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bixels · 1 month

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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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dafakismyblog · 3 months

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S3 E6:

#no fr i cant believe we got a happy ending #i dont even mind august being the king #yr3 #what a rollercoaster.#wilmon #wilhelm x simon #young royals #young royals season 3 #yr s3 spoilers #spoilers

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kittyoverlord · 7 months

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Brennan tearing up at this part was so heartwrenching. I don't think I've ever seen him break like this. As someone who's been in the unfair position of having to comfort my parents, this scene cut to my soul.

#this season truly has everything #familial trauma #nuclear experimentation #sexy stoat moms #what a rollercoaster #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #burrow's end #burrows end #burrows end spoilers

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books-books-smolderinglooks · 2 years

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#young royals #simon × wilhelm #wilmon #yeeeesss he fucxking did it!! 😭#this season what a rollercoaster!! 😅#sooooo good. ❤️#been up all night time for sleep #wanted these to be my first 😊#my gifs yr #youngroyalscentral #not great but it'll do😅

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jeeaark · 5 months

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Alright. So. I'm not making this triangle conclusion because I like triangles

But because it's the only. the only conclusion I could make

For the morning after. After noticing Babe-

YOU'D THINK it'd go that Lae'zel and friends would never find out because even though I wanted to tell Lae'zel, A SHAME IT DIDN"T GIVE ME THE OPTION. A SHAME THE GAME WANTED ME TO KEEP THIS A DANG SECRET FROM MY TEAM AND JUST HAVE SOME SIMPLE-ASS INTERNAL CONFLICT.

But ohnononono, this magical patch 0 playthrough had other plans. Because for some reason. Babe was talking like we were in ACT 1 again. Babe became a killer coconut again

Babe knew. BABE KNEW ABOUT LAST NIGHT. AND BABE WAS CRANKY (understandably so of course)

And yet. Babe was also still allowing kisses. so. not. not OVER. BABE STILL LOVED THIS IDIOT HALF-ORC.

So. I could only conclude this. This is why.

and totally not because apparently it was a glitch (that they now fixed) all along pff

SO. Maybe just. This once. With this Tav. This playthrough. A Godsdamn Love Triangle friggin' happened alfdjkkasdj

Bonus (Because Greygold had to tell somebody):

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #lae'zel #bg3 emperor #the emperor bg3 #greygold #bg3 fanart #bg3 comic #Lae'zel is definitely sorting out her feelings with murder again #pretty sure lae'zel knows what illithids smell like what with being on the nautiloid and all #didn't have no functioning soap in this playthrough NEITHER SO-#stinky half-orc #sometimes glitches make a game/story experience so much WILDER #meanwhile my silly ass played the rest of the game thinking cranky lae'zel was intentional #like it was the game's way of saying she knew #remember how I said relationships can get bumpy?#well THIS ONE WAS A FRIGGIN' ROLLERCOASTER RIDE

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not-with-you-but-of-you · 9 months

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Rory on Jess + text posts (season 3 edition) | (season 2 edition) (seasons 4 & 6 edition) (AYITL bonus edition)

#literati #rory gilmore #jess mariano #rory x jess #jess x rory #gilmore girls #text posts #roryonjess #textpostsedit #*#what a rollercoaster #from strangers to friends to one minute lovers in season 2 #to enemies #to lovers & friends again #to strangers again in season 3 #they are tragic 😔#I love them completely

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pharawee · 7 months

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"I thought you said you have to be bold to be my boyfriend. Are you chickening out now? Be brave."

#my dear gangster oppa #my dear gangster oppa the series #meen nichakoon #ping krittanun #tewguy #meenping #mydeargangsteroppaedit #thai bl #thai drama #bl drama #bl series #my edits.#what a rollercoaster of an ep #i'm already sad this only has 8 eps #meanwhile wahl still contemplating his life at puppy beach

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pineappical · 10 months

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will and ted's excellent adventure (at six flags)

#ted lasso #ted lasso fanart #coach beard #tedbeard #based on that 'take a white person's ass to six flags' dailyquests post HJAKGVJHAGHJDGVHJAG #pn.art #i had more i wanted to draw but im SNZZZZ #<- like a continuation to that second drawing with ted winning a toy for beard instead (REALLY BASED ON THAT ONE VIDEO OF JSUDS TBH)#also i know in my heart beard isnt afraid of rollercoasters he just loves using it as an excuse to scream at the top of his lungs #IM NOT AMERICAN NOR WHITE BTW I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THE FUCK IS AT SIX FLAGS BUT IVE BEEN TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK SO.

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ministarfruit · 7 months

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this is my non-spoiler review of the doppelgänger routes

#vtuber #holostars #holotempus #regis altare #axel syrios #gavis bettel #machina x flayon #banzoin hakka #josuiji shinri #FINISHED IT TODAY AND. OKAY. I SEE #give me time to absorb this before new talents I'M BARELY KEEPING UP #what an emotional rollercoaster #truly a halloween gift #I do kind of want to beat all of them up #but huntsman and showman... you're safe for now #KARASU SQUARE TF UP THO #can't wait for this game to stew in my mind #I have so many thoughts

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writeouswriter · 1 year

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One man’s trash (my fic at 2AM after I’ve reread it so many times I’ve become sick of and disillusioned by it) is another man’s treasure (my fic a few days later when I’m looking at it with fresh eyes and realizing it’s actually not that bad, perhaps even pretty good).

#writing #writeblr #writer things #relatable #textpost #writing humour #going on a rollercoaster of thoughts with the fic I’m writing as you can tell #the other day I was like wow this is garbage but tonight I was like wait what this is gold

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bjs4bildad · 2 months

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