#bluetext

[daddyloop]

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[bigblueoctoling]

It really irks me whenever I see people who call Side Order's story mediocre.

Like, as I've discussed, there are things I dislike about it, but I feel like on a character level it's so much deeper than anything we've gotten out of Splatoon so far, to the point where I can't help but think you're dense if you think the story of side order is just "you defeat the big evil robot and win the game".

I went down this road of thought because I was thinking about Marina as representation of an autistic person, and how shockingly well it was handled, and furthermore, how relevant it is to the story.

For one, the things that set her apart as an autistic person don't make her out as an outcast, they are celebrated, Pearl seems to actively cherish them, even when she's not able to fully match her level of intellect.

But on top of that, the game is very intimately about exploring Marina's psyche, and confronts her struggles with relating to others without making her out to be asocial because of it.

Most relevantly, the core focus of Side Order is about Marina's subconscious fear of change, something very relatable as an autistic person- that, despite how obvious it might seem to do in retrospect, it was a difficult leap to make, as someone born into a bad situation. It's such a nuanced moral and it says so much about Marina, an obviously autistic character, in such a positive and uplifting way...

Like, not only is Marina the best autistic representation Nintendo has done, I genuinely feel like Marina is the best written autistic character I've ever seen. I know people within the splatoon fandom never stop talking about Marina and Pearl but I feel like outside of the context of splatoon that fact isn't talked about enough.

[fictionkinfessions]

Forever tormented by people ACTUALLY shipping me with Wednesday. Like... bro please there is nothing between us and the relationship was bad ANDDDDD she was like a sister to me. Please for the love of god it is MILDLY funny that people ship it but PELASEEEEEEEEE oh my lord it TORMENTS ME LMAO

-- Tyler Galpin (#🌸⚡️)

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[bigblueoctoling]

The entire basis of this concept being on an arbitrary definition of hypnosis rather than the most clear cut definition of the word, and then acting like people who don't accept this just don't care enough about callie, is really really absurd, especially when this really doesn't do the character of Callie the justice you think it does.

For the record, I will set some things straight:

Callie does care about Octarians, and went to Octo Canyon out of her own volition and desire to improve Octarians' standard of living.

Callie isn't stupid- not for any reason, but especially not because of this event- her compassion and trust were taken advantage of by a manipulative person.

That being said, I find this entire narrative people push of Callie not being hypnotized/brainwashed (for the sake of simplicity I will refer to any instance of "having your thoughts unnaturally altered" beyond this as brainwashing) to be absurd.

I feel as though people who make this claim refuse to accept the fact that there can be a middle ground between "Callie is sympathetic for Octarians" and "Callie was a thoughtless robot for the entire period between splatoon 1 and splatoon 3".

The narrative of Callie, sympathetic to the suffrage of Octarians, went to Octo Canyon to hear Octavio out, and made a genuine effort to make their lives better, before Octavio, ever fixated on his military strength over all else, betrayed her and forced her to fight alongside him, is a lot more consistent with the narrative in the future and at the time for all characters involved. People seem strangely fixated on avoiding implicating Octavio doing anything wrong, but literally all evidence points towards the reality that Octavio would always sacrifice the wellbeing of Octarians for his military power. This is literally only emphasized further in Octo Expansion and Side Order.

I don't understand where people are pulling this idea that Octavio would inexplicably show sympathy for Callie with no ulterior motives when he is the only person keeping Octarians oppressed, when all Octarians are funneled into his military and personal freedoms are routinely ignored. You posited this as a criticism against mischaracterization of Callie but all I see is mischaracterization of Octavio.

I also just think everything about this greatly damages Callie's future developments. It doesn't make any sense why Callie would be fully onboard with supporting Octavio, so willing that she would go so far as to attack Marie, allegedly by mere suggestion and not any form of brainwashing, but after being defeated, assists in helping Octarians *escape from Octavio*, makes no sense at all. On the other hand, if Callie was primarily focused on helping Octarians from the start, and then had that compassion betrayed, it portrays a lot of bravery from Callie that she is willing to go back and continue to assist them.

I also just flatly refuse the idea that Callie would ever be pushed far enough to attack Marie and 4 without being provoked by a manner such as brainwashing. Like, the entire story is about Callie and Marie's bond- how much the two of them being separated was destructive to the both of them, and how much better both of their lives became when they came back together. As long as we're talking about mischaracterizing Callie and Marie- I have to ask what sort of evidence is there that Callie would ever willingly betray Marie?

As for the rematch dialogue-

It's obviously not canon?

Like. The fact that you can replay a boss fight doesn't mean that canonically it happened again. And, for the record, this also goes for anyone who'd use this dialogue as evidence that Callie is stupid- but ultimately this feels like the only evidence I've ever seen for this entire concept that Callie is in control, but the entire idea of this rematch text being canonical evidence that this entire fight happened more than once is really, really absurd.

Now, just for the record- you can say all of this as a headcanon, that's totally fine. If you wanna develop a headcanon based on the rematch text, go for it. There's some interesting depth to explore in the idea of Callie not being brainwashed, to the hypnoshades being like a drug that Callie can't quit- but it really irks me to act like all of this stuff is canon, and that the developers/translators of the game just didn't understand the original intent of the work, and that the common reading is boring or lazy, and that people who read it that way just don't care enough... That shit is the worst.

Found this on Twitter, sounds like you lol

omg send me the link of the tweet i wanna see the comments.

Also. TRUE!!!!!!!!!! SO TRUE BESTIE!!!!!!! Everyone gets Pearl, Marina, Shiver, Frye and Big Man correct but not them.

"Callie was kidnapped!"

*shows art of Callie walking towards Octavio's mark and an official relationship chart*

"Oh she was brainwashed!" *shows articles talking about hypnosis and how it's not anywhere near the same thing as brainwashing*

Literally took me five minutes to find sources to disprove it HAHAAHAAH!!!!!!

"Oh but Marie said this!"

Literally only in the English translation btw, not any other languages.

"But Octavio said he remixed her brain!" Not in the original Japanese script and in other scripts btw. Every other script aside from English and Dutch mention hypnosis. Plus he's a DJ, he says musical puns to describe actions. The remixing is implying he got her on his side via manipulation and not direct brain "washing". God.

People really don't care that much about Callie to even look at outside sources, they just see the English script and take it as is because "Callie is silly and Splatoon is silly." Fucking hell man. Not even people who deep dive into timelines, reviewers, NEARLY EVERYONE!

Why do you think people call her HYPNO Callie huh?! What do you think HYPNO stands for? Use the fleshy pink thing in your skull. GOD! DAMN! I know Inkipedia calls her brainwashed Callie and says she was kidnapped sometimes on some of the pages, but that's down to the site being run by multiple people who have different levels of engagement in different areas of Splatoon.

If i come across one more fucking person that calls Callie a dumbass or airheaded for putting the shades back on i will literally throw myself out off of the tallest floor on the god damn Burj Khalifa. Callie was suffering from an addiction and y'all laughed at it because the game poorly presented that idea due to time constraints.

You guys are so lucky I'm not also a massive Marie fan too... I would be doing DOUBLE the ranting.

[scpwiki-official]

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[venomhasrabiess]

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[butchdykekondraki]

fucks sake. moldhouse save me moldhouse

[handsome-john]

🎂 Dude I apologize for all the asks but my Clears brainrot is so so so bad,,,

Gears watches all the Babish videos that pique his interest, and he feels… really okay with himself when Babish admits to messing up dishes, or doesn’t get things right the first time. He decides to choose a recipe and make it for him and Clef. He decided on the pasta alla vodka, since it seemed pretty simple and he had a grasp on what to do, and it was similar to the pasta and sauce dish he made. He purchases the ingredients (his fridge now looks like a person lives in his house), and starts making the recipe, as well as some frozen garlic bread that he bought on a whim. It felt silly of him to do so, but he reasoned that if he was going to be putting in so much work on the sauce, he might as well have something to sop it up with. He makes the sauce from scratch and grates fresh parmesan on top of it.

Clef arrives just as he’s finishing the pasta, and it’s… amazing. It smells great. Sure, the recipe is pretty simple, but or the second dish he’d ever made, and the first one he’d made completely on his own, it’s excellently done. Clef tells him as much, and Gears gets a little pink in his softened cheeks.

“I simply followed the instructions in the video, and kept in mind the things you told me. There was little left up to intuition or skill.”

“Hey, none of that. You should be damn proud of yourself, it smells delicious.”

“…I am proud,” Gears shyly says, as if he’s realizing it for the first time, “but it’s so simple, I feel like I shouldn’t be proud.”

Clef wants to say he should be proud of everything— this Gears looks so different from the man he met. He looks cozy, in a burgundy sweater and khakis instead of a starched white shirt, scooping the pasta into two bowls for them, before slicing the garlic bread he got them. He’s not skeletal anymore, chubby and soft in ways that made Clef want to squeeze the life out of him like a teddy bear, and he looked more alert, more alive. He looked like he was healing. Clef smiles, Gears setting a plate in front of him.

“You should be proud,” Clef says, “I sure as hell am.”

I LOVE CLEARS!!!! They are so precious. Gears mental health improving because he's actually enjoying a hobby and he's eating food he enjoys without fear of getting sick! Clef just happy to socialize with him and get closer <3 they mean the world to me

[midnight-circus]

[daddyloop]

I don’t think I just stroke

I don’t think I just stroke

I don’t think I just stroke

I don’t think I just stroke

I don’t think I just stroke

I don’t think I just stroke

[bigblueoctoling]

There's a stark difference between the problems with Rise of the Mammalians and simply creating mystery.

To explain what I mean, I'll compare Sanitized Octarians (as presented in Splatoon 2) to Mammalian Octarians.

Sanitized Octarians are presented somewhat mysteriously, I believe with the intent of them being fully elaborated upon in Side Order- but they aren't just a concept introduced without any explanation. We learn some basic facts about them, like their lack of vital signatures, we know of one individual sanitized octarian, Dedf1sh, but we're not given a lot further on what exactly the deal with them is. Despite that, we are given a full elaboration on how they were created, and the reason why Tartar wanted to make them. We can also deduct how Tartar found Octarians- we see that the deep sea metro already has a population of deep sea creatures, as well as the fact that Agent 3, Cuttlefish, and Eight all naturally fall into the deep sea metro, explaining where the fresh supply comes from. As a result, there was a lot of stuff to work with for theorizing, or more personally, fan fiction.

Mammalian Octarians just sort of exist. We're not really given any explanation how they were created- When we touch fuzzy goo we're just sort of incapacitated. In Octo Expansion, we see a lot of infrastructure that clues us into the fact that Sanitized Octarians are created through a medical process of some sort. No such environmental storytelling exists for Mammalian Octarians. We're not given any explanation of why Mr. Grizz wants Mammalian Octarians in particular. We know his general goal is to make everyone Mammalian, but the only theory I can even postulate is that he used Octarians for testing, but this isn't really a theory so much as it is a stopgap- there's no deeper narrative purpose or meaning to it, especially when the narrative literally never even posits concern for these Octarians, they're just an obstacle. Nothing about this actually engages me as a theorist or a writer. We're arguably given an explanation for where the Octarians came from- Octavio explains his troops were stolen- but that's literally all that's stated on the subject. Why would Mr. Grizz pick out octarians in particular? Why not just, the inkfish from the town he's immediately within the vicinity of? Or better yet, why not use fucking salmonid to actually create some semblance of an overarching theme?

Answering any of these for the game feels less like I'm solving an intentional mystery and more like I'm fixing the stopgaps of a bunch of contrivances made solely to reach some arbitrary conclusion.

You can say that you liked Rise of the Mammalians, I'm not gonna stop you- but saying that the people who don't like how many things are just entirely random and unexplained is just lame.

I despise this mentality of "People who are bothered by questions about the story aren't engaging with the media"- if anything, it's people like you who are disengaging from splatoon's actual story. People who criticize something aren't just looking to blindly attack something because they think it's lame and for babies, it's obvious from watching this video that this guy cares about Splatoon's story- the criticisms come from a place of appreciation for the story, and a disappointment to see the absence of the care that was put into the previous stories.

I could easily go on and on and on about how absolutely nothing in Rise of the Mammalians was engaging and how much potential it wasted, but I've rambled about that before- and it should be pretty obvious it's not because I hate media engagement and I hate splatoon, that should be pretty fucking clear by the sheer amount of rambling I have on the matter.

I’m really disappointed in CosmicCloud. He made an amazing video about why Octo Expansion was such a good DLC story and about nostalgia… but then he turns around and does THIS.

I have been so confused with why so many game theorists have refused to engage with media lately. From Tears of the Kingdom to Splatoon 3, there seems to be this rejection from fans for ambiguous storytelling.

See the way Nintendo often works is that they don’t give you concrete answers for anything. Instead the details are more abstract. There are hints, and clues, and inferences you can make to draw your own conclusions from sprinkled throughout their games.

And that’s where the FUN of lore theorizing comes from! It’s FUN to take these weird seemingly inconsistencies and explain why they exist!

But for some reason fans are refusing to do that now. They had no problem doing it for Splatoon 1 and 2, but ever since Octo Expansion came out they’ve been VERY resistant to engaging with this style of storytelling and wordbuilding. The most infamous being fans reacting poorly to the reveal that Mr. Grizz was actually a bear.

Throughout this whole video CosmicCloud just uses terms like “for some reason” to dismiss anything that’s even remotely out of the ordinary in Alterna. And every time he does it I wanna scream at him because he’s not even TRYING to engage with the media in any way!

What happened that made lore theorists give up on theorizing? What changed between then and now? I don’t get it. I feel like I’m going crazy. Why doesn’t anyone want to have FUN piecing together the pieces anymore? Isn’t that the whole point of being a theorist????

[bigblueoctoling]

[revenant-coining]

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(pt: 4 Pronoun Flags PT.12 /end pt)

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[thefearofcod]

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[mercurialbadger]

There must be iron reinforcement bars driven into the shelves from the other side of the wall, it must be a practical joke, you won't be able to build it otherwise!

Found on Zillow- somebody doesn’t know how to build stairs. Those shelf brackets must have a weight limit. (Not to mention that they look like hell.)

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8515-Frederick-Rd-Ellicott-City-MD-21043/37022350_zpid/

[sexhaver]

ngl i genuinely thought fwb did imply actual friendship, yeah mans should be beaten w/ hammers, wrenches etc etc

as @leviathan-supersystem correctly points out here, if the dude actually wanted to be friends with bluetext, he would ask to be friends with her and leave the sex part up to her to decide. tacking "with benefits" onto the initial friendship request (after theyve already presumably gone on at least one date together) is sex pest behavior