Fans and their Blorbos

[tiggymalvern]

I despair of some fans sometimes. You have a blorbo who did terrible things? Good for you, have fun with that guy, he's fictional. You can adore villains or morally grey characters, I don't care, I've loved some myself. But do not be coming to me telling me that your blorbo didn't do the bad things that canon says flat out that he did. "Oh, no, it was an accident, he didn't know!"

Canon says he did it and he did it in full awareness. Sorry if it doesn't sit right in your head that your beloved blorbo was revealed not to be as pure as the driven snow, but suck it up or ditch your blorbo.

(This is not some starry-eyed teenager I'm talking about either, this is someone from my generation. Lord save me...)

Comments

[bluapapilio]

1000% valid

A certain group of people think that way a lot 'it's not bad because I'M the one liking it' or some other bullshit excuse while at the same time screaming at others for liking the same stuff. *sigh*

[tiggymalvern]

Yeah, there's a lot of fandom hypocrisy out there in a lot of different ways.

If people want to adore some sanitised headfanon version of a character, they can do that. They can write fanfic about their sanitised headfanon dude - I won't be reading it, but enjoy yourself. Play in your little fantasy world - that's what we're all doing in fandom by definition. Just don't come disagreeing with me when we're talking about canon events or I'll get riled!

[tameiki]

Had to look up "blorbo" before reading the rest of your post. Boy, am I out of the loop these days.

In my opinion, canon is canon. If you don't like it, don't play in that sandbox. Sheesh.

[tiggymalvern]

Exactly! Pick another canon, there are plenty of sweet ones out there.

[kronette]

*Insert Picard facepalm meme here*

Oy.

[tiggymalvern]

Yeah, that was my feeling too. I wrote about it here, not where they can see my rant though, because I'm being polite. Sometimes I wish tumblr had the 'make this post visible to select people only' option!