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if it was about 15 years ago i’d already have seen 12 different AMVs of chimera falin set to three days grace animal i have become on my feed but that just doesn’t happen anymore. because of woke

#god this is such a SPECIFIC mood #but I too miss the amv days #and three days grace #dungeon meshi #amv

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Ok, we've all seen the polls asking which of Hob Gadling's "looks" through time is the most attractive, but which era of Hob Gadling do you find the most intriguing, as in you could watch an entire episode about what his life is like in just that century?

#the sandman #hob gadling #sandman meta #super curious about this one

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A story from his insta!

#help #ferdinand kingsley #hob gadling

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So @jamiekb asked for an info dump on this. Keep in mind, I haven't seen to the end of the show yet so they could absolutely be setting up characters as Wizard of Oz parallels in order to subvert them post episode 4 but in no particular order:

The easy ones first:

Lucy = Dorothy. She wears a blue outfit, she's a wide-eyed innocent who comes from a midwestern cornfield and first embarks on her quest after encountering a "witch" (Moldaver) though the Fallout show gives Lucy a lot more agency than Dorothy gets by giving her the quest from the beginning to go find her father.

CX404 = Toto, another easy one. The fact that there's a dog companion in this at all should be a hint for people that this is a Wizard of Oz setup.

The Scarecrow = The Ghoul. We first meet him in a corn field, where he's been imprisoned/stuck, in Oz he's stuck on a pole as a scarecrow, in the show he's stuck underground. He even resembles both the book and movie version of the Scarecrow, with his missing nose resembling the Scarecrow's painted nose. (I'm too lazy to go get images for all this but they're easy google searches.)

As for the classic set up of each companion wanting a heart, a brain, or courage, it took me a second to figure this one out but it became obvious once I realized.

What do zombies classically want?

Brains.

Hence I think when translating the Wizard of Oz to the Fallout show, this might have been what inspired the writers to make the Scarecrow parallel a ghoul.

The Tin Man = Maximus

Obviously to me, the Tin Man is Maximus. For goodness sake, he wears a suit of metal armor and his primary sin in the story is heartlessness. He doesn't care about others, even his own friends, and he kills without remorse until his encounter with Dorothy (Lucy) helps remind him how to care again.

The biggest single hint of course is that Dorothy/Lucy first encounters Maximus/the Tin Man when he's "rusted" shut, or rather, locked inside his armor. That's such a direct reference it almost doesn't need saying.

However, there's a bunch of deeper cut references too for this parallel:

Maximus and Thaddeus in the "apple orchard" - in the Wizard of Oz movie, you might recall that right before they find the Tin Man, Dorothy and the Scarecrow have apples thrown at them by sentient apple trees of ill intent (it almost looked like they were setting up a gag of having Thaddeus be the self-throwing apple-trees by still being up there, but the scene moved on and felt like more of a nod.

Now, what people might not remember fully from the book is that the Tin Man rusted stiff in an apple orchard. So I immediately loved the scene with Maximus and Thaddeus in the "orchard" because it seemed such an overt nod to that scene

The Tin Man also quarreled with a figure known as the Tin Soldier in a later book, who became all tin from similar circumstances to the Tin Man (chopped up by his own sword because of a curse instead of chopped up by his own axe) which also seemed to echo Thaddeus and Maximus to me.

When Maximus first got shot he didn't seem to bleed, but as he began to show more empathy towards Lucy, he began to bleed and pressed his hand over his heart, almost as if the return of his caring for other people made his heart begin to pump blood again.

As for who is the Cowardly Lion, I'm not sure yet at this point in the story. My suspicion is that it's either Norm or Chet, possibly a combination of the two since Chet acts more like the Lion but Norm has more of a hero's journey of finding his courage.

Oh! And when we first see Vault 31, I turned to my partner and said, "It's going to be the Emerald City, just watch. If it's all in shades of green, I'm right." And sure enough! Green all over the place in Vault 31 in the brief glimpse I saw, and I grinned like crazy.

Remember, in the original book/movie, the Emerald City is where Dorothy receives her real quest, which is to kill the Wicked Witch in exchange with the Wizard for going home. Since Lucy's quest is different, I imagine in Vault 31 she's going to finally get a better understanding of why everyone is hunting for that dang head.

I might add to this post if I see more things but suffice to say, I see lots of little nods to the Wizard of Oz beyond the basics of the film version, which has been delightful.

So I’m about 4 episodes into the new Fallout show and I gotta say, it’s not just including references to Wizard of Oz, it’s including DEEP CUT references to the Wizard of Oz book and I say this as someone who read all 14 of the books as a kid

#fallout #fallout spoilers #wizard of oz

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Hi hello Sandman fandom I have to render an apology bc I've seen this a couple of times now: Hob does not canonically have a pre-immortality knee injury. That was me! And I love that a bunch of people ran with it but it is absolutely not wrong to say otherwise or like, ~erasing disability~ not to include this. Hob Gadling is not canonically physically disabled.

#signal boost #hob gadling #yeah there's a reason I don't include this injury it's entirely fanon #it's great fanon! but it's not my take on the character #the sandman

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Others pointed out that it’s possible that the ending will be less bleak, so this quote would no longer fit as well, hence moving it to DBD and I’ve got my fingers crossed for that.

Fun fact, the poem read in the first episode of Dead Boy Detectives is word for word Hob Gadling's view of what happens after death, as noted in the comic issue Sunday Mourning. So, if nothing else, we get our first Hob nod right off the bat.

(Though, sadly, it does rather imply that they don't expect to get to Hob's Renaissance Faire episode in the Sandman Netflix show where the quote originally comes from within the Sandman shared universe.)

#the sandman #dead boy detectives #hob gadling #death of the endless #sandman meta #reblogging for the comic scenes thank you!

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So I’m about 4 episodes into the new Fallout show and I gotta say, it’s not just including references to Wizard of Oz, it’s including DEEP CUT references to the Wizard of Oz book and I say this as someone who read all 14 of the books as a kid

#fallout

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#i think we could still get the faire episode#at least i'm hoping#maybe the changes they plan for the show means hob has a different conversation and so the quote no longer fits - @hangingondust

oh my god oh my god please don't give me hope, if Dream's fate is different then yeah, this line just might not fit the episode anymore and so it's been salvaged elsewhere omg please

Fun fact, the poem read in the first episode of Dead Boy Detectives is word for word Hob Gadling's view of what happens after death, as noted in the comic issue Sunday Mourning. So, if nothing else, we get our first Hob nod right off the bat.

(Though, sadly, it does rather imply that they don't expect to get to Hob's Renaissance Faire episode in the Sandman Netflix show where the quote originally comes from within the Sandman shared universe.)

#the sandman #dead boy detectives #sandman spoilers

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#history #mongols

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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

#reference #worldbuilding #dorothea

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I was working on a history paper today and found a book from 1826 that seemed promising (though dull) for my topic, on an English Catholic family’s experience moving to France.

And it ended up not really being suitable for my purposes, as it goes. But part of the book is actually devoted to Kenelm, the author’s oldest son…and man, his dad loved him.

Kenelm seems to have had a fairly typical upbringing for a young English gentleman, although he is a bit slow to read. At twelve he’s sent to board at Stoneyhurst College—often the big step towards independence in a boy’s life, as he’ll most likely only see his parents sporadically from now on, and then leave for university.

When he’s sixteen, however, his father moves the whole family to France, so Kenelm gets pulled out of school to be with them again. Shortly after the move, his dad notices that he seems depressed. Kenelm confides in him that he’s been suffering from “scruples” for the last eighteen months—most likely what we’d now call an anxiety disorder.

And his dad is pissed—at the school, because apparently Kenelm had been seeking help there and received none, despite obviously struggling with mental health issues. So his dad takes it seriously. He sets him up to be counseled by a priest—there were no therapists back then—and doesn’t send him away to be boarded again, instead teaching him at home himself.

And his mental health does improve. His dad describes him as well-liked, gentle, pious, kind and eager to please others; at twenty he’s thinking about a career in diplomacy or going into the military—which his dad thinks he is not particularly suited for, considering his favorite pastimes are drawing and reading. He’s excited about his family’s upcoming move to Italy, and he’s been busy learning Italian and teaching it to his siblings.

Henry Kenelm Beste dies of typhus at twenty years, four months, and twenty-five days. That’s how his dad records it. That’s why his dad is telling this story. It’s not an extraordinary story—Kenelm’s story struck me because he sounds so…ordinary, like so many kids today. And he was so, so loved. His dad tried hard to help him compassionately with his mental health at a time where our current knowledge and support systems didn’t exist. You can feel how badly he wanted his son to be remembered and loved, to impress how dearly beloved he was to the people who knew him in life.

I hope he’d be glad to know someone is still thinking of Kenelm over 200 years later.

Anyway, that’s why I’m crying today.

#history #this is lovely #religious melancholy

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How the 1889 meeting went, essentially

#the second one SENT ME #lol #this second one is why i ship them #dreamling #the sandman

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How to Pack Luggage?

#luggage #reference #what the hell this is so useful

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Dungeon Meshi made me, a lifelong non-eater of breakfast, into someone who eats breakfast every day.

I’m not sure what category of film rec that counts as, but it definitely counts as one.

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #the inner senshi voice is real #I still suck at eating vegetables but I can tell I’m healthier for eating breakfast now #I make sunny eggs with toast for those curious

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Help me, Bilbo Baggins. You’re my only hope.

#what a classic #lol #the hobbit

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marcille is so gay it’s unreal. she locked the hell in for those bird boobies. oh and happy lesbian week or something my fellow fruity dungeon meshi fans

#I fucking lost it lol #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #lol

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every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

#yeah this scene hurt #adhd not autistic but I felt for the poor guy #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #autism