#abt my mutuals but also abt my blorbos yeah

[jesuschristt-thatsaprettyface]

i could recognize them by tits alone

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

saw this on twitter and as someone who loves 1. talking about my opinions and 2. talking about this show, i am of course going to take this excuse to talk abt my opinions of this show. im gonna throw all of it into reblogs of this post tho so im not clogging up the tag fdjkhfsjk

anyway days 1-7 (bc im late to the party) under the cut:

Day 1: when did you discover ofmd?

probably same as most ppl on here, ofmd was suddenly all over my dashboard at some point around mid to late march 2022. one post i saw was a link to a google drive with the episodes and i ended up watching the entire series like, the next day.

Day 2: first impression of ofmd

ok tbh my first impression based on the very first gifsets i was seeing was "this show looks kinda stupid idk if i can take these costumes seriously." then during the first few minutes of s1 i was like "oh yeah this is definitely a taika project, this feels so much like wwdits." both of these impressions no longer hold true lol the costumes are SO fun and past the bit in the pilot of stede narrating to lucius the wwdits vibes are no longer present.

Day 3: first ofmd pic in gallery

first ofmd pic in my phone is the uncropped version of this fanart:

ed just hanging out with my doggy

Day 4: reasons why you like ofmd

i tend to enjoy lighthearted comedy tv and also shows with shorter episodes. this is why most of the media i've consumed for years is just cartoons hjfkhkghfskj BUT outside of those basic preferences the HEART the characters the writing the comedy the romance the soundtrack the set design the props the storylines the cast the crew. there's almost no part of this show that im not in love with.

Day 5: fav main character(s)

Day 6: fav supporting character(s)

an incomplete collection in no particular order:

this show has so many blorbos

Day 7: songs that remind you of your fav characters

uhhh mostly just the soundtrack songs (high on a rocky ledge, the chain, perfect day, avalanche, miles from nowhere, the beautiful ones by prince) bc im bad at listening to music. one time i was listening to hurt by johnny cash and i started crying abt ed. jinx by green day is kinda stedecore. there's a handful of todrick hall songs that my mutuals have related to ofmd characters and that's given me brainrot.

[cubedmango]

hi!! i just wanted to let you know that i started reading cherry magic in july last year after seeing the anime announced on toyota-sensei's twitter! i couldn't even rlly translate the announcement myself without the help of google translate LMAO but her illustration of them looked so sweet i had to snoop around. more than half a year later. i am no longer normal and my brain is fully rotted over and i think of those two nearly every waking moment!! your art, along with so many others feeds me and your translations are So Appreciated thank you for doing gods work. i usually don't get super involved in fandom or w/e other than consuming fanart or fics so the fact i find myself actually drawing them is so new to me...idk cherry magic really is so refreshing and it's just nice as an adult to see a mature relationship between two working adults. there are callbacks to childhood or childlike behaviors or interests sprinkled throughout the manga's dialogue and i always appreciated how they weren't seen as embarrassing or immature to embrace or learn from as an adult, but encouraged or seen as a valuable part of balancing work, life, and love. idk it's def one of the more subtle and less expanded upon parts of it but i love how adachi's and kurosawa's love of manga, though seen as a children's activity (from how kurosawa thought people saw it) was actually one of their first mutual hobbies. it's also interesting to see how many things about kurosawa's psyche are remnants of ideas probably for a lack of better wording, were taught to him from an early age. his self-image, how he tries to uphold certain societal standards, etc etc. im glad he found refuge in adachi that way. im sorry for rambling for so long but i've just been thinking about these two so much ldks

anon pls u never have to apologize for rambling abt my fav guys of all time, u should actually talk w me about them more i want to hear ur thoughts !! the eng speaking fandom isnt that big (or at least i dont get to interact w a lot of ppl personally) but its fun making art and doing the translations for my blorbos so im happy other ppl enjoy it too 🥺

and yess everything u said abt the childlike/immature stuff krdc enjoy like the fact that their interest in manga and stuff is never made fun of or anything (which would be ironic anyway since theyre In a manga themselves fdkjskf) but actually one of the things that gets them closer is So good augh?? (also spoilers for the radio drama if u havent seen it yet, but to me one of the best changes they made was changing the port scenes setting to an anime con instead like Yeah!! theyre little nerd guys of course theyd attend a con!!!! that plus how they both like watching animated movies and playing games too like its a very specific thing to Me but that relatability w stuff i do myself makes them both feel a lot more human? if that makes sense)

also w kurosawas whole deal its Definitely a longterm thing hes had for a while, and in canon its mostly been his friendships/relationships that affected him (probs the most clear in ch45 my beloved) but from the way the meeting w his parents went theres for sure a lot of parental/family pressure involved too?? this is going into hc territory but i have like a whole Thing brewing in my head about kurosawas and maris relations w their parents and how that affected their self image and all growing up too and i rlly wanna make stuff for it someday (idk if anyone would be interested but id probably do it regardless so fkdjksjfk)

[uriekukistan]

I can’t believe u gave me a 2 😦 but real I’d say 2 too, I think that might be my baseline tbh, I’m scared of everyone 😭

But no yea I was also so intimidated of you at first and when we became mutuals I was like????¿¿¿ bc when I read Dancing With a Stranger it was just like everything to me u don’t understand. It’s like someone entered into my brain and looked at my memories and like created a fic of my blorbos made just for me. And like it renewed my feelings about dancing bc before reading it I just didn’t do it much anymore bc I had so many negative feelings attached to it (I think if you’re basing the fic off personal experience you might get what I mean :P). But bc of the fic I kinda associate it with more positive thoughts now (like getting itafushi together >:( ) (I am probably a little too obsessed over some 2D characters but oh well we are both on tumblr so)

But anyway it just started there but I love all your writing (even though it causes me literal pain sometimes but yknow 😓).

This got kinda long eh….. Pls don’t feel pressured to answer this ask if you don’t want to, I just wanna say how much I appreciate your work!

LIZ <33333

UR SO KIND TO ME I DONT DESERVE U FR

pls i was so intimidated when u started following me & interacting w my fics bc a) cool good artist and b) i had like just started writing and publishing fics again after like 5 years so i really wasnt expecting so much positive feedback, so i was all :&@/$:@2@/$/0:&/@@:@9$!???!&/@/“ when you showed up. genuinely i never expected such nice things to be said abt my work, and definitely with so much attention to everything ���😭 i was kinda overwhelmed (in a good way!!) and a bit worried the rest of the fic (or any of my other fics) wouldn’t live up to all the praise you left in your first comment 😭😭😭😭😭😭 so yeah i was a bit intimidated bc of that skjskd but im glad i can feel comfortable talking with you now, i hope you can feel the same

anyway im so glad you’ve been enjoying my writing, i’ll keep doing my best to write decent things 🫡 your support really means so much to me, you’ll never know <3

(and yeah a lot of dancing with a stranger is from my experience, sksjks i ended up switching into hip hop because ballet left me with so many negative thoughts. but that fic is kinda one big rin lore drop if u read into it enough…)

[monggay]

also pov i forget half my mutuals so welcome to the moots board (finally) <- theres still at least five people not on that list because i don’t remember were moots until i see you on my dash

Heck yeah!!!!!! Also dw Abt it lol i also forget so many of my mutuals lol tho mostly in the sens of 'what the fuck were not actually following each other?? I just thought of u as like. Mutual (blorbo from my notes)' hehehe

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

that post you reblogged with chip tolentino saying "pack it up miss rona" reminded me that you like both 25apcsb AND fob and it just, idk it makes me really really happy /gen. like, maybe im not alone in this world <3 (i also have an au with the spelling bee kids getting into ybc shenanigans its so contrived and niche and just Weird if you ever wanna hear about it <3)

omgggg yeah no because i remember thinking the same abt you!!!! because like im 90% sure you followed me because of fall out boy so i associate you with fall out boy so when you like responded to my coneybearcore tagging i did a double take because i did Not expect that lol. spelling bee’s so niche it’s always fun to find other fans and seeing it come from a fababoi mutual was very good.

ybc 25th annual sounds WILD 👀👀👀 you know i used to joke that most of my main blorbos arent american (which is still true) which made it funny when i listened solely to fob and itched to associate every song i listened to with my favs but a lot of their music is explicitly american but i only have a few actually american blorbos « and how am i supposed to associate american beauty/american psycho with leaf coneybear » also calling the events of ybc « shenanigans » is killing me ahdjdkdl

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

I’M HEREEEEEE I’M HERE

you know i HAD to cook up a lil letter for this one…… dipping my pen in ink and tracing the crinkled paper in front of me rn <333 MICKEYYYYY YOUR TASTE IS UNPARALLELED AS ALWAYS i had to go hunt down my own collection immediately pls bare w me :’3 i’m so excited rn i’m shaking like a scared dog

FIRST OF ALLLLLLLL portrait of fryderyk in shifting light my absolute BELOVED i think that’s my favorite in the whole collection but there’s some competition…. THE LINES YOU MARKED DOWNNNNN I’M BARKING WILDLY they’re so good ………. what can you know about a person? they shift in the light. what if i cried and exploded and also threw up. it always makes me think sm of geto/kenny too…. the dichotomy there. the life of the body is a nightmare. you get the vibes. my hand over his face, which isn’t his face anymore, revising….

IT ISSSSS SUPER DUPER IHTCTAOT CODED!!!!!!! :3 reading through the poem rn and i think these lines are soooo knight!reader/prince!toru coded too…….

+ some other general siken poem lines that remind me of ihtctaot :3333 (the green+pink annotations are from his other collection crush!!)

(mickey i need to know if you also lost your mind at the and this means your life is over anyway line bc i was literally flipping through crush looking for knight!reader in every poem and when i got to that one i fucking Exploded)

ANDDDDD THE WORM KING’S LULLABY MY BELOVED EVER that one makes me think of stsg too 😥😥😥 IT’S SO GOODDDDD also while we’re on the topic of stsg . pls know that every single poem from crush is stsg coded . siken wrote it just for them i’m convinced….

aaaa but !!!! i’m so happy the ones i sent you way back then r still your favorites !!!!!! T_T getting a good grade in Mickey…….. normal to want and possible to achieve…… self-portrait against red wallpaper reminds me SO much of knight!reader and ohhhhh the lines you pointed out. the apocalypse au … that’s so good ….. i think that’s what interests me most about an au like that. not the question of survival but the question of what happens after, yk? or between the gaps. even if you survive, what will you do? can you go back to the way things were? will you be able to love anyone anymore? and then ofc also just . the question of love and light and how much it really matters in a world that punishes you for it (it matters more than anything but these silly little emotionally repressed popsicles haven’t realized that yet)…. i’m sososo excited to jump into that world w you <3333

but ok back to siken… it rlly is The Poem ever i’m never not thinking abt it. never not thinking abt my blorbos as i read it. the final couple lines get me EVERY time and imo they’re very gumi coded…… i hate my friends. and when i hate my friends i’ve failed myself, failed to share my compassion. (…) i mean, maybe it’s better if my opponent wins. <- that’s Him. don’t even get me started on i clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. (…) it’s too much work. bc in context of the current megumi? in the manga??? yeah. sick and twisted.

AND TOJI TOJIIIII WE NEEEDDDD TO TALK ABT TOJI i’m gonna be honest mickey war of the foxes as a whole reminds me of the jjk villains more than the good guys . sukuna and toji and geto and kenny. etcetc. emphasis on toji. the lines you picked out makes me think of him sosomuch but also??? landscape with a blur of conquerors. the whole poem. every time i read it i think of him

ALSO this specific part of a primer for the small weird loves …. in crush ……. instantly thought of him the first time i read it like three years ago (normal abt him btw)

ANYWAYYYYY I THINK THAT’S IT …… i’m so happy you enjoyed the collection <3333 atp my goal in life is just to make my mutuals read it …. i’ve alr succeeded w you and io + kairo bought it a while back i think …….. mr siken everything i do is for you

i am back from the Outside. back from the Book.

anyway portrait of fryderyk in shifting light is very very very ihtctaot coded and it's making me sick i love them so fucking much

"he is looking at the wall and i am looking at his looking. difficult thing to be scrutinized for so long." // "my shadow falls across him and it doesn't go away." // "see me, not through me." // there wasn't much left but it felt like him, wild and scared."

+ and this part from the worm king's lullaby made me think of stsg i'm fine btw i'm so fine

@twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat hihi my sweet little iris i am holding your hand and tugging you over here to tell you that remember when you showed me siken's poems like a million years ago? the ones you picked out are still my favourite ones.

self-portrait against red wallpaper is my favourite favourite from the whole collection though. i just wanna thank you for showing me this one in the first place, life-changing honestly. i'm pretty sure i saw you post a snippet from it some days ago too i'm glad it's on both of our minds

"shame means you're guilty, like the rest of us, but you think you're better than we are. maybe you are?" // "disheartening? obviously. i hope it's love. i'm trying really hard to make it love."

"i clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. i'd rather quit. i'd rather be sad. it's too much work. admirable? not really. i hate my friends. and when i hate my friends i've failed myself, failed to share my compassion. i shine a light on them of my own making: septic, ugly, the wrong yellow. i mean, maybe it's better if my opponent wins."

i feel like this is also very fitting for ihtctaot but but but but also... for the toji apocalypse au i'm working on. ok this is just me rambling bc i haven't even really talked about it that much so u guys don't know anything lmao (u will u will)

the whole second part just makes me think about how hard it would be living in an apocalypse you know.. you'd want to try to make it work, to make it love, to be in the light but it would be so fucking hard, wouldn't it? and so much work. think about all the heartbreak and the pain, wouldn't it be easier to quit?

and the "shame means your're guilty, like the rest of us, but you think you're better than we are. maybe you are?" is toji. this is for toji. he's acting cocky and he's acting smug, like he knows everything about the world, like he's some immortal creature. like he knows better.

he doesn't. he is filled with shame and everything alike, he's as guilty as the rest of them. he's as bad as the rest of them, he's as good as the rest of them.

[airbenderedacted]

Genuine question- why don’t you just delete Twitter? :0

as of two(?) years ago or smthn i'd officially blocked and befriended enough people on there for me to REALLY ENJOY being on twitter

SO LIKE being locked out is  like this hjdnmnbghsHJDNBNds

[multi-lefaiye]

hello i wanna hear abt the juno and markus amv

hi hello yes!!!!! juno and markus my fucking beloveds!

so, this amv would be set to she's a lady by forever the sickest kids! a song i liked a lot as a kid b/c it's got just the right kinds of sounds to make brain go brrr <3 and also it's a pretty good blorbo song.

she's a lady is essentially a song about like. being in love with someone who's a Huge Fucking Asshole and being a Huge Fucking Asshole back to them. in general it's about a relationship that's very nasty and mutually toxic, but neither person can bring themself to end it. (so yeah this song also Could vibe with arthur and noah, but the song explicitly refers to a woman so i don't think i will. we'll see tho!)

anyway, this song isn't quite accurate for juno and markus, but it still vibes with them a little bit. for context, juno is one of my void-walker ocs, an immortal being who's been alive since the mid-1800s and is Fucking Sick Of Everything. markus, meanwhile, is a normal human they met and befriended in the 1980s, a suicidal man looking for a new purpose in his life after the death of his wife. essentially i took the "sad white middle-aged man who lost his wife" trope, made him Latino, and gave him a bitchy immortal bestie/maybe lover who helps him find joy in his life again.

i'm honestly not sure what juno and markus's relationship would be--if it's romantic, sexual, both, neither, etc.--but i know they were very important to each other. a while ago, i started writing like... a little thing exploring moments from juno's 150+ years of living, and markus appears a lot in that. it's also a thing i've been writing to explore the lore of void-walkers in general, because juno is the first void-walker markus ever met.

ANYWAY i'm not sure either what happened to markus, but i know he and juno aren't in each other's lives by the time of a modern ghost story (which takes place in Ambiguous 21st Century time).

okay so this got long lmao whoops i just wanted to talk about markus a bit-

the actual amv, if i made it, would probably be from markus's perspective on his relationship with juno. juno isn't a woman, but otherwise this applies! juno's a huge bitch to markus and he's a huge bitch right back to them. their relationship is tumultuous at the best of times, but they actually do a lot of good for each other! markus helps juno remember what it was like to be human and is one of the first and only people they've shown vulnerability towards in over a century, and juno helps markus not only come to terms with his loss but learn to move on and find joy in the life he has.

the amv would less be like "oh this relationship is toxic and they're bad for each other" and more like "they're both kinda mean and shitty but they help each other be better."

i don't have much in the way of specific visuals in mind, but i do want to share like. the bit of script i have:

"i'm in love with the girl i hate" - start with a shot of markus standing and leaning against a wall, scowling, with his arms crossed

"she enjoys pointing out" - cut to juno standing across from him, a similar expression on their face and in a similar pose, but their mouth is open

"every bad thing about me" - with each word in this line, a speech bubble appears next to juno with the word in it, as though juno is talking to markus and listing off his flaws to him.

--

and then also uhh the last thing is like. towards the end of the song, before the final chorus, it slows down and takes on kind of a sad, nostalgic quality, and that part of the amv would focus on the good parts of juno and markus's relationship, with them actually helping each other.

i don't have a script in mind for this part, but i do imagine the visuals would include a shot of juno and markus sitting next to each other at the side of a motel pool, dipping their feet in the pool, and leaninig against each other. they both look peaceful--not quite happy, but not angry. just... content in each other's presence.

i also like the idea of the final "she's a lady, and ladies shouldn't be messed with" starting with a shot of juno smiling and laughing, looking genuinely happy and relaxed ("she's a lady"), and ending with a shot of markus watching them with a soft, genuine smile on his face.

[ghostrick-battlemaster]

literally just wanted to vent into the void and have my 5 mutuals nod along and now I'm being attacked on my own stupid lil vent post. tried to have a discussion with folks of differing opinions; some have been chill, some have been informative. a bunch of folks are just.... full of vitriol. even when I tried to clarify it's my own damn opinion based on my own irl experiences and belief.

but it's all "press f to doubt" and "you're delusional" and "you don't know what you're talking abt" and yknow, I tried to be respectful. everyone has their own beliefs and is entitled to them. I'll be the first to admit I went a bit heavy on the sarcasm in a few spots bc I was uncomfortableand anxious, and that's on me.

I've got at least 2 ppl preaching at me that "you are your body" and "material existence is all we have" and "souls don't exist" and yknow what? cool, you believe that. I agree on some points, disagree on others. but im not here to tell you you're wrong, bc thats not what im abt. im not here to preach at anyone, so why the actual fuck am I getting beat over the head with someone else's doctrine?

also: does anyone have any idea how calling bodies meatsuits connects to capitalism????? it's was honestly 50% a fuckin joke, y'all. a meme. like "this isnt even my final form" and calling your favorite character from a show your "blorbo".

but yeah idk what I was thinking trying to have a discussion with anyone here on the hellsite, I should've known better rip

[mcl38]

hi!! so even before i get into specifics, there's a couple narratives that show that landos tyre management is actually kind of at the core of his driving. one of them is the difference to oscar in race pace that ppl blamed on oscar being a rookie but that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon. another one is the public grumbling abt team orders w oscar and daniel, which often happens bc lando's gone longer in the first stint and is coming back through the field on fresher tyres. and then obviously in the same vein is the nickname last lap lando, where he'd do super long first stints and preserve his tyres in the second stint enough for his pace to be ridiculous compared to anyone else in the last couple laps of a bunch of races.

this is from mclaren's retrospective they did after miami and it's pretty clear that an insider's pov puts his tyre management at the forefront, literally the second thing they mention abt his driving style

and now lets get to the races<3

some stats from japan from my mutual over on twt shoutout ani <3

imola 2021, when lando was on a set of softs for 28 laps and still finished ahead of leclerc and matching his laptimes by the end of the stint (see fig. 6)

the race's analysis of paul ricard 2021, pointing out that he was barely losing time despite being on old tyres

miami gp pace comparison (thank u jolyon!!) showing that lando was faster than max on every lap after perez pits, including the laps where max has new hard tyres and lando is going on old mediums

lando's mclaren post-race report from styria 2020 - the race that solidified his reputation as last lap lando. his stint on the C4s was actually joint tied for longest first stint that race with antonio giovinazzi who had started on the C3s - thats how lando was actually that fast in the last stint

and as a bonus id also argue being able to warm up the cold hard tyres in silverstone 2023 and hold off hamilton on new softs is an example of lando's tyre intuition

these r just the examples i could personally think of and i forget a lot of things, but yeah lando's big driver strengths are tyre management and race pace, especially in clean air. thats his Thing. (well, and changing conditions too, but thats irrelevant to what we're talking abt). anyways to the anon who believes blorbo is 'incredibly uneducated' about the sport i recommend u watch the races once in a while? it might actually help<3

no wonder why you're getting flamed on f1twt, your opinions are so incredibly uneducated. as soon as you said lando was a tire whisperer I knew your opinions were completely wack and for someone who seems to have been into f1 for longer than 1 year or so, you're so incredibly uneducated on how anything in this sport works.

WRONG!

@mcl38 pull the receipts

[potatowitch]

hello... since u said we can ask abt ur blorbos... can u tell us more about rian :D

yessss my GIRL. some Rian fun (and not so fun) facts, under the cut bc I rambled lmao

her first girlfriend's name was Clara. they had a mutual breakup where they were like "just. uh. not feelin it, yknow?" "yeah no me neither" but they actually were feelin it, it's just Rian was never gonna tell Clara she was a mage just in case, and Clara was never gonna tell Rian that she was actually in Lothering trying to hear info abt her mage sister in Kinloch. they'd have stayed together, probably forever, if they'd told each other the fuckin truth lmao. (Clara is also a Red Jenny, and uses a hand crossbow. her and Rian meet up again sometime after DA2, when they're both active members of the mage resistance, and they're very much Spiderman Meme at one another)

Rian got her face tattoos right after Malcolm died. He was like the pillar of her universe, and she felt lost and out of control, so she did something drastic, visible and irreversible to her appearance to try and get her sense of self back on solid ground. Leandra lost her shit, but if Malcolm was still alive he would've thought the tattoos were dope as hell (he and Rian were very, very similar)

Rian, Merrill and Isabela technically have an open relationship, but ever since the three of them became serious, nobody has really ventured outside of the throuple. Rian kissed Tallis, Isabela has fucked Anders and Fenris a couple times, Merrill pegged Maraas (the Tal Vashoth in the Hanged Man) once, but most of the time it's just the three of them. sleeping with other people is difficult and time consuming and complicated, and they really do like each other so much that they don't feel the need to

Rian is actually incredibly intelligent, it's just that she doesn't believe she is, and because of her ADHD, her snark, her sense of humour and general lack of common sense, other people tend to perceive her as kind of an idiot. but she's very open minded and curious - sometimes to her own detriment - and can very quickly grasp the mechanics of magic without a lot of help or instruction (unless it's Creation. she can't for the life of her figure that one out, but she has figured out how to heal with blood magic, so). Solas is actually very impressed with her when she comes to Skyhold and starts asking him a bunch of questions about magic and the Veil and ancient elvhen magic ... then he sees her sat on Bull's shoulders, missing her shoes, drunkenly shouting about how Cullen cried that one time she threw her boogers at him. y'know. duality of Hawke. world's smartest dumbass.

Malcolm actually trained her in using a polearm, so if she was ever in a position where she couldn't use magic, she at least had the option of using her staff as a melee weapon. She took that training to heart a little bit too much, and more often than not you'll find her right next to Fenris in the front lines of a battle. He doesn't mind the backup, at least up until she accidentally smacks him with her staff or sets him on fire. (I also incorporate her massive in-game constitution score bc of blood magic into writing her - she is a very sturdy mage)

[raidenloml]

ok since we reached our like goal by 300% (wow!) i will be dropping my bisexual blond blorbo list (this will include white haired individuals and explanations on why theyre bisexual, list is unranked)

1. Link | The Legend of Zelda

everyone should know why but this one is more about TOTK (and sorta BOTW) since these are the most im familiar with but Twilight Princess Link is also a little gay to me

2. Leon | Resident Evil

my serennedy mutual can vouch for this one, NEXT!

3. Jonesy | Fortnite

i want him so ba-[gunshot]

4. Cloud | Final Fantasy 7 (remake)

hes literally only a blorbo bc hes sad and pathetic blonde guy and idk much else but from what i know yeah bisexual man

5. Nero | Devil May Cry

now hear me out i only know abt dmc4 nero but why does he look like that cmon now that's tboy swag!!! and hes blonde and pathetic that must mean hes bisexual you must understand (clawing at the walls)

6. Revolver Ocelot | Metal Gear

im ngl i only had mgs5 Ocelot as a blorbo but yeah hes too obsessed w big boss to be straight (also hes russian thats SUPER gay)

7. Johnny Joestar | JJBA Steel Ball Run

your honour i erm uhm errrrr points at the italian

8. the italian (Gyro Zepelli) | JJBA Steel Ball Run

yeah hes just like that

9. my dnd tiefling character Bingus

a classic "mf born after 1993 cant cook, all they know is be bisexual, eat hot chip and LIE." situation right here folks

HONOURABLE MENTIONS!

this is for any character that doesnt exactly fit one of the descriptors (1. blonde 2. bisexual 3. man)

1. Raiden | Metal Gear

i dont have anything to defend myself in court at the bisexual blond man trial with this.. this man is not gay at all to me (not in canon either if i remember correctly metal gear mutuals back me up) however he still achieved a high blorbo status so he can stay!

2. Dante | Devil May Cry

cant defend this one but hes hot ok anyway moving on

3. Sonic | Sonic The Hedgehog

listen that hedgehog is blue not a yellow piece of hedgehog hair in sight HOWEVER hear me out on this one.. super sonic SHOULD count (this was too much of a technicality to make it to the official list but lands him a solid spot here)

4. Kaworu | Neon Genesis Evangelion

he has never wanted to touch a woman in his entire life but also major asexual gay vibes hes just like that ok

5. Angel Devil | Chainsaw Man

hes not even blonde or bisexual or even a blorbo i just want to be him fr

6. Power | Chainsaw Man

woman

7. Trish | Devil May Cry

woman, also a lesbian

anyway thats the full list 👍👍 please suggest more characters that i might have missed and also perhaps argue with me about the placements thanksss

bisexual blond man save me

save me

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[galactichelium]

A lot of rambling under the cut 😭 I didn't mean for it to go on for that long. I guess I had a lot to say abt this. If u read this please like it thanks, and also just thank u for reading it at all.

It's hard to say if this is just like, the regular infantilizing I always got due to being autistic, or if people were just projecting onto me their perceptions of what they thought Karkat would be like (because I was a massive Karkat kinnie). If it's the latter they are wrong like don't tell me Karkat wouldn't have massive eldest sibling syndrome. LOOK at how he managed being the "leader".

It was probably a combo of both tbh. But it is just... super weird, how that happened. Like just in general I feel like people used to make a lot of assumptions of me based purely on how they perceived Karkat the character to be. Of course I would later find out I didn't relate to Karkat as much as I thought I did, and he was more the person that I Wanted to be. Though I am still a Karkat kinnie, just not as much. But that doesn't change how weird and dehumanizing the whole thing was. And also how incorrect they were with their interpretations of Karkat sometimes. Like I am a Human Person. I have things about me that are different from my kins. And different people will have different interpretations of the character too, so you can't just assume that I would conform with Your ideas of the character.

Like I will always remember this time I was making Mild nsfw jokes (like top/bottom jokes, not even abt myself, just characters) and someone then decided it was ok to send me a graphic nsfw ask directed towards... me but like, as Karkat. Like they were calling me Karkat and being horny about it. I didn't have my age in my bio at the time, but it's not like I never talked about my age, and also imo if you can't find an age you Shouldn't do something like that just in case. But yeah. This is like the biggest example I can think of, of being dehumanized purely because I kinned their blorbo.

This is why my blog is no longer specifically themed after a specific character. Sure, my art blog url is still "officialkarkat", but the profile picture there is now just a drawing I did of myself. The only reasons I haven't changed the url for it is because 1. I don't have any better ideas and 2. I've now had it for like... 2 or 3 years? Feels weird to change it now.

After moving accounts I have a significantly smaller audience now so I no longer have to deal with much infantilization either way, which in itself is a positive. But I am curious as to if I still had my old audience, if I would still have to deal with infantilization, or if it would've stopped now. Like. Now that not only am I older but I also less obviously theme my blogs around my kins. I've had the same main friend group and most of the same mutuals for years now, and rarely get to talk to people irl, so I'm unsure if I would still have the problems with being infantilized bc of my autistic traits or not. I would assume probably so, but I wonder if any less, more, or about the same, as before. I have no idea how much I need to mask anymore bc almost all of my friends are autistic 😭. But yeah. Thank u to anyone who took the time to read this genuinely.

You know. Incredibly weird that when I was younger (like 15 or 16) people on here would simultaneously assume I was the youngest sibling (I'm the oldest of 3) but then also be like "You're ONLY 16???"