#and the ethics of having something so fucked up be so outwardly child friendly are... questionable to say the least
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We're babysitting my little cousins this weekend (ages 8 and 5), and I am so very grateful for growing up in the early 2000s, because I only had severely restricted access to the internet until I was 12, and the most fucked up thing I did was playing cult with my (of-brand) barbies. I made potions with leaves and flowers and burried little toy figurines in the sandbox, like a normal child.
I did not make anyone around me wonder why the hell is my 5yo cousin clutching a plushie of a character from the "human experiments on orphans" game, who a) is an orphan who was experimented on and b) gets torn in half and then canibalized alive by other human experiment orphans within that game, ya know.
#rant#anti mascot horror#like I enjoy it personally but I'm 22 and I was like 14 when I first discovered it#and the ethics of having something so fucked up be so outwardly child friendly are... questionable to say the least#nothing makes you question mascot horror like putting that into words#like is this really something that should have plushes of all things as merch?#like jesus fucking christ#poppy playtime isn't even subtle about the fucked up elements#like fnaf at least doesn't really involve the lore in the gameplay#I mean I know kids in my generation were obsessed with like creepypastas and shit#but that stuff didn't really have merch available in your local toy store#my brother had a fnaf phase when he was like 10#but that was before the merch was really available#and there was no internet savvy grown up to have an existential crisis about it#my mom doesn't know the mangle plushie she bought my little sister years ago is fueled by the lifeforce of a murdered child#(and honestly its biggest problem is that it looks silly AF)#and she doesn't know the plushie my little cousin brough with him is an orphan who was converted into a toy and then canibalized#but I do#and I hate it
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Appreciating the Range of Type 6, or, one stereotypical example, and three that arenât.
I want to tell you about some type 6 ppl that I know in my personal life.
Exemplar #1: F. B.
Complete Stats
Wing: 5 p or cp: largely phobic â lots of safety worries, outright authoritarian follower personality Instinct: sp/soc Trifix: 613 Â - 6w5 1w2 3w2 (âThe Taskmasterâ or âThe Middle Managerâ) jungian: ISTJ / SLI-Te oldham: Conscientious & Aggressive Essence Type: Mars Temperament: Pure Choleric
What heâs like:
Not pleasant.
Every âstrict conservative middle aged guyâ stereotype in the book. Control freak, makes a mountain out of every molehill, sees the world as full of axe murderers, judgemental as fuck, horrible temper and yet completely impersonable, all his opinions are copypasted from right-wing news sites. When they say war is good heâs for war, and when they say war is bad heâll be like âAt least Trump did not start any more warsâ without perceiving a contradiction. Despite this, he believes is very hot, principled and funny. He is none of these things. He puts people down nonstop. My knowledge of neurochemistry tells me that he must have emotions somewhere or he couldnât function, but I ainât ever seen a single one of those emotions. Theyâre all for his job and a few trusted mentor figures. And his mom. At least he loved her.
If you say anything he doesnât like, he âthrows the sofa out the windowâ as his wife once put it.
How heâs a Type 6:
Well, heâs pretty much every negative stereotype in a nutshell⌠other than distrusting his partner. But that might be cause hes sx blind, or cause the wife is big on monogamy & wouldnât ever cheat.
The one positive trait of 6 that he has is that he does his research. Before moving anywhere he googles the crime rates and if you need a doctor he might find you the best one. But even that can be overriden by ideology (hydroxychloroquine!). And if you donât take his exact advice, there goes the sofa out the window againâŚ
And I guess the work ethic from all 3 parts of the trifix really comes through â he hasnât had a single bad grade in his life and always keeps collecting new certifications, and will make sure you hear about it...
Exemplar #2: I.
Complete Stats
Wing: 5 P or cp: pretty much an even mix of phobic and counterphobic Instinct: sp/soc Trifix: 614 - 6w5 1w2 4w3 (Would prolly call herself âThe Big Painâ rather than âThe Philosopherâ ^^°) jungian: INTJ / ILI-Ni oldham: Serious & Conscientious Essence Type: Saturn Temperament: Chlor-Mel
What sheâs like:
Iâd describe her as serious, mature, discerning, focused and passionate about her friendships, if perhaps somewhat forceful at times, with a dry, sarcastic sense of humor.
Comes across like someone who knows what sheâs talking about, with well-articulated points.
Often the Responsible Sibling, Designated Sanity Checker or Bullshit Detector.
Prefers to plan everything in advance in typical Ni dom fashion, even amusement part trips. Gets somewhat anxious without a future plan or shedule.
Often mistaken for a whole lot more sociable and confident that she really feels inside. (even I kinda bought it and got her whole darn trifix wrong on my first typing attempt, though that was when I was new to typology) She can act the boss act temporarily to get the situation over with, but she actually hates making decisions.
She does however have the occasional cute/pure moment where that lower function block comes out.
How sheâs a Type 6:
She has saved our family from many a terrible restaurant by making sure to check the reviews. The preparing for all possible dangers is very 6, the acting tough outwardly when youre inwardly anxious, the intellectual problem solving & some tendency towards organization/responsibility/ âlogisticâ intelligence.
One online test she took gave her 5w6 instead of 6w5 but thatâs probably just the ITxx-ness leaking in. I remember this one time we were discussing this artsy-fartsy theater play to which weâd had fascinatingly different reactions, and at one point I half-jokingly said something like âBut does anyone ever really feel connected to others, or is that a myth?â to which she wrote, â[Name], what the fuck? Yes I do.â and then immediately deleted it. Thatâs more of a 6 reaction innit?
Nonetheless the wing does feature in significantly â for example she got very well informed about a lot of topics because she researched them to assuage a random survival-related fear, like, âHow to make sure I have enough retirement moneyâ
Exemplar #3: M.
Complete Stats
Wing: 7 p or cp: largely phobic Instinct: sp/sx Trifix: 692 - 6w7 9w1 2w1 (Fortunately very much a âGood Samaritanâ rather than âThe Stockholmâ) jungian: ISFP / SEI-Fi oldham: Sensitive & Devoted Essence Type: Lunar-Venus Temperament: Pure Supine
What sheâs like:
Precious! Sweet, nice, good listener, friendly, gives all the best gifts. But also perceptive and good at understanding people, eg. mediating to the parents when one of the younger sisters is having An Emotion⢠or winning the trust of problem children.
Unlike I. Who has some soc that helps her keep track of a larger circle of friends despite her introversion, M. tends to enjoy the closeness with her family and have just a few very close friends. Excellent friend material all around! The sx and Se also come out in enjoying art forms involving the body like theatre or dance.
She can be a bit shy, conflict-avoidant and occasionally a lil bit panicky though.
As a small kid she used to be super duper shy but then a wise english teacher encouraged her to play a big role in a play, and since then sheâs a lot more confident and doesnât let ppl push her around without limit, though sheâs still a quiet, helpful person. There you see the difference that a good teacher can make.
How sheâs a Type 6:
For one thing she moves and emotes faster than a core 9 would, and she fits the body language â big eyes that move around a lot, stands a bit lopsided, talks in a shrill voice on the rare occasions where we exhaust her patience etc. As a xSFx and a w7 she shows mostly the âwarm, friendly, likeableâ side of type 6. She also has a very 6-ish tendency to very frequently ask peopleâs opinions & feedback before making decisions. (the other fixes probably add to this)
Alas, she also has a little bit of of the fear/insecurity.
Also she has a social/care job which might be seen as 6-ish desire to serve the community.
Exemplar #4: J.
Complete Stats
Wing: 7 P or cp: largely counterphobic Instinct: sx/soc ?? definitely not sp first. Trifix: 638 - 6w7 3w4 8w9(?) (Shall she be a âJustice Fighterâ or a âKyleâ? Only time will tell.) jungian: ISTP / LSI-Se ?? Oldham: ? some Dramatic & Serious, perhaps ? Essence Type: Definitely Mercury Temperament: San-Mel
What sheâs like:
The first adjective that usually comes to my mind is âcoolâ. Sassy, energetic & a little bit tough, but also affectionate when she wants to be. (though in admiring way rather than a mushy one)
She says the coolest things, has a certain sly sort of cleverness, and an astonishly good poker face. Bit of an occasional prankster. Hilarious. Knows all sort of cool science facts. Avid gamer.Â
Not especially popular or over the top sociable, but she gets sad if no one pays attention to her a while. Will act visibly moody where ppl can see sad or worried and can catastrophize a bit in such situations.
How sheâs a Type 6:
I first though we might be getting an ExxP type 7 since she was a pretty energetic child, but once puberty hit and independent thought manifested, she turned out a whole lot too reactive and âedgyâ for this, and more on the âmoderate introvertâ side of things.
Since then the sisterly dynamic has been like one fluffy golden dog and 3 hissing black cats. Hissing Cats #1 and #2 are very proud of her, but cat #1 was forced to conclude that sheâs probably not a positive outlook type.
Out of all the reactive types 6 fits best because she does broadcast group identity (like wearing merchandise of her favorite media and wearing buttons in solidarity with ppl she likes.) & has a big case of Big Sibling worship for M, I, and someone else who isnât on this list due to being a 9. (a 4 or 8 might like their older siblings but probably wouldnât constantly stress the admiration.), but she can also show lasting, pouty displeasure with authority figures who have slighted her. (Like that one time I went too far in teasing her...)
Iâm just assuming the 8 fix because that tends to make 6s more bold, louder & more shameless.
Basically she is the âpunk teenâ type of 6. She can be a bit dramatic & over-the top but still come to her family on advice (even advice on pranks!) in ways that xSTPs of other enneagrams prolly wouldnât.
She also tends to use self-deprecating humor in tough situations and deflects compliments to present herself as âordinaryâ.
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This may sound like Iâm really getting down on my first example (I wonât pretend that Iâm not) but the point in bringing him up is that the reason heâs like this is: He was subject to really bad parenting that put a lot of fear into him, there was no good parenting to teach him broader coping strategies, he lived in a crappy environment that crushed his dreams, in a sense âconfirmingâ those fears and making him double down, resulting in a person who is just always rigidly following the same predictable pattern or jumping from one automatic reaction to the next with very little pausing and thinking. That goes for the other types too: A âstereotypicalâ person is a desperate person ruled by fear, who cant stop or soften up even for an instant cause they constantly feel this fire of threat under their arse.
A lot of descriptions say that 6s âFollow authorityâ but most would balk at the notion â âI do the research!â they might argue âI donât just trust anyoneâ or âIâm actually a rebelâ. There is of course such a thing as denial  thatâs more like the extreme case.
But with a more average, functional 6 itâs not so much âobedienceâ as that they just like to bounce their ideas off of others to get feedback, or that they feature in otherâs viewpoints. So you might get someone who can naturally use feedback (something other ppl may have to learn first) or who is very considerate of others (which others might have to consciously remind themselves to do.)
Those are sometimes pretty good traits actually.
On the other hand this is probably part of what makes decisions hard cause they consider all these possible scenarios of how things might displease or cause harm to everyone involved.
Being able to naturally snap into Action Mode under stress looks a bit enviable from the outside, but I. assures me that itâs actually super stressful & exhausting, even for someone who doesnât get to a point of just being unreasonably aggro at you.
Though even an extreme case like F.B. would probably claim that he âdid the researchâ even as heâs 1:1 quoting the Pope at you, and then saying that you âhave to be respectfulâ even if you donât even believe in Christianity. Hence why you get a lot of authoritarians talking about âdisrespectâ. You didnât âfail to obeyâ, you âdisrespected the flagâ or  âhurt the feelings of the Chinese peopleâ. Because theyâre still trying or inwardly thinking that theyâre doing the consideritation & considering otherâs PoV thing when theyâve long since crossed from respect and consideration into mindless obedience, all while still thinking that theyâre very sceptical and discerning cause after all they really distrust the other political party or whatever. Â
In a way you get this obsession with âmind controlâ cause theyâre not unaware of & very much looking to guard the blind spot. Theyâre adults trying to do adult things.
For example, if I voiced an opinion to F. B. which he didnât like, his reaction was often to ask âwho told you thatâ
Thatâs just how he seems to think opinions work, somebody tells them to you.
Makes one wonder how he thinks new opinions start.
Yeah - Nobody told me that. I concocted it myself in some corner of my head. And in the interest of objectivity, I should stress that you can also end talking out of your ass that way, if youâre not basing it on enough outside data. Making up new shit has more of a quadratic than a linear learning curve â at least with copying you get something semi-useful right away. In making up your own you might be really off a long time before you stumble on something useful.
Also, I was young at the time and itâs not wholly unreasobale to think that an inexperienced person might be duped. I reacted really badly in part cause he hit my own ego buttons cause I was of course proud of this epiphany that I had concocted by myself, and now he says (or so I perceived it, being sensitive to accusations of incompetence) that Iâm too dumb to form an opinion, so of course I launched into full Obnoxious Reddit Dude Mode.
In I. It manifests more on a reasonable useful level like âOh wait, should [young cousin] be on TikTok? I donât want him to get sucked into some cultish BS.â which is at least something the parents should have on the radar/ warn him about even if they do let him use TikTok, because for all that it is vital for him to get his experience with independent socializing & experimentig with sel-presentation, people do sometimes get suckered into cults or goaded into unsafe tests of courage.
And in a sense⌠maybe they overamphasize it but to some extent theyâre also simply consciously aware/ mindful of it. The rest of us are not immune to propaganda after all, solong as itâs presented in a way pleasing to our egos. Any type structure can become a âhookâ if youâre not careful.
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