#back on squidposting

[opal-owl-flight]

Theres a SCAMP running around on salmonid grounds...

[thefloatingstone]

Romancing the Emperor when I haven't taken a single tadpole is so funny.

He wants Tav to eat the evil space slug soooooo badly.

[freshbeeth]

i haven’t stopped thinking about this in days

[ink-the-squid-gremlin]

Ok, be for people start watching the upcoming vocaloid movie, there’s one thing I feel I have to share with yall. I’m actually really disappointed that the first mainline vocaloid movie is connected to the mobile game project sekai.

[cemeterysquids]

shout out to the two girls in my marine biology class who im pretty sure were trying to bully me for being autistic but did not consider the fact that i am autistic and just thought they were being weird

[hacknet]

here's a long list (with images) of all the returning or new splatoon gear i've identified from the direct and the press kit 🔽

baseball jersey

b-ball jersey (away)

black arrowbands, mawcasins

blue moto boots

white baseball ls

soccer shoes, slipstream united

yellow urban vest, crazy arrows

jet cap, striped beanie, five panel cap

roasted brogues, cream high tops, white arrows, black seahorses

mint tee, sunny day tee, blackbaseball ls, cycling shirt, green zip hoodie

sporty bobble hat

white arrowbands, purple camo ls

white sailor suit

blue sailor suit, straw boater

punk yellows

the camo mesh, bobble hat, and octoglasses are in the background of cooler heads as objects.

As for new gear items, there are at least 4 that are wearable:

everything here

and the ink-colored bowler hat of the octoling on the left

there are three gear items in background elements:

a sea green/blueish hoodie, similarly patterned dakroniks, and a plaid shirt that seems similar to the button-clown and business animal, implying it may be an emberz shirt.

[dooxliss]

when the second mario movie direct drops i will be so much worse

[ghostcouncil]

Dedicated squidpost 🦑 (also including octopus and abalone dishes as they seem like they are spiritually squidposting as well)

Because I love squid

and now back to regularly scheduled squidposting haha

[hometownrockstar]

just remembered splatoon 1 splatling win animation :) peace and love on earth

[awashsquid]

HEY I GOT A SQUID TATTOOED ON ME TODAY NOW I AM OFFICIAL

[neon-the-griffinfox]

Remember, kids!

Grinding up innocent ink creatures and using their blended remains as brain-washing fluid to destroy the whole world is [SLANG NOT FOUND].

[ikatako38]

Welcome to my blog!

Hi! Info on my fanfics, tips for navigating this blog, rules on submitting asks and posts, and a list of my alts are below the cut! If you want to submit a post to the blog, please read the rules down below! Thank you so much!

WIPs and fic Masterpost

Picrew Masterpost

Content Schedule

My Works

This blog is dedicated to my three ongoing fanfictions on AO3. If you haven’t visited them yet, click on the links below to get started!

This Place We Called Home (TPWCH) - Splatoon, M/M, Agent 24

Mi Hogar Eres Tú (MHET) - Versión en español de TPWCH

The Words We Left Unsaid (TWWLU) - Haikyuu, M/M, Kenhina [HIATUS]

However, I overwhelmingly post about that first one on here! I also used to post a series called Daily Jugoru that highlights vocab and grammar from TPWCH’s accompanying conlang (known as Juburanotako). But I haven't done that in a while, and it's quickly losing relevance as Three learns more Octoling.

I’ve also started posting memes about TPWCH, because why not? (Also haven't done this in a while lol).

Navigating This Blog

Every organizational tag I use on this blog is included below. To go to that tag, click on the corresponding tag at the bottom of this post. The nice little feature of doing it this way is that this intro post will always be here at the top if you want to switch tags.

To see everything related to TPWCH, including status updates → #this place we called home

To see TPWCH official art → #tpwch official art

To see TPWCH picrews -> #tpwch picrews (or the masterpost)

To see TPWCH Fun Facts -> #tpwch fun facts

To see all TPWCH memes (including incorrect quotes) → #tpwch memes

To see TPWCH incorrect quotes, → #tpwch incorrect quotes

To see everything related to the Daily Jugoru, including status updates → #daily jugoru

To see only the Daily Jugoru and other Juburanotako posts without the status updates → #octoling language

To see everything related to TWWLU → #the words we left unsaid

To see everything related to TWWFL -> #this way we found love

To see everthng related to TTWCF -> #this thing we called freedom

To see everything related to MHET → #mi hogar eres tú

To see TWWLU official art → #twwlu official art

To see ALL my art → #tako’s art

To see TPWCH fanart -> #tpwch fanart

To see ALL submissions -> #tako’s sumbissions

To see TPWCH guest fics -> #tpwch fanfic

To see the ridiculous carp my predictive text, autocorrect, and spellcheck gets up to → #adventures in google docs

To see/blacklist status updates → #tako’s updates

To see/blacklist other random things → #tako’s squidposting

To see an agent -> #(Neo) Agent 3/4/8

To see an OC -> #seyu, #lyle, #lucía, etc.

I also use other tags such as #splatoon, #haikyuu, #fanfic, #conlang, which I use to categorize my posts in the broader site, but I don’t suggest using for navigation. Many of these are just a holdover from back when I didn’t know how Tumblr worked and just stuck with me lol

Submitting Asks and Posts

You can submit an ask or a post at any time! I’d be ecstatic to answer any questions about TPWCH—or anything, really! 

And we now have fanart being consistently submitted to the blog, which is a literal dream come true! If you want to submit a fanwork, please follow the rules below to make sure it ends up in my hands and on the blog! (I promise they’re not scary rules! :P)

Fanworks of this fic are totally welcome and will immediately earn you my everlasting love and appreciation! Please send me any of your own creative work related to This Place We Called Home with the “Submit Fanwork” button if you want me to post it to the blog! AND SUPER IMPORTANT PART: You need to DM me on Tumblr or leave a comment on AO3, otherwise I won't see it! This goes for fanart, fanfiction, chat memes, you name it! And fun fact about submitted fanworks: they get reblogged once a month for three months! That means you'll appear on the blog a total of four times for each post you submit! (I may space them out a bit more than that if there’s a particularly high volume of traffic on the blog to ensure than every fanwork gets its fair share of appreciation!)

Posting fanart of my story to your own blog is also okay, but I ask that you do three things: [1]credit and ping me (@ikatako38) [2] link the fic (tinyurl.com/thisplacewecalledhome) and [3] spell the name of the fic correctly (This Place We Called Home).

Content-wise, I’m very open to any sort of AU or really anything else you want to do with my characters! If it complies with Tumblr’s (admittedly excessive) guidelines, you should be all set to go! If it would be labeled mature, just let me know that along with and content/trigger warnings in the DM you send me! I’m not currently avoiding any content warnings, but it’s nice to be prepared.

Thank you so much!

Alts

I currently have three alt blogs, listed here:

“Squids Don’t Have Bones” @ikatakoalt - for non-TPWCH related Splatoon stuff. This is just reblogs.

“Shades of Purple” @purplegays - for Zukka, Klance, and a little bit of Ranga. And now Sonadow/Soknux/Sonadoknux too, apparently!

“A Silent Glance Between Us” @puddinghead38 - for Haikyuu, and more detailed updates on my fanfic The Words We Left Unsaid. This one is basically dead.

“Ce Mur qui Nous Offre des Blorbos” @bugaboi38 - for Miraculous

“It’s Tako Tuesday Bois” @ikatakoirl - Writing blog and non-fandom or book fandom posts

“Rocket is My Babygirl” @raccoonboi38 - Rocket and GotG appreciation archive. Not planning on making any posts there, just reblogs so I can find them later

[freshbeeth]

TRICOLOR IS FUN OMG

[ink-the-squid-gremlin]

Endouma is a terrible ship, and here is why.

‼️WARNING‼️: Post not only contains semi spoilers for KNY, but it also contains mentions of things like suicide, depression and noncon/sexual assault. If you are uncomfortable with those topics, please refrain from reading.

TLDR: Enmu and Douma are not compatible with each other because that ship is mostly built up on fetished MLM tropes, overly sexualized versions of the characters and the romanticization of SA.

(God, I feel like I have been posting nothing but hot takes on this account as of late. I promise I will go back to posting art, cosplays, and more just chill stuff after this.)

Enmu and Douma are not characters that should not be shipped together, for multiple reasons. Starting off, THEY ARE NOTHING ALIKE!!!! I don’t know where or how it was decided that they were alike, or that Enmu is “Douma 2.0”, but it makes no sense. While both are meant to be irredeemable monsters, Enmu was an irredeemable monster from the get go. From what we know about his backstory, he knew he was scamming people and targeting the weak and vulnerable for it. Douma’s backstory goes a bit more in depth and explains that he was put into the role of “all mighty god” as a child, which lead to the power of it going to his head as he grew up. Douma was still an impressionable child who was failed by the adults around him, and as he grew up he took on some of those same traits as the adults he was surrounded by. The bottom line is this: Douma, while a shitty person, still has some way to sympathize with him, Enmu does not, and thats just on the story side of things.

Enmu and Douma also share nothing in common personality wise. On face value, they may kinda act similar (i.e how they talk (sorta)) but it really just stops there. Enmu ultimately had a goal to kill Tanjiro and gain more blood from Muzan so he could climb the ranks of the demon hierarchy. He wanted to gain more power and to overthrow one of the upper moons for the sake of power. He doesn’t care how many people he has to torment, hurt or kill, as long as he has spot in power, he is happy, hell, he literally has vulnerable and even sick children do his dirty work! Enmu is a sick and twisted individual and he prides himself on that. Douma on the other hand put on the happy and up beat facade to hide that he knows he was failed. Douma is aware he was failed as a human, and so he decided to fail his followers by being the embodiment of false hope. He plays into the false icon lifestyle by pretending to be hopeful and happy around his followers and even the other demons to an extent. He doesn’t care so much about power, rather he cares more about control. Douma keeps up his false religion persona to keep control over his followers. He knows he’s failing them, but he doesn’t want to lose the control he has over them.

Now onto the elephant in the room: the mischaracterization I’ve seen of both of them in the Endouma ship. In both fanart and fanfics I’ve seen and read (well more so forced down my throat since thats all I’ve seen with Enmu in recent times) both Enmu and Douma are mischaracterized to high hell just so we as the reader/viewer will feel pity for them. I’ve seen more of this with Enmu, in that all the stuff that made him unique from the other KNY demons is stripped away so his “savior boyfriend” Douma can comfort him and coddle him. Now, writing an AU is one thing, but if you’re just going to make content of the ship with the characters as they are in the series, then their actual personalities should be honored or at the very least acknowledged.

Going more in depth about the mischaracterizing I’ve been seeing with Enmu, almost all (ALMOST all, not all in general) Endouma content I’ve seen have made him either a depressed and anxious baby that Douma is meant to coddle, or an overly fetishized hyper feminine man thats there simply for sexual reasons. It just goes against their roles in the story of KNY.

Going off of the hyper feminine man mischaracterization of Enmu I’ve seen in regards to the Endouma ship, having him be pretty much a “femboy” not only contradicts him as a character, but it also is pushing toxic heteronormativity on a queer relationship. Making Enmu essentially the “woman”, while putting toxic heteronormativity in a very much MLM ship, it also just boils him down to a sex object and nothing else. Now, I will not say that portraying Enmu as a very sexual and even gross character is wrong, because there were plenty of scenes in KNY of him that had very sexual and perverted undertones, but that is what they were, undertones. There is more to his character than just the sexual undertones he has (as I stated earlier when describing him), and by boiling him down to a “sex doll” for Douma just kind of shows that there wasn’t much of an understanding of his character while making the ship art or a fic. He is much more than a sex object.

Moving onto the mischaracterization I’ve seen of Douma, while not nearly as bad as Enmu, it still feels very off from his character. Making Douma someone who GENUINELY cares for another person is also very contradictory to how he acts in the series. He is someone who cares very little for anyone he comes to meet, whether it be his followers or other demons. Now you may be asking “but, Ink! Douma saw Daki and Gyutaro when they were on the verge of death and decided to save them!” Which is exactly what I am talking about. The only reason he “saved” them was to keep up his facade of a savior and to get himself “brownie points” (for lac of a better term) so his public appearance would look good. Because he cared very little for Daki and Gyutaro, it shows that he only cares about looking like a good person and nothing else. Portraying him as essentially “Enmu’s therapist” that coddles him and such just feels weird. Douma has no emotional connections to anyone, so why would he have an enmotional connection to a demon that is considered lower than him?

Now similar to what I said about Enmu earlier, Douma is also much more than a sex obsessed pervert. Douma being portrayed as basically a male nymphomaniac in the Endouma ship is a very strange way to portray his character. Yes, he may have been fine with letting women seek refuge in his temple, but again, it was to make him seem and look like a good person. We should all know, or at least have the understanding that Douma is literally a woman eater. The women he houses in his temple ultimately have the fate of being nothing more than food. Viewing his reason for taking in women as something sexually driven is a complete misunderstanding of his actions. This misunderstanding of Douma paired with the sexual misunderstanding of Enmu not only creates a toxic relationship, but it also fetishizes and sexualizes MLM pairings. This is something I’ve noticed more in Endouma art, but a lot of it that I have seen feels very fetish-y. I can’t go too in-depth about this aspect, as I am a queer woman, but the way the ship is portrayed in a lot of the art I have seen of it feels as though it is pandering to the appeal of yaoi obsessed straight girls. While yaoi has been a term used for decades to refer to MLM based pairings in media like anime and manga, over the past couple of years, its meaning has become more based around fetishizing MLM pairings rather than just being about MLM pairings.

I now want to bring up something that I’ve seen associated with Endouma (and also the Enmuzan ship, but that is a topic for another time) that really makes me uncomfortable, and that is noncon and the romanization sexual assault. I don’t want to talk too much about this topic, as it is not only triggering for me, but it should also be common sense that fetishizing sexual assault is wrong. Again, this is more so something I have seen in artwork, but it seems almost normalized for Douma to be portrayed forcing himself onto Enmu. Now, I know you are all probably saying “Ink, if you don’t like it/are triggered by it, then don’t interact with it”, but when its all that has been made in regards to newer Enmu content as of late, and how people are hyping it up, its kind of hard to avoid. It makes me truly question just how many people really missed the point of their characters, and only focused on things like Enmu being more androgynous, and Douma being tall and muscular. In a general sense, if a ship is built on, or is popular from fetishized and romanticized sexual assault, it shouldn’t be a ship.

Finally, I just want to mention that these characters have NEVER once interacted in canon. I know that hasn’t stopped people from shipping characters before, but it’s just something I want bring up. (As well as the fact that the Upper Moon’s hate the Lower Moons)

I want to end off this post by saying that all of this is by no means targeted at a specific person, nor am I trying to say that my opinion is correct. I am just stating my own opinions and just stating observations I have made after being in the KNY/Enmu fanbase for nearly 4 years now. People are allowed to ship characters together (within reason) however they like, but just be aware of how it will look on your own part, and what views it may look like you have.

[cemeterysquids]

pjsk should add a "did you know that 99% of gamblers give up right before their big break" stamp actually nevermind post cancelled i forgot pjsk is a gacha game. i was trying to make a joke about cheerful stage random match lobbies

[hacknet]

squids will be real in 6 hours

squids will be real in less than 12 hours