#i will put them all together tomorrow

[fantasykiri5]

A pair of birds of prey for days 15 and 16 of @hermitadaymay !!! Definitely not a day and a half (?) late

[feroluce]

So I'm well aware this is probably a case of "it isn't that deep" but I love looking at all the fiddly little accessories and bits and bobs of Hoyo designs and trying to justify them. Sampo's is particularly funny, because. What even is all that dkkxjdkd

His outfit has so many straps wrapped around him, like they're restraining or holding something in to keep it from bursting at the seams, and not all of them look like they're even connected to anything! But I'd like to think they are useful in certain situations, like if Sampo takes a hit out in the Fragmentum from one of the monsters.

He's hurt, his arm is bleeding, but he is ALMOST done, he just needs a couple more things to fulfill his quota to Natasha and he doesn't want to turn around and go back now. So Sampo frees a strap from his shirt, winds it around his arm above the cut, pulls it tight with his free hand and his teeth. He'll treat it properly in a minute, once he's done scavenging.

There's also the strange chains that resemble snake spines. Given how they're way longer in his splash art and the way they wind around-

I'd like to think they can extend somehow, and Sampo can use them to scale heights. Firefly clocks him as a covert fighter without even being within 20 feet of him, so it would make sense for Sampo to have ways to get around that don't involve usual/obvious methods, like stairs. Think assassin skill sets.

He's also the only one known to be able to get between the Underground and the overworld, and while he's pretty tight-lipped about his method, having some sort of device to help traverse vertical heights is probably insanely helpful there.

And the little metal ornaments across the backs of his wrists! You can see it a bit better in his reference sheet (everyone say thanks @/dragaliareferencearchive!) as opposed to his splash art-

they aren't flat, they stick up a bit off his arms. And so I wonder if Gepard has ever gone to arrest Sampo, and found that they interfere with his handcuffs haha

The ornaments don't match, the one on his right wrist is actually shorter and doesn't extend down to the back of his hand. Which probably doesn't make it nearly as annoying for handcuffs as the left one, but it would make sense for Sampo to have them like that, since he seems to be right-handed! I think a certain proficiency in being ambidextrous is necessary to dual wield daggers like he does, but. Sampo uses his right hand to

hold his blade in his splash art

throw his blade in his skill

play/show off with his dagger in his idle

lob smoke bombs in his technique

cross over his heart when he bows

and to flip his bangs during the cutscene where he saves the trailblazers from Bronya

So a shorter guard on his right hand would help him keep his wrist's flexibility to be able to do all that unimpeded (loving the thought now that Sampo is naturally right-handed and still better with it, but he practiced constantly with his left until he could do things passably ambidextrous).

I also love them because I wonder if they're in the perfect place to help block a hit, along with the chain wrapped around his left forearm.

Like I love the image of a hired killer soundlessly sneaking up behind Sampo in some shady dark alley, knife sloooooowly raising, and then all at once, they strike!

And instead of feeling the blade sink into his back, they get the unpleasant resonating of metal-on-metal shivering up their arm and rattling their bones, because Sampo has turned around at the last second and raised his crossed his arms to let the knife glance off the guards on his wrists.

And the mercenary is left to realize that oh, they are fucked.

[efplanning]

vacation + flareon? pretty please

going to the wife's home region for a week or two <3

[n3ongold3n]

Unfinished sketch for day 9 of the khäälendar

[oatbugs]

procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally

[flowerakatsuka]

wip while i'm at woooork~

[dnalt-d2]

Hey guys I've got a question, for curiosity's sake

In light of relatively current events, I'm curious about something, and I wanna put together a list of plot points in QSMP that have been seemingly dropped off for one reason or another. Part of me wants to theorize where some of them were going, but I'm really bad at thinking of things like this off the top of my head without doing a full rewatch, and god knows I don't have time for that. Another part of me wants to try and see if I can piece together what decisions might've led to those decisions, but I'm not sure I'd put that out there, since as I've said before, I'm not a fan of speculation without proof

For example, I'm talking about stuff like SOFIA, Code-Maxo, Luffy and the Eye Workers, etc. Things like that that were clearly meant to go somewhere, but something behind the scenes sort of dropped the ball, or scheduling things came out of nowhere to blindside the people involved

Again, this is mostly just for curiosity's sake. Thanks in advance!!

[084392]

@loveshockerz

holy shit. you were not kidding👍

[wizardnuke]

crouched on the floor eating my sandwich like a maniac

[hella1975]

i have such a reputation that four separate people incorporated pringles into my birthday gifts. be that girl

[sophieswundergarten]

Sleepy Sophie Brain really wants to write a Magic Ocean AU for MBS but I can't get any further that "That would be a neat idea"

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

CRYING SCREAMING THROWING STATIONARY THE CURSE OF BEING A DISCOVERY WRITER WHEN YOU'VE GOT SOME BUT NOT ALL OF YOUR SHIT FIGURED OUT!!!!

[found-wings]

I hope with code phil being forced to socialize here (wish that happened in canon) cellbit is going to very quickly get used to walls and I mean Walls of signs of phil explaining his funky theories and investigation album since he has literally nothing better to do 😭😭 we will be seeing dark green signs all around the order and only half will be legible to the general population (cellbit and fit are the translators for the signs while tubbo and foolish can understand them- but no one understands wtf they're trying to say when explaining phils signs vs cellbit and fit who actually get to the point) (bonus is cellbit learning more about how these federation-inforced fixings have really changed phil as he's been more disconnected then someone such as fit or etoiles to this) - 💿

Code Phil being much more talkative in his egg arc than usually JAJAJ ( pretty much forced. but still silly WHEEZE )

Also ngl Cellbit gives me the vibes that he like. would actually enjoy and entirely vibe with Phil placing walls of signs everywhere?? Yes it‘s a little bit of a mess to clean up but it makes talking about theories, exchanging information, etc. much more enjoyable most of the time because it‘s far more interactive than if he gave Phil a book to write everything in.

Also being able to physically walk between signs, point out information and put them together, ask in the middle of talking & writing instead of having to wait and then point stuff out seems like a vibe

And also love the fact that Cellbit & Fit would be the only ones able to properly put everything together and explain it to others as well. Tubbo & Foolish understand what Phil is saying and do their best at explaining it to the others but fail terribly at it - Phil just watching in the background as he nibbles on whatever food he got from the quests that day, amused by the twos attempts ( he appreciates it but also finds it very silly )

[toastsnaffler]

ykw actually I am angry + disappointed w them. I've been pushing how I feel aside and trying to make it my own fault so it's all contained but I think theyve just been mean. and they really should know me better ik I try to pretend I don't expect more from them so I feel less hurt when they do things that upset me but we've been friends for years by this point. like come on.

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

Just got home with some new shelves from ikea and I just want to put them up right away, but the wall they will go against needs to be painted and I don't want to do that right now 😭 I just want to organize my books, nothing else

[yeonban]

It's lovely when I read a book and some random paragraph in it hits me in the face like a train at mach speed