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dogtoling · 11 months

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I want to know more about peppermint! im so in love with her

THE PEPPERMINT STANS ARE REAL ITS OVER. she is one of my oldest OCs and there's like a lot to talk about because of that, so I'll try to keep it pretty brief (and fail). Edit: I'm halfway through the post and I DID NOT KEEP IT BRIEF.

Anyway Peppermint is great. She's just a silly little (NOT LITTLE) guy. She plays in a band, and she plays turf wars occasionally, she's in her late 20's with ZERO fucking clue what to do as a career, and she's a Humboldt squid which means everyone who sees her for the first time thinks she is the devil.

(Granted, in Turf Wars, she kind of is. Widely hated Range Blaster enjoyer.)

In a clamshell, she's honestly just a chill kind of girl. She's really tall compared to most Inklings, and her species means she has VERY mean claws on not only her hands but also her suckers. She has a very boyish demeanor, which isn't really uncommon among Inkling girls, but it does get less common when you move out from the teenager categories into young adults. She's the oldest sibling of her family with five younger siblings, and she REALLY loves kids and has always done her best to be a good example. For the most part she's done a really good job at that, since most of her siblings think she is extremely cool and charismatic, and her youngest siblings are ENAMORED with her and are all over her whenever she's got babysitting duty.

(A picture of her family that i made! Half of it is sharks because her mom got married to one, so her stepdad is a shark, but she already lived on her own when this happened so it's a bit awkward.)

Her species has been a major struggle for her throughout her life which is extremely frustrating. Humboldt squids, in comparison to most other squids, are imposing with their large size, deadly claws and stereotypically violent personalities. The last part is obviously not true, but a lot of the time people will assume it is, especially if you happen to be a very emotional and excitable person (which she is!). So Peppermint has spent a lot of her life trying to juggle trying to minimize herself and her emotions to a degree where people don't get scared (impossible task) but so it's also not miserable. For her, it's meant that she's developed into a pretty big people pleaser (within reason) and is pretty good at resolving arguments. It's a whole obstacle course that she's always struggled with because in spite of how careful she is, she DOES also have issues with impulse control, and it's at times very easy to rile her up (her friends think it's funny because they know she's not actually dangerous).

One aspect that she's never held back in is Turf Wars. She mainly played like a decade ago in the early 2010's, and she was already a key player in the Inkopolis scene when the scene itself was fairly young, there weren't that many rules, Turf Wars were solely for cool guy merits and Rollers were extremely niche as most people just used Splattershots and whatever else few weapons existed before the sport exploded in the mainstream. She was one of the first reputable Roller players around and people generally thought she was really scary, because her focus in turf wars has ALWAYS been "get into the enemy base and kill them as hard as possible as many times as possible". Despite the respect she garnered in her early turf war playing days, she didn't really have any friends and people generally steered clear of her and some even insisted that her being a Humboldt squid was giving her an unfair advantage because everyone is too scared to fight back against her, yadda yadda yadda... despite the fact that at this time in life she was already making the conscious decision to ALWAYS try and position her suckers away from people when talking to them and wearing her tentacles up. But hey you just can't win with some people.

Anyway early to mid 2010's, she actually found friends in the sport when she teamed up with Boy and Dodo and promptly formed "Blue Team". The name was her idea and Boy doesn't leave her alone about it to this day. It is agonizing. Engel joined the team some time later, but at first, it was a tri-squad endeavor. And it worked pretty well even when the fourth person was a total stranger or even missing altogether, due to Peppermint being one of the best players on the field, definitely one of the top Roller players, and one of the first people to be mastering the use of Kraken. Later down the line when more branded weapons came out and the sport became more mainstream, she did become a Krak-On Splat Roller main and she had a lot of fans, but also a lot of people who would straight up leave and go home if they heard they were going against her in today's match. (Which she was both proud of and frustrated about, because on one hand she felt great joy in her battle prowess scaring people, but on the other hand she knew that a lot of the time it wasn't just about how good she was.)

Back in her teens, she actually went by the name "Stripes" due to her signature blue-striped shirt, and she actually ended up in a (VERY HEATED) rivalry with Amber at the time because... she ALSO went by the name Stripes. Their rivalry lasted like a year or two and it was actually extremely one-sided (Peppermint lost literally every time and she was FURIOUS). Where Peppermint was widely considered a demon because of her aggressive playstyle and Krakening, Amber was considered one because barely anybody could get close enough to splat her and she had insanely good Inkzooka aim.

(this picture is so funny i have to post it every time.)

The more awkward thing about their rivalry was definitely that it was one-sided in more ways than one. Not only could Peppermint never even lay a FINGER on Amber, but she was also the only one that was passionate about it or thought it was a rivalry at all. Amber was actually quite unenthusiastic and was kind of annoyed that this squid keeps trying to rematch her every other day like she's actually going to win one of those days. (Spoiler: She was not going to win.)

The other awkward part was that Amber was a pretty girl that absolutely killed it in turf wars despite being something of an underdog (why is a cuttlefish doing turf wars????). And it was super cool, if not frustrating, that there was someone out there that Peppermint couldn't lay a finger on despite previously thinking she HAD to have been one of the best players out there, and more importantly... there was someone out there who wasn't scared of HER at ALL. In a city where most people saw her and were like oh shit! This girl is so scary for existing! no. There was actually someone out there who wasn't scared AT ALL even in spite of Peppermint actually hoping she WOULD be a little scared. Like, at least a LITTLE, please. A little droplet of respect. PRETEND i'm even a TINIEST threat to you please. I. so in other news:

Moving on. She never got to win or even Kraken her once until recently and she very nearly quit Turf Wars altogether after her spirit was TOO crushed about how bad she was at it. She did take a brief break and she ended up returning by going out of her comfort zone and picking up a new weapon to start practicing with instead, that being the Custom Range Blaster! But when she did come back, she found to her dismay that Amber was just GONE and there were no traces of her. So from that point onward, she was rival-less, and she was super bummed about it at first... but life goes on, and she went on to play with Blue Team and learn to have proper fun with friends instead of hyperfocusing on beating One Girl. And Blue Team kind of killed it for a year or two, to be honest, even going into a handful of tourneys. And of course they were all in their late teens at that point, but that didn't make them "old news" at all. Especially not Peppermint, because she was more in tune with her team and herself than she ever had been, having come out of a slump and learned to read the battlefield in a completely new way after getting new perspective with a fresh weapon.

So the TL;DR is that Turf Wars mean a LOT to her. Which is why they're like 80% of this post, whoops. Uh. So she ended up having to quit them late 2010's, like, completely, ENTIRELY. She developed Kraken syndrome, and it kind of hit her like a truck in the span of a month or so. And when you combine a person who maybe has impulse control issues and is also extremely emotional and quick to get fired up, ESPECIALLY in turf wars which she took extremely seriously at the time, with a condition that triggers Krakening extremely easily during bouts of elevated anger or even excitement.... yeah. (Read my post on Krakening for insight on this if you somehow havent seen it?)

It was NOT pretty and it's miraculous that nobody got seriously injured at the time, and she had to drop Turf Wars and ink battling as a whole pretty much immediately. This was a REALLY big thing for her because she was obviously really confused and scared as to what the hell was HAPPENING, as is pretty natural to feel when your body is doing things outside your control. This was on top of being devastated because she had been totally banking on becoming a professional ink battler, having dedicated years of her life into improving and learning the ins and outs of Turf War, and it was all ripped away from her just like that. She did not have a good couple of years following this.

Or she wouldn't have had a good couple of years if she hadn't been roomies with Engel. Obviously, when Peppermint had to retire from Turf Wars, Blue Team disbanded near immediately - nobody (except maybe Dodo, because to him, it had basically been a solo endeavor the whole time anyway) felt like it was worth anything to continue playing without her. It was also an act of solidarity because everyone figured it would just be salt in the wound for her to see everyone else continuing to chase their dreams when she couldn't. She honestly had NO idea what the hell to do with her life for a while - doctors didn't really know what the heck was going on with her, medications initially didn't work or worked TOO well (zero emotions), and she wasn't in a state where she could just get a job and call it a day but RENT STILL EXISTED. Anyway, this is where Engel comes in, because in a situation where he ALSO just lost his biggest hobby and was nearing a dangerous depressive slope, he'd looked up to Boy and his hobby in music. Enter: Deep Sea Dead Zone.

Okay so at first there wasn't an intention to actually form a big band or anything. There was just the idea of hey, why not find a NEW shared hobby? And music came up as a really good contender. Boy had a history in music, Dodo had been in the same class and knew how to play guitar, and Engel had recently gotten into poetry and was really into indie bands as is. Peppermint didn't really have any footing in the idea herself, but with literally nothing else to do and with thoughts that DESPERATELY needed to be put somewhere, she decided fuck it, why NOT learn to play bass? So she just learned to play bass and hyperfocused on it for like a year straight and wow, would you look at that, now they're playing covers in Boy's uncle's warehouse and hey what if we just made our own songs i have some ideas and hey what if we went out to play some gigs just for funsies??? And--

whoops. So they released an album, and COMPLETELY UNEXPECTEDLY the band just blew up. Like absolutely blew up, because turns out that feeling like you want to set yourself on fire and die forever and whatever the hell Engel was putting in those lyrics REALLY resonates with teens. So completely out of left field, Deep Sea Dead Zone was now a pretty big thing and they were getting requests to play at fests all over Inkopolis, and to do interviews, and whatever the hell else. And nobody was really expecting any of it. Peppermint sure as hell wasn't complaining, because it completely took her mind away from moping about where her life was going and now she could, AGAIN, just have a great time with her friends - which had always been like her #1 priority ever since she had that option.

So like that was going really well for a while, up until 2019 and the FinalFest. You see, Dodo really didn't like the spotlight and when the band just kept getting bigger, he was getting less and less comfortable with it all the while trying to focus on his own life and career. So he just kinda left at one point, which. Well, that completely decimated the band, because NOW THEY DON'T HAVE A GUITARIST, and they don't just want ANY old guitarist to take up the spot because then the band isn't personal anymore. So the band gets put on involuntary standby, Engel gets clinically depressed, Peppermint gets REALLY MAD because Dodo is such a motherfucker and if he ever shows his face again he's not GOING TO have a face left, and Boy was just kind of disappointed. So. That was fun.

But going forward from there, she was focusing a bit more on what to do with her life - mostly babysitting her neighbors' kids at Urchin Underpass. She's famously always been SUPER popular with kids, both because she's really fun to be around, and also very fun to climb. She doesn't know what the heck to do for a career STILL, she's doing dead-end jobs that bring her no joy but bring in enough money to pay rent, and band fame is actually cool enough that she is getting modeling work for some gear brands (doubly good when some of them know she was a big shot in the Turf scene just a few years back, but times move fast in those scenes). Maybe the most important thing is that she'd accidentally reconnected with Amber somewhere along the line. (Here's a crude drawing i've made to depict what happened):

(he had no idea despite accompanying Peppermint to MANY of their duels. bless his heart(s).)

Not going to go too deep into it, but with Peppermint having more time in her hands again, she ended up really pursuing getting to ACTUALLY KNOW Amber, and it seems like the feeling was mutual since they quickly became really close and then gfs. And time skipping to current day, they've actually both returned to Turf Wars pretty much just to have fun and take it WAY more easy. (Here)

As for what weapon Peppermint is using now... primarily the Splat Roller, returning to her roots. Though instead of an aggressive playstyle, she's slightly more interested in playing support for Amber instead, what with supplying Big Bubblers and watching her back. She does own a new model of the Range Blaster now, though, so she has that option - Amber got her one.

That being said though Peppermint hasn't exactly had an easy few years behind her. She did recently have a Kraken mishap that ended up netting her a criminal record, so there's that. To say that she was devastated about it would be an understatement, she cut her both tentacles off to deal with the aftermath. Which is kind of a big deal for anyone who knows her well enough to know that even though her tentacles have mostly brought her difficulty in her life, she has always been really proud of them and especially the claws and puts a lot of effort into making sure they look as nice as possible! So, it took her well over a year to recover from... the incident.

(You can read about it here, and see a follow-up comic here : Page1, Page2, Page3 & Page4. Maybe)

So basically she's got a lot going on. Recently, she's been doing alright. She accompanied Amber on a trip to Splatsville last summer, and they ended up playing in the Rock Paper Scissors Splatfest for the first time since... well, since a LONG while ago. Amber went to take a detour and some well-deserved vacationing time from her job, instead wanting to focus on finding cool human junk in the Splatlands, and Peppermint tagged along because honestly she didn't have anything better to do in Inkopolis and some fresh air is SOLELY NEEDED. It turned out to be pretty much the best decision she's made this decade (which isn't saying a lot, it's only 2023) but regardless. She even had a job for a while at a local salmon restaurant, which she initially thought was horrible and gruesome, but she got some money and some experience that she could use to try and find a new job... like MAYBE try to score a place at her stepdad's sushi restaurant back home, or something. Wishful thinking maybe.

Anyway, despite all the bullshit that she's been through in the last decade, 2023 has actually been going pretty well for her so far. Her and Amber are back in Inkopolis, there's been some big changes to her life recently, she's back to playing Turf Wars casually and it's a huge weight off her chest just to be ABLE TO DO THAT, and most importantly - Deep Sea Dead Zone is coming back. And that's huge for her, because honestly again, it's nice to have something personal to work towards that means a lot to you, and sharing that joy with friends is literally the best. (Even though there's an increasing number of people who want to date her, and that's really awkward because she's already dating someone, and also most of those people are men which she wasn't interested in in the first place.)

And here is the first sample from their comeback.

Honestly that's got to be the end of this post because I probably spent two hours writing it. Which is way too long and MUCH LESS would've sufficed.

#mailbox #dodo ocs #but thanks for the ask. JESUS CHRIST IS THIS LONG.#deep sea dead zone #blue team

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twipsai · 10 months

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im soooo fucking pissed that people like actually hate splatoon 3's story mode because "its too goofy and unrealistic" THE ENTIRE SERIES IS GOOFY AND UNREALISTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOURE A KID NOW YOURE A SQUID NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! grow up

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ghostsquid666 · 8 months

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Saw other people doing this so i may as well too: About page

Names: Kris Nickname: Ari, Ghostie (from my username), and basically anything else you want to call me if you ask first Gender: Trans NB dude, He/Him/It/Its/Bun/Buns/Kei/Keir Age: anywhere between 13-25 Species: Human??? i honestly prefer raccoon (not a furry but not against them) Sexual Orientation: GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY ....im also ambiamorous and Gray-aro Birthday: July 26

Favorites

Favorite Color(s): pink, red, black, blue Favorite Animal(s): Hyenas and squids. i am also fond of reptiles Favorite Number: 42! Favorite Holiday(s): Halloween! Free candy and scaring little kids, what could be better?

I play clarinet and guitar

I love learning new things, send me a random fact if you've got a good one

IM GAY DA BA DEE DA BA DA (in case you missed the first one)

I love art! im working on both a webtoon and a Vtube channel, so when im done with those i'll give you the links!

I love music!

VIDEO GAMES

I am quite fond of poetry

I love taking Leadership in school and love planning events

I have a lot of mental sh*t going on

I am a bit of an idiot

Im an actor!

I have many OCs

Im kind of a salty person so if you wrong me i might never fully forgive you

I love creepypastas! my fav is Ticci Toby and Ben Drowned

I am an aspiring author!

Im trying my best here...

Fandoms i love:

My hero academia!

Bungo Stray Dogs

Twisted wonderland

Haikyuu

Genshin Impact

Spider man, Miles Morales

LEGEND OF ZELDA!!

Undertale

#about

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pigrank · 2 years

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me when minecraft youtube has been my primary interest for the majority of my preteen/teenage years so i am set to fail all my subjects but i know lore

#text #stampy ans squid when i was a kid #team crafted when i was like. probably 10/11 #aphmau for periods of time between those ages #hermitcraft at 14 periodically on and off until 17...#also sky and other friends drom like 11/12/13 ish isk #s...(couhghs up blood) smp....smpl...smpli #(is shot)#(comes back) and d... (dies again) ds....(dies again) d/#d..smp.......(MURDERED)#delete later. sorry im rambling 2 myself

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asexualdreammorpheus · 3 years

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I've been watching squid game but had to stop for multiple reasons

my hatred for the billionaires grew so fast I was afraid I'd just start screaming

them lights sure do flash I had to cover my eyes sure hope nothing bad happened

are there really squid game challenges on tiktok but without the murder you're just playing kids games what do kids play on the playground these days or at least pre pandemic days

#red light green light was whats the time mr wolf for me #so would the scene have gone differently if the doll saw you and then a wolf came out and ate you #the honeycomb one not so much but I'd really like some honeycomb to eat #marbles a bit before my time it was all about pokemon cards instead #squid game but for 90's kids #yes pogs are there and tiddlewinks #im showing my age now good grief #i saw the callmekevin video where he played squid game on roblox which was funny #i thought it'd be on minecraft not robolx #also even if gi hun cannot support his child financially surely his ex wife still had to tell him they were moving #honestly those flashing lights i couldn't even pause it to move the scene ahead #if i didn't die in the games I'd die from having a seizure

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technoblade-updates · 2 years

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Today’s Techno Twitter Like Round Up!

[Image ID: A cropped screenshot of a tweet by im a squid kid 🗣💯 @/im_a_squid_kid. It reads “PAYBACK TIME 🐷”. Attached are 3 photos of Squid standing in a hallway holding a large stuffed pig plushie in one hand and holding up his other as a fist to threaten the pig plush with. Technoblade is tagged in the tweet. End ID]

https://twitter.com/inozuart/status/1454832537675591685?s=21

Fanart of Techno dressed as a vampire, Phil as an angel, Wilbur as a pirate, Tommy and Tubbo as wolves and Ranboo as a sheet ghost.

https://twitter.com/jester_u/status/1445837498593251330?s=21

Fanart of Techno and Wilbur as Vampires.

#technoblade #squid kid #dream smp #dsmp #mcyt #image id #no id in alt text #liked by techno

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inhyvck · 3 years

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𒀭 Happy birthday | Lee Heeseung

pairing; lee heeseung x gn!reader

genre(s); angst, squid game au

warning(s); implied death (?), mentions of a gun.

word count; 0.7k

a/n; happy heeseung day ig LNAKALFNKF im so sorry kandkoajdjdk this js my first time writing a birthday fic I AM SO (not) SORRY anyways yeah, happy birthday my beloved hee and uhh...🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️ Oh yeah (spoiler: jiyeon's death still hurts me so much and rhis is mostly insoired bye thay scene so if tou haven't watche dsquid game ig i don't advise reading rhis if you are planning on wathcing kt)

With 3 minutes remaining on the timer, the two of you still sat on the stairs of the fake neighborhood set. The orange tin light illuminates the area like a real sunset in a neighborhood, where kids would usually play outside their houses after school or during summer when everyone is free to play.

You scowled at the men in the red suits, thinking of a loophole where the two of you could win. But as time ticks by, you have no luck. And heeseung's smart thinking couldn't even get past this one.

"You know let's just play a game, fairly," you say.

You already gave up, knowing that either one of you will get out of there alive or neither of you will once the time runs out.

"How about just, throwing a marble and whoever gets it closest to the gate wins," you proposed. Jumping off the steep steps, dusting the imaginary dust off your pants.

He locked eyes with you, observing those dark eyes, holding little to no emotions, hidden under an amused smile, like you aren't stuck in a game where your life literally depends on it.

"Fair match? Don't try anything funny," he says. You gave him a genuine look before nodding, but you couldn't keep your promise.

"You go first."

He gets into a position behind the line you created in the sand, throwing a single marble from the tiny bag in his hands. The marble lands just a few inches away from the door, making it impossible for you to not hit the door just to get closer to it.

But you weren't planning on it.

As you stood behind the line, a smirk played across your lips. You dropped the marble just by your feet, not even trying your best.

Heeseung stood there in disbelief.

"Y/n. . ."

The smirk on your lips stayed, making Heeseung furious. How could you do this to him? You agreed on fair play, and you just let him have this win. Without even trying.

"I told you I'd make sure you win," you shrugged. Recalling back to the time in the waiting area as the two of you paired up.

Heeseung locked his jaw, gripping the bag of marbles in his hands.

"And what makes you think that I needed your help? At least make it seem like you put in effort, do you think I'm weak?" He walked towards you into a wall, looking down on your figure.

You knew that wasn't what he was actually thinking. He is too easy to read, you've known for years, it's impossible to not see those signs.

"Not at all hee."

"Then why?"

"Because, you have something to come home to, better yet— you have someone, and me? I have nothing, no one is waiting for me at home, nothing is exciting for me anymore," he held his head down low. You've always been there for heeseung, you watched him grow and you helped him grow

But this time, you had to let him go. He's grown up, and you are glad you got to see him again.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He mutters. Earlier when you were trying to kill time, you talked about your life and how it was going, wondering why you decided to join the game. And heeseung heard things that he didn't even know you were going through.

"Because I'm the one who's taking care of you, not the other way around." You've always been selfless and many people have told you that it'll be the death of you, and today that's proving that theory.

"Look, I've got nothing to lose, but you sir, you have someone important to take care of at home, and they are waiting for you." You rest your hand on his shoulder, before he pulls you tight into a hug.

Then one of the suited up staff stripped him away from you, escorting him back to the main hall.

"Heeseung!" You called out. He didn't bother turning back, not wanting to get a glimpse of what's about to happen.

"Of course I couldn't forget—" a grin widely spreads across your face as tears fall from your cheeks.

And before the gunshot you managed to say.

"Happy birthday."

#heeseung #lee heeseung #enhypen #enha #enhypen heeseung #heeseung imagines #heeseung scenarios #enhypen scenarios #enhypen imagines #lee heeseung x reader #enhypen x reader #heeseung x reader #lee heeseung imagines #lee heeseung scenarios

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queersturbate · 3 years

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why do you hate squid game? i'm not being judgy or anything i'm just genuinely curious

hello anon! this might get long and i will make a lot of comparisons to aib because they are similar plot wise and they're both from SE asia (korea and japan) so i feel better about comparing those two than, say, an american show. also AiB is the best show i've ever seen period but also the best show to use this plot of competing in deadly games.

thank you for not being rude about it or anything i know people like it and i dont want to be rude about it, but personally i just dont see the appeal.

i'll put my thoughts under the cut because i know some neurodivergent people are hyperfixating on it rn and ik how it feels to read hate or criticism on a hyperfixation, so i want everyone to not be bothered.

warning i do get very critical of it so if you like squid game please dont read if you'd be bothered! these are just my opinions!

to start off, I am four episodes in. I will watch the rest, but from what I've heard, the ending is disappointing. Which idk how tf that's possible because the entire show is disappointing. But anyway, i will give it a fair chance of course but so far i hate it and im not sure if it could redeem itself. @olympiansally and I (i also talked about it with @uppertwist) are watching it and I think, collectively, we've said 7 okay things about it. 5 of those things are from me. And im the most negative person ever especially when im watching a show with a similar plot to my favorite show and it gets more popular despite it being incredibly inferior. My main approvals are, they made Korea look very peaceful (even tho the color correcting is shit :( srry) and that scene where that one guy catches our main character in the red light green light game. i really liked the reveal of that.

speaking of characters that I cant name, it's because the characters are incredibly annoying and boring. I cannot pay attention to them long enough to even learn their name. I can recognize our main character's daughters name and that's only because its said a bazillion times but i can't remember what her actual name is by myself. I think there's also a character called Sang-woo ? and i only remember that, if im correct at all, because of killing stalking. but anyway. the characters are very stereotypical. Bad dad, divorced, needs money, in trouble with a loan shark. I've seen it a million times i get it. Pretty girl is a badass, doesn't smile, has a small knife (lol), has a kid brother she's protective of. Again, a million times. Blahblah the other characters are forgettable even more so. Also people comparing sang-woo (?) to light yagami? idk what he did yet but dont insult me OR light like that again omg. also the actors are a little bad i wont lie. the main characters faces sometimes are exaggerated and i find that funny lol but idk.

as far as everyone saying "it's a great commentary on capitalism" every time im like okay...how? because i have seen zero people actually giving it an analysis they just SAY its a great commentary on capitalism. and here's the thing: i've seen it yeah? it's not. it's just "poor people need money. are willing to die for it." like woooow congratulations you broke barriers! no one has done it like that before! /s literally all im getting from this is "look at these POOR people! POVERTY!" tbh i wanted to see some rich people in the game. I wanted to see some millionaires that are so greedy and confident in their ability that they'd participate in the games just to get more money that they didn't need. and are competing against people who genuinely need the money but dont care BECAUSE they're so fucking greedy. to me, that would make the capitalism commentary a little better than just ".....POOR PEOPLE need... *assistant whispers something to me* MONEY"

another problem i have with it is how they frame food. I dont trust shows that frame food as this disgusting thing and make it look and sound so grotesque. maybe it's just my ED talking but I hate it. They frequently had food shown and it was an awful experience for Lu, twist, and me. And im not even talking about him licking the cookie, which was so fucking gross and went on TOO LONG, but EVERY TIME they showed food it looked disgusting. The characters were chewing with their mouths open, they amplified the chewing noises, they framed it with this uneasy feeling. Similar to how they framed the dinner in coraline in her own world. it looked disgusting. and im not just being ignorant and saying "korean food looks so disgusting" although i've never had korean food i've seen k-dramas where they frame food to look appetizing or just ?? fucking NORMAL. to compare to alice in borderland, they only had a few instances where they showed food because they didn't have to use it to give you an uneasy feeling. The first time it's shown, is when Arisu gets into a car and sees rotten vegetables, but it was important to the plot and world building to show you that in this alternate reality, time moves different so the vegetables have rotted. The food was rotten and looking disgusting yes, but it was never meant to be eaten, arisu was never going to eat it. it was for world building. the second time is when ari, chota, karube, and shibuki are all eating dinner together. they showed canned food because that's what wouldn't have rotted by now. they werent being gross about it they were just eating and talking about their theories. just people eating. and i love it. the third and last one ill mention is when Usagi cooked arisu some food because they hadn't eaten for days and needed to. you didnt even see them eat on screen but usagi had a whole thing of "your body is telling you that you're hungry, your body wants you to live." also the food that she cooked looked good! it looked comforting! idk maybe my ED makes me very cynical about how shows and movies frame food because i dont like it when they frame it as disgusting.

anyway this is getting long! the visual aspects of it are stupid, the game sets look stupid, the color correcting is bad, the camera angles are boring and lu's film degree has bestowed upon me the knowledge of "it has no point of view and every shot is the most obvious one", next! the blood looks boring and the physics of it are inconsistent. blood can be inaccurate and i'll still love it, but they were boring with it and it looked bad. next- the fact that apparently the pretty girl pickpocketed main character in .2 seconds when she didnt even see him coming so she wasnt prepared enrages me, next- episode two is so fucking boring i couldn't even tell you what happened in it. next- the way they revealed the money in the piggybank was boring. next- the black and white scene in the beginning explaining the squid game was stupid and annoying. next- the plot of deadly games is my favorite plot of all time and yet i dislike this show. they fucked up. and finally, the stairs they had that is an art reference is stupid lol there wasn't any need for that and they should've done it in black and white like the original art so the teal color and the people would stand out but it's too fucking busy with the multiple bright colors. not everything has to be bright and saturated, netflix calm down.

oh also, this feels very much like a typical netflix original. i call it netflix original-y. very basic and boring.

#anyway #enough slander from me #don't unfollow me bc i dont like squid game :(#ask #anon

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