Toothpaste, Hoover, and Poprock having a very normal and conflict free Splatoween. This totally isn’t the result of poor planning or communication. @shellfire.bsky.social #splatoon #splatoonoc #halloween

Dumb and Dumber

Toothpaste, Hoover, and Poprock having a very normal and conflict free Splatoween. This totally isn’t the result of poor planning or communication. @shellfire.bsky.social #splatoon #splatoonoc #halloween

Also yes when I talk about my flying squid characters I am also technically talking about Iota too except I’ve decided that Iota is actually excluded from all discussion due to her being Australian and I’ll be dragging her to hell myself after she dies

Very slight ref sheet tweaks for these three bc if I didn’t fix it now it would bother me forever. Literally just changing their face lineart color and being more specific about their species bc “flying squid” is incredibly vague. #splatoon #splatoonoc

Very slight ref sheet tweaks for these three bc if I didn’t fix it now it would bother me forever. Literally just changing their face lineart color and being more specific about their species bc “flying squid” is incredibly vague. #splatoon #splatoonoc

Alt designs for some of my Splatoon guys that don’t use airbrush gradients. I’ve been trying to eliminate them from all my characters’ designs. Here’s who’s who since I don’t really talk about these guys a lot: Leopard shark: Stetson Axolotl: Rami Salmonid (thymallus): Tracy #splatoon #splatoonoc

POV Jodi

Stetson you are literally bald #splatoon #splatoonoc

I wonder what this means (it’s another character info chart) #splatoon #splatoonoc

Drawing glowing stuff is fun, I guess #splatoon #splatoonoc

Min is probably standing on a stool or something here bc she’s like way shorter than she is here

Oh my god bruh #splatoon #splatoonoc

What a bunch of weirdos #splatoon #splatoonoc

Oh yeah btw demigirl Toothpaste is real now I forgot to mention it here

She’s asked him this at least twice now #splatoonoc

A minor disagreement between step brothers #splatoon #splatoonoc

After like 4+ years, Soarrel finally has a finished design and ref His personality is being gen alpha and loving brainrot #splatoon #splatoonoc

After like 4+ years, Soarrel finally has a finished design and ref His personality is being gen alpha and loving brainrot #splatoon #splatoonoc

Girl watch your fucking kid #splatoon #splatoonoc

A minor disagreement between step brothers #splatoon #splatoonoc

Girl watch your fucking kid #splatoon #splatoonoc

I need to stop bringing this up bc the more people I talk to the more people start trying to convince me to make it Stewart. It would be like really really funny though.

Omg this damn app pisses me off. Why are my posts not working..

Finally had an idea for a design + color pallet for Soarrel that I don’t think sucks complete ass

We are veering dangerously close to the possibility of Toothpaste the Character’s birth name being Stewart and I don’t like that

The sides of TP’s head points up like this bc of her slightly curled ears Also her Zipcaster form has almost the exact same patterns as she had as a young kid

Baby Toothpaste doodles bc I can’t settle on a design for her. These were originally meant to be serious doodles but they just kinda became whatever #splatoon #splatoonoc

Lowkey what if it was Stewart

Baby Toothpaste doodles bc I can’t settle on a design for her. These were originally meant to be serious doodles but they just kinda became whatever #splatoon #splatoonoc

I love making custom splashtags. This time I wanted to try making basically everything (the banner the badges the titles etc) by myself. These were pretty fun to make so I might do more #splatoon #splatoonoc

I love making custom splashtags. This time I wanted to try making basically everything (the banner the badges the titles etc) by myself. These were pretty fun to make so I might do more #splatoon #splatoonoc

I wonder who this is..

I think even his own parents forget he exists

In this Rio AU I think Toothpaste is that guy who keeps putting the gross nasty bird feathers in his mouth

Minerva is my favorite character in Adventure Time. I love her so much that I completely stole her name and used it for my oc. It’s mine now. #splatoon #splatoonoc

Trying to teach myself how to just draw whatever so here’s me redrawing a screenshot from Rio 2 with my Splatoon ocs #splatoon #splatoonoc

Wearing my Ninjago Ninja Explosion shirt today

Whatever, go my flying squids (minus Iota I didn’t include her) #splatoon #splatoonoc

She loves Ninjago #splatoon #splatoonoc

I really like drawing angry Toothpaste in particular. People sometimes ask me why i draw her to look so evil. This is because she is evil.

Whatever, go my flying squids (minus Iota I didn’t include her) #splatoon #splatoonoc

Quick mockup of Iota (Captain 3) and Hermes’ family tree. These two are second cousins. I can’t fit all the info in this post so it will be in the thread 🧵 #splatoon #splatoonoc

Doodle of a luminous flying squid Lynn. I think if I actually went with this, I’ll tone down the glow. I wish I could find more reference images of this species online. #splatoon #splatoonoc

Doodle of a luminous flying squid Lynn. I think if I actually went with this, I’ll tone down the glow. I wish I could find more reference images of this species online. #splatoon #splatoonoc

TLDR: I believe Toothpaste is a neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartrami) and people are probably conflating the Japanese flying squids (Todarodes pacificus) with the neon flying squid even though they’re in completely different subfamilies

It will probably now forever be my pet peeve that people think the second image is a “Japanese flying squid” when it’s actually the first image. Real Japanese flying squids don’t have those membranes and I’m pretty sure they don’t have that coloration

TLDR: I believe Toothpaste is a neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartrami) and people are probably conflating the Japanese flying squids (Todarodes pacificus) with the neon flying squid even though they’re in completely different subfamilies

I don’t think I’ve ever really specified what species of flying squid TP is meant to be, since “flying squid” is not really specific to any particular species (it is a family) She was originally modeled after a neon flying squid, since Japanese flying squid have no tentacle membranes