#the underland tv series

[quohotos]

So about Bio-Luminescence in the Underland...

This comment from @niumien got me thinking...

I couldn't find the screenshot that was just close up on the lamps, but it does exist I swear!

These are screen grabs from the Mata Nui Online game. All of the other Matoran use glowing rocks to light their homes, but the Ga-Matorian use these bio-luminescent jelly fish which I think is just so cool.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had something similar in the underland. They're obviously not great portable light given how heavy water is and how you need to feed them periodically, but I can imagine Luxa having an ornate container of them on her desk in her apartment. I bet Hazard got a lot of exotic colored ones as gifts for his birthday.

However... when we get to glow worms I don't think it's as cute and pretty.

Wow, isn't that amazing? Aren't those glow worms beautiful? Well... they are at our scale but the Underland makes everything BIGGER and more intelligent.

Real life glow worms trap bugs in their long sticky strands to eat them. They're harmless to humans because we're just way way way to big to be eaten, they eat moths mainly... but how big are the moths in the underland? You seeing where I'm going with this?

Underland Glow worms would be fucking terrifying!

Imagine being an ovelrander, thinking you'd escaped because you see stars in the sky, but then something sticky grabs onto you and doesn't let go.

If I was sandwitch my first port of call after arriving in the Underland would be exterminating every single glow worm I could find because holy shit I would have nightmares just knowing they were out there.

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Hhhh here’s the rat

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hi brynn <333 hope you and emilio are doing well xx i wanted to ask if maybe you have the time if you would mind talking about your favorite things about thg + your least favorite + the thing that you feel that people miss about it/tend to misinterpret maybe please and thank you <333

ren i really wish i could give u some intelligent and thoughtful response to this that shows my capacity for critical engaging and impassioned discourse but uh. unfortunately thg is not where i can reach that level of thought processing

my favorite thing abt thg is it brings me back to being twelve years old again and my least favorite thing abt thg is that it reminds me i can never go back to being twelve years old again </3

also catching fire is not the best of the trilogy

[fissionmate]

I know we all want Suzanne to make more Hunger Games stories but I’m just waiting for an Underland Chronicles adaptation.

[returntoregalia]

Here's a fun thought exercise for you guys

When the series is finally adapted for either television or the big screen. Let's say there's an alternative universe where it isn't the magnum opus version all the fans could agree upon.

What character behaviors or moments from the series could you see Hollywood butchering? And how would they do it compared to how it's written in the novels?

Example: The root beer/Corkscrew moment with the spinners Or Pandora being eaten by the mites.

This is SUCH a good question oh my god. I will have to start asking my guests this on the podcast! I have A LOT of thoughts about this because I watched the Percy Jackson TV show in January and I’m in the middle of the live action Avatar: the Last Airbender series, and. Well. Let’s just say I have found both of these adaptations severely lacking.

I think the thing they’d be most likely to mess up in an adaptation of The Underland Chronicles would be Gregor and Luxa’s relationship. They would make Luxa too nice at first, and she and Gregor would become friends too easily. What’s great about them in the books is that they have to EARN each other’s respect and admiration over time, and that’s why they’re such strong friends later in the series. A bad filmmaker would absolutely drop the ball on that if they had no sense of subtlety re: genuine character growth.

I want to hear y’all’s thoughts! What would the movie/TV adaptation of The Underland Chronicles fuck up??

[wanderingmind867]

Part three of me listing books on my bookshelf that i've read. At this point i'm feeling tired from writing, but I might as well commit and finish this damn thing. But once i'm done, I'm doing back to reading comics and maybe watching tv with my dad once he gets home from work. Because this is shockingly draining. So here we go:

The Neil Flambe Capers by Kevin Sylvester (I think these are my only books that are actually Canadian written. I think I found them in my public library years ago, and I was hooked. Cooking based Detective Novels about a lonely, socially awkward teenage cooking savant? They were pretty fun. My one criticism? They ended on a cliffhanger, and they haven't made a seventh book to resolve the cliffhanger! It's been at least five years! That still bugs me!).

The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer (I never watched Glee, so this is my only experience with Chris Colfer. I thought he was a pretty good writer. I really liked his stuff, although I never did get around to finishing the series. Knowing how finicky I am on endings, I worry that the ending would leave me upset and unsatisfied. But putting that aside, his characters were pretty good. I still remember that he chose to portray Mother Goose as a wild old woman who liked alcohol. That was fun. I also liked the Prince who was turned into a Frog, but then just embraced it and kept to himself, living lonely and alone for years).

Some of the Rick Riordan Presents books (I have the Aru Shah books, although I only ever got around to reading the first one. I have the first one in the Tristan Strong series, though I haven't read it. I read Sal and Gabi break the Universe, and it was really funny and enjoyable. I read The Storm Runner by JC Cervantes, but I don't remember much of the plot, and I never got around to the sequels. I read Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, which was a great book that taught me about Navajo myth. I read Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee, but it was a space opera type of story, and I didn't love it excessively. And I apparently own one The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim. Seriously, I forgot I owned this book. How can you forget owning a book!?).

The Hardy Boys series (I don't remember when I picked these books up, but I ended up with like the first 20 of these books. They weren't bad, although I don't really remember them too well nowadays. But for being children's detective fiction written in the 30s and 40s, it was pretty good. The one interesting thing about them? No known writer. They were written by multiple different people under one pseudonym, so we can only guess at the writers. I once considered trying the Nancy Drew books, since they were made by the same publisher and just featured a female lead instead of male leads. But I never got around to owning them).

The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins (In elementary school, a French teacher I had suggested these books to me. I told her I hated the Hunger Games, and she said these books were her preferred books from Suzanne Collins. So I read them. And yeah, they were far superior to The Hunger Games. But they're also so goddamn sad. Their ending made me feel miserable, because it was one of those endings where the character could never return to the fantasy realm. And that made me really sad).

I also have picked up a lot of humour books over the years. At least ten of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and stuff like that. But I never felt like bringing those books to school, so those were sort of like my secret (I guess). But I do like a lot of humour. Comedy is something I almost always enjoy. But this has all been so much writing, that i'm finally exhausted. So i'm done now. sigh.

[nahualnextdoor]

Character Analysis for Shitpost's Sake (long post; tw suicide discussion):

A funny haha, a whimsy silly image. Something I did in like 10 minutes...

Well behind the scenes I spent an entire night dissecting every episode and book paragraph in my head just to see what box fits what character (I take my silly guys very seriously and my shitposts should represent their characterizations accurately otherwise I'll kill myself).

So, here we go.

Active suicide risk: (literally anyone except Cleo and Six)

-Resus: Pretty obvious and intuitive in my opinion. Our favorite trans allegory emo boy that literally sleeps in a coffin. Hates pretty much every aspect of his life, thinks he's a disappointment to his family simply for existing (and sadly kinda is), and is pretty much fine with death as a whole (most of his friends already went trough it, after all).

-Luke: This one was also pretty obvious in my opinion. While not as clear cut or active as Resus, there was this one time where he decided to banish himself to the Underlands, no hesitation, as soon as he found out (or rather was made to believe) he attacked his parent. He's very often ostracizing himself over his lycanthropy hurting those around him, and for the major part of the book series he believed himself to be a burden for his parents. (Also he has like. Zero sense of self-preservation, at least in the tv show).

-Luella: Oh boy. Where do I begin with you girl. Just her living situation alone is sad enough, add in her attachment issues, her lack of control over her emotions, her crush on a guy that treats her... horribly, and her lack of any meaningful friendship in her life up until she became bffs with Cleo in s2. Honestly I'm just glad that by the end of s2 she's mostly content with her life the way it is, but still... at least on the episodes before she got her shit together, I'd say she's kinda worrying.

-Dixon: Yeah this guy's life is just hell lol. I'm not really getting any suicidal vibes out of him, but it is more than plausible.

10/10:

-Cleo: She's just... I love her 🙏🙏 Badass, one of the most interesting characters of the tv show in my opinion, autistic as fuck (they all are, but she's the one I relate to the most), curses the entire town in order to fix her problems and is pretty much happy despite being in an eternal sisyphean cycle.

Needs to retake the am I gay quiz:

-Resus: self explanatory I think. He really needs to get his shit together because I just cannot tolerate when he's all over Luella "oh luella I need your help with this spell and also brain drain dumped me in a wet cardboard box and killed my grandma 🥺🥺" and then going "well thanks for nothing, fuck u and ur stupid useless magic, also even tho we're nothing I will get all possessive over u at the slightest possibility of u liking Luke hey can we kiss to save the world btw" She deserves so much better than him omg. Boy you're queer!!! Leave her alone and just stay with the werewolf!!!

Cannibalised first in plane crash scenario:

-Resus: I just thought this was funny lol

Adderal prescription ASAP:

-Luke: Also pretty self explanatory. Lycantrophy is the magical equivalent of autism and adhd in this universe, I don't make the rules. Both in the books and in the show he's shown having a hard time focusing on class, finding it easier to just focus on his videogames. He spends hours playing on his console, to the point of ignoring his baisc needs, and is pretty hyperactive in my opinion, at least in the show. Really I wish they'd bring back the idea of Eeafa (or maybe even Luella) figuring out a potion or spell to help him manage his wild side, wich, to me at least, is not only his wolf self, but all of his neurodivergent tendencies in general (basically it would be magical meds that makes you have more control over the wolf form on top helping you study).

Missing person:

-Pretty much all the other kids from the books but I choose Kian because he's kinda the one that has the most relevance and the only one with an available image on the internet that is not a 3 pixels wide scan on the Internet Archive (still love them tho). He could potentially be on active suicide risk once he gets old enough to understand what happened to his parents tho, but thinking about that for more than 5 seconds makes me cry so I prefer not to.

And that is basically it! Thank you for listening to my ramblings and analysis of these silly little guys that keep rotating on my head like rotisserie chicken ballerinas. Next will probably be my still pending character analysis for why I assigned the slimes I did on my slime rancher post.

[lavendertownsghost]

Reread all of The Underland Chronicles recently and dam I wish that series got a movie/ tv series. Like yeah, they could easily fuck it up, but if they do it good that would be amazing.

[renthony]

GREGOR THE OVERLANDER MY BELOVEDDDDDD PLEASE TELL ME ALL YOUR HOT TAKES ON THE SERIES IT WAS MY FAVORITE AS A KID AND I'VE NEVER MET ANYBODY ELSE WHO'S EVEN HEARD OF IT <333333

I need more people to read those books, damn it!!!! I grew up on those bad boys! I read them as they were releasing! When everyone lost their shit over The Hunger Games books I was like, hey, go read her other books, too!!!! The Underland Chronicles are so fucking good, damn it! AAAAAAAAAA----

Ahem.

I love them. I don't believe that every book needs a film adaptation, but I do believe that TUC deserves an animated television series adaptation. Suzanne Collins got her start writing for TV, and that absolutely translates into her prose. The way it's paced would make it fucking fantastic as a book-per-season cartoon. NOT live-action, though--I don't think any of the creature characters would translate into CGI very well, and any semblance of "realistic" lighting would be utter hell to watch. Animation with clever use of color tones would be much more effective at selling the underground settings.

That said, just imagining the nightmare of trying to portray some of the events of that series in film form without getting slammed by TV censors...oof. The on-page genocide and the whole "carpet of corpses" scene alone would be brutal. I want to see what a dedicated team could do with it to make it the most heart-wrenching scene in all of children's media. God.

@ whoever makes TV decisions, let me make a TUC animated series, I want it so bad. Fuck. I have a mental cast list already half-made. Give me Wendie Malick as Solovet, Steven Yeun as Gregor, Keston John as Gregor's dad...I know I've had more ideas, but I forget what they are at the moment. Get Mark Hamill in there somewhere, just because I love him. Tara Strong can be Boots. Get Matt Mercer in there as one of the villains, but not Pearlpelt because Pearlpelt is way too pathetic for that. Shit, maybe Matt Mercer as Ripred--not a villain, but that absolute menacing vibe he gets sometimes demands a VA who can pull off sinister and sincere in equal measure.

I have ideas, is what I'm saying here.

Personally, I would list Suzanne Collins' work in The Underland Chronicles to be one of the biggest influences on my writing style. I don't write for children, but the "paced like a television show" style is something I aim for, and the complex politics with infinite depths of nuance that can't be neatly summarized as "good guys vs bad guys" is all over my writing.

Also Ripred is the Most Character Of All Time. Sad Dad Rat Man, my beloved. I want to know more about his army of lobsters.

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i was tagged by @rappaccini <3 <3

name/nickname: liv <3

middle name: nah ;)

pronouns: she/her.

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sexual orientation: bi

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some of your favorite movies: silence of the lambs, the sound of music, avengers 1, the wizard of oz, princess bride, howl's moving castle, hunchback of notre dame

some of your favorite bands: the eagles, the chicks, peter paul and mary, the civil wars, indigo girls, herb alpert

some of your favorite singers: lorde, leon russell, lana del rey, hozier, cat stevens, sam cooke, taylor swift, zella day

some of your favorite books: lolita, underland, jane eyre, the round house, pellinor series, crush, the hobbit

some of your favorite songs: video games (lana del rey), vienna (billy joel), take it to the limit (the eagles), you send me (sam cooke), rocket man (elton john), ladyfingers (herb alpert), a pirate looks at forty (jimmy buffet)

some of your favorite actors/actresses: i don't really have too many! i do love rdj though

some of your favorite tv shows: atla, elementary, new girl, the good place, the x files, buffy the vampire slayer

celebrity crushes: no one atm? life long crushes on christopher plummer and viggo mortensen, but primarily in their roles

tagging @katebishopofearth, @baronessblixen, @forever-and-almost-always, @limnsaber, @oberynmartell if you want but feel free to ignore!

[coldasyou]

we don't want another hunger games book we want an underland chronicles tv series (animated)

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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

this is a great question for someone who can retain memories of things they like lol but yes, i will answer it anyway! in no particular order because i simply cannot make myself decide further. this is also hard because I tend to enjoy characters in groups or pairs, with the dynamics between them driving my interest more than individuals (i have noted at the end of each one which dynamics I enjoy about this character with other characters)

Luxa from the Underland Chronicles (book series): she's a queen (literal), she's a bitch (affectionate), she's all of 12 years old and ruling an entire underground nation by herself with only her sworn-companion giant bat to help her. She's smart and competent and a little arrogant (traits you will see pop up multiple times in this list) and everything I wanted to be as an 8 year old. Now, as an adult, I want to wrap her in blanket and keep her safe. (Dynamics I enjoy: platonic soulmates with her bat Aurora; annoyances-to-friends-to-cannot-be-in-love with Gregor)

Dean from Until We Meet Again (Thai BL): if one of my favorite character types is smart/competent/arrogant, the other archetype I love is stoic, gentle, and a little awkward. Dean has this down to a science. He loves Pharm in such a simple, breathtaking way. He has a complex relationship with his own past life (I get the feeling that Pharm would get along well with Intouch, but Dean would always resent Korn, at least a little). He's a good friend and a good brother, even if it doesn't seem like it at first glance. He's got a dumb sense of humor, too, but he passes it off with stoicism. (Dynamics I enjoy: with his soulmate Pharm; with his own past life Korn; with his best friend/annoyance Win)

Tankhun from Kinnporsche (Thai BL): my darling Tankhun! No one has suffered more than him. I love how blatant and fearless he is in his fragility, as if he's daring the world to try to hurt him again. He's the eldest brother but he had to give up his role and his authority for his own recovery, so he has to allow Kinn to take care of his business for him. If his trauma hadn't happened, I know he would have been the most feared mafioso in all of Bangkok. (Dynamics I enjoy: his best friends Arm and Pol are hired by his father to be his bodyguards; his brothers who he went from caring for to being cared for by)

Nott the Brave/Veth Brenatto from Critical Role (Real play D&D campaign): She waltzed into my heart and stole all the buttons from my cardigan. She's a goblin who hates herself but actually she's a halfing who was cursed to be a goblin and she still hates herself. She's self-destructive but extremely skilled and so so protective of her best friend and (platonic???) soulmate Caleb. She has a kid and she doesn't really love being a mother but she does love her son so much. I think she would be improved with a divorce but that's a controversial opinion i guess (Dynamics I enjoy: the completely unexplainable bond she has with Caleb--is it platonic? is it romantic? is it sexual?? i think it's all of it?? they kissed on the mouth and the fandom pretends it never happened wtf. Also her relationship with fellow chaos-creator, jester).

Kyo from Fruits Basket (manga, anime): Kyo is so angry and pathetic and he belongs in my pocket. he's the most cursed person in a family of cursed people, he's got an inferiority complex that fuels his entire character arc despite being very competent at the things he does, he loves passionately and silently and cannot be convinced that he's worth the love others give to him. (Dynamics I enjoy: with Tohru, the girl who loves him and whose love he doesn't feel he can accept; with Yuki, the rival he hates but wants to be like more than anything; with Akito, the god who hates him)

Andrew Minyard from All For the Game (book series): like Tankhun, he's unapologetic about how he deals with his trauma. Is it healthy, how he's dealing with it? not even a little. but he's fully focused on his own healing and on protecting the few things he considers to be precious to him and I greatly admire that. And yes, I do love it when characters get to go violently apeshit in defense of their loved ones. He committed first degree murder and it's simply considered not a big deal by the narrative-- correctly so. (Dynamics I enjoy: with his twin whom he would (and did) kill for but otherwise just kind of ignores; his feelings for Neil which cannot be simplified into a word as meaningless as "love").

Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet (movie): tiny baby me looked at Jim with his rat-tail undercut, his complex relationship with his parents, his misunderstood bad-boy nature, and his drive to be a small part of something big and went "oh worm?". I've been slowly rotating him in my mind since then. (Dynamics I enjoy: cool teen who loves his mom but doesn't want to show it; the morally-ambiguous pirate who became a pseudo-father to him on accident)

Rose Tyler from Doctor Who (tv series): tumblr loves her so I don't have to explain, surely. But I will. She's 19 and brave and powerful and determined and somewhat of a shitty person but again as I said, 19 years old. and she has an unspeakably old and powerful alien wrapped around her finger. iconic. (Dynamics I enjoy: her whole thing with Nine and Jack, plus how different things are with her and Ten)

Thorin Oakenshield from the Hobbit (book/movie): stoic, awkward, honorable, arrogant... this was a character invented in a test tube to appeal to me. Banished king who worked as a smith to support his nephews and lead his people as best he can. Beautiful singing voice. Went mad and redeemed himself in death. He lives on in my heart (and au fanfiction). (Dynamics I enjoy: with his best friend and right-hand man Dwalin; with Bilbo for Bagginshield reasons clearly)

Parker from Leverage (tv series): she's soooooooooo everything to me. Competent, smart, autistic as hell, lives in the vents and has two partners (let's not quibble about if they're smoochin, we all know they are) who love her so much. she takes down criminals while being a criminal herself. (Dynamics I enjoy: with her boyfriend Hardison who very carefully courted her; with Eliot who is not her boyfriend and not her friend but who understands her on a deeper level than anyone else; with Sophie and Nate who trained her to be a leader and a mastermind)

This was very fun to write out, thank you for asking me this!!

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Careful, Flippy. He just might…

@flippythegodzilla

[supercantaloupe]

tagged by @tempestclerics, ty sola!

last song: how i saved roosevelt

currently watching: mostly a bunch of assorted video essays and cooking videos on youtube, lol. i don't watch much tv or series or anything

currently reading: underland: a deep time journey by robert mcfarlane

current obsession: to no one's surprise, mozart operas. haha.

tagging @tragedyposting @theresa-of-liechtenstein @malcolm-f-tucker @nablah @kingfisherkink and @leporellian if you wanna!

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Five Comfort Characters

Thank you for tagging me @windsweptinred 💛💛💛 it was fun reading about your “gaggle of glorious bastards” 😁

Let me see…

Joan Watson (CBS Elementary)

God, where do I start with Joan??? In I think Season 4 or 5 a character calls her “one of the most whole people I’ve ever known.” Which is. Goddamn. She’s kind and clever and brave and tough as fucking nails and I adore her. She’s also the best Asian Usamerican representation I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing on my TV!

Lucienne (The Sandman Netflix)

Of course Lucienne is on this list. She has this kind of steadfastness that I absolutely adore. She’s grounded. She knows where she stands, and she is nigh unto unshakeable. I would love NOTHING more than to cuddle up with her in a cosy nook and read together for a while.

Calliope (The Sandman Netflix)

I wanted to only have one character per piece of media, but c’mon. How could I not include Calliope? 😂 I can only be so strong. Something that really strikes me about Calliope is that…she just seems to know herself so well. She’s so centered. She knows who she is, and what she deserves, and she will be unrelenting on that point. I love her so much.

Marilla Cuthbert (Anne of Green Gables Books)

Marilla!!! God. Something that to this DAY just gets me about this book series is that Marilla’s love becomes Anne’s anchor. Young Anne never had an adult that gave a shit about her until she came to Green Gables, and by the time Anne is a young adult herself she is so acutely conscious of “steadfast, abiding love” that always waits for her there. There’s one part in the third book where Marilla thinks about how of her sixty years, she has only lived the ones after Anne came into her life—this child who brought sunlight into her life and showed her a vibrantly different way of living. Marilla’s whole arc after initially-reluctantly adopting Anne is so beautiful.

Hamnet (The Underland Chronicles)

Hamnet…oh. I have so much admiration for the decisions he made, and the strength of the convictions that drove him forward. And he seems like he was SUCH a good dad too???? I wish we’d had more than one book with him.

I tag @anonymousdandelion and @tickldpnk8 and anyone else who wants to do this! <3

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Ask the blogger time! What media piece, TV book ect, has been the biggest inspiration for you

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Thanks for the question! This depends on context, so I'll give a couple answers on some pieces of media I've found influential and how:

The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins is what really made me love books and storytelling, though I can also attribute my love of fantasy and other whimsical fiction in part to videogame franchises I played as a kid such as Banjo-Kazooie and The Legend of Zelda

Stargate SG-1 made me into a Weird Girl™

The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers inspired me to embrace my own sense of pacing and conflict rather than holding myself to the (Western) mainstream standard of what a story should look like

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite has been a big influence on my WIP Miniature Roses in particular, including giving me confidence that it is the sort of story people might want to read