#sense8 spoilers?

[valiantstarlights]

Chef Hob's family and the food truck's origin story

Hob is half-English and half-Indian. His father, Mr. Gadling, is from London. His mother, Mrs. Dandekar-Gadling, is from Mumbai. Hob was born in the UK.

Unfortunately, Hob was orphaned at an early age. And since his father had no remaining living relatives, (his paternal grandparents died a long time ago and his father was an only child), Hob was taken in by his maternal uncle's family in Mumbai.

His uncle, Sanyam Dandekar, is the current head of the family-owned and operated restaurant in Mumbai. It's small but thriving, and is well-regarded in the community. As the restaurant is on the ground floor of the building where the Dandekar family live, it's hard to escape the tantalizing smell of food wafting constantly from below.

It's from Sanyam that Hob learns to love food, to cook well, and to love making people happy through his cooking.

His aunt, Priya, always encourages him to go after his dreams. She was there for him every step of the way when he applied for a scholarship to go to a fancy culinary school in the UK. When he was accepted, she was the first person he told the news to, and she was so proud of him that she immediately called up her friends to share the good news with them. (Hob had had to endure maybe half a dozen aunties trying to introduce him to their daughters and nieces.)

His female cousins, Kala and Daya, love Hob very much and treat him as their older brother.

Kala has always been very intelligent even as a child, and she got bullied for it at school. Hob was quick to put an end to that and told her to reach even higher so she can leave everyone in the ground while she sails among the stars. Kala shyly told him she would build a spaceship for their entire family so she wouldn't have to sail the stars alone.

Daya was the more easy-going sister. She tried her best to teach Hob to dance, and never made fun of him even when he eventually accepted that he had two left feet. When she was rejected by a boy who told her she was so ugly that she'll never find anyone who'll love her, Hob got in trouble for beating the shit out of him, but he has no regrets about it. (Kala did not get in trouble for setting the boy's schoolbag on fire because she didn't get caught.)

Hob was so afraid when he found out that he was bisexual, but his family accepted him and treated him the same as they always did. His aunt Priya even promised not to matchmake him with anyone even though he's such a catch. They'll all just wait and see who he brings home. No judgment or pressure whatsoever.

He misses them fiercely when he gets to the UK. Especially when Kala gets married and he couldn't travel back because he had back-to-back exams, both theoretical and practical.

Still, he pushes himself to study hard, graduates with distinction, and eventually becomes a professional chef at a fancy hotel.

Hob's family are very proud of him and always call him to tell him so. Daya begs him to return and cook for them. Hob says he's still saving up enough vacation days. Rajan, Kala's husband and the current CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, offers to pay for his transportation. He graciously accepts because he's not an idiot.

After a couple of years, he finally accumulated enough vacation days to travel back to India for a long visit. The first thing he did is to cook a feast for his family (which now includes Rajan). He cooks traditional Indian food as well as food from other countries that he thinks they'll like.

(He adjusts the recipes to fit into their religion-based dietary restrictions, and adjusts some more when some ingredients are not readily available. He's a professional chef, after all.)

Daya is all about the taiyaki. Kala is in love with the vegetable lumpia. Rajan has strategically rearranged the dishes on the table so the plate of jollof rice is always close to him. Priya asks him to give his uncle his recipe for the vegetable moussaka. Sanyam is in tears because of how proud he is of Hob and how delicious everything is. He tells Hob that when he dies (far, far into the future), Hob is welcome to take over the restaurant.

Hob spends most of his time in India in the restaurant's kitchen with his uncle, and they experiment and add new things to the menu. Hob gets to talk to customers he's known ever since he was a child. They are all very proud of him and sing praises for the restaurant's new menu items.

Hob leaves India a month later with a much lighter heart.

When he returns to being a chef in the fancy hotel though, he finds that he is increasingly frustrated and unsatisfied. He feels like he should be happy and grateful. Instead he feels burned out.

He calls Kala, who is the closest to him age-wise, for advice. She simply asks him, "What do you want?"

He sighs and says, "I thought I wanted to be a chef. But now that I am one, I feel lost."

Silence. Then Kala says, "May I say something potentially controversial and not have you hang up on me?"

Hob chuckles and tells her to go ahead and say what she needs to say. In fact, maybe he needs to hear the potentially controversial thing to snap him out of this wretched state.

"I don't think you really want to be a chef."

Wow. "So far, so bad. Go on."

"No, listen: you have always loved cooking for us. You and dad. It's how you show your love. But where you're working currently, it's like you're a machine. Day in and day out, you're just completing orders. How many times since you started working there did you go out of the kitchen to talk to the guests? How often do you get to experiment with new culinary creations without anyone trying to stifle your creativity?"

Kala's tone implied that she knew the answer. "You might say that it will get worse before it gets better, but will it really? If I ask you now what your happiest memory is of your workplace, what will you tell me?"

"I--" Hob clears his throat and blinks away the tears that had snuck up on him. "When the hotel called me to tell me they had accepted my application. I immediately called home and all of you were so proud of me. I even heard Uncle announcing it to the entire restaurant in the background."

"Oh, Hob..." And now Kala sounded like she was gonna cry too. "I wish I were there so I can give you a hug."

"Virtual hug accepted. Is that the end of your controversial pep talk or is there more?"

"I think that's enough controversial things for now," Kala says. "Rajan and I are going to London in a couple of weeks for pleasure. We should meet up so you can show us all the good spots to eat at and then we can talk more."

They said their goodbyes soon after. Hob spends a lot of time that night just looking at the ceiling, not wanting to go to work but inevitably has to when his alarm goes off.

Kala was right. Being a chef granted him all sorts of qualifications and symbolized that he is a master in the field, but he isn't in it for the title. His uncle isn't a professional chef, yet Hob wouldn't claim to surpass his skills. And between the two of them, he knows who the happier one is.

Rajan and Kala arrived with a couple of bodyguards named Vikram and Wolfgang. Hob remembers them from his visit to India. Vikram is as stoic as bodyguards come, but Wolfgang has a different, more dangerous kind of intensity.

Hob shows them all the good dining spots he has discovered over the years, and all five of them eat well.

It was during their outing that Hob notices the food vendors on the street. They look...happy. They work just as hard as the other chefs in the hotel, with the main difference being that the customers are right in front of them, and they get to see their reactions.

It was very heartwarming to see tourists trying the local street food and seeing their faces light up after their first bite.

At the end of the day, Hob tells Kala of his food truck idea. It's almost embarrassing how excited he sounds, but Kala is excited too. She grabs Rajan and tells him about it. Rajan grabs Wolfgang and asks him about it. Hob almost expects Wolfgang to grab Vikram too, but Vikram just looks on, looking amused.

In the end, Wolfgang shrugs and says it's doable, and just like that, they're drawing plans and trying to come up with names.

("What about 'Gadling's'?"

Kala hummed. "I guess...I mean, that is your name. No one can argue that."

"I feel like you just insulted me, my father, and my paternal ancestors."

"Hob, our family restaurant's name is Dandekar. We are all basic here.")

("Glad Tidings?"

Wolfgang huffed a laugh. "No, Rajan."

"I think it's a good name."

"I think you need to go to sleep. How many hours has it been since you slept? Forty-eight?"

"Are you the sleep police now, my wolf?"

"Kala, I'm taking Rajan to bed."

"Alright," Kala says distractedly. She is currently looking at the kitchen plans, specifically the stove set-up. "Have fun. Don't hog all the blankets."

Hob's eyebrows have migrated to the ceiling. He doesn't think they quite know what they let slip, but he isn't going to pry until they're ready to talk to him about it. He looks at Vikram to see his reaction, but the man just looks like this is a thing that happens often and isn't bothered in the slightest.)

They videocall six people all over the world--mutual friends, Kala says--and all of them put their heads rogether to make Hob's food truck idea into a reality.

Hob is overwhelmed by their support. Rajan has promised to fund everything if Hob lets him eat for free when he's in town. Sun from Korea seconds him and agrees to lend monetary support as well, and to help him expand to Korea if the venture is successful. Capheus, the matatu driver from Nairobi, is flying to London to help customize the food truck. If possible, he sounds even more excited than Hob himself. Nomi from San Francisco and Will from Chicago volunteers to get the papers and forms sorted. Actual famous actor Lito Rodriguez from Mexico promises to promote his foodtruck when he goes to London to shoot a movie.

"When and where did you meet and befriend all these people?" Hob asks Kala. They all sounded like old friends and had inside jokes that Hob didn't understand. (What in the world is a tequila-squared?) Kala just smiles at him and says, "The internet exists for a reason, you know."

"Let me guess," Hob said in a low voice so the others won't hear. "An online dating site?"

Kala shrieks with laughter and hits him with a throw pillow.

Soon, the food truck is ready and Hob is in awe of everyone who pitched in and helped. He literally could not have achieved this so quickly without any of them.

Kala hugs him tight. "You deserve to be happy, Hob."

Hob hugs her back. Every person they videocalled (and Wolfgang's brother Felix) is coming to visit with their plus ones and twos to try out Hob's menu to taste-test before opening, and will stay until the grand opening a week later to help in promoting the foodtruck. They even have Riley from Iceland going to DJ for them.

"Should we invite aunt and uncle and Daya?"

"Do you really think we could stop them if they want to be here?" Kala asks him incredulously. "Have you met our sister?"

Hob has handed in his resignation notice as soon as the food truck's kitchen had been operational. That had been two weeks ago. He feels like a huge burden has been lifted from his shoulders the moment the e-mail was sent.

It can only get better from here.

--

P.S. I'm basic as hell at naming, so if you have ideas on what Hob's food truck should be called, speak now or forever hold your peace.

#Chef Hob AU #minor spoilers for Sense8! #you read that right #it suddenly became sort of a Sense8 crossover because I owe Sanyam Dandekar my first exposure to Indian food #gods bless him honestly #he'll be a good uncle and role model for young Chef!Hob #I will have a Rajan-Kala-Wolfgang throuple as a treat to myself #if Amanita can have 3 dads so can Kala's future children have 2 #this is still a no powers AU though #dreamling #the sandman #sense8 #my writing

[babytrapperdiaz]

i'm not going to hold you guys,i saw someone else say something similar but more and more throughout watching this finale i was thinking oh they did reshoots didn't they. they had to refocus their plan halfway through production. and no i'm not doing any fact-checking for my thoughts on this so if i'm wrong on details i'm wrong. but !!

two things point me to this(buddie specific). it's the fact that almost every romantically coded scene featuring eddie or buck happened indoors(ie closed spaces/sets), as well as only featuring maybe three characters tops. i'm thinking of the hardware store scenes, the scenes in eddie's living room and the scenes w/ natalia in the loft. i just get a vibe that things may have been tweaked a lil bit. my other observation on this is something somebody noticed a couple weeks ago(?), that the decor in eddie's house had been changed from the episode before. it's the little things. and this isn't me saying it's an inherently a bad thing but more and more i'm coming around to the thought that they had maybe a 2 or 3 season arc planned out starting from the end of the shows 5 season model ((when they knew they were getting renewed) so that's 6a ->), and had to shorten/minimize/relax off of those plans once a cancelation was on the table. to me that's including madney's (not enough fireworks!!) engagement, bobby wavering on his sobriety, may? what happened to may?, bringing ravi(+ lucy/etc etc)back for the "end" of the show, henren adopting more, and buddie.

i think maybe they had multi-season arcs planned out for multiple storylines and had to figure out halfway through production how to tie it up with a bow. because the truth is, this is the worst type of cancelation for a show, bc production and the writing team know the show is doing well, so they're planning off the (right) premise that they could go for a few more seasons. but the network doesn't want to pay. so now you're left with half-baked arcs and character plots that you have to wrap up in like 5 episodes. it's a mess lol

#trust me i watched sense8 AND the get down AND lovecraft country <3 #no but besides this ranty rant this is my truth lol #911 spoilers #911 #911 fox #911 on fox #buddie

[incorrectringsofpower]

Galadriel: What do you want from me?

Sauron, naked: Am I being too subtle?

#trop #trop crack #trop spoilers #the rings of power #the rings of power spoilers #galadriel #sauron #saurgal #incorrect quotes #incorrectringsofpower #source: sense8 #horn club

[invisible-pink-toast]

compilation of: holy shit they actually did it

audiences: this character is queer

show: ok

audiences:

#feel free to add more!!! #god just looking at these images #like the first time you saw it happen and the heart exploding brain whiting out queer validation feeling??? like no other! #lgbtq #the legend of korra #sense8 #steven universe #yuri on ice #shadowhunters #jane the virgin #bojack horseman #andi mack #adventure time #she ra #the owl house #riverdale #rwby #911 #911 spoilers #my post

[juanabaloo]

still angry that GOT got 73 episodes while Sense8 only got 24! people talk about how huge the budget was for Sense8 but looking it up it seems like it was also huge for GOT.

#boo to GOT #anti GOT #sense8 #sens8 #can you imagine if we got like 3 or 4 seasons of Sense8?? #OMG maybe we would see more of Lila's cluster too #like that whole fight would take a lot longer #sense8 spoilers #in case you haven't seen this 2015 show #never seen more than 10 mins of GOT and don't plan to #honestly like 7 mins of that was unintentional #i was staying at a friends and she was obsessively watching it #so to be polite i watched a little

[storkmuffin]

sense8 ends in a wedding. at the eiffel tower.

I dunno why but that's so stupid that I kinda love it.

the girls are wearing the ugliest dresses of all time. and the person marrying them says right out:

THE IMPROBABLE UNFOLDING OF RECENT EVENTS (she means episodes).

#sense8 spoilers #sense8 liveblog

[slayerchick303]

Are we going to get an Olu/Jim/Archie throuple in this season? Based on the dancing, I think it's possible.

#if sense8 can do it ofmd can #kala x wolfang x rajan #olu x jim #jim x archie #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #sense8

[echo]

alright so Sense8 season two is pretty great, tho I am still giggling over the Anonymous scene

#sense8 #sense8 spoilers #its me your boy mr anonymous

[swan-orpheus]

You know who else burned whilst alive and who never saw the sun rise? 

Karis Nemik 

Though he didn’t know it, he was burning, often stayed up writing because he couldn’t sleep, burning with the fire of idealism, dedicated his heart and soul to the burgeoning rebel cause, used up every last spark of his fleeting life to navigate them safely out of the Eye, and then died before the dawn of the new day. 

#star wars #andor #andor spoilers #andor meta #karis nemik #i wonder if Luthen keeps track of everyone who's died #if he thinks about Lonni constantly #who else does he think about? #i don't think i've ever been this vocal about a show #not since Sense8

[go-to-the-mirror]

Jonas Sense8. That’s it that’s the post.

#IM NOT FINISHED THE FIRST SEASON NO SPOILERS PLS TY #jonas maliki #sense8 #landscaping your mind chapter one

[queerauntie]

a gathering of shadows spoilers~

Me: Lila just won her second match, she's killing it! @gendergeezer: okay great I'll let you go read! :) me: *gets to the part where lila gets JUMPED and thrown into a BOX* @gendergeezer: *calls me* how's it going :) :)

#we are sense8 #there's no other explanation #agos #adsom #ve schwab #spoilers

[yevrosima-the-third]

I saw your tags on the reblog of the sense8 gifset and I wanted to clarify that the relationship between the characters is sort of a love triangle that's resolved by polyamory! It happens in the very last episode of the second (and last) season, though, probably because the show was cancelled prematurely, but I thought it was handled pretty well!

Thank youuuuuu!

#sense8 #to watch #sense8 spoilers #idk if anyone even uses that tag but just in case

[incorrectringsofpower]

Celeborn: If he's in your head listening, does that mean he can hear everything I'm saying?

Galadriel: Yeah.

Celeborn: So when I say, "Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut, Sauron," he can hear that?

#trop #trop crack #the rings of power #trop spoilers #the rings of power spoilers #celeborn #galadriel #sauron #incorrect quotes #incorrectringsofpower #source: sense8

[alacetor-the-duckies-deer]

The like, best way I would ship Lilith x Lucifer x Alastor is if they had the same dynamic as Lito, Hernando, and Daniella from Sens8.

Lilith and Lucifer are the touchy Feely one in a romantic and sexual relationship, and Alastor's there in a queerplatonic manner, he doesn't have sex with them or kiss them. But he's always there for their most intimate, important life moments, fascinated by THIEIR relationship, and they wouldn't want it any other way.

Like one of my favorite scenes in the show (Minor sense8 spoilers) is, Lito and Hernando are moving, and they're looking at this one house with Dani, and she starts gushing about how perfect it is for the three of them, and then gets all nervous, not knowing if she was actually moving with them or everstepping (they were all living together but all had to leave at the same time) and they're like "no no no. Of course you coming with us"

And I want that with Alastor.

The way she's touching them just a little while theyre all over eachother, and feels just as caught as they do by the person in the elevator

The way their joy brings her so much joy

The way she seemlessly takes Hernado's drink from between Lito's legs, but Lito doesn't turn any of that rizz on her

The was she's into what they're doing and they don't mind her there

The way she's still able to touch in casual settings without it being odd

How they don't hesitate to comfort her ans show her more intimate affection, and how she's surised but pleased

Imagine all that with this Lucifer and Lilith and Alastor.

(And more actual spoiled for Dani's plot, I highly encourage watching the show, but,,, the way Daniel has an abusive ex and abusive controlling family, but find love with these two, easily leans into a story where Lilith and Luci work to get Alastor out of his contract. And he's so suprised that they actually love him enough to do what they gonna do for that)

Anyway sense8 is such a good show. It has trans rep and three (3) kind of poly rep and gay rep and lesbian rep, and the sci-fi premise is so good and the story is good. Everyone should watch it.

#alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #asexual alastor #lucifer hazbin hotel #lilith hazbin hotel #duckiedeer #qpt radioapple #radioapple #qpt duckiedeer #lilith x lucifer #lilith x alastor #alastor x lilith #alastor x lucifer #lucifer x lilith #sens8 #lito sens8 #hernando sens8 #daniella sens8 #a prisma post

[powerpolyculeshowdown]

Do you have recommendations for shows/books/whatever with canon/basically canon polyamory?

ok the only media w officially canon polyam i personally consumed are Iron Widow and Hades.

Iron Widow is a mecha scifi/chinese fantasy book, it has pacific rim mechanics, so it takes 2 ppl to pilot the mecha but its more dystopian in that the pilot (male) usually drains the life force of his concubine (female). the mc has a guy shes interested in from the start but she pushes him aside to seek her goals to become a concubine pilot (theres a very good reason for this but i dont wanna give too much away) ends up being forced to work w the most dangerous pilot (spoilers hes actually a misunderstood sweetheart and i love him), her first love somehow finds his way back into her life so he can be their ally and its very clear from the first time he meets the other guy that this bitch is bi af. At one point he literslly saves their lives and i wont elaborate on that cause again spoilers but someone mentioned it in a propaganda ask. They canonically fall in live w each other and start dating. Please look up the trigger warnings first cause theres some heavy subjects addressed in this book. The book itself has trigger warnings listed at the start so if u find it at a book store u can check them this was too.

Hades is a roguelike videogame w dating sim mechanics (ish) -you give gifts to characters to learn more about them, and theres two romance options but you can romance both at once, they're both aware of and okay with it, hinting that they mightve had a past even before zagreus was born (its greek gods one is death incarnate the other is one of the furies, they've basically existed since forever)

From the submissions I got:

ive been told Leverage is like the korrasami of polyam, as in they were as polyam as they could be in a show from 2010, so it sounds like its canon but not explicit because they couldnt get away with that.

The girls from Amphibia are apparently in a similar situation, heavily implied canon, someone told me it was confirmed by people who worked on the show, but i dont think its explicitly stated.

The Kane Chronicles apparently also has canon polyam, although its 2 bodies, cause I think one of them has a god in him or something? I never read the books, but I was told Sadie (i think thats her name? The girl) is in love w both of them, and kinda dating both too i think?

I dont know if Singing in the Rain is canon but theres that kiss gif that got prrtty popular on tumblr where kathy kisses one of the guys then the other, so it looks canon? or at least implied canon?

Sense8 as some people have mentioned has 1 officially confirmed to be canon throuple, 1 that has a lot of hints to confirm but a lot of ppl see it as a gay couple w a very supportive friend ig and someone else said in general because of the plot u could kind of see the 8 of them as a big polycule, although that one isnt canon

HoneyWorks/Heroine Tarumono is one of those songs turned novel turned anime. i dont think its confirmed canon but theres a lot of stuff pointing to the possibility, you mightve see @non-fantasy telling me about them in a few asks. im obsessed and ive yet to watch anything

Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel has Rilla/Sir Damien/Lord Arum, i also haven't listened to this one but a lot of people told me rilla and damien were in a pre-established relstionship, both got crushed on lord arum separately, talked about it and worked things out to now be a canon polycule

im She-Ra (netflix) theres a trio that is implied to be a polycule at the end, a lot of ppl called them canon in the notes but i dont personally ember it being confirmed? i am very forgetful tho. It's Rogelio/Kyle/Lonnie, unfortunately they lost the prelim round

I believe people submitted some others that were canon but im very forgetful so i cant remember right now

#polyasks #long post

[storkmuffin]

OH THANK GOD

Ok so Kala shows up like the smart ass Indian girl she is to nag her boyfriend and husband about how to not let her die.

This is kind of funny now that her rather porous plot armor is back on.

Kala wakes up from being shot in the stomach and then immediately has a threesome LOL QUEEN

#sense8 liveblog #sense8 spoilers #sense8 #kala dandekar