#and the foreshadowing and shit

[inkovert]

what is a second draft even supposed to be for because I feel like I'm doing first draft, second draft and third draft work all at the same time

[flickerintwilights]

okay yes you’re being very normal BUT. “what makes you think he was a hero?” “because he kills monsters.” “what makes you think that she was a monster?”

“not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero, and not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster”

“…and against all odds, he managed to find his way to a happy ending”

[gillotto]

BKDK Hunger Games AU (2)

[lemonsharkgirlfriend]

everyone's joking about a lesbian love triangle being the focus of rhaenyra/alicent/mysaria's stories in hotd s3 but that will literally be what happens when mysaria acts to uphold and support the image of rhaenyra as queen (or rhaenyra's duty) and alicent is kept prisoner (or a hidden but unavoidable reminder of rhaenyra's love). and so the love triangle will serve to represent rhaenyra's internal conflict between love and duty

[bleucaesura]

Not gunna lie.

Very much looking forward to when the show revisits THIS in the future and feeds us the yummy yummy rom-com “train” in the rain scene of Blitzø begging Stolas not to go because:

“I cannot be without you!”

*swoons* 😻❤️🥵🥰

Yup. Very much looking forward to that.

I’ll eat that shit up.

Nom nom nom nom nom 🤤

[whywhatswrongwithblue]

I have to live on. Alone.

[musubiki]

redraw of this limochi post from 2020!! 🍭

[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.

[junglejim4322]

@ everyone tell me some superstitions you or your family have. The more niche the better

[scienceandstorytelling]

holy SHIT I just realized why one line in npmd seemed so random but oh my god the IMPLICATIONS

I was just watching someone react to Honey Queen and chat was saying Roman probably raised Linda to be a future Honey Queen candidate and right after they said that it got to the scene where we see Nibbly eat Linda and he goes “Yum Yum!” and I was like oh fuck I’ve heard that before in NPMD

When the Lords appear during the Summoning Blinky and Tinky say ominous things to Grace and Pete but Nibbly just says “Stephanie! Yum Yum!” and everyone including myself seems to be like lol why was that all she got but holy fuck

Mayor Lauter is raising Stephanie to be a potential Honey Queen and Nibbly knows it. “Next time you cheat, do it like a Lauter and don’t get caught.” “I don’t care who you kill, you just had to go and do it in that house.” He’s training her to be the hungriest woman in Hatchetfield so she can be offered up to Nibblenephim one day. Maybe that’s what he gave up that he cherished most - his own daughter. That’s why he keeps her so distant and hates her. That’s why he’s “never touching that book again!” And Nibbly? Nibbly is looking forward to his feast.

[5h0w1sh]

SOUL EATER x SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

[lokiiied]

what if we had a pie date in the middle of an apocalypse, just the two of us, in the mlm colour themed pie room, talking about what-could-have-beens and how our lives are better this way because we found each other…? we’re both men btw

[fairyroses]

— SMALLVILLE, "Tempest" (1.21) & "Fragile" (5.18)

[chevaliermalfets]

[glitchdecay]

bakugo "great explosion murder god dynamight" katsuki really said "hell nah i ain't letting my homoerotic partner bestie since childhood rot in quirklessness for the rest of his life" and if that ain't peak gay shonen i don't know what is

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Everything Nick and Jess try to do to prove they aren't a couple backfires. -Lamorne