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I wasn't planning on drawing more pokemon right now but ????? i tripped

alolan starters :) mostly just wanted to do incineroar but naturally I had to do the full trio

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Day 03 part 8/

It's been a while since we saw Diana gay out so here's a little treat <3 Anna knows. Last strip from this day! I'll be taking a couple of weeks to recoup for the next one but I'm sure you will like Day 4.

Flats and missing Farcille by @almoris

kofi to see the next one early! inprnt for prints

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Day 01 | Day 02 | Day 03

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Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG thread from when I made these a year ago were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

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What if there was an error in the memverse coding that programmed the people inside to look like how Marina sees them

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Gotta Find Me a Future Part 1: Sunset

Comic under the read more.

This comic is an adaptation of @theashemarie 's fanfic of the same name (link here). It was 4 months of hard work for @theashemarie, @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and me. We are very pleased to share Part One of this labor of love with you. Please look forward to Part Two in the coming months!

It's a whole different experience trying to adapt a written work to comic format, and I took a few liberties here and there with certain scenes. I'm very thankful that my friends stepped in to help with this massive project, they helped so much and are so talented! Please give them a follow, look at their work, leave comments and tags, let them know how much you like their stuff.

Ashe, obviously, handled the bulk of the writing and the alt-text, and offered insight on the parts that were changed by me. Katie is the one responsible for the shading and flats, and helped keep my and from being injured. She also offered a lot of feedback for the paneling and layout, being a comic veteran herself. Rory is in charge of anything that is colored, so the cover and the three colored spreads were his doing. Just fucking exceptional work from all of them. I handled the sketching, lining, and layout as well as the rewriting of one scene.

We are already starting work on part two, but we are also all working adults and these things take time. Hoping to get part two out sometime this year… Either way, thanks for reading and have a kind day!

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everything* related to Pearl, Marina and their relationship - part 2

*or almost everything

part 1 ● part 2 (you’re here!) ● part 3

Now, we get to the Final Fest: Splatocalypse. Chaos (Pearl) x Order (Marina). As seen in the dialogues, there was a bit of miscommunication, and Marina was worried that Pearl wanted to break up (their band). But after Chaos wins, Pearl makes it clear that this was never her plan

Most localizations tend to be just like in EN, with few differences (I’m highlighting the most interesting in the images) and all show the same: Pearl and Marina are inseparable and Off the Hook means everything to them *both*. In some (like EN), Pearl even says she loves Marina!

Hisashi Nogami, Splatoon’s producer, reinforces this in an interview, mentioning how Off the Hook are “a unit” and “on good terms”. If there’s one thing to expect from them is that they will always be together and have each other’s back, which we will see more of later on

Interviewer I’ve heard people saying that since the final fest for the last game was a showdown between the Squid Sisters, this time it was bound to be between Off the Hook. Nogami I think that’s probably the obvious conclusion, but the development team don’t actually want those two to attack one another. Since the Squid Sisters have their own talents and abilities, even though they are a duo they are also kind of rivals, so we thought we would pit them against each other. Off the Hook, though, are much more of a unit and on good terms with one another, so we didn’t want to force them to fight.

Thanks to @/ZeeGeeADHD (twitter), I realized that I was forgetting the shifty stations! Marina is a tech genius who built several multiplayer stages for the Splatfests. In JP, those stages are named after shōjo manga. In EN, the names are just references to popular books

Shōjo is one of the main categories of manga, focusing on the target demographic of teenage girls and young adult women, and Marina is also a huge fan of it. For the stages, the majority are romance mangas, although I wouldn’t exactly recommend all of them…

I tried to find summaries for all of them, and even checked a few to see if there was anything interesting, but there wasn’t a lot. Some have younger x older lovers, which you could read more into… But I think it’s just a regular trope in the genre

Because of the difficulty I had to find proper translated summaries, I ended up relying more into machine translations for those, instead of carefully looking over everything like I did before. I apologise for that but I really didn’t feel like spending that much time on it… 

Most are famous, probably chosen for the sake of a pun, instead of being what Marina herself would choose. But there’s one exception: the last stage, with a name that matches a manga written and drawn by Marina herself, released as a bonus for the official Splatoon manga

It matches Marina's “Since it's the last... I'll make a special stage with all my thoughts” dialogue in the ‘fest announcement, and it shows both her and Pearl as stereotypical shōjo characters: clumsy main character (Marina) who looks up to the cooler senpai (Pearl)

The title “Dear Pearlie” makes it seem like something dedicated to Pearl, or like it’s a letter, which seems likely considering the letters shown at the end. Notably, one of them has some hearts drawn in…

To be continued in part 3! (we hit the image limits here lol)

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everything* related to Pearl, Marina and their relationship - part 1

*or almost everything

Hello, everybody! I have started a thread on twitter where I try to organize (almost) every official dialogue, art and whatever other type of interaction Pearl and Marina may have had, and I'm finally posting it here :) Keep reading if you are interested on it!

part 1 (you're here!) ● part 2 ● part 3

First I will talk about Splatoon 2 and then Splatoon 3, posting it in parts. Of course, putting every single dialogue they had would be impractical, so I will be giving attention to the ones I found more relevant (which in most cases are the cute ones)

If I missed anything that you think it would be nice to add, please go ahead and tell me! My main source for this is the Splatoon wiki, Inkipedia, which in itself has different sources, especially for translations. So, I highly recommend you check it out!

And speaking of translations, I want to take a look at how different localizations treat their interactions. Mainly, I will focus on the differences between the Japanese (JP) and American/European (EN) localizations, especially considering that the game is originally in JP.

For that, Inkipedia is once again the best, but there’s a few dialogues that didn’t have translations there, so I tried to use my own skills to translate it - and if you noticed any mistake on it, please tell me! And with all of that out of the way, let’s go!

If you’re reading this, you probably know them already, but if you don’t, here’s Pearl Houzuki (or Hime Houzuki - JP), an inkling, and Marina Ida, an octoling. They were introduced in Splatoon 2 (2017) as the new hosts of Inkopolis News and as the duo Off the Hook.

1st - their stage dialogues! As it’s common knowledge now, there’s been some changes made to their personalities, especially when it comes to Marina. In JP, she is *very* sweet, and is often gushing about how cute Pearl is.

Marina also refers to Pearl in JP as センパイ (senpai), a honorific equivalent to calling someone a “senior”. Pearl is not only older than her (by 3 years), but she is someone who knows about inkling culture and, as seen later, taught Marina about it. 

So it makes sense Marina would look up to her. In EN, senpai was (righteously) changed for the nickname Pearlie. In other languages, except Chinese, this convention of giving Pearl a nickname that refers to her as little is kept, with “ma petite Perle” and “perlita” as examples.

I chose the dialogues that stood out the most, and could really give us a glimpse into their relationship: Pearl and Marina care a lot about each other, and are always looking for things to do together. Going as far as planning to spend 12 hours together in a ferris wheel!

This will be later even more obvious in the Splatfests. Meanwhile, even in the stages it’s clear the difference between languages - they have much more cute moments in JP. Unfortunately the EN localization made Marina more mean spirited than she originally was...

(Side note: a friend pointed out that one of French stage dialogues has a bit of an incorrect translation. “Without question” is “definitely, without doubt” but “pas question” is used when you’re against (doing) something, so "No way" would be a better translation)

Now let’s look at Splatfests, and 1st: in JP! From the get go, we can see that there’s a heavy focus on how Pearl and Marina are very sweet with each other. They don’t really argue about their choices - they just explain their views and sometimes try to get the other to join them

In some cases, the fests end up as a way to choose their next “get together” and the results also often tend to reach a middle point - with them doing both things. Examples: Action x Comedy - Trick x Treat - Flowers x Dumplings

Honestly I see Pearl almost as doting, going to do stuff that Marina likes despite her own team’s win. Examples: Tsubuan x Koshian (if she won) - Action x Comedy - No Pineapple x Pineapple. 

Sadly, we only started to get dialogues more close to the original after Hare vs. Tortoise. In EN specifically it’s almost like they take the fests too serious, although in Russian and later on Octo Expansion it will be pointed out they are mostly putting on a show

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we're getting close to the end of this series, but for now here's a poster for one of the best collabs in splatoon!

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Time for another bluesky art dump! Features fanart for an agent 24 fanfic by homoctopus here as well as a lil comic with trans Pearl. And, as always, Pearl and Marina being very lovely

The comic is in the final stages of completion, all 31 pages have been lined and sent to be shaded as well as some other not-so-secret collabs. I anticipate a mid-March release if all things go according to plan.

I often post my less important, social posts on bluesky here . Drop on by if you want!

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the day a fairy met an angel – based on @/Budglet12's (on Twitter) wing au

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hey I have no self-control and the voices won so here's a pearlina discord server if anyone is interested:

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2-3 hr speedpaint from yesterday, cause I was going insane from pearlina withdrawal

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Yeah awesome

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pearl and oyster 🦪

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PEARLINA NASTY DOG ANIMATION MEME I feel like Pearl would like Sir Mix-A-Lot

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Marina doodle from my sketchbook ✍️

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Pearl and Marina's first meeting but it's a Zelda Spirit Tracks AU 🚂

(technically pearlina, but they only fall in love some years later lol, although... Marina probably doesn't know she has a crush already)