#inkling boys

[ghosthoodie]

hi friends!! here are all of my new artfight references!! im updating descriptions right now so no link yet but ill post it+link in replies when im done:)

[chubbidust]

happy pride squiddos

[viyojo]

You're a kid now…🧍‍♂️still a kid now!

[koma-art]

thank you for everything, splatoon 1 💖

[yusukeswaifu]

test render, i finished her outfit (no shes not agent 8, actually sort of,too long to explain her lore, but no shes not 8)

[roaxes]

[squishieeeeee]

Thank You Splatoon!

[onenicebugperday]

Hello. It was 11:00 in the morning here in Illinois USA and it’s 58 degrees outside and when I was out for a walk I picked up an unexpected passenger.

Can I get info on this beauty? I guessed she was cold and wanted to find some warmth by landing on my sweater.

Tis an eastern yellowjacket. Definitely could've been a bit chilly this time of year!

[dr-spectre]

So.... This game is 2 years old now huh?

Honestly... I don't think i have a TON to say about this game. It's just a great ass fucking video game that has given me a lot of fun and great memories!

This game came out during my final year of school, which is kinda funny considering that Splatoon 3 acts like a "finale" to a trilogy. It's interesting how those kinds of things work out eh? Splatoon 2 came out at the start of my secondary education, and Splatoon 3 came out at the tail end of my final year.

I remember thinking before the game came out, "why do we need a Splatoon 3? This is pointless, it's just more Splatoon 2." And then my mind was quickly changed once i got to play the Splatfest test fire and the actual game itself.....

I completed ROTM in such a short amount of time and i documented my reactions to my friends. Although i was spoiled in that Deep Cut had boss fights and Mr. Grizz was the final boss, ROTM still gave me a giant smile to my face all the way through. It was so fun, so charming and just a really good single player experience.

One of the things that i LOVE about Splatoon 3 is the vibe. I just love the location of Splatsville, i love the aesthetics, the lighting, the model improvements from Splatoon 2, the music, it's my favourite art style/aesthetic out of any of the Splatoon games by far. It just feels so polished, i don't know how to exactly describe it.

Also the fact that this game won best multiplayer game of 2022 over CALL OF DUTY! OVERWATCH 2 AND MULTIVERSUS MAKES ME SO GIDDY AND HAPPY!

PEOPLE GOT MAD ABOUT THIS AND THAT MAKES ME WANNA EVIL LAUGH! All of those fucking depressed and sad Call of Duty players who whine and complain about how "wahh modern gaming sucks!! There's no good games anymore wahhh!! It's all microtransactions wahhh!!" BITCH! SPLATOON 3 IS LITERALLY THE GAME YOU'VE BEEN ASKING FOR!! Yet you won't play it because it's on Nintendo huh? Yeah... You're a fucking PUSSY!! YOU'RE WEAK!! You're SCARED to be seen as less of a manly man!! You only wanna play games with oily dirty buff men.... Yet you call others who play games like Splatoon gay? Hmm..... Sounds like you're a wittle insecureeeeee!!!!

Have fun rotting in microtransaction hell you LOSERS!! GAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways.... uh.... sorry....

I also fucking love Deep Cut too. I thought i wasn't gonna like these guys and i remember thinking when i first saw them "oh... okayyyy..."

But now? I love these bastards.

I love their dynamic and how they are bandits but they actually wanna help the people back in Splatsville. That is such a cool and unique take to have for Idol characters. The Squid Sisters are very cutesy and so are Off the Hook, but Deep Cut aren't. They are loud, messy, chaotic, in your face, rude, etc. They are about contrast and the character designers did a phenomenal job at conveying that theme via their backgrounds and looks.

Another thing that i love about Splatoon 3 is that it also acts as a celebration of things that have come before, Inkopolis Plaza and Square return as hubs, old colour combos from previous games act as loading screens, most of the music returns in the jukebox, it rewards long time fans for sticking around and for a long running franchise IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT to have that stuff!!!

Seeing the improvements in the model quality from Splatoon 1 to 3 genuinely makes me kinda emotional, it shows how far we've come in just a little under 10 years...

It really homes in on the point that... These characters, have grown up with us.... The Squid Sisters are about to reach their mid 20s, Pearl is nearly 30 fucking years old!!!

And the last thing i wanna bring up before i talk about the Grand Fest...

...Is Side Order.

This fucking DLC... My god... Being able to experience it by myself and just enjoy the stuff i was seeing, being able to SCREAM AND CRY AS MUCH I WANT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO ME DUDE!

When i got to the 10th floor in the tutorial and i saw Marina Agitando staring me down.... I did the loudest gasp a human could possibly do and my jaw was hung to the floor for a solid MINUTE!

Marina's first fucking dev diary made me cry and scream, THAT IS NOT A JOKE!!!! THESE CHARACTERS ARE THAT IMPORTANT TO ME!

And the final boss.... Made me cry, it broke me down, i was singing along to Ebb and Flow as best as i could, it felt like i was brought back to 2018, being in my room, listening to that song on repeat... I feel like a kid again....

I love this song... i love it so much... Like it's not the most hype finale song ever, but, the emotion behind it, the build up from Splatoon 2... The power this song has in it's meaning... It's some good shit man...

So yeah! I love Splatoon 3!!! It's my favourite game out of the series and anyone who is gonna jump into this game now is gonna have a LOT to chew on.

And... It's both sweet and sad that we're at the end. This is it... The moment we've been waiting for. The final Splatfest to end them all. The event 9 years in the making.

The Grand Festival...

I am extremely excited and so FUCKING NERVOUS for this Splatfest!!!! I know i am going to cry and be so overwhelmed with joy. Seeing the Squid Sisters and Off the Hook perform their old songs again after all of these years is gonna make me sob so loudly it's not even funny.

These characters genuinely mean the world to me and it's gonna be so fucking hard for me to watch their final major appearance and say goodbye. Cause after this, we don't know what's gonna happen. I know they will come back, they have to but... In what capacity? That's what I'm scared about...

So yeah, let's savior this moment when it eventually arrives, take all the time you need to be engulfed in the Grand Fest.

Thank you Splatoon 3, you have given me so much.... It's not time to say goodbye just yet but, i wanna watch you as you walk into the sunset with your head held high....

[ticken-chan]

💛💚

[pad-wubbo]

Hi.

https://github.com/wubmush/splatfestering

I have written a Python script that generates endless potential Splatfests, both two-way and three-way. The Splatoon games should really incorporate something like this to extend their lifespan, since they only get support for under 2 years after their release. That leaves the night versions of the maps forever confined to Garry's Mod. What I'm saying is that, after support ends for Splatfests with custom models and dialogue, they should continually generate, say, one Splatfest per month at random, using generic models and dialogue. That would be good.

I tried to fit the tone of the games, so nothing political or offensive. I have included popular culture references, however, only from one brand at a time (so Jedi vs Sith is fine, but Coca-Cola vs Pepsi is not, since no two third-party companies would logically agree to have a popularity contest between them).

Staaay relatively fresh, I guess!

[chubbidust]

worst teammate ever

[kiiros-paint-bucket]

guh … side order art mostly based on my rewrite of it

sometimes u gotta take a nap with ur soon-to-be qpp on ground-up bleached coral because youre both exhausted from having to save ur home city for like the third time ,,,

(reblogs > likes, also my agent 8 uses they/them and my agent 4 uses he/him)

[vampyre-bytess]

Doodled my bestie’s inkling AKA Caspian’s crush, Nimbus! He usually wears his bandana over his beak but I wanted to draw his cute smile hehe :)

I am waiting for them to give me a coloured ref of him so I can draw some finished pieces of Cas and Nim being cute af together

[yusukeswaifu]

me irl btw

[veemo-nova]

Farewell...

Splatoon 1 was one of my favorite games back then. Even if I can't play it anymore, it was still a big part of me. And to think, that I forgot about its existence for years, before eventually coming back to it with splatoon 3, it's really weird. It used to be a memory deep in my head, and now that I remembered it? I love it. Yeah I missed splatfests and splatoon 2, (dw I have it now smh) But it's still a big part of who I was, and who I am. Goodbye, splatoon 1.