totally not based on something I said to my 'friends' during a round of mario karts

Small but knowing wxs

more trigun...yeah im down bad

Wish more adaptations would take the route like Mike Flannigan works or House MD or Hannibal. "Based on" in the sense of taking inspiration from source material and playing with them like dolls and saying something unique and creative with it outside of the material while maintaining key dynamics and themes that make it recognizable to the source.

Really sick of "faithful" adaptations that mean all the aesthetics and names and plots but told in such a soulless themeless mess. Did you think because the source already taught the lessons you don't need to say anything this time, you can just copy-paste?

The equivalent of cutting up the source to make a collage versus bringing it back from the dead wrong.

halloween buildings and a haunted house on dab hollow by kerritcake_acnh🧡 2/2

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.

According to the artist, when it was suggested that a smile might benefit the look of the finished portrait, Attaché Nohell reportedly replied, "I thought the purpose of this was to be honest."

Super fun commission of @waterloggedsoliloquy's OC Sicely Nohell (they/them) and their terrible, horrible, no good, very bad lusus figure Commanding Officer.

when going up against stars, all i can do is what i always do... provide a steady and reliable supply. that much, i am confident i can manage. | akaashi keiji for @heterho from your animanga secret santa!

[day 36] do you think a cod boy could ever truly befriend a salmon boy

Ok, my roommate and I had a fantastic conversation about Xenoblade naming conventions over dinner, because I pointed out that each area in the game bears a name that likely originates from one of the cultures living near that area: Satorl Marsh, Eryth Sea, and Valak Mountain are High Entian names. Given that "Satorl" is a combination of Soltnar and Khatorl, the sister goddesses with statues in the marsh, we decided that the High Entia name areas after important mythological figures, so "Eryth" and "Valak" would be names (or corruptions of names, more on that later) of High Entian legends. Makna Forest is a Nopon name. I'll talk about it later along with another name that is conspicuously missing from this list. Colony 9, Bionis' Leg, Colony 6, and Bionis Interior are Homs names. They're very utilitarian and bluntly descriptive, which we agreed fits the Homs to a tee. The Bionis Interior isn't really in Homs territory, but no one really goes there or lives there and the party is entirely Homs the first time you go there, hence they'll call it by a Homs name. Now, you might've noticed that there's one name that doesn't fit the pattern of this list so far. Who named Tephra Cave? It's in Homs territory, but Homs tend towards utilitarian names. The old High Entia ship is under Colony 9, but Tephra doesn't really sound like a High Entia name. The Nopon primarily live in Makna Forest and Tephra still doesn't sound like a Nopon name. So who named it? The Giants did. They have a number of ruins there and there are multiple sidequests relating to them; of the main 5 races in xc1, the Giants have by far the strongest connections to Tephra. also we have very few examples of Giant names so it's easy to say that Tephra would fit with them

But then, why Tephra? What was the impetus to name the caves with that word specifically? My roommate had a stroke of genius: "Tephra" is just the Giant word for cave. "Tephra Cave", as the Homs call it, is just cave cave. We took this inspiration and ran with it. "Makna" is the Nopon word for forest. Satorl Marsh is actually called Khatorl's Marsh, but some wires got crossed and now it's a blend of her name and her sister's for the Homs. Eryth's Sea and Valak's Mountain lose the possessives when the Homs are talking about them, or maybe they don't! I'm not feeling that creative right now, but it's possible Valak and Eryth are corruptions of High Entian names that the Homs accidentally created. If the Homs were allowed to name other parts of the Bionis, they would just be "Bionis' Back" and "Bionis' Head" (or, if you're feeling fanciful like me, they could be "Lumbar Marsh" or "Scapular Forest" or "Crown Sea").

After watching acofaf, I think Aabria would be the perfect choice to dm a wedding one shot

It’s Mario Day babey- So I decided to dust off and finish a doodle I’ve had lying around for ages.

It’s them. It’s the funney plumber dudes.

one of my favorite enemies from mario wonder so far!

hello qsmpblr play a game with me. pov rot is just a Thing when there’s so many characters in this smp, but that means we have an opportunity to be Silly with it. Reblog this with a new headcanon for a character you dont (or almost never) watch. go as hog wild as your little heart desires i wanna see what everyone can come up with

here’s mine: I think tina sleeps on a pile of woodchips at night, but when she wakes up its all turned into new growth and budding saplings. this is frustrating because then she has to go get MORE fresh woodchips for the next night and it takes up her whole day and then she goes to sleep and she wakes up and theres More Saplings In Her Bed. sisyphus but with baby leaves. She once tried to take advantage of this weird sleeping thing to see if she could get her crops to harvest faster, like sleepy bonemeal, but she just made the actual plants bigger and ended up crushing her tomatoes. she could sleep on a normal bed but thats not as comfy for a demon and also what if the feather stuffing turns into baby chicks? she cant handle that responsibility she’s got enough on her plate as is

I wish this side of the fandom was known for more than smutty fanfics 🥲

Okay I finally have some finished drawings of them haha. I swear I have a regular art style, chibis are just easier okay!!!!

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