#salmon run life

[midnightmoonbeams]

GSstandard drew some mashup art; Splatoon x 08th MS Team! xToffeex drew BIG Man! Ayla Rene says, "Assigned a splatling gun. Teammate DC'd but got a full pay cut anyway. Got a communication error that closed their game when trying to do another Salmon Run shift." Siiigh, life in this game, man. Sage * is Full of Worry. Me, too, man. Me, too. Nawnii drew a cute inkling saying, "Woomy!"

From October 24th, 2022

[freshbeeth]

I’M SORRY THEY NAMED THE WAVE 3 CLEAR/KING SALMONID APPEARS SONG W H A T

[third-king-of-salmonids]

LOOK I DONT HATE INKFISH MUSIC BUT YOUVE GOTTA STOP MAKING ALL SONGS 2 MINUTES LONG IN THE HOPE THEY GET PLAYED DURING TURF WARS OKAY THE MUSIC ECOSYTEM IS SUFFERING I NEED MORE 5 MINUTE ABSOLUTE BANGERS

[blaire-beast]

Reblogs are appreciated!!

Some paintings i did, gouache/acrylics, from A5 up to 50x70

Please consider checking out my inprnt!! I need to save up for college so I'd really appreciate it if anyone could take a look around there! I'll be adding more stuff to it gradually

[black-salt-cage]

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[glassesfreekjr]

Since the first do-over somehow sounded even more like ass, I remastered/redid the whole track now that I have more experience.

Picture this as the OST for a surprise XTRA WAVE during the next Big Run. Even better if this "King Salmonid" isn't announced anywhere beforehand.

Imagine, if you will, that distorted victory jingle plays to signify a King Salmonid, but nothing happens. All eight(?!) players Super Jump back to their starting locations and Mr. Grizz pipes in to express his confusion. Then he notices... no, no, he definitely sent out a four-man squad! Why are there more of you? How long have these conspicuous individuals in the same uniform been trying to blend in amogus? Are those Grizzco weapons?!

Then without a word, the interlopers all open fire at once. Cue the music.

Although the firefight would break out as the music kicks off, the 100-sec Xtra Wave would only officially start at 0:22 — when the Grizzco helicopter is blasted out of the sky with a Trizooka, careening into the ocean in a catastrophic, firey wreck. Mr. Grizz lets out a long, garbled string of curses and hails the emergency speedboat he prepared in advance to come pick you up. But will it make it to your squad in time? Here's hoping.

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Ditching the odd time signatures and overdriven timpanis in favor of breakcore drum loops is kinda like sanitizing what made the music ω-3 (the band for Salmon Run) special and shoving what's left in a place where it don't belong — which is similar to my interpretation of what "salmonlings" would be like. Literal fish out of water.

Salminid culture is heavily tied to the belief in the circle of life (via being cooked alive). It's why they're so willing to zerg rush players during Salmon Runs. So imagine being torn away from said cycle, altered so irrevocably that you barely recognize yourself. My intent was to capture that feeling of horrid mania, and the music I sampled from/covered lended itself well to that, I think.

I've also found a good in-universe performer at last: DJ Unregistered Hypercam 3 (by @teethflavoured on Tumblr), a retired Mudmouth turned solo artist for whom I instantly fell head-over-heels.

(sample source list and an ultra-rad visualizer can be found on my YouTube)

[wahooworld-doublehelix]

Hello Splatoon Nation!

[zikadraws]

When the entire squad rush to the shore as soon as they get there and immediately get wiped out by raising tide

The head start timer wasn't even over

[miss-freak]

Try to convince me that Joe isn’t the best King Salmonid (hint: you can’t)

[dreadful-luck]

drew this in class today!

Thought I’d add this text exchange too.

[peachy1091]

whadda hell

[third-king-of-salmonids]

BEHOLD MY GLORY

[salmonidos]

..."Little buddy" knows what you did.

[llxoxox]

stomach hurts, can’t sleep..

[rotshop]

i know there's been a few splatoon infection aus but have an y of them used salmon run i feel like there's an untapped market here

[pizzabuttspizzahuthun]

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