man me a sand
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luiniedLike many people I know, I recently watched Netflix's Sandman adaptation. Unlike many people I know, I had never read the comics.
And damn, I'd known Sandman was influential, but this is kinda like watching that recent Dune movie and finally realizing why there are so many desert planets. Except with a more eclectic mix of things influenced-- including, I have to say, plenty of LiveJournal usernames, icons, and bio quotes (mostly from Death) vaguely remembered from my formative Internet years.
But I think it most hit me on account of having been pretty into Planescape, and Mage: the Ascension, and Changeling: the friggin' Dreaming, because, huh, I need to reevaluate how original those settings felt to me during my teenage years, don't I? Not that they're entirely derivative or anything, just, when they were filling in the little corners of their game worlds, I now see how Sandman may have been inspiring them about as much as a traditional D&D setting is inspired by Tolkien.
(If you were looking for a review: it's pretty all right? I dunno, that's about all I've got.)
And damn, I'd known Sandman was influential, but this is kinda like watching that recent Dune movie and finally realizing why there are so many desert planets. Except with a more eclectic mix of things influenced-- including, I have to say, plenty of LiveJournal usernames, icons, and bio quotes (mostly from Death) vaguely remembered from my formative Internet years.
But I think it most hit me on account of having been pretty into Planescape, and Mage: the Ascension, and Changeling: the friggin' Dreaming, because, huh, I need to reevaluate how original those settings felt to me during my teenage years, don't I? Not that they're entirely derivative or anything, just, when they were filling in the little corners of their game worlds, I now see how Sandman may have been inspiring them about as much as a traditional D&D setting is inspired by Tolkien.
(If you were looking for a review: it's pretty all right? I dunno, that's about all I've got.)
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Date: Wed, Jan. 18th, 2023 07:01 am (UTC)There should be a succinct term for realizing you've been missing references to something for years. Or wishing you'd gotten into something earlier.
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Date: Thu, Jan. 19th, 2023 02:26 am (UTC)Definitely agreed on that first part, though. (And I wonder if someone has coined a good expression for this...)