#literally blorbos from my shows (hallucinations)

[nohomie]

I havent been this invested in making something in... like a while. Still going slower than a snails pace but im kinda getting there

[somesecretpie]

helloooo broccoli soup is *the* webtoon ever (positive) do you have any songs that you associate with the characters?

Hey there anon bestie,

Of course I do. I’m a cringe blorbo haver at heart so you know I be listening to music hallucinating AMVs of my characters.

I got a pretty long list actually…

Broccoli:

Puppet Boy - Devo

This is so Broccoli core

O Superman

🎶Hold me mom…in your long arms🎶

Eeeaaaooo - Xguiz, Patricia Taxxon

Tee hee

Undone - Weezer

This is completely unironic

Doris:

The Mind Electric - Tally Hall

Okay yeah you KNOW TALLY HALL WAS GONNA SHOW UP OKAY MARK OFF YOUR BINGO CARDS FOLKS. But for real this song I associate heavily with her for…reasons

A Lady - Tally Hall

Yeah duh

Don’t Stop Dancing - Bojack Horseman

No comment!!!

No Eyed Girl - Lemon Demon

🎶From nowhere, mankind can’t go there—too much liiiiiight, blinding white!!!🎶

Mirror Man - Jack Stauber

Not explaining this one but yeah…

Waffles:

The Whole Being Dead Thing - Beetlejuice the Musical

Yeah

Mixed Messages - Tom Cardy

Honestly just every Tom Cardy song

I’m Gonna Win - Rob Cantor

You’ll see why this is Waffles someday

Sucre:

Windrag - Jack Stauber

Yeah

Pepper Steak - OFF

BANG BANG BANG BANG

Wybie’s Theme - Coraline

This is swamp girl music to me

Olive:

Mariner’s Revenge - The Decemberists

Okay look I DEFINITELY DIDNT BASE OLIVE ENTIRELY OFF OF THIS SONG!!! I PROMISE!!! I just uh…heavily changed Olive to fit the song and…uh…

Solar - Cosmo Sheldrake

Won’t explain

Student:

Typewrite Lesson - Cornelius

This song is literally Student

Dreams Wash Away - Joe Wong

I actually haven’t seen the Midnight Gospel

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

More like Black Hole Son haha

Nowhere Man - The Beatles

Student does have a lot of nowhere plans for nobody and he is a bit like you and me for sure

Not a Threat Not a Friend - Adendais

I associate this ambient track with Student lots

And there you have it!!

BONUS: Songs I heavily associate with a character that is important but hasn’t been introduced yet.

Friends in Low Places - Ian Worthington

Bad Girls - Tennis

The Love Club - Lorde

Funeral March of a Marionette

[superiorjello]

The ways some folks write drunk people can get pretty wacky too

The shows (c-dramas are egregious, but not unique in this) where someone has the equivalent of a shot of wine and passes out, aquires a second personality, or just starts hallucinating... like... my dudes...

Okay, so, in my experience, if you're passing out after a glass of wine or a beer...that's a medical condition. You should be taking that blorbo to a hospital/healer. And if you are passing out from a normal amount of alcohol that could cause that, it's because your blood-alcohol content has reached a super high level and that can literally kill you. So you should also be keeping an eye out and not laughing it off.

Moving on, when people say drunk people Are Different™ it's because their inhibitions are lowered, not because they've had a personality transplant. Unless you are Really Drunk you are still somewhat aware of what's going on around you and what you're doing, you just care less about possible future repercussions. If you ARE Really Drunk, you're kinda stuck in the moment and don't remember much about why you shouldn't do things, beyond any really deeply ingrained morals/beliefs you hold. Like, I have been drunk out of my MIND and still known that I Could Not Drive like that because it is Wrong. Those thoughts are still there until you are literally passing out.

Hallucinations are also not normal after a glass or two of wine or a couple beers. Mishearing and delayed processing of inputs is common though, which can seem like you're being haunted, or from an outside perspective is a little weird because the drunk person is replying to something that the conversation has since moved past. But actual hallucinations come from being like... an alcoholic who has severely damaged their whole body with years of heavy drinking. Or from mixing other substances with your alcohol.

But yeah, to cap it off, when you're just tipsy it can feel a little dream-like or floaty, your reactions might be slower than usual, and you relax some. If you're mildly drunk you start getting silly, angry, sleepy, sad, or horny; this can depend on the person, their mood, the people around them... all sorts of things. Drink some more and your brain gets muddled, you might start focusing on singular details that you can grasp and ignoring others because there's too much happening around you and it seems too fast, and often you can't hold onto the string of events that led you somewhere, so you're pretty distractable. "We should all get pizza!" Turns into "Where's Steve?" Turns into "This couch is really comfy!" Turns into "Oh Yeah pizza!" But meanwhile you never found Steve because you were distracted by the couch. It's only when you REALLY drink heavily that you start losing time and puking and blacking out. I've still never managed to lose memories from heavy drinking, and I got VERY drunk in my 20's.

Anyways, sorry for dumping all this on your post. I hope it helps someone, have a nice day!

i love when fic writers who have clearly never tried any kind of alcohol in their lives try to write someone drinking bc they're always like

"he ordered a tall glass of hard liquor. after three large glasses he was feeling tipsy" like babygirl i can't be sure but i think u just sent this man to the hospital

[kopawz]

how bout trigun :-] did you know that the dude who makes the bizbun comics watched trigun thats a silly little fact

good for bizbun! its a nuts show i think if people just want to enjoy a silly time they should go watch trigun

blorbo: yeah it's vash i don't know how else to tell u this, he's just very funny to watch fail AND succeed, he's so messed up but he also makes so much sense; i am rotating him in 3D in my mind through the ps2 game that was cancelled for it

scrunkly: milly!!!! my friend milly with a big heart and big machine-stun-gun i love her so much!! she isn't stupid though. her airheaded disposition is only a facade to keep hope in others and herself. also she is so Tall have you seen her, have you seen my scrunkly gangly friend??? she is nearly as tall as vash and that man is like 7 feet tall WITH the platform boots.

scrimblo bimblo: meryl is so cool... but she puts up with SO much bullshit i can't imagine being her. imagine working at an insurance company assigned to prevent disasters from happening. then they assign you and your partner to a guy who is literally known for somehow summoning them like hurricanes. you find the guy and he is the most embarrassing person you have ever met. his self-employed job description is "finder of love and peace". he has a gun but he never fucking shoots people with it, AND it is broken. he has a big dumb red trench coat that CANNOT be comfortable in the almost always scorching weather. he has a bounty of one million smackaroos on his head due to being "responsible" for all the damages from people trying to kill him and has no fucking idea until you tell him. and you're not even getting dental.

glup shitto: kuroneko, the small black cat that keeps popping up in the background of the show!! who's cat are you?... where did you come from?... i care for that little animal

poor little meow meow: mister wolfwood, he's so fucking hilarious. he's a priest but, like. i don't think he actually knows what being a priest means i think he just adopted that title because it sounded cool. like he drives a motorcycle, has a confirmed kill count, carries a really big gun with a bunch of other guns in it. he punches vash out of a coma he was faking. guy of the year in meow meow terms.

eeby deeby: legato bluesummers, that evil bitch who's introduction was him eating a hotdog, before promptly making vash hallucinate that a child died in front of him, telepathically threatened to kill vash and everybody in that town, and then left. he then sent several guys after him that include but are not limited to: a cyborg lady, a literal child with demon powers, a giant robot and her mom, and some guy who can shoot bullets through a saxophone. i hate him. he's so funny and fucked up

[fragilefirstchance]

I actually have thoughts about this! I think Ford is a specific type of character.

First of all: Let's talk about fanon!

Something I think that a lot of us forget when we're doing fan analysis is just how caricaturized all blorbos are in canon. This is true of any work of media: the characters aren't real people, they're figments who only exist as we see them on-screen.

Fanon is kind of like those AI image sharpeners that take a blurred photo and make it look like a person's face: yeah, technically that is an accurate way you can interpret the blur, but there are hundreds of faces that would be just as accurate, and not only are they all very different from each other, they don't even agree on the most basic and obvious traits. The same blurry headshot could be a scowling white woman with a square jaw or a smiling black man with sharp features. In a similar way, when we see a character become stressed because they just saw a mouse in a cage, we could say they're scared of mice, or morally opposed to pets, or that they have cage-based trauma - any option that works is plausible.

I think that there are characters who are good characters, characters who are uniquely good subjects for fanon, and a ven diagram between the two. For example, a lot of kids' shows from the nineties are bad, but they managed to produce a really fun and rich fandom. Meanwhile, some really beautiful and culturally important stories don't leave a lot of room for fan works because they've already said what they need to say. I think the absolute best works for fandom are the ones that are objectively good stories, but have really simplified characters: Undertale might be the best example of this, because every single character suggests a rich and beautiful personality while only being on screen for a relatively short time.

So that leads me to part two: Ford!

I think Ford fills a particular fandom niche that was empty for a lot of us.

He's extremely traumatized, and the more we learn about him, the more traumatized he is. He's kind of pushing the limits of what's acceptable from a kids' show, to be honest.

He canonically has a lot of difficulty making friends; this is partly because he's quirky and seemingly neurodivergent, but partly because he has poor social skills. He's not a cartoony, Eeyore-style "has trouble making friends but we love him anyway" character, either; there are tangible, in-story examples of him failing to make friends.

He behaves badly sometimes. This is actually my favorite trait of his - anyone who reads my fanfiction knows how much I love giving people with real flaws a chance to find love and be treated with respect. Most characters have a flaw to overcome, but in his worst moments, Ford actually lashes out and hurts others in a tangible way and not just a child-friendly way. Showrunners don't always like to show that sort of thing.

It is very, very easy to read some severe mental health symptoms into his behavior. Bill is a literal character, but he's also a pretty good metaphor: you can use him to explain hallucinations, dissociative fugues, sudden mood swings, manic episodes, severe depression, paranoia - the list goes on and on.

(That last one is really important. There's a pretty damn big difference between a good metaphor for mental illness and a thoughtful portrayal of that mental illness in a story. It's kind of like how many of us were so starved for queer representation growing up that we read queer metaphors into everything. Well, there still isn't good mental illness representation in most media, so we'll take the metaphors we can get. Ford is a really good metaphor even as he's presented, and there are a lot of holes in his narrative where personality disorder symptoms, manic episodes, delusions, etc. can slot in easily.)

None of those traits make a good Disney character. They only really work because he spends so little time on-screen; the books were only possible because of Gravity Falls's massive commercial success. So, he's a very rare example of a character who's from a light-hearted, positive, optimistic show aimed at children, but who has all of the template features necessary for us to read him as deeply broken in some ways that aren't sanitized or socially acceptable.

So, there are dozens and dozens of Ford AUs in which we project very specific experiences, traumas, and symptom sets into this one man.

How many Ford AUs out there are reflections of our own insecurities, traumas, and just general unresolved issues? Is that, like, his whole purpose in the wider multiverse of alternate Gravity Falls characters? 'Cause I KNOW it isn't just me