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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.
#mlp#yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia.#yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show#but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!!#i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse#in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character#personal#delete later#unless you like this analysis stuff#i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did#cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her#mother and father as a teenager#i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased#but i'll put some in the tags#involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity#anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention#(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff#long post#regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at#a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up
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i feel like many people use "straight"...wrong
it's used a lot to mean cis, het, allo, perisex, etc.
basically just not lgbtq+ at all
but that's not true
trans people can be straight and lgbtq+
intersex people can be straight and lgbtq+
neopronoun users can be straight and lgbtq+
arospec people can be straight and lgbtq+
acespec people can be straight and lgbtq+
polyamorous people can be straight and lgbtq+
genderfluid, bigender, and other gender non-conforming people can be straight and lgbtq+
people who are biromantic, panromantic, etc. and heterosexual or vice versa are still lgbtq+
and there are so many more identities that can absolutely be both
straight does not mean not lgbtq+
#queer#lgbtq+#queer pride#trans#neopronouns#aromantic#asexual#polyamorous#genderfluid#bigender#biromantic#not a rant#and please don't come at me if i missed something#or did something wrong#i really tried to include most people i could think of#if you have a suggestion lmk but pls don't attack me#:)#i think someone has said something like this before#and if anyone could find the og post that'd be cool#cuz i was thinking about that post a lot while doing this#lgbtq+ pride#babna 😨#intersex
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I really am not gonna get over Keyleth/Verin as a ship because like, they are WILDLY compelling for having come out of nowhere:
Verin will at the very least live another six hundred years, and is quite possibly functionally immortal via consecution.
They can commiserate about being thrust into the responsibility of commanding a force against extraplanar existential threats at a young age due to the (temporary) death of a parent in the role before them. This really does feel like a two nickels situation, if I'm being honest.
What are air magic and graviturgy if not different methods of achieving the same effect?
He's even a dramatic, long-haired goth with a complicated relationship with a fate deity and, if we're being honest, mommy AND daddy issues. Look at his Netherdeep art. Don't tell me Vax wouldn't approve.
I cannot bring myself to classify this as a crack ship because it is genuinely, bizarrely compelling in character.
#I wrote a lot of this out two weeks ago in tags but I did think about verin's weird similarities to vax and was like lmao#keyleth of the air ashari#verin thelyss#verleth#that's what I'm going with for ship name everyone else can do what they want but#I do think it's funny to maintain the keyleth ship name convention with yet another v name#it causes no issues with tagging cuz it is distinct but in terms of reading confusion? high lmao
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gaz and his outfit expansion!
#i was gonna draw him full bodied cuz i saw some cute shoes that would fit him!!! but i got lazy sorry y'all- NEXT TIME NEXT TIME!!!#also... sorry for the jjk reference on the first one... but we must keep the tradition!! (did it too for the Ghost's last time LOL)#thinking about drawing Soap and Price outfit doods too. when i get the energy!!#my art#2024#call of duty#cod#call of duty: modern warfare#call of duty: modern warfare ii#call of duty: modern warfare iii#cod mw#cod mwii#cod mwiii#modern warfare#mw#mw2#mw3#kyle gaz garrick#kyle garrick#gaz cod#art#fanart#digital art#digital drawing#sketch#doodle#video games
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There's 11 links in LU? what are you talking about?
what is goin on lmao
#the one on the right is mr first hero right#has it been solved who the other link is cuz I have no clue#watch this post age like milk with the colors of the link on the left sdfghujklfd#linked universe#lu first#lu mystery link#idk crii#my art#if you think about it there's 14 links including the colors#did I draw and color in their faces? yes#will I post it? maybe
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all niigo birthday art pieces COMPLETE!!
#project sekai#prosekai#prjsk#prsk#niigo#nightcord#nightcord at 25:00#25 ji nightcord de#25ji#n25#kanade yoisaki#mafuyu asahina#ena shinonome#mizuki akiyama#my art#i loveeee giving references of previous events#but i did that to everyone EXCEPT FOR MFY#i feel kinda bad about it.........#don worry mfy..... next year i will knock it out of the park..#i think im the most proudest of knd's cuz well.. the amount of outfits i chose to draw...#and then animating the eyes like i had to do a bit of learnin#but thats the one i worked the most on as well as ena's cuz well...... my faves <3#but im glad i got to do everyone!!
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i love to see people who are like "you can talk about csa but not around minors that's gross!" like idk how to tell you this but. who do you think is getting csa'd. i'll give you a hint: the first letter in csa does not stand for "adult"
#nnstuff#was browsing the tmnt competition cuz i havent paid attention to it much#and that anon made me laugh#that anon was prolly a kid too but like still. its funny. i dont blame them for thinking that#i just think its funny is all#anyway good on the mod for being very level headed about stuff#they're doing a good job and i'm proud of them even if it's not how i'd handle things- cuz i am an adult who is used to talking about CSA#and they're a kid who is clearly uncomfortable with it and definitely could've responded way worse than they did#csa tw
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man, you know, nobody asked me, but I have such conflicting opinions on some of the fat falin art, where on one hand: it's always nice to see A Fat Body in fanart anywhere + it's being done in positive ways, for funsies and on the other hand, there is something so familiar about how you are automatically The Fat One if you are a woman simply standing next to a more petite woman, bc I've had a 0% hitrate in seeing people change Marcille's body type and keep Falin's, or change both of them. it's just Falin
#it gives me a negative feeling that I seldom/never get from seeing fat art which is rare#like she's not fat out of thin air For Fun And No Other Reason and she's not fat bc of context#(out of thin air being like just picking a character you like and changing their design just cuz. Kabru maybe.)#(and Because Of Context being the way ppl draw fat Usagi from sailor moon. which i have been meaning to do btw)#but rather she's fat just bc to be Not the thinnest woman in the room is to be fat. like it happens specifically by scale#because marcille is so much physically smaller and petite and falin is bigger in the ways that a Human Woman is bigger#than an elf woman#and it's funny bc it's something i see all the time already#people also really don't seem to have an interest in making marcille butch in fanart in a way#that is sort of sad for me bc it's like ah well she's the thin small one so of course she gets to be feminine#if you're physically bigger then of course you get to be masc of course of course of course...#i also love good butch art esp fat butch stuff but this is about the phenomenon where if you're with#a thinner shorter woman then that means you're the butch now which is a place I have been to#and I did not like it there#I think part of why That sticks it to me is bc marcille has such a Butch Girlfriend personality and falin acts so demure LMAO#but she's slightly bigger so the writing is on the wall#sergle.txt#Godspeed to you if you choose to read these thoughts in bad faith bc I can't give you more clarifying statements if I try#like I said. conflicting feelings#i don't know if anyone else has similar thoughts it May Just Be Me#I don't think ppl think about this stuff when they make their fan redesigns but it gives me a certain feeling
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Hot spring (click for better quality :3)
#skrimm stabbaskotch#barnabos the dreadwake#jornir#taishen fireblossom#queenie march#icebound#legends of avantris#art#icebound fanart#maybe a little suggestive just cuz. lack of coverage.#just incase#mildly suggestive#no i did not think about where taishens tail was going..
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the first time I drew these two(when I was 12) they were functionally the Color Guardian's version of Jessie and James,,,
#green haired minor antagonist who happens to be from another world/dimension but is doomed by the narrative i'll always love you#literally my favorite magical girl character trope#colorless ashe#colorless pitch#pitch doesnt use her human disguise nearly as often as ashe does#but she does have one#color guardians#my art#my ocs#maybe I'll make a lil ref sheet for Pastel and Reed too! that could be fun#and the big bad as well as some of the colorless creatures#pitch always kinda looks like a homestuck troll and i can never escape that#i made her have grey skin and black hair and horns BEFORE i read homestuck#wish i had my old ms paint art of her cuz i remember sending it to my friend one time when i was 14 and he was like 'thats a troll'#literally deleted all of it then and there and refused to even think about Pitch for a bit cuz of it#did not help that she used to have yellow eyes
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i fucking love writing a healthy best friendship between a man and a woman without making it weird or having them fall in love
#i just wrote a scene where lucas (side character) comforts marley (mc)#about her asexuality and they just have this friendly platonic moment between them#and i want to cry a little cuz i think it healed something inside me#writing that scene#i hope my writing one day can provide the same kind of comfort lucas just did in that scene#writeblr#writing#writers on tumblr#writers#writer#writing community#creative writing#writerblr#writer things#writers block#writers life#writers and poets#writerscommunity#ao3 writer#writer stuff#writing funny#on writing#write#writing meme#writing memes#writing struggles#writing problems#writing humor#writer problems#writing is hard
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Sooo I wrote a…weird little thing, a certain comic by @mayhemchicken-artblog got my creative juices percolating and under the press of staying up far too late for several days this came to fruition, enjoy!
The Eye of the Beholder
Link to the Comic
#my art#reincarnation#comics#tpodg#the picture of dorian gray#basil hallward#(why did he reincarnate as a girl with Dorian’s face?#cuz that was how the mad idea came to me at 2am#plus it’s easier to hide the ‘birthmarks’ with long flowing locks#my brain is weird )#lord henry wotton#dorian gray#gothic literature#really the thought I had here was basically#man it would be so messed up to be haunting the body of the person who murdered you#especially if you loved them#and I think Basil deserves both a second chance and to get to be actually upset about that betrayal#even if as Rosemary she can’t really remember it#but also this is gothic fiction nobody just gets handed a happy ending you gotta work through stuff#sorry hon#tw body dysmorphia#tw stab wound#Rosemary is for Remembrance
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like yeah of course tom thinks shiv is a scorpion because he doesn't know she compromised her position and sacrificed her brother so he wouldn't go to prison. he doesn't know she refused to divulge any information about cruises to gil in season 1 before she was certain tom would walk away unscathed. he doesn't know she shut down her brothers' offer to fire him, doesn't know she ensured he'd have a place in the company post-acquisition, doesn't know that the first time she indelicately interrogated matsson about whether she'd have any power and influence at waystar gojo was literally immediately after matsson brought up the idea of firing tom. and it's her fault he doesn't know that she's protected him at nearly every turn because she won't tell him. and it's looking more likely with every passing episode that he'll never know 😔🔫
#ALSO. i just remembered that he still thinks shiv ratted about the press conference to gerri. lol!!!#tomshiv#tom wambsgans#shiv roy#succession#so glad shiv brought up that HE offered to go to prison cuz ive been saying that.....#like dude u expect ur emotionally unavailable wife to protest the idea of u going to jail when youve just told her it's logistically sound#well yes okay that's reasonable#screams#succession spoilers#EDIT i do not know why anyone is interpreting this post as me blaming tom. what part of 'he doesn't know' did you guys miss#not that he is blameless in the marriage obviously but i think it makes sense that he doesn't believe shiv even cares about him
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all my computer-y guy refs now all together ^__^
#i did a post like this a while ago but i didnt feel like looking for it#Also the 2 last ones look a bit different than the others cuz they were made months later#and i kinda forgot the formatting i was doing LOL#i think about these guys so much i need to put them into situations#clippy#coppy#finder#windows movie maker#vlc#virtual assistants#gijinka#object head#character design#reference#webcore#fruitiger aero#y2k#digital art#doodle#i Know coppy isnt a computer related thing but i like him alot so idc .
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what does pinterest think of you?
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@butterfliesareamyth @treasure-goblin @potato-salad-uk @kale-of-the-forbidden-cities @feeling-kinda-sad-ngl @nicknelsonblog @writingandwritten @loulooser @amenacingsloth @fingerfuck-the-function @periwinkle-the-11th @rorythinks @kip-davis @imactuallyagiraffe @panic-like-the-disaster-you-are @willows-woes @joeylivesinspace @lyssified @shortgaything @the-literally-anything-blog @literallyspiderman @toast-jpg @crow-flower @and anyone who wants in!!!!
#pinterest#tag game#i was thinking about a friend who i was speaking about pinterest with a few days ago and then i suddenly had the urge to download it again#cuz PINTEREST YANNO#so anyways pls intereact dont let this flop PLS 😭#also the way all my searches were so accurate#pinterest knows me too well dawg 😪#I LOVE THE WALLOWS#tho haven't heard them in a while#in my punk rap era but still live their music regardless#and also#the cat is so me#😭#also trying to interact with some mutuals who ive never interacted with before or been really long since we did#and the regular ones always there lol#pls lmk if u dont wanna be tagged :)
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I want Ghostfuckers to come out just for the chance to see Blitz in this fit, serving so much rizz that it should be illegal.
That's it, that's the post.
#Am I the only one that wants to see Blitz in this outfit?#I can't be#This man has so much rizz#Stolas I get it#Everytime I look at Blitz I understand why it only took Stolas 5 seconds to go 'I want him'#Because I want him#He really is too imp to simp#Did Verosika just fall in love with Blitz cuz he's hot cuz same#I think about Blitz carnally#I have so much love for him#Don't judge me#helluva boss blitz#blitzø#blitzo#helluva blitz#I assume anyone that likes this post just secretly agrees#But if you repost this post you also think he's hot#I am so jealous of Millie rn ngl
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