I learned many new tools in the photo editor I used and tried shading for the first time, I’m super proud of the finished result. Was inspired by all the marvelous Marie art by MaddeningTrash and decided to attempt her design for Marie in one of her favourite Marie outfits. :)

Did the golden week bandwagon of the sappholopods being golden!! 💖

Agent 8 - "Eight" Her real name is unknown and lost. She/Her

Agent/Captain 3 - Sango They/Them

Neo 3 - Sally "Yellow Scourge of the Shoreline, Cod's Strangest Fish" Olmans They/She

Smallfry - Grandpa Der'yll, Cod's second-to-last gift to Seakind He/It

Agent 4 - Cuarta Any/All

Parallel Canon - Parallel Canon It/Its

Agent to-the-power-of 3 - Muffin She/Her

Let's see where this goes.

to be honest i feel like we are missing men in splatoon (and yes i know that you can choose any gender)

ESPECIALLY idols....yes big man is a man i knowww but it feels odd cuz he doesnt even look like a man and since we was our first male idoll it just felt odd

not making him humanoid isnt really the problem its the fact that he is the ONLY male idol among all the female ones

idk if its abt the clothes or something ( i think there was some controversy abt marinas clothes being wayy too revealing for a kids game) or something else

but hopefully we get a male idol soon<33

(my english isnt the best so if yall want u can ask me questions in the commentss)

ALSO HAPPY INDEPENDENCE TO MY INDIAN FRIENDSS<33

Im not sure what makes me feel this way. Sometimes i view splatoon more as an indie series instead of a game from a big company

Maybe its the way its colourful, maybe cause of the way it's so detailed, maybe its the "hidden" lore, maybe its the servers being run with coconuts, idk??? It just feels to me like the game would fit in with other indie game for some odd reason

I've been a fan since the first release and I still get indie vibes from this franchise even though i know its not, am I the only one?

**Foreword: This post was previously locked and removed by the mods before due to controversial quotes regarding the lgbt+ playerbase. After messaging the mods to contest I've been given the opportunity to repost with amendments made.

I still stand by the main points of the post and, in agreement with the mods, believe people are allowed to criticize the game and community and no one should stop you.**

I’ve observed a disturbing frequency of users and players who are comfortable with putting down others, being blindly dismissive, condescending or openly hostile because of the nature of the funny squid game and the community that fosters it, using it as a cudgel to punish or berate people for being contrarians. It happens more often than people are willing to admit and just because you don’t experience it personally doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.

So far I’ve determined:

Having higher expectation for the game is seen as being ungrateful and greedy for wanting more quality content.

Criticisms on any topic (kits, maps, balance changes, nintendo online, etc.) no matter how legitimate is seen as whining.

Happiness and positivity is the default attitude you should have (especially here on this subreddit) any deviation or excessive negativity is warrant for ridicule or forceful reprimand.

Being serious in playing and/or taking losses poorly is seen as childish and unsportsmanlike. Likewise, the common argument is that because it’s a kid’s game without strong impact should in principle deter and deincentivize that mindset.

Rubbing in splatfest victories is fine, complaining about splatfest loss is not. Which leads to:

Moral elitism amongst the player base is widely accepted and actively cultivated. Because something negative didn’t happened to you, you can admonish and dissuade others for complaining about suffering that same something.

Selective treatment of LGBT+ players. For a game that has allegedly earned a reputation for being inviting and queer friendly a good deal of trans and gay players are mistreated for speaking up about it, be it negative or positive.

This all culminates to the fact there are acceptable targets to harass and attack those; on grounds of guilt by association, who expressed unpopular opinion or crass humor/behavior, or go against the overall perception of the franchise's image and handling through open criticism.

Tl:dr, whatever positive values that exist and are espoused by the splatoon community is equally undercut by how duplicitous it actually is and can be. Don’t fall for the kid’s game argument, it downplays severity of the issue to make it more manageable to control.

Mantaro is a butch lesbian btw. think like the way mya (@/sillymxeowmeow.bsky.social) headcanons him. i based this humanoid design that i made for this drawing in particular on mya's humanoid design

Sure it has silent protagonists and side characters whose names are clever puns, but no other Nintendo franchise usually shows characters dabbing, taking selfies, or using words and terms today's young people use.

Something that has been on my mind for a while is how the Alterna Logs and how it explained how the Inklings and Octolings evolved by absorbing Crystals, and in my opinion I thought it sort of dumb and unnecessary. It also leans more into science fiction elements that made the explanation feel less intriguing. You all might know the explanation as follows: Humans were extracting these crystals from squids to build a dome that projected human thoughts onto LCD screens, then accidentally wiped themselves out when a rocket collided with that dome and scattered the crystals everywhere. The explanation also adds that the squids and octopi absorbed the crystals, saw humanity’s thoughts, and that’s what led to their evolution into the Inklings and Octolings. I thought it felt overly specific and kind of contrived, and made it feel less natural and more like a chain of coincidences.

My biggest problem with this explanation is how it undoes the mystique. The old explanation was more of an unexplained post human phenomenon, something that just happened overtime. But now it’s tied directly to Alterna and a specific human experiment gone wrong, which makes their existence feel more circumstantial. It also made the humans directly responsible for their evolution, because they were extracting the crystals from squids and were keeping them in Alterna.

1. I love yaoi

2. I think it would be fitting because we already have a lesbian one

3. I would like splatoon to have more male inkling/octoling characters that are relevant to the plot of their respective games.

4. I love yaoi

Lemme here your thoughts!

im abusing this meme format, will i stop? no

I only ever get posts from that sub popping up on my Reddit but never this one, and they’re all just so negative and it sucks😭!! I understand that’s it’s ironic for me to make a negative post while complaining about them being negative, and I would post this on their sub but I feel like they’ll all dog pile on me. They act like they don’t even like the game. It’s always them talking down about their team mates which are probably children because they seem to forget that kids also play this game 😭? I understand that’s the point of their sub is to complain but it’s just so toxic imo.

I know I may get a bit of hate for this, and for the record I don't exactly hate them or anything, it's just that there's flaws in their characters that make them unlikeable. In the splatoon 3 campaign,, you've to fight them to the death, all for scraps of metal or whatever, when the main characters are litterally trying to save the world, endangering the whole squid kind and every other species and the reason isn't even that good or really justify their actions, number one, the reason they litteraly tried to assult and comit bulgarly is becuase they want to be wanna be Robin hoods, but it's the completley diferent way around as they are technically already in powerfull positions in squid society, so it's reasonable that they should have some sort of money or power to use, without having to that stuff. They wanna help the poor in splatsville, when there's litterally none in the main area, are they off camera who knows. But that's not even the worst part, since nintendo probably baked this explanation mid way to production, so they had to significantly downgrade Callie and Marie IQ, as during when they are getting literally threatened and going to be robbed, Callie just simps for some reason, may get it with big man, but you're literally going to get assaulted. Tell me why did Capn Cuttle fish hired them in the first place, if this's how they're going to react. At least they they helping the end, but with these kind of flaws I can't help but I think they don't really live up to other news anchors or whatever you wanna call them. ( IF THERE'S ANY GRAMMER MISTAKES, SOORY TOO LAZY TOO CORRECCT THEM :D)

ok so i think that chargers as a class (with some exceptions) are bad for the game and actively make it less fun to play

to start off i am talking purely from a casual average player point of view here and not discussing if they are good for the competitive meta because, frankly, competitive is a tiny minority of the player base and balancing the game for them is a stupid idea because it drives away causal players (which is where all competitive players started in the first place)

most of my argument stems down to how much fun it is to fight another player playing the weapon. a good weapon will be be challenging to fight but still doable with lots of opportunity in the fight for each player to make decisions that effect the outcome. with most weapons this is the case, a fight with a carbon roller involves making space and keeping them at bay while trying to kill them while the carbon is constantly trying to get closer.
chargers on the other hand a fight goes one of two ways, either you happen to be in their space and they shoot you, often without you having known they were there (and yes in competitive this is a mistake on your part but in casual play you don't have teammates telling you where people are and you cant just not leave spawn because you have no clue where the enemy charger is) and as soon as they see you they can one shot kill you with no warning that you are in danger until its too late. the second scenario you manage to flank a charger or sneak up on them and with almost any weapon can just quickly kill them before they can charge a shot

both of these outcomes don't involve a close two sided fight they are just one sided interactions with only very marginal possibility for variance. this leads to less fun interaction for fighting chargers, because its either gonna be incredibly easy to fight them all game or every time they see you you instantly die.

overall i just find chargers to be unfun and way less engaging to play and they kind of ruin and entire match whenever i see that i am fighting one. i don't really have a proposed solution for this besides Nintendo deleting them (which will probably never happen) but i can always dream

Any Christian Splatoon fans out there? I’m not homophobic. I loved Splatoon for over a year, but most fans generally dislike Christians. I’d love to get back into it, but I’m not sure. Mostly into Sonic now.

Let it be known!
Squid partying in ranked is not ok. People are there to fight, and can lose points when they lose matches.
Squid partying in turf war IS OK. People are there to have fun, and even if you lose, you still get EXP.

So please don't be that one person who has 20 kills in a squid party lobby.
And please do be that person who cancels squid parties in ranked because that is not okay.

I say this because I was second highest enemy splatter with 1 splat in a squid party lobby I got by pure accident. The highest had 13 splats. It was turf war. CURSE YOU (I really want to call them out but don't want to break rules mods let me know if I can say their name...) YOU MEAN SON OF A WOOMY

P.S. Idk if this is a PSA or Discussion so I'm putting discussion but also view it as an announcement ig

Edit: u/ValiantQueenLu you are right, and so is most people in this comment thread. I see that people are really affected by squid partying. If like, 7 people are squid partying and you don't want to lose, you van paint around them. However, I now agree that for anything less, it just ruins the game.