#( c: hercules )

[53v3nfrn5]

The Lockheed AC-130 in action

Due to the cloud of smoke left behind after flares are released, this aircraft is widely known as “The Angel of Death”

[beaniegaebie]

i don't really have any solid conclusions about this yet but i noticed A Thing in a rewatch and i haven't found it mentioned elsewhere yet so here we go

(apologies for the appalling image quality you're about to see, i can't screenshot easily rn pls bear with)

OKAY so in the scene where crowley confronts gabriel about "shut up and die", something about the arrangement of book stacks caught my eye a little

the majority of the books are angled so that we mostly just see the page edges and not the spines clearly, EXCEPT for a particularly shiny and familiar colour combo right here-

but nothing too weird going on there, i thought, crowley coloured books in a bookshop so what? right up until i registered crowley's line when we get a closer look-

hhhhmmmmMMmmmm yes yes "everything just the way you wanted" huh, very interesting considering that we know how much thought goes into props huh

and for most of the shots we get of crowley in this position those freaking books are just quietly nestled right there in the corner-

look at that god damn framing i fuckin see you, you glorious bastards

so i paused to see if i could figure out what the hell was up with those fuckers and this is when i absolutely lost my mind, your honour

A and C you say?? in crowley colours???? framed like this?????? localised entirely within your kitchen???

anyway long story short they're two books from an Agatha Christie Crime Collection set (24 volumes, three stories per volume) and guess whats on the mfing front covers I'm-

(its a rant for another post but when paired with this other set of initials spotted in s2 i want to scream actually)

ANYWAY back to the books, through an absolutely unhinged comparison of the formatting of gold text blobs i reckon the two we have here are:

(on top) The Pale Horse; The Big Four, The Secret Adversary

(on bottom) 4:50 From Paddington, Lord Edgeware Dies, Murder in Mesopotamia

(I'm fairly confident but if anyone has a better image to confirm/correct this pls do)

now here is where I'll need a bunch of help from some Christie-heads out there bc I haven't read any of these and I've only seen the tv adaptation of one of them, so i dont know for sure if these are like A Clue, or A Cool Thing, or if I've just fully brainrotted myself into a fun lil corner here? wa-hoo

but here's some initial stuff that jumped out at me after skimming the basics:

(some of) the titles: Pale Horse/Big Four - death's horse ofc, the four horsemen mayb? the them+adam?? ; Mesopotamia is a very biblical choice bbz ; 4:50 From Paddington- azi likes trains i guess? idk that one's tenuous lmao ; honestly no idea with the other two but Secret Adversary feels a tad ominous

iirc Big Four just has kind of an unusual history, it was initially twelve short stories that she later compiled into one, and it was published fairly soon after christie's mysterious disappearance/reappearance

in Big Four, poirot fakes his death at one point and doesnt even let hastings in on it and I'm hoping sure its totally irrelevant to the ineffable bois

part of the Pale Horse story is a group of assassins that basically try to pass off all their murders as being actually caused by like ✨satanic powers✨ which is interesting

christie knew a fUCkton about poisonings thats why she wrote so many into her work and, while i don't believe the poison coffee theory myself, it sure is an interesting link with how cyanide is associated with almond smell/flavour and that metatron chooses almond syrup in particular

(ALSO random side note that is mostly meaningless but I've worked in a good few uk coffee shops and have never worked anywhere that stocks almond syrup; almond milk yes, hazelnut syrup yes, but never almond syrup...? prob just the places i worked though lmao)

EDIT forgotten point: I've seen some speculation that the bently's plate reading "CURTAIN" could be a reference to poirot's last story, along side that alternate scene of crowley ordering the sherry for "miss marple", its just one too many agatha christie references for my melted brain to handle and I'm SUS

so this is where i run out of idea steam and hand it over to you lot because i have no clue what this could mean, if it even means anything other than a cool set feature

is there something here actually or am i yelling into the void just for fun?

who knows, who cares!

[psykopaths]

Hercules battling Centaur

[unlikelykingturtle]

[grainelevator]

Ski-equipped Lockheed LC-130 Hercules & Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica

[usafphantom2]

23 August 1954. 70 years ago today. First flight of the Lockheed C-130 (YC-130) Hercules s/n 53-3397. American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft from the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California. The aircraft was the second prototype, but the first of the two to fly.

@ron_eisele via X

[princessdaily]

"You sound like you could use a break. Think your nanny goat would go berserk if you played hooky this afternoon?" HERCULES (1997)

[invisibletripwire]

[houseofmouselove100]

Goofy decides to ask if they have seen any costumed villains but to no avail.

Goofy didn't know

that the evil queen was dressed as an old woman

Ursula was Vanessa

Pain and panic being the children who deceived Hercules

Everyone was seen accusing and arguing so the best solution was to lock up all the villains but after a small blackout the villains were disappeared.

[nocternalrandomness]

MCAS Cherry Point Airshow 2024

[immortalmuses]

The fact that Logan (Okay, James Howlett) and Hercules are lovers in X-Treme X-Men / Earth-12025...

And then Marvel does a whole Wolverine & Hercules Crossover in Earth-616, and gives us scenes LIKE THIS...

...I mean, the Audacity. JUST FUCKIN KISS ALREADY!!

[thestonecuttersguild]

Dig this D-Day scheme on the Herc. Didn't see it fly though. Oshkosh 2024

[c-130hercules]

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey receives fuel from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules over the Philippines

[chadillacboseman]

Our city sprayed for mosquitos last night from like 11:30pm to well after midnight. I live in the country, but our house is in the flight path. I thought we were under fucking attack.

[thorsource]

IMMORTAL THOR #13

↳ Alex Ross

[usafphantom2]

USAF Hotel junkies over Yokota AB. (osakabe yasuo)

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