#misinterpretation

[kiwisandpearls]

I know this is probably the weirdest post ever and probably very common knowledge but it’s ok to wrong about things. You’re not some super stupid or media illiterate person for misinterpreting things. And misinterpreting something doesn’t inherently mean your doing so in bad faith.

[mirrorofliterature]

anidala is not toxic

they're doomed lovers

in a mythic story

learn genres

[dr-spectre]

I just realised that the Octarians are so heavily mischaracterized in the fandom because we take the perspective of Inklings so they seem to be way worse than they actually are. Which in turn creates weird misinformation relating to the Octarians and making them unredeemable as a species as a whole, which is fucking insane considering what the underlying story of the trilogy is, which is uniting the Inklings and Octolings together.

"DJ Octavio brainwashed his troops!!" Literally false information, he uses music to motivate troops, the onward jingle is basically the Octarians and Octavio's... thing. That's their thing, Octavio uses it to basically signal "yo I worked on this track." And it has strong ties with Octarians as a whole, as songs found within Side Order constantly reuse the jingle without Octavio involvement.

Octarians are a struggling race of people that live in underground domes as their leader is forced is make them fight the Inklings and steal their power source. It's either kill or be killed. Sure, is there some propaganda? Yeah, but it ain't straight up pure mind control like what a lot of people say it is. It's more subtle and nuanced. When people say "brainwashing" in the fandom, it's ALWAYS the sci fi mind control bullshit version. Octarians do NOT get freed from mind control by the Calamari Inkantation, it is just a catchy song with strange properties that inspires the Octarians to wanna go to the surface and find a better life. Callie and Marie did not free Octarians from "brainwashing" they inspired them to go seek out the surface.

And speaking of Callie, the big one, "Callie got kidnapped and brainwashed by Octavio" which is just false in my eyes and Nintendo keeps trying to push that narrative to make the Octarians more cartoonishly evil. Callie went to Octo Canyon out of her own free will, she talked to Octavio and said "okay fine I'll hear you out." Callie has no trauma or pain relating to past events in Splatoon 3, she smiles seeing Octavio come back in Splatoon 3, she went to a PARTY WITH THE MAN AFTER SPLATOON 2 IN THE DEEPSEA METRO!! LIKE HELLO!?!? HELLO?!?! THAT DOESN'T SCREAM OCTAVIO TREATED HER LIKE A VICTIM NOW DOES IT?!?!?! "B-but the artbook says so! B-but the Splatoon base website! B-but the Nintendo magazine!" I do not fucking care about what some random ass website that hasn't been updated in years has to fucking say. I do not care what a magazine written by an intern has to say. I do not care about an artbook has to say. I am tired of people pulling that out.

Don't make me pull out the definition of hypnosis and how it isn't "brainwashing" again.... You cannot put the words HYPNOshades and brainwashing together because those two words are on opposite sides definition wise.

Anyways, justice for these little guys. They probably ain't gonna be in Splatoon 4 judging by Octavio's whole fucking army got turned into fuzzy monsters LMAO!

[writerpolls]

Writers: Do you ever worry about your work being misinterpreted?

No, because I don’t share it

No, because that’s out of my control

A bit, but not much

Somewhat, the thought bothers me

It bothers me SO MUCH

I don’t think it’s possible to misinterpret my work - it’s too clear

I don’t think it’s possible to misinterpret my work - it’s too ambiguous

Other / unsure

See results / I don’t write

Voting ended onMay 31, 2025

[onlytiktoks]

[gilderoy-lockhart-n1fan]

Snaters who dislike Snape because he was a mean teacher, those are fine by me. I don't mind them.

My issue is with the Snaters that either make stuff up or misinterpret canon so bad, the characters become a projection of themselves and their past experiences in life.

[brainvomit]

I made a minizine about logical fallacies (some info is directly from my notes/some activities I use for my high school class). Feel free to print it out for free and leave it around if you want. It's meant to be cut in half and folded to a 1/4 page size: the pages above are ordered already for collating (back cover/front cover, pg 1/pg 6, pg 5/pg 2, pg 3/pg 4)

[tiredandanxiouschaos]

Pasha's "It's always interesting to talk with an intelligent man" is my favourite line of his, because in my opinion it really shows both his more human and his more cunning side while also directly pointing at his feelings towards Ivan*. He praises Ivan with it. He insults him with it. He suggest they're similiar. He taunts Ivan with it. It's almost worshipful. It's not. It's insulting. Is it? He says it as if to honour Ivan. He says it as if to bring him to his own level, because he knows Ivan thinks he's better than him. He says it to bring himself down to Ivan's level, because after all, he's self-centered, he probably believes he's better than Ivan. He says it to show they are equal (each of them believe the other is lesser). He says it to show the bond between them ("what motivates me? hatred? is it love?"). Ivan despises this line for all the reasons and Pasha knows it.

*which are… confusing, I think even to himself, because I refuse to believe he's just an "ohhh cunning psychopath, he doesn't care about anyone!!"