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Gotta Find Me a Future:
Part One - Sunset Part Two - Dawn (First Half) Part Two - Dawn (Second Half)
*Will be updated with each new entry
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!
I hope everyone has a wonderful June full of love and happiness and fulfillment :) To start off the gayest month, here's a collection of all the color pages I've done for the GFMAF comics so far. If you haven't read them yet! ⬇ pt.1 pt.2 (1/2) pt.2 (2/2)
PART 1
PART 2
Part 3 is already in the works (say thank you @shibascrem for being insane) Excited to work on the final part and make it extra gay
GO LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIFUL COLOR PAGES THAT RORY WORKED REAL HARD ON.
Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn (Second Half)
Again, presented by @theashemarie, @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and me! This is the second half of Part Two: Dawn. You can find the first half here: CLICK HERE
Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn
Without further ado, @theashemarie , @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and I present part two of Gotta Find Me a Future. Due to Tumblr's posting restrictions of only 30 images per post, we have to split this release into two (2) posts. If you would like to read Part One: Sunset, the link is here: CLICK HERE THIS IS THE FIRST HALF OF PART TWO: DAWN. THE LINK TO THE SECOND HALF IS HERE: CLICK HERE
Hi, just wanted to say I LOVED the Gotta Find Me a Future comic! It was really nice to see a more Pearl centric pearlina work, since people usually focus on Marina and how she feels towards Pearl and kinda overlook how Pearl feels about Marina. You could really feel how much they love each other!
It was also nice seeing representation of how laboring it is for performers during live events and repeated performances- stage life is ROUGH. It felt really realistic and true to how it actually is for performers.
It felt like I was peeking behind the curtains into a celebrity's personal life, struggles, and aspirations. The way you write these characters makes them seem real and fluid. Which is very hard to achieve given the comic wasn't the length of a full comic book.
I also must praise your expression work and dialogue choices, as they also very clearly portray the general mood of the work. You can tell that Pearl is a tad nervous, a bit tired, but nevertheless hopeful.
The emotional buildup to the proposal was also on point. It felt poetic and satisfying, like a long arc was finally coming to its rightful conclusion.
Overall, the comic had a wonderful feel good and optimistic mood. Its filled with hope and joy, and I adore it.
Thank you for making it, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
Well, I didn't actually write this comic per se! It is an adaptation of a fanfic called "Gotta Find Me A Future" by @theashemarie, which you can find here: CLICK HERE Since it was an adaptation, I did get to play around with the setting and timeline of events though, and even certain things the characters say or experience. Seeing as it was a comic, I kind of had to since certain things in writing don't really transfer well into a visual format. Fortunately, I had Ashe (the original fic writer) and her wife Katie (@katiemonz) and Rory (@squidthusiast) around to help with pacing and panel layouts, as well as to help me keep the adaptation from getting too far off the narrative track. The Three Wishes part is a comic original though, and I'm glad the comic was able to successfully make it feel like a grand buildup to a finale a long time in the making. I wanted the comic to be able to stand on its own, whether or not the reader has read the original fic, so reading your review/comment is very heartening! We're all glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for taking the time to write something so nice in return!
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Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn
Without further ado, @theashemarie , @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and I present part two of Gotta Find Me a Future. Due to Tumblr's posting restrictions of only 30 images per post, we have to split this release into two (2) posts. If you would like to read Part One: Sunset, the link is here: CLICK HERE THIS IS THE FIRST HALF OF PART TWO: DAWN. THE LINK TO THE SECOND HALF IS HERE: CLICK HERE
Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn (Second Half)
Again, presented by @theashemarie, @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and me! This is the second half of Part Two: Dawn. You can find the first half here: CLICK HERE
Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn
Without further ado, @theashemarie , @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and I present part two of Gotta Find Me a Future. Due to Tumblr's posting restrictions of only 30 images per post, we have to split this release into two (2) posts. If you would like to read Part One: Sunset, the link is here: CLICK HERE THIS IS THE FIRST HALF OF PART TWO: DAWN. THE LINK TO THE SECOND HALF IS HERE: CLICK HERE
HOOOO GODDD!!! YOU!! YOU!! HOW DO YOU DO THIS!! THE PACING! THE CHARACTER WRITING! THE ART! THE BACKGROUNDS! THE COLORS! THE ATMOSPHERE! THE SHADING ON THE BLACK AND WHITE PAGES IS DRIVING ME CRAZY TOO!!!!
How do you even find a crew of people this insane about something who is ALSO this talented?! Ugh. Thanks for the meal!!!
Honestly? It started as a chance meeting through us being nice to each other. I made friends with Rory because they left such nice tags on my old Pearlina art and then drew fanart for Ashe's fic "Sequencing" because I liked it so much. Rory initially reached out to Ashe before I did and they were chatting on the Tumblr messenger. Then we all decided to become friends on discord because it would be easier to talk as a group on there instead of Tumblr messenger. And, since Katie is Ashe's wife, she got roped in with us crazy Pearlina fans XD. So I guess you have to reach out and talk to other fans or people you want to be friends with, and continue to reach out and talk and interact with each other and maintain that relationship! We got lucky, though, in that we were all willing to work on this crazy big project together and had the skills and the time to back up the desire. But we also just really liked being each other's friends! I'm sure if you wanted to you can do it too, but it will take time and patience and openness and lots of communication! From all parties!
Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn
Without further ado, @theashemarie , @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and I present part two of Gotta Find Me a Future. Due to Tumblr's posting restrictions of only 30 images per post, we have to split this release into two (2) posts. If you would like to read Part One: Sunset, the link is here: CLICK HERE THIS IS THE FIRST HALF OF PART TWO: DAWN. THE LINK TO THE SECOND HALF IS HERE: CLICK HERE
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Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn (Second Half)
Again, presented by @theashemarie, @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and me! This is the second half of Part Two: Dawn. You can find the first half here: CLICK HERE
Gotta Find Me a Future Part Two: Dawn
Without further ado, @theashemarie , @katiemonz, @squidthusiast, and I present part two of Gotta Find Me a Future. Due to Tumblr's posting restrictions of only 30 images per post, we have to split this release into two (2) posts. If you would like to read Part One: Sunset, the link is here: CLICK HERE THIS IS THE FIRST HALF OF PART TWO: DAWN. THE LINK TO THE SECOND HALF IS HERE: CLICK HERE
Down to the final two pages! Happy to finally show everyone the cover of Part 2! Painting done by the amazing @squidthusiast with lines by me! Keep your eyes peeled for the final product!
Sorry for the radio silence, I tend to disappear when working on a project, at least until we're ready to release it HA. We're getting there, 46/60 pages completed for part 2 of the comic.
some niche splatoon social media / squid research lab lore:
after splatoon 1’s story ended with its final splatfest, the SRL tumblr started posting about callie being missing, including a series of short stories about the squid sisters. these posts culminated in a story mode trailer for splatoon 2 with the following caption:
they did not anticipate that everyone would assume callie was DEAD. she lost the final splatfest and it LITERALLY KILLED HER.
the fandom began to lose their minds. it was absolute chaos. for a time, the phrase “but where’s Callie?” became a sleeper agent trigger word for anxious callie stans assuming the worst about their favorite girliepop. eventually Nintendo of America confirmed that she was indeed going to appear in the next game, which finally laid the “callie is DEAD” theories to rest.
fast forward to end-of-year 2019, when Nintendo of America took over for splatoon’s socials while SRL transitioned away from tumblr (temporarily). splatoon 2’s final splatfest was a loss for marina, which historically does not end well for the idol on the losing team, and the fandom was still on high alert from The Callie Incident. on their official instagram, NoA posted the following photo:
I think you see where this is going.
mass panic descended as splatoon 1 oldheads awakened en masse, activated by the forbidden phrase. assumptions were made. theories were crafted. people were sure that marina would end up being the antagonist of splatoon 3… or maybe she was DEAD.
as it turns out, she was the one taking the photo. a separate angle of the picture was posted on their facebook the next day, revealing that it was, in fact, their yearly “happy holidays” post from the dev team.
this is, in my opinion, one of the absolute funniest things the splatoon team has ever done. the specific wording they used was a laser-guided attack on the small percentage of people who lived through the “but where’s Callie?” days of yore, and the pandemonium it caused was 100% calculated.
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I love the Marina comic you made, but Im confused about one thing: why did Marina’s mom leave her? And was she not allowed to see her as she grew up? I feel like it’s probably very obvious but i’m just confused haha 😅
Thanks for reading the comic!
As for Marina'a mom, it's mostly just a headcanon thing, so it makes sense that it's not obvious in the comic! I probably should have expanded upon my reasonings in the author's note a bit more.
It's stated in Marina's secret dossier from Octo Expansion that Marina is a technical genius and was placed in accelerated courses at age 9 and then recruited into the Slimeskin Garrison at age 13. My headcanon is that the school Marina goes to is a bit like a boarding school, so the parents and caretakers (because the language in the dossier implies that many octolings come from tentacle cuttings so not all of them have parents in the traditional sense) may only really get to live with the children when they're on school break. And once they get recruited to Slimeskin Garrison, then they're basically in the army and don't really get to interact with their family outside of designated or requested time off. On top of that, Marina was basically shot up into the Wasabi Supply Unit, a top position in the army right under General Octavio, so even less time and chance for her to share her life with her mother. The time they DO spend together is too short to tell how far apart they'd actually grown.
So it's kind of a mix between Marina being forced away from her mother when young, and her blaming her mother for enrolling her in these institutions from such a young age mixing with Marina's own guilt at having defected and escaping to the surface, leaving behind all she's known, including her mother, for a chance at something true to herself. Not to mention the backlash that her mother may have experienced after Marina's defection. The beginning is a dream however, so it's most likely just a crystalization of all those chaotic feelings coming together in a sort of nightmare. That's my explanation of it at least, you're always free to make your own headcanon, since we know so little about how dome Octo culture operates 🤔
to old times
Marie is the first to wake after Pearl's New Years bash. Despite feeling hungover and maudlin, she begins to tackle the gargantuan process of tending to six other dehydrated and partied-out idols. [Marie POV character study that examines all the little ways in which the idols care for one another. Background Marina/Pearl. Happy 10 years of Splatoon!]
Rated T for excessive drinking and a little bit of foul language.
