#storm's reblogs

[dabudder]

Marvel Rivals text posts part 2

<<< Part 1 here Part 3 here >>

[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.

[gwensy]

smiles

[geekyglamour413]

Only asking because my it’s just gone out for the 4th time this year, but:

[midniqhtt]

marvel fic recs

masterlist

bucky barnes two three four five

steve rogers

peter parker two three

matt murdock

thor odinson

loki laufeyson

johnny storm

miscellaneous characters

↳ stucky, tony, sam, peter q, joaquín, stephen s

[cowboyshit]

[stardustspecter]

finally nailed down au dorian design and species- i went half sylph, half nymph :) best of both worlds

[boanerges20]

Storm Stacey British Superbikes // Oulton Park // 2024

[brainrotgoverner]

I'm bored; what is your most out of pocket headcanon for storm hawks? A.K.A. one that has no root in the show?

I'll go first because, well, info dumping is fun <3

-Both Dark Ace and Aerrow are ambidextrous

-Ravess can't cook whatsoever and has been banned from the kitchen both by Snipe and Dark Ace

-Cyclonis likes tragic musicals

-Snipe likes operas

-Dark Ace has a sweet tooth and has a high spice tolerance but can't handle bitter food

-Aerrow has a picture wall for loved ones (from his teammates to the talon academy kids he met with once) (just to remember them by)

-Piper also likes tragic musicals (also normal ones)

-Finn has the biggest clothes collection in the condor

-Junko has very weak taste receptors (even for wallops)

-Stork prefers sleeping in the infirmary

-Radarr gets more chicks than everyone in the world

[tabl3]

been working on this for weeks but it's finally done let's go

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Drawing of bridge four Rock + Lopen + Teft + Moash (I don’t like him so I drew him not good 😊)

I did these when I was really tired and without like description so I did from memory

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I needed to play with some markers and tttyg was feeling just right

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SCREAMS AND TURN STO DUST WHY DO I SUCK