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[ditzyblues]

April O' Neil Enneagram Analysis. (She's a 3)

DISCLAIMER: I am always learning more about the Enneagram, so this is my own understanding of April’s fixation into the type 3. If you’d typed April as anything else before, I hope to open your eyes to my more correct typing.

Let’s start with what a 3 even is. An E3 is a type in the image/triad center of the Enneagram. These types are characterized by their lack of self esteem. An E3 will try to make up for this lack in finding success.

Success in what? Anything the E3 chooses, really. For the purposes of fiction, the goal is often very tangible, like being the best in their career or being the strongest fighter. Their self worth is attached to the pursuit of their goal.

In short, an E3 is looking outside themselves to fulfill their self esteem needs, when they need to be looking inwards and finding self satisfaction. Their growth point is often authenticity and learning they’re enough.

I’ll be using three (heh) April episodes: “Hypno! Part Deux,” “Operation Normal,” and “Always Be Brownies.”

In "Hypno! Part Deux," April is fixated on appearing cool to Taylor Martin, as this'll grant her social acceptance and fulfill her self esteem of belonging. This manifests as rejecting anything that’ll threaten this persona. (Donnie’s malware software, Mayhem’s magic.)

Note: due to an E3's ambition to reach their goals, they're often willing to abandon their true selves in order to fit in well and succeed in social scenarios, especially E3's with a social instinct (April is a social 3.)

This goal of fitting in and being cool is quickly lost when April's life is threatened (as with any type.) But towards the end, when everyone is safe and broken free of Hypno's curse, Taylor has THIS to say..

Beginning-of-episode April would've been devastated at this, but at the end, her growth is complete. She doesn't need this silly persona and the social standing that comes with it to be complete.. her "not coolness" saved the day!! E3 arc completed!

Honestly April's arc in "Operation Normal" is pretty similar to this previous episode. April fixates on appearing as someone she just isn't, pushes away her brothers who she can be herself around, but learns it's okay to be a weirdo!!!

It's "Always Be Brownies" time. I have an ABB phD. April begins the episode at her prototypical-ist E3: Insecure and down about her multiple club failures. She's devoted herself to these things, but just can't succeed!

This is a hit to her self-esteem. But after being kidnapped by Casey's girl scouts, April finds that through her tenacity, strength, and ambition, she really isn't that big of a loser after all. All on her own!

This is amplified by the fact she doesn't let Splinter reassure her, she reassures herself and finds her self worth. It doesn't get more E3 than that, if you ask me.

I rest my case. April O' Neil is an Enneagram 3, with a primary social instinct that she filters her threeness through. The reason I chose episodes where she's operating on her own is that she lets loose around her brothers and isn't concerned with all of this around them.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Will Darling/Kim Secretan- The Will Darling Adventures by KJ Charles

Phèdre nó Delaunay/Melisande Shahrizai- Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Gideon Drake/Nico de Varona- The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Rhy Maresh/Alucard Emery- Shade of Magic Series by Victoria Schwab

[saintbobbynash]

Had a great afternoon with my mom and sister and was feeling better but then it didn't end very well and now I'm very on edge again and the ideation is very strong and I just uuuiiggghhhj

[more-profound-bond]

Queer Books for Pride Month:

"Death in the Spires" by KJ Charles

This book is a murder mystery rather than romance.

It's still queer of course, but it focuses entirely on solving the murder of Toby Faysham.

Our narrator, Jeremy Kite, has only one thing in mind, so he begins to track down people who might've been connected with Toby's death.

This is a cleverly done dual-timeline story, told entirely in Jeremy's POV.

We start in 1905, ten years on from the murder. 

The book forces us to sit with questions of justice, forgiveness and who can truly judge people's sins.

This is definetly a more serious read, but nonetheless absolutely worth it.

[strrykais]

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[curreres]

any day off from work was a blessing for kj, especially considering how busy she could be even on her off days. she still had quite a few errands to run but she figured that she'd definitely earned a stop at the daily grind for an iced coffee — even just the thought of it was making her mouth water.

she's brought out of her thoughts when out of the corner of her eye she notices someone drop something on the ground, specifically someone that she didn't recognize (and definitely didn't look like they belonged in a place like this). without really thinking, she bends over to grab the folder. "shit, sorry," she apologizes when she notices that he's bent over to grab it, too, and returns to her full height to hold it out in offering to him.

Location: Outside the Daily Grind Open to all!

Laurent had never been so broke. Not since he was a kid.

He thought of his Greco-roman style Villa, the one he had left behind in Monaco and almost just started weeping. He thought of the pool and the courtyard, and the fact that he had staff. God he missed having people to do things for him. How he fucking missed having a maid. There was no way he was able to afford one now and who knew using a vacuum could be so frustrating.

With a slim folder full of sheet music tucked under his arm, Laurent was scowling like a leopard with a headache when she reached into his coat pocket for a cigarette. He was just bougie enough to have his own little slim metal case, the kind that even had a space for your zippo if you were so inclined. Laurent was a matches kind of guy though.

Laurent had the cigarette between his teeth, hands cupped around the end to spare himself a non-light situation and was half contemplating a latte when he dropped his folder. The thing was zipped tight, thank god, so nothing went scattering but still. Laurent dropped his head back and had a vicious and violent thought that did little to calm the tension curling like vines around his bones. He wanted to start screaming.

He sucked hard on the cigarette and with his pride long abandoned, bent down to pick up his belongings.

[caterpills]

(Six)(Seven) Several Sentence Sunday

I'm 2-for-2 this week in writing memes, what's going on. Many thanks for the tags this Sunday from @onthewaytosomewhere @dezinthecloud @suseagull5914 @sophie1973 More rough draft of the time traveler AU? Sure.

"I've been put on probation for three weeks," Alex says, flopping dramatically over the front counter and onto a half-finished garment. Henry is silent, unspooling wine-colored thread, unmoved by Alex's thunderous arrival. Henry actually tugs the fabric free from under the dead weight of Alex's body, as if Alex is some inconvenient rock in his way. And, yeah, technically, he is, but he came to Henry for support, not to be ignored. Alex frowns. "You're not even going to ask why?" "I don't need to," Henry says, threading a needle with casual precision and beginning to stitch a button to—what Alex can tell, now that it isn't being crushed against the counter— an eighteenth-century waistcoat. Western European, if Alex tried to guess. With his attention still focused on his sewing, Henry sounds like he already knows the answer when he asks, "You attempted to stop the JFK assassination, didn't you?" Alex lets out a loud, exasperated groan. "Fucking grassy knoll conspiracy theory bullshit. I almost had him." Henry is silent again, but this time, Alex catches the corner of his mouth twitch, fighting a smile.

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[vonbabbitt]

20k Party Guest Announcement - KJ

KJ!! super excited to announce that KJ, voice of harada keizou, will be joining the stream! please look forward to seeing him!

please note that this list is subject to change - this is a thread of everyone who is currently planned to attend! it will be subject to ongoing updates!

[facewithoutheart]

On writing & Swept Away progress

For those of you who don’t know, I’m working on a novel. Updates and thoughts about writing below.

The other day, I came across this thread from KJ Charles on Bluesky that made me cry.

This was part of a larger discussion about NaNoWriMo shutting down which you can read in full on Bluesky.

It came across my feed at just the right time; I’ve spent months agonizing over my book but never pushing forward the needle. Sometimes it felt like I’d never find a path back to my computer desk. I was fully afraid of it. I had to poke a friend to hold me accountable and then reading what I’d written just made me wanna curl up under my bed and hide.

When I saw this message, I was on day two or so of pushing through to finally incorporate my alpha readers input, fixing some deep structural problems in my novel I barely wanted to admit existed let alone fix. Writing at its worst lol.

But I muscled through and it’s hard to say I’m finally done because I’m not; all I’ve done is shore up Act I which I already celebrated finishing so it hardly feels fair to say, “Yay! Progress!” But it is. It’s progress. I am celebrating it, whether I feel allowed to or not.

Today I woke up energized to write again, to tackle what I’ve written on Act II, and that feels like progress too, wanting to get back to the forward momentum.

And progress was also all the days I didn’t write. The days when I jotted down thoughts about the story but didn’t make coherent sentences. The days when I thought about my babies but didn’t write anything down. The days where I didn’t think about my book at all.

The days where I read. The days where I wrote fanfic instead. The days where I laughed and traveled and cried and lived and omfg got shingles for the MOTHERFUCKING SECOND TIME because actually it’s all kind of full circle; the last time I got shingles was in college making the same sort of decisions my MC is making so maybe it’s all happening for a reason? It’s certainly nice to think so.

I told a friend yesterday that I know I’m going to write this book, I feel it like a certainty, but I don’t want that knowledge to paralyze me or comfort me. It’s gotta be fuel.

Anyway. In case anyone was wondering. This is where I’m at.

[curreres]

"your work apron? i swore i washed it and hung it up to dry," kj responds as she turns away from where she was 'making dinner' at the counter — or in other words, plating up some food she'd grabbed from the diner. "maybe it made its way into the hall closet or something. i can take a look around if you want."

who: kj thompson ( @curreres )

"Hey KJ, have you seen my work apron? I've looked everywhere and I can't find it." Kira sought out her sister in the house, looking a bit stressed. She had time before work still, but she usually always put her apron in the same place but now it seemed to have disappeared.

[saintbobbynash]

Won't be able to get my medicine until at least another 3 days

[more-profound-bond]

Queer Books for Pride Month:

"The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting" by KJ Charles

Another one of my comfort books on this list.

It explores many different relationship dynamics.

Of course we've got queer romance there, but there are also a different kinds of sibling relationships, a lovely relationship between a step-mother and her step-daughter, a relationship between uncle and niece, a few parent-children relationships and many, many more. And even though the main focus is on Robin and Hart, every one of the relationships in the book is important and meaningful.

And as for the main plot, I think the idea of not so good fortune hunters trying to change their lives around, and finding love and their true selves in the meantime, is really appealing and you can really get lost in the story. Also the charming Robin and the not so charming Hart will absolutely steal your heart and make you root for them with true passion.

[atopvisenyashill]

To not clogging the thread: Vaemond Velayron deserved to be feed to a dragon and his Slient Five got off lightly just losing their tongues.

1) Apparently they only 'notice' the bastardy of the three boys after Laenor died.

2) After Harwin died.

3)And Laena died, but apparently her twins are unworthy of Driftmark do to lack of the dick but not of birth.

4)This feeds directly into treason against the king and into the political schemes of the Greens.

5)The toddler betrothals basically made the issue mute because /Laenor and Laena/ made them.

6) Also book!Rhaenys was a brunette and show!Rhaenys white, unless someone wants to colorcode every other family by paternity and paint color I will die on this hill.

I mean look at Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) and Mel B (Spicegirls) who are both biracial.

Also the entire mystery of the main series was a brunette man can't have light hair colored children. Ever. No one looks like grandma.

*Pulls out four of the five Stark kids have red hair and blue eyes. Rhaenys the Queen that Never Was had a Baratheon mother. Jon and Rhaenys both look like their mothers. Woah.)

i didn’t wanna be like “AND MAYBE IF THE SILENT FIVE WERENT DUMB BITCHES THEY WOULDNT HAVE DIED” bc yeah it was getting long but lmaooooo EXACTLY.

like, beyond the fact that i just have a very hard time taking any sort of "but they're bastards" argument seriously (that goes for ned too, and i've whacked him for it but WHY exactly does joffrey's behavior become worse knowing he's a bastard? hmmmmmm???) but it's like. so you've had an issue with this for years, and either brought it up to corlys/laenor who told you to suck shit, or never brought it up to the head of your house OR his heir and decided to kick it STRAIGHT up to the king. the king whose daughter you are accusing of treason. why do you think this is gonna end well? the fact that viserys didn't straight up execute them is crazy.

"oh well she's stealing-" no, she's actually not because as you say, laenor & laena engage their kids and baela and rhaena come before vaemond's line. if they had like an actual problem they would have gone to corlys before he was dying not after. they would have said something right after laenor dies. they wait years. yeah yeah torture is bad and murder is bad but they're no different than renly, vainly grasping at power when they think they see an opening. and just like renly, they play the game of thrones, and they lose. if you don't want to lose, maybe be smarter about it!

and yeah these are my go to "mixed but they look white as hell"

First is Cameron Boyce, he had a black dad and a jewish mom, those are his parents and sister. People love to pretend like they don't know he's black and "oh well he looks white so" he did an entire bit on disney channel explaining who the clinton 12 were because his grandma is jo ann boyce. if you're trying to make the argument that the beloved grandson of one of the first schools to desegregate aftr brown v board isn't black just bc he's pasty, like, what are you even fucking doing lol. the other two are kj apa. he's another actor people love to pretend is white but like. first of all look at his sister - they clearly look alike while she also "looks samoan" and his dad is the same as his sister. his dad is a tribal chief. the tattoos he has are sacred. just because people are insane about blood quantum in the usa doesn't mean that race and ethnicity isn't more complicated than that and calling the son of a matai a white boy simply because they made him dye his hair red and covered up his tattoos for a few roles doesn't actually make him suddenly non samoan.

people kinda do this with the dragon twins too like "oh well they shouldn't look so visibly black they only have one one black grandparent" BEHOLD ANOTHER ACTRESS WITH ONLY ONE BLACK GRANDPARENT

like can we be serious lol. can we please be serious.

[noacentineo]

people are definitely jealous of us, pffh who wouldn't be? can i be real with you here, apa? i think i know exactly what tom cruise went through in the early 90s. being pretty is a hard knock life.

what? people are jealous of you. fuck them. if we compliment our own bodies, we're narcastic. if we show off our bodies, we're douchebags. this story dates back millions of years.

[archiesinamerica]

movies i wanna see riverdale actors in

(i will fully admit i am not the most familiar with most of the riverdale actors work outside of riverdale. i am working largely off vibes and procrastination.)

kj apa: good lord something gay. he needs to be doing josh o'connor sense (challengers, god's own country, new benoit blanc if lucky) in the sense of finding movies where he can look longingly at another man. i wanna wake up to a story of him robert pattinson emailing the safdie brothers or whatever to get him into a gregg araki movie. he could do fight club. essentially i think he needs to be sweaty, dripping with blood, and have an excuse to do the thing where a leading man stares at his reflection in a bathroom mirror and questions what's he's done with his life. there needs to be some dance number like that mads mikkelsen film for fifi to come out.

lili reinhart: ik she's been in some thrillers but i want to see her in a full on horror film. considering the ethel cain connection i could see her doing something with a preachers daughter vibe maybe? or she's coming back to her small religious town after getting the fuck out at eighteen bc her mom's dead and she has to face the town and then oh no the horrors. she should do a slasher, final girl or maybe play a hitch 1986 type beat. she could do midsommar or the vvitch. wait actually i wanna see her in a robert eggers film. or a emma seligman film. her facial reactions would've been so good for bottoms and she could've done excellent in something like shiva baby.

camila mendes: i wanna see her do a heist film!! i think she could do something like oceans eight or maybe charade. she could've done la la land and yes i know about música and i think she could do more musical things. i kind of want something like what happened with ayo edebiri to happen to her so she can also be in some luca guadaningo film, i think she could do very well in it. i could see her as a muse for an artist who slowly grows resentful of him and becomes an artist herself, or maybe even phantom thread. i think she could've been jennifer tilly in bound. she would be so good in a noir film too, as a wife covering up the fact she murdered her husband.

madeleine petsch: i kind of want to see her in a holiday hallmark film for comedy points. no but seriously i think she could be on the white lotus. mike white come over i got another talented redhead!!! i'm definitely pulling from a fic but i would love to see her in something where she has to roller skate or do roller derby i think it makes so much sense for her. she could've done jennifer's body or debs. she should be a witch a la hocus pocus or glinda in og wizard of oz movie, or in some kind of fairytale movie like mirror mirror or the company of wolves.

vanessa morgan: she deserves to be a leading lady of something. i kinda want her to be a vampire again bc i think it would be fun, or maybe something like blade? i would not be opposed to getting her on iwtv. i think she could very much be in a rian johnson benoit blanc film, either helping out the investigation, doing the martha/andi thing. i would love to see her in a romance film, maybe even something like lost in translation. i think she could've done the watermelon woman. or maybe a barry jenkins moonlight or celine song past lives sort of deal.

charles melton: he's in may december so hopefully will get recognised more and go on to do great things. i want him in a wes anderson film, i think he could do it, french dispatch or asteroid city type of thing. he should also go for being a romantic lead again, again, he definitely could've done challengers. i think he could've done queer as drew starkey. or a stephen chow comedy, thinking really specifically about that one bit of him pulling out jingle jangle w an OoO face, though he doesn't have the kung fu chops for it. left field but i kinda wanna see him in a shakespeare adaptation just to see how he would handle it. he could also do westerns imo, maybe even something like zachariah? kinda wanna see him in a sean baker film.

cole sprouse: lisa frankenstein. love a film where he keeps his trap shut

[tsunflowers]

once again I have accidentally diminished my enjoyment of a book by reading the second one in the series first. but in my defense it's romance novels and I assumed that it would just be books set in the same universe with the main couple of the first book being a background couple in the second book with a few references to their previous plotlines. but I did not know kj charles's game and I did not expect that "a nobleman's guide to seducing a scoundrel" would be a direct sequel to "the secret lives of country gentlemen" which follows up on many threads from the first book

so like, between the two books I preferred the couple in the sequel, but I was really pissed off bc I failed to read the first book first and learn valuable information about the plot. something I can't stand in books is when the point of view character actively conceals their thoughts and actions from the reader. an unreliable narrator is fine but I hate when they're like "well there is my secret mission... but I can't think about that right now" then why did you bring it up! the one guy kept doing that but if I was not STUPID and I had read the books in order it would have been extremely obvious what he was "hiding" from me as the reader

they're more regency era m/m romance. first book is about a guy named gareth who suddenly inherits a baronetcy from his deadbeat dad and has to go live on a marsh in kent that's kind of run by a family of smugglers. fortunately the head of the family joss is VERY sexy. he's like a dashing rogue who's also a family man and gareth is a geek who loves bugs. second book is 13 years later and joss's know it all teen cousin luke has grown up and now he fucks. he finds an excuse to sneak into the biggest manor house on the marsh, which is in a state of disarray bc a guy named rufus has unexpectedly inherited. of course they fall in love before the scheme is uncovered. I think I liked them better bc they were straightforward military guy x sneaky guy who's pretending to be on the level. that's a good combo for me