#I just realized how much I love ranting about the blorbos

[teamatsumu]

gentle. (aone takanobu x reader)

summary: he’s not the same with you as he is with everyone else

word count: 1,399

warnings: swearing, but pretty fluffy otherwise, fem!reader, high school setting

tags: @keiva1000 @kindnessspreads @msbyomimi

this is written for @honeybleed’s Underrated Character event! I had so much fun writing this because it’s the perfect opportunity to give love to our blorbo aone (he deserves the world).

After Date Tech's loss to Seijoh at the Inter High preliminaries, you didn't know what exactly to do with yourself.

You had been managing the team since your first year. The previous manager hadn't really stayed to show you the ropes, and you had to learn everything from scratch. You had often felt lost and disoriented, and it felt like you were drowning as the novice team built themselves slowly but surely.

You truly felt that this time around, Date Tech's Iron Wall would be strong enough to get you all to Nationals. Now, not only did you have to stomach that loss, you had to deal with the fact that your precious third years were leaving.

You felt like you were drowning all over again, like you had back in your very first week with the team. Like you had no clue what to do. As you sat on the steps outside the volleyball gym on campus, you contemplated your next move. How the team would operate with Futakuchi as the new Captain. How you all had to somehow hone the talent in your inexperienced new setter, Koganegawa. It all seemed like too much work. How were you supposed to manage it all?

You nearly jumped out of your skin when something moved in your peripheral vision and you realized it was Aone, sitting on the steps next to you. When had he gotten here?

"You scared me!" You breathed, laughing a bit. It was almost comical how someone as huge and imposing as Aone could somehow make himself so invisible. But considering how quiet he was, it wasn't surprising to you.

Aone didn't react to your words, but his stare was intense on your face, eyeing you closely before he reached a finger out to poke at the skin under your eyes. Oh.

You felt your face heat a little at his touch, but you gave him a reassuring smile. "I'm fine, Aone. Just a little tired."

It seemed like he didn't believe you, the scowl between his eyebrows only deepening. You fidgeted a bit.

From your very first day managing Date Tech's volleyball club, you had had a soft spot for Aone Takanobu. He was, by all means, a scary looking dude. Taller than any boy you knew, and built like a brick wall. Despite his massive size, he was agile too, a very scary combination. Silver hair, a deep scowl that always seemed to twist his face (you later realized that he wasn't scowling, it was just the lack of eyebrows that made it appear so). It was no wonder people tiptoed around him.

But two years on the same team, spending every day together, meant that you knew Aone in ways that his audience did not. His personality was anything but scary. He was as docile as they came, and slowly but surely, you felt yourself drawn to his quiet disposition. In the storm that came with Futakuchi constantly butting heads with your third years, Aone was the silent bubble you found comfort in. He knew you inside out, and he was perceptive. Like right now, pointing out the dark circles under your eyes with an uncharacteristically gentle touch.

No wonder you had an embarrassing crush on him.

He kept an intense stare on you, his way of insisting there was something wrong. You shook your head again, sighing. You knew he wouldn't let this go. So you let yourself vent, letting out every dark and uncertain emotion inside you.

You ranted about everything that was plaguing your mind, body turned towards Aone but curled into yourself. You pulled your knees up to your chest, wrapping your arms around them to curl into yourself as you spoke, looking up at the boy next to you every now and then.

Aone did not interrupt. He never interrupted. He let you go on and on about how you didn't think Futakuchi was mature enough to lead a team, or how Koganegawa was nowhere near ready to stand on a court. All your doubts were spilled out into the air surrounding you, welcomed by Aone as he sat and listened to everything you had to say. His eyes did not leave you once, but he didn’t react in any other way.

"Sometimes I think you are the only thing holding the Iron Wall together." You gave him a little smile. "And I don't know how you do it."

When you finally finished, silence stretched between the two of you, as if everything around you was absorbing your words. You watched Aone, waiting for him to lean towards you and nod encouragingly, like he did whenever you had one of these ranting sessions.

"I do it because of you."

Your eyes widened, not expecting that he would speak. You knew Aone, and you knew he wasn’t a talker. He loathed having to voice anything because he felt like he didn’t have anything to say which wasn’t already understood. His voice was hoarse and deep, making your breath catch.

"Do what?" You asked, not understanding his words.

"You said I hold the Iron Wall together." He continued, and you basked in the sound of his voice. It was so rare for him to say anything. You wanted to savor it while it lasted.

"I do it because of you. I see how hard you work for this team. And it makes me work hard too. For you."

Your heart was beating a mile a minute, trying to catch up to his words and process them. You felt like your entire face was on fire, your breath stuttering. Aone did not look at you, instead staring at the ground before him. Your eyes caught his porcelain pale skin, eyeing how the back of his neck flushed red. The sight made you giddy.

"Aone…." You breathed, feeling truly speechless. Which wasn't like you at all. Between the two of you, you talked and Aone listened. For the first time, the roles were reversed.

Aone shifted a bit, still not looking at you. "Don't worry too much. You will figure it out like you always do. And I'll be here for you."

His sentences were simple. Yet to you, it felt like he was waxing poetic. You couldn't help your wide smile, shuffling closer to Aone and placing your head on his shoulder. You felt infinitely lighter, like all of what you were worried about didn’t matter at all when Aone was right there with you.

"Thank you." You whispered.

You felt Aone nudge at you gently, his way of saying 'you're welcome'. You let yourself bask in his touch, cheek pressed to his bicep, feeling how your heart pounded in your chest.

Multiple steps sounded on the ground, and then a sharp voice broke through the silence.

"You lovebirds done? Come on, let's get pork buns and then head home. I'm hungry!"

You sighed and rolled your eyes, pulling away from Aone to glare at Futakuchi, who was standing a few feet away while the team lingered behind him. They had all changed out of their sweaty practice clothes, bags slung over their shoulders and ready to leave. You saw Koganegawa peek at you from behind him, his mouth open comically wide.

"Eh? I didn't know our manager and Aone-san were dating!"

Before you could protest, Aone was lumbering onto his feet and grabbing your hand, pulling you up with him. His giant hand enveloped yours completely (you were giddy as you observed this fact), and he didn't let go as he walked past Futakuchi, who had an annoyingly smug grin on his face. You knew you wouldn't hear the end of this.

"Yeah, stay away from her, Kogane!" He called, being obnoxiously loud on purpose. He was definitely trying to goad you two, as was his nature. "You don't wanna know how pissy Aone gets when other guys flirt with her."

Your eyes widened, looking up at the boy in question. Aone pointedly looked away from you, but his grip on your hand tightened, and you could see the same blush creep up his neck and to his ears.

You grinned all the way to the convenience store, and then all the way home too, basking in the new information Futakuchi had spilled, as well as the tight grip Aone had on your hand.

He didn't let go even once.

[rimupon]

Youjo Senki proves that morally bankrupt women are in fact the greatest character type ever

EXACTLY. YOU GET IT.

Listen, I know we're tanya connoisseurs here, but. if youre interested in morally bankrupt women can i interest you in my other dearest blorbo: Alina Gray from the Madoka spin off

She is everything to me. She's an artist. She speaks exclusively in third person. She's Italian Sort Of. She tried to kill herself as an art piece. She wants to destroy the world. She makes witches feed on each other and become stronger bc she wants to make art out of them. She's Gay and Homicidal. She's perfect. I love her. 11/10 no notes.

I drew her very quickly with Tanya once upon a time but i should do it again bc if they ever met it would go horribly.

im putting this under a cut bc i suddenly got passionate

one thing I do want to say is that i personally believe the anime adaption did her dirty and kind of stifled her character a bit compared to the game. when the anime was airing, i saw a few posts claiming it was unfair to criticize and rag on the anime bc it didnt have the time to adapt Every Single Bit Of Content from the game, that would be impossible. and yknow i get that to an extent.

but she's literally a main antagonist. the LEAST they could do was try to show a portion of her background to explain the reason she is the way she is.

the way they present her just feels like it boils her down to the 'Insane Artist' trope whos fucking around for funsies, which yknow can be fun, i fw it whatever. BUT SHE HAS SO MUCH MISSED POTENTIAL D:

SHOW US WHO SHE IS! SHOW US HOW SHE FEELS ROBBED OF HER PERSONAL PRIVACY. SHOW US HOW SHE FEELS USED BY THE ADULTS AROUND HER. SHOW US HER RELATIONSHIP WITH KARIN. SHOW US HER STRUGGLE WITH HER IDENTITY. OR HER STRUGGLE WITH HER ART OR PEOPLES EXPECTATIONS OF HER. HOW SHE SEES HERSELF VS WHAT EVERYONE THINKS OF HER VS HOW SHE TRULY IS.

SHOW US THE REASON SHE'S ACTING AS AN ANTAGONIST??? BC I WAS SO UNIMPRESSED BY THE SHIT THEY EXPLAINED IN THE ANIME THAT I LITERALLY FORGOT IT. SO I REWATCHED THE EPISODE TO ANSWER THIS ASK AND REALIZED THEY DIDNT EXPLAIN JACK SHIT. SHE JUST MONOLOGUED ABOUT HER PLAN.

also shes barely relevant until last minute. also also they didnt even show her with karin at all, and only included her as a 2 second cameo after the credits.

this devolved into a rant. im sorry. I have so many issues with the magireco anime's ending. point is, her game backstory + the game backstory for holy alina too are required reading if u feel up for it. or u could read the wiki thank you for listening.

[lgbtimelords]

hello!!! for the ask game could i please ask for:

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thank you! :D

Hi!!!! Thanks for the ask 🥹

🍑 If you could make a connection between your favorite character and another work you care about (whether a crossover/fusion or a wonderfully “pretentious” literary reference) what would it be? How would it work?

(thinking about this question made me realize I'm not big on crossovers 😂) but I'd say send Lena into the wheel of time universe as a new found witch, let's see what happens

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🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.

so from what I understood blorbo is favorite character so obviouSLY KARA ZOR-EL MY BELOVED

"free pass to rant about blorbo opinions" oh honey you've got a big storm coming

I feel like her pain is something that I make sure shows up a lot in my fics (or at least I try to) because I don't feel like that's something that gets explored a lot. (It does get explored but out of 20k sc works, most of them don't even try to if we're honest)

She's like!!!! Extremely smart!!!!!! I do understand the show itself always took Kara's intelligence down to make literally every other character sound smart but she IS SMART ON HER OWN!!!! not only is she number/reasoning smart (miss "we did calculous from the age of four"), she's also visual smart (miss "I remember all of them" thanks to her photographic memory), musical smart (miss voice of an angel etc etc), linguistic smart (miss learned an entire new language as a kid when she was thrown into earth + we know she speaks more than just english) AND people smart (miss convinces someone to put down the gun etc etc). I recently made a fic that made her sound SOOOO stupid it pissed me off like you'd think one of the main characters of a ship being smart would be the norm but apparently it's an idea/headcanon not everyone has 🥴

Also as an specific headcanon that was never mentioned on the show is: I think she'd totally have kids. I know not everyone agrees with that one but my god. That woman has SO much love to give, how can she not want to give that love to children. How can she not want to make sure a little orphan gets the type of love and understanding the Danvers gave to her? When it's completely in her power to be able to give them that. How can she not want to share her culture and her name and her memories with someone that can keep passing on those memories and love? She'd have kids!!!! I'll die on this hill

Also she's a JEALOUS bitch. She really is. She IS. But hear me out. She's not jealous in the horrible possessive way most people are. She's not jealous in the "I don't trust you" way. She's jealous in the "please don't leave me", "please don't abandon me", "I understand I'm not good enough for you but I love you" way. "Please be forever mine" kinda way if you know what I mean

That one post about "calling my lover mine in the way my neighborhood is mine and also everybody else's, mine to tend to, mine to care form mine to love. Mine not like possession but devotion" is soooooo Kara imo, I could write a dissertation about it. She wants her people to be hers, not possessively, but because she wants to keep being able to love them.

[genshinconfessions]

Maybe this is just my opinion but I have to tell someone but didn’t want to get attacked for it lol so anyways:

Neuvillette annoys me for multiple reasons but mostly because of how so many people in the fandom treat him. Making fun of people who don’t have him, saying everyone should be playing him with no regard to the fact that some people just don’t like his play style because HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE IT (🙄 some ppl just don’t really vibe with catalyst playstyle jfc), stuff like that.

And really the biggest ones for me is the wave of archon and Navia hate i saw after ppl got him. I love the archons and Navia and like… guys. The archons because Neuvillette had those voice lines about serving Justice and everyone was like “ah yes! My bby hates them so so do I!” (Like hun you don’t need to share every value and thought as your blorbos) and they hated on Navia because she “made him upset when she yelled at him for no reason”. FIRST OF ALL she did have a reason: grief. Navia is a young woman running a massive organization whose dad recently died and she is grieving. Neuvillette is a GROWN ASS MAN and I think he can tell when someone is just lashing out and can get over it, he doesn’t need the entire Genshin fandom backing him up.

sorry for long rant lol

never be sorry! confessions and rants are what this blog is for!

i actually didn't see much hate for navia and the archons but maybe i'm just not in the circles that were doing that. either way, that's super disappointing to hear :((

i will say this again, though: the genshin fandom skews very young. they don't yet have the critical thinking skills to realize that they're not the center of the universe. part of this problem, they'll naturally grow out of it. but part of it, the rest of the fandom should try to steer them in the right direction. they're not our responsibility, but we can't just complain about them without at least trying to help them hahaha.

that said, give it a couple of years. at some point, most of them will end up in the right place.

[bylightofdawn]

Dear Star Wars Fans

It's Hot Take time with El.

I am sooooooo fucking sick of seeing these "Weh, Star Wars sucks now posts" or "Disney keeps putting out the bad stuff and is RUINING MY CHILDHOOD" posts.

It's legitimately like I'm being transported back to the '90s/early 2000s forums where endless fanboys were whinging over Lucus ruining Star Wars with the prequels. And BTW, they have not stopped in the past 20 years. They will continue to be pedantic and toxic and generally pessimistic about everything.

So to come to Tumblr and see that same mentality being shoveled about like three pounds of horseshit that cross my dash at least once a day. And well, I'm grumpy enough this afternoon to go off.

Hot Take Point One: Just because YOU don't like a show or a series doesn't mean your opinion is the majority. There is someone out there who loves the season you're proclaiming is the worst thing ever. That character you detest is someone's special blorbo and the ship you despise is someone's OTP. And that is okay; their tastes are entirely valid, and your experience is not universal. You are not a peerless bastion of flawless good taste and the supreme authority on Star Wars. 

How do I know this? Cause you're on this hellsite and you like Star Wars. 

I'm not naive enough to expect people to not bitch about and complain about things they don't like, and honestly, you're allowed to do that. I encourage you to do it. I want people to keep in the back of their minds that it's their opinion and that it's not universal. And their opinion is no better than another person's. Even someone who you think has a shitty opinion or ships something 'problematic'. If you're going to proclaim someone else has dogshit taste, I would encourage you to look into the mirror and realize someone else thinks your tastes are dogshit as well. And fuck right off with canon is the only real and valid opinion. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES DISNEY HAS CHANGED CANON? They can't make up their fucking minds; nothing is set in stone, so just enjoy what you enjoy and let other people enjoy what they want. We're all here because we supposedly love this fandom, right? I feel like people have lost sight of that point. We're supposed to love Star Wars, and it should bring us together as a fandom, not tear us apart. But that's a rant for another day.

Hot Take Point Two: Have a little appreciation and respect for the people working on these shows. Unless you are in the industry or working on said show, you probably don't understand the amount of work, effort, blood, sweat, and tears that goes into making these things. Some of these people grew up dreaming about working on a Star Wars IP. This is probably a dream come true for a lot of people working on these shows, and you're pissing all over those dreams for popularity points on the internet like this is fucking Reddit, and you're farming for upvotes. No, it's not perfect; yes, there are going to be shitty VFX and cringe as fuck dialogue. 

It's not perfect, but they do their best with what they get handed. We had a saying in my old print shop, you can only shine up a turd so much. aka you take the shit you are given and you try and make it as polished and pretty as you can but at the end of the day you're working with the shit you were given. And I'm not saying these series are criticism proof or that you're not allowed to ridicule some of the terrible bad choices made.

I will go to my grave ranting about the ridiculous batshittery of fucking jetpack jousting in Mando S3. 

Hot Take Point Three: I will also argue that there are good elements in every new Star Wars IP released by House of Mouse. Yes, even the one you hate down the cockles of your black heart. I challenge you to shut out the noise from Tumblr, the bandwagon hating on something, and go in trying to find something you enjoy in a season or an episode. Find, say, 5 things you enjoy or a character (even a cringy one) or a set piece you visually find interesting. Maybe a funny joke or even a special effect so ridiculously stupid you can't help but laugh. (I'm looking at you Ahsoka fighting god damn fighters with a lightsaber while on top of the Ghost zooming around at full cruising speed. It's so utterly preposterous I can't help but laugh and shake my head all at the same time.)

You don't have to post about it or speak about it to anyone don't worry your friends don't need to know you might secretly enjoyed something you all 'hated'. Though I would also challenge you to actually speak about it as well because...hear me out here, you might find NEW PEOPLE who enjoyed those same things you might make more friends in the fandom, shocking I know. 

But just trying to FIND a positive thing in a show will give you a slightly more balanced relationship with how you consume it. Honestly, that's just general life advice you should try and take to heart. That's a freebie from your old Auntie El there. 

It's so easy to be a negative, pedantic fan who hates what we claim to love. But by making the conscious choice to find something good in this so-called pile of shit in front of you, maybe your relationship with the IP will be a happier one. If nothing else, you'll perhaps get sparked and remember what made you love Star Wars so much in the first place. 

So yeah, keep in mind your experience is not universal, even if you hate it, respect the time and effort it took to make it and try and find what sparked joy in you in the first place when interacting with the media. 

Oh, one other thing? 20 years from now? You're prolly going to look back on these shows you hate and find yourself nostalgic and maybe even a little apologetic for how much you dogged on this stuff because there will be a whole new cycle of brand new IP people are creating where people are proclaiming THAT is the worst shit ever made and they don't make Star Wars content like they used to. 

Cause that's just the human condition, and as someone who has been in this fandom for thirty years? I've seen that cycle replayed multiple times. We love the Prequels now, but twenty years ago, everyone hated them and thought they were ruining Star Wars. It doesn't get worse, it doesn't get better; we just grow older and learn to have a new perspective and learn to interact with the fandom in different ways. 

I'm just begging you, please stop being negative, toxicly pedantic fans who just sit there tearing down everything and learn to interact with the thing you claim to love with...actual love.

[lottachaos]

MY BLORBOS (MY MAIN THING YEEHAW)

I have made picrews of my Blorbos I would post art but my sketchbook is in a different room and I am lazy

Veryn, the main one, who is also my persona:

Matthew who is Veryn’s boyfwend:

Hes really tan but I can’t always make him seem that way

anyways gonna rant now

veryn is a gremlin who is a lot like me in real life but more my my ideal version of myself. He is high energy and chaotic and loud but he can be serious when he needs to be. He has chronic RBF (Resting Bedroomeyes Face)

Matthew is chill and quiet and worries and lot and does this cute little worries gentle smile that veryn freaking falls for. He seems like he doesn’t do any chaos crap but then he goes and does some wild thing and you realize why veryn fell in love with him. He is covered in scars bc of various stuff he accidentally got involved with.

veryn lives half in the woods and half in an appartement. He has wings. Sometimes he has horns and these dark on his face and shoulders but that only appears when he’s in very stressful situations.

Matthew lives in an appartement with his sister who is named Katie and has a job or goes to college, I haven’t decided which yet

they are both in their young twenties, no more that 24.

Matthew somehow gets some sort of forestry Wiley thing like veryn has but idk how. All I know is that he gets this long whipping tail with a tuft at the end which is the thing in the back of one of the picrews of him.

Matthew is covered in scars bc veryn is in the middle of this big situation where he’s fighting against these magical eldritch entities and Matthew at one point finds him in the woods fighting them and tries to help and then gets beaten up and bitten by magical snakes and almost dies. That is where most of his scars come from (he has a scar that looks like a dinsosaur on his left side just beneath his rib cage. It’s called the dinoscar) but some various other events give him lil other scars

Veryn is much better at defending himself because he has been having to fight for much longer and so does t have as many obvious scars. He does have on long one on his neck because enemies tries to slice it at one point but he lived.

Matthew usually wears a black turtleneck and this tan cardigan looking jacket. Some of the picrews I used didn’t have that option so I had to make due.

Veryn usually wears a bright green shirt about the color of the “Draft saved!” Pop up that happens in tumblr when you take ages to write a post. Then he wears a brown jacket on top and black or brown pants and some brown boots. He basically dresses kinda like a redneck but when you see the clothes on him you cannot see anything but skinny gay forest being.

Oh yeah Veryn’s wings look like the brown variant of a tawny Eagle. Basically. Except a little more brown and a little less white and dots/stripes.

I stayed up till one am last night writing a (rather spicy) fic for them. I will share SOME of it here in a different post. I will also show some art of these two in a different post. Stay tuned, anyone who’s interested!! Eventually I will probably make some sort of book or smth about these two. Yes Ik I use tropes and it’s not super realistic in a lot of ways but I understand that and I don’t really care because I’m just making the story to be however its best to me and cringe culture is dead .

CRINGE IS TEMPORARY BLORBO IS FOREVER!!

Anyways, there you have it. I’ll post more later. I’m so excited I’ve finally put info about them all in one place bc I rlly needed to do that. k bye

[sircolinmorgan]

This is kinda random but I wonder why Shaun Evans never took off as an internet boyfriend? I know Endeavour is a niche show, but from reading tags in popular gif posts, I've noticed there are a lot of young fans who grew up watching him as Morse and consider him one of the ultimate blorbos. Add in the fact he's easily one of the most likable and charismatic actors out there plus his big anime eyes and handsome face it's like how is tumblr not obsessed with him?

Maybe because he doesn't make many media appearances? Or how guarded he is? I guess he was successful in his goal of keeping focus on the character instead of himself. I also get the vibe fans are very conscious of respecting him and his privacy which is cool.

But still! lol

It's wild to see the most basic men being fawned over when Shaun is right there. Maybe I'm biased but having now watched a bunch of his interviews and his past stuff I feel like he's the most adorable man I've ever seen.

I realize this is basically a rant about how great I think Shaun Evans is lmao but do you know what I mean?

i totally get what you mean! honestly i just think endeavour is a very niche show and people just don't know shaun evans exists lol. it's baffling to me that endeavour never became huge, especially as inspector morse was apparently massively popular, i mean i'm kind of glad bc the hype ruined line of duty and i think shaun would have hated that level of exposure.

i'd vaguely heard of endeavour over the years but all i knew was that it was a prequel and i barely knew anything about IM so i wasn't particuarly interested. but somehow i didn't hear anyone talking about it or see a single second of it for the whole 10 years it was on lol! i have no idea how it passed me by so much.

i've spent a lot of time now watching interviews with shaun and watching his earlier work and he's just so lovely, he definitely deserves more attention. not just from fans but endeavour and shaun never seem to get the recognition in awards shows either! as i said, it's baffling. the same shows and the same people get all the hype year after year and yet..shaun is right there with his one solitary tear acting and beautiful blue eyes and curly hair and...yeah. you're right, he's great lol

[shinelikethunder]

Regarding your tags about Good Omens not making your brain go brrrr - it's really interesting because early on while I was watching the new season, I found myself asking, like, "Is this actually good or do I just enjoy it?" And very quickly I decided the answer was "Well, you see, I enjoy it so much."

But as a result I've been thinking a lot about how I define whether or not a story is "good" because surely that indefinable quality of Makes Brain Go Brrrrrr should figure into it somewhere. And there's the inverse phenomenon to account for, of things that are like a dead fish to the fictive libido. I think that might be even more subjective, though.

It's not that I think quality is a totally meaningless concept when assessing art, I've just been thinking I might need to make more space within my metric for things like "joy" and "energy" and "vibrates my brain like a tumble dryer". As opposed to seeing those things as incidental and trying to take my own emotional response out of the equation.

it's a factor for sure, but if SPN proves anything, it's that "vibrates my brain like a tumble dryer" can be completely orthogonal to quality and enjoyment... sometimes the vibration is from canon having a two-for-one flash sale on hate crimes and writing crimes, y'know? sometimes episodes i find genuinely excruciating make me want to dissect them like bugs. (and on the flip side, there are plenty of works i do very much love on their artistic merits and enjoy, but not in the specific way that makes me want to scream in the tags of a tumblr gifset.)

like, yeah, variants of that Roger Ebert Reviews The Mummy (1999) reaction of "i can't even say what this has to recommend it except that i enjoyed the shit out of every minute of it" do deserve space as merits in their own right, but also, for me personally at least, that Brain Go Brr quality of... investment? engagement? obsessive need to poke at it and roll around in it and rotate it on the blorbo rotisserie?... doesn't necessarily have a straightforward relationship with quality or enjoyment. see previous reblog tags re: liking nbc hannibal perfectly well the first time around, but only losing my absolute shit over it when approaching via some borderline-unreadable thomas harris nonsense that managed to sink the first hooks in. and also many previous rants about the brain-go-brr-ness of rtd's doctor who being at its height when the show was most direly in need of fixing.

all of which is kind of a digression from good omens 2, which provoked neither fandom brainrot nor any particularly strong other type of enjoyment - i was sitting there going "this is... nice i guess?" amidst an increasingly acute realization that whatever quality of the book it was that originally hooked me in, pratchett's barbed sense of humor was absolutely vital for making the silliness land for me. i wish everyone who can get in their OTP Feelings about GO2 the joy of it, and will mostly be saluting from a distance as i scroll past on the dash. it seems to have succeeded reasonably well at the things it set out to do--and it turns out those things didn't do it for me, on any of the levels i might've wanted them to. the strange nature of it all is, i'd probably have much more specific criticisms if it had grabbed me.

[thefourchimes]

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Wasn't able to answer this last night as I had passed out and then I got really busy the whole day today, whoops, my bad about that, but here we go!

🍌 In your opinion, what’s the funniest joke/reference/pun you’ve made in a fic?

Ooooh...well, as mentioned in the previous ask, I haven't actually posted anything for Encanto yet, and while I probably have a lot of possible choices from my other fandoms, I can't remember any from the others off the top of my head atm oof

Plus most of my stuff is angst instead of crack AHSFUIHAFS but I'll do my best

So yes, a joke/reference/pun I've made for a fic...I honestly have a few in mind right now for Encanto, ones from the 233 page AU, but if I say it now, it'll lose its magic when I hopefully post it AHSFUHASF

I'll probably just mention this one scene I had written for the one All of Us Are Dead fic I have, one that still makes me laugh every time I reread it:

It probably doesn't help that my sense of humor sucks but it's funny to me at least HASUFHASF

My bad if I wasn't really able to answer this properly 😅

🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.

Ah, this question <3

I don't think I made it too obvious as to who my blorbo is before, besides a few posts and the fact that I love all the cool sisters so much, so yeah, guess it's time to "reveal" it

It's Isabela

I remember watching Encanto again all those months ago, the moment where my hyperfixation was about to rear its head and grab me by the throat, never letting go

As that was happening, the feral, chaotic, and unhinged cactus gremlin sister decided to jump me too

I can't remember exactly when I knew she was my favorite, but I just knew that she already was before I even fully realized it

I had WECID on repeat for a long while at one point

I think her exploring herself after everything hit me hard, I relate to her so much in a way, ngl... (except the hilarious thing is that I'm not even Isabela in this case, I'm the youngest out of my three siblings so I'm technically Mirabel in a sense ASHFIASF)

But anyway, I digress, my thoughts on her (along with my ideas for her that pop up in fics—er, will pop up anyway) are so wild that I'm not too sure on how to write it down in paragraph form, plus it probably won't be anything new since someone else in the fandom has probably already mentioned these, but I guess we keep going with it in a chaotic and wild way, true to Isabela's character (apologies in advance for the explosion of thoughts—except also not really sorry):

She's chaos incarnate, a force of nature that is so very extra and so petty as hell but it's okay because we love it sm

We don't get to see it all as much though because of her mask, but that just makes me even happier since she gets to be free post movie

She's acrobatic and athletic as seen in WECID, not to mention her skill with vine swinging, but that doesn't mean she didn't get at least a bit of clumsy genes from Agustin in some way, she just hides it pretty well due to her mask of perfection

She's always colorful and changing colors every time, experimenting with all the possibilities and she changes the color of her hair strand a lot too

She makes and discovers and explores all kinds of plants (ones she keeps track of to know what they are and what they can do), but we all know she has a soft spot for cacti <3

She knows a lot about flower and plant language, whether already having knowledge during the movie or learning after

She loves her family so much that she would and has sacrificed her happiness for them, that's something I admire so much but am also sad about because she really loves her family that she wants them happy even if she can't be happy, ow—

This seems to be a consensus the fandom has: she's one of the ones who will most likely murder someone and will kill for her siblings, very protective of her sisters and her family <3

Speaking of which, she has a ridiculously overpowered gift, one she has just as ridiculous control over as well, that I cackle and shake my head every time when someone just underestimates her and her gift

We know how she wants to be free but is feeling trapped as she's forced into perfection, half due to her own making and half due to others boxing her in, so there are lots of fake smiles and pretending on her part, but that does mean she's a pretty good actress considering she had everyone fooled for so long

I fucking love her bonds and relationships with her sisters and her cousins, but, as my PFP is indicating, especially the cool sisters

They weren't close with each other for several reasons for a long while, not even mentioning the strained relationship between her and Mirabel, but to see them have the chance to connect again and make up for everything was done and all that happened after the events of the movie? I love it so much aaaaaa

She teases the hell out of them in various ways, that's for sure, the sister vibes are so real <33

But that doesn't mean the cousins are left out here, ofc, the exploration of dynamics is always so nice and fun to see

I love all the grandkids so much <33333

I want to keep going so badly but I feel like I'd never finish this ask if I do AUISFHUIASHF plus I'm very sure I forgot something, but oof 😔

Ngl, this was me the entire time I was trying to answer this question:

Isabela <33

yep, that tracks HASFUIAHSF but yeah, thanks for the ask!! :DD <33

[spark-lapis]

hey so idk if you remember but that one aita blorbo post you reblogged with the professor guy and the crystal where you called him a coward in the tags was mine and I just wanted to say that when I saw your tags it made me so happy because I've been working on the worldbuilding and plot development for that for four years now (the eldritch horror stuff is a newer development after I realized I was wasting so much story potential by just making it a fancy rock) and your tags made me feel very proud of myself because it showed that somebody appreciated it and thought it was cool.

Sorry for dumping this on you. Also J is the protagonist and I will give him as happy of an ending as I can. In case you were worried for him. I don't know much about portal but that cave Johnson fella seems very interesting so maybe I should try to find a decent letsplay (no ability to play myself)

i do in fact remember that one!!! and i really really did think it was cool!!! the eldritch horror and Messing With Forces Beyond Your Comprehension For Power vibes are some of my favorite so!!! yeah!!

the vibes overall were just VERY cool, it really felt like the asker was kind of subconsciously aware that he's in over his head and just kind of defaulted to the Dean's opinion on everything. unreliable narration and shaky conviction are ALSO things that i love in my stories!! and wow that worldbuilding and plot is VERY cool. moral atrocities in the name of pursuit of power & reckoning with supernatural forces much greater than the lives of any individual are so so awesome. beloved tropes and themes ✨

also don't be sorry for "dumping" something like this!! it always makes me super happy when i get excited about something someone made and then it's actually really meaningful to them because it's like wow!!! i got to read an awesome thing AND my commentary on it was encouraging to the original author??? like that's just awesome twice !!!

genuinely i am very invested in this story, it seems VERY cool and i would be absolutely interested to see how everything ends up!! the professor/asker seemed kind of deeply pathetic to me in a hubristic puppet sort of way so i am especially curious about whether he would end up breaking free of all that and deciding to do what's right, or meeting some kind of unfortunate end at the hands of the path he's passively chosen to follow!!

as for cave johnson, i did find this clip of all his voicelines in what i'm pretty sure is chronological order; the minute and a half between timestamps 8:51 to 10:22 should be pretty representative! includes his famous "lemon rant" too (though cw for aggressive yelling). basically the hubris is off the charts and after killing countless test subjects in dangerous experiments he ended up bankrupting his company, poisoning himself with moon rock dust, and becoming fatally ill as a result.

(entirely understandable not to play it yourself, it also took me ages to get through; it it is not a particularly easy game even if you have access to it!)

[aliens-took-my-iwa-chan]

i saw you needed some positivity so i am here to send some! also how are things going with you?? why'd you need some positivity? also if im asking too much im sorry, or if you dont wanna talk about it here you can also dm me

i recently sent in the rant about castiel being my blorbo, so here's some more about him and a bit about my other blorbo also from spn- ok so everytime i see cas on screen i just start smiling a lot (same with my new blorbo) like i mean he's so pretty?? i love his personality?? hes just really cool?? okok so the newest blorbo -- gabriel, also an (arch)angel, mc's thought he was a 'trickster' (demigod that can create things) for a while but they were wrong- anyways on to my simping kinda short (but still taller than me) but we like that, he's also pretty a fckn sweet-tooth (like me) BRO I LOVE LOVE LOVE HIS SENSE OF HUMOR (at one point he teleported the "mc's" to "tv land" and i *loved* that episode) theres more but i can hold it in-

tbh i just love the angels (who aren't assholes)

anyways- this is a bit of a long one omg- sorry about rambling again- (even if its allg to ramble im still gonna apologize lol)

yay positivity!!!! :D (oh im so sorry I didn’t mean to worry you, Ive just had a difficult past two weeks and realizing the next two are going to be just as rough was a little disheartening. just a *lot* of stuff to do, no free time whatsoever, and many, many deadlines :/ its nothing too bad, and after these next two weeks everything should hopefully be better!! it just kinda got to me lolol) (im sorry for worrying you, youre so sweet tho I appreciate your concern <3333)

oooo nice more blorbo rambles!!!!!!! :D /pos oooooo that sounds lovely!!!!! hehe your enthusiasm is contagious hfjdjf im getting excited for you just reading this- ^-^

ooooo another blorbo!!!!!!!!!! jfjgjdjf he sounds so cool???? the characters in this show sound so amazing and cool and how can (arch?)angels not be cool hahahshfbf- THE BEST CHARACTERS ARE ALWAYS THE ONES WITH A SWEET TOOTH AND A SENSE OF HUMOR-

pls dont feel sorry for rambling, I’m always happy to hear it!!!!! <333333333

*piles a plate high with cookies and hands it to you*

(oh btw what are your favorite cookies I need to know for urgent matters) (psst its not that urgent Im just interested lmfao)

[hannahmationstudios]

🍇 Is there a particular scene/episode/book/etc that you want to just write a million fics about, over and over? Which one?

🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.

🍇 Is there a particular scene/episode/book/etc that you want to just write a million fics about, over and over? Which one?

Almost every fic I've written has been spawned off a single moment, comment, or detail from the bigger work. Per Aspera was written because of Garrus' comment about "[finding] out what a turian-human baby looks like", and to be honest, that one's probably at the top of the list. I desperately want to return to that series someday when I get the spark back.

🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.

Hmm, I have a few blorbos but not a ton of headcanons that deviate too much from canon. I guess the main one is Eskel from the Witcher, who I see and write as ace. There's so painfully little ace rep that sometimes you have to make it where you can find it, y'know?

I write Jesse McCree from Overwatch as street smart, but with a much lower emotional maturity than would benefit him a lot of the time (and often works against him). I just get the impression that he never really got the chance to properly develop emotionally, and being thrown around the way he has with no support system hasn't helped that at all. I see him as someone who conflates sex with love and never really learned to properly understand or verbalize his feelings, to the point of being downright detrimental to his relationships (of all types). He's someone who doesn't trust a good thing because he's never known a good thing, and who will intentionally sabotage good things just to prove to himself he's right and keep the toxic cycle of self-loathing going. It's all very sad! I'm realizing how sad it all is now!

I also see Nil from Horizon as aroace. He's just a weird cat who adopted Aloy as His Person and now she's his favourite, to whatever end. (Also: I adore Nil with all my heart.)

[peachpaws0]

the autism is winning besties 💙

[maldito-arbol]

It’s time for Mal to Talk in the tags again because I’m too tired to do homework or write so I’m gonna use my energy for this

[thepunmaster]

character opinion for flowey!!!!!!!! flowey/asriel technically !!!! :]

they are soooo cool looking yes <3333 !!!!!! all his forms!!! flowey! asriel! photoshop flowey! god of hyperdeath! <333333 omg bestie you are sooooo poggers

everyone but me is So So Wrong About Them see you know what flowey should be. i think floweypot aus and saved asriel aus are all fine and good but they miss the best most integral part of flowey which is the fact that he kind of went mad with the resets because of all the sameness. he wanted things to be perfect he wanted things to be okay again but they cant be because chara is gone and hes a flower who can't feel love!!!!! its about not being able to go home because his home was broken up by the plan that he went along with and the plan broke him too!!! its about being just a kid and not knowing how to help his sibling as they got more and more desperate to live up to everyone's expectations!!!!! and now hes lost his family, his home, and even his love!!! and he cant even feel guilt about it!!!!!!! but he knows he should, and he wants things to be perfect again!!!! and then when he finally accepts they cant be then.... then why not hurt them? he can just reset afterwards, it'll be fine... just.... he's frustrated, he's hurt and tired and no one will ever understand.... and hurting one person is a slippery slope, and sure he was a little reluctant, but then he realized it was so much fun! there's no guilt to get in the way, and maybe he starts seeing Asriel as weak, because he used to be so afraid of hurting people that he'd let them walk all over him, and maybe he starts resenting chara a little- or seeing chara's point, and wishing he had killed some humans- or maybe being glad that the plan went badly, because it made him who he was. and then he got those SOULs. and he remembered what it was like to be asriel. and he remembered what it was like to care. and then he was flowey again. and he would always be flowey. and he would always be alone, even surrounded by people. but he cant stop remembering what it was like to love, just for a single moment. (...maybe i should have put "everything i love about them isnt canon")

they has so much wasted potential as you can see. above. mr. fox could have done so much more with flowey :( </3

if they were real i'd be afraid of them yes ofc i would floweys literally killed people lukcily he isnt real so be can be my blorbo my child my little darling boy whom i love dearly and kind of wish i could microwave but it wouldnt be safe. for the microwave <3333

theyre deeper than they seem. see the rant about how no one gets him like me

yes i will project all of my issues about finding an identity when you barely remember who you used to be but people still expect you to act like them onto him

tjey get done dirty by fans people dont. explore flowey's potential as someone who cant care its always "oh he secretly cares. inside him" or a saved asriel au and while those are *interesting* and can be done so well and i genuinely like reading saved asriel because thats such an interesting conflict, no one ever just lets flowey Be which kind of defeats the whole point of his character. his character is that he can never be asriel again even when he had asriel's form he couldnt truly be him it was a facsimile, a pretending, and he knew it could never last and he would be flowey again, but he wanted to pretend anyways. asriel was the epitome, almost the personification of love and compassion, and flowey.... flowey isnt. can never be. and he has to deal with that. forever.

didnt get enough screen time. this is self explanatory :(

i want to carry them in a handbag like a tiny dog except the handbag is a flowerpot and he is feral <3

wow! they are a horrible person!!! he has committed atrocities <3

why do they look like that /pos

im mentally ill about them. as evidenced by this rant that i literally am writing on the night before my birthday right now instead of like. sleeping

they work better as part of a dynamic bc flowey and frisk. flowey <3 and frisk <3 and maybe chara if they can show up <3 i lomve them

and obviously theyve never done anything wrong in his life ever flowey <3333 he is my favourite eternal SOULless child (aside from chara maybe but it could be argued that, as a ghost, they have the shell of their SOUL- or that, since they were awoken by frisk, they use frisk's SOUL)

[noys-boise]

Kay @stressedsnake you're going to listen to me rant about my blorbos, quick alert, I will go through the plot of the musical Falsettos so like, spoiler warning but also, it's worth watching even if you know what happens.

So firstly we need to establish something because I will use a lot of titles here and it's kind of confusing, here's a small explanation:

So basically it was originally a trilogy called Marvin trilogy, it consisted of In trousers, March of the falsettos and Falsettoland, the latter two got turned into Falsettos, one singular musical and then it had a revival. Ik it's confusing but so is maths and this is at least fun.

So my blorbos, to literally no one's surprise, are Marvin and Whizzer (and the lesbians kinda I'll mention them too)

So basically at the beginning of In trousers Marvin is a 14 year old uh... Very wild child. By that I mean, he most definitely has some kind of undiagnosed neurodivergency (my guess is ADHD but this is just a headcanon)

So basically he has a relationship with a kind of very annoying high school girl, while trying to force himself to crush on his teacher Mrs. Goldsberg aaand he ends up marrying another woman named Trina, which wedding he very visibly was not looking forward to. And uh, yea he's also very gay.

Oh and I forgot to mention this is all happening like 60s-70s so he really doesn't get to be openly gay, instead he hooks up with another gay man called Whizzer Brown (hey this is where blorbo #2 comes into the picture!). So Marvin makes an impulsive decision, leaves Trina and his son Jason and runs away with Whizzer, end of In trousers.

So by the beginning of March of the falsettos we find out that Marvin was like "actually screw that I'll keep my family, I'll just somehow try to force Whizzer into it I'm sure everyone will like it!" (No one liked it). So at this point Marvin is kind of an asshole but like tbh so are the other adults and they'll get better so yay.

Basically at this point Marvin and Whizzer are very different and it brings a lot of conflict and they even admit that they enjoy fighting to the point that they're really only together for sexual reasons which is kind of bad. But the main reason why they can't really agree is that while Whizzer is very openly and loudly gay, Marvin would rather stay as close to being the perfect cisgender straight jewish american as possible, so he keeps trying to force Whizzer into a feminine role. And it certainly doesn't help the situation that Whizzer refuses to stay monogamous or even admit that he'd love Marvin, who is at this point very affection starved and keen to emotional outburts (that emotion being mainly anger). So yea. Toxicisity!

The good part is, that at this point Marvin have been going to a psychiatrist for years so he does recognize that he has undiagnosed mental health issues (add BPD and depression to my headcanon mix by the way). Good job Marvin! The bad news is his psychiatrist (called Mendel) fucking sucks, and he mostly uses Marvin's sessions to talk about Trina (who he simps for) which, once again, doesn't help!!

So basically, Mendel does end up marrying Trina, Marvin breaks up with Whizzer over chess, Jason is literally just a 10 year old child and cannot cope with the situation (he's also very autistic), Marvin ends up hitting Trina in frustration and then immediately regretting it, basically end of March of the falsettos.

So how can Marvin POSSIBLY redeem himself??... He gets lesbian friend. I'm not kidding. He also only sees his son on the weekends and remains without a psychiatrist and a lover. But at least he has a lot of times to self reflect and realize that yea he probably was the problem and tries to be better. And he does become better, omygod I love act II/Falsettoland Marvin so so much. So basically he meets Whizzer again at Jason's baseball game because Whizzer loves BASEBALL and JASON and that's what he's doing there and they decide to give their relationship another go and aaaaaaaa they're so cuteeeeee!!!!!

Meanwhile Jason is about to have a bar mitzvah (they're still all jewish) but he doesn't want to have a bar mitzvah and he kinda hates his parents, but tbh he always has (but he does love Whizzer and always have loved Whizzer, possibly more than his own father!)

This is also a good time to talk about the lesbians!! They're called Charlotte and Cordelia and they're amazing! Charlotte is a doctor and Cordelia is a caterer and they've got their issues too (like Charlotte is way too focused on her job and becomes stressed if she faces failure and Cordelia struggles with her own self worth compared to how many people her girlfriend saves) but ultimately they love each other and are amazing and I love themmmmm

Back to Marvin and Whizzer. They racquetball instead of chess now which is kinda like tennis except it's not. Marvin is awful at it but plays because it makes Whizzer happy and awwwww they're so in lovee. Buttt the second time they're shown to be playing racquetball, Whizzer seems visibly weaker and worse at racquetball and falls on the ground and this is where I start to cry for the next 10 minutes. Yeah there's a reason there's a doctor in this musical-

So basically, the thing is, it's the 80s (1981 to be exact) which means that the AIDS crisis is happening and people are dying and Whizzer is one of those people unfortunately. So now you have Whizzer knowing he's on the verge of death and Marvin worried as hell, trying to cope with inevitably losing Whizzer again and also the fact that this disease is sexually transmitted and it is possible that he got it from Whizzer and will die as well. Also this is a good time to bring up Jason still angsting over not wanting a bar mitzvah (he wants it even less now)

There's also a really sweet song between Marvin, Whizzer, Charlotte and Cordelia about how hopeless the situation is but at least they've still got each other and it's called Unlikely lovers and it's so beautiful and it makes me CRY it's my favorite song

Anyways. Jason has the genius idea to have his bar mitzvah in Whizzer's hospital room, the whole family is together and relatively happy for the last time but then Whizzer dies and everything is sad again, that's the end of the musical, it makes me cry.

But anyways.

Back to Whizzvin.

Them <3

(The last one also has the lesbians :DD)