Nitroglycerin Contaminant

she/her, 21 years old. More info in my pinned post!

[nitroglycerincontaminant]

Hey! You can call me Contaminant (or Nitro, or maybe Glycerin - I'm not picky). I'm trans and a lesbian! I've been on tumblr for a long time but I made this new account for posting about fanfiction, since people know my main username irl. I really like Splatoon! That's probably the only thing I'll be posting about! If you ask me about any of my agents (4, 8, 3, the Captain, even Smallfry) I will be your ally for life. You can also talk to or ask me about anything else, really.

My AO3 account can be found here:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I tag things as:

#text contaminant for posts where I'm talking about things

#fic contaminant for posts where I'm sharing updates about my fanfiction

#ask contaminant for asks I receive (send in more!! please!!! i beg you!!!!!!)

#oc contaminant for posts about my OCs! There's a pretty big one in there with lots of general information about them. It's linked at the bottom of this post!

I also have a #prompts and #questions tag for, y'know, lists of prompts or questions. Please feel free to send me a number from any of these!

give us the deets on your agents YES thank you anon you are my hero and I will be forever grateful to you for this. This post got very very

[lyresandlasers]

list of favorite things as a fanfic author:

When someone is really freaking mad at me for inducing an emotional response from them

when readers give me a background of how/when they read my writing

when readers give me a background of why they shouldn’t have been reading my writing (usually while at work)

when readers quote my work back to me in comments

the frickin’ real heroes here, the ones who comment on every chapter of an ongoing multi-chapter fic

[heathenvampires]

all of this, but also

incoherent screeching

fanart

people who wanna talk in depth about a fic I’m writing

[sneakyfox55]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[j3ngus-christl3r-deactivated202]

Masterpost of how Octo Expansion + Return of the Mammalians evolved the single player campaign

The player can choose between different non-Hero weapons.

Both modes have a form of currency that is used to gain access to new areas and missions as well as playing missions (CQ Points and Power Eggs). Not all missions in Return of the Mammalians cost Power Eggs to play, and instead, Power Eggs are primarily used to clear Fuzzy Ooze that block the way.

Both modes have a similar interface, a variety of mission conditions and heightened freedom as opposed to the previous two Story Modes' linear progression.

Both modes have a key NPC that, besides guiding the player throughout the area, will also splat them if they fail certain objectives or missions (such as running out of ink). They are C.Q. Cumber and O.R.C.A. respectively.

Both modes have a final part that has multiple continuous stages before the Final Boss. They are the Deepsea Metro Escape and Alterna Space Center respectively.

The final mission (Turf War and Return of the Mammalians respectively) of both modes have the player stop the antagonist within a time limit.

* Failing either of these by either being splatted or running out of time will show an additional cutscene of the world being destroyed before showing the usual 'Continue?' screen.

* In both cases, the successful final attack (Pearl's Princess Cannon and DJ Octavio's vac spit) eventually grow so powerful that they damage the game UI in some way.

Both modes feature a secret post-game for when the player completes all the levels. Octo Expansion features the boss fight with Inner Agent 3, while Return of the Mammalians features the secret kettle After Alterna.

Both modes feature a Chat Log that provide insight into other characters and in-game lore. Marina’s Chat Room has conversations between Marina, Pearl and Cuttlefish, while the Alterna Logs detail the backstory behind the mode’s setting and main antagonist.

Mr. Grizz and Commander Tartar share numerous similarities. Both wish to "correct" the world via the dominance of "proper" organisms, both utilize Octarians and ancient facilities for their own ends, both use a modified ink with uneven colors, both create front companies to further their goals, and both are ultimately vanquished by individuals they had previously attempted to manipulate. Coincidently, in the English version, both characters say something about joining something "bigger than themselves".

[nitroglycerincontaminant]

Very insightful post! Some of those similarities were totally lost on me. In particular I never noticed that the final attack scene in both of them messes around with the UI, that's a lot of fun.

Another similarity I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention about Tartar and Grizz - both of them were made in the image of man, but are not themselves human! This is something I find incredibly fascinating about them both. It's also why I disagree with the people who wanted Mr. Grizz to have been a human instead, I think it's so much more interesting for him to instead be an intelligence created by humans, obsessed with restoring the old ways of the world, ultimately falling prey to the same ruthless, destructive, & all-consuming ambition as the species that made him. Of course, he wasn't physically assembled by humans the way Tartar was, but he was still made into an intelligent being by the humans, through some process meant to make him think and act like one, so I think it's fair to say that Mr. Grizz as an individual was made by humans.

Oh, also, this is much less meaningful - but another similarity is that we only know their surnames! Commander Tartar, Mr. Grizz - both of these are written like they're a title followed by a last name. Although I have my doubts that either of them have an actual first name ;P

[k3rryberry]

[chubbidust]

funny banner names

[j3ngus-christl3r-deactivated202]

Consider this as a concept:

I find myself drawing comparisons between Penguins and Inklings and Octolings.

Penguins are an animal that do not fear humans because they lack land-based predators, and their wings evolved into flippers for the intention of swimming, yet they’ve adapted to walk on land.

I headcanon Inklings are about as tall as an Emperor Penguin, which is about a meter.

This is an idea I’ve always wanted to explore. Because the way I see it, Inklings and Octolings could very well behave in the same way towards us.

You know what else is great? Even though humans are the most widespread species among the planet, these creatures that live alone in Antarctica aren’t necessarily any less normal than us. Whatever doesn’t fall under the anatomy of the Homo sapiens is considered strange or unusual, when in reality, it’s just another life form exercising their own way of normal. Just like how Inklings and Octolings have weapons made up of Ink and have roots stemmed in battling for territory. It doesn’t make them unusual. They just have their own way of doing things.

[nitroglycerincontaminant]

How do you do? It’s your friendly neighborhood leaf.

I wanted to ask how long you’d been a Splatoon fan, and what it was that got you into it.

Howdy there! Good to hear from you 😁 That's a pretty good question, I wasn't sure off the top of my head so I had to do a bit of digging. Looks like I first started getting into Splatoon around March of 2019 - so that's, like, 3 years ago? Which feels like a pretty long time to me, but I suppose a lot of people have been in the fandom for much longer.

I got into it for a couple reasons! The first was because Inkling is in Smash Ultimate, which made me start paying a little more thought to the series after a while. And then I got really into the soundtrack. And then I found out about Pearlina and it was all over for me. First sapphic ship I ever got obsessed with, and I haven't looked back since. ;P

That makes me curious, though, how about you? Been around here a long time? And what drew you in?

[mori3322]

アタリメおじいちゃん

[rassicas]

for a long time ive been thinking about making one of those Inkling OC style guides where I give suggestions for what you can do to diversify an inkling design while being conscious of canon...bc ive seen people break canon to make a design more diverse when there's so much that can be done IN canon to diversify a design that i don't see often

[phopollo]

Super super belated bc I hurt my drawing hand, so I don't think I can complete the rest of Pearlina Week :,)

But!!

Here's my contribution for day 5; Wedding!!

They having a Jewish wedding, because.............

Self projection

And I say so

[chiaraeliz]

agents 1 and 2!! 💖💚

[styxxsyringe]

art for day 5 of pearlina week!

[senoleaf]

some agent 24 for all your agent 24 needs—

[frogoru]

this was surprisingly not too hard :0

[seffien]

[nitroglycerincontaminant]

New chapter on one of my fics :) Here's the post about the initial upload, if you missed it and want a more detailed summary. The long and short of it, copied over from Ao3:

Agent Eight fell ill at work and had to go home early. As soon as Four hears of this, she knows exactly what she needs to do: She's gonna go straight home and make sure her roommate's sick day is as tolerable as she can make it, and she won't let anything stop her. Not even Eight's repeated insistence that she doesn't even feel that sick and Four really doesn't need to fuss over her so much.

New to this chapter: Marie enters the picture! So does Agent Three (the new one), and Smallfry! Agent Four sends and receives some text messages! The Captain gets flustered, again, and this time Eight does too! The stakes raise! (But don't go too nuts, it's still just a sickfic.) And, most exciting of all: the New Squidbeak Splatoon goes to a pharmacy.

Plus, I figured out how to do in-line links for these posts instead of having that big ol' rectangular embed. Because I love you all so very much and want to keep your dashboard nice and compact. So here's the link to Chapter 2, and here's the link to Chapter 1, if you'd rather start from the beginning.

[makethiscanon]

Just a warning, AO3 (@transformativeworks) is being overrun with bots. Please don't click these kinds of links if someone comments on your fic 🙄

Idk where they take you but I'm not risking it to find out.

(Also, remember to delete the comment from your fic and not just your inbox)

[bigmammallama5]

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