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pandaofsecrets · 4 months

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What's in a Name — Miraculous Ladybug

4. THE CLASSMATES

4.1. Bruel, Ivan

Bruel: Old French for "woods, grove", as well as the Catalan name for a species of bird called a firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla).

Ivan: Slavic form of "John", from a Hebrew name meaning "God is gracious".

4.2. Haprèle, Mylène

Haprèle: probably a variant of the German surname Harpel, which ultimately comes from the name of a place in The Netherlands.

Mylène: contraction of "Marie-Hélène". Sounds similar to the Slavic name Milena, meaning "dear, sweet", which is probably why her name is changed to this in the Serbian dub.

4.3. Kanté, Max

Max: ultimately from Latin "maximus", meaning "greatest".

Kanté: probably in reference to either German philosopher Immanuel Kant, or Guinean writer and educator Solomana Kanté.

4.4. Kubdel, Alix

Kubdel: N/A. Seriously, I got nothing.

Alix: medieval French form of "Alice", ultimately from a Germanic name meaning "noble". Is a reference to Alice in Wonderland.

4.5. Kurtzberg, Nathanaël

Kurtzberg: "short mountain", in German. Is a reference to comic book artist Jack Kirby, whose real name was Jacob Kurtzberg.

Nathanaël: "God has given", in Hebrew. Was chosen in reference to Nathanaël Bronn, the show's art director, who the character bears a rather striking resemblance to.

4.6. Lavillant, Rose

Lavillant: probably an alternative spelling of Levaillant. In this case, it's ultimately derived from the Old French place name "Villencourt", the name of an abbey in Normandy. Together with Rose's first name, it forms a pun—"Lavillant Rose" sounds identical to "la vie en rose". "Voir la vie en rose" is a French idiom that roughly translates as "to wear rose-colored glasses".

Rose: "rose flower" or "pink", in both French and English.

4.7. Lê, Chiến Kim

Lê: "black", in Vietnamese. It's the fourth most common surname in Vietnam. Without the diacritic, it looks identical to the French definite article. The English dub changes it to "Nguyen", while the French dub itself later changes it to "Ature", for a pun on "immature".

Chiến: "war, fight", in Vietnamese, it also means "to face something head on". Without the diacritics, it looks identical to the French word for "dog".

Kim: "gold", in Vietnamese.

4.8. Rancomprix, Sabrina

Sabrina: from the name of the river Severn, which is ultimately of unknown meaning.

Raincomprix: from the phrase "rien compris", meaning "understood nothing" in French. Together with Sabrina's first name, it forms a pun—"Sabrina Raincomprix" sounds identical to "Sabri n'a rien compris", which means something like "Sabri didn't understand anything".

4.9. Rossi, Lila

Rossi: from "rosso", Italian for "red".

Lila: either from a Sanskrit term that can loosely be translated as "divine play", or from an Arabic word meaning "night". Either way, it means "purple" in various languages, like Dutch, Romanian, German, and Hungarian. Might also be a pun on "lie", but this only works in the English dub; in both Italian and French, the name is pronounced "Lee-la".

#up next: the kwami #series: what's in a name?#what's in a name: miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug #ivan bruel #mylène haprele #max kanté #alix kubdel #nathanaël kurtzberg #rose lavillant #le chien kim #sabrina raincomprix #lila rossi

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solarockk · 23 days

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Im oh so normal about real life smp and gaslight gatekeep girlboss

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kizzer55555 · 24 days

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DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter.

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge.

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game.

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely).

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

#DPxDC #dcxdp #Danny makes a card game to save the world.#Technically he worded the ritual so that they had to ‘beat’ him as those are the most powerful barriers and most reliable.#keys can just get lost or stolen (like the one to Pariah’s Coffin)#A riddle would be useless once someone figured out the answer. Like how no one takes the sphynx seriously anymore.#(Sorry Tuck. But it’s true).#And there is NO WAY Danny is just leaving a hole open for anyone to pass through. No thank you!#So…beating him. But it’s not like Danny wanted to fight so…he edited the ritual a TINY bit. Card games are good. Much less painful too.#Danny Tucker and Sam made the most complicated card game they could imagine.#It’s based on their strategies for fighting ghosts. Capturing them in thermoses. And MUCH based on a on field battle strategy.#It often requires spontaneous thinking on the spot. So Danny? In his ELEMNT. It doubles as practice for his actual ghost battles too.#They had SO much fun making this.#Sam added an entire series of plant cards that act as traps and healing ointments and duds that just take up the field.#Tucker added legitimate hyroglyphics combined with Latin as well as English and ghost speak.#Yes. You actually have to speak that language to play. With proper pronunciation. (Amity Parker’s think the three are talking gibberish.)#I headcanon Sam and Tucker are fluent in Ghost.#Constantine WILL figure this game out SO HELP HIM!#Some of the cards also have combinations related to constellations either in name or placement on the board.#By the way the board is based on a Hexagonal summoning circle with Rhunes along the edges #And the placement of the cards on the board and on what rhune MATTERS.#Also the cards move disintegrate and have certain abilities. Think of Harry Potter Wizard Chess.#But they are normal when Danny plays at school. This is just for ✨effect✨ Against invaders.#Danny faces multiple opponents. He also halts alien invasions.#While Danny COULD stop crime on earth he’s not sure how to fight a normal human and hold back so he sticks to ghosts.#The Justice league are going crazy trying to figure out who this entity is and after deep research are convinced this is some sort of #Ancient being who has protected earth for millenia. They have paintings on ruins and everything.#Danny is not aware they think this.#Raven starts praying to Danny as if he is a god and wrangles the other Teen Titans into doing so as well. Danny is still unaware of this.#Danny is not a King or an ancient. Just a very VERY strong ghost.

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 7 months

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Get Their Ass.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin ling #jin chan #Yeah that's right. This guy is a named character. All those nameless disciples in the yi city arc and *this* guy gets a name.#Jin ling finally gets his much needed outfit upgrade! Rest in peace double straps.#I adore how we get to keep learning about Jin Ling and peeling back the layers on him...It's also so sad to see him so alone and friendless #especially knowing he really was starting to build peer friendships in the yi city arc...#Jin ling really is one of my top 5 characters in MDZS and its absolutely in part because of how you can *see* how he ended up this way #and we watch him learn and grow! He's doing what most adults refuse to do: Consider that his opinions are skewed and need to change.#You are NOT immune to propaganda and I adore characters who reflect and struggle with that!#Just because someone with assumed authority says something that fits into what you want to be true does not make it true B*/#In this series about rumours and warped perspectives - Jin Ling is a great example of how hard you have to work for the truth #+1 points of friendship with jin ling: He will self correct himself if he says a slur now

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gloomy-angel-ing · 7 months

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Hermittober + Limited Life - Prompt: Bound

Character: Zombie Cleo & Inthelittlewood aka Martyn

#tw: stitches #time: 5:15 #inthelittlewood #itlwart #martyn inthelittlewood #martyn fanart #inthelittlewood fanart #double life #traffic life fanart #trafficblr #life series fanart #mcyt fanart #zombie cleo fanart #zombie cleo #what is their duo name #someone please tell me #gloomysart

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whatthefuxkkk · 16 days

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AU where everything is the same except Alastor and Lucifer are buddies

#they are both. so old and cringe #Lucifer is just better at hiding it #i was gonna draw this originally but then i got insecure so have a shittily edited png comic thing #i am not an artist as you can tell #why are they speaking in comic sans? idk #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer morningstar #hazbin lucifer #lucifer magne #where did the name magne come from anyway.. i hope im not tagging a different media's lucifer lmaoo #seen people tag it as lucifer from the Lucifer TV series without knowing what it was 😭😭#charlie hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #hazbin charlie #hazbin hotel charlie #lucifer hazbin hotel #forgot that one #erm gonna tag this as radioapple but like. it's not meant to be a ship #could be interpreted that way tho so whatever #radioapple #platonic radioapple #queerplatonic radioapple #qpr radioapple #yeah i fw qpr radioapple as long as it's not just used as an excuse to ship them #that's about it #comment like subscribe 🔥💯

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beannary · 5 days

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So I named TLP after the book The Little Prince because I went to a French school so we read that book constantly so I thought it would be funny if I made little drawings of TLP Donnie if I had named au after different French books I read as a kid!

It was hard to think of some that were actually French and not just translations lol turns out a lot of the books that I thought were French were really just English books with French translations :P

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str4wberryshortcak3 · 14 days

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why is there two instances where hoffmans first name is actually detective

#saw #mark hoffman #or #detective hoffman #real name #saw series #hes such a guy #what a human being #sawposting #saw movies #sawtism

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thankstothe · 10 months

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One liners the sequel

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forwantofacalling · 3 months

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this is how book 3 went right

#erha #2ha #the husky and his white cat shizun #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #this damn series has so many names #erha fanart #2ha fanart #mo ran #chu wanning #??? what else to tag #well anyway. I love them they’re so funny. book of a thousand knives #I’ve never had so much whiplash from page to page before #incredible experience 10/10

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batcavescolony · 3 months

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just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems #he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place #jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt #like damn get over yourself.#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it #how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024?#and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face° in the background of #LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex.#°oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 🙄#some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding #this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out?#good to know

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pandaofsecrets · 4 months

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What's in a Name — Miraculous Ladybug

5. KWAMI

5.1. Yin-Yang Tier

Tikki: according to Thomas Astruc, it's supposed to mean "happiness" in a language he can't remember. After doing some research, I believe he was going for the Greek word "eftychia". Interestingly enough, this word had the meaning of "good luck" in Ancient Greek, and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek word "tyche", meaning "luck, fortune", which was also the name of the Greek goddess of luck, equivalent to the Roman goddess Fortuna.

Plagg: from English "plague".

5.2. Top Tier

Trixx: from English "tricks".

Wayzz: either from English "wise" or "ways".

Pollen: self-explainatory.

Nooroo: either from the Japanese pronunciation of English "null", as this was his name in previous drafts, or from an Arabic word meaning "light". That, or "neuro-".

Duusu: either from French "douce" ("sweet", F), Luxembourgish "duuss" ("gentle, tender, soft") or various Slavic words for "soul", like Polish "dusza" or Czech "duše".

5.3. Zodiac Tier

Mullo: from French "mulot", meaning "field mouse". It was initially supposed to be Toppo, from the Italian word for mouse ("topo"), but this was changed during development. This latter name did, however, still end up being used once in the English dub of Kwamibuster.

Stompp: self-explainatory.

Roarr: self-explainatory.

Longg: from Mandarin "long", meaning "dragon".

Sass: most likely from the hissing sound a snake makes.

Kaalki: in reference to Kalki, the tenth avatar of the god Vishnu, which is depicted as a white horse.

Ziggy: most likely from German "Zeige", meaning "goat". Is also a reference to Ziggy Stardust.

Xuppu: in reference to Xu Sheng, a character from "Journey to the West" who initially rejects the existence of Sun Wukong before becoming a devotee of his in the story "The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal" by Pu Songling. The name is a blending of the character's name and the author's.

Barkk: self-explainatory.

Orikko: from "cocorico", which is the French word for the sound a rooster makes.

Daizzi: in reference to the pig character Zhu Baije from "Journey to the West", who is often called "Dai Zi", meaning "idiot".

5.4. Others

Liiri: from Albanian "liri", meaning "freedom".

#the ml wiki lists the language tikki's name is derived from #as hindi #this is incorrect #the hindi word for happiness is 'khushi'#next up: other - s1 #series: what's in a name?#what's in a name: miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug #kwami #tikki #plagg #wayzz #nooroo #duusu

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stanperformanceunit · 9 months

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My problem is that I hyperfixate on dramas I really like but then when I finish them I feel empty inside until I find a new to drama to hyperfixate on...