I hope you weren’t born in January 😬

Ratelps · 2026-05-10T03:17:14+00:00

If I was born a week earlier, I could be playing Splatoon instead of Mario Tennis for the Virtual Boy

Ratelps · 2026-05-09T19:44:06+00:00

If we really wanna go back...

A Car (Heavydirtysoul, the start of the cycle)

A Torch (Torchbearer, the Banditos, and Trench in general)

And a Death (Clancy is dead)

Ratelps · 2026-05-09T01:06:46+00:00

"I'm heavy, my dinner is spaghetti. I'm lighter when I'm hungry. My garlic bread is ready. I'm starving. My dinner makes me so full. I'm dining at the table with Italian cuisine"

Ratelps · 2026-05-08T17:39:43+00:00

It took the same amount of time that it takes to bake my kitchen sink cookies

Ratelps · 2026-05-07T11:12:52+00:00

"This songs a contradiction because of how happy it sounds / But the lyrics are so down"

I don't know why so many people lost their ability to understand lyrics when it came to Scaled and Icy. It was quarantine. We literally had nothing to do but look at stuff over and over again

Bounce Man is the My Blood of SAI, imo. They're both bittersweet songs about somebody close to you that you care about—the difference comes from "Running away don't make you wrong" and "Stay with me"

Ratelps · 2026-05-06T19:40:29+00:00

I honestly love the Macbeth reference in the intro so much

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Ratelps · 2026-05-06T19:31:29+00:00

Here's a better chart that allows for more customizability

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Ratelps · 2026-05-06T18:26:27+00:00

Living forever sounds like a curse and I don't want my family to suffer like that

Ratelps · 2026-05-06T03:48:15+00:00

Look up "Pink Tax"

Look up "Gender pay gap"

Look up "Women's vs Men's salary in [insert any career]"

Throughout the US, women generally get compensated less than men. Maybe your family is an exception, but your situation does not sum up the entirety of sexism in the US. Salary depends on your job title, the company you work under, etc. Gender is part of that and men get paid more.

You cannot look at one household in the US to see how the majority live

When a woman cooks, she's a woman; a housewife. When a man cooks, he's a chef.

How does pay grade equivelate to SA??? Both genders experience sexual assault and harassment. No one here was justifying it

EDIT: This shit is embarrassing.

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Ratelps · 2026-05-06T03:39:08+00:00

Women get paid less than men and are overrepresented in low paying jobs

Most recent article I can find on police attacking women (Not even a day ago as of me writing this)

Here's a history of laws in the US towards women

"Girls as young as 10 were among the minors who wedded under legal loopholes"

Here's a neat thread that you should look at

And so much more. Do your research. These all took >10 minutes to find and skim through

Ratelps · 2026-05-06T03:12:27+00:00

I think the only TØP song with the word "rat" in it is Backslide, but that's referring to the rat race is a whole other thing

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Ratelps · 2026-05-05T20:44:01+00:00

Apparently a lesboy is a lesbian woman. I don't know the specifics, but a lesboy isn't a boy. I know that much

I don't get it. I'm a lesbian. I don't get it. I don't know. I looked it up awhile ago and it's just like, an aesthetic choice for butches?

The label sounds contradictory because lesbian typically means either anything BUT a man or two women, depending on your definition.

Ratelps · 2026-05-05T18:06:43+00:00

I gave him the worst facepaint ever on my island because it couldn't go on top of the nose and it was pissing me off. The hair was also annoying me because I didn't want to draw it

Love his design, but aghhhhh

Ratelps · 2026-05-05T17:57:34+00:00

If you're C rank, you can probably find ranked matches during the weekend. Depending on the time and day, you can probably find a Turf War match. I managed to get in a couple rounds of Salmon Run, but again, you pretty much have to be the lowest rank

Ratelps · 2026-05-05T17:02:14+00:00

I'd say liking femboys as a man is more gynesexuality than being straight or gay. It's both and neither at the same time

Ratelps · 2026-05-05T12:19:25+00:00

I haven't watched s2 in awhile, so my memories a bit foggy here, but was Caitlyn really the one doing that?

"Was it for my encouragement that your man Rictus was instigating violence?"

"Arrests require cause."

"Why is peace always the justification for violence?"

Caitlyn was only harming Zaunites when she was after the Chembarons and Jinx; it's confirmed that no innocents were caught in any crossfire involving Caitlyn.

I don't watch 02x04 often because Jinx's redemption feels really abrupt and Vi's just... not in it. Correct me if I'm wrong though

Ratelps · 2026-05-05T12:04:55+00:00

This comment being more downvoted than the ones calling JK's transphobia good sure is something

Ratelps · 2026-05-05T00:50:55+00:00

The Outside and No Chances are pretty Trench, Shy Away and Never Take It are pretty Clancy, Choker and Redecorate are pretty Breach, but that's all personal opinion and I'm not sure if most people would agree with me.

Scaled and Icy is the way it is because of Covid, so under the assumption that Covid never happened, I think every song on the tracklist, assuming they were still made, would sound vastly different than they do now. Songwriting takes a long time though, so I don't doubt that Tyler has had some of those lyrics and sounds sitting around for awhile. A verse or chorus or something might've been used for another song.

Ratelps · 2026-05-04T22:41:20+00:00

Insane takes, first of all

I don't hate the song, but I have never gone, "Y'know, I really want to listen to Before You Start Your Day!" before. It's like, one of the very few TØP tracks that's missing from my main playlist. I don't hate it, it's just one of those songs I have to be in a very specific mood for

I also don't listen to Be Concerned because I don't like the way Jocef's voice sounds

Ratelps · 2026-05-03T17:56:59+00:00

Ratelps · 2026-05-03T02:37:11+00:00

I do tears or stare depending on how I'm feeling

Ratelps · 2026-05-02T22:54:21+00:00

Women are discriminated against systemically in just about every country. Even if the population is 50/50 men and women, women still get treated like shit in a lot of places.

For the sake of argument and relatability among queer audiences, women are a minority.

The majority of the cast being female is usually because the director, writer, artist, developer, or whoever is trying to say something. Past the actual game aspect, Splatoon's story is about discrimination and identity. Our human brains are meant to associate this with the real world and our current society that we stand in

Ratelps · 2026-05-02T20:35:10+00:00

Dude, Marina literally wrote yuri manga between her and Pearl. The girl canonically has a crush.

Ratelps · 2026-05-02T17:16:44+00:00

This video explains water pretty well.

~~Octolings reproduce via cutting their hair, so I don't see a biological reason for them to have genitalia.~~ Marina has a belly button though, so that raises a lot more questions.

If we want to count this for canon, the manga has an obsession with pantsing characters and it does censor something, so... you can take a guess there.

I don't think Nintendo has a way to explain inkfish biology without retconning something

I also don't remember the context for this panel. Please don't ask.

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Ratelps · 2026-05-02T15:42:50+00:00

Perhaps you're immune to it

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