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Happy Marie Monday! Vote team money this upcoming splatfest~

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ould you love me if I was a worse person who bit others

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proud to present what i just spent way too long on

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Comics are the perfect medium they’re so perfect that God made them really tedious and unrewarding to produce so that we wouldn’t be completely overwhelmed by them

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me trying to explain the plot of phantom of the opera

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A heartbreaking thing about #3 Etude is that it really shows how Octarian society negatively affected both Acht and Marina in different ways.

Acht was seen as a delinquent and looked down upon by their superiors and fellow soldiers who expected little from them which caused them to have a more cynical/pessismistic outlook on life and lowered their self-esteem but it also allowed them more freedom of self-expression.

Marina on the other hand was a child prodigy that was widely celebrated and had so many expectations put on her that she was forced to leave behind her passions, and even friends, in order to become what others wanted her to be.

And later both got the desire to go to the surface, and follow their dreams of creating music but while Marina was lucky enough to find a kind soul that'd help her realize her dreams, follow her passions and encourage her to unapologetically be her true self, Acht was instead found by a monster who preyed on their fears and insecurities, took advantage of them and completely took away their sense of self, which makes Pearl being the one to eventually destroy said monster, freeing them from their control, and eventually helping them reunite with Marina and finally reach the surface truly fitting (and satisfying).

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Nearly forgot to post this because I got distracted by #3 Etude but here's my Splatfest post

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I love how #3 Etude once again shows us how Marina's earnestness makes her oblivious to other people's negative feelings towards her, from Shiver's passive-aggressive jabs to other Octoling soldiers' jealousy.

Girl is a technological genius but a social dumbass 🤣

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I just realized something. If all sea critter kind originated from a pool of seawater in Alterna, which was in Japan... how the heck do we have a humanoid Pirahna, which is a South American freshwater fish? 😆

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testing testing new app and new tablet I got on christmasssss

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I had a dream splatoon base updated the band pages.

In this dream, Riot Act had a secret 5th member who was a leafy sea dragon and looked cool, but that wasnt the biggest shock.

The previous pages got updated with new art in a different art style with scenes featuring bands members and Inklings and...

The cast of scooby doo.

Yes. Splatoon was doing a massive scooby doo collab. I remember in this dream was just me going thru the splatoon base website while my splatoon lore discord server was going nuclear over these developments

Things that happened include

-there was new art of riot act hanging out (including the new leafy sea dragon) but in the background there were random civilians that looked plausible for splatoon, and then... two that looked like anthropomorphic birds. me and the chat were freaking out like "DID BIRDS EVOLVE IN SPLATOON LIKE THIS AND EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS A LIE??? OR IS THIS A CHARACTER FROM A SCOOBY DOO MOVIE" and we had to assume the birds were scooby doo characters from some niche source because scrappy doo was also there in the background.

-for some reason, they dropped a height chart of shaggy, velma, fred, and daphne next to an Inkling. The inkling was given slightly different proprortions from how they look in game, and was drawn in the same art style as the rest of the mystery gang. Next to the inkling they had markers denoting the tallest possible height for an inkling, and that tallest height was still a bit shorter than velma. Discord server losing our minds because they used this fuckass collab to canonically confirm that inklings are smaller than humans.

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(↓ link to translation here)

Ordertune: Dedf1sh's Playlist Translation

(scans below for visuals)

Translations: @magicalgirlfia and myself

Scans: @lumenid

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(↓ link to translation here)

Ordertune: Dedf1sh's Playlist Translation

(scans below for visuals)

Translations: @magicalgirlfia and myself

Scans: @lumenid

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Actors Helene Stanley and Jeffrey Stone’s live-action reference footage for Cinderella (1950)

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