#miserable pitiful blorbo

[bernard-the-rabbit]

i like those ff where zuko gets paid minimum wage

[glitter-stained]

Sense the current state of jason as character is stagnant do you think dc will ever purplish a good story of him, maybe he even kills of his red hood persona and goes on to be something else that would be something I would like to see but I don’t think it will happen. Dc will forever shoehorn him in to the batfamily. At least in his anti-villian era he was actually fun now his character is in a pitiful state

do u think theirs a chance of reinvent him as character anytime soon ?

Well first of all through spite everything is possible, so jot that down.

Like seriously, remember when it was so so incredibly over like Spiderman's Uncle Ben levels of over and then Under the Hood happened? Hell yeah I think dc will publish a good Jason story

Second I may not be the best person for this ask because I like my blorbos pitiful and miserable. Like yeah defiance is awesome but exhaustion -in characters who have been angry and alone for so long, beaten dog who got electrocuted too often to bite back- has a special place in my heart. But I also agree this has to be a transitional part of a story, the arc can't be "well he was hurt and then he was angry and then he was tired and he was miserable the whole time". Unless of course he ends up perma-dying in a really meaningful arc centered around his character but I'm not sure that'd be what I want for him, and we all know how lame dc is with permadeath nowadays. I'm also very mitigated with his villain side because yeah sometimes it's very fun and cathartic to see the angry/bad victim trope, but also the classismXpsychophobia of villain Red Hood sometimes are just too much; and also I'm a jaybin fan and sometimes I feel betrayed on jaybin's behalf by elements of his villainous characterization. (One day I'll write that damned UTH rewrite, I will).

With that being said!!! I love Jason because of his potential, he has so so much of it, that's what's exhausting about his many bad comics is that yeah. Yeah, dc can absolutely publish something more than good. They don't understand the goldmine they're sitting on in terms of potential.

What I'd love to see explored in hypothetical upcoming good comics (i'll talk more about it later with malfiora but for now)/how dc could go about reinventing his character :

1) addressing Jason's suicidality and getting him a functional support system (seriously, something's gotta give)

2) Get that boy a dog. Ik he had one at some point in N52 idc give him more dogs. Big ass rescue dog that's loyal and similar to him.

2) we need to figure out a way to let Jason keep being a Crime Alley/Park Row vigilant without being dependent on Batman. Like yeah he should explore the world away from him and heal but also i'm very uncomfortable with the idea that healing, for Jason, has to mean leaving the city and neighbourhood he grew up in and protected, has to mean be shoved out of his home by a guy who doesn't live there and, at least when Jason was a kid, only visited the place one time a year because of the anniversary of his parents' death- it's not fair and I won't accept it.

3) I so so agree about the "killing the red hood persona" or at the very least changing his vigilant name. Like I get the point, I understand the use he had for him, but his story can't be centered around the Joker forever (I keep thinking about the Joker's attitude to him in The Man who stopped Laughing and god, I can see a driving force to find himself as something else than what Batman and the Joker made him). At some point his name has to become something that is his and turned towards the future.

4) art + story that acknowledges how young he is (someone please let Jason take college class please please he deserves it)

5) perhaps most importantly: batman writers often sound like hardcore deontology or hardcore utilitarianism (and the occasional egoism) are the only acceptable moral philosophies. And for characters, it works! Like I can see Batman as a Kantian, sure. But for others, it doesn't fit as well.*

The cool thing about Jason's character right now is that he's a utilitarian, but a utilitarian that often isn't guided by his values. He can and will compromise on his philosophy in the name of love and being loved ( @bestangelofall called that a morality leash) and that already sets him as an interesting character in his own right. But in terms of redefining himself as a person after decades of defining himself through his pain (which, at 20-23 years old, he should get to do) I'd love to see an evolution of his morals based on love. Specifically, I'd love from his morals to shift from mathematical utilitarianism to agape, an ancient greek concept of platonic love for everything human, a movement towards the other that can be thought of as close to some conceptualisations of empathy. Mind you, that doesn't mean that he would stop killing! I can believe in a Jason who kills because or against of agape, the pain or relief that could be so good to explore in relation to that, how he would go on to define himself as a person... I feel like Jason has a certain tendency to kinda dehumanize the worst criminals as he kills them (a lesson from Judy, love her sm) which I love, but would also love to see him grow out of - learn to see and love everyone as human and what it means, a re-exploration of his empathy.

Imagine: a scene where he kills a guy because a kid victim begged him to. The focus on the image is on the kid's big wide tearstruck eyes, and then Jason's uncertain face, the kid begging him to kill the bad guy. And then Jason kills him and they're standing so close to eachother, and he's look him in the eyes and seeing the image of the kid's eyes, and then turning back to the kid while wiping the blood on his face and seeing the kid's wide eyes looking in disbelieving awe. And then kneeling and hugging the kid as he cries his heart out. And Jason's inner monologue during all that being something like "I could say that I killed him because I'm a bad guy; I probably am. Or argue the world is better off without scum like him; I could pretend I did it so he wouldn't hurt [x] again, or that I was thinking about all the other children he wouldn't be able to hurt anymore. But the truth is, I didn't. I killed him because [x] asked me to; because I could tell that he needed it. I can live with that."

Idk, that's the direction I would love to see it going, but simply "becoming even more open, louder and unapologetic about prioritising his love over his values, and being angry when it causes him dilemma" is something I'd love with as way. Very "Odysseus knows what he's going to choose the moment the gods tell him to throw the baby off the wall to see Penelope and Telemachus, but fuck if he's angry at the gods for making him make that choice" kind of vibe if you like Epic the musical.

*i'm not saying there aren't any characters in dc that fall out of this deontological/utilitarian false dilemma, it's just a vibe I get from batman writers at times, and as a consequence of specializing in one character I don't feel legitimate in exploring the intricacies of other characters because I feel like I'm lacking information and would be making uneducated guesses (that being said, I would fuck heavily with an exploration of Cass' morals VS Levinas' concept of ethics). If anybody has recommendations of dc characters that are neither utilitarian nor deontological (or are at least an interesting twist to it) I would love them so much please don't hesitate!!!

So yeah, idk if that answers your question, I don't pretend to know the intricate working of dc editorial. But imo there are wonderful possibilities for dc to reinvent Jason and write him into good comics -call me a blue lantern cause baby I got hope.

[susie-dreemurr]

blorbo bingo c!owen go.

At least pre-Reunion, I related so hard to him it’s crazy, which is part of the reason everything afterwards destroyed me. He’s so interesting and I like how his pov can still make you pity slash have sympathy for him while knowing he’s awful and should die. I don’t need to make him worse or plot his demise because cc!Owen, master in sad mc rp characters, already transformed him into the worst and most miserable version of himself.

I don’t post much outsiders anymore because I’m more focused on qsmp now, but never forget he is one of my top 3 mc roleplay blorbos of all time.

[fratricideknight]

🌻!

hey! sorry it took me so long to respond; i was overthinking which random thing to divulge to the internet. it's like that fable of the fox that knows so many tricks to get out of danger that it can't decide which one to use and dies. to give you a visual of my brain.

anyway some people don't like lancelot from bbc merlin and i hate that fact so much. like, to an unreasonable extent. i will bite and claw and maim to defend my blorbo's honour. he's literally perfect how could you not like him. "it's because he's too perfect" ✋️ already been there and done that read this. lancelot is all that is right with this world and if you don't like him i can only conclude that you like Badness and being miserable. i pity you more than anything, honestly :/ may you see the light (that he emits bc he is a saint) and return to the right path

thanks for the ask! 💕 i am extremely normal and a human being

[feldspursfiyero]

all excerpts from: baby, you're a haunted house, chapter 6, by spit-kitten

halp sjfngkfg ~like a corpse~ ^ can you just imagine. s1 anthony. all fluffy long hair. agh

^ 'Anthony very badly wanted to kiss him.' MDFJNGJ

omfg i didn't catch this on my first reading:

skjgnfkgjnfkgjfng:

he's such a good blorbo i will never have enough of him (okay maybe ch 6 might be my fave chapter anthony's hitting all the good stuff sksjfgkfjn):

LOOK AT THIS SILLY LIL DUMBASS BLORBO OVERTHINKING EVERYTHING UNTIL HE'S MISERABLE 🫠:

perfect blorbo, TRULY

he's just sooo much once he gets to this point in the story skjfngkfg:

tenderly! cradled! in simon's arms!!!! bye

and then skfjngfg anthony gets so self-deprecating and self-pitying from here on, i can't quote it all skfjgnkg

aw, nope, lemme copypaste this...

love it when he's crying inside 😈

this whole bit... and anthony thinking about throwing himself down the stairs kjnfgkjnfkfjgnkgjkfg:

[skyland2703]

Still can't fathom Oll*e/Amelia...like...where is the chemistry? Unless theirs is the kind that blows up into nothingness...

I can't deal with this ship, imma be honest, I feel like it's dino fury's biggest flaw (And that's saying a lot) but let's be systematic about it.

Spoilers for Season two, and major angst/triggers under the cut

I usually keep my Anti-ollie rants reserved for post tags and screaming on DMs, but you've given me this ask, I'm gonna take it.

Ollie has his issues, he's a lonely-prodigy-self-centred-egomaniac, all of that, yes, and he's got this tendency to drive people away from him. S2E7 showed that he has his own complexes, he doesn't make friends easily and then tells himself he's better than them all to make himself feel better. He's a miserable little man, and of course, he's absolute "tortured blorbo" material. My problem with him is that he's condescending to Amelia without considering her perspective, for OVER A FUCKIN YEAR (one season + few more episodes) and then suddenly one fine day he realises "omg someone other than me has a brain :O"

But. That's not the issue with the relationship. It's Amelia, actually.

Amelia how on earth can you fall for someone who's been doing nothing but belittling you, trying to subdue you, and make crap of your tastes since the first moment he met you? What does she do in response?? Act like an angry child, go some "oomph" "augh" ">:(" and move on. What does she do to put him in his place? Borrow 15 bucks off of him by being cheeky? Ok. Works. What then?

Nothing.

That's it. She just keeps making faces at him with a "oh please let's not do this again" and other than that, she's almost completely neutral. But at the same time we see that she's been thinking of ways to get him down. Do you see how toxic that is? He makes sure that he's constantly on her mind, simply by belittling her. And it's for her passion obsession for the paranormal, that's used as a device. Something that can not be actually proved correct. So from day one we've got this "Ollie is right, Amelia is wrong" set up, and we all know where it's going to go. Paranormal activity most of the times IS actually bullshit, so we have Ollie— on SCIENTIFIC grounds— putting her down, while she tries/struggles to get back up, to prove him wrong.

She's obsessed with proving that Ollie's wrong, that ghosts are real. You can hear the desperation in her voice when she says that to Javi in McScary Manor. Thinking about that, exploring more, what I realise is that... it's all she knows. It's all she's wanted to do in her life, all she's ever worked for. And now everything she believes in, is on stake, because this one guy threatens the entire foundation of her belief. What hurts even more is that this was her coping mechanism to deal with the disappearance of her parents.

Once you realise that, it becomes blatantly obvious what a jerk Ollie has been, with or without knowing it. And once he finds out, he changes overnight? I refuse to believe that. Nobody can change overnight. Sure, he'd try to make up for it— the valentines episode— I can still believe that he likes her, but he still would not treat her as his equal. Heck even the show doesn't think that. Take for example, another tangent, the training scenes.

Season 2, Amelia and Javi double team to beat Zayto, Amelia double crosses Javi, to beat him, then comes face to face with Ollie. Ollie defeats her, just like he had in season 1's training scene. One year, and he's still "above" her. And that's what I distinctly dislike about this pairing. How it always comes with a "Ollie is above Amelia" tag.

Moving back to the plot above, nobody can change overnight. Sure Ollie would feel bad about putting her down, but he's not going to ever feel like she's his equal. If anything, the parents revelation is going to make him feel pity for her. "Oh that poor girl, I've been troubling her so bad for something she did to cope up. I'm a bad person." that emotion is dangerous in a relationship, because AGAIN, he's looking down upon her as a traumatised troubled girl who he now needs to make his shitty behaviour up to.

And see. NOW Amelia has mind reading powers. She's gonna discover it some day, isn't she? Wouldn't that break her heart?

She needs to realise this. Ollie has his issues, but she isn't helping. While this relationship may lead Ollie to fix his ways, it is nothing but toxic for her. She's going to suffer. And ALLLLLL of this is just the tip of the iceberg, I can literally go on for ages ranting about how he mansplains shit to her, how he's always a little too sharp, how much it would STING if someone IRL does that— Amelia girl please stop it— how Ollie's actual biggest development in the series is realising people other than him have brains that can be applied too, and then don't even get me started on that episode with his mom— WHAT THE FUCK DUDE, that lady's the mother who raised you and she's a good mom!

*sigh*

So anyway, listen, I don't like Ollie. I'm not so big on Amelia either, while she's on this relationship and I don't even need to get onto my Javelia propaganda, but this relationship is not working out.

Dino Fury's left us off at this station— let's see if the writers judge it well, and fix their flaws in cosmic... or you're getting another much more detailed rant at the end of Cosmic.

Thanks for the ask, thanks for coming to the Ted Talk, I loved. blowing off this steam~

PS: once the series is over, Amelia finds her parents, Ollie is going to go "o h you found your parents! No need to look for the paranormal anymore!! YAY WE CAN BE HAPPY" and just like that. the relationship works out, while Amelia gets smothered over and over again, because now she's got nothing. absolutely. Nothing. That's her end. she can go be a housewife and raise his kids in peace. take it from me in writing, Amelia's career/life/shit is over in cosmic. She's just gonna be Ollie's pretty girl when he's fighting Zedd. IF the writers decide to keep the ship. There's no way she's gonna grow. She's going to lose it all if she stays with him, so Amelia, I'm begging you... dump him.

[txttletale]

Ask meme: tlt obviously

(ask meme)

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): ianthe! ianthe is blorbo from my shows. all my friends recognise ianthe even if they haven't read the books because i talk and post about her that much. there's just something so special about a female character who is genuinely horrible in a deeply pathetic, wretched way that we don't get to see enough and it speaks to me! she's so awful, so miserable, not in a sexy brooding way but in a pitiful yet ultimately loathsome way. and that makes her perfect <3

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): nona. yes i know her book hasn't come out yet. but if nona doesn't win the best birthday party of the year award i will kill myself on live tv.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): coronabeth. listen i know she has her share of fans but they don't UNDERSTAND her. they haven't dug deep into every moment she's on the page to dig out her fucked up psyche. also commander wake because some people don't like her it seems (those people are wrong)

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): i know nothing about We Suffer but i support her <3. dulcie obviously isn't OBSCURE but in terms of how much i love her to screentime ratio she's an enormous outlier. every moment she's in ht9 is gold.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): ianthe again. also coronabeth (not unpopular but definitely pathetic.) i just love these miserable co-dependent twins who keep getting rejected by their crushes. perfect characters. badtwin and lessbadtwin my beloveds

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason: babs. i like babs, i think he's so funny. and he's so funny because misfortune constantly befalls him. i want to see babs get bad customer service at a mid-range diner chain and be sulky about it for the rest of the day.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): john gaius. my tag for him is paypal.com/IFuckingHateJohnGaius for a reason. he's a perfectly written manipulative, horribly likeable, grotesquely self-pitying abusive imperialist. i hope his dick falls off

[necklace-of-sin]

Harry Potter series for the blorbo ask game :D

*gasp* hey!! sorry this took a minute, guess who fell into New Writing Idea hell :'D a n y w a y

Blorbo (favorite character): it's a really really really close tie between Harry and Hagrid. As a kid in a Not So Good home situation, Harry was everything I wanted to be- scrappy, determined, fucking magical. But as I've gotten older, I really appreciate Hagrid. Idk he's just Big and Soft, he loves animals, he's the sweetheart who hatched a dragon egg in secret and named a three-headed dog Fluffy. He's good boy

Scrunkly (my "baby" character): Dobby. And no I will not elaborate

Scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): Mrs. Figg, without a doubt. The whole "crazy old cat lady is secretly a badass" thing made teen me lose my shit when I first read Order of the Phoenix lol

Glup shitto (obscure fave): Justin Finch-Fletchley. I won't deny he's a fave out of pity; kid snapped back at Harry for calling off that snake with parseltongue, only to then get absolutely blasted by the giant fucking basilisk roaming the school's plumbing. The devil works hard, but irony works harder lol

Poor little meow meow (problematic/unpopular/controversial fave): I think it goes without saying that Severus Snape takes this spot lmao. He's done many Bad things, he's done many Good things; and watching the fandom bend over backwards for years to put him in one box or the other has been a wild journey. Personally, I just wanna wrap him up in a blanket and let him be a nebulous little shit in peace

Horse plinko (character I'd torment for fun): Lucius Malfoy. What can I say, hurting rich fucks who use being a rich fuck to inflict immeasurable pain just sounds like a grand old time :)

Eeby deeby (character I'd send to superhell): Idk if superhell would even do anything to the miserable monster who split his soul apart in a thousand different directions. But at some point the tragic backstory gets stale and Voldemort just needs to run a few laps around some fire and brimstone

[edwinspaynes]

Oh yeah, I 100% agree with you.

I actually spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about Charles because he is strongly affiliated in different ways to ALL of my biggest blorbos. My assessment of Charles is also that he is autistic, but, as you said, autistic in a way that totally contrasts Henry (and, in my opinion, Thomas as well, which is a whole other essay.)

I think Charles is ultimately basically exclusively made up of fear and insecurity - he is a completely miserable human being. And I WANT to feel sympathy for him, and for his plight, but he is just so godawful that the best I can manage is mild pity sprinkled into my desire to punch him in the face.

But his psyche is fascinating, and so is his place inside the Fairchild family.

People always wonder how Charlotte and Henry could have had such a horrid son, but to me it makes perfect sense. Charles takes the good traits from both his parents and warps them. Charlotte's pragmatism and ambition ate great things, but Charles takes both of them to an extreme degree; Henry's desire to make a difference in the Clave makes him one of the best characters in TSC, but it's an *obsession* for Charles that makes him worse.

I'm about to be canceled for this but Charles Buford actually is a really interesting character. He sucks and I want to use my knowledge and assessment of his personality to be the one who turns a sword on him. But like, what makes him tick. What the fuck is going on behind those dead eyes. He's confounding and fascinating and makes me think.

[lezbi0nic]

Unrequited love is literally one of the best tropes of all time. It’s so nice when things don’t work out for Blorbo and he has to get the fuck over it or wallow in self pity like the miserable loser he is.

[junosartsthetic]

@buccislutti​

(These are my own interpretations because I don’t think they have one specific meaning but that make sense within the context of people’s use of these words)

Blorbo: a comfort character. Or just a character the poster likes. Can also be used when describing other people’s favorite characters. Sometimes just used without a specific meaning in mind. Generally, just relates to characters someone likes/enjoys/loves/kins/finds comfort in.

Poor little meow meow: a miserable, pathetic, wet sock, pitiful character. Someone who bad things happen to or who is just generally a character you feel bad for. Can sometimes be used with generally goth/reserved/stoic characters. Can also be used when referring to a character you think deserves/deserved better. Also just generally used when describing favorite characters sometimes (usually in the context of they want to hug/comfort the character). 

Skrunkly (sometimes seen written as skrungly): Similar to poor little meow meow but holds more ‘you brought this upon yourself/you’re also evil and sad’ kind of characterization. A character you want to squish in love but also irritation sometimes. I always picture a wet cat hissing out in the rain when I hear this word. Basically an angry poor little meow meow, in most cases. I have, however, seen it used in the same way that blorbo is, in which someone is generally referring to a character they like. Also, can be used for a character who is a mess, whether physically or mentally. 

Examples from JJBA that I think fit each category rather well:

Blorbo: Jonathan. Polnareff. Bruno. Johnny. Josuke. (characters that are generally comforting, or who people believe would be)

Poor Little Meow Meow: part 1 Dio. Abbacchio. Anasui. 

Skrunkly: Yoshikage Kira. Mista. part 3 Dio. Joseph Joestar. 

hope this assists people, and maybe helps in the taking of this survey :)

a blorbo survey for academic purposes

now to be clear this is not my survey. i was asked to share this with you all by @the-blorbo-project and as a lover of unconventional research and internet history, i agreed. here are the details i was asked to post:

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Are you 18 or older? Do you have a blorbo, poor little meow meow, cinnamon roll, or just a favorite character? The Blorbo Project ( @the-blorbo-project ) wants to hear from you!

We are two PhD researchers and long-time Tumblr users studying how fans relate to their beloved characters. You can take our survey here [link: https://humutah.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8D227hR5jwYeuG].

Participation is completely voluntary and most questions are open-ended so you can give us as much or as little detail as you'd like. The survey does collect some basic demographic information, but participation is completely anonymous. Questions? Feel free to DM or message @the-blorbo-project !