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Lol

They may look innocent now, but they menaces on the battlefield

Mine are similar-

Look sweet, But can kill you

Look like they can kill you, but are cinnamon rolls

Looks sweet, is cinnamon roll

As well as-

Looks like they can kill you, and will kill you

escaped octo's upon seeing 4 and 3

IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER?!? (meme)

NO LITERALLY

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Hehe, you're welcome for the song reference! Lmao, it was the first thing I thought of 😅

And yeah, I can see why you might not want to talk to O.R.C.A-

Hina (neo)

Humans tend to fascinate you, being just the way they are! Tell me little octo can you push a cart or drive a car! Lyre is an instrument, while humans strum their sweet guitars 🎸

It's a mystery~

Anthropology!

Jokes aside, I'm sure O.R.C.A has plenty of info to share

// Wow now I feel old being reminded of that song… I was obsessed with it as a kid when it came out lol

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YES!

Yes yes yes yes-

2 of my favorite shows combined! (Miraculous ladybug works great for aus though. Who knew?)

More Huntlow MLB AU 

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Hold on, let op cook-

Yes, they are definitely setting up some foreshadowing with gingerbrave

And is probably why Dark enchantress is desperate to keep an eye on him or get him to join

Originally, I thought that Dark Enchantress and Gingerbrave are parallels as well in that sense

Gingerbrave as hope, while DE brings despair

Both had similar backgrounds to knowing the truth of the witches, but chose different paths about it

So, DE isn't just making the ultimate cookie.....she's essentially trying to recreate it, and make a clone

No wonder DE has been having Pomegranate spy on gingerbrave the entire time through her mirror. It's so she can keep an eye on where he is and react accordingly.

(The evidence for this fact is in the pink juice incident costume set story)

So guys apparently theres a sixth souljam/virtue which was shown on one of the 4 th aniversary event.

And you guys know how gingerbrave was given life by accident and is the most hopeful and cheerful cookie.

And also the fact that ultimate cookie is in way the opposite of that as it's being created with a purpose,and at the cost of causing every life to suffer and despair as they are used to create the ultimate cookie...

And also you know how the beasts are based on basic ingredients to bake a cookie,with MAGICAL LIFE powder being the most IMPORTANT ingredient as its used to create LIVING cookies...

Also they have parallels in that they hold of a bit of darkness and light in them,with gingerbrave having a bit of darkness within his heart and the ultimate cookie having a bit of light within them

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And now we need to add paldea to this. Quick, we need a picture of Spain! 🇪🇸

The Pokemon regions

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This is so cool! Also poor cap-

(Also, I'm just realizing my cap/tres is fairly unique in not having much trauma-)

Literally took all month so far but here’s a video dedicated to Captain!

This took so long I don’t think I’ll be doing anything for the other agents

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My 4 gets along great with her parents and siblings! She just......gets anxious about things, and prefers keeping things to herself.

Therefore, they don't know about the fact she's an agent......yet.

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Gotta love crows. They fun birds

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Miraculous ladybug vibes for sure-

Chat noir especially, as he has no problems asking others for help on small things......as ladybug has a bit too much pride/anxiety to do so 😅

When the heroes asked to meet with you, you thought the situation would be dire, otherwise the heroes would never have dared to ask for your help, but when they explained their predicament you could not help but laugh at just how ridiculous it was.

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Ooooo, world building! World building lore is fun! :>

Splatoon worldbuilding stuff!

I always loved seeing people’s headcannons on daily life and stuff, so it’s finally time I made some of my own.

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Yes!

For me, my general playstyle is skirmisher/support, especially if I'm using a brush. Becoming popular target just for constantly annoying the enemy team while inking as much as possible, and therefore giving my team plenty of openings

Looking forward to playing my first Splatfest ever! As you can see, I’m Team Sour~

I feel like I’m in a kind of odd in-between position; where I’m new enough that I can still relate to the Christmas noobs, but experienced enough to already have a solid playstyle and a few weapons of choice…and if there are any fellow new players following me or casual players who are just looking to improve, I’d like to share a vital piece of wisdom I’ve gained over the past ~1.5 months:

Find your comfort zone, and make it your niche.

Before, when I used to imagine what it’d be like to play Splatoon, I thought of myself as a ‘support’ player, who’d probably spend most of my time inking turf and helping my allies defeat enemies, rather than going full offensive on my own.

When I actually started to play, I did do that for a while (out of fear XD)…but before long I started trying to copy everyone else, thinking that jumping straight into battle was the ‘right’ way to play and that I needed to stop being a ‘coward’. Long story short, I got killed A LOT doing that (lots of unhappy memories with the Reefslider…), and I found myself getting more and more frustrated after matches, and eventually I thought “Y’know what? Clearly this isn’t working…maybe I should just go back to the non-confrontational approach”.

I made a point to stop using weapons with specials that made me try to get into the middle of fights, and stick with specials I could use from the sidelines (Tacticooler, Wave Breaker). Then I went back to playing like a ‘coward’…and I started learning things.

My first breakthrough was literally just learning tactics– watching player behavior, and figuring out how to exploit it. For instance, when my team was getting cornered or otherwise unable to advance, I would use the ‘suicide run’: sneak around the side of the map and make a mad dash into enemy territory. Not necessarily to ink turf, but to simply get everyone to turn their backs on the front lines and focus on the intruder (who is always seen as the more urgent threat). If you can survive for at least 10 seconds, it’s a valid strategy, and doing this on the regular also taught me evasive skills pretty early on. When you’re constantly getting attacked by 2-3 people at once surrounded by enemy ink with no one nearby to help, you learn fast. ^^

My next breakthrough was learning to aim…which is a valuable skill that not everyone has, believe it or not. ^^ And as the person who usually wandered off alone to ink all the unloved corners of the map, I often found myself in a position to sneak up on enemies and quickly splat them when they were focused on other things…which eventually became the cornerstone of my playstyle.

At this point, I’ve gone back to focusing on inking turf and ‘Splat Assisting’…but I do it not out of fear of trying other things, but because I’m GOOD at THOSE things and now I know how to do them in the most beneficial ways. I’ve learned to ‘splatter’ enemy turf to slow down opponents’ movements and draw them out of hiding, and even to paint escape routes for struggling allies. My aim’s gotten so good that anyone I can hit before they notice me is usually splatted in 2 seconds, and I specifically target people who are preoccupied so I can get those kills. Yesterday I racked up 21 in Clam Blitz (a mode that, just last week, I was afraid to even try) just by doing what I do best and ‘assisting’.

All that is to say, what you feel comfortable doing (in any MMO game, really) is probably what you need to be doing; you just need to get yourself the right tools and tailor your playstyle to accommodate it. There are lots of types of skillsets that can be useful in Splatoon, and lots of ways to work with each weapon class (and Salmon Run is a great way to trial-by-fire yourself into finding weapons you never knew you’d click with…once upon a time I almost considered becoming a Splatana main). Just go with your gut, believe in yourself, and always prioritize having fun~

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My 4 and cap 3 have some extra titles....the frozen fighter and living lightning. As, the 2 have given it away occasionally they had connections to specific elements......and it definitely didn't really help their reputations.

(Especially Tres. If you've seen genshin impact, people's reactions to the Raiden shogun/Ei is how they react to Tres. They don't want to get struck down by lightning for crossing her)

But, my agent 7 has a similar reputation to the agents among octarians......despite being an octoling from the domes himself. He's a well known jinx, Murphy’s Law incarnate, so they knew if he was around the area.....doom and disaster was following in his wake

Yesss This. I wish there was more stuff about how Octolings post Splatoon and Splatoon 2 feel about the fact the two Inklings that ran through their homes, are just walking through the city as if they didn't just get back from taking the giant power source they desperately took to power the crumbling home they've known their entire lives after splatting their teammates and took their leader captive twice.

Exactly! I plan to elaborate on this more in the future! But exactly! No one’s gonna be forgiving the agents that easily. I bet they’ve become horror stories for people in inkopolis once the octolings started talking about inklings in neon yellow who would rampage their homes and steal their tech and massacre their people. It would be very interesting to think about honestly. Imagine 4 and Captain become sorta like living symbols of death to the octarian people and now even citizens of inkopolis consider them as spooky horror legends from the octolings.

I’m not surprised if there’s even times where even eights hesitant around 4 and Captain. Definitely gonna be interesting story wise for my characters especially as more information about the octoling bases and the squidbeak splatoon is revealed to the other characters

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Yes, definitely!

Lol, my neo 3 already has a reputation like that from shadowlings (fish fin eared dark magic inkfish). She's known as the Yellow bane of ghosts, as she would sneak into villages at night to steal food (mostly fruit) just to survive, and would attack anyone who tried to corner her. And with her bright yellow ink, and gold sand ends and ground abilities giving her a.....supernatural reputation. Stealing fruit, but the sand left behind benefits the crops and farms giving a better harvest later.

Yesss This. I wish there was more stuff about how Octolings post Splatoon and Splatoon 2 feel about the fact the two Inklings that ran through their homes, are just walking through the city as if they didn't just get back from taking the giant power source they desperately took to power the crumbling home they've known their entire lives after splatting their teammates and took their leader captive twice.

Exactly! I plan to elaborate on this more in the future! But exactly! No one’s gonna be forgiving the agents that easily. I bet they’ve become horror stories for people in inkopolis once the octolings started talking about inklings in neon yellow who would rampage their homes and steal their tech and massacre their people. It would be very interesting to think about honestly. Imagine 4 and Captain become sorta like living symbols of death to the octarian people and now even citizens of inkopolis consider them as spooky horror legends from the octolings.

I’m not surprised if there’s even times where even eights hesitant around 4 and Captain. Definitely gonna be interesting story wise for my characters especially as more information about the octoling bases and the squidbeak splatoon is revealed to the other characters

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Wow, he REALLY likes shooting himself in the foot.

elon musk has been incredibly innovative when it comes to giving people reasons to stop using twitter.

his latest push: all pictures posted to twitter will have a "recreate in grok" button beneath it, allowing anyone to feed your art straight into an AI with 0 control from you.

also, i presume because of this feature, artists are getting their original works tagged as "created with Grok".

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The original meme! The meme, the myth, the legend!

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Y e s-

He deserves the opportunity to go feral, as a treat

nothing worth questioning further

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I need these-

Best way to handle arguments: be a referee

So I just found the most useful photo album in existence for tumblr arguments