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mysterious-secret-garden · 21 days

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Johannes Josephus Aarts - ‘Death and a Woman’, date Unknown.

#Johannes Josephus Aarts #Death and a Woman #death and the maiden #apparition #death #rape in art #abduction

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goryhorroor · 25 days

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horror sub-genres: gothic

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bixels · 7 days

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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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wizaria · 1 year

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I didn’t know it was possible to make a better film than Shrek 2.

#puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #pussinboots2 #puss in boots wolf #dreamworks #puss #pussdeath #goldie locks #puss in boots 2 fanart #puss in boots death #shrek #woman yelling at a cat #death in boots

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feederspain990 · 3 months

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#immobile #obesity #chubby #stuffed fatty #death feederism #fat belly #gaining girl #stuffed piggy #big woman #feedee feeder

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celluloidbroomcloset · 6 months

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Can we just mention Archie for a moment? Archie who was so steeped in violence and death that she thought there was no such thing as hope, and then she heard Jim telling Pinocchio to Fang and fell in love? Archie who took exactly 1.5 seconds of badassery to jump right into Stede's crew and be embraced by them? Archie who never stopped laughing and smiling once she was on board the Revenge? Archie who fell right into her polycule with Jim and Olu and is gonna be fucking thrilled to have Zheng there too? Archie who is definitely the chaos child and adopted Stede as her dad within a few days?

I just...I really like Archie.

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 #archie ofmd #gif #our flag means death #madeleine sami #i really liked that we got more different female characters this season #and none of them are interchangeable #they're as immediately and clearly developed as the male characters #also as a fairly tattooed queer woman #i particularly enjoy seeing her onscreen

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bizarrelittlemew · 7 months

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This scene added 10 years to my life span

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#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd 2x3 #the assumption really does go white man -> black man -> woman #(and if there was a white woman present she'd be assumed to be captain before the woman of color too)

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saccharinescorpion · 5 months

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The Boy And The Heron has something for everyone. a hot Ghibli dad, for the girls. a weird wet little goblin man, for the girls. a butch woman who cuts a giant fish open with a big knife and has a little fang when she laughs. for the girls. hm.

#this movie was about accepting death or something but for about twenty minutes it’s about a cool woman with a boat #how do you live #the boy and the heron

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belalugosigrave · 1 year

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dailydccomics · 1 month

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Death Metal Wonder Woman by Yasmine Putri

#diana of themyscira #dc comics #dcedit #diana prince #comicedit #wonder woman #yasmine putri #dc #cover art #dark nights death metal #cover edit #coveredit #dcladies #comicswomen #my edit #my leader

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confusedraven1 · 4 months

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hey i know i don’t post a ton on here, but i just wanted to inform ofmd tumblr that lynda fucking carter (aka wonder woman) has retweeted our petition 🔥 @renewasacrew

#saveofmd #renew as a crew #ofmd #our flag means death #renew our flag means death #lynda carter #wonder woman #i’m still freaking out guys help

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mysterious-secret-garden · 4 months

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Johannes Josephus Aarts - Death and a woman.

#Johannes Josephus Aarts #Death and a woman #apparition #death #death and the maiden

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alasforher · 7 months

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Euripides, from "Orestes", An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

Our Flag Means Death (created by David Jenkins)

#this womans work starts playing #web weaving #euripides #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #our flag means death #ofmd #ed teach #blackbeard #stede bonnet #taika waititi #rhys darby #david jenkins #ofmdaily #ofmdedit #userelio #useraurore

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wandaslittlepsycho · 9 days

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eating out milf!wanda when she refuses to look at you because she’s reading. you creep under her nightgown and pull down her panties, ignoring her warnings and intimidating look.

in seconds she’s moaning, throwing the book to the side to grab fistfuls of your hair. she pulls you further into her, suffocating you with her soft thighs. she looks so good with her back arched and biting her bottom lip:3…

“Baby, slow down..”

“a-a little gentler darling”

“Fuck fuck like that keep doing that”

“Mommy’s gonna cum in your mouth, okay?”