Blorbo from that Barbie show. In stickers etc

(ooc: get to know me, turn edition!)

stole this from @cabbxges-and-kings lol :3

Favourite Season: it’s a tie between s2 and s3 for me lol. imo s2 and s3 are the two best seasons in terms of plot, but i can never pick a favorite! i associate s2 with romance and a happier, more upbeat vibe (it’s the season of jpeg and annlett!!) and s3 with high-stakes drama and a tenser, slightly more angsty vibe, and BOTH ARE SO GOOD. 

Least Favourite: oof...... i have to say s4. i have a soft spot for s1 because it’s obviously what got me hooked on the show, and i love rewatching it and getting reintroduced to all the characters. s4 feels a little bit rushed (which, to be fair, is because we were robbed of a s5!!) and andre is gone, which automatically makes me like it less LDFKHJDKS... but i do love the peggy and abigail team-up and abe’s weird redcoat arc is fun, so it gets points for that. 

Favourite character(s): john andre is my little meow meow blorbo and i am his number one fan LDFNJD <3. i have so many others that i love, but apart from andre, i probably relate the most to peggy and anna (though for some reason i struggle to write anna sometimes lol). i could literally talk all day about why i like andre, but i actually did a post about that somewhere else on this blog HAHA. 

Least Favourite Character: ugh it’s GOT to be benedict arnold. sorry to any arnold fans/fans of the real historical figure, but the way he’s portrayed in the show is so gross and seriously gives me the ick lol. nothing is worse to me than a man who plows over other people’s boundaries and thinks he’s entitled to everything ever, which is exactly what arnold is lol. i USED to really not like richard, but tbh i think he’s a really intriguing character who adds a lot to the show (even if much of it is just as an obstacle to abe’s plans LOL, he’s a really interesting representation of a certain brand of loyalist). oh, and i also have an issue with robert rogers for randomly going after andre (why?? >:( ) but he’s funny, so he gets a pass lol. 

Favourite Romantic Relationship: you know i’m the number one jpeg stan. they’re just the best! andre and peggy just check off every single one of my (highly specific, picky af) ship requisites: vaguely austen-esque ballroom meet-cute, witty banter, kinda hate each other at first but only bc they’re the same person, can finally stop performing around each other, GET RANDOMLY QUAKER MARRIED, barbie and ken vibes, Tragic Lovers, the fucking braid...... need i go on? i love them. 

Favourite Friendship: ooh... ben and caleb are great, ofc, but also, peggy and abigail!! and for a slightly more niche one, i love robert townsend and rivington’s dynamic HAHA. (omg and robert and ANDRE... idk if they count as “friends,” but their scenes together in s3 are the funniest thing ever to me.) 

Favourite Episode: objectively, in terms of its impact on me and its cinematographic quality? s3e10. but i bawled when i first watched it, so uhhhh, omg this is TOUGH, but maybe s2e4 or s2e6? s2e4 has the Garden Scene with jpeg that i go insane over (one day i’ll write a full meta post about why) and s2e6 is andre’s stupid flute solo and i just love seeing them happy together lol. BUT ALSO, s3e6 (thanksgiving) is so fucking funny and i also adore that one. 

Least Favourite Episode: ugh sorry washington stans, but valley forge/s2e7 lol. i don’t like how it’s ONLY focused on washington and most of the other characters are absent. i would eat that shit up if they did an andre-centric ep like that, but i just don’t care enough about gwash sodfjhjdks. 

Favourite Iconic Quote: “don’t presume you know what it is to be me,” obviously! 

White actors who are actually really good at it: ie., shut the fuck up about timothee chalamet

(This isnt in defence of these actors. This is purely my opinion on their acting skills. This also only based on media that Ive seen. Even if theres a famous actor i should have included, im not putting it in if i havent seen it. Not including any REALLY famous actors like gary oldman or cate blanchett cuz thats redundant)

Walton Goggins (gonna make a whole post about how severely underappreciated he is)

Jodie Comer (I watched almost an hour of Prima Facie on yt and its so incredible. A well deserved Tony for her)

Margot Robbie (a fan favourite, but she convinced so many of yall that barbie was a feminist masterpiece and thats pretty good acting to me)

Josh Charles (idc what people say he was ROBBED of an emmy for the good wife)

Alan Cumming (also only saw him in the good wife but he steals almost every scene)

Carrie Preston (again on TGW, incredible addition and her character is so amazingly done)

Michael Emerson (husband of Carrie Preston i think. He was incredible on Person of Interest and he's also really good in Fallout)

Timothy Olyphant (the contrast between him on justified and him on santa clarita diet is NUTS. Just look it up)

Joelle Carter (also on justified. Love her endlessly. Her character Ava is peak tumblr blorbo material)

Sarah Goldberg (she was sally in Barry and is a personal fave of my dad's)

Eve Hewson (another fave of my dad's. Also she's Bono's kid apparently)

Tom Hiddleston (I like to think timothee chalamet was trying to be him and failed miserably in the talent and charisma section. Saw clips of him on Broadway and while i get why he didnt win but his Tony nom was very well deserved.)

Sebastian stan (pls dont hate me but i watched part of a different man and hes really good in it. Hope he gets better scripts in the future)

J*lianna M*rgulies (i feel weird even putting her on this list in light of her disgusting racist comments, but she brought a very quiet, human rage to her role in the good wife and she deserved those 2 emmys for it IMO)

Christine Baranski (also on the good wife. Loved her on it)

Jonny Lee Miller ( i will scream this till the day i die but hes easily the best sherlock of this century like it isnt even a fight for me)

Bitty Schram (Loved her on monk she was at the heart of that show. It would have never been that good without her as an actress)

David Tennant (yall knew we would be here. GO fans love him like crazy but we have to appreciate how genuinely terrifying he was in Jessica Jones. My mom still refuses to watch GO because of how disturbing he was. )

Michael Sheen (nuff said)

Krysten Ritter (loved her on jessica jones)

Michael C. Hall (he was so so good on Dexter)

Simon Baker (he was like the only really good actor on the mentalist maybe)

Stana Katic (her role im castle was shit but shes pretty good in absentia and i would be open to watching her more)

Thats all I have for now

1 and 5 for steddie ask game!

thank you for asking!!

1. Why do you like this ship?

steve was my favorite character before eddie showed up! and eddie is now my favorite character! so that's one of the reasons, just me getting my two blorbos and making them kiss lmao like two lil barbie dolls i wasn't in the ST fandom before s4 so i didn't ship anything besides the canon ships, like jancy, lumax and jopper. so what really compelled me to ship steddie was seeing other people's takes on them, reading fics and seeing fanarts before s4 none of the other steve ships were, like, great. none of them was 100% healthy, stancy didn't work canonically for a good reason, stonathan- i mean jonathan punched steve in the face; and the most popular one... i won't even talk about that LMAO yikes. but eddie is a character that, canonically, never mistreated steve and that just makes steddie the best ship for me. i do enjoy other steve ships, i am a multishipper after all, but i think steddie is my OTP because it's a ship that would actually work out in canon if it ever happened it's not the only one - i actually think stargyle and cheerscoops would THRIVE, but i also like eddie more, so. that's just me flattering myself DKSJDKJSJD but also it's the one ship with characters that we saw interacting, and that makes it more palpable to me. unfortunately we won't get to see any canon cheerscoops interactions, RIP my queen chrissy. but here's hoping we'll have some good stargyle ones in s5!! oh wow that was an essay

5. If they had pets what would they be?

oooh good question. again, projecting myself a little here, i think they'd both love all animals equally! but. they both have more of a 'dog dads' energy imo. they'd have one of each: a big athletic dog that steve can take on walks and runs and train her, and for eddie to cuddle and hug like she's a huge stuffed animal. and a tiny dog that stays the whole day lying down, not necessarily a lap dog, maybe just a luker y'know. one of those that lies down right beside you, touching your legs but not on top of you. he's great quiet company, and daddie's lil prince. eddie would also love to have a lizard. not sure he'd get one though skkskdkd

send me some Steddie asks!

A, E, M?

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

*whispers* Elena/Esteban (EoA S3 era or afterward). Either just the two of them or an OT3 w/ a third character( that I won't spoil b/c my friend is still catching up w/ the show and there are specific plot reasons why specifically these 3 together give me every feeling). But like, platonic is good too. I guess. Even if my feral little gremlin brain is like "yes, my precious..."the whole time. To be fair though, pretty much anyone with Esteban will probably make my brain spin happily as though on a hamster wheel. Also from EoA, Princess Valentina deserves to smooch *everyone* and it makes me sad that there isn't more content of her with anyone other than Alonso or occasionally Elena. (Esp. feeling the lack of Val/Naomi, Val/Chloe, and Val/Esteban content.)

I mean Phoenix/Kristoph from Ace Attorney will always have huge chunk of my heart and they still do even if Kris is no longer my main blorbo. Also from Ace Attorney, Gumshoe/Lang/Edgeworth are still THE OT3 (and Kay & Gumshoe & Edgeworth are THE BROT3) and Apollo/Klavier/Ema are the 2nd fave OT3 (tho I can literally only conceive of them as a poly ship. I can't ship any other permutations of them.) I've also as of late been having a lot of Cykesquill feelings which I imagine will only intensify when the AA 4-6 port comes out and I can revisit Dual Destinies.

I haven't really been doing much except thinking, reblogging and admiring from a distance, but "Rebel Captain" (Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor from Star Wars) have also been hitting all my buttons lately. Just the inherent eroticism of being narratively coded as soulmates AND also literally doomed by the narrative at what should've been the beginning of their story. It's just so good.

I've also been missing Malcolm/Nicola from The Thick of It and Jane/Michael from Jane the Virgin a lot lately. Just nostalgia for old OTPs coming back and hitting me unexpectedly in the feels.

I also had an unexpected craving for Gwydion/Achren from The Chronicles of Prydain recently. And was dismayed to learn that it barely exists. Not that I should've been surprised. The fandom itself is pretty tiny and I am queen of the rare pairs after all. But the potential is just exquisite and it's depressing that barely anyone else sees the vision.

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

"Adding to your fandom" makes it sound so serious and powerful. I don't think I have that kind of sway. Maybe in the Father Brown fandom a few years ago but like probably not any more. Though people did seem to like the Barbie Selfie Generator post I made for the characters. I think I was one of the first people using/popularizing "malcola" as ship name for Malcolm/Nicola and I did make a (not very funny) joke (that Nicola might have appreciated) that they are the "bad soda" ship because "mal" as in the root for "bad" and "cola" as in "coca-cola."

I've also made some pretty outrageous things for AA that almost no one knows about since I didn't widely share them and I have no wider influence on the fandom as a whole. The most notable and hilarious of which is an absolute absurd batshit AU that my friend and I came up that just exploded to the most ridiculous and entertaining (imo) nonsense imaginable. (Ask me about the "larryan and the klavengers" I dare you. You will almost certainly regret it. But I probably won't :P)

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

It's tricky to say, since a lot of the characters that I am drawn to aren't necessarily the same characters I would want to hang w/ irl. In part because there's usually a lot of projection going on and because I'm awkward/shy/sensitive and I just sort of assume that my faves wouldn't want to be around me even if I wanted to be around them.

However, I feel somewhat safe in saying that I would probably get along well w/ (and feel really cherished and validated by/happy around) Athena Cykes from Ace Attorney and the title character of Father Brown. (I mean probably the whole squad tbh but Fr. B is an especial case. He's so kind and he would look out for me even if I felt intimidated/shy/overwhelmed by the rest of the squad's utter fabulousness.)

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Sorry I'm laughing but the second you mentioned harems I got violently yeeted to the era of "Ash betrayed fics where he returns as an edgy trainer and collects a harem of main and single episode females" it really is just a universal experience when a series mains a male protag lol. Do they do this in LoZ? I'm surprised to hear Lumine is more popular, but that checks out too. I have no idea what it is that makes the girl or boy more popular in any given series, but it always gets simplified to "waifu" and "blorbo" in Pokemon its just *hand-waves* too many different spin-offs and creators with their own stances that makes it confusing I think. It's difficult to see if there's meant to be some kind of gender balance or if the creators are trying to say something there on what they feel is/should be canon-leaning. It conflicts with previously released material because there's all this collaboration between the different creators + with how different the media feels each time, you end up wondering which is "for fan entertainment" and which is "secretly the intended game canon" that gets enforced when more canon material takes one side over the other. I think fans are always going to struggle with a lack of gender equality. Sometimes the girls are just too dang popular, and characters like Lucas, Victor, and Nate are the "Ken" of the Barbie/Pokemon franchise. It's joked about too, by TPC and fans. Sometimes everything leans towards the boys and the girls are stuck as the sidekick. But you know everyone has their own attachment to each generation, so something like alternating the protagonist every episode or second series like in the Special Animations - while nice imo - doesn't happen in other spin-offs like Masters. It'll never feel balanced to anyone because the balance comes using all the Gens as pieces of a whole, rather than a balance within the generation itself. Game canon is never addressed, until they drop the "hiding the protagonists face behind a Pidgey because ambiguity ~" and start writing actual Storylines for NPC Players. Hence: fandom canon protag conflict. People are naturally always going to look towards the majority evidence despite Pokemon's former ambiguous nature if most of any given material shows preference in any way. And we already have little to nothing to work with. It doesn't help that spin-off canons have proven to influence each other, so what message comes across in them matters a lot to fans. They don't feel like TPC just throwing a dart for diversity, but rather as deliberate choices.

OH MY GOD YOU JUST GAVE ME FLASHBACKS. I remember those days of exploring Pokemon fanfics and encountering so many Ash is betrayed so he becomes the master of the Pokemon Universe and is the leader of a harem who love him so much T-T

I really don't get the popularity to be honest, I feel like the same ones who did that with Ash are the ones who are doing it with Aether (or are the same breed of people).

Genshin does something similar with the twin protagonists too, they will release content for Lumine (such as when they do birthday art for the playable characters and the protagonist twin that you use will be in the art too if you go to the event) however when it comes to their actual promotion of the game, she's forgotten in favor of her brother.

What's interesting about the creators of Genshin is that they have another game where you choose between a male and female protag but according to friends who play that game, it's the female protag who is favored by the company in promotional art. Seems to be like Pokemon media in that sense.

I know why they give you a choice, it's for players to choice to play as themselves if they want (well mostly as you're only giving two genders T-T). The characters, despite media attempting to give them a personality in some instances, they're blank enough to be self-inserts too.

With Pokemon I don't mind this fact as much as the character you play as don't have major lore behind them but it causes an issue in genshin where they can't pick between wanting the protag to be a self-insert of the player or their own character who is supposed to contribute to the story with their lore and personality.