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loosesodamarble · 2 years

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For that Fandom ask thingy... well, Black Clover^^'

Oh wow. Lowkey forgot I reblogged that (even linked in my pinned post). Thanks for reminding me and asking about it, Anon!

Alright! Time for Soda's Blorbo and Co. Black Clover Edition!

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Blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

Nacht Faust. Big surprise there! (This is sarcasm.)

This man. This character. This compilation of lines and shading!

Upon first introduction, I was pretty neutral towards him. And then chapter 285 happened and it was like being hit by a truck. Certain mutuals of mine will attest to how fast I turned around. And from there, I just got more and more invested. I love Nacht so dearly. He is a complex and tragic character. He was a troublemaker and but still had a heart to care for people like Morgen and Yami. But it took him losing what mattered most to see that he was on the wrong path. He burdens himself with so much guilt that he can't see himself as good even when he's trying hard to help people. It's good to see him figure out that there's someone who still cares about him and that he deserves to live (even if the revelation is terribly rushed). I really want him to live through the current arc and find closure, maybe even happiness. Also, his devil quartet is adorable and he has so many looks that just hit.

Related sidestory. Not too long ago, me, my sister, and two of our mutual friends were in a voice call. We do it every so often to watch some show or just chat. We were just chatting that evening and the conversation came to the recent slang of blorbo and such. I'm not that savvy when it comes to internet (or rather just Tumblr) slang but my sister is less fluent than I am. I decided to take the reins and try to explain to my sister what a blorbo is.

And I just couldn't. Maybe it was the late hour or maybe it was the funny words I was trying to say but I was in hysterics. My stomach hurt and I had trouble breathing. I just couldn't speak. Meanwhile, sister and friends were going "are you okay?" and "please don't die," as loved ones usually do. Eventually, I gave up on speaking and just typed into the text chat, quote:

"Blorbo from my show" is essentially the equivalent of when I say "Nacht from Black Clover."

And it clicked basically immediately for my sister. It was painful, embarrassing, and hilarious for me. But it's the truth.

Nacht, my blorbo.

Scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

Noelle. Without a shadow of a doubt. She was my favorite character before Nacht was introduced. I call her my water daughter for a reason. She's got a soft heart for caring for her family and a strong will for facing enemies. What I love about her is that she's caring without being "soft." She's a frontline fighter, fighting on behalf of others. She's also the absolute cutest when she's flustered and out of her depth. Just... So much baby behavior outside of battle. I really appreciate Noelle, my little water daughter.

Scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

Grey. She's a shy sweetheart to the fullest. She doesn't have much confidence in herself but has found a friend group with the wild Black Bulls and is happy with them. I vibe with that. Her little moments with Gauche and Gordon during the elf reincarnation arc and her recent power-up as a healer are great. She deserves them. And more attention.

Glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

Morgen. He counts! He appears in - five? maybe six? - chapters of the manga and barely a couple seconds of screen time in the anime. Morgen has gotten less attention than Licht and probably won't be getting a temporary revival like him either. And yet I can't shut up about Morgen. Morgen is simply so pure and wholesome. But he wasn't perfect, as Nacht believed. His scenes with Yami show that he too had troubles.

It's wonderful. It's awful. I love him and miss him so much despite there not being much to miss since the canon content of him is so sparse. Fan content it is. (I need to revisit my Captain Faust AU, it seems.) I just want my sunshine man...

Poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

Nozel. Another one of my early faves and the character I crushed on the most before, well you know. He's an awful older brother. Noble goals but the worst possible execution. Not actually the worst but pretty bad. He's a jerk or at least stand-offish to a majority of the characters in the series. But he's so sad and pathetic when you peel back the layers. He needs to vent his traumatic childhood while drinking hot cocoa and crying on someone's shoulder. I can be the shoulder he cries on.

Horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

Patry. I like him. I do. But he deserves it. He's evil but also really pathetic. Yeah, he died as a child and was basically brainwashed into evil which sucks. But he was also a-okay with killing innocents, even children. He's a mess of a character and his "redemption" is lame. At least he's carrying his boyfriend around and accepting the fact that he's pretty much useless now. He deserves to be tormented for amusement is all I'm saying.

Also Nacht, to a lesser degree. Have you seen how much angst I've written for him? Albeit it's mostly in the context of an oc verse but still. I want Nacht to have a happy ending and yet I like making him suffer a bit. It's weird. Sorry Nacht. And Nacht fans.

Eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

I have to put Dante and Vanica here. I can't decide between them so it's both. I don't think my feelings are strong enough for "hate" but a firm dislike is a good way to put it. There's Dante's belief that anger and evil are humanity's default. Then Vanica toys with human life and sees people as disposable. And both of them are gleeful at the thought of the world being overrun with devils because they think it'd be fun or something. They just have such awful and toxic ideologies. I can't stand them.

Zenon is spared from superhell because his greatest crime is stupidity. But that is a topic for another day.

#questions from the ask box #ask game #soda asides #long post #black clover #nacht faust #noelle silva #black clover grey #morgen faust #nozel silva #patry #dante zogratis #vanica zogratis #zenon zogratis #sorry to the patry fans #and the dark triad fans #but these are my thoughts and you can't exactly stop me from thinking #just remember that these are characters on pages and nothing more

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isalabells · 3 years

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can u pls give me all ur thoughts on clarissa franklin? im legit so curious!!

Let me preface this, anon, by saying that this might be the most challenging ask I’ve received to date. That’s why I let it sit there for more than 1.5 weeks while agonizing over it on every run I’ve been on in between. So hats off to you because dang!

Thoughts on characters in the DDF universe are generally a tricky thing because none of them – not even (or: especially not) our three mains – are designed to be anything but two-dimensional. This of course shouldn’t stop anyone from diving deeper into some kind of character analysis, but personally, I’ve always found it a bit off-putting alas I probably have fewer thoughts and headcanons on the folks inhabitating the Rocky Beach universe than one might think. I don’t even find it that compelling to look at from a meta perspective (where, in contrast, I could spend hours talking and writing about TKKG’s narratives. And in fact I have.) So what’s mainly of interest to me here is looking at Minninger aka the one who invented dear Clarissa, and to speculate about his motives for telling the Franklin stories the way he did.

In an attempt to look at it from an in-universe POV first: Amazing character, most likely the best female villain this series will ever see (food for thought: there haven’t been that many to begin with, and most of the ones we got were either written by BJHW or Minninger. MUCH to ponder on), personally, I find her way more fun than Hugenay, giving her two (or three, if the rumors are true) follow-up stories is more than deserved. Furthermore, her legacy is that she appeared in two absolute killer episodes, which many (rightfully) consider to be some of the best the series has to offer (so do I, but plot twist, the best for me is not Stimmen aus dem Nichts but Rufmord). 100/10, can relate to Bob Andrews bc I already grew infatuated with her and she didn’t even need to hypnotize me for that. A great cunning, devious, manipulative, stone-cold bitch ready to kill a man or two at any given point, it’s what we all need and deserve. Shouldn’t even be that big of a surprise that this role slaps so hard bc the majority of things Judy Winter does gain IconicTM status, it is the law. Ever since @charlyritter brought up the idea that Sabine Vitua would be the perfect choice to play her in a live action movie, I cannot stop thinking about this. (And ever since I mistook a picture of young Sabine Vitua with short hair for Bibiana Beglau I am slightly fixated on the idea that she’d be a great fit as well.)

From a more sober POV: I’ve talked about this before but SadN is actually a very sloppily edited adaptation (e.g. Katharina Brauren most def was recorded separately, there are a lot of inaccuracies-that-easily-could-have-been-avoided-with-some-proper-research-and-a-capable-editor in the script etc.) AND most of it is just Minninger ripping off other stories published via EUROPA (I know none of you are aware of this bc y’all lack the refined taste to engage with TKKG, but the entirety of getting phone calls from the dead? Please listen to #82 Spuk aus dem Jenseits which got published in 1991 aka six years prior to SadN, which Minninger himself edited, and which imo is actually WAY more creepy, esp bc Wolf played a lot with elements from Hofmann’s Sandmann. While we’re at it, I might also drop that Franklin’s iconic line “Reiß Dein Maul nicht so weit auf, sonst schieb ich Dir eine Faust rein, an der Du erstickst“ also first appears, word for word, in TKKG #8 Auf der Spur der Vogeljäger. Well oops.) NEVERTHELESS I argue none of it matters in the long run bc the adaption makes it worth the while. Minninger himself is a trickster in that regard bc what he lacks in writing skills (lbr he doesn’t have any, his stories are mediocre at best) he makes up for in hedonism. As in: he mainly writes about what interests him most in a DDF setting (queer characters, middle-aged and/or old yet powerful ladies, horror vibes, scary, disturbing stuff bordering on the macabre and ludicrous) and designs his characters specifically so that he can cast all the actresses and actors he admires. (Honestly, that was actually a question I sent to him back in 2004 when his Fragebox at the rbc was still running; I wanted to know if he already knew he wanted JW to play CF, and he wholeheartedly confirmed.)

In this case, he got especially lucky bc I am firmly convinced he had no clue at all that Andreas Fröhlich and Judy Winter would play off each other so mesmerizingly. I mean, how could he have known? JW being great and killing it was not a surprise, sure, but Andreas was a far stretch away from being the hot shit he evolved into ever since. And if they hadn’t sold their two extremely unusual scenes so well… both episode and the character would have flopped, I think.

But it didn’t, and then Rufmord came along and the rest is history.

I have severe problems with Signale aus dem Jenseits ESPECIALLY bc of the way the narrative treats good ol’ Clarissa here, and I rather wish this ep had never gotten published in the first place. I don’t want to blow up this reply even further, but allow me to quote a snippet from the episode commentary I left on the rbc a while ago, as it sums up some of my troubles quite nicely:

“[Die] Wortwahl einer „Demontage“ Clarissa Franklins hat mich ins Grübeln gebracht. Vielleicht soll genau DAS die Krux der Sache sein – den Abstieg und Ruin einer Figur nachzuzeichnen, die einst bereit war, eiskalt über Leichen zu gehen und die selbst in Situationen, in denen sie auf den ersten Blick die Machtlose zu sein scheint, doch alle Fäden in der Hand hält und Menschen spielt wie Marionetten. In dem Fall wären die abgeschwächten Anleihen/Rezitationen/Referenzen an die Vorgängerfolgen natürlich geschickt (und bewusst?) gewählt und verstärken den Eindruck, dass Clarissa Franklin tief gefallen ist und mittlerweile nach jedem ihr sich bietenden Strohhalm greift (= Schmierenkomödie als Rache an drei Teenagern). Soll dies eine legitime Lesart des Textes sein, dann ist das Narrativ für mich allerdings falsch aufgebaut, weil es sich in zu vielen Nebenschauplätzen verliert.”

From the pov of my fangirl heart and all critical thinking put aside: Clarissa Franklin probably was the first character I was truly obsessed with!? In a way that I spent my entire Easter holiday break reading and listening to Rufmord 24/7. Thinking about her and her encounter with Just, Peter and Bob for hours each day. Desperately longing for more content with her. While my teenage self as evolved a bit, I’m still fond of her. So as much as I want Minninger to just let her rest, I am also hoping that his forth story featuring her only got postponed and not scratched entirely. The heart wants what the heart wants.

#also not to forget that I watched my first Tatort ever bc of Judy Winter (yes this is about Reifezeugnis bite me)#anaon this was a lot of fun altho answering this ask nearly killed me #sorry for trailing OT so much but *points to preface*#replies #isabel for ts #me @me: ...hoo boy u sure like to talk don't you

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ihavetogogh · 4 years

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alright, I wasn’t technically tagged in this, but @the-chesapeake-shipper did a vague-tag to all mutuals yesterday, and 🥺 I’m bored. thank u for ur generosity

rules: tag people you want to get to know better!

your name and then what you would have named yourself: well... coincidentally, i did choose my name a few years back. i’m darcy (yes, after mr. darcy. no, i do not regret it). HOWEVER there are times when i wish i had chosen a name that paid homage to my Japanese heritage. i recently learned that my mom had planned to name me kimiko hunaya and there are lots of days where i consider it because i know my great grandmother approved of it

astrological sign (sun/moon/rising if you know): will someone at a higher level of gay please teach me how to do this stuff???? i’m a capricorn, but i don’t know if that’s sun, moon, or rising

when did you join tumblr and why?: oh god.... way too young? i think i made my first blog in eighth grade. so 2011. mostly because i wanted to be an edgy tween reblogging quotes

top five fandoms: i have to narrow it down? this list is in a constant flux but at this exact moment: nbc hannibal, star trek, tolkien (i cant bring myself to say lotr while the silmarillion still holds most of my heart), the man from uncle, and x-men (but exclusively for erik’s turtlenecks)

top five favorite films: the normal heart, princess mononoke, star trek: the voyage home, the phantom thread, and the pride and prejudice 5 part mini-series that we’re all going to pretend is a movie because i never watch movies...

go to song when you want to Feel something: depends on what i need to feel, but if we’re talking about Yearning(TM), lover please stay by nothing but thieves

what’s your religion or faith if you have one?: i was raised mostly with catholic influences and some shintoism/buddhism. i vacillate between total nihilism and the concept of divinity in nature and the infinite cyclicality of energy and life??

a song that makes you feel seen: anything keaton henson has ever written? beekeeper is a very enduring song from when i was younger that still hits me right in the gut even if i dont feel the same way as i did back then. a more currently relevant song would be garden song by phoebe bridgers

if you could have any career: if i could be the person i want to be rather than the person that i am, i would be a university english professor, preferably at some old university where everything is a little drafty and the campus library has high ceilings and ghosts that stretch back to time immemorial. sharing a love for literature and storytelling has always appealed to me, and if i could, i would spend the rest of my life in academia

do you have a type: men who are too old for me and women who intimidate me 😔

what does your heart/soul yearn for?: faust. all i want right now is to sit down in my library with goethe, tchaikovsky playing in the background. where’s mephistopheles to give me a special witches brew so i have all the time in the world to glut on the passions of humanity?

if you had to describe yourself in 5 words to someone who doesn’t know you: book hoarding bisexual literature student???

favorite subject in school: english, but i also love history (especially art history)

where does your soul feel most at home?: sitting on the end of my grandparent’s crumbling dock, feet dangling in a lake that made it’s home in some scooped out part of the north cascade mountains. everything is still except the whisper of the air through the pine needles and the slap of water against the shore. my grandma and i had wine and charcuterie for lunch and now my grandpa’s talking about his painting—something that straddles the line between the familiar and the surreal. it’s a very comforting memory

top 5 fictional characters: aragorn, son of arathorn, king of gondor; hannibal lecter; jim kirk; thomasina from tom stoppard’s arcadia; lyra belaqua from his dark materials

top 3 moments in a show that made you ugly cry: did you mean when boromir dies in fellowship???? he’s such a tragic character, and sean bean was the perfect casting decision. uuuhmmmmm hannibal tenderly and erotically gutting will in his kitchen. it’s one hell of a sex scene, that. aaaand the ending of your lie in april. i have nothing else to say on the matter

the earth, the sun, the moon, or the stars: has to be the stars (moon, please forgive me....)

favorite kind of weather: when everything is poised on the edge of a storm. the air is perfectly still, and you can smell the rain and the lightning. the sun low enough that there’s nothing but a glow of light at the bottom of the cloud bank

top 3 characters you kin with: elizabeth bennett.... clearly; will graham.... less clearly; and leonard mccoy, ultimate mom friend

favorite medium of art: subtractive sculpture mediums, especially marble, and oil painting. give me all that classic art

introvert/extrovert/ambivert: i’m a big, dumb introvert

a favorite literary quote: i could... spend hours answering this. since i’m thinking of stoppard and his horribly underappreciated plays, we’ll go with my favorite quote from arcadia: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?”

some of your favorite books: the hobbit (tolkien), cloud atlas (david mitchell), the goldfinch (donna tartt), broken monsters (lauren beukes), the amber spyglass (phillip pullman), the paper menagerie (ken liu), the vintner’s luck (elizabeth knox), wuthering heights (emily bronte), pride and prejudice (jane austen), lolita (vladimir nabokov), crimson petal in the white (michel faber), sharp objects (gillian flynn), life after life (kate atkinson), the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde), arcadia (tom stoppard), faust (goethe)

if you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?: a townhouse in edinburgh scotland, someplace just big enough for all of my books and a dog and cat. or that town int he netherlands where there’s no cars and everyone gets around by boat. i don’t drive, so that sounds like such a dream??????

if you could live in any time in history, when would it be?: i don’t think i’d like living in any other time, honestly... as a nonbinary person... but i would love to pop into the victorian era for a visit. i want to sit in on a victorian salon, listen to poets read their work and look at art and just generally enjoy the beauty of it. but i wouldn’t like to live then for long

if you could play any instrument masterfully, which would it be?: the cello please and thank you

if you have one, what mythological god or goddess do you feel a connection to?: i vibe pretty hard with persephone...

oh my god, this is so long, but LASTLY, favorite recent selfie in your camera roll: two because why not?

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