#but never heard anyone else

[sparrowlucero]

my pokemon hot take is everyone says this is meant to be a mob boss (or sometimes a wizard) and i know what they mean but I just can't help but see it as, like, the witchfinder general. a colonial judge. that's so obvious what it is to me. he is voiced by vincent price. hes giving the signal to dunk the witch. I won't listen to reason on this one.

[dailymanners]

When entering any place of business, such as a store or restaurant, if a staff member greets you, then acknowledge them and greet them back.

Although for many jobs it's a required part of their job to greet you, especially retail workers, receptionists, and restaurant workers to name a few, that doesn't make it feel any less dehumanizing to say "Hello!" to another human being only for them to ignore you. Acknowledging staff members and greeting them back is important for acknowledging their humanity, they are, after all, a human being, and not an automated machine.

This is also important when going to check out at a store. If you approach the cash register, and the cashier greets you, you should acknowledge them and greet them back. Cashiers already have to deal with being dehumanized enough. The least you can do is help humanize them by acknowledging them when they greet you and speak to you.

[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.

[vigilskeep]

SORRY this is MORE dialogue from lucanis’ recruitment quest i just need people to be going through this with me

[babsaros]

they talk about testosterone gel like it’s the fentanyl of hrt

[cx-boxbox]

To all the Lando haters who scream about his so-called huge ego, have you considered that maybe you’re the one with a huge ego and nothing to back it up?

[scarefox]

R.I.P to the BL fangirlies who genuine think that Nunew and Jeff Satur are the only good singer in Thailand... I mean yes they are very good but there are also:

Slot Machine

Tilly Birds

PiXXie

Timethai

Ice Paris

4EVE

Bodyslam

F.HERO

MILLI

Billkin

PP Krit

BADMIXY

Getsunova

SILVY

Waii

ISBANKY

etc~~

(put this playlist on shuffle since I sometimes throw artists whole discography at once in there, i sort them out later)

[predoom]

sorry i feel like this warrants a full post because ppl always wonder what this pic is from/why he has a gun and canada dry with no shirt. WELL

i feel so sure it’s from the goodnight moon filming ‼️

point 1, identical hair piecing

point 2, same tile

point 3, same gun

point 4, same wood doors and moulding throughout the house

i rest my case.

[bobosbillionsknives]

Trigun characters react to you coming out as trans:

"That's SO COOL !!!!!🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯 ME TOO 🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯‼️‼️‼️‼️I'm so glad you felt comfortable enough to share that with me...I PROMISE I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO SPREAD LOVE AND PEACE ACROSS ALL OF GUNSMOKE !!‼️‼️‼️!!!‼️!!‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹✨✨✨✨✨💪💪💪💪💪"

".........cock or pussy?"

"I don't know what that means."

"I don't know what that means!"

"So?"

"your feeble concept of "gender" will have no meaning once Lord Knives' plan is finally complete. You will all meet the same fate. He will finally rid the world of such a horrific virus. Your pathetic attempts at self actualizations are simply pitiful."

"I don't care." *Kills you*

[rebouks]

Previous // Next

Ivan: Well, how’d y’think it makes me feel when the only thing I can get outta you for months is that you’re bored. Is it not enough-.. am I not enough? [Bruno sighed heavily and shook his head with frustration; Ivan just wasn’t getting it] Bruno: Why do you always make everything about yourself? It’s not about how you feel. Ivan: I ain’t sayin’ it is! Bruno: You wanted to know what was wrong-.. but I knew you wouldn’t like the answer, so I kept it to myself. Bruno: I just feel empty and alone, no matter who I’m with or what I’m doing, it’s always the same. I’ve felt like that for as long as I can remember, even when I was a child. Like if I disappeared one day, no one would really care-.. you’d think so at first, but after a month or two it’d be as though I never existed. Ivan: That ain’t true at all… Bruno: Maybe, maybe not, but that’s how I feel regardless. Ivan: Maybe y’oughta get yourself on somethin’, like-… Bruno: Antidepressants don’t help, therapy doesn’t help-.. drugs, alcohol, none of it changes anything. I don’t think I know how to exist in this life; not happily, anyway. Ivan: Don’t say that! Y’just need a purpose or somethin’, I dunno… [Bruno shrugged dismissively; Ivan would never understand. How could Mr. Passionate ever make sense of the bleak void that enveloped his core, that inherently made him who he was?] Bruno: Probably. [Ugh, another deep and twisting adult conversation that made Robin’s head spin. He wondered if this was all grown-ups did; get too busy or stubborn to deal with each other and their bullshit until it all became too much, then take a vacation, relax and let it all out only to repeat the same ridiculous cycle as soon as they got home] Ivan: Y’know I love ya, right? We’ll figure somethin’ out. Bruno: I know, but I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t want to figure-… Ivan: What the fuck, B? I don’t exactly wanna give u-… [A twig snapped; just as Robin had decided to turn around too-.. bollocks] Ivan: Hey, bud. Bruno: What’re you doing here? [Robin knew that Bruno was feeling extra tense right now, but as nice as he could be, he still felt a little wary of him. He’d seen far too much of his checkered past, and Robin could tell he didn’t carry quite the same guilt as his father or Ivan did-.. nor was he as innocent as them. If you knew too much, which he most certainly did, Bruno was a scary man] Robin: I was just e-exploring. Bruno: It’s a bit late for that, you should be in bed. Ivan: Aye, go on.. we can explore in the mornin’. Ivan: Y’didn’t have t’scare the poor lad. Bruno: He shouldn’t be eavesdropping then. Ivan: Kids are just fuckin’ nosy, B.. simmer down.

[likesummerrainn]

look me in the face, say you've never met someone like me

[batsplat]

Jerez 2005 | Misano 2019: Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez celebrate victory on enemy soil amid booing from the spectators

[louroth]

"It takes guts to grow up like you did-- thousands of years simmering beneath every kind of oppression man could think of."

"With the sky kissing the crown of my head, knighting me with space to roam and the bravery to explore it [...] Big, open fields of barley and rivers like slivers of silver, marbling my veins."

"And yet you prefer...?" "After all that life?" a breath, a laugh, caught between teeth. "Something cultivated by your own will-- the work, the dread, the sought resolution-- it is far grander than the possibility, the dream of it."

art by @fooltofancy (just. fantastic. look at them. !!!!)

[milolunde]

We all know Timmy is Wanda’s mama’s boy but we need to keep in mind he’s still Cosmo’s kid too and that Cosmo would love him just as vehemently as Wanda

[starsystems-fr]

Gijinka Telephone: Flight Rising Experiment Version, based on this post! Featuring art by @buff-dunerunner, @recallback-art, @cosmicpoppies, @warewolfish, @footofananimal, @lostplanetvoltia and me!

Thank you so much to all the artists, and I'm so sorry I sat on your art for so long! It was really cool to open these up and see everyone's pieces again, and I feel guilty that they've been sitting on my computer for many (MANY) months.

When I was drawing the first piece, I thought "aha, wouldn't it be cute to start with a dragon from one of the artists' lairs so they can see how it changes?" and I thought CrystalBlackpaws' Dangao looked fun. In my mind, I drew a character that was suitably different enough from the original that it wasn't obvious what the base dragon looked like...

...and in hindsight, it was a bit too clear what the inspiration was 🥲 like, it accidentally was the world's most convoluted art trade haha. But even with that, everyone did a really great job transforming Dangao into and out of different forms! Seeing everyone's skull masks was my favorite part for sure!

Thank you again to the six of you for taking part in this weird little game, and sorry again for not sharing your awesome art sooner!!

[wereshrew-admirer]

they tried to say he was illiterate, but <redacted> knew his teachers had been wrong; it was just that the books they assigned were so boring, he was never able to make it through a single paragraph before tracing the lines of wood grain in his desk until his vision blurred seemed more appealing.

if only they knew how fast he could read an interesting book - but he wasn’t about to admit where he’d spent his day, not when there was a field that still needed plowing!

(or, pre-chine chine finds a cleaver’s fable book and steps out onto the slippery slope)