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[b-lessings]

On a super serious note, I know in modern day psychology it is advised not to bring up " faith " to a depressed person or someone struggling with their mental health because it might backfire, and it might cause them to feel guilty, feel like a not good enough Muslim for example, worse still, they could risk to denounce the whole concept altogether in a moment of anger or despair. However, reflecting on my personal experience. A couple of years ago I was on SSRIs and I suffered strong side effects and decided to go off of them all by myself (I totally do not recommend that). And now I am thinking how did I manage to wire my brain in a way it reabsorbs little miss Sarah Tonin on its own after that? What was the " agent " that helped my brain to function properly if I went off of my SSRIs ? Only to find that the answer was Eman. Faith. And learning to have tawakkul on Allah swt, learning how to shape your life around Allah swt, learning how to make Allah swt the center of your life and the essence of your existence, relate everything to Him swt, understand everything through Him swt. That's what got me afloat and then brought me back to shore. Sübhanallah. But, not to romanticize the struggle , I am well aware that writing comments like " you should read Quran" or " go make prayer " to someone who's opening up about their depression or any similar draining mental illnesses can sound very insensitive. You have to understand that this person may not be able to lift their head off of their pillow or leave their bed for days. The role Eman plays here starts in the heart. The light needs to sneak through the cracks of their heart, and that is something only Allah swt is capable of doing. They just have to be open to let that light enter. I think what I wanted with this is for it to be a little message of hope, a sign if you're looking for one, whatever you're going through, you'll overcome it, I promise. We all did. We are all still here, with hearts beating, loving, and worshipping their Creator. Alhamdullillah. Turn toward Him and rely on Him, because that's the only way out.

May Allah swt mend all broken hearts, tired hearts, sinking hearts. May Allah swt revive the dead hearts,make them flourish with the beauty of Eman, brigng them closer to Him and show them His straight path. Ameen.

- A.Z. 🤍🍃

[feroluce]

So I spoke somewhat about my thoughts on Emanator Sampo here, but I never really thought of it from a design point of view or what kind of powers he would have until just recently. But I actually kind of love leaning into it from a "stage hand" perspective?

Because like. Aha's body in THEIR official art is completely black, giving attention to all the fun brightly colored things around THEM. And that's so fitting for Sampo! He usually prefers to be a side character. He likes to act from the shadows. His is a much more subtle hand.

So I wonder if as an Emanator, a lot of his clothes are actually very dark? Not necessarily plain, still extravagant and needlessly detailed in things like cut and quality with lots of different fabrics and textures and ornamentation, but dark. Or maybe even his skin itself becomes blackened further down his body; his hands in particular are dark, as a sort of sleight of hand reference.

The motif of a lot of straps wrapped around him like in his canon design is still present, but they're all loose and flowing off of him like paper streamers now instead of restraining him or holding him together. He is no longer contained! Or maybe they're still a bit more rigid/heavy, but just draped more like red stage curtains!

And this is like. Fully self-indulgent, but I love inhuman designs, and there's nothing in canon to say I can't do this, so screw it! Go for broke!! Maybe it's not visible to normal people, but Sampo having a second set of arms would be really cool, as further sleight of hand reference. One set is almost normal looking, but his hands are a bright, attention-drawing white, and the other is dark, set almost in the shadows of the first arms, to act less noticeably.

He also has something of a broken heart design to him in canon (the front of his black shirt with its jagged shape down the middle; his coat looks like a full heart shape in the back), and I actually like him keeping that element as an Emanator, because I think it suits him. Sampo says his taste in aesthetics and views on Elation involve human dignity,

and the story he helps create in Belobog involves the long and winding road of resistance and survival and eventual triumph in the face of some very adverse, oppressing odds. (I'm pretty sure I heard he once called Wildfire "artless" though, plus the man acts like he thinks Shame is some kind of dessert, so like ndkdjzjskkd) But the point being!!

I think Sampo is someone who can appreciate heartbreak and angst and tragedy in a story, because it makes the victory at the end all the sweeter. And this would be another thing he shares with Aha, because I think THEY did bless the Mourning Actors partly just to be a little shit, but also because Aha does recognize tragedy as part of THEIR Path, too, and you can see it in some of the game. So a broken heart motif can still suit him, and I like him having elements of both comedy and tragedy. Like his clothing having a happy sun/sad moon (like the moon in Aha's art) or him having both of the traditional comedy/tragedy masks in his design.

And as Emanator, Sampo can maybe play with the stage settings environment, too. Like lights sometimes behave strangely around him, appearing blindingly bright to someone or dramatically dark. Sampo wills it and suddenly there seems to be a metaphorical spotlight right where he wants everyone to look. And when he doesn't want to be noticed, his face seems to be cast in shadow, he seemingly just fades into the background, no one notices or recognizes him and he sneaks away easily. He can create smoke or fog literally out of thin air without his bombs now, too, the air will just suddenly thicken until his stage is obscured, and Sampo can set the scene as he pleases or disappear without a trace.

And in line with being a stage hand, Sampo can direct attention like no other. He was already extremely good at this as a normal mortal, and becoming an Emanator only took it up to 11, past human limits. Sampo points, and all present feel compelled to follow his fingertip. He looks away, and they all follow his gaze. He can even affect the mood of an audience; he can influence everyone to be calm and placid or he can whip them into a feverish frenzy. Sometimes a crowd will start to become unsettled, agitation stirring until it boils over, until it incites a full on violent mob.

And in the middle of all that chaos will stand one perfectly calm figure, face cast in shadow, until they quietly slip away out of sight.

[theactualsunshinechild]

My partner has planted the idea that Sampo could turn out to be an emanator of the Elation into my head and now I have latched on to the concept and keep finding little reasons to believe in it.

It got brought up mostly because of the rating gun ratings. March, Jing Yuan, Luocha, and Sampo all cannot be rated by the gun. Finding a link between them is hard, but with Acheron, a known emanator upcoming, and folks saying that she is also unrateable...

And I know, I know, Herta is already an emanator, yes, but we only have 4 star Herta available to us, AKA a mere puppet version of her.

Anyway, if we suppose that the unrated characters are some brand of Emanator, or maybe just Have Emanator potential? Consider:

March 7th, based on some of the tidbits we experienced playing Fu Xuan's story quest, has potential to have been, or maybe to become, an emanator of the Remembrance. Her inherent tie to the values of memories and wanting to gather more of them and recover what she can is very in theme.

Luocha, I think it is very safe to assume that he is very very likely to be an Emanator of the Abundance, if the Luofu arc and Jingliu's story quests are anything to go off of. Dude is SUS as FUCK and very VERY disturbingly good at abundance things to the point of being able to heal someone in an artificial body. And that's him hiding stuff.

Jing Yuan at the moment is giving us the energy of a guy with a lot of latent power in him that hasn't fully been brought to light. With the way he's given us a promise to come to our aid immediately when called, and his threat to Phantylia that the Hunt would pursue the Destruction could be foreshadowing his eventually becoming an emanator of the Hunt? This is pushing it of course, but I'm just spitballing possibilities here working off the assumption that the rating pistol can't rate Emanators successfully.

As for Sampo??? There would be nothing funnier than the dude we found cowering in a snowdrift who Dan Heng shanked with a spear turning out to be a wholeass Emanator. The guy runs on Looney Toons logic half the time, and breaks the 4th wall just like Aha. Comedy relief character as he is, but what if he embodied the divine will of the aeon of fucking around and finding out? Like, tell me, how did this Masked Fool manage to quit the fool stuff and fuck off to a planet no one has visited in centuries, within the last 10 years or so? Sparkle KNOWS him. He has Stories about him among the fools. She knew him before he retired to Belabog. How did he Get there??? An Emanator of an Aeon like Aha could probably pull something like that off....

Listen I don't know if it all makes sense, but it would at the very least be hilarious and for that alone i want it to be true

[lights-at-night-art]

because nothing matters more than the performance

[youjustdontunderstandmymusic]

yasmine sima for vogue arabia in

custom palestinian ornamental headpiece ‘bethlehem shatweh’

by designer zaid farouki

[thalvanna]

✧･ﾟ:* my power emanates ( • ̀ω•́ ) *:･ﾟ✧*

⁽ᶦ ʰᵃᵈ ˢᵒ ᵐᵘᶜʰ ᶠᵘⁿ ʷᶦᵗʰ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʰᵉᵉᵉʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳʳ⁾

wanted to include "light mode" version here too lol we can see more details (+ the inspo pic he he i see no difference)

next up, ill be drawing some Moicy, perhaps ( * ˘ ︶ ˘ *)

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

Fuck it. A Heimdall playlist for those who loves assholes (me)

[illuminatedquill]

BEND THE KNEE

“I have LOVE

in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine

and RAGE

the likes of which you would not believe.

If I cannot satisfy

the one,

I will indulge

the other.”

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

*Many thanks to the amazing artist MoonFishGhost for their incredible work on this commission! If you love their work (AND YOU SHOULD), you can find out more here:

Extra Dark Side Sabine Wren:

[shoezuki]

thinkin a the divinity au and how exactly gepard would find out that sampo is aha. because like. it would absolutely happen Eventually but i think it wouldnt be because of the easy/obvious ways like

sampo wouldnt tell him or mess up so catastrophically that gepard cant deny it anymore. and in the au both pela and serval (mostly serval) are very much suspicious of sampo and trying to figure him out but

i imagine it more like. gepard puts the pieces together himself. i mean the dudes smart hes not an idiot, hes just extremely oblivious to sampo's less blatant shit because a) he's immune to the subtler influences of divinity and b) the idea that a fucking aeon is dicking around on a frozen planet and flirting with him is unimaginable.

gepard would figure shit out as he goes, putting the pieces together and on his own without other peoples' prying but also. he wouldnt tell anyone.

[timetodiverge]

Star Wars Rebels fans watching Ahsoka and patiently waiting for Ezra's return:

Yes I did ugly-sob at the end of episode 6

(in my defence I had COVID and was high on Japanese flu medication and was just so indescribably relieved that my favourite little shit blueberry prince was ALIVE and HAPPY)

And pretty much every day since then I've thought about what an amazing job Eman Esfandi/the script writers/the production team did bringing him to live-action

[mymarifae]

so does anyone else want to talk about the big ass clue about march 7th's past dropped in the clockie movie saga side quest of all places or

because like i'm sorry girl What Did You Just Fucking Say

[littleeyesofpallas]

REIWA NO DARA SAN[令和のダラさん]: "Reiwa(era)'s Dara-san"

(Reiwa being the current era(2019-) so it's sort of like calling it "Modern day Dara")

[feroluce]

So I adore time loops and I think Sampo would be very fun in a time loop AU. Because despite having so many onscreen interactions with so many characters, he almost always seems to hold people at a certain careful distance, so it's fun to imagine what or who he's willing to use a time loop for, how far he's willing to go, how much he actually does care.

At the end of the Masquerade Duet companion quest, Sparkle mentions a catastrophe soon to befall Jarilo-VI. And some players have interpreted this as a past event (the catastrophe being the story quests we took part in there), but other players have speculated this as an upcoming disaster that Sampo is trying to mitigate.

And so, Gepard finds Sampo in Belobog, right after he was supposed to return from Penacony...or whatever it was called, Gepard had almost been too relieved to remember the name after Natasha assured him that Sampo was fine and not missing or dead, just on a trip since the planet was finally open for travel.

He had assumed this was some kind of vacation, or some shady business endeavor (valid), but when he sees him, Sampo looks. Exhausted.

His usual smirk is there, but there's something horribly off about it that Gepard can't put into words. His voice doesn't have the usual bounce in it. His gait slightly off. There are bags under his eyes, his hair is just the slightest bit out of place. Sampo looks exhausted.

His feet move without him really thinking, he goes up to Sampo to say...something. Maybe just ask him if he's ok. But he can't leave this alone and not do anything, because Gepard can feel it, something is wrong.

And that feeling sticks with him, like the persistent cold, like frostbite, all day. Gepard can't seem to shake it. There is a collective unease seeping through Belobog, sinking deep, tangling around their bones. And the only one who seems to be reacting truly different to it is Sampo.

Gepard tries to tail the guy a few times, anything he can do to learn about what's going on and ease this devouring dread, but Sampo seems to know where he's hiding and calls him out every single time.

He dodges every question (normal), slips out of every grab and grasp (normal), barely even looks at Gepard (decidedly NOT normal).

And maybe it's the darkness that seems to hover over them. The way the air feels like it is pressing down and smothering the breath out of his lungs. But Gepard's patience finally snaps, much sooner than he ever would have thought it would, and he finally grabs Sampo by the collar, hauls him up and forces his back against the brick wall of the alleyway. Because maybe Sampo makes his living double crossing and stabbing backs and he wouldn't understand this, but Gepard has a family, he has people he wants to protect, and so he needs to know what the fuck is going on.

And he knows he's crossed a line the moment he says it. He knows it's not true. Gepard has seen the way Sampo and Caelus sneak around in the Fragmentum or meander down the alleys, snickering with their arms slung around each other. He's seen the way Sampo lets Hook climb up his back onto his shoulders while he takes the moles on little adventures. He's seen the way he and Serval rib each other like it was natural, easy, and the way he goes out of his way for Natasha like he wouldn't any other client, had even trusted her with the knowledge that he was leaving off-planet.

Sampo has people he wants to protect, too, and Gepard shouldn't have accused him otherwise.

But before he can even apologize, Sampo does something stranger still.

Instead of telling him off, or taking a swing at him- both things Gepard would admit he deserved- Sampo just. Lifts one hand, lays it over Gepard's fists still balled in his jacket. Like he's keeping him there. Even through his gloves, his hand is warm.

And Sampo doesn't even really look at him, he leaves his head hung low as he quietly tells Gepard to just go home. Stay in with his family. Don't come out. Please. Please.

But eventually, the catastrophe strikes.

And Gepard can't. He can't stay safe inside his home while this is happening. He can't ignore this. He tells Serval and Lynx to stay in. Don't come out. And he dons his armor and marches out to protect as many people as he can.

When it's all said and done, all Gepard can see is rubble piled around him and a blackened sky. He can hear fire crackling. He can hear a voice he recognizes as Serval's wailing and screaming his name, and he knows she's not going to find him in time. She shouldn't even be out here.

A bloodied face swims into view, bright green eyes looking hollowed and haunted, posture weary and defeated. Gepard reaches out a shaking arm, trying to grab at Sampo's pantleg, trying to make any sound other than gurgling the blood filling his throat, because he knows it for certain now, he knew, Sampo knew.

"Not this time either, huh...?" The sigh he heaves isn't theatrical, for once. Somewhere, rubble groans and loudly collapses. Sampo doesn't even startle or turn to look at it. "I'll figure it out soon, I promise. There has to be a way to pull you through this alive. There has to be."

Something materializes in his hand, something red. Gepard's vision dims at the edges as he watches Sampo hold the mask over his face, as it seemingly attaches itself directly to his skin.

"See you on the next go around, Captain."

[empyreanmirror]

Consciousness is alluring. The truth and the core self are like a lover undressed; you know only you will see them this way, and that when the world looks on they will see creases in fabric and face, a friend, an option. But you, when you trace your hands upon that true reflection, will know the rawness of skin and the taste of flesh that will linger through every moment you are away, and your internal eyes will forever be imprinted with their sweet perfume that only you know they wear in bed.

[light-bender]

My friends are cooler than your friends.

[unmakingandincorporeality]

do y'ever think about how anthropologists of a distant future culture might find a nuclear waste site and read the messages on it and go "oh I recognize this from the digital fragments of memes we keep finding, this place must have been a really popular comedy venue"