#I think I’m reaching peak blorbo with him

[artocelot]

Addicted to drawing him stupid

[coffeesleep-ooc]

For your last anon, I have 2 things to say:

1. I think the lack of stress on the early days can be inferred to say something about SQQ, something about how SQQ is doesn’t find these moments as important because he’s planning/worrying/etc over the post-IAC events. Though I see it more as he saw those days as just an everyday thing, doting on LBH. He’s really sweet bc that’s his blorbo!! Ofc being nice to him is so easy even outside of the golden thighs part!! And!!! LBH, an easily impressionable teen is going to care a lot more about this when he’s not used to getting this kind of treatment- not just form SQQ- but from the peak. I mean even with NingNing, she’s seen to make the bullying worse- not on purpose though I still love her <3- so even the “kind” person he knows, kindness backfires.

2. I do think the “first person to show kindness” thing is so not true bc literally the first scene we see with ningning and lbh he’s snarky! And that may be after meeting the qi deviated SQQ but iirc it was immediately after so there’s no real interference. And the rest of the scene played out without SQQ doubting the plot events. Also OG!LBH had a harem of any women just because he wanted to prove himself, it’s a power fantasy not a romance. Imo if it was the “first person to shwo kindness” argument it kinda falls flat since ogLBH didn’t care about his wives the way a loving person would. He literally just married any woman to prove his power lol. (Though some could argue that’s because he reached a point of no return, but this isn’t my post to rant lol)

Hello again!!! It’s really nice to keep hearing your thoughts! And honestly i agree with most of what you say!

I believe that og!LBH may at some point thought to himself that he loved them all, but in the way you love shiny stuff that you collect and put on a shelf and sometimes play with? There is indeed power in keeping so many women and taking so many women from their houses, tribes, even husbands or sweethearts. I believe this is not bc LBH forces them to, but we all know that his presence attracts women according to the laws of the universe Airplane created. I believe these power fantasies are sometimes reflections of men that have been taught that having many women surrounding you and wanting you (to be a protector or just for your looks or body or whatever) makes you powerful and superior, this is also reflected on LBH having the heavenly sky pillar like SQQ calls it…bc we have been taught that erm…bigger makes you more proud or stuff like this.

I think I’m deviating to talking about toxic masculinity ksjdkskdjd but anyways! The point in sv is precisely that this absolute character of a man in SQQ’s eyes suddenly (not really suddenly though) turns around and becomes a person with wants and needs and what he wants is actually his old teacher. SQQ does not take this well lmao

But its also true that SQQ treats LBH’s disciple days like a calm period…i mean who wouldn’t! Imagine that you have transmigrated into the character with probably the worst death at the hands of your fav chara…i’d cry XD

I believe that dissociating a bit was normal in this scenario, but SQQ took it to the extreme, he thought that canon was written in stone, without taking into account that his presence and actions could make ripple changes to everyone including the protagonist, he thought his influence extended just to make his death less graphic, and maybe make the protagonist treat people a bit better, in short, he was too humble at first and too oblivious at the end (i mean pre IAC)

He also is trying to play his obsession with a character (first) and with his disciple (later) as something that is completely normal and cool. Cool as a cucumber. Jokes on you SY.

At least we recognize how into a character we are you silly man. Though i also understand him bc LBH post abyss is scary and powerful af even if inside he is still a crybaby wife that pines hard lmao

Brain just conjured the image of LBH meeting SQQ for the first time after the abyss while internally being: I JUST WANT TO MARRY SHIZUN IS THAT SO HARD QAQ

again, thanks for sending me your thoughts! Im happy to answer what i think or have observed from sv and fics~ brainrot for sv is too strong anyways

[schnuffel-danny]

fully intend to open a pandora's box w this but i srsly want to know your thoughts on jack/vlad

They are my Blorbos. They are my Angels. They are my Stars, my Sky and my Moon. They shine a bright light from within my heart and- ALRIGHT that's enough of that. I like them a normal amount.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to properly formulate my thoughts on them, there is so much going on with these two (or, most likely, I’m just being sick in the head). On one hand, they are peak comedy; the idea of them being a couple in any capacity is absolutely hilarious. They’re both braindead to a terrifying degree in completely opposite directions, they’re a disaster duo through and through, in the event that they’re allowed to be together (both on good terms) for more than five minutes they’ll somehow manage to burn an entire city down, with Jack excitedly suggesting they make s’mores over the roaring fires of a local gas station. Vlad is on a never-ending quest to prove his intelligence and superiority, Jack doesn’t even really care what’s going on he just wants to prove that whatever it is he can do it. None of us would get out alive if this apocalyptic event of a relationship were to happen, not me, not you, not any of the mildly horrified yet incredibly amused bystanders. They’re the funniest ever.

Vlad spends as much time as possible talking about how much he hates Jack and how much he wants to fuck his wife. This man wants to rip Jack’s spine out and steal his wife and kids. Jack’s kids consider Vlad to be the devil himself and his wife is at best indifferent towards him. Yet, forever oblivious, Jack treats Vlad like he put the stars in the night sky one by one. They’re friends to lovers to exes to enemies to friends to lovers (to exes to maybe lovers) again, but they can’t even be that because the enemies thing is entirely one sided. Jack is so blinded by his nostalgic ideal of Vlad as a friend that he remains blissfully ignorant of Vlad’s murderous intentions towards him.

The entire concept of the villain somehow getting together with the hero’s dad, who absolutely refuses to see him for the walking red flag that he is, gives these two the potential to be the funniest cringe fail pairing in existence.

Before I even thought of anything else about these two I was captivated by their comedic potential, so captivated in fact that while I was happily stomping my feet in the shallow puddle of this ship’s depth I didn’t notice I'd tripped and fallen into a lake until I started drowning.

Thinking about them hurts. It’s about the memories. It’s about the love which, despite everything, remains the same. It’s about the familiar comfort that seems so unattainable now, even when it’s within reach. The burning hatred, the unanswered cries for help, the unspoken apologies, the yearning for things to go back to the way they were, the loneliness, the betrayal, the violence… It’s knowing nothing has changed. It’s knowing nothing is the same. It’s about looking at someone you hate more than anyone and only being able to think of the times he’s held you close and made you feel safe in the world. It’s about loving someone and only being able to think of how you were abandoned. It’s about seeing how neither of you has moved on and realizing that you can’t do anything about it, not at this point of your lives. You aren’t friends, you aren’t lovers, you aren’t enemies. No matter what one feels towards the other it can seemingly never be reciprocated in the same way. Love neither wins nor loses. Love remains at a stalemate. It burns the same it has for decades and you watch the flames dance, but neither reaches to warm their hands by the fire. Not anymore. Something about doing so feels wrong. Maybe you just aren’t ready yet. But it’s alright, you’re not worried about it going out anytime soon.

Conclusion: I hate them and I want them to die.

[ghostinacardboardbox-oldblog]

The Art of Pleasing Princes Cast Recording live reaction

Spoilers ahead (obviously)

Your Day in Court

Aaaaaaa the harmonies!!! It’s so beautiful!!!

The instrumentals sound so good

The cast has such a wide range and I love it so much

The high notes holy heck. It amazes me that the human voice can sound like that.

The end part!!! Aaaaa

When You’re Small

Gonna be honest this isn’t my fave song in the show but this is a vibe

Again with the instrumentals!! They’re so cool

The acting

“A political tragedy waiting to happen” is delivered so well but also. Rude. Be nice to my blorbo >:(

Definitely have a new soft spot for this one

The Art of Pleasing Princes

He’s here!! Rowan!

Again with the range ahdhahdjajd

The dialogue about the king wanting him dead is gone and I get why but also just the “oh… yknow… *bleh*”

The melody for “and he drinks his liquor from a golden spoon” is one of my favorite individual lines of music in the show

He’s so cool. I know the point is that he’s an asshole but I simply don’t care.

Love Doesn’t Know Time

The smoothest voice ever my goodness

I know that albums cut dialogue a lot but that instrumental felt a big long without it

“Every night I’m not with you I die a little more” ME AND WHO WHEN

I love that the drums almost mimic a heartbeat? A little bit? Maybe I’m reaching.

All of the harmonies in this show are great but I really love these two together

All Angels Have To Fall

Oh fantasy trope of a would-be assassin taking pity on their victim before immediately getting caught, we’re really in it now

To be fair if you’re gonna spend the time singing a whole musical number about it, it only makes sense when you get caught

That Outro is so gorgeous

Blood Oath

LETS GO BLOOD OATH MY BELOVED

This intro is my favoriteeeee

THE BEAT DROP YES YES YES

Rowan going from soaring high notes to pure anger is important to me I love it so much

The instrumental is so groovy

“A revolution darling, or a coup” and “Angel, you should count yourself lucky” are just. Yeah icon behavior.

Okay what instrument even is that in Louis’s verse

YOUR PRETTY HANDS MAY SHY FROM BLOOD BUT MINE ARE NOT SO BLESSED

I love the way that the music stops at the end of that line and then starts up strong as ever

HERES WHERE I HELD MY MOTHER WHEN HIS TEMPER MIXED WITH WINE

Something about “what good is a bastard son of the real bastard never atones” makes me feel things

You can’t really hear the harmony in the recording of the staged reading at the end (at least I can’t) so very pleased about how well made the album is and that I can hear Louis here

Dead Princesses Go To Heaven

Iconic. That’s it that’s the reaction.

The piano is so pretty!!

The back and forth nature of this song is just so fun

I love the line “we could stage the perfect crime: kill the princess, spare the lover”

It All Just Makes Sense

I love the piano part

They have such a powerful voice

It’s so beautiful I can’t put it into words eeeeeee

Is that a key change wait

I have a really bad ear for music and didn’t remember a key change here but okay pop off

Old Friend

Oop the fruits are fighting

SCREAMING ABOUT THIS INSTRUMENTAL

its perfect and I will have it in my head forever

How does Rowan’s actor switch so effortlessly from head voice to chest voice and back again the SKILL

the little sneak peak of If You’re Not Careful

Rowan calling himself the optimist is so funny when you think about the fact that he is constantly on the verge of a breakdown

I love counterpoints!! This show makes such good use of them but I really love this song’s in particular

How did they make the “if you don’t fuck it up” part sound so pretty

Talk About It With You

Gonna be honest I don’t get the metaphor but that’s fine

Me jamming to a song I’ll never truly understand: haha gay

The last chorus 🥺

Rush of Blood to the Head

This is such a great act one finale like this is musical storytelling at its finest

It took me longer than I’d like to admit to understand the “not a second to lose when nobody has died to stage a murder so grisly that no body survived.” Like that’s actually really clever I’m just dumb.

The harmony on “Sir Jason just had a rush of blood to the head” ajdhajdhahdjhfjdjjd THATS SO GOOD

I love that they all get a little solo bit

And then to sing a part of a song that’s significant to their character

I’m not the first person to point out Rowan referencing All Angels Have To Fall but that part sure is something (affectionate)

COUNTERPOINTS

Rowan in any song: I will sing both the lowest part and the highest and also the middle. because I can.

That last part where Rowan doesn’t finish the line because Maya interrupted him is just. *screams*

Allies With Benefits

This is a perfect act two opener. Like this is what the opening of the second act should always look like.

I’m thinking a lot about the top hats. I don’t need to see them to Know About The Hats

The little pause before the chorus is so ajdjahdjsfh

I’m also thinking about Rowan picking up Louis in this song. And then Louis’s little feet kicks.

It’s just so fun

Your Day in Court (Reprise)

I always preferred this reprise to the original

The background vocals during Jason’s verse are so haunting

Rowan: I won’t catch feelings

Rowan: … I caught feelings

I love Maya’s part here because it’s such a simple bit of joy in the middle of the utter mess that is everyone else’s lives

The overlapping part at the end is my favorite part of this song and it sounds SO GOOD on this album

I Don’t Know

Comphet Made Me Unable To Understand Attraction and Now I Feel Incapable of Love: the song

The melody of It All Just Makes Sense showing up when he talks about what Maya said

He sounds so sad :(

Brb crying

No Strings Or Kings Attached

I didn’t really care for this one when I watched the recording but I like it a lot more here

“Queen is no title compared to your wife” 💕

Something about “maybe he’s a poor old man” makes me laugh a little ngl

Allies With Benefits (Reprise)

The fruits are fighting: round two

I love when a happy funny song gets a dark reprise and this is the best example

Louis is spitting facts

The Blood Oath melody PLEASE

that high note at the end kills me every time

Crown of Bones and Lead

Louis’s two solos being a perfect inverse of each other is just gorgeous.

Louis going from “that poor knight” in Allies With Benefits Reprise to “my poor knight” in this song

If You’re Not Careful

The way this song cuts out so suddenly just aaaa

Gets a gasp out of me effortlessly

Heart’s Blood

Alright I’m ready to be hurt again

“I don’t want them, I don’t want anyone but you” 🥺

The little piano melody after “only for you” please

I maintain that “I could settle in your arms” means Rowan wants to be the little spoon but won’t let himself be vulnerable. In this essay I will

AND IT ALL JUST MAKES SENSE

YKNOW

IT ALL JUST MAKES SENSE

I love this bridge so much help me it’s gorgeous

And the Outro is just so soft and

I’m not ready for what happens after this you don’t understand

If I Knew You Then

Jason and Louis knowing each other since they were teenagers but not really getting to know each other until this moment is. Wow.

They’re so cute

Can’t Hold Back the Tide

It’s just starting and I’m already sad

This sounds SO GOOD

Wait background vocals?? WHO WAS THAT

the buildup is fantastic

“It’ll take your life if you’re not careful” :(

Love and Everything

“Just know that you deserve love, love and everything” :)

HERE HE IS

nothing will every capture the first time I saw this part and how shattered I was by Rowan in his WHITE SHIRT

Like it wasn’t fully unexpected for him to show up in the finale but it still hurt me

And he got the best part too

That harmony again

In conclusion: this album is so well-made and so beautiful and this show owns me soul. I’m thinking of it always. I have been given great power today and it’s the power to put Blood Oath on loop. Help.

[milfzatannaz]

hey! hello my sister just wondered how Giovanni would have reacted to the existence of Zatara II and thanks to that now I have an existential crisis and we were wondering how you would think his reaction was when he found out about his grandson

a) you know how jealous I am that you and your sister are talking about Zatara II together? You’re literally living a peak existence bc there’s probably 15 ppl on this earth that know he exists, and I’m on a groupchat with half of em. Also, the fact that you messaged ME about my thoughts is insanely flattering I’m glad my borderline questionable obsession with my 90s AU Child of my Fav Couple Blorbo reaches a wider audience 😭😭😭😭

b) so this is an interesting question and I kinda love it! there are more questions about Z2’s life than there are answers at this point. Regarding Giovanni, we can def assume he’s very dead during Kingdom Come. DC hasn’t actually ever resurrected him post-Swamp Thing. One of the few characters to stay dead!

We do also know that Zee can communicate with his ghost, so I think with magical logic he would know about his grandson on the astral plane.

As far as his thoughts and feelings…..look, if any child of an established character is going to cause lots of conflicting, complicated emotions, it’s Zatara II. Giovanni did not like John, and explicitly said so on panel. Also, I think your daughter having a baby with the guy that led you to your death is a bit of a sore spot.

But Giovanni didn’t exactly smother Zee, and never said canonically that he was angry she was with John. Swamp thing alludes to him being uncomfortable at the thought of them sleeping together (the infamous tantric studies reference) but we’ve never seen him go “wow I hate that my daughter is doing this”. So his spirit, or even a hypothetically alive Giovanni if we want to explode that route, would absolutely love his grandson. There’s no question about that.

We can also vaguely assume that Z2 is named after him, which adds a level of sweetness. I’d love to think of Giovanni’s ghost as a guiding spirit to his grandson, bc that’s what he does for Zee.

(Also, the thought of Giovanni traveling to the earthly plane from heaven to beat up Constantine after knocking up his daughter is the funniest thing I could ever think of happening)

[noturbysshe]

Ten Characters, Ten Fandoms, Ten Tags

Thanks for tagging me, @eolewyn1010 ! Sorry that it took me that long, had a busy week - anyways, here we go, my ultimate fictional blorbo list:

• Thomas Sharpe // Crimson Peak (he’s my pal. He’s my home-boy, my rotten soldier. He’s my sweet cheese, my good-time boy. It was hard to decide whether he would be on top of the list or Edith, but I decided that he’s more in need of support than her <3)

• Helaena Targaryen // House of the Dragon (I feel like there’s so much more behind her character than we got to see in the first season, and I love the mix of her being generally quiet and her predictions giving so much weight to everything she says. Also I’m grateful that HotD has me falling in love with this whole universe again after the last season of GoT had ruined it for me.)

• Aimé Bonpland // Die Vermessung der Welt (I know that he was technically a real person, but the fictionalised version of him definitely belongs on this list)

• Madeline Usher // The Fall of the House of Usher (my favourite character from my favourite short story. I’ve already written two analyses of her character and role in the story whoops)

• Lionel Verney // The Last Man (because he needs and deserves a hug and a kiss from Adrian)

• Chevalier de Lorraine // Versailles (he’s so stupid, I love him. He is the poorest of all meow-meows.)

• Danny Holt // London Spy (I’ve watched this series an unhealthy amount of times, for a reason I can’t really remember. Maybe just to finally understand everything that was happening. But I still fell in love with this character)

• Charlotte Ritter // Babylon Berlin (I think I don’t have to clarify why she’s on this list. Just. UGH. Her being completely unhinged and reckless <3)

• John Clare aka Frankenstein’s Creation // Penny Dreadful (in my opinion the best representation of Mary Shelley’s original in modern media. He’s such a tragically beautiful and eloquent character, just like in the novel)

• Inspector Guro // Gogol: The Beginning (has cool sunglasses and knows how to make a memorable entrance)

Now to the difficult part - I‘ve not interacted that much with 10 accounts in order to feel confident enough to tag them :‘) Needless to say that you don’t have to participate if you don’t feel like it! <3

@ratbasement @omgwhatamievendoing @a-mask-of-anarchy (seems like I‘ve reached my limit of people I‘m confident enough to tag, who haven’t been tagged already. Whoopsie)