#i cant properly put it into words

[mipexch]

colossal robot of my dreams

[5kiyo]

official sequel to this post i made a few months back, bc im totally normal abt this (ft. countdown ending)

[extravagav]

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And if I told you my parallel senses were tingling...

[speakofthedebbie]

some inspiring words from my newest radioapple draft

[munchboxart]

Your recent post about all the female rep in the game is the same exact conversation I had with a friend last night! I really love how this game has normalized the presence of female leads to the point where it's not even noticed until it all kind of hits you after you've been playing for a long time!

When S2 ended, some guy friends of mine mentioned they thought it would be nice to see some male leads in S3 because they wanted to see themselves represented more. And then I shared with them my experience of seeing normalized female leads and it sparked this whole conversation about being able to relate yourself through a character and their traits instead of what they look like.

These guy friends of mine had been using the inkling girl for their character model since S1 just because they liked it better. Even as new hairstyle choices have come along, they've still stuck with it because they've come to like the game for its style and design over some kind of gendered rep that keeps their interest.

I think that's where Splatoon really excels! Not just as a game but with its environment as well! The world and what we're presented within are so normalized, people don't think much more of it once they've already digested the information they were presented with! I think that's really cool because it shows that games can be likable, relatable, exciting, and hugely successful without a male lead focus!

I think there should be more talk about this because Nintendo really nailed their nonchalant normalization here!

Yeah no legit, It isn't something I've thought about ever until I was just chilling in the Side Order elevator and it dawned on me that I'm stuck in the elevator with the girlies (and Acht).

I wholeheartedly agree with you that Splat does such a good job "normalizing" (in a lack of better words) situations/stories(?) like this, and not really making it needlessly obvious. I don't really know how to explain it, but do you know how other media sometimes makes it feel like the girl is "shoehorned" into the trio group? Splat does a good job of not doing that.

It's hard to talk/explain about this stuff without it sounding like it's "abnormal" or asking for the bare minimum, but how can you when the entire shooter market is super masc-centric? I also agree that there should be more conversations about this topic because it's really interesting! There really isn't much precedent for something like this so I would love to hear someone else talk about it (especially someone who can talk about it more eloquently than I can LOL).

[whipitgod]

jensen and misha are great but i still want to bare knuckle box both of them

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

is it just me or is mckimson in particular always putting those guys in gay situations

[dukeofthomas]

I will forever maintain that Jason would've been fine and Not a vigilante without Bruce making him Robin

[hjemne]

Babygirl I have 38 thousand words of incomplete trigun fic spread across 8 wips and have no idea how to even start dealing with it

[maxaroniiiii]

echoes of wisdom takes place in the downfall timeline the maps and stuff line up

the zelda team has just added stuff like gerudo and gorons from previous games that werent in alttp because they werent really a thing in zelda yet and theyre probably expected and stuff

[mellotronmkll]

they might be giants is like what if two of the nicest sweetest coolest funniest cutest guys in the world were in a band together and their music was really really fucking awesome and they made so much of it that you can listen to forever and they never broke up and and they kept doing so much stuff and had just such a long unique and interesting career that you could never stop learning about and they were unbelievably good live and toured consistently and were just literally so fun and nice. wouldn't that be beautiful. and it really fucking is

[lycanthian]

gonna be 19 in less than a week. its hitting me. girl what tha fuck.

[heckinggno]

Can't stop thinking about Isabela and Mirabel as reflections of who Alma is now and who she used to be before the tragedy. The way she clings to Isabela's perfection is reminiscent of how she uses her own perfrct image to drive away the past that haunts her, and while her pushing Mirabel away is due to her own fears of the Miracle fading away, I wonder how much of her avoidance is because of Mirabel reminding her too much of who she used to be?

People often say that Mirabel mirrors Pedro, but I'd argue that she's a perfect reflection of who Alma was supposed to be if only life hadn't dealt her such a cruel hand. Does she look at her and think of simpler times? Does Alma look at Mirabel and remember how she used to have a girlhood that was taken away far too early in life?

It's strange to think that despite Isabela having the life that Alma wanted to have for her and Pedro, Mirabel—the granddaughter that she has disconnected from—is the one that actually embodies her the most. And Mirabel herself doesn't even realize that.

[soobvape]

heol

[anonymouslyel]

there's some thought brewing about how jesper used the word "brother" for him and kaz ("because sometimes brothers fight") and the possibility of season 3/spinoff with kaz's "what do you think my forgiveness looks like jordie?"

[anonbinaryweirdo]

ever since my brother introduced me to that song with that quote "I don't want what you have, I wanna BE you" (might be the other way around I don't remember) that has been inserted into alllll my ocs 🙏🏽