#but that doesn't make it hurt less! it doesn't make it less agonizing and awesome!!

[dreamyluigi]

a brief moment of clarity

[cadybear420]

Carrot 5

Tomato 1, 2

Onion 3

For Evie and if possible Alan and Samara

Ask game here! Details below! <3

Carrot 5 Has your OC ever been involved in farming or agriculture? Or have they tilled the earth in a more modest setting? What is their view of food production in society? Is it something they understand and value? Or do they make little connection between the food they eat and the labour required to produce it?

Evie has grown some herbs (parsley, basil, sweet mint) in pots before, but that's about it. And it's more of a casual hobby.

Not sure for Alan and Samara. I think Samara might enjoy growing some of her own food though, considering her and Caleb opening up a bakery when they get married.

Tomato 1. Does your OC seek out calorie-dense or highly nutritious foods to enhance their physical performance and survivability? Or is the taste or presentation of food as important (or more important) than its health-giving properties?

Evie goes for both– she loves yummy-tasting comfort food, but also values her physical health as an athlete. However, she also has very restrictive food aversions and is more likely to choose a good-tasting less-healthy food over a shit-tasting healthy food.

Alan is health-conscious, and tends to go for healthier foods. However, he's not over extreme about it, he will avoid healthy foods that taste like shit.

Samara definitely goes for calorie-dense nutritious foods, but also puts an importance on her comfort foods (aka almost anything rainbow colored).

Tomato 2. Does your OC find it easy to believe that they are loved? Or are they suspicious of ulterior motives? Perhaps they fear that once someone truly gets to know them then they will be repulsed or horrified? Or maybe they find it hard to imagine how anyone could not love them...

Evie is 50-50 on this. She reacts positively to and practically eats it up when others clearly love her and demonstrates an understanding of her. But at the same time, it can be hard for her to feel like she earned their love. She's anxious of every move she makes, every thing she says, frequently worrying if she hurt someone with something she said/did and worrying even more when they're legitimately upset with her. Also questioning how she should deal with it when the someone else does something she feels was a bit hurtful, being generally confused about who was "in the right". It takes a while for her to accept that love is imperfect, she should expect these imperfections and be able to know how to deal with them.

Alan is good at picking up on when he's loved vs when he's disliked. He just tends to fixate more on when he is loved. He's of course very boastful and prideful and all "I'm so awesome" "I'm so hot" "I'm the best", but I wouldn't say he finds it hard to imagine how anyone could not love him.

Samara reacts positively to people who seem to like her, but she would also want to be sure that their feelings are true and genuine and not just shallow or fleeting.

Onion 3. Does your OC have some feelings that they push down deep within themselves? Perhaps feelings of resentment? Or pangs of grief? Or burning sexual desires? Or do their emotions constantly come bubbling to the surface regardless of any efforts they might make to suppress them?

Evie has a lot. A loooot. Being annoyed with certain quirks/habits from others. As mentioned above, if someone she loves does something that pisses her off or comes off as hurtful to her, it can be very agonizing for her because on top of being pissed off she doesn't trust her own judgement. She also tends to sometimes push down her memories of her biggest screw-ups in the past because when she does think about them they can be emotionally paralyzing. Sometimes any and all of these things can come bubbling to the surface and she may act out or become emotionally paralyzed.

Alan I think feels a lot of fear about something that's a threat to him doing what he likes. He considers himself very confident and brave and he also sees himself as fearless, but something I think he takes for granted is, to quote Nelson Mandela, "courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it". I think Alan doesn't fully realize his own fears and what truly makes him courageous.

I wouldn't say Samara quite pushes it down, but she does like to avoid thinking about the past. She'll do what she can to use it as an opportunity to grow from it and adapt, as long as she can move on from it.

[dogtoling]

Yay more ink questions. 1. If enemy ink hurts you, why doesn't ally ink? Technically, they are both foreign ink and could be harmful.

2. Why do you regenerate ink faster in your ink? Is your ink tank like a sponge?

3. Why does walking in enemy ink damage you? Why doesn't it splat you?

4. Why doesn't the Slosher use more ink? The bucket needs a lot of ink to fill and you more or less empty it when you attack.

5. On a related note, how does the Splattershot Jr. have a bigger ink tank? Is it literally just a bigger ink tank?

And finally, unrelated to ink...

6. DLC thoughts?

As usual, thanks. You're awesome.

Thanks for the questions! most of these are agonizing. Several of them are things i've been wondering about for literally years and they may be solvable, but you literally need to understand sciences to make some kind of good conclusions, likely chemistry... which I don't, lol.

If enemy ink hurts you, why doesn't ally ink? Technically, they are both foreign ink and could be harmful.

yeah. This is something that's genuinely annoying, lol. I think in the manga there actually is an instance of ally ink splatting somebody, but the manga also isn't canon-aligning (Inklings don't dissolve in water, for example), so it can't really be used as reputable reference in a lot of cases. If a liquid being "foreign" is enough to make it harmful, that SHOULD also make octolings and inklings incompatible with each other's inks BY DEFAULT given that they are completely different species and there's no way their inks are literally identical. but you know, game's got to work.

So we don't have an answer to how the ink even changes color in the first place. It's probably either chemical-based, OR it's chromatophore-based, like the Inklings' skin (which i have no clue how the hell that would work in a liquid that isn't really part of the body, and shouldn't be directly nervous system controlled like an organ). With it being chromatophore-based, it also makes very little sense that different colors of ink would be harmful to Inklings with other colors.

I had a stand-in theory for it before in which the reason being covered in enemy ink made you unable to battle was because the body automatically adjusts to whatever color of ink it's surrounded or coated in, which would make you the enemy color and obviously then you couldn't fight. But it's a flawed theory that not only doesn't take into account the actual physical effects being splatted has (although they could be worked in), but also ignores some holes in it like... a lot of other game mechanics that work around splatting in which a color change wouldn't really matter at all, not to mention it wouldn't explain why a teammate couldn't just shoot you again to get you back in action immediately. (Granted, my current theory shares some of these same problems, but there's a limit to how much sense you can make of splatting without it becoming paranormal.)

The more sensible answer would be that the ink color changes are chemical-based, which would make all ink colors roughly the same chemical makeup based on which color-aligned chemicals and bits are metabolically smart to manufacture by a cephalopod en masse. Of course, I have zero ideas on what those chemicals would be, and it's most likely that the ink colors would be mixed from different quantities of a few separate colors, much like a printer. Different chemical makeups would make sense for why enemy ink is a foreign liquid as opposed to ally ink, which in being the same (or an extremely similar) color would be extremely similar to your own ink. I'd like to think ink colors that are further from each other would have a much stronger reaction against others, which is one of the reasons turf war team colors tend to be starkly different. If you had a fight between Light Blue and Cyan, for example, the colors might be so similar that no one ever got splatted unless hit REALLY HARD with a ton of ink at once.

(The most sensible explanation for the colors and effects would be that different colors are in very different parts on a pH scale, but that would mean some ink colors would be a biohazard and others would be highly corrosive acids that would just obliterate everything and ink is clearly neither of those. It has been stated to be safe to even drink, which pH 2> acid usually isn't.)

So basically this part of the ask got really long without answering much of anything yet. I honestly don't have any solid answers for this question, lol. I wish we got word on it! Moving on...

2. Why do you regenerate ink faster in your ink? I think this one goes hand in hand with my reasoning on why Inklings have very porous skin. The short answer is that they're able to absorb ink from their environment back into their bodies while in swim form, and in this case the environment is of course the floor. So their bodies are basically a sponge, and it is very likely that being in swim form, especially being IN ink, stimulates their bodies to produce ink faster. Of course, the layer of ink on the ground is typically not much, but ink is thick enough that there will be some color left even if you pass by and absorb half of it back.

3. Why does walking in enemy ink damage you? Why doesn't it splat you?

Okay this has always been really annoying. Your player inkling really hates being in enemy ink. LOATHES it even, they are literally in Physical Pain TRUDGING through that ink. The ink is STICKY and it HURTS and it's like you're going across a fucking swamp. How much of that is gameplay and how much of that is real?

Bestie, you literally have SHOES ON in the game. Point 1 of why it has always frustrated and confused me that you take damage in enemy ink. You literally have shoes on, it's not in contact with your BODY. The best assumption I've been able to make is that different colors of ink stick to each other, whereas similar ink colors mesh with each other and have no such issue. Which is why you're able to slide on ink of your own color, but not enemy ink - it just trips you up because your body is coated in ANOTHER ink color, which sticks like glue.

As for why walking through enemy ink sucks? My best guess is that your character's shoes are usually coated in your team's ink, so when you walk onto enemy ink it's like you just walked into a vat of glue. The downside is that logically, walking back from enemy ink to your own ink should then have the same effect, but I'm not going to be too much of a stickler about it because this is just trying to make in-universe sense of nonsense game mechanics right now.

Still haven't touched on the ink literally damaging you though. I'm just ignoring that as being a game mechanic, because again, your BODY is not in physical contact with the ink - just your shoes are (unless you're not wearing any). Running around in enemy ink you might get tiny splatters on yourself but that shouldn't really add up unless you're doing so for a really long time. If anything, Inklings might just become very distressed in enemy ink as they've just entered Glue Zone and that's something that heavily limits your movement options (which is scary). So that might make them less stable overall, making them easier to splat?

4. Why doesn't the Slosher use more ink?

Okay but this one. seriously, this leads into a discussion about the ink economics of a lot of weapons being COMPLETELY unsustainable, lol.

This is the Slosher. Look at the size of that thing and how much ink is hurled out in ONE SINGLE SWING. If we were being real, with a container that's like the same volume as an Inkling's whole torso, that should be at least half the ink sac GONE in like one swing and that's assuming the ink in the ink sac is extremely pressurized.

But this is a game and their ink producing abilities being grossly unrealistic is something that's necessary for gameplay so there's like not much you can do about it. My best justification for weapons that take up way too much ink (mostly heavy weapons, ESPECIALLY the Hydra and E-Liter) is that the ink is insanely compressed in the ink sac of an Inkling, and weapons have technology that thins the ink out by a LOT, so whenever bullets are fired it's actually a very small amount of ink stretched out to achieve a lot more than it normally would. We know that ink oxidizes, expands and even explodes in contact to air (bombs, Blasters), so using ink to thin it out and still end up with a lot of usable bullets could work.

Also, in terms of some weapons, I think some of their balancing wouldn't exist in the game world. For example, the slosher is a 2-shot-splat, but in-universe you CANNOT tell me that just one swing wouldn't be enough to splat like 80% of the time. A lot of the balancing definitely doesn't exist in-universe with the battles itself also having a lot more chaos and other elements going on, such as weather conditions, wind, shot deviation, inherent changes in weapon performance based on how beat up it is (Inkbrush is a very good example with the tube that needs to be replaced often). Basically the Slosher might realistically consume way more ink than it does in the game, but it would also be stronger as a result...

Oh, or the devs could drop the info that the Splatoon world is using infinite ink technology in some of the gear and that's how there's so much ink everywhere all the time, like how the Ink Tank magically refills from the bottom and Steel Eels have infinite fish slime fountains or Flooders have infinite ink or Spreaders have infinite ink or Spawn Points... you get the picture. Probably not, I honestly HOPE NOT because that would result in a lot more questions about why the Splatoon world is so archaic (ON OUR LEVEL PRETTY MUCH) if they have insane world and physics-defying science. But it WOULD make my job a whole lot easier when trying to justify how you'd even produce enough ink in 6 seconds to swing a Dynamo Again.

5. On a related note, how does the Splattershot Jr. have a bigger ink tank? Is it literally just a bigger ink tank?

....yes! Well, it wasn't in the beginning of Splatoon 2's life cycle, and I honestly don't know (or really care) if it still has an increased ink tank. But some time throughout Splatoon 2's life, when Splattershot Jr was given a bigger ink tank, it literally WAS GIVEN A BIGGER TANK.

To my knowledge, it doesn't have this baby bottle tank anymore, but yes, the change is literally physical. And yes I think from a gameplay perspective this was like the dumbest thing they ever did because it gave birth to some of the most annoying weapon gimmicks ever to exist on this planet and if it was intended to help new players, they should've just made this tank something that's exclusive to like, players from Level 1 to Level 10, applied regardless of weapon... or something. Instead of giving one weapon infinite freaking bombs.

But TL;DR yes, the Splattershot Jr. has a bigger ink tank, physically!

Bonus question time!

6. DLC thoughts?

...I started writing this out and it was going to be like 10+ paragraphs, so I'll make a separate post about it after this one, I think! So stay tuned for that I guess!

[pokefanbri]

If I move on, even if we're not together anymore...it just feels like a betrayal & i dont know if I can bring myself to do it, Idk if I can! 😭 I was left like an unexpecting pet or even pokemon lol wondering where its owner went after it was abandoned without knowing why...i know that sounds silly...but it makes me wonder if I was left hanging in such a way with no closure...am i like left on a back burner or some shit. Its ridiculous I know, i shouldn't wait for a return when there's none deserved...but in my eyes, we both must work on ourselves including with self love & evaluating our faults etc, b4 jumping into something serious...like jumping the gun b4 we're ready..& I know he knows that too. He doesn't realize how awesome of a person he really is, fuck the bruised ego or what have u after everything, he doesn't like showing weakness i know him well...thats also a guy thing 😅 it doesn't make him less of the great person ive known for months.

But i don't know what to do, im at a loss, id be giving my heart to someone else when it was wide open for him if he wanted it...and the more I learn & understand by putting myself in his shoes, somehow my love grew even more so after the fact....which makes it even more of an agonizing pain. I don't need his validation, I would just like to speak 😔 It may or may not be painful for him to, but it is for me to not.

The whole relationship, all the events, everything karma,God or even Satan ffs is giving us thereafter....its all piling up without release. Right now at this moment as im sobbing again, id do anything for a proper chance to be redeemed in some way & maybe truly experience the relationship the way its meant to be 😭 but I know deep down its probably not likely even if granted we were brought together for a reason like fate for self growth for example. All I know is that I'd rather hear it from him, that everything is gonna be okay, & that he prays for me just as much as i do for him 😭😭😭 I don't care about the era of our relationship, I can move past the downs without forgetting the great positives.. id put that shit aside if it means i can just get my best friend back 😭 cuz losing both at the same time is whats killing me rn, i can't handle this shit, I just dont want to think about this anymore...it just hurts too much. I hope with time, things change & we're cool again if that would ever be a possibility.

Nothing like this has ever happened to me before, im so confused & scared its harder to trust with everything out to get me..this was not supposed to be how my life turned out..Im a hot broken mess. I ask myself everyday why, why did it have to be like this after all the good, what was it worth...was it worth losing someone in a blink of an eye to avoid dealing with it rather than confront & becoming better for eachother, was it worth sacrificing it all including our well being!? And why, why was i unwanted for a whole half a year!!!!! No, if anything especially MY time & energy was wasted, I did everything right, I damn well know what it takes to be in a relationship I thrive on long term...he made his choices & it ended up costing us both. If I knew the end result would ruin me in certain areas, I would've risked it to have gone in the 1st place...😔 Who chooses to close themselves off even more, not want to fix whats broken for greater things within, & instead runs away from it 😭 Who guards themselves from vulnerability so much so, as if they've locked themselves up from any1...makes me think who tf fucked his heart up in his past where he thinks he can't be close? Am I crazy or in the ball park I have no idea, me trailing off to theories is exactly why im confused, my mind is literally working overtime to figure it all out & i can't stop it...actually gives me a headache. Im not sure ill ever get my answers 😔 I just know Its harder to move on without knowing how I ended up here. A small part of me thinks its a cruel joke just to put us in a position to get our shit together on our own merits & everything would be fine between us again..but at what cost. I just don't know anymore.

Though i grew fond of him & my heart grew 3 sizes bigger..over time his became less & left cold, but throughout...we were still homies til the bitter end, that ill always cherish.

You will never know how to truly love someone & be given the glory of that life, if you're unable to love yourself first. Nobody is perfect, but when u look at the one u love...they're perfect to you. When i looked at him, I thought he was the most amazing person...flaws & all I didnt care, I accepted him for who he was. Like "see that person right there..their face brings me joy & is why I get outta bed just to see it in the morning" All i wanted was for him to feel the same 😔

Theyll always have a piece of my heart, the bond connects even if by a thread, it will always be there. The pieces of the past are a puzzle to my heart & it searches within those pieces for what it needs.. it will be sewn or put back together eventually & may swell again, by who I do not know. Idk if ill ever feel that way again or find someone who'd measure up to that same level as I again. Only time will tell, all i can do is pray...for them & myself that we find peace, to forgive & forget so we rest a little easier to better face today's challenges as they come. I pray they're alright & send any strength they may need to fight whatever battles they face as well. Thats all i can do

[pinkwizard-rebel-blog]

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**Author:Paul Freemantle **

Have attempted many "weight control plans" here in the USA and in England and to me they all felt like self delivered torment. They were exhausting, boring, and prohibitive. In the same way as other of you I buckle down, I don't request much in the method for delights when I return home around evening time. The one thing that gives me colossal joy is eating, I cherish nourishment and yes, I like the odd drink as well.

I was not and never have been an expansive individual, 186lb at 5'8" tall. Not gigantic but rather continually feeling bloated, I had the "portable baggage" hanging over the belt and dependably felt drained and lazy. At that point one day my significant other and I caught wind of the Atkins torment, I mean, eat less carbs. I thought what the hell; I should give it a go. All things considered, incredibly I shed pounds and I lost it rapidly, despite everything I needed vitality yet in any case I was extremely awed. 

It resembled each man's blessing from heaven, meat, meat, and more meat, and getting more fit. I was doing great however yes you likely got it, I got exhausted, exhausted, exhausted. The weight backpedaled on far snappier than it fell off. I have discovered that most if not all eating regimens will help you get thinner. The trap is having the capacity to stick to it.

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Presently I am getting more fit again and I am down to 172lb, I know it's just 14lb or a "stone" as we say in England yet I am not exhausted, I feel extraordinary, and when I get in from work during the evening I eat what I need. How I hear all of you cry, well I will let you know; I found a method for giving my body the sustenance it needs to remain sound and I have possessed the capacity to get in shape in the meantime tattoo care.

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