People I Met For A Few Moments That Live In My Head Forever.

theres an official trans blåhaj made for trans surgery patients and all i can say is. shiver. i mean LOOK

thank you to starberry-skies for providing an accessible image id!

[Image Description:

Image 1: Digital art of Shiver from Splatoon 3. The illustration uses mostly light pinks and blues to match the trans flag, and the background is white. Shiver has top surgery scars and hugs the Blåhaj shark plushie close, grinning widely. The plush is striped with the trans flag colors and says, "Hej! I'm BEYOU BLÅHAJ". /End Image 1

Image 2: A tweet by Kate Gray (@ hownottodraw) [Verified]. The tweet reads, in all caps:

Ikea Canada made a real trans flag Blahaj

And they give them out to sexual health centres for people getting gender affirming treatment to hug [crying emoji]

source & credit Halfax Sexual Health Centre [Instagram link]. [End Tweet]

Attatched is a photo of the Beyou Blåhaj, the trans-colored shark plushie. Text above the shark reads, "Hej! I'm the BEYOU BLÅHAJ". /End Image 2 and all image descriptions.]

so I found something

hello to like, the 30 people that enjoy dedf1sh, I found something. TLDR im in a discord server and someone sent this.

it's all the signatures outside of hotlantis, right? but I noticed something very important

THEY GOT OUT OF THE DEEPSEA METRO!! THEY SURVIVED!!

THERE THEY ARE!! THEY'RE REAL!!

Ain’t nobody gonna see this but I have theory of the Calamari Inkantation. Splatoon 3 Spoilers.

Okay so I was listening to Wave Goodbye, the Splatoon 3 Credits Song, over and over like a normal person, when at some point I realized when they get to the portion that starts the Calamari Inkantation lyrics, there are non-filtered voices singing. Humans Voices. (Pictured is around the point where that section starts)

Then I thought to myself: What if the Calamari Inkantation originated as a song humans made on Alterna? A song to help them continue despite their world falling around them. Then I started looking into the logs and reflecting on past events with the song and..

Let’s just say Sunken Scroll #23 from Splatoon 1 saying: “Nowadays, this song and dance may as well be carved into the very DNA of all Inklings.” ..might be a tiny bit more literal than expected. Let’s take a look at what we know.

The Calamari Inkantation is a literal incantation. Series of words, or a song in this case, that causes magical effects. It has, in many cases, been known to give strength, physical or otherwise, to those who have been in audible range of it. Ex. Giving Cuttlefish the strength to break out of his restraints and Smallfry to temporarily evolve(?) into Hugefry.

With that said, I believe the “Calamari” part could be from the place it was “founded” in and taken on as a traditional song for. Calamari Country. Which is where Callie and Marie come from. Perhaps the Inklings of the area long ago found the sheet music.

Moving on, the part of this that helps this theory’s case is Alterna Log005: Fresh Intelligence Awakens.

After the liquid crystals that retained decades of humanity’s wishes was absorbed by the squids, octopuses, and other sea creatures that inhabited Alterna’s waters.. it imbued them with fresh impulses that “bore a striking resembling to humanity’s passive desire to return to the Earth’s surface”.

Interesting. The desire to return to the surface was slowly fused into their DNA. You may be thinking “But what does this have to do with the Inkantation?” And that’s exactly where I’m going with this.

So if we are to think.. the Calamari Inkantation was made by the humans on Alterna, perhaps filled lyrically with their wishes.. and the sea creatures absorbed the desire and wishes of humanity to return to the surface through the liquid crystals.. and the Calamari Inkantation gives sea creatures the literal strength to move forward..

And the INKADIA-BORN OCTOLINGS, who were SUFFERING in poor conditions UNDERGROUND in DOMES heard the CALAMARI INKANTATION and suddenly their “SOULS WERE FREED” and THE DESIRE TO RETURN TO THE SURFACE AND THRIVE WAS EVOKED INTO THEM AGAIN?

AFTER YEARS OF LIVING A HARD MILITARISTIC-STYLE LIFE WITH BEING INDUCTED INTO THE ARMY AT A YOUNG AGE, THEY FOUND THE STRENGTH TO LEAVE THEIR ENTIRE OLD LIFE BEHIND? TO RISK IT ALL. EVEN THEIR OWN LIFE. TO JOIN WHAT THEY WERE PRESUMED TO BE THEIR WORST ENEMIES ON THE SURFACE IN HARMONY?

After thinking about all this and rewatching the Octo Expansion Surface Cutscene (from that last GIF), I nearly wanted to CRY. They had never seen the real sky before, the real SUN before. They made it. Not only the Octolings but humanity’s final wishes made it too.

That’s my theory. Perhaps I’m wrong but either way I would love to see what people think. Thanks for reading.

Oh and also, since it named the “Inkantation” that means someone knew of its power... This just in, did the Inklings cheat in the Great Turf War?

But that’s for another day lol

These two got to be the most gayest characters I have ever seen

another brainrot to think about:

I think, fem!akechi would be pretty good at pickup lines.

Random sillies:

Splatoon open species: Inkees!

Inkees appear to be larger mutations of common ink-eating bacteria. Nobody knows where they came from, but they're docile and pretty cute, so now people keep them as pets.

The main appeal of Inkees is that they mimic the shapes of creatures and objects. The forms they take are very simple, however, and most Inkees can only be one or two colours at a time.

One glass of ink is enough to keep an Inkees fed for three months, so they're very low-maintenance. When they are well-cared-for, they seem to live indefinitely. No matter how old they are or how much they feed, they never get larger than hand-held size.

Inkees are vulnerable to water, to high pressure (being crushed), and to sharp objects. They may also starve if they don't have access to ink for around five months. Please treat Inkees with kindness and care.

Inkees reproduce by dividing into two, smaller Inkees. The two new Inkees may be similar at first, but will often choose whole new forms and colours as their "default" one. When small, they must eat extra ink to regain their usual mass.

Particularly smart and skilled Inkees can be taught to shapeshift on command. They will return to their "default" or favourite form after a while, though.

Inkees are available at all local Splatsville pet stores.

“The melody etches your soul, and sets you free.”

Time for Chapter 4! Also, I ended up liking the title-card art a lot, so here it is on its own:

redraw of this one scene

drawing gay ppl again