#thanks splatoon 3 for everything!!!

[dandelion-idk]

CONGRATULATIONS TEAM PAST!!! THE SWEEP WAS CRAZY. GGS EVERYONE AND THANK U SPLATOON 3 FOR ALL THE MEMORIES!!

[ink-in-octo-crater]

Meet my Captain 3 OC! I think I'll just refer to them as Captain, he/they/she pronouns and like,, 21? Looks older though

[splatoon-edits]

Frosty Fest Deep Cut Icons

Free To Use, Credit Optional <3

[femmejesterart]

Happy grand fest to everyone ft. My sona!!! This was so incredibly fun and it was amazing to see all the performances and astounding gameplay from all teams! 💚💜❤

[inkeesworkshop]

Grand Fest was fantastic, no doubt the best Splatoon event ever held.

Seeing the idols performing on stage like that… I haven’t felt such genuine joy in a long time.

What a way to send off Splatoon 3

I’ve been with this game since it was announced all the way back in February of 2021, to see it come to a close just… I dunno, it just brings me to tears. Both sad and happy tears.

And I’ve been with the franchise longer than that even. I got the first game when I was in 3rd grade, and loved playing the first story mode.

But I didn’t really get into the franchise until 2020, in 7th grade. Splat 3 released at the beginning of my Sophomore year at highs school, and I got even more obsessed.

Now here I stand, in Senior year, as the Final Splatfest has come to a close.

It’s almost incomprehensible.

Splatoon as a game has grown to mean so much to me, as with the community. I’ve grown so much in such a short time, and I’m truly grateful for all the great memories this game and its goofy characters have given me, memories which I’ll never forget.

So, one last time, let me just say…

Thank you, Callie, Marie, Pearl, Marina, Shiver, Frye and Big Man.

Thank you, all, for the wonderful past 4 years.

Thank you for giving me so much joy as characters.

For helping me grow as an artist and writer.

For helping me through some of my darkest, toughest moments.

Thank you for such an amazing game for an amazing franchise.

Thank you, Splatoon 3. ✨⭐️✨

[xdev666]

a tribute to splatoon 3 and all the amazing memories i made along with it. splatoon has been such an important part of my life, from the wii u to the nintendo switch. i’ve loved the way this series has grown, and i cant wait to see what comes next. i’ve had so many amazing experiences with this game, my brother and i grew closer through playing together, i made amazing friends, and i’m so grateful for such an amazing, colorful, and artistic game to have given me so many memories, experiences, and happiness. congratulations to team past, and thank you splatoon for changing my life 💙❤️💛

[crazysnor1ax]

@possiblycringe @very-very-dizzy @k40su HEHEHEHE OKAY >:3

So! To prevent myself from infodumping too much keep this post somewhat short I can talk about the story goin' on. Know that I'm still working on it, so there's a chance things could change in the future.

Generally it follows the same as canon, but it starts with Azure (Agent 3/Captain 3), Callie and Marie all being werekrakens. All of them were born werekrakens too. Marie started turning around age 5-6, Azure around 9-10, and Callie doesn't start changing until the events of this AU (aka HELLA late).

Things don't really kick off until Azure's gf and roommate, Mist (Agent 8) accidentally finds out about Azure being a werekraken after she fails to make it to the Squid Sisters' place to spend that full moon. Fortunately Azure and Mist are close enough for Azure to still recognize Mist in their kraken state and not feel threatened by her, so things are all good. Mist is then taken to the Squid Sisters' place and educated on all things werekraken, and from there kinda becomes the krakens' caretaker/babysitter every full moon (especially after Callie starts changing, since Cal normally looked after everyone primarily).

Shit really hits the fan when Off the Hook figures out what Callie and Marie are. Marina was semi-forcefully made into a werekraken in the Octarian Army, being told that being turned would only enhance her strength and allow her to better serve the Army. Spoiler alert: it didn't entirely and caused Marina to be under intense stress every time she turned or made herself turn for medical checkups and whatnot to be done on her. In this AU krakens get stressed/scared easily and retaliate when threatened (hence the folktales about them being violent beasts), so you can imagine what happened. Because of her status as a werekraken Marina catches onto the Squid Sisters rescheduling performances and taking full moons off, and wants to reach out to them for help.

Long story short, what ends up happening is Off the Hook getting the Squid Sisters, Azure, and Mist at Pearl's place for a full moon and it goes much better than Marina anticipated (who doesn't understand how skiddish krakens are and only understands her affliction to be a violent "curse" of sorts) and the NSS agrees to educate Marina on herself, help her regulate her kraken, and let her safely and comfortably embrace it. Pearl is especially happy for Marina, who's seen how her kraken is and has always believed werekrakens aren't violent.

Time passes, full moons happen, eventually Callie finally starts transforming. It's a lot for her. Despite waiting for years for her to transform and knowing all she does about herself and werekrakens in general, her strengthened senses and instincts after transforming are extremely stressful for her. Essentially-Callie gets a smaller "plot" about accepting herself and managing her own kraken (which may or may not be even more stronger than a regular kraken as a result of her brainwashing years prior, jury's still out on that).

Time once again passes and another long story short, one particular full moon goes wrong and Shiver and Neo Agent 3 (named Sting) get turned by Marina and Callie, respectively. Now there's more people to keep watch on as they adjust to their new krakens and keeping the secret! Sting especially needs to be kept on close watch, since xey're way too excited about being turned and even let xemself get attacked so xey could be turned. The NSS is fairly certain Shiver can regulate her kraken with enough training, but they're not sure about Sting.

I imagine there's also some other "plot points" about finding a werekraken "cure" and how Callie, Marie, and Azure react to that? But not sure yet. Again, still working on things.

Overall tho, it's mostly just a werewolf AU about being keeping the secret and living life as creatures of sorts :3

[gingergari]

agent 4 when she might get fucked up in side order

[crescentfool]

hello to the new influx of people who followed me from my silly little ryomina comic 👋 i hope everyone enjoys their stay!!! 🥳 i am very p3 piled with sprinkles of splatoon. please feel free to browse my blog tags and archives like it's your feed, i always like seeing posts circulate :3

and to everyone on this fine saturday. or sunday! have an excellent week :) you are so cool

[mjrino]

Hey new Splatoon song just dropped! I'm going to check it ou- whart why am i cyring

[edenisme]

Going through my splatfest videos, this nearly gave me a heart attack when it happened in match

[bluejaybytes]

Yeah I'm uh. I'm enjoying the golden rotation

[lougouvea]

Thank you for everything, Splatoon 3! I had the time of my life

[synthbug]

Hello could you say things about splatoon maybe if you want to

LOOKS AT YOU WITH MY BIG BUG EYES 🥰🥰🥰🥰

IM NORMALLLL!!! ABOUT THE MUSIC AND DESIGNS AND WHIMSY AND LORE AND THE VIBE OF ALL THE SETTINGS AND CHARACTERS AND COMMUNITIES THEYRE ALL SOO LOVELY!!!

The music is so full of joy and whimsy :3 it is soo fill up my heart with fun and loving ^_^ the happy smiler <3 and everything feels so awsome and lively !! Also the squid and octo swim forms r so impossibly cute bcoz u can just turn into a little guy...

I played splatoon 2 hero mode and it's SO NICEYS! Ohhhh everything is just so cool and fun!!! Octo expansion is so funky too!!!! And I love all the idols :3 Splatoon is such a happy smiler game it fills my heart with whimsy ^_^ YIPPPEEEEEE

[loafbud]

That was beautiful.

Grand Festival was peak. ABSOLUTE PEAK! 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

As someone who was on Team Future, I would celebrate any team regardless who one. Seeing Team Past winning got me emotional (in a good way)... it's almost like the results were paying homage to Splatoon 1, and the Squid Sisters, to where it all started. The star in the sky. The Calamari Inkantation to this series that I grew up with ever since Splatoon's debut in the E3 2015 trailer.

I'll forever follow and cherish this series... 9 years and forever more. 🥹💕

In terms of the Splatfest results, our team getting zero points feels poetic. I see the number "zero" as the start of everything, the number of nothing, the number that can become something, the infinite, the endless — it resembles the future in a way. Endless, infinite! It's a mentality I need to practice more, to be honest: Zero can be mean many things, but it can also mean the beginning of things; 'nothing' will eventually become 'something'. I've never been more excited to be on a losing team and I'm saying that with my heart on my sleeve.

All of the results for each team feel poetic to me!

But seriously... thank you Splatoon 3! Content updates may have ended, but they did say they'll have special splatfests/past big run/eggstra reruns until then.

All in all, what an absolute blast I had these past few days during Grandfest. The performances, the atmosphere, the new music?? And seeing everyone else posting about their own experiences, it genuinely felt like an event we all went to in-person, we all got to experience that as a community. 🥹

Man, I love Splatoon.

[alterrune]

So...I'm gonna borrow this post for a moment. Hope you don't mind, Spectre.

Just like Spectre, I feel as though I need to change some things going forward.

After Ink Me Dead came in clutch with his video that I posted about earlier on my own Tumblr and I had a good cry, I've had time to think, and...yeah, I think I went pretty overboard.

I've always had problems managing my anger, ESPECIALLY when it comes to things like this. Losing a Splatfest always felt like a slap to the face for me.

And as you can see by the results, I felt that slap 4 outta 6 times.

But Grand Festival felt different. It was the finale, and they had been hyping it up for AGES!

So believe me when I say I didn't just feel like I got slapped when Grand Festival's results were announced. I felt like I had just had a family member die right in front if me, and I had no way of stopping it.

I was LIVID. But now that I've mellowed out (thanks to Ink Me Dead) and I'm no longer seeing red, I realize I went WAAAAY too far with this.

So yeah, this is my formal apology. Congrats on the win, Team Past. Sorry about my poor sportsmanship.

Just like Spectre, I think I'm gonna change how I do things a bit regarding Splatoon stuff on my own askblog. It's not gonna go away bc S3 has just become too important to me to just straight-up stop talking about it, but I'll be changing things from here on out.

First of all, if I talk about Splatoon, I'm not gonna talk about the results of the Splatfests anymore. I'll still talk about the Splatfests themselves, but it's too big a risk of me just making a fool of myself in anger to talk about the results anymore.

Secondly, I'm not gonna hyperfixate on shit like this anymore...just gonna regular-fixate. Totally gonna doll up my Tumblr page again like I did for this event (bc it was actually really fun to do), but I'm not going to act like a sore loser with the "I should've won, you all suck" attitude anymore. Honestly, I feel embarrased at myself for posting some of the things I did.

Thirdly, I will be deleting any posts on my blog that I made after the results were announced (aside from a few exceptions, like my sharing of the Ink Me Dead video). I think that is actually the wise thing to do...or at least, the wisest descision I could make regarding all of this.

And finally, I will kindly ask you all to not to talk about this to me anymore. I said some things that I shouldn't have, and I would like to move on from this.

Let's not hold the past over our heads, continue to live in the present moment, and look toward the future.

Thank you.

- Kyle Gibbons ✍🏼

(P.S.: Sorry if this comes off as a weird reblog, Spectre, this was made with the intent of it being seen on my own Tumblr page. Also, to anyone seeing this on my Tumblr page, please do not leave a comment on it as it will comment on SPECTRE'S post, not mine, and I'd rather not confuse him with comments that aren't related to his own post. Reblogs are better than comments in this case.)

Hello everyone, I got some announcements to share and some plans for the future of this blog now that the Grand Fest is over and the news drought begins.

(LONG POST AHEAD!!!!)

I think going forward I'm gonna change how I approach myself acting online and be less "OH MY GOD HOLY SHITENWIOEDISIWIEOE GUYYS!!!"

Because to be honest with you all... I've been feeling very self conscious about the way that I've been acting online and I feel like I gotta channel my passion for Splatoon in a much more healthy and less EXTREMEEEEE way.

I am aware that um.... people have blocked me... and you know, that's to be expected of course when you are online and you're slowly building a following. Still really stings, though, and I think it's due to the fact that sometimes I can be sorta- "This is what happened, and if you disagree with me, you're an idiot and you're wrong!!!!!" When I make posts. And I don't wanna do that, and I don't want to come off as a gatekeeping fan that thinks lower of other people who might not know my stances very well. I wanna educate people and present my stuff as more of "Hey guys, this is what I think actually happened in this event. Feel free to take a look! I think this is really cool and I wonder what you guys think of this perspective that i have?"

And sometimes I can be pretty loud mouthed and stuff and I have talked shit towards certain characters. I remember one time I made a post where I said "what the fuck is wrong with Marie?" And said some stuff... I probably rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with that post... and other posts. I'm so sorry if I have made some of you upset in the past or have said some awful things about your favourite characters in the series...

As you guys probably know, I am passionate about Hypno Callie and I have very strong stances and opinions on her. And that leads to me get a bit... out of control. Callie is my biggest comfort character and to see certain people try and push this vile and disgusting event that happened to her... that she was kidnapped by Octavio and the Octarians when she was alone, and that he brainwashed her and forcibly put the shades on her, or he tricked her and he removed her memories too...

and I try to see the same event in a completely different lens... I see it as more of Octavio manipulating her in a more subtle way and due to Callie's poor mental state and desperation, she heard him out. Octavio used the shades as a way to control her more easily but he doesnt have full direct control over her because her influence helped motivate the Octarians. Octavio still wanted Callie to be... well... Callie. Plus, Callie was more than willing to help the Octarians as well, as she thinks they are cute. I do have evidence to back it up as well as articles and definitions explaining how hypnosis actually works and its limitations.

But this perspective gets compromised and put into question in my head when people keep pushing and pushing and PUSHING the other thing. Then it feels like I have to yell and get mad.... I've seen it as recently as when Blushing Tide came out and I looked at the YouTube comment section on one of the uploads and I just kept seeing people say "oh it's like Tidal Rush but without the brainwashing" or some shit like that idk. I dont remember it well but i know I saw the word floating around. (Don't look at YouTube comment sections. You won't get anything of value from them.)

Anyways, I also wanna cut back on swearing too because sometimes I border on being a hazbin hotel character and I DO NOT want myself to get to that level LMAO!

So what shall I be doing now that Splatoon 3 is officially wrapped up? Well... I wanna do more creative projects and fun stuff like that. I got good reception from my haikus for the Grand Fest and I think doing more stuff like that sounds really really fun!!! And it might actually give me a reason to finish stuff as well lol...

Like I have a God damn Splatoon 2 hero mode finale rewrite that's nearly done and it's been sitting on my Google docs since JULY!!!! I have also made plans to do a fan sequel to the Squid Sisters Stories that takes place in between Splatoon 2 and 3 because that time frame for the Squid Sisters has been barely touched upon. I'm also doing a personal project where it's basically what I want to see out of a Splatoon 4 and I've been really enjoying making that. I dont know if I would ever share it but... it's something to do for me at least.

I also wanna involve myself in the community more, I received an ask where someone said (I forgot who asked I'm so sorry) if I could do a thing where I receive Splatoon OCs and critique them. That sounds really fun!!!

Maybe i can do photo mode competitions or showcases!!! Where I choose a theme (Callie, water, Splatsville, etc) and people submit their photos and I critique them and showcase them to everyone!!! Does that sound like something people would be interested in?! I would love to know as virtual photography is a hobby I love to partake in and I wanna encourage more people to try it!

There is also other stuff i can do like going over the Idols outfits and rating them, but I don't have the motivation to do that at the moment and I know it's not gonna be as in-depth as the one I did for Callie.

Anyhow, that's basically what I have so far. I think im gonna slow down on posting and I'm gonna chill out. Or at least I'll try to chill out.

I've just been feeling incredibly guilty and kinda... sad that I've been acting in a certain way for a while. And I really wanna change that. I dont like making people upset and I don't wanna be the kind of Splatoon fan that puts down others who don't even know any better and don't know who I am....

But enough being sad, I wanna focus on the present and make sure that my future on here is bright!!!