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miles-edgewords · 5 months

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ABOUT ME

AKA Actual Introduction Post Because It Just Came To My Attention That I Never Actually Made One

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Fandoms

(Except they get increasingly more… not)

- Carmen Sandiego

- Ace Attorney

- Trigun Stampede

- Over the Garden Wall

- Dimension 20: Fantasy High

- Promare

- Undertale (I got into it very late 😔)

- Sally Face

- Lackadaisy

- Nimona

- Minecraft Story Mode (cringe is dead fight me)

- Dan and Phil (again cringe is dead but also please respect people’s boundaries, if you’re publicly posting creepy/invasive stuff I will block you. This isn’t directed at anyone specifically but I feel like I need to say it upfront because uh. some of y’all scare me)

- Cinema Therapy (do they have a fandom? I hope so)

- Bits and pieces of Danganronpa V1 and V2

- Groundhog Day (the musical specifically)

- Sneakers (remember that nerd movie from 1992? no? well too bad I’m telling you about it anyway)

- Wargames (you know how the people who made the previously-mentioned nerd movie made a different movie 10 years earlier called wargames which ultimately inspired the creators to take an interest in whitehat hackers which eventually resulted in the creation of sneakers? no? well too bad, you know the drill)

- The True Meaning of Smekday (THE ANIMATED MOVIE DOES NOT DO IT JUSTICE I WILL PERISH ON THIS HILL)

- The Lifeline Games but specifically the Taylor ones

- Brennan Lee Mulligan (just. In general)

- Whatever it’s called when you have not consumed a single piece of media from a fandom but you know more about it than some of the fans because you have a friend who’s really into it and you like listening to their opinions/theories. (ie. I have watched playthroughs of Poppy Playtime and FNAF and I have enjoyed them by proxy)

Theatre

Roles I’ve played & other stuff I’ve done in theatre (not counting anything I did in school because there would be way too many well-technically’s):

- Karnak / SABM art lead (Ride the Cyclone, Stone Soup Theatre Co.)

- Hanz* / Sailor (Cabaret, Stone Soup Theatre Co.)

- Lead puppet designer / puppet constructor / Pig 1 / Milky White Titty Committee** (Into the Woods, Stone Soup Theatre Co.

- Part of Christmas Future / Man 1 / Marley’s makeup, hair, and OHGODTHESECHAINSARE70POUNDSIMACTUALLYGONNADIEFORREAL manager (A Christmas Carol, Center Theatre Co.)

- Shakespeare’s Valet (Something Rotten! Stone Soup Theatre Co.)

*This was one of my favorite roles to play and I still don’t know if it’s meant to be spelled with a “z” or if our director just made a typo. Hans? Hanz? Hanzsz?

**Milky White’s udders kept falling off. It was a Whole Thing.

Hobbies

As an aspiring jack of all trades, I have a running list of hobbies which range from “I’m really bad at this but I have tried it and am familiar with it” to “I am Really Good at this Thing”. Here are all of those, in no particular order (to avoid personal bias, I will not be ranking which of these I’m best at. Feel free to guess though! I’m also happy to elaborate on any of them— I just don’t generally know how skilled I am in a broad sense.)

- Poetry

- Fanfiction

- Novel-writing

- Other writing-related activities

- Digital art

- 2D & 3D animation

- Traditional art (I like markers and pens a lot)

- D&D

- Painting D&D miniatures

- Violin

- Piano

- Singing

- Acting

- Guitar (and related instruments)

- Pennywhistle

- Origami

- Cross-stitch

- Comic writing/illustration

- Journaling

- Gaming

- Listening to Every Genre of Music Ever

- Attempting to take care of houseplants

- Space/astronomy

TO REITERATE, BECAUSE IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO GET THIS THROUGH MY HEAD. I AM NOT “GOOD” AT ALL OF THESE THINGS THEY ARE JUST THINGS I DO AND THAT IS NORMAL AND OKAY. HOBBIES DO NOT HAVE TO BE MONETIZABLE IN ORDER TO BE HOBBIES. IN FACT THAT’S LIKE THE SELLING POINT OF HOBBIES. I’M SORRY I DID NOT MEAN TO YELL THIS MUCH.

So uh

Yeah that’s me

Thank you for reading I will be updating this probably more often than I should

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aion-rsa · 5 years

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Watchmen Episode 4 Easter Eggs Explained

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Watchmen episode 4 introduces Lady Trieu and deepens the Adrian Veidt mystery. Here's all the Easter eggs and references we could find.

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This article contains Watchmen episode 4 spoilers.

HBO’s Watchmen did most of its comic book referencing, additional worldbuilding, and character introductions in its first three episodes. So you would think that by the time we got to Watchmen episode 4, they’d be done mining the book for little flourishes of backstory to reference or use to make this new world even richer. You’d be wrong. There’s still plenty of Easter eggs to hunt in Watchmen episode 4, and we’re here to try and find all of ‘em.

Let’s start at the beginning...

THE FARM

The Superman vibes are strong in this episode once again. Just as episode one felt like it snuck elements of Kal-El’s escape from Krypton as it was destroyed into young Will Reeves’ escape during the Black Wall Street Massacre in 1921, “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own” plays with other elements of the Superman origin story, particularly his adoptive Earth parents, the Kents.

Let’s start with their names: the farmers we meet are the Clarks, and they own Clark Acres Farms. Of course, Superman adopted the human identity of Clark Kent, but there’s a reason Jonathan and Martha Kent chose that first name: Clark was Martha’s maiden name. Perhaps not coincidentally, the husband here is named Jon (his wife is named Katie, and I’m having trouble finding any additional significance for that name, but there you go).

The “egg” theme that has been recurring through all of these episodes is once again present here, as that seems to be one of the primary products of Clark Acres. That also plays into the matter of fertility, as the Clarks are unable to have children of their own, just as the Kents were, and have a child miraculously brought to them via super science. Here, the Clarks get their child thanks to advanced genetic technology pioneered by Lady Trieu, while the Kents got theirs via an interstellar rocket.

And whatever it is that crash lands on Clark Acres sure feels like it could be a vessel from another world. The rocket containing baby Kal-El in the comics always landed in the fields of Kansas, while here, whatever it is that Lady Trieu is so interested in, comes to the fields of Oklahoma.

- At one point in the opening montage (set to “Islands in the Stream” by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton), Katie Clark can be spotted reading a novel. That novel is Fogdancing by Max Shea. Shea was the author of the Tales of the Black Freighter comic book story that runs parallel through the Watchmen book. Shea disappeared in 1983, but was in actuality sent to an island to help design the giant squid that Adrian Veidt used to kill millions of New Yorkers on Nov. 2, 1985. You can spot another novel on Katie’s bedside table, and while I can’t make out the title, it has a similar jacket design to her copy of Fogdancing. Presumably, it’s a copy of Shea’s other novel, The Hooded Basilisk.

DOCTOR MANHATTAN

- Cal displays an incredibly atheism with the kids. He tells them “heaven is pretend,” as matter-of-factly as he might tell children that Santa Claus isn’t real. This isn’t met with much more than a raised eyebrow by Angela. Is an almost complete lack of religion in the Watchmen universe perhaps another byproduct of the existence of Dr. Manhattan? I’m having trouble thinking of much in the way of appeals to the divine or even the presence of churches in the book.

- Laurie Blake refers to a “thermodynamic miracle” to explain (and even intimidate) Angela about all of the coincidences that keep popping up around her. Dr. Manhattan had told Laurie that her very existence, being that it was a product of a consensual union between two people who had every reason to dislike each other (as Dale Petey points out, Edward Blake had previously sexually assaulted Laurie’s mother, Sally Jupiter).

LOOKING GLASS

Once again, the Rorschach parallels with Wade Tillman/Detective Looking Glass are somewhat unavoidable. Looking Glass seems to keep a genuine survivalist’s bunker in his yard, the kind of weird reactionary behavior that would make Rorschach proud. On the other hand, Tillman has a sense of humor, and is clearly capable of having genuine friendships, and even romantic relationships, as we learn here that he has been married.

But who was his wife? Apparently she was some kind of scientific mind. Is it possible that she was also a costumed police officer?

- Looking Glass has a hobby, though, and that’s studying the squid rain that periodically falls on the Watchmen universe. You can see the photos he takes and develops in his darkroom (again, note the lack of widespread use of digital technology in this world), and up close, they do indeed look exactly like the giant psychic squid that killed millions of New Yorkers in 1985.

- Looking Glass is wearing a Tulsa Tornados hat. The only reference I can find to a sports team like that was for a professional soccer team that existed for exactly one season...in 1985, the year the original book takes place. Is it possible that one other detail of Watchmen’s alternate history is that soccer is far more popular in the United States than it is in OUR America today? And if so, did this team that struggled to eke out an existence in 1985 continue to thrive into modern day Tulsa sportsfandom?

NITE OWL

We’re now four for four in Nite Owl references on this show, even though we seem no closer to having Dan Dreiberg actually appear in the hooded flesh. Nevertheless, while it’s far less overt than what we saw in the previous three episodes, Nite Owl is once again here in spirit. How, you ask?

When Laurie is driving Angela and Dale Petey to Lady Trieu’s headquarters, the song playing in her car is Billie Holiday’s rendition of “You’re My Thrill.” That was a favorite of Dan’s, and it was the song playing in the Owlship when they had their first costumed hookup (we will never, ever speak of the horrid and unsexy abuse of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in the misguided movie adaptation of the book). Laurie is still dealing with feelings for Dan, just as she is for Dr. Manhattan.

We wrote more about the possible whereabouts of Nite Owl right here.

WILL REEVES

Our mysterious old man now has a full name: William Reeves. That last name seems significant, as it ties him to the real life fictional lawman he idolized as a child: Bass Reeves. But “Reeves” also brings up those Superman vibes again. George Reeves was an actor who played Superman for seven seasons of the (excellent and available on the DC Universe app) The Adventures of Superman TV series in the 1950s. And young Will escaped the Black Wall Street Massacre just as baby Kal-El escaped Krypton.

But as we’ve surely all noticed by now, Will is fond of Hooded Justice’s preferred colors of purple and red (just as Will’s possible ancestor, Bass Reeves, looked suspiciously like Hooded Justice in that silent film portrayal in Watchmen episode one). Will was apparently a police officer in the 1940s and ‘50s, but “retired young and fell off the grid.” Could that have happened around the same time Hooded Justice stopped adventuring?

We wrote more about the history of Hooded Justice right here.

LADY TRIEU

While we still don’t know much about Lady Trieu, she certainly seems to idolize Adrian Veidt. In fact, it’s possible that she holds Veidt in the same kind of regard that Veidt held Alexander the Great. She purchased his old company, dedicated her mysterious Millennium Clock project with a quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” (which, of course, was Veidt’s superhero name), and keeps a statue of him in full superhero regalia in her vivarium.

In fact, just the fact that she has a domed vivarium at all is a nod to Veidt, who had one in his arctic fortress, Karnak. There it was to prove that he could keep tropical flora and fauna alive in the most inhospitable environment. Here, Lady Trieu has brought a little of Vietnam into America’s heartland.

Veidt was fascinated with the old world, particularly the exploits of Alexander the Great. Trieu seems focused on creating “the first wonder of the new world” with the Millennium Clock. Veidt felt that Alexander the Great, despite conquering roughly half the known world, had fallen short of a truly lasting impact. Is it possible that Lady Trieu feels the same way about Veidt?

Anyway, speaking of Adrian Veidt...

ADRIAN VEIDT

Veidt confirms in this episode that he has been wherever he is for four years. So any speculation I may have had that time passes differently wherever he is appears to be nonsense. Instead, those “anniversaries” are indeed real, and each episode we’ve seen has indeed taken place one year apart for him. But keep in mind that Veidt has been missing since 2012, so unless additional anniversaries are going to be marked in upcoming episodes, that doesn’t necessarily mean that he has been in his mysterious “prison” since 2012.

Veidt also makes it clear he was “sent here” so he is absolutely in some kind of prison, and the lake and “baby microwave” stuff should be enough to make it obvious that “here” isn’t our usual earthly realm.

He also makes comments indicating that he knows who created where he is, referring to Mr. Phillips and Miss Crookshanks as “flaws in this thoughtless design” (as opposed to “intelligent design” nonsense) and that he is “not your maker.” At the conclusion of the book, Dr. Manhattan claimed to be departing our galaxy, and seemed to contemplate the possibility of creating human life. Are we witnessing the result here with Adrian Veidt?

There’s also this continued weirdness about how he seems to need to get these “flaws” to perform a set of actions in a certain sequence in order to make his mistake. In this episode, it’s a horseshoe that he doesn’t “need yet.”

MISCELLANEOUS STUFF

- Who is the weird silver runner? Red calls him Lube Man. This show absolutely gets the quaint, weird vibes of the regular people who try to be superheroes in this world.

- Can anyone make out Keene’s lapel pin? It looks like it could almost have elements of the Comedian’s badge in it, but I can’t seem to get a close enough look.

- Cal is reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This episode’s title, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own” is a quote from that book.

- The lamp in the Abar household living room looks like the face of the squid.

- Petey’s fandom shows pretty strongly with his “that show is garbage” critique of American Hero Story: Minutemen.

- The episode closes with Irma Thomas’ powerful 1964 rendition of “Time is on My Side.” It was Thomas’ arrangement that the Rolling Stones rode to considerable success a few years later.

Did you spot anything we missed? If so, drop it in the comments or let me know on Twitter!

Mike Cecchini is the Editor in Chief of Den of Geek. You can read more of his work here. Follow him on Twitter @wayoutstuff.

Read and download the Den of Geek NYCC 2019 Special Edition Magazine right here!

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An outfit I wore in Luxor, Egypt inspired by Brendan Fraser’s character, Rick O’Connell, in the movie “The Mummy.”

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Growing up, I was absolutely obsessed with the movie, “The Mummy.” (Let’s be real, it’s still one of my favorite movies.) I think I’ve watched it at least 10 thousand times. (I probably watched it even more than Star Wars.)

While getting ready for my trip to Egypt, I had to watch it one more time to get myself motivated to pack…which is when my cousin, Mandie, suggested to me that I should do an outfit post based on the movie! Perhaps a feminine take on Rick O’Connell’s outfit? I loved the idea, but I didn’t have time to buy anything new for my trip, so I took what I was already planning to bring along and rearranged it for this post. (Except the blue scarf, that I bought at an Egyptian cotton store my first day in Cairo with this outfit in mind. Haha.)

The Rick O’Connell Outfit

This is the look I’m going for.

I had to go sans gun holsters, belt and riding boots, but otherwise I was pretty satisfied with how this outfit turned out! But I’ll let you guys be the judge…did I get close to looking like Rick O’Connell?

Ha! I’ll never forget my husband turning to me and saying, “So, are you ready to take your Brendan Fraser photo? I think this will be a really good spot for it.” I never thought I would hear such a phrase in my life, haha. (Also, best husband award goes to…mine!)

Not Hamunaptra, but Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt for a Background

This may not be Hamunaptra, either, but Karnak Temple in the city of Luxor sure felt just as extraordinary. I’ll be doing a whole post on visiting this incredible temple complex in my next blog post! (If you haven’t seen the movie Hamunaptra is the made up city of The Dead everyone is trying to find in Egypt.)

Thoughts on Wearing This Outfit for Traveling

This outfit was SO comfortable for a day of exploring in and traveling through Egypt. I actually liked it so much I wore it again for Petra….and I didn’t even have to wash it! Despite sweating like crazy all day, this outfit didn’t get smelly. Breathable fabrics are where it’s at!

My hiking pants are the best travel pants I’ve ever bought. They are what I normally wear when flying, and I’ve worn them on countless adventures when I was living in South America. (They were especially handy for my Peruvian Adventures.) I love that they’re quick drying too. I’ve been able to wash them in the hotel sink at night and have them be dry in just a couple hours!

This shirt is an old linen blend one I had bought over 6 years ago for my trip to India. It’s one of those shirts that I should have been wearing for every single trip I’ve ever taken, but I kind of forgot I had it until last summer. It was like Christmas morning when I dug it out! It’s perfect for protecting me from the sun when we are out in the desert all day. It also worked well for the chillier nights in Jordan. (I’m definitely going to be investing in more travel shirts like this!)

One more Rick O’Connell pic!

So, now, I have to know…who else is a fan of “The Mummy?” (The 1999 version at least.) Let me know in the comments!

Where to find it: Shirt: Old (Similar here) Hiking Pants: Eddie Bauer (On sale!!) Sandals: Blowfish Scarf: Bought in Egypt (Similar here) Sunnies: Old (Similar here) Watch: Similar here Bracelet: WestRiverLeatherCo.

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