#but i would legit be so interested

[mimicmerchant]

Songs I have been listening to lately, tagged by @rebootsnake

1. "BlindLife" YDE (gotta spice up the walk to work)

2. "Hey, Runner" Arcadian Wild (go-to sing-along song for the car)

3. "Salamander" Maromaro (insane guitar skills)

4. "The Otherside" Kade McCuen (maladaptive daydream track of the week)

5. "Wining Train" Fiyahdred (a straight bop)

Tagging @peculiarset , @rogue-thirteen , @flightlessraven , @cpark1899 , @starstruckodysseys

[soupdreamer]

hey brennan what the fuck

[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.

[alistair-blackwood]

for my money, labru is head and shoulders above other ships involving them simply due to the unmatched yap potential, i imagine them feeding off each other's energy like they're slipstreaming in mario kart until they start going fast enough to break the sound barrier

[idontmindifuforgetme]

so grateful to be a balanced mix of arab and american culture. the way american culture handles family is so fucking cold

[courtney-deserved-better]

rayne this, juliayne that. what about wintern (wayne x intern)

[realfiddlefordhadronmcgucket]

ALEX! Make a book from fiddleford's perspective/just make something that features my boy a bit more and goes more into his character, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[why-the-heck-not]

ok very excited. I think I can fit both astronomy and neuroscience&physiology into my master's as the minor subject studies. I might get tf out of astronomy like a week into it, bc I suck at physics & now it's been like 5 years since I've done anything physics-related and I don't remember the math-side of it at all. But both of those I've at some point considered to major in, so I think I need to see the "what could have been"s etc.

Also there are some courses on bioinformatics that I wanna take that are a bit closer to the computer science stuff (aka my actual degree) that I'm very interested abt. Also "programming quantum computers"?? that sounds cool as fuck and I already know I'm going to regret it so much (shit sounds complicated & super time consuming) but alas, I'm gonna have to give it a try; sounds too cool not to.

Rn I have 4 too many courses for the degree, but I'm sure I'll drop more than enough once I actually get to some of them and realize that it actually sucks lol. Most likely expecting that to happen with the astronomy, idk how much ''ooh planets starts'' is gonna help when I'm neck deep in math again

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

Barou is giving major Female Lead energy here

[polisena-art]

rosinha x liu and zé x edu like that one two bi exes meme (please tell me you know what im talking about LMAO)

LMAO I DO!! JDFJNDJN yes- literally- damn Also, just a headcanon of mine but, while I could see Rosinha and Liu having a lasting relationship I kinda can't see Edu and Zé working out in the end. I think Edu would smash it and leave it if you know what I mean...

[strawberrybyers]

it’s crazy to me that the hawkins family photos insta account hasn’t been clocked by netflix or the duffers when that account has thousands of followers posting high def pics where you obviously have to be near or on the set to capture them, but when we wanted the official scripts from that guy that would post scripts for MULTIPLE SHOWS FOR YEARS, he was taken care of with a swiftness 😭😭

i’m not saying hawkins family photos needs to be taken down. i’m just saying that it’s interesting they didn’t want us to see those scripts from episodes we’ve already seen, but high def pics where like obviously ppl who work on set would potentially see the person taking pics of season 5 is just going about their day???? nahhh something was in those scripts that was legit. something was in there they didn’t want us to see i swear. they told us those scripts were fake but idk something’s fishy 🤨🧐

[gingermintpepper]

Absolutely the funniest thing about my current corner of tumblr is that pretty much everyone I've recently followed for Apollo-Appreciating Purposes are either genuinely Hellenist or just rather very into Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series which is wild because I know a net zero about both of those things.

[shame-kink]

*the softened yet punctual thwack of wood being swung violently against flesh*

[libraryfag]

i think i might like the theatre 🤔

[the-apocalypse-is-upon-us]

Mukuro Ikusaba,they could never make me hate you

[clockvenn]

Cw little ink blood !!

I haven't introduced a new oc of mine but here's Ruine !!

I hoped to animate her here and there as she has a unique kind of coloring...

Like... she's more 2d/cartoony in terms of light and shadow, almost as if light doesn't affect her too much and she cast barely any shadows besides on her own body. This doesn't mean darkness or shadows from other stuff casting on her wouldn't take effect though, she'd just be more lighter than other people in the dark. Oh and she glows slightly too in the dark lol

So yeah !! She basically stands out a lot 😭

Here's some concepts of her !! [The first one is drawn on phone LMAO excuse how bad it is]

May make a proper ref soon :3