#anyone else feeling old?

[skyburger]

do they celebrate pride month on teo

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Anyone else feel super old?

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[theboyskisser]

Y'know he had to do it to em

[artuurle]

doodlepage and then a bunch of pre godhood lovestory. gramps keeps hanging on so he can get it.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

There is a platonic explanation for all this. Right?

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[feroluce]

On Sampo's name (ALL of his names!)

I feel like everyone who's a fan knows the meaning of Sampo's full name by now- the sampo was a legendary item that could magically make endless supplies of gold, flour, and salt, all priceless items at the time! So it works perfectly for a scammer businessman like Sampo. ☆

"Koski" is the Finnish word for "water rapids" which might seem kinda random but actually makes sense for him, since Aha and the Masked Fools are also referred to with water terms:

This kind of analogy isn't specific to only Aha and the Masked Fools, but it does still tie them together. So water rapids fits perfectly! Sampo wants to stir the pot! He likes to shake things around and spice things up! He's taking that stagnant pool and turning it into water rapids! It would actually explain his ridiculous hair color, too; a dark blue wave tipped with white foam haha

EDIT: an amazing contribution from @ricochetlovebombs, who heard it from hoyolab user Rattaboy. If you interpret his first and last name together, instead of separately like I did, you would get something like "money river."

In other words, Sampo's name literally means CASH FLOW SKXJMDMDMD

What I really wanted to talk about is his drag alias name, though, Brughel Poisson, because to me that's where it gets really interesting.

So like in the English version, Sampo goes by Brughel Poisson when he's in disguise. Searching for just "Brughel" itself doesn't seem to get you much at first: a Flemish and Dutch Renaissance painter named Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who was famous for his landscapes and peasant scenery, especially Hunters in the Snow and The Blue Cloak.

He's referred to as "the Elder" because he had a son also named Pieter Brueghel (the Younger), and he began a long line of painters, all named Brueghel. Some of them did original work, and many of them created reproductions of the Elder's art to sell. The Elder was also famous as a printmaker. All of this is hilarious when you remember that Sampo is an infamous counterfeiter and has sold a relic called the Parallel Universe Printer JSKZJSMD

There is also something called Brueghel's Syndrome, named after one of Brueghel's paintings called De Gaper, which pictured a man yawning widely. It's a condition that causes the mouth to open and gape uncontrollably, twisting a person's countenance into a distorted mask of their usual face.

Tumblr doesn't have a way of censoring pics like twitter, so for the sake of the medically squeamish, I'm just showing De Gaper here. But if you look up Brueghel's Syndrome, you can find pictures of actual patients, some of whom really do make faces resembling Aha's comedy and tragedy masks!

In the Chinese and Japanese versions, his alias last name is a lot more silly- In those, "Sampo" is phonetically written as "san-bo" and "san-po." And in disguise, his last names are phonetically written as... "Bo-san" and "Po-san." The Chinese version uses different tones, but still. This smug asshole seriously just decided to write his own name backwards and called it a day NDMKXMDMD

In the English version, Poisson itself is kind of a reused Hoyo asset- it's also the name of Navia's fishing village in Genshin Impact. Which is a really silly name for a village, because it literally just means "fish" in French smzjxkdkdk but!

Again, more water imagery. And in English, if something is suspicious, we say that it's "fishy," which is perhaps the most fitting association yet for someone as shady as Sampo ☆

And for a good while I thought that was the only connection. But then. My beloved @hydrachea, who is an actual native French speaker, dropped this on me right after April Fool's Day:

Poisson is literally the word you use to pull an April Fool's prank.

[feralnumberfive]

Sooooo they ended up deciding that vapes exist in TUA but still decided on no cellphones?

[seventh-district]

Figured I'd try my hand at some Redacted character post/text edits!

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Credit to @/sainthowlzon for all the Listener icons, and to @/elisacaleisa for their google drive with all the canon icons!

(slightly alternative version of the Solaires' GC edit below the cut bc i had a lil too much fun with what Vincent would name his contacts)

[snailfen]

at the very least heres this. go my suitloon qpr

[sessjudoodles]

I figured it'd be fun to toss out the species I headcanon some crew members as.

Left -> Right: Bastila as a Kessurian & Theelin hybrid, Atton as a Cathar, Mira as a Rodian, Mical as a Pantooran, and Kreia as a Togruta. (Kotor Week Day 3: The Crew of the Ebon Hawk)

[bear-bear-bear-bear-bear]

jaheira please im trying to have a serious conversation

[mbirnsings-71]

so you guys know how I said I watched Witchcraft SMP last night- yeah I have a new au based around it- yes it's gonna be what I think about for the next two days-

[theslimeologist]

Copy? I think you mean share.

[little-mari-on-a-roof]

you know miraculous is back on when half of my feed is blocked posts 😌

[hellaciousfaith]

So, a while back ago I commissioned @dweebsfilingcabinet because @mayhemmaybe had a brilliant idea of inserting Shiro and Mephisto into a MTG card that they had, and I was not only immediately onboard with the idea but impatient to make it manifest.

I dunno what I love more: the brilliance and the lighting of the stained glass from the Bloody Fairy Tale inspired images, the sheer power and possessiveness radiating from both sets, or all the yelling and screaming Dweeb and I did with/at each other while they made these beautiful works of art happen, which had us both geeking out the entire time. Like, god fucking damn, I hit the jackpot here!!

Anyway, you should really commission @dweebsfilingcabinet. Their art is always phenomenal, their prices are highway robbery onto themselves, they never disappoint. Please give their sheet a look. It's super worth it and always a fucking masterpiece.

MTG reference undercut