#mogen rambles

[banditllamas]

They've got similar posing with the arms. Siblings.

#bugsnax #snorpy fizzlebean #floofty fizzlebean #the artwork for the cards is so cute #I love that they both do the elbow resting in hand thing #mogen rambles

[smokbeast]

💜 💙 💙 🧡

#i just care them. #watcher gets kissies from all my ocs i dont make da rules #and wife ocs too #art #my art #artistic nudity #monsters #dragons #demons #my ocs #watcher #craig #wife ocs #mogens #alice #tiny gal is his WIFE the other two are platonic babies that he adores. craig was watcher's partner at some point tho when they had a rough #time #but they let it go snd prefered queer platonic frienship. theyre on great terms tho all four. #when trauma put you all together and you heal together JELFLD #im rambling sorry im just thinking about watcher poe and sillies..

[vixymix101]

Mogens working as a lighthouse keeper..

#mogens klaus #klaus mogens #mogens #klaus 2019 #klaus netflix #klaus movie #klaus #rambles #thoughts

[chibitorra]

At first I didn't really understand why mogens/jesper was a thing. I mean to an extent, I guess? I just thought it was mostly a crackship.

But I'm reading the art book, and the passage they wrote for mogens... I get it now.

#torra rambles #klaus #jesper #mogens #do they have a ship name or is it just jesper/mogens

[bokkerijder]

tyfus tering cholera kinderen met dat god gloeiende hoere vuurwerk

#rambles '23 #ik zit nog steeds met smart te wachten #tot ik een keer een knal hoor gevolgd door oorverdovend geschreeuw #er mogen best wat vingertjes af

[someone-you-do-not-know]

I will ask about Christmas in the hole and Christmas and green forests

Thank you, Stars. You understand my need to be insane about things.

This is the strange story of the worst Christmas calendar ever aired on Danish TV – maybe on any TV ever. And everything around it. Gonna put it under a read more, because uh. The lore is extensive.

Jul og grønne skove or Jul i hullet (Christmas and green forests, nickname: Christmas in the hole) – a ramble:

Okay, we're going back in time, to the year of 1980. Back then, Christmas calendars wasn't as much of a serious thing, as it was just something for kids to watch for half an hour, maybe with their parents. Now, in 1979, Jul i Gammelby aired, which is hailed as one of the best of its time. My parents have talked about how that one is just really cozy and full of Christmas, which is what one would want from a Christmas calendar, of course.

So, 1980. The original plans for the yearly Christmas calendar had gone down the drain, and DR (Denmarks public radio and tv service, the only TV station at the time) had bought the rights to a moomin puppet show from Sweden instead. This show was called Mumindalen (Moomin Valley), which was also a Christmas calendar (SVT 1973). But each episode was only some 14-ish minutes long, and the time slot was for 24-ish minutes, so they had to fill in the time with something.

What does one do? You go to the hosts for the youth department, and ask them to come up with something. There was no time or money to do anything as extravagant as the show airing last year. They had 24 days to write a script, they filmed each episode on the day it aired. There was two men, a remote controlled camera, and a time slot to fill every day for 24 days. The situation was desperate.

The men were Poul Nesgaard and Elith "Nulle" Nykjær Jørgensen. The concept they had come up with? It's a peculiar one. To prove the existence of Santa Claus, they go out on a quest, but fall into a hole in a forest on the 1st of December. While down there, they would answer fan mail and letters (mind you, they were big hotshots to the Danish youth). They would stay in that hole all Christmas, and the only Santa Claus in the show was at the very end. Passing by in the background.

To say the Danish TV audience were disappointed is a big understatement. Most people turned off their TV before the Moomin show had even been shown. Angry letters were sent to newspapers and to DR, everyone hated it. On the 12th of December, the top brass at DR demanded it to stop.

Poul and Nulle kept going. To keep up the appearance that they were stuck in a hole, they didn't do any interviews, having the editor Mogens Vemmer defend the decision instead. Poor guy promised next year would have more Christmas, and demanded Poul and Nulle make it more Christmas. They promised they would do it, but didn't go through with it.

The fan mail went to them, though, and some were positive. On the 21st of December, the show reached a new high or low, depending on how you look at it. A cave man covers the camera a few minutes into the episode, and the rest of it is a "Technical difficulties, please stand by" screen, interrupted with the Moomin show. People thought it was unplanned and sloppy, a storm of phone calls went to DR to complain. On the 24th of December, it was over, and the criticism finally got to Poul. At least it was over. Except it wasn't.

There was a meeting in January, to hold people responsible, but a single letter from a principal singing its praise made the top brass doubt themselves. Maybe they hadn't understood the show? Maybe there was some merit to it? Poul has decided to remember it as a success. The next year, the Christmas calendar was full of Christmas, and with a small reference to the horrible, yet iconic calendar of 1980, where the two men finally got out of the hole.

I've watched some of it. All of the first episode, and some snippets of later episodes. It's... It's odd. It's definitely not the most Christmas-y show. But I say, it would've done numbers on Youtube in the 2010s. They were 30 years too early. The zany humour and home video vibe would've been perfect. Poul and Nulle were visionaries, they just didn't have the right medium. This is my opinion at least.

Now, it's time for the much stranger story of the archives of the worst Christmas calendar ever.

Because no. It doesn't end. Danish journalist Anders Lund Madsen has made a 24 episode radio program called Hullet i Jorden (The hole in the ground) to investigate what happened and what came next, and I must admit, I haven't listened to it yet.

Thing is, there's a whole conspiracy theory about this Christmas calendar.

Since Christmas calendars of the past occasionally get to grace the screen again, it's not customary to delete the archives, which is why we can watch many of the old shows again and again. Some of the very oldest were overwritten though, to make space for the News broadcasts, which is why we only have scraps left of some of the shows from the 60s. But this happened to Jul og grønne skove, and pretty early after the show had aired too. DR's archives for the show? GONE.

A viewer had recorded all episodes, and DR found out, so they asked him to send them in a taxi so they could get them back. The VHS tapes? GONE. He's tried to contact DR several times, but no one has been able to answer what happened.

Remember how I mentioned Poul and Nulle got out of the blasted hole in the Christmas calendar of 1981? Well. That clip, guess what? IT'S GONE. Someone cut it out for the rerun in 1987. A woman working for DR's archives stubbornly looked for that clip, and that's how she found the clip.

Only half the episodes are available on DR's archival site, Bonanza, and the rest are lost media. The conspiracy theory is that someone working at DR has purposefully worked to erase this blight on Christmas calendars from existence. Is that the truth? I don't know, but I do know that it has been erased in part three times.

I hoped you enjoyed this walk down the insane history of the worst Christmas calendar ever.

Sources: https://juleweb.dk/julekalendere/jul-og-groenne-skove/ https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/webfeature/poul-og-nulle https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/historie/konspirationsteori-nogen-vil-skaffe-skandaleramt-dr-julekalender-af-vejen

#thank you for the ask! <3 #seriously #Thank you #starsmadeinheaven #jul og grønne skove #jul i hullet #christmas calendar #denmark posting #denmark #poul og nulle i hullet #This is so insane I'm so happy to finally talk about it

[hydenine]

I decided to put on Klaus in the background while I address Christmas cards (because I think I'm funny), and I am still 100% convinced that Mogens had his heart broken by the previous postman who left

#hydenine rambles #klaus #animation #Mogens

[cookiessart]

I just discovered during the scene where Jesper is “leaving” and as the boats taking off there’s like a 2 second clip of mogens pulling the rope to the anchor and I’ve never been more turned on in my life

#im QUAKING #like ive said before u can really feel the weight of things in this movie #so u can REALLY feel the amount of strength there is in that one shot #ramblings #klaus #mogens

[roachleakage]

OK so um... great things about Jewish people that I love.  this is probably going to come across as a bit of a drunken ramble because there’s a lot of shit I keep thinking of in no particular order and it’s just gonna Happen at its leisure.

ok, so firstly, captain fucking america.  he was made by two Jewish dudes, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and as much as I fancy I should have a “more interesting” favorite character in the MCU, sorry, Steve’s the dude I always fall back on.  he’s got such a damn even keel with his sense of morality.  he always tries to be the best version of himself that he can without crossing the line into moral superiority and is there, no matter what, for the little guy.  no matter how you think he “should” behave based on the fact that he’s from the 1940s or some other damn shit, he doesn’t.  he’s a good man, abnormally good for his time, abnormally good for any time, I fucking love Captain America ok and I love the sneaky fuckers putting the golem reference on his hat y’all are awesome

then of course there’s the other major superhero y’all have probably heard about created by Jewish folk, who is of course Superman.  not gonna lie he’s not my favorite dude ever but he’s a global icon and I can respect that.  plus honestly the DC ‘verse on the whole just wouldn’t be the same with out him.  who would Batman even ambiguously gay rivalry with

EVERY GODDAMN TIME I SEE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVING PARTIES IN A MOVIE THEY LOOK LIKE THEY’RE HAVING SO MUCH FUN????? like when my people have parties it’s all fucking sitting around on sofas sipping soda and talking about dumb shit I don’t even care about and maybe that’s what irl get-togethers look like for y’all but on the screen it looks hella and I get low-key envy every time.

BAGELS.  FUCKING BAGELS, OK.  BLESS JEWISH FOLK FOR INVENTING BAGELS THESE ARE FOOD OF THE FUCKING GODS ok that may be slightly inappropriate??? but??? BAGELS ARE SO GOOD THEY CAN JUST GET IN MY MOUTH ALL RIGHT GOOD I THINK WE’VE COVERED THEM.

MOGEN DAVID, DUDE.  MOGEN DAVID.  people like to talk shit about this wine because it’s cheap or whatever BUT THEY MAKE IT IN BLACKBERRY AND THAT SHIT IS FUCKING DELICIOUS, OK.  BEST GODDAMN WINE I’VE EVER TASTED BYE

also a lot of jewish people have that goddamn beautiful curly dark hair and superthick eyebrows that are just... fucking gorgeous, honestly, y’all are beautiful.  haters have no taste in human phenotypes ok, thick dark hair is fucking amazing

#Jewish positivity #friend wanted some so I'm sharing the love #<3 #I could write more stuff but this post is already super long so l8r

[cuppykin]

(Enabler Anon) I have questions. Questions I don't think I want answered. So instead I'll divert my attention away from them by asking different questions with a much smaller chance of bringing me pain!! So, what character from a piece of fictional do think is the most attractive? (this is an open invitation to ramble about whatever character you want. Go feral.)

I MEAN there’s so many but if I were to pick one of them I’m picking

MOGENS FROM KLAUS

Snarky, drinks, perfect jawline, probably a great kisser, deserves to be loved

#ask

[banditllamas]

I've been replaying chapter 4 so so much and I have discovered A LOT of dialogue from doing things in different orders. I'm going to post all the dialogue from and concerning Elara cause oh my god theres a lot. (Even if its pretty standard "hey go find her" tips)

#wandersong #wandersong elara #I'm impressed with how much they accounted for players doing things differently #I just think its neat #Lori has a lot to say about Elara... #I know what you are #mogen rambles

[banditllamas]

We were messing around with AR stuff in class so I decided to put my (unfinished) Floofty model in. (the animation is taken from Mixamo.) Ignore breaking bad and the floating Walter White.

#mogen rambles #they were not modeled to be animated but I think i'll have to make that a side project now

[banditllamas]

Thinking about how the show played up Big Left Hand Guy's involvement in the villain society in the episodes before Plain Old Mischeif Makers.

He's included as a prominent villain in group shots and he gets a minor speaking role in Where Have All The Villains Gone? Hell, Dr Two Brains even compliments him in that ep. Guy is having the time of his life.

Him (and Invisibill) are also a part of that big collaboration crime that Wordgirl stops in Crime In The Key of V. I think it's fair to say BLHG is well liked by the other villains. (Can't say the same for Invisibill though, compared to Big Left he barely even shows up in the background. Also Power Of Whamship speaks for itself.)

Whats most notable about the screentime he gets though is his friendship with The Butcher. Big Left likes to mimic him a lot? In Gift Pony we see him and Butcher hanging out, pressumably they play tennis together. When they notice Wordgirl's sick and go an rampage, Big left literally copies his poses. Hes just running around with his arms in the air exactly like Butcher, thats so cute! Is he pretending he can do meat attacks too?

Another time he mimics Butcher is in Where Have All The Villains Gone? Butcher mocks Miss Question's bad plan and BLHG laughs. He then proceeds to also mock her plan.

Honarable mention to The Butcher high fiving him because they both have big hands.

Big Left really looks up to the Butcher. I like to think Butcher is the Whammer to Big Left's Invisibill. They are besties your honor.

(Reached the 10 image max so this is part 1)

#wordgirl #big left hand guy #wordgirl blhg #wordgirl butcher #reached the 10 image max I have more to say #Ill do that in a reblog #im tired ill do it tomorrow #I am a BLHG and Butcher friendship truther #also unrelated but please look at invisibill in the third image #mogen rambles

[banditllamas]

Why did it take me till now to realise the joke Triffany tells Wambus in the major celebration is the one Floofty tells us to tell her? So thats what the oesteoblast says.

#bugsnax #FINALLY THE PUNCHLINE #mogen rambles

[banditllamas]

Thinking about Elara Wandersong

#she has so little fanart im about to make it everyones problem #(I'm going to draw her) #I love a lot of characters in this game but I have a clear bias #went through and tried to exhaust all her dialogue today #she has different responses when shes trying to recruit you #I just think shes neat #mogen rambles

[banditllamas]

This is my favourite Invisibill screenshot

#wordgirl #invisibill #he HAS to be there! #taken from A World Without Wordgirl Part 2 #mogen rambles