#Core Message

[bixels]

End-of-Splatoon thoughts.

Thinking about how since the very start, Splatoon has had a feature where players can draw and post artwork and spot them as graffiti on walls or billboards. Or how the weapons have always been paint brushes and rollers and ballpoint pens. Since its inception, Splatoon has been dedicated to engaging its players with the act of creation and creative expression, showing them how their art can build communities and (literally) change the world.

Thinking about finding golden human-made music discs buried underground for thousands of years, and a grand finale music festival. About the Voyager Golden Records. About those human handprints etched into concrete in Alterna. Did those human artists know it would end like this? First a fiery death and then, eventually, a worldwide celebration of music to represent our shared past, present, and future. Did they know that their songs, insignificant in the face of extinction, would one day become the solution that will save the next dominant life-form from the same fate?

Thinking about how eerily similar the Octarian domes are to Alterna. About how close Inklings and Octolings were to repeating the same mistakes as humans. But their doomed fates were undone not by some miracle technology or military power or a rocket, but by music.

Thinking about how humans wiped themselves out with war, and our parting gifts were liquid crystals that somehow paired with the DNA of primeval inklings and somehow infused them with our memories and culture and a Song. And 12,000 years in the future, that same Song will end a war.

Thinking about how art and music and punk culture and rock & roll and friendly competition and petty arguments and water guns aren’t uniquely human concepts, but the fundamental qualities of intelligent life. An inheritable spirit that can cross evolutionary bounds.

Thinking about the theme of Splatoon, that art and music and fun will not die with the human race. That every piece of art we create is a seed we sow for future generations to reap. That our legacy is ingrained into the crust of the earth. That long after we’re gone, the oceans will remember, and they’ll pick up where we left off.

Thinking about how Splatoon says that the essence of humanity –– the thing that will outlive us –– isn't war or prejudice or destruction or greed, it's a song.

[marciaillust]

trapped in amber

[counting-stars-gayly]

MEDUSA WASN’T A MONSTER BECAUSE SHE HAD SNAKES FOR HAIR BUT BECAUSE SHE HURT PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T DESERVE IT LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

[wickedzeevyln]

You Brand

Who are you? What do you represent? On a consensus, what impression do people have of you? It is an overlooked fact that we live in a digital world and not only has the job market evolved but has also become more competitive and companies now can scour information at a whim. Scouting for hopefuls with a broad range of skillsets to boast is easily accessible and available from networking…

[tyrantisterror]

Shoutout to the radish guy in Spirited Away for deciding to go all the way up to the top floor just to make sure Chihiro was safe when presumably he had other shit to do and could just have easily decided this little girl's safety was Not His Problem.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 14: Just the usual Guy Stuff!

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[clingonlikeclingwrap]

Literally obsessed with the way you draw yj98 in the things your friends have said series. All the poses and faces just match them so well <333

Omg.. thanks so much. In fact have another one <3

YJ98 as shit my friends and I have said pt. 6

Pt. 1 / Pt. 2 / Pt. 3 / Pt. 4 / Pt. 5

hmu at Ko-Fi button

[iipaint]

oh, i should have gone deeper, but i'm not so brave

when i was done dying - dan deacon // fionna and cake - "cheers"

[artisicallya-rambo]

Some people are just allergic to fun

[rocketbirdie]

deranged picnic

[handsome-angel]

the angelic urge to enter a room and corrupt every screen, flicker every light, and implode every window just to say hello

[thewhizzyhead]

WAIT I WANNA BRING UP ANOTHER THING ABOUT HOW BULLYING IS ADDRESSED IN NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE. one thing I really liked about how Max is shown as a bully is his talk with Pete at the Pasqualli's parking lot. When Pete tries to stand up to Max, Max pushes him down and emphasizes that Pete isn't a loser because of his own qualities - rather, Pete is a loser because Max simply said so.

Of course we can attribute this to Max's god complex but I think that this point in particular is less than often really brought up in teen-centered media featuring bullying: that bullying exists not because of nerdy behavior or whatever the fuck, but because bullies will it into being. And to have a BULLY of all people say that out loud - to have the main villain point out the root of their behavior without showing any kind of shame whatsoever - showcases just how much of a menace Max is.

[greenbloodedskink]

A message and a warning from a contained city.

[sn0w-games]

[phoenixwithapencil]

Okay but did Crisis Core’s fan clubs have remotely true factoids about any of the firsts?

Did Zack even know if they were true or not?

Does Seph really use a whole bottle of shampoo? Did Gen really find that copy of Loveless in his parent’s study? Does Ang really garden in his free time and have a cherished camera from his mother?

Did Zack ever find any of it out before it was too late?

Did he ever know his peers better than the hundreds of thousands of adoring fans who didn’t know any of them at all?

[baexywth]