Uninspired

Had to draw Shiver based on this image (originally by ExpandDong on Bluesky)

Okay

Okay im a splatoon fan ive loved the games since they came out when i was a teen but i watched the raiders direct with some apprehension to start and i am now left with nothing but a pit of dread and disgust in my stomach.

I just need to say something about this. Are we really doing mega anti-indigenous shit in splatoon raiders? Really? Okay sorry but okay can we talk about this? Can we please fucking talk about this?

What the fuck is wrong with you. That is a totem pole. That is a totem pole you are stealing from the territory of salmon people whom you demonize and have created a whole game mode and now game about killing and pillaging from endlessly. Salmon are sacred to the Coast Salish people whose art you've flattened and shredded to pepper your "savage salmonid territory" with. I say again that Salmon are sacred to many indigenous groups. They provide life for the people and bring life to the waters and you're going to spew out a game entirely premised around destroying and pillaging and killing salmon? Okay.

According to Scooter's therapist, his biological father is a pathological narcissist. This is why he skips Scooter's birthday each year.

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freakin' it

☑️ Biped

and the main thing that has been sticking with me is the two Simons in the end. As depressing as it is that one Simon is left behind, it's even more excruciating to realize that the Simon on the Ark doesn't even know that a version of him was left behind, alone, in the dark, at the bottom of the Atlantic.

It's possible that Catherine tells him on the Ark that Simon and Catherine are still down there in Pathos II, but considering how blasé she tends to be about brain scans, copies, and the robots they meet along the way, I could believe that she never even mentions their other selves left behind, so the Simon on the Ark never learns about the version of him left behind.

And if she did tell him, he definitely wouldn't handle it well. Knowing that he's still down there for who-knows-how-long would probably fill him with a sense of guilt he could never live down, be it survivor's guilt or disgust for what he's done.