#ida rants

[lovelesscherub]

had a strange dream last night where i was attending a funeral. i didn't know whose funeral it was, so no idea if it was for someone who was close to me etc. i've never actually been to a funeral, so the dream spooked me a little, and it was stuck in my head all day. then my mum got a call from her aunt, my great aunt, that her husband had passed away. it hit us all very hard because they were pretty much my mum's parents, and to me they've been like the grandparents i never had. he was the grandpa my real grandpa never was, the dad my mum deserved. i'm just so sad today. we recently lost relatives from my dad's side in the turkey earthquakes, but to me they were quite distant relatives so the grief didn't hit me quite as hard. this is the first time i've experienced the loss of a close, loved one. and i'm heartbroken. 💔

[dr-spectre]

Guess who turned 7 years old?

SPLATOON 2!!!!! Everyone's favourite Splatoon game!!!! Right? Right guys....? We love Splatoon 2 yeah....? It's the best one right.....? Totally not gonna become the middle child of the series that gets overshadowed by the new fresh Splatoon 3 and the nostalgia of the first game right.....?

Okay, jokes aside about if Splatoon 2 is actually good or not. This was the game that actually got me into Splatoon, I knew about the series since it's announcement but I couldn't play the first game because like the rest of general public, I didn't own a wii u. Still don't but I would love to have one to mod. (And play Splatoon 1 online with fan servers...)

I think Splatoon 2 really did bring a lot of cool stuff to the table and it had a lot of quality of life features and interesting weapon, sub and special concepts.

It gave us the dualies!! THE DUALIES! I LOVE THE DUALIES!

It gave us the brellas! Which.... were kinda bad at launch and still are bad till this day....

BUT! I dont wanna talk about weapons because thats BORING! I wanna talk about one of the best things Splatoon 2 gave us...

OFF THE HOOK! PEARL AND MARINA! These girls are some of the most popular characters in the series and for good reason. They are both funny, likeable, charming, witty and have developed backstories by the time Octo Expansion comes around. Plus their chemistry is top-notch and so damn CUTE! It's almost has if they are somehow more than friends and that kind of connection is canon and people who try to deny it are fucking idiots and will never be in a relationship of their own.....

Also Splatoon 2 gave us a pretty solid hero mode at launch, sure it was basically more Splatoon 1 hero mode but hey, the first hero mode was fun so more of the same is fine by me. Plus you get Marie's classic snark too while you go through levels, she's nice company surprisingly. Way better than some old ass crusty dude...

It also gave us....

totally didn't fuck up my mental health this year and last year and caused me chest pain and discomfort until I had to dig and dig AND DIG for knowledge just to salvage it and make sure my favourite character in the fucking series was given the respect she deserves....

....hypno/octo Callie.... totally didn't fuck up this villain arc for her huh Nintendo? Totally didn't throw away the depth you built up (and was shown in concept art) only to try and hastily fix it 2 years later with an obscure relationship chart no one fucking talks about, not even the timeline explainers...

totally didn't use the wrong terminology to describe her situation and made everything so much worse because you wanted a simple black and white story for the kiddies yeah Nintendo? Despite you making stuff grey in the dlc expansion so the both story modes now clash like oil and water theme wise.

And yet you still treat her like dirt. Still using the wrong poorly localised words. If I still gotta repeat to the sky one more time that callie was under hypnosis and not forceful brainwashing I might have a stroke. You can't even fucking brainwash someone with hypnosis because the limitation of hypnosis is that the person under it must be fully comfortable with the suggestion and the suggestion cannot go agaisnt their morals and ideology. AND GUESS WHAT BRAINWASHING IS! FORCING DIFFERENT IDEOLOGIES INTO SOMEONE'S HEAD! DO YOU GET WHY I HAVE AN ISSUE NOW?!?!?! JUST USE THE WORD HYPNOTISED NINTENDO! THATS ALL YOU GOTTA DO!! ILL BE SOOO HAPPY!!!

YOU TOO INKIPEDIA! I CAUGHT YOU USING THE WORD TOO MULTIPLE TIMES! you better change it... just change brainwashed to hypnotised and I would literally kiss you on the lips or something idk... I love you inkipedia but that's all you gotta change okay? Pretty please? With a cherry on top?

ENOUGH OF THAT! I WANNA TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE!!!

Do you know what else Splatoon 2 gave us?

OCTO EXPANSION BABY! I know people love to call this overrated now but I really don't care. It's not overrated, it's perfectly rated. It also gave us PLAYABLE OCTOLINGS! Which was a highly requested thing people really really wanted and they gave us what we asked for! Even though they lacked a lot of customisation options.... still do till this day... (Nintendo is it really that hard to come up with new hair? The community has been doing that for years for you man.)

And of course... the last thing I want to talk about...

This is probably my favourite Splatfest to date. It brought in a lot of actual genuine philosophical discussion on what kind of world is best, a world of chaos? Or a world of order? I chose team chaos because when the youtuber/streamer Etika was still around he chose team chaos and I chose that team because of him... rest in peace...

The shifty station too was phenomenonal as you got to hear Fly Octo Fly and Pearl would come in AND YOU GOT TO USE HER PRINCESS CANON!!!! IT WAS SO FUCKING COOL AHHHH!!!

God Pearl is so cool... i can't believe I actually used to dislike her. I wanna beat up teen me so badly for having such bad takes. Marina is hot sure, but, Pearl is just so fucking funny. Man what was wrong with 13 to 17 year old me....

Anyways, I wanted to ramble about Splatoon 2. It's pretty special to me as it was the reason I am here today, so I can't really criticise it as much as others do. Well... aside from one obvious thing but, I've done that many times.

Also, before I go... NINTENDO!!! BRING BACK SHIFTY STATIONS FOR SPLATOON 4!!! DO IT!!! STOP BEING COWARDS!!!!

[fifisyaya]

Why does no one talk about the fact that side order completely ruined Marina and Pearl as a duo??

In the Octo expansion, they’re seen as a duo who banter for fun but still deeply care for each other. This is seen in both the DLC chat logs and the news, where Marina often makes fun of Pearl for either her size or not being able to do tricks with the Dualies, etc. Etc. Pearl does the same for Marina, just not so much and mostly acts like the punchline in the jokes— acting annoyed (although jokingly so).

They make fun of each other but are still close, which is supported by Pearl’s whole “fight” with Cap’n where she defends Marina and clearly states that if Cap’n came close to harming her, he would be the one getting hurt instead.

Or when Marina quite literally supported Order only because she was scared of losing the stability in her life— one of the main points of that stability being Pearl herself, and Marina almost crying on live TV because she thought Pearl wouldn’t want to be off the hook anymore.

There are a lot of factors that support pearlina in the story, and they were literally so well written personality wise in the second game.

Until the third game came along.

In side order, most of Pearl and Marina’s dialogues in the elevators consist or quite literally flirting with each other— of course, this is pretty much a big implication of Pearlina actually having some kind of canon confirmation, and that’s a huge step for the franchise!! However, it becomes annoying once the ship is overrepresentated.

Comparing the dialogues from octo expansion and side order, there’s a CLEAR difference. While in the first dlc, Marina and Pearl clearly cared about each other and still bantered in their own ways, they were each written to be their own character. Pearl and Marina had different world views, Marina’s being very impacted by Octoling society while Pearl was convinced octolings existed no longer. Not only that, but the whole Chaos V. order discourse in the second game.

In the third game, they’ve been dumbed down to “Pearl and Marina.”

It was obvious Marina’s views on order would change after the Splatocalypse, but didn’t Nintendo have a better way of demonstrating it than the choices taken in side order? Her and Pearl’s character have almost completely merged together— same views, always agreeing on everything, always flirting, etc.

I’m not saying the DLC was bad, although it kinda was. I just feel the need to point out that The whole playful off the hook dynamic that made it so obvious that they cared for each other has quite literally been dumbed down for shipping value and it makes me so sad to see, they were such good characters who got dumbed down for no reason as Nintendo (once again) pays more attention to the money.

[jiminnnanon]

sorry but i gotta give gem his flowers because hes been working over ida’s character so well like its so reminiscent of the manga ida because therein i think the author tries to depict and while ida Might look very serious and firm and nonchalant and is Excessively aware of that yet very obtuse at times with everything he still Cares A lot exactly because people assume he’s above it and almost perfect that’s why he asks aoki to wait for his answer and is so confused because he has never liked someone so how would he know what it feels to love and fall?

but he is direct and clear to a fault and tries because he feels something too and it’s not repressed by his awareness of how the world doesn’t see their love as love so he takes the lead in the relationship with aoki and helps him realise they do not need to be ashamed, he initiates touches and holds aoki’s hand to make aoki realise he desires him in the same manner and i think gems portrayal is very similar to the manga because here too, we see kongthap being depicted as this person who might look perfect from an outsider’s perspective: he is gorgeous and talented and kind, he works hard and is never arrogant, he looks so serious and firm almost as if he knows everything.

but that’s exactly what the gag is and it was sprinkled around in the narrative from the start with kongthap himself admitting to it but in this episode it was made so clear, especially to atom who was thinking kongthap was Serious and perfect only to see this new side of him in front of his childhood friends to expose that kongthap’s a silly anime nerd who remembers all the lines to slam dunk, who laughs at silly jokes and makes silly faces too, a boy who has never liked anyone so he has a hard time understanding what like exactly means but he is so Earnest that he is asking his friends for help because he doesn’t want to hurt atom at all but also because he Is Feeling something and he wants to understand what it exactly entails. and gems animated face this ep delighted me because it showcased how though he cannot pinpoint why exactly he is feeling A lot when it comes to atom, the fondness his face shows without him realising sometimes, he is Expressive too just more subtle.

ida blushed so much in the manga and carried so many small smiles for aoki and thats what gem channelled for this ep and god i loved it so much because its such an integral part of the character and just like ida realised his unique experience of love with a little bit of help from others and their understanding of love so will kongthap

[st4zia]

Marina, where are you?

[starfellentity]

Splatoon au ⁉️⁉️

An au based on if all the idols (Squid Sisters, Off the Hook and Deep Cut) arent idols, then what would they do?

Just a silly silly idea that popped up (reminder that besides Pearlina the others will probably be ooc since I don’t know em well)

I’ll only draw Marina and Pearl since (probably)

Apologies for the shitty pic but

Marina! (25 yrs old) (as of Splatoon 3)

She works as a rave DJ with her partner DJ Sango (Cap’n 3). For Marina, I made it so that she (18) and 8 were going through octo expansion together, which I guess made her Agent 7/9 for a while? She lived with the Agent 3 & 8 for a while before eventually moving out when hers and 3 were making good money. She met Pearl when she was at a bar which also was holding Pearl’s concert (?) then started dating like a year later lolz

For Pearl (28 yrs old)

Pearl is a supermodel who models for Enperry, her dad’s company. While modelling is her main job, she plays in a band as a side gig. Surprisingly to her, her band got popular and started selling more copies of their albums. Eventually people knew Pearl for both her her modelling and voice. Currently, she plays in her band more than modelling , only doing so when her dad practically begs her to.

So yeag….. for The Squid Sisters they do make music but they never really did the whole Inkopolis News thing. Their music is popular but they didnt do more than that, rather they worked on The NSS more.

For Deep Cut, they continued on being bandits who found this funky little kid (Neo) and their brother(lil buddy). They did bandit stuff together until some old man pulled them in for agent work (all of em lmao)

That’s it lolz, I may add more tho (like refs…) but I just wanted to get this out there

[blakbonnet]

recommend getting a friend to send that one wild post/tags/comment to, it keeps your energy clear and autumnal

[dragonkingz159]

No I can’t. I won’t rant about the cephalopods. That there are pictures of what look to be nuclear waste disposal sites and ideas of how when humans are long gone how we’d terrify away sentient life with the disturbing pillars. Of what appears to be a dead whale skeleton and how that could be referencing a “whale fall” where an entire ecosystem develops around the carcass as it decomposes and is eaten by hundreds of creatures smaller than it. Like how splatoon world and culture is influenced by what dead humans left behind (and their hopes and dreams). Of how everything looks to be taken over by bleached coral, the results of algae (responsible for the magnificent colors of reefs) fleeing coral due to stress from pollution and climate change. Of potential new Marina and Pearl lore and more Agent 8 and memory dives and an authoritarian regime that seeks to erase your entire being and make you into a colorless disposal clone for their use. I can’t…

Unless someone asks me to. In which case I will ABSOLUTELY RANT ABOUT ALL THAT!!!

[hibbablobble]

Marina used to rant about excavators for 2 hours to nobody

[narbevoguel]

I'm very excited about Side Order, and I'm looking forward to learning more about Marina. It seems it will deliver on that department, which is great, even though I have my favorites, I sincerely think Marina is the most interesting character in Splatoon because of her background.

Which makes it a huge shame that the community has her living in Pearl's shadow as 'her girlfriend' or 'her wife'. I have nothing against the ship, they make a cute couple, but there's so much about Marina than just being someone's romantic partner...

[mothmanssweetsucculentass]

My thoughts that no one asked for on final fest:

The trailer arguably goes so hard but honestly? I’m a bit disappointed. Idk if it’s just me but it feels so underwhelming?

For starters, it’s reusing a theme already done in both games. It’s fine if S3 reuses themes for less important monthly fests, but it feels real cheap to reuse it for the final fest ngl.

At first I was mad it wasn’t Idol v Idol v Idol, but then I remembered the final fests decide the next game’s plot, so I’m glad it isn’t just that. But now I’m mad at the fanbase deciding that it is idol v idol v idol. Present is in the lead rn just because so many people love OTH. Guys I get it I love pearlina too I adore the cephalopod lesbians but we need something different, I am begging. We’ve had enough of present timeline Splatoon.

On the one hand with past, we may get to see so much cool lore from events in the timeline like the great turf war, stuff with S3’s idol’s families, or even going even more in depth into octoling storylines and playing from an octarian perspective. However I fear it may lead to even more nostalgia bait like 3 is painfully oversaturated with. Splatoon isn’t even 10 years old as a franchise and we’ve had way too many callbacks in S3.

In future we may get to see what happens with the salmonids, how inklings and octolings finally realize they’ve been coexisting peacefully again, we may even get to see a fleshed out romance or even marriage between Pearl and Marina because it’s the future.

Both past and future also set up the possibility of a new playable species, be it a species that’s now extinct (past) or something newly discovered (future).

Present just doesn’t offer any of the cool benefits. The Splatoon formula is already getting stale, if we all pick present, nothing will change and we lose the chance to get something really innovative and cool that the other 2 have to offer.

Lastly I wanna rant about idol fit choices because what the hell were the designers thinking.

They look better in 3D in the trailer but I’m still not vibing with the fits. For such a colorful franchise, why is everyone in the same bland ugly off-white color? Especially after we just had side order, which is full of monochrome and off-white color palettes.

We could’ve had Callie and Marie in retro 80s clothes or even further back, 1800s clothes.

Pearl and Marina could’ve just popped off in more streetwear since for some reason the devs love putting them in that fashion style and that fashion style only.

And deep cut could’ve had some sick as hell cyberpunk fits. You’re telling me you don’t wanna see Big Man in hologram shades? You don’t want Shiver rocking a shark motorcycle suit? You don’t want Frye to have levitating bracelets shaped like eels?

Instead we get big man in a leather thong for some reason. It’s funny. But it looks so bad

TL:DR: I am begging you please don’t pick team present just because you’re blinded by lesbianism, and I wish the idol fits had more color

[dr-spectre]

Me at 1am listening to Unconscience on YouTube and I see the YouTube comment section make the wrong assumptions and use incorrect terminology to describe Marina Agitando and Hypno Callie. And I have to sit there and take it.

(I'm so autistic that I get mad at people for saying the wrong words to describe characters I'm very passionate about. This keeps happening to me when I listen to the final boss music for Splatoon 2 and Unconscience and it will never. FUCKING. END. IF I SEE ANOTHER PERSON SAY MARINA WAS HYPNOTISED OR THAT CALLIE WAS KIDNAPPED AND BRAINWASHED I WILL FUCKING KILL-)

[icarusdiesatdawn]

I don't know if this is a common experience with adhd or if it's just my stupid fucked up self, but I constantly feel like I'm faking out. There's nothing that's actually keeping me from sitting down and dealing with the grownup stuff and putting the effort in, finding a job, living a normal life if I just tried. But I can't bring myself to do it. And I don't know why. Except that I technically do, I've been diagnosed, I understand the symptoms I'm experiencing, I can tick the boxes and even acknowledge my previous and ongoing struggles with depression and anxiety as a probable result from untreated adhd. Yet I still can't accept it as a disability because that seems silly when adhd is perceived as the trouble-sitting-still-disorder. It's actively ruining my life and people go "that means you can't focus, right?". Trying to explain at the jobcenter why I lost my job, why I dropped out of school, out of university, didn't finish my apprenticeship and only graduated high school (Abitur) at age 22. And I honestly don't know if I can blame some invisible illness or if I'm just not good enough at the whole life thing. If it's just me and nothing changes. And I'm at a point where I am so tired of trying again when I just keep failing. And I'm so frustrated that I can't express this feeling without sounding suicidal (which I'm not, I promise), but being alive is so exhausting and I don't wanna keep doing it.

[weirdfishy]

incurable dumb of ass when it comes to some ppl istg like. once, on you; twice, on me asfff

[voloimpregnant]

i never thought i would call and find marina hot (i always see & call her silly hackerling) but oh god here i am

I also LOVE the detail that Marina is showing her ears in her latest song!! She usually hides them, as they’re a giveaway that she’s an Octoling, but it seems she’s gotten more comfortable showing them with time 🩷 Possibly helped by her singing with Shiver in this song, who is an open Octoling!

[angeliicheartt]

🐬 "ᴘᴜʟʟ ʜɪᴍ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀ ᴄʜᴀᴛ!" — send a dialogue prompt and a character and i'll write a blurb!

um hi elle!! asking tenya ida “will you ever kiss me?” or smth to that effect ! fkfjdjdjcmb 🩵🩵🩵

ᴋɪꜱꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ɢɪʀʟ!

includes: tenya iida

fem!reader

note: 1.1k wc, fluff with a touch of angst (in the beginning), wingmen denki and toko, mentions of kamijiro & kacchako, hope u enjoy!

you watch as the sun sets over the UA dorms, casting the world in a golden glow. you sat with tenya on one of the benches lining the path from the dorms to the main school building. the two of you sat in a comfortable but tension charged silence. you could feel each time he adjusted his position, slowly getting closer to you. you felt your pinkie tips brush against one another, the contact making you flinch before relaxing again. 

your heart pounded in your chest, your eyes flickering to tenya’s face. his eyes are already trained on you, his cheeks flushed and lips parted. your body angles toward tenya, your nails digging into the concrete bench holding the two of you. was this it? was he finally gonna kiss you?

tenya clears his throat, his head ducking as his gaze locks onto the dirt floor below your feet. he pushes his glasses up his nose from where they had slid down before standing up, offering you a hand, “we should head inside.”

your eyebrows furrow up at him, your lips parted as you think of what to say. this is how’d it been for weeks, you knew tenya wanted to take things slow, and you did too, but not this slow. you easily stand up on your own, ignoring tenya’s hand, a look of dismay crossing his face. 

“will you ever kiss me?” you posed, your arms moving to hug yourself as tenya sputters. 

“y/n—” he hesitated, his arms twitching at his sides, wanting to comfort you, but you wanted to take things slow. the problem was tenya waited for you to make moves, not wanting to rush or pressure you. 

“listen, I’ll see you in class, just.. get your thoughts together.” you say, walking past tenya into the 1A dorm building. you gave a simple greeting to everyone before getting a dish of dinner and sitting beside mina on the couch. 

“you just get back from hanging out with iida? how was itttt?” mina drags out, giddy over the class couple. you sigh, beginning to dig into the dinner your classmates prepared. 

“well when he first asked me out he told me he wanted to take things slow, and i totally get it! i’m the same way.. but it’s been weeks and all we’ve done is held hands, twice.” you rant, your voice hushed as to not attract everyone’s attention. mina listens attentively as she eats, nodding along to your words. 

“well—” she cuts herself off, finishing her bite and swallowing before continuing, “i think you’ve gotta talk to him about it, he’ll never know for sure otherwise,” she advised, leading you to sigh before nodding. 

“i know.. i’ll do it tomorrow, when we’ve both got clear heads, y’know?” you stand up from the couch, padding over to the sink to rinse your dish. you bid an early goodnight to everyone before heading to your dorm.

unbeknownst to you, your rant travels from mina to jiro, and from jiro to denki and tokoyami. the two boys, denki dragging tokoyami along approach tenya, the boy looking up at them confused.

“yes? what is it, kaminari?” he asks the blonde, a tense smile on his face. 

“we’ve gotta talk,” denki says, grabbing tenya’s arm and attempting to pull him away. tenya stands up, placing his dish on the counter to come back to. denki sighs in relief as he now guides both tenya and tokoyami to the first floor hallway, devoid of any listening ears, besides jiro maybe. 

“listen, bud, we know you and y/n are struggling right now,” the blonde starts off, placing his hand 'soothingly' on tenya’s shoulder. tenya’s eyebrows furrow at the boy, grasping his wrist and placing his hand back at his side, “we’re what?”

tokoyami shakes his head, nudging kaminari’s shoulder with his own, “kaminari doesn’t mean that. we’ve heard that you two got into a small altercation in your relationship.” the dark haired boy starts off, “we’re here to assist you in clearing it up.”

tenya’s eyes widen slightly, his face flushing at the mention of your guys’ relationship. denki grins at the boy’s reaction resting his elbow on tokoyami’s shoulder he leans forward, pointing a finger gun at tenya. 

“so spill them juicy secrets, glasses boy!” the blonde urges, flashing a pearly grin. tenya sighs, disheartened by having the electric boy help fix his relationship. he takes his glasses off, massaging the bridge of his nose briefly before replacing his glasses once again. 

“we were outside, just sitting on one of the benches and when i suggested we go inside, she asked ‘will you ever kiss me,’ and then walked inside. i was waiting for her to initiate anything because she said she also wanted to take our relationship slow.” tenya vents to the two boys, tokoyami nodding in tandem with tenya’s words and denki staring blankly as he listens. 

“well—”

“obviously she wants you to kiss her, and usually girls want guys to make the first move, tenya buddy. i know you’re just being a gentleman and all, but trust me, girls like it when the guy initiates it.” denki insights, clueless to his violet-haired girlfriend’s rolling eyes as she listens in. 

“best course of action would probably be to kiss her tomorrow, as soon as you see her,” denki advises as Tenya’s gaze flickers from the blonde to the dark haired boy, who only nods in agreement. 

tenya goes back to the kitchen, cleaning up as if in a trance. he collected all the dishes from everyone, washing each of them in silence as he contemplated how he should approach you. eventually he retires to his dorm room, rolling restlessly in the early hours of the night before finally passing out.

the next morning, you and mina are heading to the school building, walking side by side before you hear your name get called, you turn your head watching as tenya speeds over to you. you hear mina yelp as she’s pulled away by kaminari, but before you can respond to that tenya’s less than a foot away from you, his hand cupping your cheek, his own cheeks flushed. 

“yes?” you ask timidly, feeling your cheeks heat at the notion. 

“may i kiss you?” he murmurs, his nose already brushing yours as you nod. you feel his slightly chapped lips melt against yours, your hand moving to wrap around his neck before you hear a familiar voice. 

“IT'S EIGHT IN THE GODDAMN MORNING, I DO NOT WANT TO SEE FOUR EYES SWAPPING SPIT!” bakugo yells from a few feet behind you two, causing the two of you to part. you look past tenya to see bakugo with ochako on his arm, grumbling as she berates him for ruining the moment. you chuckle softly before turning back to tenya, planting a gentle peck on his lips before taking his hand in yours, “thank you,”

“my pleasure,” he says softly as the two of you continue to walk, now ready to start the day.

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