#steamland

[phillipbrannigan]

Bean in ponytail 🤭😭💅

My obsession with disenchantment *COUGH*-bean-…

[belle-steampunk-epoque]

Sketches from the land of Stilmeland

All from the land of Stilmeland

[imdcathsmeow29]

THEY WENT ABSOLUTELY HARD ON THESE BACKGROUNDS LIKE WOW I AM JUST IN AWE

[uptonogoodart]

This is a headcanon of mine, that might be close to canon: Returno (aka Pops, according to many in the fandom), before going back to Elfwood, lived for a while in Steamland selling sweets with Elfo that was too little to remember.

I used the portrait at the League of Gallivanting Scrutinators that appears in 3x04 “Steamland Confidential” as reference.

[photographerofdreamland]

[You’ve got my number.]

[I don’t know what that means, but thank you.]

[tvshowfeels]

Disenchantment S2E9 The Electric Princess

[ixar-of-the-bargains]

So uh, if the Archdruidess was sent specifically to lure Bean to Steamland, it stands to reason she was sent pretty recently (as in, not that long before the show’s events start recent). And in Season 1 someone quips that the religion is still in its early days so uh. Did she just make up the religion specifically to make life hell for Dreamlanders?

Also what’s up with Odval? What is his endgame? Since pretty obviously the whole “kill Zog and establish theocratic dictatorship” wasn’t.

[joemerl]

One thing that really bugs me about Disenchantment is how much of its humor just comes down to “hey, did you realize that the Middle Ages were awful?” It’s rare that I find one of those gags funny; for the most part they’re just repetitive and give the impression that we’re not supposed to like the setting. I mean, Futurama uses a lot of dystopian elements in its worldbuilding but New New York is still presented as a place that we’re supposed to like.

On that note, I think it says something that the one time that Disenchantment does try to invoke a sense of wonder, it’s for Steamland, aka New New York 2.0. (New New New York? Newer New York?) 

Overall I just don’t get the impression that the people behind this show really love fantasy the way that the Futurama crew obviously loved sci-fi. A while back @allieinarden​ and I were talking about how “The Lonely Heart is a Hunter” stands out for actually using selkies/animal brides, a common but less-obvious fantasy trope. Futurama threw out things like that all the time, but Disenchantment feels like it’s mostly running on fairy tales and Disney movies that the writers haven’t revisited since childhood, with the Game of Thrones throne thrown in for favor. (Try saying that five times fast.) I think I would like this show more if I got the impression that Matt Groening and co. actually liked it themselves.