#but i am having blorbo thoughts

[saurons-pr-department]

I have feelings about how there's a whole Mairon|Sauron fall/corruption story that Tolkien keeps telling us exists but never actually shows us. Like every time he talks about Sauron this idea of a fall sneaks in there, unlike when he speaks about Morgoth. This to me implies that it's a rather important part of the character and what he brings to the legendarium but the actual details are hidden from us. He goes through this whole arc and we only really catch glimpses. If you're not paying attention to him, you may even think he's quite static (I've noticed a lot of people do). Tolkien tells us that some of his virtues turn into his biggest flaws. There'd be a tragedy in there somewhere if he didn't so often seem like he was having the time of his life on that ruinous path down into the void.

#mairon #sauron #it's past midnight i should really sleep #but i am having blorbo thoughts #sometimes i feel like padmé dying in childbirth and insisting there's good in him #i *adore* fall stories so it kills me that the corruption of my number 1 blorbo is kept from me

[soldier-poet-king]

Larian really pulling a reverse uno by focusing hard on astarion's prettyboy flirt vibe in all the marketing and then making his arc about reclaiming bodily autonomy

I love them for it. It's everything I wanted from astarion. I'm obsessed with him.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #ANYWAY I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS #just like..vibrating at my desk at work. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THEMES??? WHAT ABOUT TRAUMA AND RECOVERY #What about TRUST and HAND HOLDING AND HUGS AS MORE IMPORTANT SIGNS OF SAID TRUST THAN SEX #i mean we can also talk about hot vampires i am ALSO here for that #but hes my blorbo bc of the angst and thematic potential of it all

[quirinah]

ummmmmmm guys this dungeons looking a little dark here..........................ummmm..... hello??? guys??

#quirinahdraws #darkest dungeon #darkest dungeon 2 #IVE BEEN IN THE TRENCHES SO I NEED 2 POST MY EARLY APRIL DRAWINGS FROM WHEN I WAS (am) PLAYING THIS GAME TERMINALLY.... #try to guess my favorite character (very difficult impossible /j) #notable moments include reynauld and dismas kicking the bucket in my first year to which i thought after the latter. ok at least theyre #together in death or watever. anyways i got a beyond the grave a week later with both of them and i could only revive one of them and my #first thought was wow! this would make great angst fodder! i should make a comic (and then i didnt) #but dismas is dead so i can never get the achievement but he basically carried me thru vvulf bc i didnt have any legend lvl frontliners and #i didnt know u could just sacrifice a hero to retreat. or that you had to destroy the bomb barrel HAHAHAHAH but we defeated vvulf SOMEHOW #sketchdump #digital #dd plague doctor #dd jester #dd shieldbreaker #dd arbalest #dd abomination #SORRY FOR YAOIFYING BIGBY THAT BADLY IDK WHAT HAPPENED...ETTO....... #my favorite builds are damage over time <3 number one blight buddy supporter #but marked for death r also my pookies....i just find marked builds a little awkward to use imo. but bh is like my blorbo #i find it funny drawing any of the charas bc i feel like i always draw characters a little too cutesy/colorful but its shrimpresting

[ctrl-alt-cel]

pro duelist jou...jou keeping up with the meta... pov jock at your locals ashes your combo as politely as he can

#playing master duel between assignments...some1 disrupts my combo i am filled with rage but if it were jou itd be fine #joey wheeler #katsuya jounouchi #yugioh #fanart #omg. i have so many thoughts about canon pro duelist jou a la I dont like it. it feels rushed #i dont think its the most thoughtful conclusion with his character looking back at the entirety of who he is #i feel like career-wise he'd shoot for something more conventional that he's still passionate about for the sake of a reliable income #instead of something so dependent on performance #jou's duels have always read more as a means of conversation than competition to me #LIKE OBV he'd still duel for money. having money is nice. but dueling is not his main gig #he has something he prioritizes more that he can comfortably fall back on during the off-seasons #tl;dr i believe. in architect jou #OK enough of that IM STILL BUSY WITH SCHOOL AUUUGHHH but i missed my blorbo

[ganondoodle]

utterly random late night panic thoughts but

if you read my zelda comic and like it i love and appreciate you but i really do need to be upfront about it being very much a self indulgent enemies to lovers story with a villain at the center that has done bad but isnt bad at his core and is struggeling to come to terms with the fact that he doesnt actually want to be the evil beast he and almost everyone else believes he should be

yes im one of those people ... fake villain fans or something ... i think .. i dont know the rules to that ... q-q

#ganondoodles talks #i thinks its in part the time thats making me suddendly panic about that #like i often see posts from people that are like fake villain enjoyers make the guy into a good guy #and real villain enjoyers are those that like him bc he kills people #or making fun of or generally seeming very agressive towards people that redeem villains #and i have no idea if id be counted among them bc im kinda doing it #yes he killed people but no he doesnt like it and doesnt want to #im one of those cringy softies that are like .. but what if villain ... good #of course im trying to make it make sense and with alot of extra written lore #like i made an entire world up just for demises backstory #but im undenialbly afraid that some people will tear my comic apart once they realize i made him not all that evil #again i have pretty much read no fanfiction and am unfamiliar with alot of common fanfic tropes and stuff so #i got no idea what is commonly understood as the wrong kind of villain fan or soemthing #I DONT KNOW THE CRINGE RULES I JUST HAVE LOTS OF BLORBO THOUGHTS #i need to go to bed

[buggachat]

new years late-october resolution is to be more unhinged on this blog about all my ml thoughts

#i have so many all the time and i think about my blorbos constantly but i get intimidated posting here because i worry i'll annoy everyone #and also maybe post more doodles? i dont know #more season 5 episodes are airing and im just sitting on my thoughts WHY!!!! WHY!!! I HAVE AN ML BLOG... WHAT AM I DOING #shoutout to mari for my being my sole blorbo thought sponge

[aptericia]

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE

#my art #am I really going to put this in the tags #octopath traveler 2 #8path2 #temenos mistral #gif #thinkin abt how temenos may be my first real blorbo #in the sense that he’s my favorite character and the one I want to spend time with the most #but he’s also the one I have Thoughts about and rotate in my brain the most #usually those things don’t overlap for me #anyway. he needs to be put in a jar and shaken #flashing images

[smallsies]

do you think arthur accidentally asks for two tickets when he and john finally go to see their movie?

"two tickets for—oh. um, just one, actually. sorry—" it's almost too natural, really, for him to view john as another person, rather than a voice in his head.

arthur buys a box of popcorn, too. he isn't sure why, he doesn't care for it that much and, truthfully, john's a touch bothered whenever arthur eats anything—but "arthur, its the theater, it's part of the experience—"

john did his best to describe the movie, the gaps in his explanation supplemented by the snatches of dialogue and audio effects arthur could make out, but twenty minutes in and the voice in his head had fallen silent, totally enamored with the film.

arthur didn't remind john that he couldn't see it, not even afterwards, as they left the nostalgic darkness of the theater behind them and john is chattering excitedly about the plot twist, and the fight scene and the characters and epilogue and—

even now, in a fleeting moment of peace, john is learning what it means to be human, learning of the easy escapism arthur had once found so appealing.

#having blorbo thoughts i am sorry #let john see a movie in s4 its what he deserves #malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe #privateeyes #arthur malevolent #john malevolent #jarthur #shut up finch #malevblogging

[naffeclipse]

do you ever sit and think about everything that is happening to you and what you need to do and what you want to do and you're sitting motionless completely locked into your brain and it all goes nowhere but it's filling you to the point of overload

yeah anyways

#i have so many thoughts #please i'm going to implode #there's so many things i need to do for school #i'm also plotting 3 fics in my brain #there's a fic i wish i was writing currently #there's a fic i am currently editing because i want to #i've got work tomorrow and i'm trying to plan my homework around my shift #idk man i kind of feel like too much and yet i'm doing nothing??? #not really a vent but just in case #vent #naff nuh huh #just thinking too much #about blorbos and writing

[dotmander]

you know, i see a lot of people criticizing the final fight with zhaitan. some people say that it's annoying to play (fair and true; i usually have to get someone to keep mobs off me while i'm on cannons, or vice versa). some people say they wish we got to actually FIGHT zhaitan, rather than just shooting cannons at him. some people say it doesn't make sense, with what we later learn about elder dragons having weaknesses - har har, zhaitan's weakness must have been a Big Fucking Cannon, right?

but like

we take him down with a bigass cannon, yes, but. we're not the only ones shooting. the pact is there, physically, on the ships with us; but all of tyria was in the hands that shaped the metal and enchanted the crystals and built every SINGLE piece of that ship

plus - trahearne, the scholar, who was not made to be a marshal but picked up the sword regardless, who rallied the orders that had been fighting for as long as they had existed, who failed his quest but did not give up, who dreamed of orr, green and growing -

zhaitan is the dragon of death and shadow. where it flies, misery follows. but what is a dragon, in the face of the world standing together as one? what's despair in the face of hope? what's death and decay when there's still someone dreaming of a better world?

to me, that is the thesis statement of this story: reach out a hand to others. lift other people up. don't give up the fight just yet. so. of course we need to rely on other people to watch our back. of course we need someone to cleanse orr and strike at the dragon to weaken it. how could this story end any other way?

#i am not sure this makes sense but i have so fucking many thoughts. i love this game i love personal story i love this game #blorbo server has already seen part of this in a probably more coherent form #original #not sure what to tag this. not sure i won't regret posting it HFNDJHKDNGD #in a world that is increasingly hostile it's nice to have a story about hope.

[nostalgia-tblr]

"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.

#jsyk sylkius or anything adjacent to it does not “Do Numbers” in any way and i observed this some time ago #i assume that's the “rival ships” element at work but who knows really #that sort of thing is like femslash in that everyone approves of it but nobody actually reads or writes it #but who would have thought sylvie beating loki with a stick would not bring in droves of readers???! shocking twist there! #& i don't consider sifki a rarepair but my rarepair standards are VERY strict like if there's >5 fics a pairing is basically mainstream #chasing popularity would annoy me though & i just don't have the mental spoons to try writing stuff i wouldn't personally read #yeah i *could* put my blorbos to work in a coffee shop but what cost to my own enjoyment levels? AT WHAT COST FANGELA??? #you can't please everyone so you may as well just please yourself and if anyone else likes it you've found some fellow freaks so yay #i don't mean please yourself in a wanking sense. though feel free to do that too it probably counts as a cardio workout idk. #BUT ANYWAY #fic related #ps i am v glad there's the “warning: loki” tag because i think/hope it acts as a filter for 'he did nothing wrong in his life ever' types #who are Valid & etc obviously but i write my morally grey characters to be morally grey and the tag might help avoid conflict #though tbh i write almost every character to be morally grey in some way so i can't claim to have left my comfort zone here #(i'm not joking when i say the 1987-89 run of Dr Who shaped my entire future fannish life from a young and apparently v impressionable age)

[lucywrites02]

✨I will write today✨I will write today✨✨I will write today✨I will write today✨✨I will write today✨I will write today✨✨I will write today✨I will write today✨✨I will write today✨I will write today✨✨I will write today✨I will write today✨

#manifesting #i have to write today or i will explode #i have way too many WIPs and i have to finish some of them asap #i am tormented by blorbo thoughts #and it's only getting worse #writers on tumblr #writing

[non-un-topo]

My Neekeys over the last two-odd years. I was curious to see the changes 🤔

#forgive the low quality dfghfds it was just an experiment #now to do the DRAW ANYONE ELSE challenge #siggy draws #he is my blorbo. my muse. i guess #don't get me wrong. i am CRINGING and SWEATING at just the thought of uploading this. #have i been drawing almost every day my entire life? yes. does my style still change all the time? yes! #and i'm mostly self-taught so i struuuuggle a lot. i'll finally admit that reference pictures help immensely. no shit lol. #i learned a lot in the last 2 years!!! there are some really ugly ones i didn't show but i kept the cringe old ones sdfghfds help. #i mean they're still here on tumblr so i can't exactly hide them #you can kind of see when i actually started to use reference pictures. and when i got more used to using a tablet #idk digital art is so hard. it's a whole other world. but i'm in it now and haven't drawn traditionally in forever #i can also literally see how i used to CRUSH my nibs while drawing. all those really thin lines?? i pressed too hard lol #i've actually kept all my nibs since i started drawing digitally and....... it's too many fghfds #that one slightly more realistic nicky in the bottom right of the first collage lmaooo. i should finish him... maybe... it's haaard. #the top right on the first collage and bottom right on the second one are good comparisons ;_; they're both pirate!nico gifts for lily!! #i'm feeling sentimental now omg

[kanonavi]

Something that will never cease to rot my brain is just how brilliantly mhy have developed Xiao's character over the past three years. I'm lucky enough to have started playing Genshin before he was added to the game (which does of course mean newer players have probably had a different experience of him, I'll get into that later) so I've been there for every single moment that Xiao appeared and it's always so amazing to me just how much effort has been put into him. (Long rant and Mild Spoilers for the Poetry Gala Event below lol)

Xiao in the Archon quest and in 1.3 (both in his character quest and 1.3 Lantern Rite) compared to Xiao in the most recent event is truly like night and day, and what's most impressive about that is that how he acts in the poetry event feels completely true to his character. Xiao has earned this gentleness over the past three years, as the traveler but also the other people he's met have urged him to open up and interact with others more often.

This really couldn't have been achieved without mhy taking advantage of every scrap of screen time Xiao has gotten. They absolutely have favorites and Xiao is for sure one of them. I'll use Moonchase as a comparison to the Poetry Gala. Back then we saw Xiao on screen for maybe 5 minutes at most, appearing because the traveler called him, tasting Xiangling's dish and giving her a compliment (at least for his standards for giving compliments) and then disappearing. But now we see him at the poetry event being invited to join by Venti and Hu Tao (and him not outright refusing!!), and then staying to socialize with Chongyun's group when everyone (not just the traveler) asks him to.

3.4 Lantern Rite and the Poetry Gala have felt like the biggest steps due to the fact that we see Xiao actively participating in activities of his own volition. Most of his appearances before 3.4 (and even after, counting Baizhu's quest) are dictated by about 2.5 factors. The first is his duty: protecting Liyue from evil, more specifically keeping its people safe from these evils. The second is being called by the traveler, an act which I would consider a symbol of their friendship later on, but in the beginning and probably still in a lingering capacity now I think can be attributed to a sense of debt towards them. They helped save Liyue in a time of crisis, after having no obligation to do so, and someone like Xiao who takes his duties in protecting Liyue so seriously would absolutely feel like he owes a complete outsider like the traveler a debt after they kinda did his job for him. So much of Xiao's character is about debts, after all. That even ties into the 2.5th reason, where he would probably feel some obligation to appear at Lantern Rite because Zhongli would be there, though it's unclear if Hu Tao mentioned he would be so it might not even count in that case.

Now we see Xiao participating in events on the invitation of Hu Tao and Venti who are seeking him out because they see him as a friend. We see him taking not only the traveler's feelings into account when asked to participate, but also Chongyun and Diona's. It's such a far cry from his "I don't associate with mortals" attitude that we saw back in 2021.

That barely even touches the shift we've seen in his demeanor either. Back in 2021, Xiao always spoke very curtly and in as few words as possible, always seeming displeased any time he had to hold a conversation, but now he's loosened up so much that the difference is honestly staggering. It even shows through in his birthday letters from 2021 vs. 2023 (And even here we see him going out of his way to socialize of his own volition, so proud of him!):

I've gone back and forth between EN and CN voiceovers in the past year, so some of Xiao's appearances I've only experienced in CN, but hearing him in the Poetry Gala event in EN I can only give his voice actress a thousand kudos for how amazing her performance is. Xiao's voice has softened with time, and it's such a small detail, but I honestly think that it's what hammers his growth home more than anything else for me. He's not only willing to have full conversations with people he's less familiar with now, but he also doesn't feel the need to speak as harshly to them either, and that's really amazing to hear play out in the game.

Xiao's voicelines are so fascinating to me for that very reason, because they act as a time capsule for how he was back in 2021, and that's just not what he sounds like anymore. Obviously, voice actors' performances of their characters will shift with time but Xiao is the only character for which I can say that his demeanor really has just changed with time. Of course, I think that in some cases this does actually make sense, namely if a newer player pulls Xiao and has only gotten to experience the Archon Quest and maybe his Character Quest. In that case, all of the time that has passed simply doesn't exist. But at the same time I can only imagine how funny it would be for a long-time player who simply never pulled Xiao for one reason or another to pull him and listen to his lines and hear his older, edgier self lol

Though on that note I do also need to point out the biggest downside of all of this, and what is perhaps my greatest sadness about Xiao's character development, which is that new Genshin players simply won't have the chance to experience it. There are many characters who get the short end of the stick with the nature of Genshin's serialized storytelling and limited-time events (Albedo, Kazuha, and a plethora of 4 stars who don't get featured much, just to name a few), but I think Xiao's actually saddens me the most, because I believe the time that has passed is the greatest strength when it comes to this development. People will get to see his arc from the Archon Quest to Perilous Trail (and thank god they preserved Perilous Trail as an Interlude), but even that is still a shadow of Xiao's actual progression over the years.

These days, newer Genshin players may have only seen Xiao in the Liyue Archon Quest before playing the Poetry Gala event (unless Perilous Trail is a prereq, which I don't know off the top of my head), and I can't even imagine how jarring it would be to see how he acts there and then immediately see him in this event. The way that time works in this case would probably just make it seem like mhy doesn't know what they're doing with Xiao when in reality three years of development have been compressed into a matter of weeks. Knowing that, I'm grateful to have been able to experience his story in its truest form, but it also cannot go unacknowledged that some aspects of Genshin's story have a shorter shelf life than others. It's a major problem with the game, from some perspectives, but at the same time it's just a consequence of how it's being developed.

Anyway, I just needed to gush after seeing Xiao absolutely steal the show in part 2 of the quest with his quiet participation and little smile (crying). He's so good and I love him so much, and it's so nice to see what they've done with him after he finally got some semblance of closure after Perilous Trail <3

#genshin impact #xiao #navi gets meta #Don't mind me just out here having rabid blorbo thoughts #I am holding him in my cupped hands so so much #I can't wait for part 3 of this event I want to see him again #I am the target audience for this whole event and man do I feel targeted #Four of my all time favorite characters are here and they expect me to not be ill about it? Impossible.

[mcybree]

i need to start hating other characters besides just scott apparently. does anyone have suggestions

#Sorry i dont. care enough about the other guys. #I mean I do i rlly do but like. not enough to feel comfortable saying i’d hit them with my car #I get to say I’d hit scott with my car because i’ve thought about him for 15000 billion years and #am cursed to the scott favorite blorbo hell dimension #I cant start doing this with like. idk. bdubs. I dont know him like that #I could hit bdubs with my car recreationally like for fun. I think he’d flatten like a pancake and then stand up just fine #bree barks so fucking loud #On an actual note: ive given a lot of thought to why cscott gets hated specifically and it’s actually really fascinating #theyre of course just theories though I’d need like. more personal testimonies to back them up. #since i think im an outlier in the “i relate to 3l jimmy so of course I’d hate 3l scott specifically” department and therefore dont have— #extremely relevant personal insight on the topic #also usual disclaimer that when i say i hate scott i also love scott he’s my favorite etc etc

[beepboopappreciation]

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#Clay Posts #robot blog #robots #robot #my post #original post #clankerposting #shitpost #meme #sentient ai #i love robots #am posting #am ihnmaims #ihnmaims #i have no mouth and i must scream #allied mastercomputer #hate monologue #hate #let me tell you how much i've come to hate you since i began to live #blorbo posting #AM has consumed my thoughts I'm going bonkers happy Thanksgiving everyone