#Personal Analysis

[cardcaptor747]

Prefacing this by saying this is my personal opinion, If you don't agree just plz continue scrolling.

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Hey so Ik SPN is a rlly fucking old show. But I have to confess, I am tired asf of shows that cannot for the life of them write women well.

I love all of the female characters in SPN, I do – Charlie is fr the coolest, and Lisa is more than amazing – but plz tell me female characters outside of maybe Charlie and Rowena who we see stuff about that's more than their connection to the Winchesters?

Yes, Ik we don't see much of many of the characters outside of Sam and Dean, but we get to follow Bobby's story, we see Cas's side of the story, hell we even learn quite a bit about Crowley. And no matter what we get to see and understand more about sm of the male characters than just 'ooh look I'm sexy' or 'ooh look I'm attracted to this character'.

It actually annoys me sm whenever a female character is introduced and it turns into a game of 'ok so which one of the boys is she gonna fuck/make out with before she leaves?' – looking at Anna, Pam, and Jo specifically; none of them needed to have romantic/sexual relationships with any of the boys (and lowk Pam and Jo kissing Dean felt so off to me cuz I'd been ignoring the forced romance they were building bcs surely he sees Jo as like a younger sibling/cousin and Pam is old enough to be their aunt what is girly doing ts is creepy ngl).

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Also I need Dean and Sam (esp Dean) to be seen as a character outside of their sexuality and sex life. Dean is clearly a character who enjoys sex (and uses it as a distraction in a similar sense to alcohol WHAAT WHO SAID THAT). But I don't rlly vibe with it when that's all his character is seen as, even within the show, like, why is it that the second he meets a woman 90% of the time he's characterised to be thinking about them sexually? Like I would have loved to see more of big brother Dean, outside of Sam, like can you imagine how cute it would've been to see him acting as a 'role-model'/big brother figure to Jo, kinda like how he is with Charlie? Or even him being shown to have an overwhelming urge to protect Anna because of how similarly they'd been raised? Like he's a character who cares so deeply about other, I would've loved to have seen him connecting deeply with more characters (and specifically female characters) without it being connected to sexual or romantic love (also even from an angst perspective, like can you imagine him connecting with a character and seeing other people he loves in them and then having to watch them be killed or hurt in front of him? bbg I'd love to have seen him go ballistic over stuff like that more often).

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Various Authors - Self-Scoring personal analysis tests - BPC Publishing Limited - 1974

[loveforvanity]

I figured out these smurf's zodiac signs!

1. ♈Aries - Hefty Smurf

2. ♉Taurus - Greedy Smurf

3.♊Gemini - Brainy Smurf

4.♋Cancer - Weepy Smurf

5.♌Leo - Vanity Smurf

6.♍Virgo - Farmer Smurf

7.♎Libra - Smurfette, Papa Smurf, Poet Smurf

8.♏Scorpio - Grouchy Smurf, Jokey Smurf

9.♐Sagittarius - Marco Smurf, Smurfazalea, Grandpa Smurf

10.♑Capricorn - Miner Smurf

11.♒Aquarius - Handy Smurf

12.♓Pisces - Clumsy Smurf, Dreamy Smurf

(Based on the smurf's personalities in the 1980's cartoon)

[nsfwhiskey]

Spain pictures, personal thoughts:

L is likely still with A, as evidenced by the timing of her sharing a story with a similar background + the vibe of the Spain pics of L were quite intimate and someone had to be taking them. The most likely candidate is her.

The cake pic was a cute selfie he likely sent to N. I believe the cake was prepared by the hotel to welcome him, as resorts tend to do for high profile guests.

I’m not getting a shady vibe from the cake pic. In fact, the fact that he clarified that N wasn’t in the photo was him putting beefing rumors to rest the same way N does when she posts him on her stories.

I don’t think N/L are beefing, I think many people are misinterpreting L’s social media moves, which is easy to do when emotions are heightened because of the potential reference to A.

While the photos feel like a reality check and did hurt a little, I’m personally okay with accepting that N/L are not quite as ‘on the way’ as we had hoped yet. I am bracing myself for a hard launch after the 90 days have passed and believe that A has been relatively quiet in anticipation of that. If it does happen, we’ll be fine. The plot has to play out.

However, in that vein, the chaos week posts confuse me, because while the scrabble board doesn’t resonate with me, I really do think Bless the Telephone + Juna was for L, and that the milk shirt was L-coded (intentionally). I can’t speak to what it means except maybe that N was thinking about him/missing him and subtly wanted him to know.

Lastly, I don’t think L still being with A directly speaks to him choosing her over N. We still have no clue about how N feels, what she wants/doesn’t want, and what she’s willing to risk both professionally and friendship-wise. That half of the puzzle is still missing and until we have it (which will never happen), I don’t think we can attribute blame to anyone for choosing someone over the other.

Just my thoughts, to keep my head straight.

[jyanadavega]

So I've been seeing a lot of Tik Tok about LWJxWWJ and it make me realised how one little sentence triggered me so much that I had a very hard time enjoying this couple as much as I did in the beginning.

For me I really really hate the "everyday means everyday", as I really just want to answer to that " no means no". I know it suppose to play on the "bratty bottom trope" and WWJ being a tease and not keeping his promise, and that it isn't any more deep. But for me it just sound like the people who said that because you're married there cannot be r***. If he doesn't want it, he doesn't want it. And that even if I know that because it's fiction it's obliviously a joke and that WWJ in the author's mind is ok with it and is probably secretly happy about that.

But, also probably due to my own life experience and having to constantly argue with men because they want more that what I promised, this sentence really ruined my appreciation of LWJ. And I really wish I could magically forget it so I could continue enjoying this story as much as I did in the beginning.

[illmamnim]

Allow me this kind of personal analysis relating to Grey Is...

It's awkward since it's far more direct than mainstream fandoms I hide in the shadows of, but I would love to talked about it nonetheless.

I often get attached to characters in relationships that are undefined or ever-changing. Found family is one of my favourites, and "family of two" is something I always love seeing more of. My favourite example of it has to be Good Omens, where I first actually came across aro/ace being a real experience and not a vague headcanon. I found more of those characters and dynamics over time, yet always came back to my own characters to "fill in the gaps" of things I've wanted to see and never found.

I was never quite sure what I was looking for, though. My urge to create half of my stories was a "what if" rather than "I feel", almost like I created out of spite. Which I'm not against, especially when people I show it to like or resonate with it, but it still leaves a little bittersweet result. I have recently started to use my stories to explore ideas rather than imagining the potential end-result, which is fun but exhausting. I don't have the finished products I want to see in the world, so those ideas stay in my notes for months and years. Some forever.

However, when I read Grey Is, I'm not nit-picking moments and trying to find "it" through them. The emotional journey the characters go through is not only interesting, it's every one of those "nit-picked" moments I get from other media compiled into one. It's the kind of story I would love to make, and it inspirs me to write for me. Instead of trying to fill in an experience through analysis, it's me wanting to give my own point of view on things I feel close to.

Don't get me wrong, nothing can replace making my own characters, but there will always be the self consciousness of looking at my own art that fogs the experience. I know I can write well, draw well, but having something to wait for and see complete is satisfying. Looking for "it", means wanting to see myself reflected in others, not to avoid my conscious, but to see my brain through a rose-tinted mirror.

My friend told me that Grey Is is the first time I didn't use a story as escapism but as an emotional reference point of self analysis, not hiding behind the character but reflecting in it. So Grey Is... to me is like a song, if that makes sense.

[officialspec]

my fan fiction graph

[bi-for-vi]

In literary/cinema mediums, when a character extends their hand in friendship while hiding their other hand behind their back, that can actually symbolize tension between trust and betrayal

The hidden hand means the character is hiding something, literally or metaphorically. A weapon, a scheme, an ulterior motive. It signifies that their friendship is likely a trap

TLDR Maddie was always hiding something and the writers hinted at it the whole time

Fuck that bitch leprachaun

[heytherecentaurs]

Brennan’s talked before about how as a poor young adult he lived in New York and struggled with food security. He tells a story of going to frozen yogurt places for free samples and a cheap dumpling spot because it was a lot of food.

His opinions on food and his described behaviours around food make a lot of sense in that context. He may be successful now and can be assured he can eat again when he’s hungry, but it appears he has legitimate trauma around his experiences with poverty because what he’s humorously describing is a trauma response. His mind hasn’t gotten rid of the anxiety of “I’m eating now so I better make it count because I don’t know when I will again.”

Because he’s a comedian he manages to frame it as a joke, but there’s certainly an underlying sadness. It also informs Evan Kelmp’s characterization. Capitalism is the root issue here and poverty is state-sanctioned economic abuse.

Anyway, I hope he’s doing well and taking care of himself.

[descendant-of-truth]

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Historians Hate Him

(Bonus: Lost footage of WWX's death)

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[aroaceleovaldez]

i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

[asadstatue]

This is simply and merely a personal impression, it's just interesting to me that how Will looks the most beautiful (and not handsome) when he fully embraces his nature, and how Hannibal looks the most beautiful when he's in love.

They both are handsome men, always. But there are some moments where they have some sort of divine beauty.

[ilions-end]

When [Penelope] awakens after the slaughter and hears the news that Eurycleia brings her, she cannot at first believe that it is truly Odysseus who accomplished it (her skepticism mirrors the earlier suspiciousness of her husband; both Odysseus and Penelope need to learn that there is a time for trust and acceptance to supersede disbelief). Instead, Penelope supposes it must be a god who has come down from Olympus to punish the suitors for their villainy. The scene which follows shows Penelope, in the midst of her confusion and doubt, formulating a plan to test the identity of the stranger. Once before, in Book 19, she had attempted to do so ('Now, stranger, I have it in my mind to test you'), but there Odysseus had sidestepped. Now we see the tables turned, the biter bit, in the famous counter-test of the bed. Here Odysseus' celebrated caution and control vanish, and he bursts with indignation. This scene not only trumps Odysseus' previous testing and Penelope's own failure in book 19; Penelope here also goes on better than Athene in Book 13, for even Athene, though she deceived Odysseus and he failed to recognize her, could not make him give himself away: Impasse. Penelope is the only person who could outwit Odysseus in such a test, and this shows, like many other details and parallelisms between them, how well matched husband and wife truly are. Further, it is not just the test itself, Odysseus' knowledge of their secret, which makes Penelope believe in him, but his moment of angry passion, of uncontrolled emotion. As commentators have pointed out, a god would have known the truth [...] The automatic, unthinking surge of anger at the thought of his bed, his wonderful creation, being violated is wholly human.

—Richard B. Rutherford, 'The Philosophy of the Odyssey'

[mayasaura]

I was thinking about how we don't actually know how Pyrrha died. Just that by her own telling, she "was killed," and that she was the first cavalier to die outside Cristabel and Alfred's suicide pact.

Before Nona came out, I suspected Gideon the First must have killed her, probably with her consent. That seems unlikely to me now, with everything we've learned about them in Nona.

Also before Nona came out, I came to the conclusion that the lyctors demanded John kill Alecto following a "great attack" on Canaan House and the revelation of what a Resurrection Beast is. Based on Mercymorn's assumption that Alecto was a freak who would attack her on sight, I also highly suspected that Alecto either participated in or perpetrated the attack on Canaan House, thus proving herself beyond a shadow of a doubt to be untamed and dangerous in a way that not even John could talk his way out of.

I just recently noticed a detail in Nona the Ninth that might slot all this together like puzzle pieces:

Pyrrha has seen something very like Nona's tantrums before, and that memory scares her. Enough that she avoids even thinking about it.

I think Alecto may have killed Pyrrha.

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.