#reference overdosed

[callipraxia]

This is all very true, and something I've thought of a lot, albeit more for slightly-adjacent reasons.

See, I read way too many writing advice books, and for beginnings, you get told to just...jump straight in. A specific example I recall is the advice to start your science fiction novel with somebody just shooting an alien in the face. So, when I started FWJB Part I, that was literally the scenario I started with: Ford shooting a henchmaniac in the face. In the next scene, when we jumped into the point at which this story diverged from canon, we got Stan in a government SUV, which just crashed courtesy of the last gravitational anomaly. I could do that because between the summary ("In one universe parallel to 46'\, small matters...went differently, and as a result, the next-to-last gravitational anomaly did not allow Stan Pines to escape from federal custody as early as he did in its sibling reality") and the assumption that the readers knew "Not What He Seems" inside and out allowed me to just...jump in there, with no explanation of why this guy is in a government SUV, what's up with his weird watch, why this government agent is acting like he's a supervillain, who this 'Poindexter' person he needs information about is, etc. And so on and so forth. And so, the story got off to an extremely rapid start, and it continued on that way until the end of Part I...just like the writing books recommend. But it only worked because the audience already knew so much of the story up to that point. There were some flashbacks (Tate and Fiddleford McGucket) that filled in elements of the backstory later, and things where characters had to learn information (Dipper and Mabel and Soos getting an explanation of why this guy who looks like Stan just popped up out of nowhere), but even with that in place, I imagine it would have been really hard to understand without the audience having that amount of backstory.

So there we have: the Official Writing Advice...and maybe this is a failing in my imagination (I have a lot of these), but it seems it only really works properly with fanfiction. And then I think back on a lot of classic literature...where now, we need tons of footnotes, but the contemporary audiences didn't because they already knew the basics of the story inside and out. Look at the Bacchae - the last great tragedy, which essentially makes no sense whatsoever if you don't already know the story of the House of Cadmus - about Cadmus and Harmonia, about the deaths of Semele and Actaeon, about the double birth of Dionysus, etc. etc. And who's this Tiresias guy and why do we care? Or go later, check out the Renaissance - Shakespeare's plays, all the references. Dante, who filled Hell with people he did not like and who his contemporaries would have recognized the references to. Or later yet - read the original texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, or Through the Looking-Glass, or Flatland, etc. - these 19th century works are amusing and pointed if you know the references, but they range from impenetrable at worst to at least odd and disjointed at best if you don't, hence why we all owe the people behind the annotated versions great debts for their scholarship. Even into the twentieth century, you had elements of this with your writing-circles - friends who wrote together/made bets about who could write the better work in the other's style/shouted out to each other's continuities/etc. And now, today...we have fanfiction.

Another thing a lot of writing advice dictates is that there are at least very few completely original stories, just stories retold from a new point of view, or with new characters, and so forth. I'm not super-familiar with any publisher's lists, but just surveying the New Arrivals in the public library now and again, I can't help but notice evidence for this - for the past couple of years, there's been a positive fad for taking stories from mythology and retelling them as Stuff Happening to Classicists/Classics Students, At Least Some Of Them Evil. Part of that could very well be because Donna Tartt's first novel was about screwed-up classicists and one of Donna Tartt's more recent works won the Pulitzer ("I saw Donna Tartt wearing army pants and flipflops, so I went out and bought army pants and flipflops")...but even then, The Secret History gains extra dimension if you're familiar with Euripides and the Bacchae, which I already mentioned.

(Apparently it gains even more dimensions if you went to Bennington College in the eighties, but I can't attest to that, as I wasn't even born in the eighties and my experiences with Bennington are limited to having greatly admired the advertising at one point. But I digress.)

Point is - despite books, at least, being so often associated with recluses like myself who never really have more than one foot in the real world and aren't entirely happy about the necessity of maintaining even that level of contact with it, stories are meant to build on each other, I think. When they can't - when they try to be too self-contained - they lose something of what could make them great. Storytelling, after all, is far more ancient than reading and writing; Socrates preached against writing things down, if Plato's to be believed, and yet Socrates apparently knew his Homer, as there were festivals for the best recitations in that day. In the medieval period, your average person could not read and write, but still knew stories and embroidered on them as they passed them along - they were entertained by poetry and narrative as much as we are, just in a different format. And why not? Storytelling gives us something to talk about. Why do people form fandoms now? Why do we make friends through our desire to play with fiction? A common story gives us a context in which to express our ideas, a common language of sorts - I might not be able to explain my thoughts on Issue X in the abstract in a way that makes much sense, but if we put it into terms of Character A and Character B, we have a better chance of reaching an understanding. When I study some material in its pure form, it is far more likely to fail to interest me at first than it is if I start learning about it through a good story. And...it's just more fun this way, isn't it? Making up stories together - children who never write a word do this. It seems to be programmed into kids; I was brought up hardly ever seeing other children, and yet there were elaborate mythologies around my dolls. And who doesn't find it more enjoyable to tell a story when you know that you can find an audience that's as interested as you are ahead of time?

I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than like…canon can. If you’re in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you can’t make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.

And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldn’t expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirk’s old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, I’m not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirk’s backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirk’s character that he’s a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question “why did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?” With “‘cause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.” A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is “because he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasn’t taken.” BUT—and this is significant—even the TOS canon movies can’t really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead it’s fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk I’ve only read 2 trek books, if there’s one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say “I’ve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but it’s not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.” And that’s interesting! That’s meaningful! That can’t happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and that’s a strength of fic, I think.

[darkmagiciang1rl]

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[attyrocious]

Idea: Corazon, whilst still pretending to be mute, goes through the trouble of drawing a middle finger on a piece of paper rather than flipping people off the normal way.

thank u tumblr user @not-a-font

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[macgyvermedical]

Hey I was talking to a coworker and they said that it was safe to take aspirin "until your ears ring", which is the first sign of overdose. If you then immediately stop you'll be completely fine. She claims her surgeon brother told her this. Is this true???

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While it's correct that tinnitus (ringing in the ears) is one of the first symptoms of overdose (along with nausea, vomiting, profuse sweating, and fast breathing), logistically there's not really a way to take it "until your ears ring".

Tinnitus is most common in acute (one-time) aspirin overdoses. And it takes about an hour after a toxic dose for enough of the aspirin to get into your system to cause tinnitus. So by the time you have the symptom, you already took too much an hour ago.

Plus, tinnitus is just one of the first symptoms. It doesn't say anything about the severity of the ingestion, or whether or not it was lethal. All it says is that there is too much aspirin in the body.

Following tinnitus, nausea, vomiting, profuse sweating, and fast breathing, the blood becomes very alkaline. Symptoms include numbness and tingling, muscle twitching, fatigue, and dizziness. You also lose a lot of potassium in your urine in this phase- and the resulting low potassium in the blood can cause lethal heart rhythms. If you survive this, the blood then becomes life-threateningly acidic. Symptoms here include weakness, confusion, headache, and fast heartbeat. If the acidosis is not corrected and the potassium replaced, either of these things can lead to death.

About half of aspirin overdoses are intentional. The rest tend to be children who accidentally drink liquid preparations of aspirin or ingest oil of wintergreen (one teaspoon (5ml) of oil of wintergreen contains the equivalent amount of salicylate (the active part of aspirin) to 21 adult aspirins).

It is super important if you are having symptoms of overdose to go to a hospital. You need to get potassium back into your blood and get your pH back to normal or the overdose can absolutely be lethal.

All this to say there's not really a safe way to overdose on aspirin. I'd just stick to what it says to take on the bottle, and if you need more pain relief than that take acetaminophen/paracetamol (not ibuprofen) on top of it, along with other modalities of pain control like heat, cold, distraction, positioning, splinting, or mobility aids. If it continues, talk to a doctor.

[amelietheangel]

sonic kangel (once again)

[raykat]

ame and kangel but its that one incorporeal entity & the only person who can see them image from twt

[magicalmayhemz]

The dark side of the moon reference in my needy streamer overload,,,, im going to pass out

[peachierainbows]

meet needy streamer’s version of shiteyan’yo (tenshiyan’yo)

[shiguknifeii]

Been kind of down lately about my art, so here's some kind of old art that I'm kind of proud of.

The ones I'm most proud of are kind of scary, so content warning for scary imagery. If this possibly offends anyone for a good reason, I'll take it down.

I was in a bit of a weird headspace while making these two. The first one on the left was based around a Radiohead poster I recently gotten.

The second one was made while listening to a song called Maple by lostrushi / Lucy Bedroque (Another content warning as the picture that is used has someone hanging). The song kind of reminded me of a sprite that I swore I had seen somewhere on a thumbnail of Saya from Saya No Uta, so I tried to recreate it from my memory. Then it turned into... Whatever I created.

[varkgamingwastaken]

It feels important that I post this stupid fucking shitpost everywhere

[justkidneying]

Foaming at the mouth.

What can cause it, why do those things cause it (seizures, rabies, poisons, having a xeno burst out of your chest, etc)?

And--have you seen it used in fiction where/when it doesn't make sense?

This is fun, who doesn't love rabies and poisoning! I'll go through a few causes: seizures, rabies, poisons, and drug overdose. Then I will cover its presentation in fiction.

First, why do people foam at the mouth? The mechanism behind it can be a lot of things, but this is basically just from your saliva mixing with air from the lungs. So if someone is drooling and not in control of their facilities, this can cause foam to leak from the mouth.

Seizures

The specific type of seizure here is tonic-clonic (aka Grand mal). First, the patient will lose consciousness and their muscles will contract. Air is going to be forced out of the lungs and the person may even cry out and gurgle. They're also not in control of themselves, so they aren't going to be worried about swallowing their saliva, which equals foaming at the mouth (it might even be pink foam if they bite their tongue/cheek). That is the tonic phase. The clonic phase is the jerky spasms of the limbs, which takes up most of the time spent seizing.

saliva + can't control swallowing -> foaming at the mouth

Rabies

One of my personal favorite diseases (to learn about), rabies is caused by a virus that is commonly transmitted by bites (mostly from bats). It is mainly spread through saliva. There are two types of rabies: "violent" and "dumb" (those aren't medical terms, lol). The violent type (about 80% of cases), is the type you're most familiar with. This sees increased aggression, fever, confusion, paranoia, increased saliva production, difficulty swallowing, and hydrophobia. The hydrophobia is interesting because the person will have violent and painful throat spasms if they see water or try to drink it.

increased saliva + can't swallow -> foaming at the mouth

The dumb form of rabies is the paralytic form, which causes muscle weakness. I've seen this in a horse before, and I'd say this form is probably more common in livestock.

Poison

This one isn't as fun, just because it's a bit boring. Poisons affect our cells and central nervous systems. Eating them can also make your mouth water. Confusion, loss of consciousness, muscle spasms, and loss of function can also follow.

loss of function/increased saliva -> foaming at the mouth

Drug Overdose

This depends on the type of drug, but both stimulants and depressants can cause foaming at the mouth. Stimulants (coke, amphetamines) can cause jitters, muscle spasms, and increased saliva production. Depressants (heroin, opioids) can cause drooling, respiratory impairment, and loss of consciousness.

depressed/stimulated nervous system -> foaming at the mouth

In Fiction

I think the goofiest one I see is from poisons, specifically cyanide. For some reason, people feel like a cyanide capsule works like a baking soda volcano. There is no chemical reaction here, it's just spit and air, they aren't going to foam that much.

What I've seen from seizures, OD, and rabies (in dogs) has been somewhat realistic. Nothing really stands out to me as being super incorrect about the foaming specifically. The one thing I will say is that usually seizures are only presented in the clonic phase (jerking), rather than the tonic phase (cyanosis, tensing). And there is usually no postictal phase (after the seizure). Not saying any of that would be good to watch or read about, just that it doesn't get shown a lot. Usually people just start jerking it on the floor.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this and that I answered the question well.

[inky-duchess]

Writing About Drugs

Writing about drugs and addiction can be challenging. Like it or not, drugs are a part of society. I strongly urge all writers to do their own research into this topic and handle it with the upmost respect and care.

Your Character's Journey Into, During and After Drugs

If your character happens to use drugs or is a recovering addict, it does not make them bad people or mean that they had must have a bad upbringing. People do drugs for all sorts of reasons and it isn't an indicator of moral virtue or lack of it.

Most people start using drugs voluntary to try them out. Some people start using drugs as a way to influence their mood or 'help' another problem. Experimentation doesnt always lead to addiction. People can use drugs without becoming dependent. Your character may be feeling lost at this time or bored or disenchanted with their situation or suffering.

If a character begins drugs regularly, they may deny they have a problem. Most drug users hide their habits from others which an lead to some risky behavior. They may start forming relationships with other users to hide their use or sustain it.

Characters who begin to fall into regular use of drugs may start to compartmentalise their use. They will become more adept at hiding their use, sometimes even scheduling their highs.

A character will start to act differently while using drugs, even look different. Some drugs cause weightless due to nausea and lack of appetite. Their behaviours will usually be blamed on something else or waved away. A character may become irritatable and defensive when asked questions.

Addiction is usually around the time a character loses control over their use. They may begin to engage in longer binges, high doeses and lose control of their life outside of drugs. Relationships may break down, jobs may be put in peril and the character may begin to take more risks.

Addiction is an illness and left untreated it can kill your character. However, they may shun help out of shame or fear of judgement, or may be too anxious to try help themselves. Your character will have to come to terms with their addiction and its effects on their life. Only when they've accepted it can they move on.

Withdrawal can be harsh on your character depending on what drug they use and how long they've been using. The side effects of withdrawal can cause a character to fear getting clean. It can be a long exhaustive and often painful process.

Characters who get clean can fall back into using drugs. Sometimes this can be triggered by stress. Falling back into drugs can pose issues such as lead to a higher risk of overdosing. Getting clean is a long process and they will need a lot of support.

Kinds of Drugs

Dissociative drugs: Dissociative drugs alter perception leaving the participant feeling a disconnection with the world around them. Examples: Ketamine and nitrous oxide

Depressants: Or sedatives calm the participant, slowing the breathing and reaction of the participants. Examples, GHB and benzodiazepines

Stimulants: Stimulants are the opposites of sedatives, perking up and hypering the participant. Examples: Cocaine and amphetamines

Psychedlics: Are an 'Hallucinogenic' drug. They cause changes in perception, thought, emotion and consciousness, altering your mind. Example:  LSD, Mushrooms

Opioids: Are made of extracts of poppy or opium. They decrease pain and sensation in the participant. Example: heroin, morphine, codeine, heroin and methadone. They are classed as narcotic analgesics - meaning they decrease pain reaction and sensation.

Common Drugs and their Side Effects

Cocaine: Cocaine a short acting but powerul drug upper drug. Cocaine comes in powder form, most commonly snorted it can also be injected (after being liquified) or smoked, known as crack. Cocaine is fast acting but the effects usually last only 30mins. One becomes more alert, your heart rate and pulse races, your pupils dilate, you may be hyperactive, you will sweat and your mouth may feel dry. Cocaine in long term uses often causes mood swings, digestive problems, heart issues. It may even cause a person to become violent and sexually aroused. Overdoses can bring on heart attacks, strokes or epileptic fit. Cocaine is an expensive drug, due to its high value and the short life span of the high. Cocaine comes from the coca plant and is often cut would other 'fillers' even things such as baking soda which means every dealer may have a different combinations. Cocaine is extremely addictive and hard to withdraw from. Cocaine comes by many names: coke, blow, snow, tokoyo, crack.

Ecstasy: Comes in pill form but can be crushed to be snorted. Ecstasy takes longer to work than other drugs (20-70 minutes). The high can last from anywhere to 2-6 hours. Esctasy brings on a euphoric high that can make sensations and emotions more intense. Heart rate, temperature and blood pressure go up, causing nausea and in some cases hallucinations. People may sweat, experience dry mouth, heightened sense of anxiety, difficulty passing urine and experience a bout of depression known as a comedown. Ecstasy is also known as E, XTC, pills, yokes, MDMA, MD.

Methamphetamine: Another upper. It effects the central nervous system. Meth comes in many forms, rocks, pills and crystals. Meth is dissolvable in water or alcohol. It is odourless and tastes bitter. Meth can be smoked, snorted, injected or swallowed. The effects last between 4 to 12 hours. Meth gives the user a feeling of adrenaline, causing euphoria, arousal. Meth also causes compulsive behaviour, a lack of appetite, rapid breathing, nausea, panic attacks, paranoia, hallucinations and psychosis. Meth rots teeth causing long time users a spate of dental issues. Meth is also known as crystal meth, yaba, chalk, glass, tina, chriostal, ice, crank, zip and christy.

Speed: Speed is a stimulant that comes as powder or tablet. Like other drugs it can be snorted, swallowed or injected. Speed comes as a pinkish or off-white powder. Speed can be rubbed onto gums and mixed into drinks. The affects start within 20 minutes, lasting up to 4-6 hours. Speed brings on energy, widened pupils, increased breathing, heart rate and blood pressure. It also brings on diarrhoea, teeth grinding, increased bladder use, sweating, headaches, and jaw clenching. Speed can make somebody more active, talkative but they can also become more aggressive, more irritable, depressed and suffer bouts of psychosis. A user can build up a tolerance meaning they have to use a higher dose to feel the same effects. Speed is also known as phet, billy, whiz, sulph, base.

Ketamine: Ketamine is actually an anaesthetic used in medicine. Ketamine is a dissociative and psychedelic drug. People feel detached when using it, relaxed and euphoric. Ketamine comes in white powder, pills and if taken from a medical source, liquid. Ketamine can be snorted, swallowed (wrapped in cigarette paper), mixed into drinks and injected. Some users have hallucinations. A user may suffer stomach cramps, vomit and issues with coordination. Ketamine is also known as K, Ket, Special K, Horse Tranquiliser, Vitamin K.

Cannabis: Cannabis comes from the cannabis plant. Depending on how the plant is grown, it can have different levels of potency. Cannabis comes in many forms. Cannabis resin/hash (is a black or brown lump formed from the resin of the cannabis plant. It is comes in blocks.) Herbal cannabis/grass / weed (made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the female parts of the plant. It is often smoked). Cannabis oils (is oil extracted from the plant, sold in droppers, syringes or capsules). ‘Shatter’ (cannabis extracted using a solvent. This produces a glass-like substance which is smoked in a pipe), Edibles (food products infused with cannabis such as baked goods or sweets). Cannabis is commonly smoked, the ground dried leaves rolled with cigarette papers in a joint. Effects start instantaneously when it is inhaled. Ingesting cannabis leads to a delay in effects. Cannabis gives the user a sense of calm and relaxation, giddiness, bloodshot eyes, dry mouth, increased appetite, paranoia, mood swings, mild hallucinations, troubles with coordination and memory and in some cases psychosis. However, cannabis also has medical purposes such as helping with anxiety, act as pain relief and help with nausea. Cannabis is legal in some countries. Cannabis has many nicknames: weed, hash, hashish, weed,  pot, ganja, grass, bush, herb, puff, spliff

Magic Mushrooms: Magic mushrooms are certain breeds of mushroom that when ingested cause a high. Mushrooms are usually sold dried and raw or in liquid fom or capsules. Mushrooms can be eaten or stewed in tea. Effects vary from types of mushroom or personal factors, usually beginning an hour after ingestion. Mushrooms distort sensations, giving the set feelings of giddiness, euphoria, energy, joy. It can also cause the user to lose track on time. Mushrooms can cause stomach discomfort, nausea, sweating followed by chills. Also known as mushies, shrooms. liberties, liberty caps, magics, golden teachers, truffles, fly agaric,

LSD: LSD is a hallucinogenic drug, coming from a fungus known as ergot which grows on grasses such as rye. LSD usually comes as a piece of paper to be ingested or sucked. Effects begin about a half hour and can last up to 20 hours. LSD causes distortion of senses, hallucinations , paranoia, thoughts of suicide, effects on judgement, delusion. It is known as acid, L, lightening flash, blotter, dots, flash, hawk, cheer, liquid acid, lucy, micro dot, trips, tabs.

Codeine: Codeine is a painkiller widely available through doctors and over the counter in tablets, liquid or capsules. It is an opiate. Short term effects are relaxation, effected temperature, confusion, dry mouth, pinpoint pupils, itchiness and issues breathing. Longer term effects can cause breathing problems, constipation, low sex drive, irregular periods and liver issues.

Methadone: Not to be confused with Methamphetamine. Methadone comes as a blue/green liquid. Methadone is often prescribed by doctors to help heroin users manage their cravings. Methadone causes slower breathing, pain relief, drowsiness, dry mouth, lower blood pressure, constipation, pinpoint pupils, sweating, itching, pain in the joints, dental issues. Like some drugs, a user can build up a tolerance which can encourage them to use higher doses. Alcohol is extremely dangerous when mixed with methadone. Known juice and phy.

Heroin: Heroin is an opiate. It acts a sedative. Heroin comes as a powder, usually brown or white. Heroin can be injected, snorted or smoked. Effects start quickly usually lasting for hours. Heroin can give the user a sense of security, pinpoint pupils, dramatic mood swings, relief to pain, nausea, lack of appetite, lower sex drive, constipation, drowsiness and effects breathing. Like some other drugs, you build a tolerance, so users take more and more to reach the high, which often leads to overdose especially if the user has been clean for a while. Heroin is dangerous when other factors such as alcohol is involved. Heroin also wreaks the cough reflex which can cause a person to choke. Heroin is known as H, smack, gear, skag, junk, brown, china white, dragon.

[odetojupiter]

nathaniel’s birthday being 19th of jan, which is the same birthday as edgar allan poe, the eponym of edgar allan university, the place neil was sold to.

edgar allan’s wife was called virginia, EAU is based in west virginia. poe and virginia lived in baltimore, but often moved between there philadelphia and new york. poe died in baltimore.

like neil, poe’s mother was english. his father was american. he could speak french, and some sources say he had passable knowledge of german too. he was abused by his father.

the night before he died, poe is said to have called out the name ‘reynolds’ repeatedly. he died of alcohol poisoning.

and of course, the obvious - the ravens at EAU, edgar allan poe’s most famous poem being The Raven, and their stadium is called evermore, a play on nevermore

quoth the raven nevermore

[wanderersrest]

A Cheat Sheet to Gintama References

Have you ever said to yourself "I want to get into Gintama, but I want to understand all of the references?"

Well fear not, for I have a cheat sheet for a lot of the references. Not all of them, because I'd never finish this post. But there are a lot of references the series makes, and as non-native Japanese viewers, a lot of things are lost on us. That's not even getting to things that are lost due to the language barrier. So here it is: a (not so) comprehensive list of series that Gintama references!

Manga

Dragon Ball (Bonus points if it involves dunking on Yamcha.)

Fist of the North Star (Complete with a copyright-friendly version of You Wa Shock!)

Saint Seiya (an entire episode hinges on Gintoki being afraid of getting sued by Toei because of their constant Saint Seiya references)

City Hunter (I wouldn't be surprised if City Hunter was an inspiration for Gintama. Like Gintoki as a main character is what happens if you were to combine Kenshin Himura and Ryo Saeba into a single man. And then you gave said man Kakashi's hair.)

Rurouni Kenshin (Gintama is best described as the post Big 3 answer to Rurouni Kenshin. While One Piece and Shaman King are the true successors to RK, Gintama is the series most similar in terms of aesthetics... minus the modern tech in Meiji-era Japan.)

One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach (I'm folding all three into one line due to their nature as Jump's Big Three. Not helping things is that Gintama ran around the same time as all three.)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventures

Death Note

To Love Ru (Yes, really.)

SKET Dance (Not surprising as SKET Dance mangaka Kenta Shinohara was Sorachi's apprentice at one point)

Fullmetal Alchemist

Lupin III

Golgo 13

Kinnikuman (the thing Ultimate Muscle is based off of)

Doraemon

Sazae-san

Berserk

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K (Ask me about how Gintama helped screw Saiki K out of an English Dub for Season 2)

Anime

Mobile Suit Gundam (It helps that Sunrise/Bandai Namco Pictures produced the Gintama anime, because there are a lot of Gundam references in particular. You also don't get the Renho arc without Sunrise producing the anime.)

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (Specifically the fact that Shinpachi and Tsukuyo's voice actors are in each series respectively)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Especially if it involves MADAO, as MADAO shares a voice actor with Gendo Ikari)

Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro (I'm highlighting these three Ghibli movies in particular due to how often they are referenced throughout the series.)

The Brave Franchise (Specifically The Brave Express Might Gaine and The King of Braves GaoGaiGar)

Patlabor (Yes really, and SKET Dance is partially to thank for this one)

Video Games

Dragon Quest (Specifically DQ III & IV, this series gets referenced a lot once Tama is introduced)

Sengoku Basara (Specifically when it involves one Toshiro Hijikata)

Final Fantasy VII

Mother

Super Mario Brothers

Tales Of

Resident Evil

Yakuza/Like a Dragon (Not surprising, as both Like a Dragon and Gintama are set in and around Kabukicho)

Monster Hunter

Live Action Film & Television

Abarenbo Shogun (SHOGUN KA YO!!!!!)

NHK Taiga Drama (The Shinsengumi drama in particular is a primary influence for Gintama)

Game of Death

Star Wars

Kinpachi-sensei (The series that the Ginpachi-sensei segments are based off of)

Doctor Who

I hope this helps if and when you decide to watch through Gintama. I'll try to update this post as I remember more references or if anyone messages me with a reference that I missed. Because good lord are there a lot of references. Oh, also remember: if this is your first time watching Gintama, start on episode 3. The first two episodes are filler.

[amelietheangel]

hey so does anyone remember the person who made rainbow sisters? (gacha life)