Noko

Multifandom artist (but mostly splatoon) Trying to migrate over here bc twitter is a hellhole 😔✌️

[smolnoko]

justifying my relative recent inactivity by saying ive been in the super early stages of working on a VN! Ill reveal more about the project once i have more to show, but ive been busy af 🫡🫡🤫

[nephilimbrute]

a green

[gomigomipomi]

Happy 11th Anniversary, Splatoon!

[tieflingkisser]

[rassicas]

Splatoon 2 ぬりえ Coloring Book

Did you guys know there’s this official Splatoon 2 coloring book that was sold only in Japan and its stupidly detailed for a kid’s coloring book? Wanna know something else? I own it and I scanned and cleaned up the entire thing before laying a single mark on it, and now you can have it too! I posted this on twitter a few months ago, but considering how things get lost easily on twitter, figured it’d be wise to post it here too.

Link leads to a google drive folder that includes:

- a folder of cleaned up and stitched together scans - folder of the unedited scans if that’s something you want? - a PSD with each page on a different layer

check it out here!

[smolnoko]

you guys getting a wip on the same day as twitter?? insane :00

[snapscube]

🖍️

[seainspanish]

11 years of splatoon !! 🦑

[kippwire]

im going to throw up

[rassicas]

Is acht non-binary? English sources prior to side order seem to use she/her, but I know that some niche band members are referred to, gender-neutrally in japanese sources

as far as we're concerned, yeah. At the very least, they are intended to be gender non-conforming even in japanese. a correction on the band members: it's not that they're referred to gender neutrally, its that they're not referred to with any terms that clearly indicate a gender, something that is easy to do in Japanese, but very hard to do in English. in Japanese, third person pronouns(3PP) are not used anywhere nearly as much as in english, and can usually be avoided all together. This does not mean these characters are canonically non-binary, just that it's unconfirmed what they are. I have this disclaimer on all the band lore translations. going back to Acht, this ask I answered should answer this question...mostly. There is one addendum id like to make: Acht is only considered a bokukko in the JP fandom because of information from 2018: haikara walker calling them 彼女, she, and a dev interview referring to them as an 女の子, a girl. in side order and onwards, the japanese version has avoided referring to acht with gendered terms....aside from being a takozones, which is traditionally an all-female class of elite octolings, but acht's whole story is that their rejection of that life forced onto them... now mind you, 3PPs arent super common in JP. but in ordertune, a 3PP pops up again to refer to acht. and it's not 彼女 kanojo, she. it's 氏 shi.

what is 氏? i more often see this word as a name suffix (like -san but more formal and mainly just used in writing rather than speech). 氏, nowadays, is gender neutral. its usage here stands out to me because 彼女 would fit in that part of the sentence perfectly. and they didn't use it. (you can read the translation of ordertune here)

a ""funny"" take ive seen a few times is that acht is only non binary in english because "splatoon's english localization is bad" and that acht is just a tomboy (so. still just a girl) in japanese. 1. with the above evidence, even if you count that 女の子 from 2018, a time before they were fleshed out properly as a character, acht reads as a gender nonconforming character in the source language. this intention is made clearer when looking at more recent information. if you play side order in japanese, there is not a single line of dialogue or anything referring to acht as a girl, as you'd expect for a mere 'tomboy'. 2. if you say "splatoon is woke because the english localization is bad" you are talking straight out of your ass. pray tell, where did you hear the localization is "bad"? who is the only person in the splatoon community with a longstanding track record of both analyzing splatoon's localization differences and retranslating dialogue, thus making the notion of splatoon's english localization having issues in the first place, widespread. me. now sit down

[semisentientseafood]

10 YEARS SINCE THE ALOLA STARTER REVEAL I LOVE YOU POPPLIO

Redraw of smthn I drew the day of the reveal! ⬇️

13 year olds when they draw a bald character

[smolnoko]

Scrolling a website that doesn't shove ragebait in your face 24/7 is so nice 🥹

[slimespecter]

misc critters

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[artsysaram]

Splatfest Splatstyle Study cuz regular Splatstyle takes too long

Started with Marie, ended with Frye

[sombraglaze]

This is my favorite moment out of the entire Majora's Mask playthrough, I absolutely LOST it

[nephilimbrute]

callie