#joseph lambert

[conra]

Carter really thought he could repeat the success of Crushed Demon/Joseph Lambert , but he didn't take into account two things - the stone and the force of gravity. Lol

[conra]

The Unknown and Plague from DBD look like an improved version of Joseph and Amy's demon. I think they'll get along well. 🙂👍

[delurkr]

J name poll

Same as for A-lady: in the interest of identifying the most likely names for a hypothetical 2060s J who would have come after John, I collected the current most popular boy names that start with J* and randomized their order. So, for fun, not necessarily headcanon, with a reminder that a lot of these may be seen as dated, "middle-aged" names in the near future:

Next-cycle J is currently a baby, a toddler, or about to be born within the next few years. What is his name?

Jayden

Jensen

Jasper

Joshua

Jason

Julian

Justin

Jaxon

Josiah

Jacob

Jace

Jordan

Voting ended onOct 12, 2024

*From lists of most-used baby names from 2021-2024 and, because there weren't enough J names there, also from a baby name site's list of names people showed the most interest in, excluding alternate spellings and names that are already used by canon or fanon doubles and names that are very similar to those already used.

[delurkr]

A barely-edited ramble as I try to figure out stuff about David and other 1692 folks

Under cut because boy those paragraphs got long

I was never a fan of how David is called a farmer in the subtitles before we learn his name, because with all the other type of people it took (and takes) to make a town just calling him a farmer with ultimately no textual backing comes off as rather uncreative or uninformed, as if someone just assumed that of course he would be a farmer because it's ye olden days and nobody did anything else (not an uncommon perception but super dumb). Of course it's possible that there was more thought behind it, but still there were plenty of positions available in towns like Salem and Andover in their time; craftspeople of all kinds and storekeepers and merchants of varying scope are some basic ones (also I've seen it said that the prior increase of business and trading in the area is considered to be a contributing factor to the societal instability that fed the witch trials, not that I'm going to fact check right now or give a citation for that). He's also only 20 years old, and under normal circumstances he's not likely to be a landowner yet so calling him a farmer in his own right is less believable, but it's certainly not a given that the Miltons' circumstances are normal so that's less important.

Now thinking about the museum, there's a mannequin dressed in David's clothes and it's set up at some sort of work table or piece of machinery, and I have no clue what it is but someone on reddit once suggested that it looked a little like a potter's wheel, which seems to be as good a guess as anything. So I've always liked the idea that David was trained as a potter but never progressed in that occupation before he turned to farming for some reason.

So in the interest of filling in backstory for the 1600s characters, because I'm woefully deficient in that department and grasping at anything, an idea I'm considering is that the father of Tabitha, David, and Mary was a potter who was training David in the business, but then when the mother Martha Milton was taken in the Commencement Day Massacre in 1690, when Tabitha was 20 years old, Mr. Milton couldn't deal and left to buy milk as they say and hasn't been heard of since (not to make it all dramatic but if he up and disappeared from LH town with no news from any of surrounding town near or far it leaves an open question with a good amount of potential answers). That would have left Tabitha as the head of household she appears to be, and there might naturally be debts to settle on top of a sudden loss of income with Mr. Milton gone which might have taken the pottery business and the associated livelihood off their hands one way or another, so the Miltons hired themselves to the Lamberts in whatever arrangement best made sense and lived and worked on the Lamberts' farm by 1692.

That gives David his farmer label, and the other side of it is that the Lamberts would have needed someone like him around, because while I know Strong Farmer Joseph is an appealing idea I lean towards the doubles sharing each other's physical capabilities beyond just physical likeness, and farming takes truckloads of stamina but even adrenaline couldn't give John a whole lot of that (I mean let's be real, John is normal in that situation and the others are generally abnormal in their ability to do that much running around for an entire night with barely any effect, but that's a tangent). John also seems to have some concern about his heart, whether there's an actual medical reason behind that idk, so that may be a thing for Joseph too. So I imagine Joseph needed to take a step back from the heavy work on their property and David was needed to take that place, and of course there's plenty for Tabitha and Mary to do as well.

So yeah, that's what I'm considering to give background to the idea of the Miltons working for the Lamberts, which was the one part I'm solid on. If anybody has other ideas I'm lowkey desperate to hear them lol

[tinynightmarewoman]

With that whole ramble from yesterday still fresh in my squishy pink brain, you what I really wish we got to see from Joseph? That absolute diva bitch personality we see in John and slightly James. I'd kill to see Joseph make a snide remark or banter or just generally be a brat like John could be.

And it would be even funnier for Joseph because of the accent and dialect, you know how funny it would be to have Joseph be a bitch in ye olde English? ICONIC!!!

I want my yabber jabber moment but with the poor puritan man.

[delurkr]

joseph from little hope is so male-wife too

I don't know that I can argue with that assessment lol (I think we all know there's going to be a boss in any J and A-lady relationship and it's not going to be J 😂)

[tinynightmarewoman]

The idea of Joseph being allergic to pollen while being a farmer that primarily works outside is so funny to me LMAO!

Paired with my headcannon that he's just as blind as James and John it makes me laugh, poor guys got a stuffy nose trying to till the dirt with a broom because he mistook it for his tools.

[conra]

Puritan Possum

Since there is Professor Possum @delurkr and Papa Possum @108garys , I decided to draw a third possum based on this picture to finally close the triangle. + pay attention to Amy in the image of a hedgehog . The original idea belongs to  @tinynightmarewoman