#blorbology

[saedyne]

one of my favourite pastimes using the transgender beam on blorbo but then the struggle is...to use their canon pronouns so people know who i'm talking about, or to use whichever pronouns the transgender beam gave them today because I Do What I Want??

[screentones-webcomicresources]

Blorbology is a term to talk about freeform character concepting. It’s often the case that in the process of drawing and experimenting with characters, they really can develop cool backstories and deep emotional meaning  in the creators’ minds, and that’s what we’re calling “Blorbology”.

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[masterchef901]

I've had a long and stressful day at work so if any pattern-seeking bloggers out there are somehow interested in a diagram detailing the common qualities among the fixations of this pattern-seeking blogger I have spent the last hour compiling them into a helpful-if-horrifying mangled venn diagram:

If anyone is able to identify an instance of Soft Deranged Failurehood that importantly lacks any Bosshood, please know that Science eagerly awaits your contribution.

CONCLUSIONS:

People who say 4-way Venn diagrams don't work are cowards.

Cats are complete beings. Humanity introduces only impurities.

[average-mako-enjoyer]

Fandoms are so weird, really. You pick your favorite blorbo from a Thing, you headcanon them until they don't resemble anything they're in canon, you fall in love with that version, and then other people who did the same thing come up to you and tell you that you don't understand blorbo, that blorbo is different, and fuck your headcanons. In this essay about Crusades…

[bobbole]

I know we have well and truly Wuthered the boys beyond repair. 😅 But I'm curious, what novels would you equate your other favorite ships with?

@windsweptinred Emily Brontë, our queen of the Whutered Boys and honorary president of the Corinthiel fan club 🤍💚🤍💚 I'm convinced now that Heathcliff has small mouths instead of eyes, but that's another story 😅

Answering your question, my dear, was really difficult because for each pairing I could think of an infinite number of titles and couldn't decide! Going 'off the top of my head', I would say that for Dream x the Corinthian, the novel that first made me think of them is Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. There are passages that simply scream 'corintheus' to me!!

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

“Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”

and I could go on! What is Tyler Durden if not a black mirror? The relationship between him and the protagonist reminds me so much of the one between Dream and Corinthian!! 👌👌

For my little hearts Dream x Lucienne I return instead to the Brontë sisters and say Jane Eyre :) I was watching Cary Fukunaga's film a few weeks ago and thought Morpheus would be a perfect Mr Rochester and Lucienne a sublime Jane! There is something about Jane's proud, dignified and sensible character that reminds me a lot of Lucienne 💖💖

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."

"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame"

"I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express"

Gooodddd!!! Please, sedate meeee!!! Once again, a Brontë lady wants to kill me 💘 💘

Finally, for the Corinthian x Lucienne....for them it's more complicated, because on the one hand I see their relationship as like in a sit-comedy, on the other hand as a subtle tension destined to remain unexpressed: for this reason I think about this poem by Federico García Lorca rather than a novel

I did not mean. I did not want to tell you anything.

I saw in your eyes two crazy little trees. Breeze, laughter and gold.

They wiggled.

I did not mean. I did not want to tell you anything.

What about you my dear? 😊 Which novels do you most like to associate with the ships of your heart? 💖💖💖💖

[1medichan1]

[saedyne]

dog owners versus cat owners but for blorbos. like yes this is my beloved blorbo, i knew i'd love them from the first moment i laid eyes on them. i lovingly pore over every inch of their source material. they're my special baby, the light of my life, the apple of my eye. i would give them the whole world <33

...and this is my other blorbo. i stumbled into them once and they just never left. i enjoy jangling them like they're keys :)

[saedyne]

i find it very endearing and correct, that little bit of mental gymnastics we do to reconcile characters and when they're from. like yeah i'm a huge fan of Teenage Characer From the 90s!! that period in time is so intrinsic to their origin and adolescence. but now they're all grown up!! a mere five years later. in 2026. you know how it is.