The Ultimate Obscure Blorbo Bracket

I ran a blog to find the most obscure characters in the largest single elimination bracket on this site. That's over now (see pinned post). Now this blog is mainly people getting help in trying to remember obscure media or the occasional reblog of my own posts.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

If you're seeing this; you missed the tournaments. The overall winner was Prevailer from The Fifth Defiance. However you can still head over to @who-do-i-know-this-man-s3revived or @who-do-i-know-this-man-s4revived if you're still wanting to participate.

If you're wanting to submit characters; you can't UNLESS someone other than me decides to run a season of this. If you really want to see your blorbo compete you can always run a season yourself. In fact as a small incentive; if 32 seasons, each with at least 32 characters are completed then I will come back to run one last all-star season.

Also for ease of finding stuff here's the pinned posts from season 1 and season 2, which in turn will either links or tags for anything about those seasons you wanna find.

Oh btw this blog will have a bunch of unrelated stuff reblogged here if I really want it to get attention. If you're only following because of the prospect of the all star season block the "self reblog" tag

[chzdavmpr]

Welcome to a little thread I like to call "is that blue?". The rules are simple: I will give you a color any you must vote on if it is blue. Let's start easy.

Hex code #0000FF, common name: "Blue"

That is blue

That is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #00FFFF, common name: Aqua

That is blue

That is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #FF00FF, common name: Fuchsia

That is blue

That is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #00FF00, common name Full Green

That is blue

That is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #800080, common name Purple (specifically Patriarch)

This is blue

This is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #000000, common name: Black

This is blue

This is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #000010, common name: Midnight Black

This is blue

This is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #FFFFFF, common name: White

This is blue

This is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[chzdavmpr]

Hex code #F5F5FF, common name: Blue White

This is blue

This is not blue

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[aretheyqueer]

Is he a trans man?

disclaimer: this is a hc, not speculating on what the writers intentions were.

Scy Scout (Yugioh TCG)

Yes, he is a trans man

No, but he's not cis

Sure, why not

I like this headcanon, but I also like seeing him depicted as cis

No, I view him as cis

I don't know this character but he has trans vibes

I don't know this character

Remaining time: 3 days 18 hours

reason:

Hear me out because this requires some explanation. So when Sky Scout was first printed in the TCG it had the name Harpie's Brother (this was later changed when card names became more mechanically important than expected). What is notable about this is that every single other Harpie in the game is female; this leads me to the headcanon that Yugioh harpies are an all female species. Therefore for a Harpie's Brother to exist he would have to be trans.

tag: @chzdavmpr

[ultimate-character-design]

The Ultimate Character Design Tournament - 2026

Welcome to the Ultimate Character Design Tournament of 2026! Just a few rules before we begin:

No nudity or gore allowed in the submitted image. Horror is allowed, but please let me know in the comments if the image should be put under a cut.

Please vote for characters based on their design, not just if you happen to like the character more or not

You can submit as many characters as you like, but if I notice someone spamming characters or submissions from the same franchise, I reserve the right to remove them. The hard character limit is 256

The ban for most characters has been lifted, as well!

Submissions will stay open for 30 days!

The tournament will be single-elimination

Here is the submission form! E-mails are not collected.

Please also check the spreadsheet before sharing to see if your character has already been added! You are welcome to submit them again, but if you have anything you'd like to add to the submission, it's easier for me if you leave a comment on the spreadsheet! This time, I will also be creating individual character posts to introduce the character, and they'll be linked and referred back to during the tournament. If you wait until those go up, you are welcome to comment or reblog on those posts and I will add any additional images + propaganda (please keep in mind the tumblr image limit, as well!)

Thank you to everyone who participates this year!

[chzdavmpr]

Can someone PLEASE help me find that image of 3 nearly identical chibi characters with slight changes, titled something along the lines of "3 stooges fana art"?

I've been looking for it for so long. I'm pretty sure it's ON MY BLOG somewhere, because someone used it to say something like "this is what it feels like to make fan art of adult shows when you have a cute artsyle". No combination I have tried of those terms has yielded results for me however.

[genuinehumanboy]

today is video games’s birthday.

[wheel-skellington]

Happy birthday videogames

[ubuyo]

[algorizmi]

Happy 50th, video games!

[chzdavmpr]

STOOOOOP!

Fuck pong! It was literally just a plagiarism of the Magnavox Odyssey table tennis game! It’s exact release date I couldn’t find but it was some time in August 1972. So the entire month of August is video game’s birthday!* If you want a specific day to celebrate, let’s go with August 1st for simplicity.

*the Magnavox Odyssey table tennis game still debatably isn’t the first video game depending on what you mean by “first” and “video game”, but it’s DEFINITELY a better choice than pong

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Asking this here so there's an actual chance of people having recommendations; but does anyone know of any comic/graphic novels from roughly these parts of the world:

The US, Europe, and East Asia all tend to have pretty notable comic industries but I want to see how people from other parts of the world approach the genre. Any genre is welcome so long as it is available in English.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Ok so I plan on probably coming back here to give people my thoughts on all of the books people recommend (that I could get my hands on) but this one was so good that I feel the need to shout it out on its own so it doesn't get reduced to 1 bullet point in a list.

Shubeik Lubeik is one of the best books I've read in quite a while. Each of the stories in this book are so full of just... raw emotion that it's hard to quite get across in a review. It's the kind of writing that you have to experience to see just how great it is. Any fan of good literature, especially graphic novels as an art form, MUST read this book.

Please do yourself a favor and read this book. While I imagine I will also enjoy most if not all of the other recommendations I plan on reading, I simply do not expect any of them to be anywhere close to as good as this book.

[chzdavmpr]

[chzdavmpr]

Which would you rather wear?

Me and Who

I'm Bustin

Voting ended onJul 22

[chzdavmpr]

I love the bit in Bojack Horseman where Mr Peanutbutter makes fun of Bojack on national television and Bojack claps back way too hard by essentially saying that Mr PB's wife hates him and they end up having a really serious and uncomfortable conversation (once again, on national television). And then Daniel Radcliffe (voiced by the real Daniel Radcliffe) goes full fudanshi and says that Mr PB and Bojack making out sloppy style is the only way to save their friendship. None of this is a joke this all happens.

[chzdavmpr]

Literally how is Qbomb not a band that's talked about more? They're SO GOOD. I'm going to replace all the world's Taylor Swift CDs with Qbomb ones.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

You WILL listen to Qbomb. You will start with their EP Exhaustion Engine since it's some of their best work and is very accessible at only 3 songs. If you enjoy that you will listen to the rest of their discography since they've only made literally 21 songs so far. You will then report back and tell me what your favorite song was.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

I saw your post about comic/graphic novel recommendations and I was wondering if you've heard of Trese (from the Philippines) afaik it has an animated adaptation too

I think someone recommended it but I forgot to look into it. It looks like my library has the first volume so I'll check that out to see what I think.

[chzdavmpr]

I was coming up with stupid and absurd powerscaling questions with my sibling and I must now share the best with you

The competition: a 10 kilometer race in a straight line on flat terrain.

On one side: a machine made of 50 interconnected hamster wheels that will, with 100% efficiency, take the rotation of the hampster wheels and turn that into forward speed along a track that leads to the finish line. It is piloted by 50 normal hamsters with lots of energy to burn, but no other motivation to win the race.

On the other side: A horse that (Achilles style) was dipped into the river Styx as a baby, and thus has unbreakable legs. This horse has just (in a language it understands) been told that if it does not win this race its beloved mother will be shot in front of it (it fully believes this threat).

for this hypothetical let's assume these 2 stats I got from the first link in search results are true: an average horse runs at about 50kmh, and an average hampster runs at 3kmh

Who wins the race?

The 50 Hampster Contraption

The Unbreakable Horse

Voting ended onJul 5

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

Narcissus/Himself (Greek Myth)

I ship it!

Neutral

I don't ship it

I don't know the characters

Voting ended onJul 5

reason: Me submitting this is inspired mainly by his depiction in Hades 2 (but I'm still submitting the base character since the observations that telling makes about his character can also apply to the original) where they portray him as being autoromantic, where he seems genuinely happy and committed in his relationship. And it shows that his love for himself isn't the problem it was how he treated his ex.

tag: @chzdavmpr

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

asked a friend of mine and their reccs were:

"One popular one is Lawak Kampus which I think is an episodic four-panel slice-of-life series about a diverse cast of characters... doing stuff" (however, i'm not sure if there are ways to read this online, due to it being a published comic...)

iamboey (Cheeming Boey), a daily webcomic made by a person who (according to my friend) influenced a lot of Malaysian comic artists

The Woke Salaryman (Singaporean) is less of a traditional story-based comic and more advice about investment and business. my friend also said they worked along side the Singaporean government to make these comics, so at the very least they're a good place to learn financial literacy (though how much it can apply to people out of Singapore, i'm not sure...)

(note: created by Indonesian artists, but published in America) Lunar Boy (Jacinta Wibowo and Jessica Wibowo) which is a coming of age graphic novel with a queer cast. however it does seem to be aimed towards more younger audiences (preteen to teen)

Ok let's go down the list:

For Lawak Kampus I like the vibe of it, but you were right that it doesn't seem to be online in english anywhere. It's also a bit more episodic than what I'm looking for (spoilers: this also applies to the next 2). While this stuff is still cool I'm more looking for continuous stories than one off comic strips. But if anyone is into something that looks a bit like big nate meets bobobo, I would go searching yourself as while I couldn't find it, it seems like there is probably an english translation out there.

I talked a lot about the last one so I'll be brief here. Like I said, this isn't quite what I'm looking for. Plus I don't have Instagram and that seems to be the only play to read it.

Woke salaryman be like: boss makes a dollar I make a pronoun. These look fun tho. I read one and it's got a nice vibe about it. I'd recommend people reading this read one at random cause even looking past the education aspect they got a chill vibe.

Lunar Boy does in fact seem to be more towards younger readers so I won't be checking it out, but if anyone reading this has kids or just likes reading ya books it looks good. My library had it so there's a chance yours might too.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Probably none of these have an english translation but if you do find one please read and enjoy them: Al sur de la Alameda by Lola Larra, El Cardenal by Kote Carvajal, both from Chile

When it comes to Latam, you'll probably have more luck finding translated comics from Argentina, Brasil or Mexico since their entertainment industry is far more developed

Unfortunately it does not seem like Al sur de la Alameda has an English translation (outside of one 13 page bit I found but idk what that's about), which is a shame since I think the art is quite interesting. And it also seems there's nothing for El Cardenal.

Thanks for the recs regardless. And folks have already shared a few Argentine comics that I plan on looking at.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

comic recs: Cybersix by Carlos Trillo and Carlos Meglia, and El Eternauta by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, both from Argentina

Wait Cybersix is Argentine? I remember I saw a cool clip of the animated series and saved a playlist of it to watch later. I guess I gotta get around to watching that now. Also after looking it up I immediately recognized El Eternauta from the tournament. Thanks for the recs I'll be sure to check them out.

[who-do-i-know-this-man-s3revived]

With great apology for how long it has taken: Final Round

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

Round 11 (Finals)

Bartholomew (Merc Storia)

Lilac Antonis (No Gods for Drowning)

I know both/neither

Voting ended onJun 27

And tagging @who-do-i-know-this-man simply because I know it's been. A bit.