happy birthday mom 3 aka the only game

So Pearl and Marina's canon heights are given in The Art of Splatoon 2. Pearl is 145 cm (~4 feet 9 inches) tall, Marina is 180 cm (~5 feet 10 inches) tall.

The models are accurate to that scale. So theoretically, we can use this scale to get the canon heights of the other idols.

Therefore going off this scale: Callie and Marie are both 5'2", Shiver is about 5'4", Frye's 5'5", and Big Man is almost 7'3".

Wisdom from Sherm Cohen by way of Character Design References!

In the splatoon fanbase, there are many misconceptions surrounding the relationship between inklings and water. without fail whenever I mention something related to the topic I'll get replies of "actually the canon is [some popular but incorrect theory]" "no they can do this and this canonically [it's actually a headcanon]" "no its really [something NOA made up]"

so to briefly go over The Facts:

Inklings canonically die when submerged in water. And yes, getting "splatted" is them dying for real, respawning is also an in-universe thing that has existed for at least 2000 years and not just a game mechanic. While the dying in water thing originally came from a game mechanic, it has been repeatedly stated that they incorporated this into the inkling's biology. The water weakness is not because of the water itself being toxic. The reason is based in osmosis. in the process of their evolution, Inklings (and octolings) changed a lot, and one of these changes was the ability to transform between a humanoid and swim form. Doing this transformation requires skin that is a thin, semi permeable membrane [this kind of skin is a trait found in real life molluscs]. The evolutionary trade off is that, because of how semi permeable their skin is, the ink inside of their bodies will bleed out when in contact with another liquid. This is the answer given directly by the series' creator. Kind of like how a slug will die if you sprinkle salt on it (for a reason that's almost the same as the inklings), but ultimately needs salt in its diet through the food it eats to live, inklings do drink water and other liquids. Its also not like they touch water and immediately explode, it seems they can wash their hands in it and dip their feet in it and be fine. Some people think the water weakness is stupid, personally i think its reasonable because Inkling biology is already weird as hell and of how ridiculously advantageous it is to be an ink-based cephalopod. the ink gives them the ability to jump absurdly long distances and cheat death to an extent. they're not losing much by not being able to dunk themselves in water. Anyway point is it sucks that all the relevant canon information on this is one of those japan only things/exclusive to developer interviews and pretty much every time it's brought up in English the localizers make shit up. I plan to make a video about this one of these days, but with how 'controversial' the topic is, and how many little details and connected concepts there are, I've been holding it off because I want to do it right. there's also some specific details that are unclear that I've been hoping would be clarified in the artbook or a dev interview but haven't, I might just have to go for it at this point. for the time being, i hope this post helps clear up a few things!

Alr I’m gonna start posting my Art Fight attacks! Organized by fandom, starting with Splatoon! (Part 1 bc I have a lot)

Characters (in order) belong to: @ocaroon - @meiuya - cutelovely (on AF) - @queperly - Camelyas (on AF) - @hiroshotreplica - @notforclimbing & @ninjapaste - @chippedwing

This Art Fight has been super fun for me! Especially as my first one! I’d also like to think my art improved a bit bc of all this too. (I think it’s kinda funny how you can see me change my style for backgrounds over and over again).

A quick revenge for @queperly literally still shocked in a positive way on how you pull off that huge mass attack it is insane I’m sorry I only have less than an hour to make you something 😭 still tysm aaaaa

i was looking at some splatoon 2 textures that diam extracted and found. well. ok so the clothing shop keeper Jelfonzo changes his shirt daily, and on Tuesdays, the design he changes into is this white and red shirt with inkling text on it. now, looking at this texture gets us a better look at the text on the shirt, and its in a decipherable script. (EDIT: i assumed the post was deleted, but @jacebeleren​ , the one who deciphered the script, reached out to me to say the post still exists, they had just changed URLs! i have updated the link so now you can all read about his deciphering process.) turns out the text on the shirt translates to…

“FUCK YOU”