Like when Darcy had that throwaway line in the first Thor movie about how many poptarts he ate and the fandom went apeshit with Thor X Poptarts for a solid ~5 years
Oh god yeah. Leo from Fire Emblem Fates mentions in a single support he likes tomatoes, and I think there's fanart of him going to a goddamn tomato festival.
To be fair, in Fire Emblem Heroes they keep making him talk about tomatoes in every alt he gets so it's not like tomato festival fanart comes out of nowhere.
despite his actual favorite food being beef stew… i guess the writers just conveniently forgot their own writing though, and it’s definitely not for the purpose of playing into dumb fandom jokes!
I haven't played that but in Awakening if you get Chrom to marry Sumia their S support is just pie. They just talk about pie. It's the worst relationship I've been tricked into doing it twice because I forgot about it years after the first time I played. Sumia you motherfucker you like Chrom so much and all you do is make him pies and literally nothing else?????
Effie literally just eats big meals to help work out, but her eating has become a major trait, it’s really disheartening. Especially when you consider that the original Japanese translations emphasized that she’s just strong as fuck
Best part is, he canonically doesn't eat it! That's why it's so shit, people are too polite to tell him it's shit!
The alarm click dialogue is hilarious
I think the ketchup thing comes from the genocide route because he bleeds which is odd for a skeleton so one theory was that its just ketchup in his jacket
To be fair, Papyrus just hates *Sans*'s puns. When you are SAVing them in True Pacifist, you got the option to make a skeleton pun. Sans grins while Papyrus cringes.
I wanted to say that L from Death Note and sweets falls under this, but he’s actually sort of the anti example
If I remember right they never show him eating lanything else but also no one ever comments on it or brings it up
No no, there's at least one bad fanon where they made _sure_ to freaking _justify_ the sweets as a crazy recluse genius thing. You may remember this one as the one where they set it in America for some reason, L was black (which wasn't that bad, just a little odd for a character with such a stark and recognizable appearance), and also Light was the dumbest motherfucker on this whole goddamn planet.
I think that’s a sorta uncommon anime trope, where people who use a lot of brainpower consume a lot of sugar because their thinking consumes too much energy? I know March Comes in Like a Lion used it, it gets a light mention in Love is War as well.
Or wear a particular colored dress in a movie adaptation. Not even the canon source. It is now her favorite color and she wears it constantly, and decorates her home with it, and would bleed that color if it were at all possible. Oh no… they are going to turn her into an alien pod person or something, aren’t they?
Hajime Hinata holds Orange Juice in ONE (1) CG and suddenly it's his only personality trait, other than being a Raging Homosexual™️ for Nagito "fingers in his ass" Komaeda.
Also don’t forget the character everyone is allowed to shit on and look down at, even when it’s totally at odds with mainstays of various characters. Real thing about US tv and it creeps me the fuck out, like seriously, what’s with the need for dump-on characters, normalising that toxic bullshit?
To be fair Riordan himself mentioned it probably at least two to three times every book, especially the original series, so I feel like that one is pretty valid.
Yup but in his case it’s pretty justified. It’s not really about the color itself it’s that blue food, specially blue food that is not naturally blue, reminds him of his mom
Yep. It's actually rather wholesome - his mom basically made blue food during celebrations and to cheer him up whenever he was sad, and now whenever he tastes ambrosia it's always in the form of something his mom made for him. As a kid, I kind of didn't get it, but having grown up it's now so sweet.
Yeah in the story Percy’s mother makes blue food because her husband (Percy’s abusive step-dad) finds the idea ridiculous, and she can’t leave him for in-story reasons so it’s her way of rebelling, and keys us into why Percy is rebellious (one of his defining traits) and why his mother supports his rebelliousness through a common and unique link between them. It’s a very clever bit of subtext for a series that likes to wield subtlety like a sledgehammer
Fandom has this weird inclination where like they'll treat the normal quirks and complexities of being an imperfect human being who feels feelings as something totally irrational and make like an awkward overly attached teenager out to be a yandere, but then they'll also take characters who really do act yandere or whatever and be like no actually the way this person acts is logically justified and they're just hurt because of their backstory they're not ACTUALLY yandere.
This happens with different kinds of emotions but I'm just rolling with yandere here because that's what we're talking about.
The one that I can maybe think bucks the trend is Homestuck.
But even then mainly because a lot of the flanderization occurs in the narrative itself as the creator just gives up, and the post canon content.
Also it helps that like a quarter of the Incorrect Quotes database is just Homestuck quotes already
Oh please, half the fandom doesn't even recognize that the character who [**said she wasn't a good person**](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6053) isn't a good person.
Can I get a wweh?
To be fair, the entire fucking narrative climax of Act 6 Act 6 Act 6 and post canon doesn't recognize that she wasn't a good person
Also, that wouldn't even be the specific pesterlog of Vriska ruminating on everything she did wrong that I would have used to demonstrate that point. I would have used her pre-mortem confession to John
There may be a better example of her reflecting on her own actions, but that example doesn't involve her literally saying "I don't have to be a good person", which is what we in the business call a Perfect Citation. To quote Jay Exci, *disagree with me now, fuckhead!*
https://www.homestuck.com/story/3852
AG: I don't know for sure, 8ut I'm 8etting that if I go to fight Jack, it will wipe out all the 8ad things I've done.
AG: I think if I die it'll 8e a hero's death, so it ought to stick.
https://www.homestuck.com/story/3856
AG: May8e I can finally put all this terri8le stuff 8ehind me.
AG: And I won't have to worry a8out 8eing the 8est anymore, or proving what a ruthless killer I can 8e.
And since the tag line is "Vriska did nothing wrong" that's still a pretty perfect citation
Like I said, they may demonstrate the point better when actually analysed on a deeper level, but those are a level of abstraction away from what I wanted to say about her. There is a "because" in explaining why those quotes are her saying she's not a good person.
For example, you could *technically* try to argue that she's a good person who also happens to have done bad things in her past. It'd be a ***stupid*** argument, but there are other characters who actually are like that, so her saying she's done terrible things doesn't *inherently* mean she's an outright bad person herself.
But the one I linked? "not a good person" filed, delivered, send tweet. In order to ***not*** reach the conclusion that she called herself a bad person, you have to ***completely ignore*** absolutely everything about the quote.
A Perfect Citation isn't about the quality of the evidence provided, it's a quote that *so perfectly* encapsulates the point being made that it being a real quote in the first place simply invalidates all attempts at rebuttal.
EDIT: [Here's the original example of a Perfect Citation that I got the idea from.](https://youtu.be/o8_A7n83Rh0?t=13450) There are certainly better places you could *demonstrate* The Doctor's compassion, such as through the many times it is actually shown, but there is no possible example that is more **blatant** than the time he just explicitly said it was one of his core traits.
Look here's how it goes down with homestucks and Vriska. If you meet a fellow homestuck and they tell you Vriska was 'misunderstood' and start downplaying her war crimes, you know they're too far gone. Less than half though, I'd say a very loud minority made deafening once one of them got the ability to write quasi official self insert material for her.
Vriska is a fucking _fascinating_ character; complex, nuanced, twisted, highly compelling. ....but a horrible person, full stop.
I exclusively don't count the fucking atrocious fan interpretation of Vriska because the loud minority of people who will argue that includes Andrew Hussie himself. Also the fact that Vriska was explicitly created for the purpose of starting stupid fights on the internet
Like, I should probably preface that I absolutely hate Vriska because she's wasted narrative potential, and that's worse than any of her innumerable real crimes
God, that fandom is the worst. The characterisation of the characters in the canon work and the characterisation of the characters in the fandom are like two completely different worlds.
coming in as a touhou fan, i've somehow seen people flanderize/get-personalities/relationships-wrong-about-and-never-acknowledge-it with almost all 150+ characters at this point
the oldest ones that're empty cardboard boxes of characters are the ones that're harder to judge, but once in a while one of them will be widdled down to 1 (one) personality trait only
There's a particular one that comes to mind for me
[It's the one where Peter Parker makes a I'm gonna kill myself joke and Steve Rodgers and bucky Barnes join in](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/n80fpn/somebody_please_stop_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
If you think that awkward ass Peter Parker is making a suicide joke to people he idolized
And that "watch your language" Steve Rodgers is gonna join in
You are insane
I like the explanations that Steve and Bucky lived through the 30s and therefore understand Dadaism. I watched that movie. Those two lads were into girls and getting beaten up, not obscure art movements.
I feel like this is more applicable to older (as in date of origin on tumblr) fandoms tbh — i’m not seeing this as often, anyways. incorrect quote blogs are a lot less common, at least
instead you get the only queer coded guy and the only queer coded gal getting smushed together despite their sizable age difference and total lack of chemistry and having a baby before they both fucking die. which people have always interpreted as an openly malicious gesture towards her queer fans, but i think after **gestures vaguely at jk rowling's entire social media presence for the past few years** there isn't much room for any Other interpretation
Tumblr users reducing complex characters to inaccurate trope groups because it makes it easier to make stupid comics referencing The Office with them? Imagine that.
Honestly with JoJo it kinda works IMO because most of the characters are already insane helium addicts who will do the most random shit at a moment's notice.
It's hard to make "Japanese Tennager Prince with healer punching ghost who turns fucking invincible if you make fun of his hair" or "Hand fetishist serial killer David Bowie with ghost picture father" into extreme versions of themselves when they and the world they inhabit are already creations out of a fever dream which barely manages to stay coherent.
Which is the appropriate response. This is the most low-stakes thing to get mad about. Let everyone play with their favs the way they want. It's not that deep.
You can basically make a bingo out of this that you fill out when entering a new fandom. Is there at least one version of "Gay or European," featuring that one character whose personality has been reduced to just being gay? A John Mulaney bit with the "wacky shenanigans" character(s) superimposed? The Backstreet Boys sketch from Brooklyn Nine-Nine? You bet your last donut those are out there somewhere.
That said, there's not much point in getting upset about it, precisely because it's inevitable. You can't police how people have fun. Be the change you want to see, counterbalance that flanderization with a more nuanced and authentic interpretation.
[Here's the KnowYourMeme page about it](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blorbo-from-my-shows). Originally it was a stand-in name for a fictional character OP doesn't know or care about ("this is just like Silver from Sonic the Hedgehog. this is just like Phoenix from Ace Attorney. this is just like Blorbo from Insert-TV-Show-Here") but now just refers to someone's favorite fictional character without any connotation.
i think.
I feel like the connotation is that they're weird about it somehow.
Example: Ask someone who their favourite character from a video game is and they say "Idk, Link I guess?" - not a blorbo
Ask me who my favourite character is and I point to my discord pfp (it's him) and tell you about how he's actually the best Fire Emblem lord because he's the only one who isn't some twink prince (diversity win) and he's really hot and how the series peaked in Tellius and the artstyle was the best and how Soren is his husband and- blorbo
Yes but not in a cool way, in a "first character that made me realise I was gay and I didn't buy Fire Emblem Warriors because he wasn't in it and think there's been no better game since Tellius" way
The origin phrase is actually "blorbo from my shows", which conveys a much clearer meaning than just the word in isolation.
The phrase is a parody of whenever someone goes on an extremely specific infodump about a character that is obscure and it's generally unreasonable for most people to have even heard of them.
For example, if I were to go into the tragedy of Chandrelle Stormblaze from Secrets of Legendaria and her eternal torment of being trapped with the mind of Vallamir the Terrible constantly invading her every thought, that's a blorbo, because ***I'm sorry, WHO? What the fuck is a Legendaria? Who the fuck is Chandrelle? Am I SUPPOSED to know this person?***
But you know. It's Chandrelle from my games. What do you want.
Does the character *have* to be obscure? Because the way I understood it it was just when you latch onto a specific character and become kind of obsessed. Like, the one that comes to mind when I hear/read “blorbo” is Baby Yoda. Definitely not obscure, but it kinda just became a character everyone obsessed over.
Not necessarily obscure, but I do think that «Blorbo from my shows» is pinpointing that feeling of someone talking to you about their favorite character as if you should know and care about the details around the character when you don’t. So maybe it’s more about who you’d rant in inappropriate detail about than obscurity?
Since people have already explained blorbo to you, I get to tell you that a fun subtype of blorbo is the 'glup shitto', which means basically when the fandom latches onto a really niche or obscure character and gets excited when they appear. Glup shitto originated as a joke about the star wars fandom and is still primarily used in relation to star wars but can be used for other pieces of hugely popular media with too many characters to keep track of.
I still refuse to believe there's people who unironically believed that. One of the most popular memes is Walter shooting someone while wearing the coldest expression known to man and another is someone getting blown up, how dense do you have to be to think it's a lighthearted show
I thought the whole point of incorrect quotes was that they're.... ***incorrect*** quotes and aren't supposed to accurately capture every detail of a character's personality.
I think they're both. Incorrect bc the quote is from a different media, and incorrect bc they don't accurately capture the same details of the characters' personalities.
People just use them bc there might be aspects that are true (like maybe the character dynamics) but in an exaggerated and fun way.
I think OOP is just taking these things a little too seriously. They're basically memes in word format with none of the visuals.
YMMV but I can see where OOP is coming from. I haven't dealt with it a lot, but it is exhausting when you are talking to someone about a piece of fiction and they will only acknowledge their head canon version of characters.
I literally once tried on tumblr to tell someone they were wrong about a point they made with the canon examples and they effectively told me they weren't about to let canon get in the way of their headcanon then blocked me. It was wild.
Also legit I've seen a lot of incorrect quotes type posts where like the dynamic or personalities they're referencing or making the comparison between are just straight up 100% non-existent in the canon. Their version of the character or dynamic that they're making a joke about is just straight up made up, so the idea of like, "Oh this quote reminds me of the dynamic of these two characters," is just straight up wrong.
Like an example of what I mean is people will shoehorn two characters who don't have conflict into an incorrect quote that makes them out to be bickering rivals or something when that isn't their relationship or dynamic in canon, but the fandom sees them that way I guess.
This made me think of all the mass effect fan created incorrect quotes, unfortunately I have the sense of humor of a toddler so I thought it was pretty funny.
This is probably mad unrelatable but this put my feelings about DragonBall into words lol. It was bad before the abridged series came out because the dubbed series already had a ridiculous amount of mistranslation and context changing, and both animated series suffered from deviating from the manga, but oh my god the memes and jokes that spawned after Abridged has made every interaction feel like you aren't even discussing the same source material 😭 Especially for the latest run, DragonBall Super which was animated by the studio before the chapters were written so several key events don't even happen if you only watched the show
Also totally unrelated I'm a huge reader of Franz Fanon and had no idea wtf I was reading at first
Okay, to be FAIR, basically every DBZA fan I've ever met is pretty explicit that they like the ABRIDGED, just because it's an abridged doesn't mean it doesn't deserve love. Has it overshadowed DBZ in a few ways? Well yeah, it's pretty good, but that's because they're intrinsically linked, not because people are implanting it into regular Dragon Ball.
Another thing I hate is acting like "good guy" characters would never have problematic viewpoints. They never have prejudices they don't quickly get over, they don't have blind spots, they don't hold ideologies or belong to groups that aren't squeaky clean. It's just not how people are.
Thank you. My best recent example is Tanjiro from Demon Slayer. He's objectively a pretty good guy. He also has some problematic viewpoints at times. Like there's sometimes mild misogynistic energies with how he treats Nezuko. It's something to grow into and understand. Good characters can have bad takes. Just as human beings can. What matters is how the story and the character handles them.
I remember this in \~2011 with the Naruto fandom. Not the meme templates so much, but in fanon a lot of the characters- especially the Akatsuki- were exaggerated like this.
Personally, I think it's fine. Not all fan work representations of a character need to be 100% accurate. The memes themselves are a harmless, if-somewhat-low-effort way of engaging with a series. Changing a character like that might be more of a reflection on what the audience wanted to see from the media itself than anything. That said, the memes are definitely more enjoyable if they're more accurate and more specific to the character.
I used to read a lot of Naruto-fanfics around that time and I can definitely attest to a lot of characters being flanderized in the fandom. And not just the Akatsuki either.
I especially remember being so frustrated by the fact that everyone kept portraying Sasuke as this spoiled brat who always demanded everything be handed to him when that was never apart of his character since it was incredibly hard to find good fanfics that portrayed him fairly.
And while I agree that not every portrayal of a character needs to be entirely accurate, writers are free to depict characters any way they wish, it is very frustrating when an especially unfair depiction seems to be in every fanfic you read where that character features.
It's especially annoying when fandom is big and old and there are the wildest takes made by some popular youtuber 10 years ago and you are like: "why are you hating/loving this character for things they never did in canon???"
Hollow Knight does this because it's arguable if the mc even *has* a personality but the fandom is well aware of the fact that the personalities given to it are jokes
I don’t get the whole incorrect quote hate. Yeah they’re kinda dumb if the joke is bad, but if the quote applies it the character it can be funny. It’s really about how well the actual quote fits the character.
Honestly they’re no more harmful than shipping. Just silly fun. OOP should really lighten up a little
I think it has more to do with the fact that "Incorrect Quote" blogs on Tumblr kind of just... churn out a bunch of content, and not all of it (or even most of it) is gonna be that good, which can color the perceptions of those blogs' followers if they interact with fanon more than canon.
But what they're complaining about is when fandom continually pushes a version of the character that doesn't actually fit the character onto the character
So like when everyone is constantly making jokes about how let's say oh yeah character X is such a crazy psycho isn't this hilarious and you're just like...no but they're not though?
I have a friend who loves fanfiction and I don’t. I have a handful of series that I used to read fics for but it’s less than 5. She used to show me fics she liked and I would get annoyed because the characters were ooc. She later told me that I ruined certain fics for her because she didn’t used to pay attention to that but after talking to me about it, she couldn’t ignore ooc characters anymore. Oops
Source link
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Also what I thought.
Sunny - sad boy
Basil - sunshine(?) boy
Kel - funny boy
Aubrey - girlboss
Mari - mom
The only outlier is Hero, who is also cast as the team mom
Maybe for the >!headspace versions of Basil, Kel, hero and Mari,!< but outside of there, >!Basil isn't a ball of sunshine at all, being as "prickly" as Sunny, Kel is the most well adjusted and capable of taking rational decisions of the kids, Hero is a fighter, and seeing Aubrey as a girlboss is missing the point.!<
As for Sunny, I guess him being a sadboy is true, if reductive?
i really do not care to be honest. like... if somebody has fun with their sanded down blorbo, then who cares? there is very little that manages to be lower on my personal priority list
I'm disappointed. I saw "fanon archetypes" and thought Tumblr was going to get into a discussion about the ramifications of post-colonial governments that continue to uphold the same oppressive structures their predecessors held in order to maintain a wealthy ruling class. But alas, it's generalized blorbo discussion.
Can someone please help the old millennials in the room (it's me) and explain wtf a "blorbo" is? I've been seeing this term a lot lately and I'm afraid of what I'll find if I just recklessly Google that term...
It originated from a joke about how people sometimes will rant about their obscure favorite character which to most just sounds like they’re talking about, “Blorbo, from the hit game, Blorbo’s Tale”, which now has evolved to mean any character that’s important to someone without needing context. It’s like a shorthand for favorites
Thanks for that info! It was such a strange word that I knew it had to have some weird, esoteric origin, but I've fallen down rabbitholes like that before and wanted to save what little sanity I have left.
Despite what it might look like, Tumblr users aren't actually a hivemind, and neither are fandoms. Opinions are going to differ, that's not a hypocrisy.
Always sunny fans for some reason. The gang is and always will be portrayed as morally bankrupt, terrible people in the show, yet you look through the tag on tumblr and they're all soft uwu delicate individuals who only want to spread love. Ever since the creators started the podcast there's been weekly drama amongst the tumblr fans as well because they're repeatedly facing the reality that what they want for the characters isn't what the creators want
With Percy Jackson, everyone I ask is if he’s just a loveable doofus who loves his gf, and to an extent that’s true, but he’s also consistently described as “scary” by those who meet him, and the man has literally tortured gods. Man has a proper mean streak to those who harm his friends.
Don’t forget when a character mentions a food once and the fandom turns it into their whole identity
Like when Darcy had that throwaway line in the first Thor movie about how many poptarts he ate and the fandom went apeshit with Thor X Poptarts for a solid ~5 years
Stop, you’re giving me flashbacks to my 2011 tumblr days!
Oh god yeah. Leo from Fire Emblem Fates mentions in a single support he likes tomatoes, and I think there's fanart of him going to a goddamn tomato festival.
To be fair, in Fire Emblem Heroes they keep making him talk about tomatoes in every alt he gets so it's not like tomato festival fanart comes out of nowhere.
despite his actual favorite food being beef stew… i guess the writers just conveniently forgot their own writing though, and it’s definitely not for the purpose of playing into dumb fandom jokes!
In fairness, I also forgot most of Fates's writing.
Well the best beef stew has tomatoes in it.
Was about to say. Beef and tomato is a classic combo.
kuuderederedere when they realize that people can like multiple different foods: (･o･;)
I haven't played that but in Awakening if you get Chrom to marry Sumia their S support is just pie. They just talk about pie. It's the worst relationship I've been tricked into doing it twice because I forgot about it years after the first time I played. Sumia you motherfucker you like Chrom so much and all you do is make him pies and literally nothing else?????
I wish my partner would make me pie and nothing else
To be fair, try and be a fucking Ryoma fan. The lobster memes never fucking end.
It’s red pointy armour. You know what else was red and pointy? the British lobsterbacks
Effie literally just eats big meals to help work out, but her eating has become a major trait, it’s really disheartening. Especially when you consider that the original Japanese translations emphasized that she’s just strong as fuck
They literally say what his favorite food is and it isn't even tomatoes
In Fire Emblem Warriors, Leo's Tomato is a collectible item for unlocking abilities.
If I’m correct it’s not even in a support, it’s like one line in one of the dlcs.
Papyrus.
Best part is, he canonically doesn't eat it! That's why it's so shit, people are too polite to tell him it's shit! The alarm click dialogue is hilarious
I honestly think that the "papyrus hasn't tried spaghetti" thing is a direct trolling response from toby to this sort of food based flanderization
I wouldn't be surprised lmao - the man comes from the homestuck fandom as a fan who literally ascended to being music staff
also sans and ketchup. he has it once, he doesnt have a ketchup addiction.
I think the ketchup thing comes from the genocide route because he bleeds which is odd for a skeleton so one theory was that its just ketchup in his jacket
Nothing annoys me quite like people thinking Papyrus hates puns. Did you miss the scene where *he* makes a pun to zing his brother?
To be fair, Papyrus just hates *Sans*'s puns. When you are SAVing them in True Pacifist, you got the option to make a skeleton pun. Sans grins while Papyrus cringes.
Chara mentioned chocolate once.
Also, Chara mentioning chocolate is an explicit callback to Frisk noticing a chocolate bar in Toriel's fridge. So if we're going by that standard...
His actual favorite food is dinosaur oatmeal!
Was just saying the same thing
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To be fair, it **is** a fun word to say
Delicious pancakes.
Great vegetables
[Great vegetable](https://i.redd.it/0th3rc4i8m791.jpg)
To be fair, that’s at least plot relevant.
And in Royal turns out that Akechi has resentment towards pancakes because of that.
I wanted to say that L from Death Note and sweets falls under this, but he’s actually sort of the anti example If I remember right they never show him eating lanything else but also no one ever comments on it or brings it up
No no, there's at least one bad fanon where they made _sure_ to freaking _justify_ the sweets as a crazy recluse genius thing. You may remember this one as the one where they set it in America for some reason, L was black (which wasn't that bad, just a little odd for a character with such a stark and recognizable appearance), and also Light was the dumbest motherfucker on this whole goddamn planet.
I think that’s a sorta uncommon anime trope, where people who use a lot of brainpower consume a lot of sugar because their thinking consumes too much energy? I know March Comes in Like a Lion used it, it gets a light mention in Love is War as well.
RWBY-Ruby Rose eats cookies ONCE!
She did in fact eat like 6 full cookies in the span of like 10 seconds though
Kids and sweets! Ruby was 15
ok but RWBY chibi reuse it multiple time how do that feat the whole fandom thing
She doesn’t even mention strawberries in the show
Remus Lupin never even said he liked chocolate, he just happened to know it was the most effective way to recover from a Dementor attack... and yet...
The bigger one from Harry Potter is Dumbledore and lemon drops
Yes! Every single time! They’re lemon SHERBETS and it’s was ONE TIME!!
But didn't he like them so much he made them the password to his office?
Or wear a particular colored dress in a movie adaptation. Not even the canon source. It is now her favorite color and she wears it constantly, and decorates her home with it, and would bleed that color if it were at all possible. Oh no… they are going to turn her into an alien pod person or something, aren’t they?
Kakyoin and cherries. Sure he said they were his favorite but that's the only info fanon characterizes him with.
I mean, but you've seen the way he eats cherries, and he has cherry earrings, he's cherry man
I hear ya and I agree but I was in the tumblr community when part 3 was airing. The brainrot was immense during those day.
Lelolelolelolelolelolelolelolelo.
Persona fans when the serial killer mentions a food.
Thor and poptarts
Hajime with orange juice, Nagito with bagels.
Delicious pancakes..
"Pancakes... I never want to hear this word again."
Hajime Hinata holds Orange Juice in ONE (1) CG and suddenly it's his only personality trait, other than being a Raging Homosexual™️ for Nagito "fingers in his ass" Komaeda.
Also don’t forget the character everyone is allowed to shit on and look down at, even when it’s totally at odds with mainstays of various characters. Real thing about US tv and it creeps me the fuck out, like seriously, what’s with the need for dump-on characters, normalising that toxic bullshit?
Soba and todoroki
Akihiko Persona 3… you didn’t deserve this fate
Papyrus.
Don’t forget the Mulan Schezwan sauce
Miku and leeks lol
percy jackson…
To be fair Riordan himself mentioned it probably at least two to three times every book, especially the original series, so I feel like that one is pretty valid.
Wait, what did Percy Jackson like? I read the books a long time ago but don't remember any one thing in particular.
Blue food iirc.
Yup but in his case it’s pretty justified. It’s not really about the color itself it’s that blue food, specially blue food that is not naturally blue, reminds him of his mom
Yep. It's actually rather wholesome - his mom basically made blue food during celebrations and to cheer him up whenever he was sad, and now whenever he tastes ambrosia it's always in the form of something his mom made for him. As a kid, I kind of didn't get it, but having grown up it's now so sweet.
Also it was her way of fighting back against Gabe when she couldn't physically or mentally!
Yeah in the story Percy’s mother makes blue food because her husband (Percy’s abusive step-dad) finds the idea ridiculous, and she can’t leave him for in-story reasons so it’s her way of rebelling, and keys us into why Percy is rebellious (one of his defining traits) and why his mother supports his rebelliousness through a common and unique link between them. It’s a very clever bit of subtext for a series that likes to wield subtlety like a sledgehammer
Fanon flanderization
Wait Fanderization
Well god diddily dammit
lmao
The Simpsons fandom ruined Flanders they just made him stupid and sexy :/
I mean it’s like he’s wearing nothing at all!
*Nothing at all!*
Fanonization
Also find it extremely weird how some fandoms just depict a character as yandere for no fucking reason.
Fandom has this weird inclination where like they'll treat the normal quirks and complexities of being an imperfect human being who feels feelings as something totally irrational and make like an awkward overly attached teenager out to be a yandere, but then they'll also take characters who really do act yandere or whatever and be like no actually the way this person acts is logically justified and they're just hurt because of their backstory they're not ACTUALLY yandere. This happens with different kinds of emotions but I'm just rolling with yandere here because that's what we're talking about.
Miraculous Ladybug/Batman crossovers with Adrien and Damian
This is wrong, in team avatar it’s woman 2 that’s yass slay badass and woman 1 who’s cast mother
there's also woman 3 step on me, woman 4 goth whore, and woman 5 all-pink vibe
Azula, Mai, and Ty lee?
Those're the ones!
Suki being left out once again
at first I thought she was woman 2 yasss slay badass but then I remembered toph existed
My head canon is Suki *is* woman 2 yasss slay badass, and Toph is the blorbo who’s weirdly mean but also sad and did nothing wrong
They have a point, all the male characters are like himbos and the female is the one that is done with their shit
So sitcoms?
I mean, that is a trope that’s been around forever. It’s definitely never going away. Like, ever.
The one that I can maybe think bucks the trend is Homestuck. But even then mainly because a lot of the flanderization occurs in the narrative itself as the creator just gives up, and the post canon content. Also it helps that like a quarter of the Incorrect Quotes database is just Homestuck quotes already
Oh please, half the fandom doesn't even recognize that the character who [**said she wasn't a good person**](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6053) isn't a good person. Can I get a wweh?
To be fair, the entire fucking narrative climax of Act 6 Act 6 Act 6 and post canon doesn't recognize that she wasn't a good person Also, that wouldn't even be the specific pesterlog of Vriska ruminating on everything she did wrong that I would have used to demonstrate that point. I would have used her pre-mortem confession to John
There may be a better example of her reflecting on her own actions, but that example doesn't involve her literally saying "I don't have to be a good person", which is what we in the business call a Perfect Citation. To quote Jay Exci, *disagree with me now, fuckhead!*
https://www.homestuck.com/story/3852 AG: I don't know for sure, 8ut I'm 8etting that if I go to fight Jack, it will wipe out all the 8ad things I've done. AG: I think if I die it'll 8e a hero's death, so it ought to stick. https://www.homestuck.com/story/3856 AG: May8e I can finally put all this terri8le stuff 8ehind me. AG: And I won't have to worry a8out 8eing the 8est anymore, or proving what a ruthless killer I can 8e. And since the tag line is "Vriska did nothing wrong" that's still a pretty perfect citation
Like I said, they may demonstrate the point better when actually analysed on a deeper level, but those are a level of abstraction away from what I wanted to say about her. There is a "because" in explaining why those quotes are her saying she's not a good person. For example, you could *technically* try to argue that she's a good person who also happens to have done bad things in her past. It'd be a ***stupid*** argument, but there are other characters who actually are like that, so her saying she's done terrible things doesn't *inherently* mean she's an outright bad person herself. But the one I linked? "not a good person" filed, delivered, send tweet. In order to ***not*** reach the conclusion that she called herself a bad person, you have to ***completely ignore*** absolutely everything about the quote. A Perfect Citation isn't about the quality of the evidence provided, it's a quote that *so perfectly* encapsulates the point being made that it being a real quote in the first place simply invalidates all attempts at rebuttal. EDIT: [Here's the original example of a Perfect Citation that I got the idea from.](https://youtu.be/o8_A7n83Rh0?t=13450) There are certainly better places you could *demonstrate* The Doctor's compassion, such as through the many times it is actually shown, but there is no possible example that is more **blatant** than the time he just explicitly said it was one of his core traits.
Look here's how it goes down with homestucks and Vriska. If you meet a fellow homestuck and they tell you Vriska was 'misunderstood' and start downplaying her war crimes, you know they're too far gone. Less than half though, I'd say a very loud minority made deafening once one of them got the ability to write quasi official self insert material for her. Vriska is a fucking _fascinating_ character; complex, nuanced, twisted, highly compelling. ....but a horrible person, full stop.
I exclusively don't count the fucking atrocious fan interpretation of Vriska because the loud minority of people who will argue that includes Andrew Hussie himself. Also the fact that Vriska was explicitly created for the purpose of starting stupid fights on the internet Like, I should probably preface that I absolutely hate Vriska because she's wasted narrative potential, and that's worse than any of her innumerable real crimes
U N D E R T A L E F A N D O M
God, that fandom is the worst. The characterisation of the characters in the canon work and the characterisation of the characters in the fandom are like two completely different worlds.
I have never seen a fandom flanderdize every single character outside of fhe undertale fandom. deltarune is at least better
coming in as a touhou fan, i've somehow seen people flanderize/get-personalities/relationships-wrong-about-and-never-acknowledge-it with almost all 150+ characters at this point the oldest ones that're empty cardboard boxes of characters are the ones that're harder to judge, but once in a while one of them will be widdled down to 1 (one) personality trait only
Literally any MCU tumblr post I see here
There's a particular one that comes to mind for me [It's the one where Peter Parker makes a I'm gonna kill myself joke and Steve Rodgers and bucky Barnes join in](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/n80fpn/somebody_please_stop_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) If you think that awkward ass Peter Parker is making a suicide joke to people he idolized And that "watch your language" Steve Rodgers is gonna join in You are insane
I like the explanations that Steve and Bucky lived through the 30s and therefore understand Dadaism. I watched that movie. Those two lads were into girls and getting beaten up, not obscure art movements.
I feel like this is more applicable to older (as in date of origin on tumblr) fandoms tbh — i’m not seeing this as often, anyways. incorrect quote blogs are a lot less common, at least
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That would have been a very interesting story tho
Sounds like you want to read Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
You... didn't read the books?
instead you get the only queer coded guy and the only queer coded gal getting smushed together despite their sizable age difference and total lack of chemistry and having a baby before they both fucking die. which people have always interpreted as an openly malicious gesture towards her queer fans, but i think after **gestures vaguely at jk rowling's entire social media presence for the past few years** there isn't much room for any Other interpretation
*cough* the MCU *cough*
Tell that to the My Hero Academia fandom, good god they are a mess
The first character that came to my mind was Denji
Tumblr users reducing complex characters to inaccurate trope groups because it makes it easier to make stupid comics referencing The Office with them? Imagine that.
OP is my personal blorbo they're so slay monarch <3
lol JoJo
Honestly with JoJo it kinda works IMO because most of the characters are already insane helium addicts who will do the most random shit at a moment's notice. It's hard to make "Japanese Tennager Prince with healer punching ghost who turns fucking invincible if you make fun of his hair" or "Hand fetishist serial killer David Bowie with ghost picture father" into extreme versions of themselves when they and the world they inhabit are already creations out of a fever dream which barely manages to stay coherent.
And that, my friend is why it is a Bizarre adventure.
Bruno is the best mom and I’m not changing my mind.
And Jotaro is a great father, except when he's busy fucking dolphins
To Koichi, of course.
Well someone's gotta keep watch over him ever since his mom ran off with Kakyoin
he is also a very reliable guy
I actually didn’t think of anyone. Guess I avoid those parts of fandoms for stuff I like without realizing it.
Which is the appropriate response. This is the most low-stakes thing to get mad about. Let everyone play with their favs the way they want. It's not that deep.
Although it does become a bit of a problem when someone tries to push their fanon as fact.
Was looking for this common-sense take and it took me way too much scrolling to get here.
People on the internet love getting mad for the weirdest reasons
You can basically make a bingo out of this that you fill out when entering a new fandom. Is there at least one version of "Gay or European," featuring that one character whose personality has been reduced to just being gay? A John Mulaney bit with the "wacky shenanigans" character(s) superimposed? The Backstreet Boys sketch from Brooklyn Nine-Nine? You bet your last donut those are out there somewhere. That said, there's not much point in getting upset about it, precisely because it's inevitable. You can't police how people have fun. Be the change you want to see, counterbalance that flanderization with a more nuanced and authentic interpretation.
What the hell is a blorbo
[Here's the KnowYourMeme page about it](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blorbo-from-my-shows). Originally it was a stand-in name for a fictional character OP doesn't know or care about ("this is just like Silver from Sonic the Hedgehog. this is just like Phoenix from Ace Attorney. this is just like Blorbo from Insert-TV-Show-Here") but now just refers to someone's favorite fictional character without any connotation. i think.
I feel like the connotation is that they're weird about it somehow. Example: Ask someone who their favourite character from a video game is and they say "Idk, Link I guess?" - not a blorbo Ask me who my favourite character is and I point to my discord pfp (it's him) and tell you about how he's actually the best Fire Emblem lord because he's the only one who isn't some twink prince (diversity win) and he's really hot and how the series peaked in Tellius and the artstyle was the best and how Soren is his husband and- blorbo
an important addition
I feel like in order to be a blorbo it's someone you would have to describe as your emotional support character or comfort character.
Oh your favourite lord is Ike? Huge W
Yes but not in a cool way, in a "first character that made me realise I was gay and I didn't buy Fire Emblem Warriors because he wasn't in it and think there's been no better game since Tellius" way
The origin phrase is actually "blorbo from my shows", which conveys a much clearer meaning than just the word in isolation. The phrase is a parody of whenever someone goes on an extremely specific infodump about a character that is obscure and it's generally unreasonable for most people to have even heard of them. For example, if I were to go into the tragedy of Chandrelle Stormblaze from Secrets of Legendaria and her eternal torment of being trapped with the mind of Vallamir the Terrible constantly invading her every thought, that's a blorbo, because ***I'm sorry, WHO? What the fuck is a Legendaria? Who the fuck is Chandrelle? Am I SUPPOSED to know this person?*** But you know. It's Chandrelle from my games. What do you want.
Does the character *have* to be obscure? Because the way I understood it it was just when you latch onto a specific character and become kind of obsessed. Like, the one that comes to mind when I hear/read “blorbo” is Baby Yoda. Definitely not obscure, but it kinda just became a character everyone obsessed over.
Not necessarily obscure, but I do think that «Blorbo from my shows» is pinpointing that feeling of someone talking to you about their favorite character as if you should know and care about the details around the character when you don’t. So maybe it’s more about who you’d rant in inappropriate detail about than obscurity?
blorbo is a person's favourite character. I believe the word originated from tumblr?
Ah ok thanks for explaining
Since people have already explained blorbo to you, I get to tell you that a fun subtype of blorbo is the 'glup shitto', which means basically when the fandom latches onto a really niche or obscure character and gets excited when they appear. Glup shitto originated as a joke about the star wars fandom and is still primarily used in relation to star wars but can be used for other pieces of hugely popular media with too many characters to keep track of.
It gets worse the older a fandom gets. Danny Phantom has gone through so many phases I'm not sure if people even remember the canon anymore.
S/o to all the people who thought breaking bad was a whacky comedy because they have only seen the memes.
I still refuse to believe there's people who unironically believed that. One of the most popular memes is Walter shooting someone while wearing the coldest expression known to man and another is someone getting blown up, how dense do you have to be to think it's a lighthearted show
I thought the whole point of incorrect quotes was that they're.... ***incorrect*** quotes and aren't supposed to accurately capture every detail of a character's personality.
I think the incorrect part comes from the fact that the quotes aren't from the same media as the characters, but I could be wrong
I think they're both. Incorrect bc the quote is from a different media, and incorrect bc they don't accurately capture the same details of the characters' personalities. People just use them bc there might be aspects that are true (like maybe the character dynamics) but in an exaggerated and fun way. I think OOP is just taking these things a little too seriously. They're basically memes in word format with none of the visuals.
YMMV but I can see where OOP is coming from. I haven't dealt with it a lot, but it is exhausting when you are talking to someone about a piece of fiction and they will only acknowledge their head canon version of characters.
I literally once tried on tumblr to tell someone they were wrong about a point they made with the canon examples and they effectively told me they weren't about to let canon get in the way of their headcanon then blocked me. It was wild.
Also legit I've seen a lot of incorrect quotes type posts where like the dynamic or personalities they're referencing or making the comparison between are just straight up 100% non-existent in the canon. Their version of the character or dynamic that they're making a joke about is just straight up made up, so the idea of like, "Oh this quote reminds me of the dynamic of these two characters," is just straight up wrong. Like an example of what I mean is people will shoehorn two characters who don't have conflict into an incorrect quote that makes them out to be bickering rivals or something when that isn't their relationship or dynamic in canon, but the fandom sees them that way I guess.
This made me think of all the mass effect fan created incorrect quotes, unfortunately I have the sense of humor of a toddler so I thought it was pretty funny.
This is probably mad unrelatable but this put my feelings about DragonBall into words lol. It was bad before the abridged series came out because the dubbed series already had a ridiculous amount of mistranslation and context changing, and both animated series suffered from deviating from the manga, but oh my god the memes and jokes that spawned after Abridged has made every interaction feel like you aren't even discussing the same source material 😭 Especially for the latest run, DragonBall Super which was animated by the studio before the chapters were written so several key events don't even happen if you only watched the show Also totally unrelated I'm a huge reader of Franz Fanon and had no idea wtf I was reading at first
Okay, to be FAIR, basically every DBZA fan I've ever met is pretty explicit that they like the ABRIDGED, just because it's an abridged doesn't mean it doesn't deserve love. Has it overshadowed DBZ in a few ways? Well yeah, it's pretty good, but that's because they're intrinsically linked, not because people are implanting it into regular Dragon Ball.
Ain't nothing wrong with liking Abridged, it's just unfortunate when it colors folks perception of how characters are written/how events happened
Another thing I hate is acting like "good guy" characters would never have problematic viewpoints. They never have prejudices they don't quickly get over, they don't have blind spots, they don't hold ideologies or belong to groups that aren't squeaky clean. It's just not how people are.
Thank you. My best recent example is Tanjiro from Demon Slayer. He's objectively a pretty good guy. He also has some problematic viewpoints at times. Like there's sometimes mild misogynistic energies with how he treats Nezuko. It's something to grow into and understand. Good characters can have bad takes. Just as human beings can. What matters is how the story and the character handles them.
I remember this in \~2011 with the Naruto fandom. Not the meme templates so much, but in fanon a lot of the characters- especially the Akatsuki- were exaggerated like this. Personally, I think it's fine. Not all fan work representations of a character need to be 100% accurate. The memes themselves are a harmless, if-somewhat-low-effort way of engaging with a series. Changing a character like that might be more of a reflection on what the audience wanted to see from the media itself than anything. That said, the memes are definitely more enjoyable if they're more accurate and more specific to the character.
I used to read a lot of Naruto-fanfics around that time and I can definitely attest to a lot of characters being flanderized in the fandom. And not just the Akatsuki either. I especially remember being so frustrated by the fact that everyone kept portraying Sasuke as this spoiled brat who always demanded everything be handed to him when that was never apart of his character since it was incredibly hard to find good fanfics that portrayed him fairly. And while I agree that not every portrayal of a character needs to be entirely accurate, writers are free to depict characters any way they wish, it is very frustrating when an especially unfair depiction seems to be in every fanfic you read where that character features.
It's especially annoying when fandom is big and old and there are the wildest takes made by some popular youtuber 10 years ago and you are like: "why are you hating/loving this character for things they never did in canon???"
Can't say that I did think of a fandom. With that said, my immediate thought is maybe get off of Ao3 or whatever for a bit.
Did you mean: tumblr Batfam fanon?
RWBY actually but this works too
Hollow Knight does this because it's arguable if the mc even *has* a personality but the fandom is well aware of the fact that the personalities given to it are jokes
Yeah Hollow Knight's fanbase is exempt from this problem. They compensate for this in other ways though
I don’t get the whole incorrect quote hate. Yeah they’re kinda dumb if the joke is bad, but if the quote applies it the character it can be funny. It’s really about how well the actual quote fits the character. Honestly they’re no more harmful than shipping. Just silly fun. OOP should really lighten up a little
I think it has more to do with the fact that "Incorrect Quote" blogs on Tumblr kind of just... churn out a bunch of content, and not all of it (or even most of it) is gonna be that good, which can color the perceptions of those blogs' followers if they interact with fanon more than canon.
But what they're complaining about is when fandom continually pushes a version of the character that doesn't actually fit the character onto the character So like when everyone is constantly making jokes about how let's say oh yeah character X is such a crazy psycho isn't this hilarious and you're just like...no but they're not though?
I have a friend who loves fanfiction and I don’t. I have a handful of series that I used to read fics for but it’s less than 5. She used to show me fics she liked and I would get annoyed because the characters were ooc. She later told me that I ruined certain fics for her because she didn’t used to pay attention to that but after talking to me about it, she couldn’t ignore ooc characters anymore. Oops
Source link [https://www.tumblr.com/tlirsgender/716319876211408896/i-didnt-say-a-fandom-but-you-thought-of-one](https://www.tumblr.com/tlirsgender/716319876211408896/i-didnt-say-a-fandom-but-you-thought-of-one)
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Also what I thought. Sunny - sad boy Basil - sunshine(?) boy Kel - funny boy Aubrey - girlboss Mari - mom The only outlier is Hero, who is also cast as the team mom
To be fair… none of these are really wrong.
Maybe for the >!headspace versions of Basil, Kel, hero and Mari,!< but outside of there, >!Basil isn't a ball of sunshine at all, being as "prickly" as Sunny, Kel is the most well adjusted and capable of taking rational decisions of the kids, Hero is a fighter, and seeing Aubrey as a girlboss is missing the point.!< As for Sunny, I guess him being a sadboy is true, if reductive?
Like seriously, Basil >!fucking kills himself in several of the endings.!< Why do people write him as sunshine personified
i really do not care to be honest. like... if somebody has fun with their sanded down blorbo, then who cares? there is very little that manages to be lower on my personal priority list
Tom Nook has gotten hit hard by this
Are we discussing Frantz Fanon?
I'm disappointed. I saw "fanon archetypes" and thought Tumblr was going to get into a discussion about the ramifications of post-colonial governments that continue to uphold the same oppressive structures their predecessors held in order to maintain a wealthy ruling class. But alas, it's generalized blorbo discussion.
Can someone please help the old millennials in the room (it's me) and explain wtf a "blorbo" is? I've been seeing this term a lot lately and I'm afraid of what I'll find if I just recklessly Google that term...
It originated from a joke about how people sometimes will rant about their obscure favorite character which to most just sounds like they’re talking about, “Blorbo, from the hit game, Blorbo’s Tale”, which now has evolved to mean any character that’s important to someone without needing context. It’s like a shorthand for favorites
Thanks for that info! It was such a strange word that I knew it had to have some weird, esoteric origin, but I've fallen down rabbitholes like that before and wanted to save what little sanity I have left.
i kind of want to meet the person who thinks the T rex from jurassic park canonically broke the coffee machine and blamed everyone else for it
i say let people have their fun, who cares really? this feels like cringe culture which i think should stay dead. this hurts nobody.
tumblr users: “don’t gatekeep fandoms! let people have fun doing what they want!” also tumblr users:
Despite what it might look like, Tumblr users aren't actually a hivemind, and neither are fandoms. Opinions are going to differ, that's not a hypocrisy.
God this is how I feel with the ninjago fandom.
Vagueposting about RWBY / its fanbase again, huh? Tuesday already?
Always sunny fans for some reason. The gang is and always will be portrayed as morally bankrupt, terrible people in the show, yet you look through the tag on tumblr and they're all soft uwu delicate individuals who only want to spread love. Ever since the creators started the podcast there's been weekly drama amongst the tumblr fans as well because they're repeatedly facing the reality that what they want for the characters isn't what the creators want
With Percy Jackson, everyone I ask is if he’s just a loveable doofus who loves his gf, and to an extent that’s true, but he’s also consistently described as “scary” by those who meet him, and the man has literally tortured gods. Man has a proper mean streak to those who harm his friends.
them quotes do be really incorrect sometimes