I vibe and follow my hyperfixations

a lot of my references for these pages were teen magazines, particularly seventeen magazine issues from around 2002-2004, and advertisements with the (checks notes) gen x soft club style. i don’t think it stood out, but hey. i like helvetica.

most of this was to kinda follow up on octo expansion’s elements of memory and nostalgia though with a slightly different lens as things are a bit different. inkfish from the surface (likely inkadia here) are leaking in as turf war culture spreads (they probably saw decaying testing stations with turf war stage copies and thought “hey. we could work with this”)

and well. nostalgia for past toys, trinkets, clothes can be a double edged sword. consumption for such is capitalized on by corporations, and mass consumption just for the aesthetic can be wasteful! you can also make something into your own, reuse and revitalize things you once loved and cherished into something that represents you. that’s why a part of me wanted to make a lot of the weapons and specials plastic and toy-like too for that same reason.