Happy February!

SpongeBob SquarePants Valentines Day - Season 1 Episode 16 (2000)

Basically how I spent my night

https://www.tumblr.com/gemsbasement

Link to possibly the best spin off blog of the Splat Chat, starring:

Goose, from @baggygoose (me)

Alex, from @flamingskull28

Potato, from @potato-wolf164

Paige, from @y3llowkiwi

Hell, from @just-a-lesbian-octoling

Tweetle, from @tweetledeetle

Yoshi, from @yoshi-sanchez , the absolute madlad who put all this together.

And most importantly,

Gem, from @geminired , author of The Splat Chat and Effervescent.

(Seriously, Red. All this wouldn't be possible without your work bringing us goobers together.)

Welcome to Gem's Basement, where we clownin' in this bitch!

craziest thing ever just happened. glados#1419 if ur out there...

Hey, I know it's been awhile and unfortunately I won't be active in Tumblr often. But I just wanna know what's going on right? If you're okay about giving a small recap of the reason about having a new AU

Okay so there’s a couple reasons that I a) have this AU and b) am working on it instead of the Splat Chat.

First and foremost, Effervescent existed about a year before the Splat Chat, and while I wrote some stuff for it, I never shared anything for it. Effervescent was really the reason I got into writing fanfic, as that the story that I really, really wanted to tell. Back then, it just wasn’t very well put together, and I was not confident in what I had written. I also never worked on the old Effervescent fic consistently; I’d write 10k in a week, and then stop working on it for months. I ended up setting it aside for a while, as I was just not happy with how it was turning out.

Then Splatoon 3 came out, which I played day 1. That was my first time actually playing a Splatoon game (I was about to get splat2, but they announced splat3, so I decided to just wait ). I loved it, and then once I finished the story mode, I was reminded of my Effervescent fic, and I decided I wanted to give it another go. However, I had read a chat fic for another fandom that I really liked and decided that I first wanted to try writing a couple chapters of a chat fic as a warmup, and then I’d go back to Effervescent. So that’s what I did; I wrote a chatfic with some generic usernames and generic personalities, and figured I’d do like 5 chapters and call it done. I also decided to post it to AO3 since I liked how it turned out.

The Splat Chat got a much wilder reception that I could’ve ever hoped for. I loved having people vocally love my writing, so I wrote more and more, abandoning my intentions of writing for Effervescent and instead building out my own universe with the Splat Chat. I started building some lore, character quirks, and eventually named my agents. As we all know, the Splat Chat took off and became it’s own series, with the main fic and all the side stories.

So what happened? I kinda began to lose interest in the Splat Chat last summer. It got harder and harder to write for and think up plot. I really think I should’ve just ended the storyline after Raid Under Storm and Stress, but alas, I did not. The problem was that I never really had solid outlines for the Splat Chat, so I had very little direction besides some vague ideas in my head. Because I started losing interest in the Splat Chat, I ended thinking about Effervescent again. I went back to the old fic and began editing it again, with the intention of posting that. However, I soon realized that it was kinda not great, so I decided I would just rewrite it, and that’s what I did; I uploaded the prologue and chapter 1 in July, iirc.

Then I got caught up in moving out and trying to get ready for university, and I lost a lot of interest in writing in general. The only reason why I was able to post so much stuff for the Splat Chat anniversary was because I really kicked myself into overdrive to do it, because I had hyped it up so much and didn’t want to fall flat. But after that, I was really just exhausted with the Splat Chat universe and writing. I tried to get back into it for NaNoWriMo, but I ended up just getting back into Effervescent instead, and that’s when I started regularly updating that fic, and I’ve pretty much been focusing on writing for that universe since.

Why? Well, if I had to pick favorites between my AUs, it’s Effervescent. I actually have a really good outline and plan, so it feels much more cohesive, whereas the Splat Chat’s story was always messy. Effervescent is also the fic that I always wanted to write, whereas the Splat Chat just kinda… spiraled. I don’t always feel in control of the Splat Chat universe anymore. The Splat Chat just isn’t what it used to be, and I’ve had people point that out too. The cast is huge, the way the series and side fics are organized is horrendous, and it’s definitely a different fic that it was when it first started. I had someone comment that they didn’t like the new direction I was taking the series and they felt it was way too dark when I was working on the end of Amaranthine, and I got really discouraged by that. I was really trying to finish out my vision for that fic before I lost interest, but being told that it’s not what it should be really made me lose confidence in the Splat Chat series as a whole. It was the final nail in the coffin for my interest in the Splat Chat.

All in all, Effervescent was the story that I always wanted to tell, and I was just waiting for the right time. I do want to come back to the Splat Chat eventually, especially because I don’t want to leave a story unfinished when it was a fic a lot of people found solace in, but now’s just not the right time for me. At the end of the day, writing fanfic is just a hobby of mine, and I’m gonna write what I want to write.

Sorry that was certainly not a “small recap” but I think I needed to finally put an explanation down into words about what’s going on with my writing.

Gacha 2s your Splat Chat

Some more Splat Chat fan stuff for the wonderful @geminired

Find Splat Chat and more here

Inspired by this post from @geminired, legit it's touching and funny. Your art is amazing no matter what people say, I may have some skill but I don't have the guts to make a story like yours. (So fanarts it is)

"Even your past self knows she's gonna be gay, Aspen..." XD

Idk this pretty random

I've been busy with sophomore year, so there are maybe slow post but some improvements (?) I guess.

With the world seemingly against them, the scars they carry being a daily reminder of this, it was nice to just enjoy the view every once and a while.

A little drawing for @geminired / The splat chats anniversary. It's not the best but I really wanted to make something after all the splat chat has done for me. Thanks for it all Red, can't wait to see what you have in store

So wait, if Andre apparently survived falling off a literal building, then that means Mine probably survived as well.

How much do you wanna bet Mine is probably out there running some kind of Wedding service?

out of all the occupations in the world why wedding service

We send our condolences to the family and friends of Nickelodeon legend Janice Burgess. Not only was she the creator of Nick Jr. hit ‘The Backyardigans’ but also oversaw production of countless Nick favorites including ’Gullah Gullah Island’, ‘Blue’s Clues’ & ‘Allegra’s Window’. 🕊️

based on the joke my partner made, I had to make this.

Anyway, GO BEARS!!

Zenni was blacklisted from taking lab classes at U Ink after one quarter of chemistry.

Omg its asspen from splat chat.

Eggstra Work with The Splat Chat gang

FlamingSkull talks about the new King Salmonid, the Drag Queen Cohock.

Sam talks about the crazy shit that happens at her school

BaggyGoose goes UwU and sentences

GeminiRed does laundry, talks about The Splat Chat, and deals with two idiots (FlamingSkull and BaggyGoose)

HBP Studios does a murder

PotatoWolf is on this hell-ride without a paddle

We may not have gotten past bronze, but who cares when your having fun!

Love these guys!