#the ORIGINAL blorbo

[shatterdome-underscore]

I'm glad people stopped making fun of Phoenix Wright for interrogating a parrot and started making fun of him for eating glass. Like the parrot thing worked, the glass thing did not.

[whistlebrox]

SUPRISE SHAWTYYY!!!

[stephantom]

I’d need to watch it again to confirm this, but I’m pretty sure that Thomas Becket is the only character who independently initiates touch with Henry?

There are plenty of people whom Henry touches, and it’s almost always possessive or threatening: the villager woman in the first flashback scene, the Saxon peasant girl (and possibly the old man? I think he prods at both of them with his riding crop), Gwendolen (holding her shoulders/neck), the French prostitute (kissing, leaning over, sitting on, slapping her butt), his sons (pushing and kicking them), the bishop (strangling), his barons (clutching onto one, tapping one’s head to indicate his vapidness), and Thomas too—(clasping his shoulders when he realizes Thomas is hurt, holding his hand to put on the chancellor ring).

Interestingly, I don’t think we ever see Henry touch or be touched by his mother or his wife. There’s the moment when he grabs/kicks their needlework, and later on he knocks all the plates off the table, possibly vaguely in their direction—so there are two physical interactions which are violent but still sort of… distant? And still the direction is just Henry to them (in terms of physicality, anyway—verbally, they do initiate conversations/fights with him).

Does anyone touch Henry? There are the monks who whip him in the end, but Henry has ordered them to do it. Likewise, there’s the servant/valet/page who begins to wipe him dry in the bath scene, but again, that’s someone performing a duty. Thomas Becket though, cuts in and takes over the drying, and the dialogue tells us explicitly that he’s not expected to do this, and doesn’t have to (“You’re a nobleman—why do you play at being my valet?”) but Becket seemingly wants to do it, and he knows Henry likes how he does it: enthusiastically, confidently, warmly, and freely (“No one does it like you, Thomas”). He towels Henry’s head, helps Henry put on his boots, and then casually uses Henry’s legs to push himself up to stand.

There’s the scene in Henry’s tent, after the French prostitute has left and the two of them are sitting on the bed: Becket sort of leans in and briefly clasps Henry’s arm where it’s lying in his lap, casually and warmly.

There’s also the getaway horse ride, where Becket is holding onto Henry, arms wrapped around him, and they’re both laughing and smiling. Henry’s shirt actually falls open a little and Becket’s hand winds up on his bare torso.

And then there are the thwarted attempts at touch, after the split: the two scenes where Henry accuses Becket of not loving him. Both times, Becket moves toward Henry and reaches out to touch him, and both times, Henry moves away and tells him to keep his distance.

They’re quick little things, but if they are actually the only instances of anyone touching Henry affectionately (or even of their own volition) that we see over the course of the movie, it does support an impression of Henry as fundamentally isolated—maybe there is truth to his claim that Becket is the only person who’s ever loved him.

What’s tragic is that 1) Henry doesn’t really know how to express love himself (see: Henry expressing nothing but violence and entitlement to everyone else around him, and even to Becket for the most part), and 2) Becket’s love, albeit huge in Henry’s world, is conflicted and unfulfilling—for both of them.

Becket might be the only person who’s dared to reach out to Henry and meet him on something close to a human level, and Henry loves him for it, but why does Becket do it? Part of it may just be an instinct of Becket’s to fulfill a need where he sees one, if he can, and if it benefits him. I think it’s so interesting that Henry seems obsessed with the question of whether Thomas really loves him, when it seems the truth might be that Thomas actually doesn’t know; maybe it’s an unanswerable, even nonsensical question to him. Like, what else could he do? I don’t know. “Insofar as I was capable of love, yes I did [love you].” But the fact that his last words, unwitnessed and private, are, “Poor Henry.” Fuck me up.

Ok, that last paragraph got away from me and now I can’t stop. Tempted to draw comparisons to “Beauty and the Beast” (this is a sad version where no magical transformation happens… unless you take a particular Catholic stance and consider that both of them maybe took real solace and meaning in Thomas being made a saint and that Henry maybe found real absolution through his penance).

I also want to compare all of this to “The Lion in Winter”, where it feels like, rather than a story about one lonely monster in a castle full of people he sees as objects, it’s a whole microcosm of traumatized and power-hungry people, reaching out for power and security and love and stabbing each other in the back, over and over. (Like, of course his mother and wife and kids have complex feelings for him—some of which involve love!) I think that depiction is better and less myopic, more true to life and probably a more accurate portrait of the historical figures involved (even when it comes to Henry and Becket—Becket was of that world too, after all), but I think I’ve rambled enough about all of this, so I’m going to end this post now. I’ll just say that there’s something nevertheless appealing about the boiled-down fairytale melodrama of “no one else ever loved me but you!”

[briebo-art]

redesigned my oldest OC, Max (Formerly Brianne/Bridgette), to be more butch because it's simply what she deserves, and butch transfems are great

she's my longest running character, with probably the most drawings of any of my OC's, so i thought i'd do a timeline of all the times i've drawn her :)

(2nd to last one is before she realized shes trans hence the miserableness,)

there's a timelapse under the cut, as it can get pretty flash-inducing when it comes to colors

[misseyres]

luke skywalker is a character that can be so personal to a girl. if you even care.

[effervescent-fool]

silly autism guy

[lizardywizard]

seriously dragon lovers are sleeping on Him

[some1onao3]

Ah yes, the exquisite Roy Mustang experience. You learn something new about and from him everytime you rewatch or reread. He's the hottest and coldest soldier in the Amestrian military. He acts cool, but he's the lamest man around. He's both the idiot and the genius. He's a womanizer who only ever loves one woman. He's a lazy bum who works tirelessly. He's caring and kind. He's ruthless and cruel. He's arrogant and thinks too highly of himself, yet he's self-deprecating and thinks too little of himself. He's detached but perpetually involved. He's both selfless and selfish, depending on the day. He joins a war to protect people, and ends up killing countless of them in that war. He burns people alive yet he burns himself to make sure people stay alive. He's the war criminal who gets called a war hero. He will use you like chess pieces, but he's the King who will deliberately get himself in checkmate just to spare a spawn. He'll do nearly anything to gain power, only to abolish it. He's determined to live another day just so he can commit suicide at the end of the road. He's the best of men. He's the worst of men. Just like the fire he wields at his fingertips, Roy Mustang destroys and creates, and it makes all the sense in the world.

roy mustang is one of those characters that improves the more you watch, because at the beginning you see him and think he’s an idiot and a dick, and then you watch a little more and you think he’s not quite an idiot but he is a dick, and then you watch further and you realize that he’s not an idiot at all and he is in fact a very kind person, and then you keep watching and it turns out that even if he’s selfless he’s still a dick, and then you watch some more and you realize that he’s an immensely guilty and complicated man who understands how unforgivable his actions were and acknowledges the necessity of moving forward and trying to fix things but his version of trying to fix things involves outright treason and a coup, and then you get to the very end of the series and it turns out whatever moral compass he has is hard won and partially outsourced and he’s always struggling against his grief and anger and his incredible cleverness is both a weakness and a strength but his real power is his bonds with others, and then you rewatch and you realize that he really is an idiot and a dick

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[shoukohime]

babygirl the way you forsake your happiness on your relentless quest to vengeance, your complicated relationship with gender and the way you're covered in blood have bewitched me body and soul

[switchbladefightz]

theres stuff happening in my life not like bad stuff but new exciting challenging scary i don't like change stuff that not even a new piercing can make ok probably (but i should still try that i think) but i just rmmbrd the new episode of die drei ??? is sth i should be into (bob andrews absolutely going through it if i understood the like three tik toks i saw about it correctly) so that FOR SURE will fix me

[darkanachronism]

Him!

Griffin, the invisible man

[questions-about-blorbos]

reblog this with a terrible description of your Blorbo. go

[hashtagloveloses]

it seems people don't understand. a GLUP SHITTO is a character in a very popular piece of media (like star wars) that if you asked a random person or even a casual fan, they wouldn't know who the fuck that is. a BLORBO is just your little guy. can be any kind of character they're just your little GUY. a POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW is a villain, usually with a sad backstory, who you are defending and woobifying. they've done WRONG. not everyone can be a poor little meow meow. just because they're pathetic doesn't mean they're a meow meow that mf had to commit CRIMES. if you want a pathetic little fucker of any moral persuasion that is a BABYGIRL. usually male, doesn't have to be. just has to be kind of fucked up. get your terminology CORRECT

[sketchy-tour]

Redrew some of my old daycare attendant doodles as stress relief today

[fma03envy]

You should watch fma03; it's really good I promise