#I just love him so much

[polksaladava]

✼　 ҉ 　✼ the psychology of Elvis, pt. 1 ✼　 ҉ 　✼

i’ve been thinking a lot about the psychology of Elvis since watching the new documentary and i desperately need to scream my little brain worms into the void. i'm not really adding anything to the conversation that @joons didn't already say (much more concisely and eloquently than i'm about to lol) but alas, a yapper never ceases.

obviously i’m not a doctor or an expert by any means, so there’s a good chance i’m just talking out of my ass. always interested to hear other people’s thoughts and opinions but if you’re thinking about engaging with this post in bad faith, don’t!

of course Elvis lived a very complicated and unusual life, and we can never truly know why a person does what they do, but there's a series of major events that i can think of that very obviously impacted him and probably lead to a lot of the patterns of behavior we saw in his adult years.

for a start, he grew up very poor. we know poverty leaves deep and lasting trauma - experiencing resource scarcity, especially during your formative years, has a huge impact on developmental psychology. not only that, but his dad was in prison for 8 months when Elvis was only 3-4 years old. that's old enough to remember the emotions associated, but not old enough that he could have really understood what was happening at the time. AND by all accounts, it seemed he also had a hard time fitting in at school, which i'm sure wasn't helped when the family moved two hours away from his home town.

overall, his childhood was really characterized by scarcity - lack of money, lack of resources, lack of stability, lack of friends. but then he makes it through high school and he hits it big! seemingly overnight and out of no where. and now, there's money coming in! he can afford to buy his family a nice home! he's adored by crowds and he's found friends! and all of this is incredible and he attributes it all to none other than colonel tom parker.

and so now we have this deep-seeded fear of scarcity and this belief that all of the abundance he's finally experiencing should be attributed to the colonel. and the only way to make sure that the colonel stays is to keep him happy.

and then the two worst things that could have possibly happened happen at the same time - he gets sent to Germany, in turn being forced to abandon his career and his life as he knows it, and his mother and very best friend dies tragically.

and suddenly he realizes that the money and the fame and the resources aren't enough to keep bad things from happening, and the worst thing that can happen is losing the people you love - and maybe more importantly, losing the people who love you.

so now we have a man who was, by all accounts, already gentle and kind and loving by nature, whose brain has been conditioned to prioritize having people in his corner above all else. which, to a degree, is just human nature! we intrinsically know that we need a tribe to thrive in the wild. but when you experience the trauma that he went through at such formative times in his life, that becomes your singular goal. to survive, you cannot be alone.

and how do you avoid being alone? you give people a reason to want to be around you. and that reason could be a lot of different things - love, money, sex, entertainment. and he was pretty damn good at providing all of the above. so of course he builds a loyal group to surround him at all times. not only is he kind and fun and beautiful, but he's essentially bankrolling their whole lives. he buys them houses and cars and puts them on his payroll.

and now we have a huge problem, because we're well into the 1960's and Elvis has been raking in cash hand over foot, but he's miserable. he doesn't have a live audience to feed him anymore. the work is meaningless and embarrassing, and his health is on the rocks. but the colonel is constantly reminding him that he's only one step away from desolation, and now Elvis is really scared, because he's essentially the sole provider for a family of 15 at this point and he has to keep the cash flowing. so he stays miserable and does the bad movies and continues to do exactly what the colonel says. and god forbid any of the leeches around him (not you jerry or charlie!!) say anything, because they're not about to lose their paycheck!

but thankfully we make it through the majority of the 60's, and everything changes with the help of steve binder and the '68 special. and that's where i'm going to hop off my soap box for today, but trust me i have MUCH more to say about the 70's and the eventual decline of an empire and how this ties in to the lore of Elvis Presley™ as we know it today.

if any of you actually made it this far, i apologize for the 10 minutes you will never get back. may god bless you angels. maybe go outside or something now tho. okay love you xoxo

[beesleeps]

[flodaya]

#katniss is a victim of the sassy men apocalypse

[fandomsarefamily1966]

YES

Also: reading about/listening to Geddy and Alex talking about Neil 🥺❤️

listening to neil talk about his drumming techniques

listening to neil talk about his travel experiences

listening to neil talk about what inspires him

listening to neil

neil

[acediscowlng]

charles going "i'm aces with other people" literal seconds after he died from being murdered by his friends is absolutely fascinating, this kid's optimism and sheer determination to bullshit his way through every traumatic event he goes through and pointedly refuses to examine really knows no bounds

[remindertoselfto]

More Gumshoes

[myrunawaysweets]

I already knew that he was some sort of male version of the teke teke, but with legs, so I did some really really light research of the Japanese ghosts and found that the teketeke was a type of onryo, so I searched more into that and if there were any male types, and came up with suguwara no michizane who was a scholarship, poet, and politician in the heian period, he was also know as one of the three great onryo of Japan, so I'd suppose that would probably be one of the possible names, but like I said, it was really really light research of what I could've done, but it's currently 1am and I can't keep staying up late until ungodly hours on work night just because a post about my beloved mr crawling exists or an edit or anything really, so I'll come back tomorrow when I get a chance.

can we as a fandom give mr. crawling a name?

like, robert or something?

why do i see smut with the MC moaning Mr. crawling 💀😭

i’m sorry i can’t take it serious because id die laughing

[gatoburr0]

he'd be so proud of it too

[carrythatwayt]

Never change, angel.

[verecunda]

I like the thought that Celebrimbor puts a Fëanorian star on the Doors of Durin because it means he's made peace with his past; it's a sign he's let go of any bitterness and resentment he might - however justifiably! - hold towards his father and the rest of his family, and he's moving on.

But at the same time, I really like the idea that it's also a statement. That star is the device of the House of Fëanor, and he is the last member of that house still living in Middle-earth. And by putting the star on the West-gate, what he's saying, effectively, is: "I am the House of Fëanor now, I decide what our legacy in Middle-earth is to be, and I say this is what that house now stands for: friendship, inclusivity, co-operation, trust, peace."

And I don't think those two ideas are mutually exclusive. Often laying old ghosts is the necessary prelude to making that kind of positive change. And I do love the idea of Celebrimbor as someone who is constantly, consciously trying to do better.

[angell-castiglione]

Just learned today that there are people who hate Martin Blackwood.

Martin “I will repeatedly and without hesitation throw myself before eldritch horrors so the people I love can be free from tyranny” Blackwood.

Martin “My fatal flaw is loyalty and the need to protect my loved ones” Blackwood.

Martin “The thing that breaks my brain is that no matter how much I love and care for my mother she will always hate me because I look like my father” Blackwood.

Martin “There’s nothing wrong with wanting everyone to be ok” Blackwood.

Ok, sure, yeah. Clearly he pretends to be mild mannered as a defense mechanism. If given the chance he would go scorched earth on every avatar and is angry when Jon doesn’t listen to him. And? Is he not allowed to be angry at a lack of justice? It’s not exactly a dilemma with a perfect solution.

Idk there’s something about characters so dedicated to the well being of the people around them that they repeatedly fall on swords for them. Sure, it’s a coping mechanism to need everyone in your life to be happy. That makes him feel safe.

And??? Jon’s cope is the need to understand. That doesn’t do much for anyone except repeatedly put people in harm’s way. He tells himself he’ll destroy the fears once he kills Jonah, but he was clearly deluding himself. He wanted the knowledge all to himself and Martin called him on his bullshit.

That’s not to say he deserves hate either. Obviously he’s a victim of the Ceaseless Watcher and had his fear warped into something monstrous. But Martin’s fears drove him to extremes in order to protect the people around him.

He’s a terrified, bumbling hero and the most nuanced character of the Magnus Archives.

[zevzevarainai]

Over the Garden Wall (2014) - Greg quotes that are permanently ingrained into my vocabulary

[silly--fangirl]

i imagine lucien has a warm voice. i can't really explain it, but it just makes sense for his voice to be like bathing in the sun or sitting near a fireplace after a cold day.

[circussbeetle]

Thinking about how Hotch almost certainly has The best monologues in the entire show. From “my team? Let me tell you about my team.” To “When im home, it’s like im in this silent panic” to “at your core, you’re a coward” to “sometimes the day just… ends” Hotch has some of the most moving monologues in the entire series and i think its so interesting when you think about how quiet he is normally, he’s so reserved and usually his sentences are clipped and direct, more like orders than monologues, and yet on the other side he has an almost theatric delivery to his monologues that makes it so captivating to listen to, makes you hang on every word. He’s so eloquent and concise, every word he says is so intentionally chosen, and it really lands when you’re watching the show. His monologues will always be the ones that stick out to me the most as some of the best line deliveries in the entire series

[meiliem1619]

No one eats up my soul like he does.

[lobotomizedpunk]

Alan at the Emmy's, Hello?!?! THE BADGE????