tiny_voices: jane lane (Default)
tonight i intended to ride a caffeine high and get some work done on some art for my RPG. what i did instead was play splatoon 3 for like four hours. i even set a couple of timers to signal when i should stop playing and switch gears, but i was flowing so i ignored them. inkbrush good. you'd think with my self-set goal of having my game ready to be played by the end of the month (which is approaching quickly, not a big fan of that) i'd be more focused but... eh. i worked most of this week and i wanted to indulge in the feel-good of the splat

there was a fight at the high school on thursday; this was funny because i was on my lunch/prep period (prep meaning the time of the school day where a teacher doesn't have any kids, so they can get preparations for class done), sitting back eating chips and listening to music when suddenly there was a whole lot of yelling in the hall. i go out and look over the railing down to the first floor and see a pile of girls being pulled apart by school cops and admin (one girl was being held to the ground) right outside the deans' office. the poor ISS sign was knocked down. naturally kids were running over trying to get a good view of the fight, people were hollering, there was chaos in the air. apparently some girl tossed her crutches into the mix in an attempt to help out her sister, but this had the opposite effect. a boy in the class afterward showed me one angle of the fight on his phone. fun times.

(don't tell anyone, but i'm not a very professional substitute teacher.)

tomorrow supposedly me and the roommates are going to drive to the "weed store." i don't plan on making any purchases but will be joining just for the adventure of it. i considered not joining, because i hardly ever get the house to myself, but it's probably better for me to be around people (read: kept engaged/distracted) lately.

i had a nice moment recently when i shared a short bit of writing i wrote a few years ago on a discord server-- someone was very complimentary about it, said they were encouraged by the fact that it was short and good, that it was good because it was short. i knew i liked the piece (and i knew it was at least good enough to partly inspire someone else's DND character) but it's nice to hear that another person liked what you made. and getting to talk about what you made-- good shit, would recommend.

just for fun i made a short playlist to tack onto the end of this journal. call it an EP, maybe. there is a theme to it, but i'm not going to explain it. interpret it as you like and tell me about it. or don't. i'm not a cop.

eighteen - joyce manor
for always - mxpx
a praise chorus - jimmy eat world
gotta let it go - joyce manor
J.A.R. - green day
tiny_voices: jane lane (Default)
sitting here, letting all the splatoon idols perform their 'thanks for playing' songs over and over on my TV after the end of the Grand Festival. they're all really nice songs, but i think my favorite is Into the Light. gotta admit, that one has the most poignant story attached to it: it's 'thanks for playing,' but also, 'all these people are coming to the surface to see and feel sunlight for the first time. it's a whole new world.' (splatoon's story is kinda wild.)

i'm feeling sentimental-- granted, splatoon has made me really mad over the years, but it's also a lot of fun. and cool and weird! it's a series that's really about the vibes and i love that. and the devs put a ton of work into so many little details that make the series really something special, i think. i mean, the whole grand festival has been basically Burning Man, with three different stages all having performances going on, with like 10+ songs, including one that combines the motifs of three different idol groups (and still sounds coherent and great!), with choreography AND lights, fireworks, pyro, and other shimmery effects, huge crowds of little jellyfish with glow sticks that jump and sway to all the music, plus all these little stalls and vendors and side characters hanging around... all for a silly squid game. they didn't have to do all that, but they did, and i admire that.

i missed out on splatoon 2, but i did play the first game a lot: about 568 hours, actually. even more of splat3: i just checked and i've played it for 935 hours. that's a grand total of about 1500 hours of the silly squid game (jesus christ). so yeah, it's made a colorful little space in my life, i guess, since that first college summer in 2015.

i'm not really expecting a splatoon 4, but if it does happen, and i can get a hold of whatever comes after the Switch, eh, i'll probably get it. make it 2000 hours, maybe.

so long and thanks for all the fish, splatoon

-bean

Profile

tiny_voices: jane lane (Default)
Bean

June 2025

S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 14th, 2025 07:12 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios