Culture

Here you can find a glossary of cultural references that are mentioned or referenced by the characters in Garland.

Geography and Locations

• Raggyzi - Country that Ziggy’s music is weirdly popular in

Events and Holidays

• StarSong Song Contest - An international song contest. Some people treat it like a joke but it’s very serious business.

• Fortune and Luck Festival - A festival put on by local business owners to thank the community and bring luck for the next year.

• Festival of Petals - A festival for picnics with friends.

• Moonflower Festival - A festival to celebrate butterflies coming to pollinate moonflowers.

• Beach party - A festival at the local beach.

• Twilight Equinox - A spooky festival.

• Midwinters Festival - A festival where loved ones exchange presents.

• New Years Eve - A festival to top off the year with fireworks.

TV Shows, Movies, Books, Music

• Square Heads - A renovation tv show where contestants gradually compete to renovate a house.

• Hillmark - Brand of romantic movies and books that Hannah reads.

• Sparkle Princess - Magic girl comic and tv show that Haruka likes.
  • Prince Xandimious - The Prince.
  • Mojoxica - The magical cat.

• Unrevealed Mysteries - True crime show that April watches.

• Buddies - Sitcom about some friends who live in a weirdly big apartment.

• Star Stammer - Scifi movie franchise. Way too many movies and a huge merchandise range.
  • The Nebulorian - A movie in the Star Stammer franchise staring popular actor Vedro Hickinbottomsly.

• Garland Gazette - Garland’s local newspaper.

• Ultrabot3000 - Popculture series about robots from space that fight against other robots from space. Elle cosplays one of the characters.

• SuperLevel - Started as a comic book series but now a multibillion dollar pop culture franchiese that Sophie is super into.

• Tears of Crystal - Ballad that was Ziggy’s greatest hit.

• Outlandish Offences: Fact or Frivolity - A show featuring various local mysteries.

Food and Drink

• Bluebear - Very popular energy drink, comes in both physical and mental energy versions.

• Zephyria - Famous soup from Raggyzi.

Games/Tech/Social Media

• S.A.L.M.O.N - First person shooter game that Quinn plays.

• Forest Animal Friends - Cute island themed relaxing game that Quinn plays.

• Orange Computers - Gigantically popular tech firm that Finn mentions.

• Turrets and Trolls/TnT - Table top role playing game that Dan and many other residents love.

• Blood Scale - Mini figure models that Dan builds. People get way into painting them.

• Tubist - Social media featuring mostly videos.

• Tingler - Social media for dating.

Other

• Synergyocity - multi-level marketing networking scam group that Finn attends.

• Hatchet body spray - lynx

• Thelia planet

• Equest, Ophiuchus, Lyre - Star signs.

• Clinkz - A popular brand of sneakers that Kirin likes.