#obscure references

[the-audacity-of-this-btch-13]

You're the only one who makes me *headbang* every time we *headbang*

[twilitember]

[stellarwind-xiv]

Today I ran into an incredibly obscure reference and I am horribly amused by it. Look at this line:

This is an incidental quote from Yda after she won a sparring match with Hoary Boulder in the Rising Stones, appearing shortly before the start of the quest "Build on the Stone". On a quick look this seems like another "quirky" Yda line riffing on the obvious "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" snowclone, but I couldn't help but do a double take at the very particular phrasing – because I'm pretty sure anyone who ever played through Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire will recognize it as a nod to this scene:

Yda is apparently the prince of Shapier. Checks out. I mean, have you ever seen them both at the same room in the same time?

Of all the old point-and-click games that FFXIV could (and did) throw sneaky nods to, I never expected the Quest for Glory series - and it's honestly delightful. Somebody give Koji Fox (or whomever in the localization team of the time that put it in there) yet another medal.

[pondertales]

Obscure Atmospheric Recommendations: Lighthouse Edition

Do you enjoy the mood of dusty lighthouses ( probably haunted by the ornery spirits of previous keepers ), small coastal towns, dark nautical themes, and eldritch maritime entities? If so, these are some recommendations for you.

Image credit is to "uncanny system" on Pinterest

Books:

One of my current WIPs ( shameless advertisement on part of yours truly - the WIP hasn't been published but I do plan on doing so once I have finished it )

The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler

The Cursed Soul by K. C. Smith

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne

Video Games:

Dredge (2023) developed by Black Salt Games

Sunless Sea ( released in 2015, has since updated ) developed by Failbetter Games Ltd.

Movies and Shows:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas ( film adaptation of the 1869 novel/book by Jules Verne )

Song of the Sea ( 2014 film produced in Ireland )

Music and Playlists:

Amhran na Farraige ( song featured in Song of the Sea; "Amhran na Farriage translates to. "Song of the Sea" in Gaeilge )

What Lies Beneath - Underwater horror ambience ( composed by Robert Austin Music; I feel that this appeals to the more haunted aspect of this aesthetic )

Amhran na Leabhar ( song by M. Máire Ní Shúilleabháin )

You're a Lighthouse Keeper in a Small Seaside Village A Playlist ( playlist compiled by "ameplaylists" on Youtube )

In Too Deep ( song by Emir Isilay and Carrah Flahive )

[secret passageways and mysterious lighthouses (ocean academia)] ( a playlist compiled by Sundew Baggins on Youtube )

Dark Nautical Theme

I will add more to this reference as I see fit. I would like to add a disclaimer that there is an overlap between certain aspects of this aesthetic and others.

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Destroy all monsters.

[dmagedgoods]

OCS AS OBSCURE REFERENCES - ROWLEY

tagged by @baneschosen thank you so much, I took forever but this was a lot of fun! 💕 I did something similar for Salvadore and Eneas in the past, sooo I picked Rowley this time.

ANIMAL: robins (that’s where his birthname Robin comes from), coyotes, dogs, bunnies COLORS: black, gray, dark brown, dark blue, sometimes deep red MONTH: november SONGS: play with fire (sam tinnesz), laplace's angel (will wood), don't stop me now (queen), guns for hire (woodkid) NUMBER: 13 PLANTS: ivy, dandelion SMELLS: leather, fire, smoke GEMSTONE: garnet TIME OF DAY: night SEASON: late autumn and winter, he loves the colder temperatures and the darkness PLACES: rooftops far above a big city’s entwined alleyways, dim taverns FOOD: venison DRINKS: gin, whisky, rum ELEMENT: fire ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: sagittarius SEASONINGS: red pepper SKY: heavy clouds and an upcoming storm WEATHER: cloudy and cold or a raging tempest MAGICAL POWER: teleporting, invisibility, a strange luck saving him from the most hopeless of situations WEAPONS: daggers, martial arts (and pistols in all universes that have those) SOCIAL MEDIA: twitter and reddit – mostly to troll people MAKEUP PRODUCT: lots of kajal, sometimes eyeliner CANDY: anything crunchy (like candied almonds) METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: ship (trains in universes where they exist) ART STYLE: surrealism, dark arts (macabre) FEAR: none (losing those he has sworn to protect) MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: all sorts of shadow creatures PIECE OF STATIONARY: notebook THREE EMOJIS: 😁 🗡️ 🩸 CELESTIAL BODY: asteroid This time I'm no pressure tagging: @dujour13 @cassynite @arendaes @transprincecaspian @amatres @tenmillionbees @iwoszareba and @spyridonya @undyingembers @silversiren1101 And of course anyone else who wants to do it! 💗

[heartlesscad]

boys be like “i know a place” and then take you to a remote cliff side just before dawn to make sure both of you are burned to a crisp with the rising sun, the pain serving as penance for the people both of you have killed

[thebellekeys]

if charles darwin and his cousin didn’t have a dozen inbred babies then we wouldn’t have had the chronicles of narnia and that means we wouldn’t have had ben barnes and then that means I wouldn’t have existed since ben barnes is my daddy