queercoded villain deconstructed at the metanarrative level. #am i just supposed to be normal about that. #me and zia talked about this in dms and discovered. we came to a lot of the same conclusions. completely independently. lmao