#and he is dotting and loving as fuck

[justaz]

i wish i was a good artist. i would draw merlin so androgynous. in a dress. long hair. mmmmmm. kiss boys. arthur. kiss arthur. sigh

[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

[oxymoronicdumbass]

i have such a love-hate relationship with being autistic because on one hand, i know that i will never be able to function in a way that is deemed “normal” in society, but on the other hand, there are very few other things that can possess you with the ability to spend 5 straight minutes jumping up and down because of one sentence in a fanfic

[theriverdraws]

HI THIS IS STILL UNFINISHED BUT I WANT TO SHARE IT ON TUMBLR TO WAKE YOU GUYS UP!!!

That's right the "Our special friend Mickey" saga continues. Starring the OC CEO that's not referencing anyone in real life that would be so crazy.

I should be able to finish this until next Sunday, that's the goal (HAD THIS LAYING ON THE DUST FOR TWO YEARS OR SO, NEEDED TO GET IT OUT OF MY SYSTEM).

[tekitothemagpie]

SOMEBODY GET HIM BROWN EYE CONTACTS!!!

[emimii]

Could you ummm. Maybbeee. Could you maybbeee perhaps. Maybe ummmm . Draw this guy. If you don’t mind ofc <3 💋

ALWAYS ANYTHING 4 U TOKI 🦐‼️‼️‼️ HE IS SO SICK AND COOL

[the--last-great-american-dynasty]

the duffers better make mike an absolute menace this season. both with the most brutal sarcasm you’ve ever seen and with the fact that he will just NOT LEAVE WILL ALONE. like dude has almost lost him too many times and now he’s in danger again and mike won’t leave his side and it’s driving everyone crazy

[meetthegofer]

unfortunately the fog IS coming to get me

[practically-an-x-man]

i also love that like. James Gunn looks through the comics. finds one of the most D-list, ridiculous-concept supervillains he can. writes a script where he is odd and awkward in every single scene he's in and is even aware of it, 'living life always as the punchline' as it says in a deleted scene. puts him in (fucking awesome) goofy special effects makeup and CGI's every character into his mom for a joke. kills him off just for shock value right at the end of the movie.

and somehow that character is still so much of a success that when you look on David Dastmalchian's instagram, he has a whole story highlights segment that is just dozens and dozens of Polka Dot Man fanarts he's been sent.

[enobariasteeth]

Helaena is actually Alicent and Rhaenyra's love child... Rhaenyra literally told me herself

[pleasedontcareaboutme]

It's missing my father hours rn so imma just dump a bunch of pictures here and cry

( sorry i don't know the source of anything I just had them on my phone)

(also dont read the tags i just need to let it out lol)

[souredwaters]

haha funni lil guy

a WIP of my Lil Skrunkly!!

[camzverse]

suddenly got smacked with the urge to draw fnaf characters as my little ponies What the fuck. whered that even come from. i dont even know how to draw my little ponies. i mean im gonna do it anygays but what the freak

[spaciebabie]

number one most insane award goes to me it really is christmas oh my god hallelujah

[sunnibits]

artistic rendition of a work selfie I took today

mr wiggles my beloved my best homie <3

[ennard-is-near]

Elizabeth isn’t afraid of the animatronics, even after her brother dies, because she knows they’re harmless on their own. In her head it’s Michael that killed Evan, not Fredbear. Fredbear was just an innocent, non-sentient victim in the whole thing. All she has to do to protect herself is make sure that nobody lays a finger on her and she’ll avoid meeting the same fate as her brother.

But when Elizabeth dies it doesn’t even occur to her that it could have been her someone else’s doing. Even as William figures out that she possesses the robot and starts apologizing and scolding her for going near the thing she doesn’t consider that he was involved. Because her own dad wouldn’t ever hurt her, he loves her so much. It must have just been Circus Baby that killed her, that’s all.