#stardust’s analysis

[stupidthingsgoodoutcomes]

JJ Maybank has hyperactive ADHD: Part 1/?

Well, y’all wanted this and I also kinda wanted to make it so! Without further ado, I present a DSM-V based analysis of JJ Maybank and the ADHD-H he most certainly has.

Fidgeting!

Presented as “fidgetiness (hands or feet)/squirms in seat” or “often fidgets or taps with hands or feet or squirms in seat” in the DSM-V.

Rudy has said before that JJ’s lighter was key to understanding and developing his character. We see him playing with the lighter all the time - usually when he’s just lying down or sitting somewhere - he’ll be flicking it open and shut or twirling it around.

In general, though, we rarely see JJ not moving.

This scene is another example of the fidgeting - playing with the toothpick and the “it’s just nice to have something in your mouth” line. I know that I personally do things like this all the time. I don’t think I’ve ever had a lollipop without chewing the stick afterwards.

We also see him playing with his hat on numerous occasions - turning it around or twisting it in his hands.

He is plays with his hair a lot too! Running his hands through it, tugging it, etc. I personally love this one because I���m an absolute menace when it comes to my own hair, it’s my number one fidget - as a kid I pulled out way too much of it because of that whoopsie

If you look at his hands in this scene, they gave him a little visitor card and he spends the entire scene fidgeting with it instead of holding it like most non-ADHD people would.

Finally, in this scene he’s literally twirling a knife. Pretty obvious fidgeting.

Those are just a few examples of many. Feel free to reblog with your favourite JJ fidgeting moments!

[avspol]

uquiz i made today

[beemango5]

Thinking about how Jotaro Kujo is The Tragic Character™️ of JJBA. Araki simply cannot let that man be happy. He fr said “you can fit so much trauma into this bad boy”!

His entire life was so tragic that we all knew he was going to die, eventually.

His Mother’s life was endangered and on the journey to save her he gains significant trauma from people trying to KILL him and then lost three friends at the ripe old age of 17.

He goes to University, meets a woman he falls in love with, and has a kid. realizes that as long as there’s a threat of enemy stand users wanting revenge for Dio his family will never be safe so he has to leave his family behind and distance himself.

Became a older brother/father figure to Josuke but had to leave him because he knew he would bring enemy stand users into that poor boys life- the only Joestar that had a somewhat of a shot at being normal.

Then in part 5 it’s revealed that when he got separated from Polnareff, Diavolo paralyzed Polnareff. He’s probably carrying guilt from that. He’s also probably stressed asf at first that the son of the vampire who tried to adamantly kill him is just out there somewhere. Thank god Giorno took after Jonathan 😭.

Then in part 6, he had to face his failures as a father, understanding that he didn’t deserve and probably would never get Jolyne’s forgiveness, but it’s so clear to me that Jotaro wanted to be there for her. But of course, to him, the only way he can protect people is to push them far away from him. He never learned that he is stronger in numbers because whenever he was in numbers, someone he loved got hurt.

Jotaro never understood he deserved the happiness of a loving family.

He couldn’t even save his daughter (and he dies believing that Jolyne hates him because he knows he’s a shit father AND WAS OK WITH IT AS LONG AS SHE GOT TO LIVE 😭😭😭) in the process.

He’s a Greek Myth type of sadness.

[nineinchclawz]

Sometimes I wish Jonawagon was more popular but then I remember how Jotakak is treated.

I don’t think I could psychologically or emotionally handle an entire fandom woobifying Speedwagon and daddy-domifying Jonathan.

[sky-neverending]

Max Jagerman is an analyst's wet dream. He's so black and white until you peak through the curtains type vibe. Everything he says can be taken and observed, jotted down and taken apart until you piece everything together.

That's why villains are the most fun to analyze. Because they can seem one-sided and yet when you flip them over, there's a whole other perspective you get to take apart.

Max is, at a glance, the dumb jock bully. He's rude and hurts people, acts like he owns the joint. I'm not denying that he's a p bad guy. BUT! He's so much more. The Waylon scenes are a really good showcase of that.

He has fears. He faces them. He's got an internal conflict like the rest of us do. Not to mention the part about his dad which I will not go into for a sake of keeping this short.

I have. A lot of points to cover and I have to leave for therapy SO if you want to see me take apart some of the scenes he's in and tell you my opinion, lemme know! But rn my point is this: Max is a fuckin wonder of a nightmare. And his journey shows that. And I know he's a bad guy, but that's why I like him. His dynamics with people, the way he acts and talks, it's all a small piece of a bigger puzzle.

GRRRR MAX JAGERMAN OUGH

ok i gtg lemme know if you want that long post later

[cyberdragoninfinity]

Oh most noble Prince of the Angelic Hierarchies, valorous warrior of Almighty God and zealous lover of His glory, terror of the rebellious angels, [...] my beloved Archangel [...] with your powerful weapon cast far from me into the infernal abysses that prevaricator and proud angel that one day you prostrated in the celestial battle. Amen.

[chaos-bringer-13]

I am spreading the madness. I will be @bloggerspam 's crazy priest, making people cry about Mimi's stories. All hail Mimi. All hail bloggerspam.

[arwyd]

so much (for) stardust is literally the album of a generation. it perfectly encapsulates the widespread mindset among millennials & gen z post-Covid.

“the shell’s empty, there’s no point to any of this, it’s all just a, A random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes”

“I’d never go, I just want to be invited”

“we’re told we gotta get ahead, yeah, no matter what it takes / but there’s no way off the hamster wheel on this rat race”

but the album isn’t just nihilism, either. it’s perfectly summed up once more in The Pink Seashell, “so I take pleasure in the detail.”

“the view’s so pretty from the deck of a sinking ship.”

“feeling so good right now, til we crash and burn somehow”

“they don’t know how much they’ll miss, at least until you’re gone like this”

in this album fall out boy is saying “hey, it sucks. we know this, we hear you, we feel the same, but there are still things to enjoy, still love to make. the only purpose in your life is what you give it, and that’s okay.”

[casscreative]

good evening chat i finally made that video essay out of this post

[parroset]

Thinking of how similar these two images are

Blood and stardust, but also blood and water, blood and ripples.

Bleeding in the water is more dangerous because you lose more blood.

And we have these two "fallen stars" reaching a very dangerous place.

[shark-myths]

Sending My Love From the Other Side

Things we should discuss:

Pete’s sexy metal Viking princess unitard, he’s waiting to be rescued by a barbarian, I can only presume he is a bride-prize for the hero who can save him

The Folie-ness of it all, the ship at sea but not doomed, not this time; instead it is a vessel of hope

The mythology-of-the-band frame narrative

How the title references back to Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash

Stardust stardust stardust and Pete’s fear of space objects

What do Field of Dreams and The Princess Bride have in common?

For those expressing concern about Joe’s absence both on Sunday and in this video—he writes in his recent book, None of This Rocks, about emergency back problems during the latter end of this pandemic, compromising his ability to walk for a brief post-surgical time, exacerbated by overworking. He writes about learning boundaries, learning to rest, and asking his band for accommodations for his health. It seems likeliest that he’s recovering from a back-related issue, rather than conscientiously abstaining from participating in this record as he describes doing with MANIA.

General ranting about lyrics:

DISCLAIMER: It’s not me, okay, it’s the text, it’s Pete being incapable of writing anything that doesn’t sound like it’s about forbidden queer love, I could not make this shit up, I truly could not

“Model house meltdown”

Reminds me of walking through the house in your shoes, I’m supposed to love you; reminds me of I’m just playing house, no idea what I’m doing now. It’s a very dark Tim Burton-y sentiment from an outwardly happy man living a domestic fairy tale.

“We were a hammer to the Statue of David, we were a painting you could never frame, and you were the sunshine of my lifetime.”

THE PAST-TENSENESS HERE

Right from the start, this sets us up for something universally perceived as perfect and beloved being destroyed. This could be a reputation, a cultural relic, a profound piece of history, a narrative, a love. We were a hammer that destroyed it, that perceived thing… 

We were a painting too profane to be displayed in a museum, hidden and damned? Or we were larger than life, uncontent to be contained by a frame, always in motion, chimeric and twining, together apart, together apart, a tesselated image you can only see if you zoom out and unfocus your eyes.

You have all read my opinions about twenty years of Patrick = sunshine metaphors, which seem to be getting pretty FUCKING literal here at the end of days.

“Nowhere left for us to go but heaven, summer falling through our fingers again”

Among other things, this seems to be a VERY explicit reference to Heaven’s Gate.

I am feeling the hope of MANIA (you know my manic poly dream reading of that beautiful, purple beacon of hope) replaced by what the pandemic / apocalypse did to us all. So much for stardust, indeed.

Summer symbolizing touring, festival circuits, linking to the recent FOB instagram post that showed video from the Hella Mega Tour with the caption “take us back here.” The liminality and fleeting-ness of those spaces, those selves, that unmoored time of doing nothing, being everything. The way they want to be home when they’re on the road and the way they want to be on the road when they’re at home. Summer slipping through our fingers again, like the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass, gone past, gone past.

“What would you trade the pain for? I’m not sure”

Isn’t that a fucking question, my friends!!! The pain of longing, unsatisfied, love, unrequited or unconsummated, forbidden and forsaken? The pain of not-having, or of having-had? The pain it was to be together? Welcome to my glossary of suffering

And what would you trade it for? Is this a question of, what is it worth and I can’t imagine giving it up? Or is it a past-tense question—a way of saying, I traded that exquisite pain to get what I have now, and I’m not sure what it was for, I’m not sure if it was worth it.

“Every lover’s got a little dagger in their hand”

Tbh someone smarter than me will have more to say about this, I am sure. Tarot and betrayal and the way love has thorns and anything worth having always hurts, everyone you trust with love will hurt you and let you down at least a little bit, imperfections and prices paid. But it’s also a very classic, very catchy and poetically deep sounding chorus of the type FOB loves to use and do not always hold a deep reading. 

“I saw you in a bright clear field, hurricane heat in my head.”

More field-of-dreams invocation and playfulness! If there is not a stadium show at that field, I am going to light something on fire, it is the only pilgrimage I care about from this day forward.

“Inscribed like stone and faded by the rain: Give up what you love before it does you in”

LITERALLY what can I even SAY about this and the past tense and the DECISION, the question popped by MANIA that was answered only by global cataclysm and forced separation, the way they began work on this album in early 2021 (per Joe’s book). I can only hear this in conversation with the tracks on that record.

“The kind of pain you feel to get good in the end”

I was all prepared to do some read about morality and queerness and what you give up for the people you love, until @carbonbased000 said, “I love the pain line and I want to give it a kinky read so badly but we both know it’s about tennis”, and you know what. She’s right.

To summarize: there’s a lot to say, there’s a lot to feel, I love this song immensely and I hope you do too. I hope to explode more thoughts soon and uhhh maybe write another fairy tale. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK, EVERYONE!

[stupidthingsgoodoutcomes]

Okay....Pope definitely has the most stable home life and family of the Pogues. After him though...it gets kind of murky. What's your take on best to worst home & fam?

Oof. None of them have very good situations, and it’s hard to rank them at the end of season three since Pope is literally the only one whose parents are even in the picture, but I’ll do my best to give an overall ranking!

1. Pope, obviously. His parents are great. Nothing but love for Heyward and his unnamed wife. They even let him go after the treasure this season, AND they took in Cleo? They care so much about him I’m sobbing. The family isn’t rich by any sense of the word but they have what they need and it’s a supportive and good environment.

2. We’re already taking a big jump down here. I’m gonna say John B’s situation is probably the least horrible, which is impressive considering it’s pretty horrible. Big John would absolutely sacrifice his son for the treasure. He also commits murder in front of him and was probably fairly neglectful when he was around, but at least he cares about John B and clearly they love each other and have a relatively close relationship. The chateau is honestly such a lovely little home, even if it’s always messy and has like, no food in it.

3. Kiara’s next. Her home is obviously nice, and she has what she needs. However, her parents did send her away to wilderness camp without her consent, and Mike is a grade A jerk, especially towards JJ. They also kicked her out of the house in season two. You’d think this would be about as bad as it gets, but wait, there’s more!

4. Sarah ranks down here for me. While her dad clearly did (and does, perhaps) love her, and even died for her, he also tried to kill her, and I feel like most of his actions this season were motivated by guilt, not love. He betrayed them to Singh in an attempt to keep her safe, but if he’d even bothered to listen to his daughter he’d know that’s not what she wants. Besides trying to strangle her, he also kidnapped her, framed her boyfriend for murder, stole their treasure twice, and just generally was a jerk. She is now technically homeless, and the rest of her family includes Rafe and Rose. She does have Wheezie, with whom she’s very close, so that’s a single point in her favor.

5. Coming as a surprise to no one, JJ’s at the bottom. Not only does he live in a house that’s constantly covered in beer cans, his dad is a drug addict and alcoholic who consistently abuses his son both verbally and physically. It doesn’t really get much worse than that. I’m glad Luke’s gone now, and hopefully this is all something JJ will be able to start working through in season four.

[thekidsarentalright]

i feel like the bridge of love from the other side, specifically the lyric, "inscribed like stone and faded by the rain / 'give up what you love, / give up what you love before it does you in'", so wonderfully expresses one of the biggest overarching themes in so much (for) stardust, and i wanna talk about it!

with that lyric, when you first hear it it sounds horribly, horribly depressing and bleak. give up what you love before it does you in? what a fucked up sentiment, honestly- that you have to give up the things you love before they ruin you. for a lyric on an album about nihilism and feeling like you're watching the world ending before your very eyes, and trying to find how to cope with that, it's very fitting!

except, the lyric doesn't really mean that incredibly depressed explanation. because that phrase, give up what you love before it does you in, although inscribed like stone, although it is a sentiment so pressed into pete/us/society/the world at large, that even the things you love aren't worth it, that they'll ruin you too- it's faded. it might have a presence, it might be hard to ignore sometimes because it is inscribed still, it's faded. ignored. not honored, not tended to. not upheld.

and i think that is so much of what this album is. we have inscribed in us so much nihilism, so much negativity and pessimism, and why wouldn't we? there is so much bad in the world, at times even the things we love can and will hurt us, it's easy to wonder what the point is. it feels easier sometimes to just give up caring and become cold and closed off. to let the nihilism fully consume us, it's almost as if that's what the world wants us to do, after all! but this album is literally saying yes, yes it's easier to do that, it's easier to believe everything is meaningless and hurts and maybe those things are true, but that doesn't mean you give up. that doesn't mean you listen to what you think the world is telling you. that doesn't mean you can't make your own meaning, live a fulfilling life with the pain and sadness walking beside you, and find things that maybe don't make the pain go away, maybe these things don't make anything 'better' ever, but maybe they make things easier. maybe you can eventually learn how to live with the pain and meaninglessness in a way that isn't crushing, because you have things you love to help. even if those things do you in, you have to keep going, despite, despite, despite. and ride your own melt. take pleasure in the details.

[beemango5]

Ok people saying that Jotaro doesn’t care for Jolyne did not watch the same series that I did…

Jotaro obviously cares a lot about Jolyne and his (nameless, CMON ARAKI 😭) ex- wife. He just left them because he didn’t know how to communicate to them that there was a powerful superbeing stuck inside him and that no matter where he went trouble was going to follow him.

{edit} Another angle to add to this: Jotaro probably didnt see himself as deserving of a normal life and family- he found happiness in his wife and daughter but knew the looming threat of enemy stand users would eventually bring harm to his precious family.

Just like Holly, who he didn’t know how to protect other than putting himself in a jail cell, he ran away to protect the two women he loved.

And you’re thinking: ok, so why did he go to Japan? Well; he knew Josuke was a stand user. He knew that he was connected to Joseph, and felt more equipped to handle a situation that didn’t involve regular people like his wife and his (then stand-less) daughter.

Jotaro isn’t very good with words. He’s not the best communicator, something he never really grows out of. So the only way he can protect the people he loves is getting the hell away from them and hoping the bad follows him instead.

Which also feeds into my Autistic Jotaro theory but that’s a whole other rant

[robogalaxies]

so, why IS introduction hol horse such an asshole in comparison to his further characterization? : a theory

so, hello 👋 welcome to a theory i have and have had for a bit. i apologize for it being so long, but there's a LOT to be said!

as someone who prides themselves on overanalyzing hol horse, i have used all my brain power to come up with a theory that accurately describes just WHY intro hol feels so ... out of place.

hol horse is a man who, while a coward, is true to his heart & true to his core. he is a gentleman to the ladies, so much so that it becomes a cardinal trait within most of his appearances - hol horse is ALWAYS gonna love women & respect the ladies. this is in both SDC and CDDH (which we will be using as evidence despite its non-canon status as it is a prominent characterization & builds upon what is already in canon.)

but if we look back at the Emperor and Hanged Man arc, where hol horse is first introduced, we get a different picture. he

works directly with a man known to be a predator towards women & girls

says he talks up women so they'll die for him

yet, in comparison, aside from the obvious and easily joked about "i respect all women" rant in the hol & boingo arc, CDDH shows hol as someone who has a strong moral code when it comes to women.

in fact, there is an extremely important SDC hol horse flashback that reveals he saves multiple women who were victims after his attempt to kill DIO.

it's just... it's just odd. if he truly is a secretly gold hearted man who cares, why would he treat women like garbage and use them as bait to save his own life? why would be more threatening and full of himself if every further appearance just erases it & never mentions it again... 🤔

well, let's begin our theory with the fact that it seems DIO, all this time, never really trusted hol horse, calling him pathetic and wondering when "he'll do something on his own for him" even after he had "killed" avdol.

so DIO does what DIO does when he wants someone to work for them BUT doesn't trust them as easily. Hol's just in it for the money & the riches, right? he's a valuable ally, but not as committed to the cause as DIO feels he should be... but I digress...

let's note that in Hol Horse's first appearances in Emperor & Hanged Man, we never get a peek at his forehead - his hat masks it.

this is in comparison to getting to see it in the Justice & Hol and Boingo arcs.

so we're left with DIO not trusting a minion, a deliberate covering of the forehead, and a personality that contradicts further & more consistent characterization later on in SDC and — wait.

haven't we .... seen this before?

and wasn't hol horse supposed to be a crusader at some point, much like Polnareff and Kakyoin?

and haven't we learned that DIO implants the buds to keep those he doesn't trust in line? if hol horse did something that brought back DIO'S trust in him (say, killing a member of the Joestar Party), DIO would KNOW he was committed and loyal to him, proving himself...and thus, no more need to control him.

no more need for a fleshbud, even if he disappoints him afterward.

and no more need for hol horse to act more evil, more manipulative, and more forgiving of disgusting crimes against women he'd never forgive otherwise.

[schadenfredde]

Jotaro does not need to use The World as a trigger phrase to stop time yet he uses it consistently in the other parts. He'd also been avoiding using it for ten years straight until the events of part 4.

It's almost as if he cannot accept that he has the same type of Stand Dio had, and can only associate Time Stop with The World...