#simon peter is blorbo

[shoutsindwarvish]

there are two wolves inside me

[owlsounds]

Just found out Millcreek is releasing this in January '23 and it is [figuratively] the only thing keeping me going the next 60 days.

@lieutenant-columbro

@justsomeguy-cassavetes

@columboscreens

[babybirbb]

i NEED peg to this boy

[hobgoblinns]

i wonder what the most common first name of all my blorbos is if i include actors as blorbos

[eowynneigh]

So nervous to go back this semester and do my theology classes but I must so I can continue the gay agenda (queering the medieval monastery through queer readings of depictions of Jesus and John in the text and art)

[nephriteknight]

so a while back i made a post about what my blorbos' playstyles would be like in botc/social deduction games in general, and at the time i didn't include tma because they have so much highly specific trauma and dangerous eldritch appetites that this would be terrible for, but i just can't stop thinking about the very silly scenario where the tma characters play botc together. it would go so badly.

the banned character list includes fortune teller, spy, snake charmer, oracle, evil twin, vigormortis, no dashii, pacifist, cannibal, cult leader, fisherman, pixie, golem, plague doctor, organ grinder, and ojo, because elias keeps cheating. ojo and oracle somehow keep ending up in the bag anyway.

daisy gets way too into hunting down the demon. Guns Will Be Drawn.

jon and tim handle this game Extremely Predictably. i just know s1 tim would adore botc but s3 tim is having an awful time. oh great yeah one of our friends is a shape shifting demon lying to our faces? perfect. jon is on the verge of a panic attack but instead of breaking down he's just interrogating everyone very aggressively. hey, at least everyone believes he's on the good team.

basira solves the game right away and spends the rest of the game trying to convince everyone else. only georgie believes her.

martin is very good at being evil in these kinds of games (and also benefits from people not expecting him to be good at it), so when he pulls the demon he could demolish good, but, uh, he's honestly not sure jon could handle that right now so he gets caught on purpose without letting anyone else realize he threw.

elias insisted peter would attend and he did not in fact show. luckily no one believed he would come so it's not really a problem. ("you called it a 'social deduction' game, elias, it's in the name! no i'm not coming--")

...annabelle's the storyteller? i mean. she obviously would if she was there. i feel like sasha gives me st vibes as well but i might just be projecting again.

multiple games are ruined because jon accidentally compels the demon to tell him their role. one of those was not fully an accident.

simon is having a grand old time but he really doesn't give a shit about winning/the game which is less of a problem when he's good but very much a problem for his teammates when he's evil.

melanie draws the psychopath "by chance" several times and enjoys it way too much. daisy handles an outed evil player whom town can't easily execute exactly as poorly as you'd expect. i cannot emphasize enough how unlikely it is that canon team archives could play this game without at least one person getting hurt, killed, or giving in to the dark powers completely.

helen is eating it all up. literally. (elias is still pissed that the spy got banned.) she still never outright lies, which unfortunately for everyone else but fortunately for her (and simon, who thinks its hilarious) means she can't tell outright truths when she's good either or it'll look suspicious when she's evil. no one is ever fully certain what she is or what she's doing. pure chaos and we love her for it. (we being me; team archives does not in fact love her for it.)

elias is still cheating, but when they threaten to fill the room with eyeless dolls he decides to quit while he's (not) ahead and just watch from his office like an eldritch twitch chat.

[latinotiktok]

Official list for "Canonize your blorbo as LATINO Tournament"/Lista oficial del Torneo "Canoniza tu blorbo como LATINO"/Lista oficial do Torneio "Canonize seu blorbo como LATINO"

Disclaimer: these are characters that have been voted more than once and have "propaganda" on why they are thought to be latino/latina/latine. 64 characters will be selected, there are still spots left. Tournament will began on October 9th/10th and the polls will be up for 24hs for the first round.

Aclaración: estos son personajes que han sido votados más de una vez y tienen "propaganda" sobre por qué se cree que son latinos/latinas/latines. Se seleccionarán 64 personajes, aún quedan lugares. El torneo comenzará el 9/10 de octubre y las encuestas estarán abiertas durante 24hs para la primera ronda.

Esclarecimento: são personagens que foram votados mais de uma vez e fazem “propaganda” sobre por que são considerados latinos/latinas/latinos. Serão selecionados 64 caracteres, ainda há vagas. O torneio começará no dia 9/10 de outubro e as votações ficarão abertas por 24 horas para o primeiro turno.

Shadow/Sonic

Leorio Paladiknight (hxh)

Tortugas ninja pero en especial Miguel Angel

varios personajes de Dorohedoro

Wei Wuxian (MDZS/The Untamed)

Wolfwood (Trigun)

Kung Lao (Mortal Kombat)

Naruto (Naruto)

El equipo Rocket/Team Rocket

Los locos Addams/Addam's family

Gojo (jjk)

Yuuji (jjk)

Peter Parker (Marvel)

Matt Murdock (Marvel)

Todos los Jojos pero en especial joseph joestar y narancia (JJBA)

Crowley (good omens)

Denji (chainsawman)

Jason Todd (DC)

Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson series)

El trio de evangelion pero en especial SHINJI (Evangelion)

Reigen (MP100)

Nishinoya (HQ!!)

Magnus Archives dudes pero en especial Martin (TMA)

Marceline (Hora de Aventura/Adventure time)

Leon s. Kennedy (Resident Evil)

Sanji (One piece)

Chell (Portal)

Simon Petrikov (Fionna and Cake/Adventure Time)

Lelouch lamperouge

the guys from Yakuza (Yakuza)

Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Claude Von Riegan (Fire Emblem)

Link (Zelda games)

Ruggie Bucchi (Twisted Wonderland)

Jake el perro (Adventure time)

Utena Tenjou y Anthy Himemiya (revolutionary girl utena)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)

Candy Candy (Candy Candy)

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz)

Michael Afton (FNAF games)

Godot (Ace Attorney)

JESUS FROM LIKE, THE BIBBLE

Catra (She-ra)

Hinata (HQ!!)

Rengoku (kny)

Shrek y Burro (doblaje latm)

Edward Elric (FMA/FMAB)

Hobie Brown (Marvel/ATSV)

Amatista (Steven Universe)

L (Death Note)

Heidi (Heidi anime)

Madotsuki (yumei nikki)

Koby (One piece)

Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)

Pato Lucas/Duffy Duck (Looney Tunes)

Manuela Casagrande (Fire Emblem)

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid)

Taylor Hebert (Worm)

Joker (Persona 5)

Yugi Muto >(Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Karamatsu Matsuno (Osomatsu-san)

Satsuki Kiryūin (Kill la Kill)

La piratería (sí, el concepto de la piratería)

Edit: been informed Taurus is already latine so I'm taking him out I'm sorry uwu

[candlecoo-sideb-art]

So you know I love your stardew valley AU, and happy as I am to see my blorbos safe and content, it does make me wonder where the more... iffy ones are. my HC is that Elias is either the mayor, or a complete recluse like the wizard

Elias is very much the major, which he's a good one organization wise but is terrible people wise. He just always wins elections because nobody ever runs against him.

I'm thinking of either making Annabelle or Simon the wizard because they both do their own thing and we don't hear any voice lines from either of them till the last two seasons of tma.

Peter is definitely the Fisher man but he's rarely in town because he's almost always on a fishing trip.

[intothewickedwood]

🐈‍⬛ 🌻 😇 👥️ 🎶 for the ask game <3

Thank you so much for the asks! <3 :D

🐈‍⬛ animal

My favourite animal is a cheetah! I'm just so impressed by their speed and how they run. If I had a mutant power, I'd want it to be super speed. So I want them to teach me there ways!

😇 blorbo

Right now, my The Wilds hyperfixation is so strong I can think of practically nothing else (oopsie). But yes! I love all the Wilds girls but Toni Shalifoe is my favourite <3. Honestly, she might have taken the crown of favourite character of all time at this point. Just gaaah. Such a softie underneath all that understandable anger. Cares so much for those she loves. I love her and all the layers of her character.

Before I watched the Wilds I got really into Legacies again (by finally watching s3 and s4). Absolutely obsessed with Lizzie Saltzman! Very relatable in some regards. Absolutely hilarious! Has so much pain and so many deep insecurities.

Alice Jones from Once Upon A Time, (my beloved) <3! A silly who has suffered too much!!

Chelsea Daniels from That's So Raven. She's so endearing to me. The silliest of sillies. Raven is a very close second, though.

Natalie Goodman from Next To Normal. Relatable in an ansty way.

Peter Simmonds from Bare: A Pop Opera. So relatable. A Cinnamon Roll <3.

Kate Dalton from We Are The Tigers. Sarcasm queen.

Vincent Lin From Adamandi. They may be a murderous blorbo. But they're my murderous blorbo.

Circe from Epic: The Musical. She's just so cool.

Draculaura from Monster High. Again, so cool and I love how much she loves her friends.

Chloe Sullivan from Smallville. Big influence on me growing up. Though I probably shouldn't have been watching Smallville at 9. She just cared so much about those she loved.

Simon Tudor from Jeopardy. His character development is everything <3.

Cloe From Bratz. The biggest drama queen ever and I love her for it.

Kurt Wagner from X-Men Evolution (and just x-men in general). He's such a silly guy.

Shalimar Fox from Mutant X. The most badass, protective queen to ever.

And that's all I can think of, but they're in no particular order. Except Toni. Toni gets the number 1 blorbo badge.

🌻 flower

I don't know much about flowers but I really like the look of Plumeria.

👥️ otp

So many! I shall limit myself to one per show.

Shoni!! (from The Wilds). I think they have made it to number 1 otp status!

Snowing from Once Upon A Time. But also shout out to Curious Archer!

Mizzie from Legacies! Still can't believe they got to be endgame!! I thought it was just gonna be hopes and dreams but the way I screamed my head off!! I love an unrequited love storyline but I love it even more when it then becomes requited. He thought the world of her and then she realised she felt the same about him too and it was beautiful and I cried (and screamed).

Natalie x Henry from Next To Normal. He's just so supportive of her and would do anything to make sure she's okay and that makes me want to cry into my cereal.

Peter x Jason from Bare: A Pop Opera. Everything hurts. But their chemistry was of the charts and they were so in love and I am in pain.

Cheer Wives from We Are The Tigers. They were sooooo bad for each other but needed each other? It was a mess but I was so very there for it.

Quincent from Adamandi. I am once again in so much pain. I can't get over how beautiful the lyrics they sang were when referencing each other.

Freffy from Skins. The way he cared for Effy D,:. He would haved moved mountains just to make her smile. My heart will forever be broken over what happened to Freddie. He deserved so much better.

Dracudeen. Just the whole of 'This is Not How Or Story Goes.' There was no hetrosexual explanation for that and Clawdeen nearly died to save her!

Chlark from Smallville. Next to Simon x Chrissie, they were one of my first otps. No one did friendship like them. But I always wanted it to be more. That whole unrequited thing that was never really given a chance to become requited.

Edited to add: Chlavis! I now one cannot have 2 otps that include the same character but I always go back and forth between which I like best. Chlavis' story was so intense and traumatic but at least it ended up being requited this time around! Extremely requited!

Simon x Chrissie. Tfw the two most terrible people you'd never wanted to be stranded in the wilderness with have the most beautiful, unrushed character development and learn to care for people other than themselves as they slowly fall in love, when there was merely the shallowest one-sided crush you ever did see there before. The way they became heroes <3. And the way Simon just didn't know how to be without Chrissie but persisted in trying to save her when chances were beyond slim. I miss them so much and need to rewatch <3.

Harlan x Cyrus. They had so much chemistry and genuinely had a connection and now we'll never know what happened to them. I wish we got to know them better. Darn you Amazon!

Cloe x Jade from Bratz. It was more of a case of all the unwritten fanfiction I had in my head for them as an 11 year old. But I only let it get as gay as Monster High 2 at the time, which is actually very incredibly gay, so I don't know who my brain was trying to fool.

Lance x Kitty from X-Men Evolution. They had a really interesting connection and were drawn to each other.

🎶 musical artist

I mostly listen to musical theatre songs but my favourite band has always been S Club 7. I'm not sure I have an overall favourite solo artist. Maybe James Morrison!

Thank you again for the asks! They were such a blast to answer!

[trans-elrond]

im hereby issuing a challenge to my tumblr friends to find me some new blorbo material, just, like, for fun, for giggles. imagine this post as a kind of like a place for abandoned pets except it's your tall dark-haired tortured unhinged desperate weirdos that you think fit well in a spectrum of daddy issues -> mommy issues along with adar, abner krill, crais, loki, simon monroe, axe woves, boba fett, guy of gisborne, marcus kane, bucky barnes, peter hale, garcia flynn, cliff legrand, and the like. humor me. do your worst. i'd like to think i know the contemporary blorbo landscape pretty well but if there are men who fit the bill out there that i have yet to discover i would like to discover them.

[a-ratt]

One of my favorite part about D&D: Honor Among Thieves is the character relationships and dynamics.

Spoiler warnings:

Absolutely love that there isn’t a main ship that takes up too much time of the narrative, it’s just Edgin and Holga having this partnerships/sibling dynamic and its hilarious.

The canon ships Simon and Doric (I love them) but it isn’t something forced or rushed, and it’s pretty much just Simon pining the whole time then Doric going “alright, I’ll give it a shot” at the end of the movie.

Simon and Edgin is very much Peter Parker and Miles Morales’ “you got this, little bro” kind of relationship.

Holga and Kira are surprisingly mother and daughter, which I absolutely loved.

Forge and Kira is actually really nuanced, which is weird but I love that they decided that Forge’s whole motivation is that he wants to play god by being a parent. Something small and not over the top, but still creepy and messed up.

Forge and Edgin’s whole love-hate relationship. Edgin totally hates Forge and Forge hates Edgin, but Forge still has some sympathy for him.

Edgin and Xenk’s entire dynamic between rogue and lawful good. (Totally onboard for that ship.)

God, I love this movie. I want more out of these blorbos.

You know what? Cancel the D&D Spinoff franchises, I want books, games, and stuff out of these guys!

[emmajh97-mumaji]

Literally ALL My Blorbos

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍💕💗💝🥰

A comprehensive list of my favorite characters from my favorite media! (I keep this because it makes it easier to decide on what to draw lol)

[This post will probably be edited every so often, so make sure to go to the original and not any Reblogs for the most up-to-date version!]

[page break because LONG LIST IS LONG]

Ace Attorney: ○ Apollo Justice ○ Miles Edgeworth ○ Phoenix Wright ○ Simon Blackquill Animal Crossing: ○ Lily (Rainy) ○ Wilbur Avatar - The Legend of Korra: ○ Mako Barbie in The Nutcracker: ○ Captain Candy Ben 10: ○ Ben Tennyson Black★Rock Shooter: ○ Black Rock Shooter Bleach: ○ Ichigo Kurosaki Danganronpa: ○ Hajime Hinata ○ Kaito Momota ○ Kazuichi Soda ○ Kiyotaka Ishimaru Danny Phantom: ○ Danny Fenton DC Comics: ○ Shazam (Captain Marvel) ○ Aquaman Demon Slayer: ○ Kyojuro Rengokou Detroit: Become Human: ○ Connor (RK 800) Digimon: ○ J.P. (Shibayama Junpei) ○ Marcus Damon ○ Takato Matsuki ○ Takuya Kanbara Dragon Ball Z: ○ Trunks Briefs (Mirai Trunks) Frozen (Disney): ○ Elsa Final Fantasy: ○ Cloud Strife ○ Prompto Argentum ○ Black Mage [any generic one] ○ Zack Fair Five Nights at Freddy's: ○ Glamrock Freddy ○ Golden Freddy (Fredbear) ○ Toy Freddie [in huggable Gijinka Form] Generator Rex: ○ Rex Salazar ○ Six Genshin Impact: ○ Arataki Itto ○ Lisa Minci ○ Mona Megistus Hazbin Hotel: ○ Lucifer Morningstar ○ Angel Dust Henry Stickmin: ○ Charles Calvin Hetalia: ○ America (Alfred F. Jones) ICEY_ (X.D.Network): ○ ICEY Interstella 5555: ○ Shep ○ Octave ○ Manager (Music Producer Guy) Jarrett Williams' Comics: ○ Joe Somiano from Super Pro K.O. ○ Sensational Sike from Super Pro K.O. ○ Ace Estrada (Yellow Hype) from Hyper Force Neo ○ Neil Tran (Blue Hype) from Hyper Force Neo Kingdom Hearts: ○ Axel (Lea) ○ Meow Wow Kiznaiver: ○ Hajime Tenga Legend of Zelda (BotW/TotK): ○ Link ○ Sidon Mario (Nintendo): ○ Luigi Marvel: ○ Clea Strange ○ Doctor Strange (Stephen) ○ Spider Man (Peter Parker) Miyuli's Webcomics: ○ Oz from Morgana & Oz ○ The Bogeyman from Lost Nightmare My Hero Academia: ○ Izuku Midoriya (Deku) ○ Kirishima Eijirou (Red Riot) Mystery Skulls Animated: ○ Lewis Pepper the Skeleton Ghost Mystic Messenger: ○ Yoosung Kim No Straight Roads: ○ 1010 [Eloni, Rin, & Purl-Hew are all good] ○ Zuke Persona: ○ Ryuji Sakamoto Pokemon: ○ Ash Ketchum (Satoshi) ○ Cilan ○ Hugh ○ Milo ○ Pearl (Barry /Jun) ○ Deoxys ○ Mismagius Promare: ○ Galo Thymos Rise of the Guardians: ○ Jack Frost RWBY: ○ Neptune Vasilias ○ Qrow Branwen Sanrio: ○ Keroppi ○ TuxedoSam ○ Shunsuke Yoshino Seduce Me (The Otome): ○ Matthew (Zecaeru) SOMA: ○ Simon Jarrett Sonic the Hedgehog: ○ Gold the Tenrec ○ Mighty the Armadillo ○ Shard the Metal Sonic ○ Silver the Hedgehog Soul Eater: ○ Black Star The Book of Life: ○ Manolo Sanchez Tiger & Bunny: ○ Kotetsu T. Kaburagi Vampire Knight: ○ Zero Kiryu Voltron: Legendary Defender: ○ Shiro (Takashi Shirogane) Xenoblade Chronicles: ○ Shulk Yu-Gi-Oh: ○ Soulburner (Takeru Homura) ○ Yami Yugi (Atem) ○ Yusei Fudo ○ Stardust Dragon 2064: Read Only Memories: ○ Lexi Rivers ○ Turing

BONUS: Media I love, but don't have a blorbo from

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar (world of Pandora; James Cameron)

Atlantis (Disney)

Angry Birds

Dekoboko Sugar Days

Disney Princess Movies [i.e. The Little Mermaid, Mulan, Sleeping Beauty]

D.N.Angel

Epic (Blue Sky movie)

Epithet Erased

Full Metal Alchemist

Ghibli Movies [specifically Castle in the Sky & Kiki's Delivery Service]

Hamtaro

Hindu Mythology [Amar Chitra Katha comics]

How to Train Your Dragon movies

Kal Ho Naa Ho

Kung-Fu Panda movies

Land of the Lustrous

The Lego Movie (and 2)

Lisa Frank

Little Witch Academia

MLP: Friendship is Magic

Megamind

Molly Moon (book series)

Mune Guardian of the Moon

Paleoart (dinosaur documentaries & encyclopedias)

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Penguins of Madagascar

Pretty Cure (HeartCatch)

Pusheen

Sailor Moon

Scooby-Doo [What's New? and Mystery Inc.]

Scott Pilgrim

Starlight Brigade - TWRP

Steven Universe

TRON [1982, Legacy, and Uprising]

Tatsinda by Elizabeth Enright

The Avengers

TokiDoki

Tokyo Mew Mew

Treasure Planet

Undertale & Deltarune

Vocaloid / UTAUloids

[darlingdekarios]

10 Fandoms / 10 Characters

thanks for tagging me, @strangerhands! I started a new thread because the other was long!

Gale Dekarios / Baldur's Gate III

Arthur Morgan / RDR2

Light Yagami / Death Note

Vash the Stampede / Trigun Stampede

Geralt of Rivia / Witcher III: Wild Hunt

Simon "Ghost" Riley / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Peter Parker [Venom or otherwise] / Insomniac's Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2

Hobart "Hobie" Brown / Into The Spider-Verse

Anakin Skywalker [Darth Vader] / Star Wars

Peter Parker [Andrew's Version] / The Amazing Spider-Man Franchise & No Way Home

these aren't in any particular order outside of Gale and Arthur, they just looked nice formatted this way.

tags: if you see this and think "that looks fun, I want to talk about my blorbos" consider yourself tagged! I have tagging anxiety but I do genuinely want people to participate. x

[kylejsugarman]

Another question for fun:

Who have been your ‘blorbos’ over time?

(Like right now if I’m not mistaken it’s Jesse, but I’d love to know who it’s been previously)

love this ask because the picture it paints of me is a very authentic one but also an insane one. the blorbo train from age 10 to now is: simon from aatc, elliot from et, tim from jurassic park, mac from fosters home for imaginary friends, dipper from gravity falls, norman from paranorman, hiccup from how to train your dragon, george michael from arrested development, jd from scrubs, orel from moral orel, wirt from over the garden wall, dipper again and ford from gravity falls, jeremy from be more chill, kyle sugarman from spacebar (the eternal blorbo), ethan garvin from person of interest, beast boy from teen titans, peter parker, dan from dan vs, jonah from superstore, jesse from breaking bad

[belethlegwen]

Does Henry have a voice claim?

Or Daniel?? Or Miller?? OR ANY OF YOUR BLORBOS?👀

I have never had a voice claim really for anyone, I know generally what their accents are and I can hear their voices in my head, if that makes sense? But I can't REALLY think of anyone's voice in particular that I would listen to and go "oh this is DEFINITELY them".

Their accents across the board, save for Melanie, are varieties of european and those general areas, mostly British/English with Irish mixing in from the more rustic/rural folks, Scottish is definitely in there. I don't know the regional accents of England/Wales/etc, I am sorry. I know I could be trying to narrow shit down York/Cockney/London/so on but I have no idea what any of those sound like specifically.

Members of the Royal family (the Duke included) have a strangely almost Spanish accent? Possibly Italian? But the accent itself has been warped to trend KIND OF more toward English, still keeping some of their speech patterns/accent of Spanish/Italian kind of deal just enough to really stand out from that crowd.

Lionus has a really unique accent that's a very strong and chipper mix of Irish/Scottish blended to SOUND like a British accent of some variety. When asked about it, he tends to just shrug it off as a product of being moved around a lot when he was younger and leaves it at that.

So yes! That's about all there is to the accents and voice claims. There definitely aren't some ideas I vaguely tossed around pre-coffee this morning that I got semi dragged for under the cut.

Thank you so much for the ask! <3

So like

I threw out these ideas to my future spouse, bless their fun-print-designed socks

and immediately got back the response of "love that I can tell exactly what kind of UK media you've consumed" so

Read me as you will I guess, just be kind to me.

DISCLAIMER: These are just vague ideas of people who sound similar/have played roles/delivered lines in a way I thought was close!!

Henry - Simon Pegg Miller - Nick Frost Peter - Martin Freeman (specifically from his portrayal as Bilbo) Daniel - Benedict Cumberbatch (a more flat, moping kind of Benedict??? Though for real now that I'm thinking about it, like a younger-sounding Alan Rickman?)

so yeah judge me as you will on this but it's the best I got, my ass doesn't watch anything and I don't know voice actors very well.

[saint-starflicker]

The only evidence I have to the contrary is blink-and-you-miss-it, but I definitely don't think the show was saying "Peter was right and Jason was wrong and a bad person"— Days crawl by / I ask myself again... Should I have waited?

Nooo my son you'll be asking that your whole life. 😭 when the answer is obviously yes though. yes, you should've waited.

There's a French saying, "les absents ont toujours tort (the absent are always in the wrong)" and I think that applies to how easy it became to dismiss Jason as unreasonable or maliciously wishy-washy when the show does a lot less attitude-coaching about what we're supposed to think about Jason. If "Role of a Lifetime" remained a Jason song, maybe that wouldn't have happened... But I also think this lack of attitude-coaching is a crucial feature. Marginalized people SHOULDN'T HAVE TO keep on explaining why and how they/we do everything, we shouldn't have to be superhumanly perfect and nice only so that people in the hegemony deign to extend rights and tolerance. This doesn't mean "so you can all diversify the serial-killer demographic, and then blame the world for not being more understanding of this exciting new hobby of being a serial killer; diversity win!"—in this very specific context, I am only saying that it's good sometimes for an audience to have to do some heavy lifting.

I keep using the phrase "attitude-coaching" and I got that from Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl in their 1956 academic paper about Para-Social relationships in television shows and radio—and they got the phrase "attitude-coaching" from Kenneth Burke who was criticizing how history is taught at American schools (...making kids get low-key parasocial about Benjamin Franklin...) While the television personalities that Horton and Wohl studied were manipulative because that's how the industry operates (that if it works then yes corporate sponsors and executives sure are going to make lonely viewers feel loved by a made-up person that can't love them back)—there are other barriers to making that connection that Horton and Wohl noted, such as: the gender gap, or depictions of too-exotic ethnic minorities, or even if the style is too high-brow, then there's a breakdown in developing that para-social connection...and I personally think audiences would benefit more from going outside their comfort zone of "entertained by lovable blorbos" and try to understand or sympathize with characters like Jason who CAN be played as rather a cocky teenaged jerk, and I think that directorial/acting choice is an extra challenge to audiences to wonder what his deal is, and I think that's a very good thing. (The comments under Dalles Wilie's performance of "You and I" sometimes being like ohhh we're supposed to like Jason. Jason is likable. And then he actually looks at the ringing phone in the middle of One, and then pulls a crying Ivy downstage by the arm near the end of Promise—these were all effective choices to depict a complicated character. A lot of the Korean stagings of Ever After have Jason be a LOT more hostile and violent, while Justin Ivan Brown's Jason gets to play Ever After with a lot more himbo softness. Does it matter which of those versions is really Jason McConnell? Or is it overall, "Can't sympathize because he's a white man" take that I catch every so often like my siblings in christ his story gets slightly more complicated than that. When Jahlil M. Burke plays him then Jason McConnell joins the ranks of imploding golden boy of color along with Simon Basset and Troy Fairbanks.)

once again not really canon but when jason says "i'm just not ready / wait for me" to peter in best kept secret and when jason says "let's tell your mother whose whole existence is built around micromanaging other people's lives so then she can call my mother who will immediately tell my dad and the two of them can rush down here to conference with father. that is if they don't get me out of here first to send me away to one of those camps to get cured. or maybe i can ask notre dame for a leave of absence while i deal with a sexual identity crisis. or maybe my dad will just beat the shit out of me and then disown me" to peter in reputation stain'd

like imagine you're just a 17yo closeted teenager and you're telling your boyfriend/best friend hey i get why you want to come out but this is really not the ideal situation for me because if that happens the outcomes for me are 1) conversion therapy 2) domestic violence 3) losing my career prospects and you're trying your best to keep your friends happy and keep your parents happy and keep your teachers happy and keep your boyfriend happy but in the end he doesn't listen to you and almost outs you to your catholic priest and eventually outs you to the guy who hates you the most in your class and so you indeed lose your entire social standing + your whole friends group + your boyfriend like a self-fulfilling prophecy and when you beg them all to forgive you (even tho you did nothing wrong in the first place and only tried to make everyone happy and always "thought for all the best" (as per reputation stain'd)) none of them listen to you and so you kill yourself but the fandom doesn't care and homophobic sheltered american teens online are saying you're actually the villain. anyway i'm very normal about this