DIPLOMATOR SEXYMAN PROPAGANDA POST part 2
where I explain why he is a tumblr sexyman. And he IS. That's a fact.
Part 1 where I talk about who this guy even is.
The question of what defines a true "tumblr sexyman" has plagued people's minds for ages. But from my own observations I have made a list of common traits most tumblr sexymen possess, and I will prove that Diplomator has them, and thus qualifies to count as a real tumblr sexyman.
SIKE! I'm just gonna scream incoherently and be weird about him, because I've been obsessed over this fucker for six real life years, and I need more people be mentally ill about him NOW.
Asshole in a long coat. Self explanatory.
Huh? What's with the mannequins? Don't worry about it.
Permanent eyebags he can store his grief in.
The fandom's punching bag.
Anton angst is a recognised genre of both fic and art. We've been torturing him with grief (and other fun things) since 2019. The series came out in 2020.
Red lipstick looking like blood on his hands is one of my favorites.
And look at him being all traumatized after seeing his dead not-quite-boyfriend's iron!
God, I need him quivering and struggling to breathe from pain. Refusing to call for help. Believing he doesn't deserve it. Doesn't even deserve to cry.
The fandom bicycle and certified bad bitch fumbler.
He's shippable with practically everyone in the series. It all makes sense, it's all interesting. He also fumbled fucking everybody, because he's a dumbass asshole loser.
Now's the time to bring up some serious arguments. What's the one thing all iconic tumblr sexymen are infamous for? That's right!
Selfcest ships (and identity porn in general).
The old fandom rulebook says: if the character has an alter ego, ship them.
Fanart example by @theendofspring.
Fanart example by @archivisthinker, inspired by my fic, because I want to brag about it on the internet.
In part 1 I've talked about Dushki (the ship name of Anton and his dead not-quite-boyfriend Olegsey) a little, but I'm gonna talk about them again. Because you can't talk about Diplomator without talking about Dushki. They are Diplomator together. Both of them. And even when you only focus on one pair of the Olezha/Diplomator/Anton triad, the third one is always there.
Anyway, here's a frame from the official comic.
I don't even need to say anything. Y'all get it.
Also we have whatever the fuck THIS is.
And even THAT is not all.
The creator of the show is a fandom girl herself, and for promo materials and stuff she came up with a sort of "official au", let's call it that, so the fandom would have something interesting going on during the hiatus. In this au the characters in the show are played by the actors. It's basically ethical RPF simulator: "the actors" make posts about behind the scenes of "shooting" the series, their own lives, theater roles, et cetera, very cool.
And Anton is "played" buy this guy (his name is Tolya Beloruchko, in case you were wondering).
Which you can also ship him with I guess.
The levels of identity porn and all the possible combinations are SO tasty.
This man is fucking insane.
He once started a fencing duel on kebab skewers with a random drunk dude he just met. It ended in penetration. Of the dude's thorso. With the skewer. This idiot was annoying and flirting the whole time. Had to drive the dude to hospital. Absolute shithead. Bad bitch fumbled on first interaction.
He's hitting people with his fuckass chair.
Although the people in question are mostly cops and politicians, so…
He canonically found his sweater in the trash. Yes, already with the letter Д. I don't know what the fuck is going on in this show either.
God, he's so embarrassing, I need to hit him with a car. Or his own stupid chair. Drop an anvil on him looney tunes style.
He's fucking goofy. Look at this thing.
He looks like he's poll dancing but doesn't know how to.
You either hate him, or love him. No in between. Often both.
(On the official merch dakimakuras every character is in a coffin, and he's totally rocking it if you ask me. He should die more often).
He had a brief cult following in 2019.
That's the only screenshot I have, sorry. I will not explain the context, because there's none. We just did that.
People are insane over him. And have been since his creation.
We've been thirsting over this motherfucker since 2019, when the first episode of the series hasn't even been made yet. He was not in the trailer by the way, we only had one and a half concept art and a dream.
I'm pretty sure the audios of a bunch of people of various genders screaming how much they want to fuck him are still somewhere on the internet (but all of them in Russian). It was a huge meme in the fandom back in the day. God, I love our fandom.
This sketch from the creator of the show where he literally says "Me. *I* will fuck everybody".
(Context: it was a shitpost type of interactive joke making with the fandom in super early stages of the show's development).
Like… He said it himself! Don't you trust him?
And last, but certainly not least:
Just listen. Just… just hear it for yourself. His English VA is okay I guess, but his voice is not the one we've been describing in intricate detail in fanfiction.
Diplomator IS a tumblr sexyman. And the fact that he's a niche one doesn't make it any less true.
And if y'all knew him, he'd lose in his poll with respectable 30 to 40% instead of total annihilation.
