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goodbye owl house, and thanks for everything <3

* I’m not ready for this to end. I’m not ready for you to leave.

* I’m not ready to say goodbye to someone like you again…

* So, please… STOP doing this…

* AND JUST LET ME WIN!!!

bridget arcade mode making me SO happy

ID: the “woe plague be upon ye” meme redrawn with Bridget’s Strive design. Instead of a hamster, she is throwing Roger, and the caption is changed to “Roger be upon ye” to match. The second image is a redraw of a tweet saying “dinner with papaw tonight [heart emoji] he made burgers for the whole roster and I’m the only one who showed [crying emoji] love him”, with the attached photo being Bridget and Goldlewis at a dinner table, Goldlewis holding a burger. His alien friend’s arm is stealing off his plate. END ID

We

Have created chaos

Just me and my great lil' fwippies having a chaos in our discord server xdd

.... Wanna join the cult? Xddd

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Just making a new icon for my server,

I don't really know what to put sooo- feel free to put a meme on it or something xddd

Okay, we've got height headcanons, face headcanons...but you know what we need? Name headcanons.

Okay, yes, I know, the ninja already have names. But their names originate from Earth cultures and Earth languages, which, uh, don't exist in Ninjago. Like!! The name 'Lloyd' is Welsh, but Wales isnt a place on the Ninjago map! And 'Zane' is German - but again, Germany doesn't exist in this fictional fantasy world either. How can Zane's name be German if Germany is nowhere on the Ninjago map?

Realistically I know this is because this show has painfully messy worldbuilding and they gave all the main characters simple European names that their young American audience would be able to easily identify and pronounce. BUT I love to overthink things so that's what I'm gonna do.

Logic would dictate that although their names have specific cultural contexts within our world, they have different contexts and origins within the world of the story. Their names would logically have some kind of different meaning in relation to the cultures, languages, and dialects that exist within Ninjago itself.

This is already canon, to some extent. The name 'Nya' already has a canon in-universe origin, with her being named after a legendary Merlopian hero - from this we can assume the name Nyad and its derivative Nya are Merlopian in origin. Which suggests the idea that the same is true for all the other characters as well, we just haven't gotten the chance to get backstories for their names yet. And there is so much untapped potential in exploring what their names could mean in-universe.

Here, I'll start with my own personal headcanons about the subject:

Most names in this series come from 'Classical Ninjargon', the ancient dialect that was spoken in the time of the FSM but gradually evolved into Modern Ninjargon, which is the dialect commonly spoken by the characters to this day. However, a lot of words, terms, and names still rely in some part on their classical roots.

'Kai' isn't really a name, so much as it is a noun. It's commonly used in the names of towns and villages. For example, Jamanakai Village. 'Kai' means 'shelter' - or, more specifically, 'a form of barrier or protection that defends against cold weather.' It's not a very common name to give to children, though, but it appears in the names of villages and settlements all across Ninjago. It seems fitting, considering the kind of person Kai is. His parents gave him that name as a reference to its more specific meaning. Shelter from the cold. During the Serpentine War, Ray and Maya's dreams of starting a family were what gave them comfort and kept them going. Kai wasnt just named as a shelter from the cold, but a shelter from despair as well.

Nya's name has its obvious origins - she was named after Nyad, the storybook hero who befriended whales and defeated Wojira. Nyad was also Merlopian, where her name means 'courage'. Likewise, Nya's name has similar connotations. Of course, Maya hadn't known that meaning when she named her child, as Merlopia was just a myth and its language much the same. She did know of the fairytale, though, and Maya's own mother had told her that story as a child, so she wanted to give her daughter a name that was meaningful in that same way.

'Jay' comes from a regional dialect of Classical Ninjargon that became prevalent in the Sea of Sands. The name itself originates from the term 'jairu', meaning "blessed storm." Some historians speculate the name goes back further than that, with the term 'jairu' originally meaning "Wojira's favor"...but there is much debate about that. Both Jay and Jairu are pretty popular names in the Sea of Sands. Jay was an unexpected but highly valued gift to Ed and Edna, just as a rainstorm is in a desert.

'Cole' was originally the word for earth/dirt, but over the centuries its frequent use in Classical poetry led to it acquiring a myriad of more specific meanings - 'solid foundation', 'stable ground', 'dependable and reliable', 'steady and unshaken amidst conflict', etc. The word itself has a lot of very poetic, very vivid interpretations, and when most people name their children 'cole', thats what they're referencing. But not Lily. No, she knew the name historically meant 'earth', and she wanted his name to be a pun. It was 100% intentional

'Zane' isnt so much a name as it is a colloquial term, from the Birchwood region. Even though the word has Classical roots, it still remains widely used in that region. The word 'zane', a noun, is in reference to the constant, unmelting snowcover that blankets the region year-round. In Classical Ninjargon the term means, "endlessly persevering" - but over time it became repurposed as their term for their endless snow. Dr. Julien always thought the snow was beautiful, and named his son after its remarkable endurance

Lloyd's name has an interesting history to it. In the time of the Stone Wars, when the FSM initially split Ninjago and sealed away the Overlord, the people of that era celebrated the occasion by turning it into a holiday. They called it "belloid", which Classically means "victory over darkness." Eventually a new tradition emerged where children who were born on the holiday were named after it - and so the name "lloyd" came to be. And although the holiday evolved and is now more commonly known as Festival Day (yes, thats a canon holiday), with its history and origins fading out of public awareness, the tradition still persists. But heres the catch: Lloyd wasnt born on that holiday. His dad's reasons for naming him Lloyd were twofold. First, because he made a promise to himself to resist the venom's corruption for the sake of his son, and the name "victory over darkness" served as a testament to that promise. And second, because 'lloyd' sounds like 'lord', and giving his child a pun name sounds exactly like something Garm would do

And of course, since the ninjas' rise to fame, they have inspired some increasingly popular baby names. 'Lloyd' has been the baby name of the year for four years in a row now, which is something the others tease him relentlessly for.

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brrr Lumity as Utenathy brairont

Lumity and Conflict

            We’ve all talked about Lumity being a really healthy relationship, a refreshingly healthy one at that, but we should also appreciate how the writers manage to have this AND portray conflict in a way that isn’t contrived, too.

         Take for example, Follies at the Coven Day Parade. It’d be SO easy to have the conflict come from Amity going ahead with checking Luz’s videos, and then have her and Luz argue over the breach of privacy, like in a lot of media. But instead, Amity KNOWS it’s wrong, but at the same time she can tell Luz has a problem and a tendency to keep it secret, which forces loved ones to call her out until Luz finally confesses and asks for help!

         So Amity’s conflict is whether or not she SHOULD go through Luz’s phone, and it resolves in a healthy manner because she goes to Willow for advice. That of course continues the plot thread of these two attempting to reconnect after their sorta reconciliation in Willow’s mindscape, and sets up the eventual confrontation between the two in Labyrinth Runners, regarding Amity still continuing to underestimate and condescend Willow, even if from a place of good intent.

         And that’s so much more interesting than Luz and Amity drama for the sake of drama, because now we get to throw in Willow and Amity’s dynamic and check up on how it’s developed, set up how it WILL develop, all while having Amity manage to do the right thing, but with some meaningful struggle and discussion, sympathetic and nuanced given her legitimate concern for Luz (rather than insecure snooping for the sake of it) and her issues of bottling up, on her way to do that!

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“Today I'm delivering packages, but tomorrow I'll be earning the respect of everyone on the Boiling Isles with my magical prowess.”

Luz, you have no idea

bow kid octoling ft more bow kids! so many bow kids!

i just love this squid so so much they’re so silly 🫶

rare vent art from a few months ago

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.

robbed…… WE WERE ROBBED

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

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.]

Me, sometimes, out of nowhere, at no specific time and for no specific reason.

Official Splatoon Fonts (Complete with Kanji) Download!

Hi! I see that a lot of Splatoon artists/youtubers try to use the Splatoon official fonts, and well there is the font reproductions out there, most only cover the basic English characters and sometimes hiragana/katakana (without kanji).

Since I've never managed to find a download provider ANYWHERE (both in English AND Japanese web) that had both the Splatoon scripts complete with kanji, I had to basically scavenge the internet to find any downloadable file with the complete fonts. I managed to find the Splatoon 1 font in Japanese font site, and the Splatoon 2 Ui font in a random link in google images to a site called FFonts (jp) with the file, both were complete with kanji.

SO to make everyone's life easier I just got both of the files and uploaded to Google Drive since there are no sites or posts that provide the links. (Please remember that these fonts use paid designs and are NOT provided for commercial usage, the font is owned by Nintendo).

(Please follow me for awesome art)

Here is the link to download both:

Pls reblog and share, I did sweaty work for the greater good of Splatoon artists, have fun!

Taking some nicer group pictures of my merch, for a first try they don’t look too bad!

Really excited to list it up this week!