#the psychopath test

[books-and-cookies]

5 SECOND REVIEW

* i had a blast reading this

* i literally laughed out loud several times, something you don't expect to do when reading a book about how psychopathy is diagnosed and how the tools for diagnosing psychopathy can lead to false assumptions, misdiagnosing and over-diagnosing (something that i'm absolutely certain is happening more and more)

* also, it was a really interesting take to see how a "certain kind of madness" can be accepted in society, as long as it doesn't become the "wrong type of mad"

* it was insightful and informative and genuinely entertaining

* my favourite bit, unrelated directly with the subject of the book, was finding out some people actually believe there wasn't a 9/11 and the planes were holograms. okay then 😃

* 4/5 stars

#books #booklr #book review #book community #nonfiction #the psychopath test #jon ronson #mary says stuff about #1kpagesaug22

[library-love-affair]

“…if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld— monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviews, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”

-Jon Ronson (The Psychopath Test)

#book quotes #bookblr #books and literature #book blog #booklr #books #jon ronson #the psychopath test

[freshlybrewedbookreviews]

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

This book was a fascinating read (I read most of it on one long train ride; I couldn't put it down.) Psychopaths and sociopaths have become more of a conversation since 2016, for reasons I think we all know, and it was both highly intriguing and disturbing to learn about the characteristics of psychopaths and how they operate. I recommend this one to anyone: if you are interested in learning more about the human brain, the brains of psychopaths, or you're just looking for a read that will hold you captivated from start to finish.

#book review #freshly brewed #The Psychopath Test #Jon Ronson #books #reading

[grinchwrapsupreme]

i'm watching season 8 of dexter for the first time and i'm only on episode 2 but i'm glad they're finally tackling the whole "dexter is a psychopath and psychopaths don't have empathy" thing by acknowledging that this dude does in fact have empathy i hope to god they come to the logical conclusion

#dexter morgan #i am BEGGING vogel to shut up i hate her so much #lady you did this to a kid you never met #and now you're SURPRISED he doesn't match up to the diagnosis the way you expected him to?? #'people like you' lady come on #hate how much she's like... not fetishizing necessarily but definitely something #she's certainly not got a healthy relationship with what is at the end of the day a clinical diagnosis #'psychopaths are necessary to society' alright but can you be normal about them?? #to be clear i'm not removing any blame from harry he was also a piece of shit for what he did to dexter #but like at least he cared about him as a person and also got him tested and everything #instead of just hearing about him secondhand and deciding hes a write off who's only good for one thing #don't quote me on this i haven't seen the rest of dexter in ages and i'm still not done ep 2

[floweringpopcat]

coming to the conclusion that people in my speech class are either transphobic or wary of the speech i chose and i'm leaning towards the former

#like logically #they very well could just not be interested in the speech i chose #which is 'Strange answers to the psychopath test' by Jon Ronson #while everyone else chose college or political speeches and the like #so that is a very reasonable reason #but i was the second person to post on the discussion post on the first day it was released #and my name has the (they/them/their) pronoun set next to it #and literally everyone else up until yesterday has at least two responses #so #i dunno #it's weirdly discouraging #and a bit disappointing since people in other classes respond to me in normal manners #i can't tell if i'm overthinking it #it's making me want to remove my pronouns just to see if people start responding later on #but then that wouldn't really be accurate in later discussion posts with diff topics agsgsjd #whatever #i'm just gonna hope it's actually because people don't like the speech i chose #and not because their transphobic #it's better they ignore me than be discriminatory though so #we'll see how it goes #mars babbles

[gainprincess]

Caster should remember to watch her mouth around the woman who feeds her.

It wouldn't do for Musashi to 'accidentally' walk in on that shrine in Tamamo's room, would it? But if she talks back again, well, she may just recommend the blubbery Saber go check it out.

A 'welfare check', she'll say.

#muse: sakura matou #readyplayerziggy #do not fucking test this woman she IS psychopathic #not really but she is incredibly mentally unstable

[workof-tortured-poetsdepartment]

This song is so fucked me likeyyy

first of all bebe rehxa is LOVE AND OMG THIS SONGGGGG AAAAAAA.

#Loco #maniac #sick bitch #psychopath #Yeah #I'm gonna show you #< me when mummy tests my patience honestly lol #lilac<3<3

[sarasa-cat]

Whatever microbiological crud that has been attacking me for the past 36+ hours seems to have suddenly subsided.

Still a bit of a remainder of a prickly throat and itchy eyes but nothing like the uuuuggghhhh of most of today yesterday.

Unfortunately, now I am not tired because I did absolutely nothing (squint at nonsense in the news? scroll tumblr? Look out the window? Watch tv? That is about it).

Hm.

No matter, my plan is to take it easy tomorrow so I give my immune system the best chance to finish clobbering the Nonsense(tm).

Unfortunately one of my cats refuses to go to bed bc he wants to DO EPIC STUFF LETS DO STUFF! THINGS! EXPLORE! LOOK INSIDE BOXES AND UNPACK THEM!

And this little dude needs to get his furry ass in bed now and stop meowing and motioning toward the “work” area of our house.

#yeah— and will test again and follow cdc recos #because I am not a selfish psychopath

[fowlofprey]

(Dark Core Personality Test)

I.... suppose this makes sense.

#ic img #dash games #This test is not the first time I've heard that I am a spiteful narcissistic psychopath. #I'd like to think that I've at least gotten a little bit better about it though.

[nebulousfishgills]

You can make your own judgements on the legitamacy of this test, but in my Sociology of Deviance class today, we briefly touched on the Hare Psychopathy Test, a scoring system with a maximum of 40, rated 0, 1, or 2 for each of the criteria to determine if someone's a psychopath...

So naturally I plugged Emily into it:

She scored a 26/40 and typically one must score a 30 to be "officially/clinically" regarded as a psychopath... but for more context:

-Ted Bundy scored a 39

-Jeffrey Dahmer scored a 23

-John Wayne Gacy scored a 27

I'm getting my degree in this type of shit, so I can apply my knowledge however I choose, thanks much.

#i did this test based on her stranger things canon specifically #i labeled her as a psychopath in a recent work of mine but i spent like an hour trying to decide if she was that or a sociopath #either way she's not right in the head #and i guarentee henry scores way lower so i have to ask myself who's the actual bad influence between the two of them #but again i have no idea if this would hold up in court and this scoring system has its own set of issues #i'd love to have someone clinically diagnose her tho i think that'd be cool #anyways continue about your days #fishgills speaks #fishgills ocs #stranger things oc #my inbox is open

[call-me-frosting-or-not-idc]

*me in the cage with my murderous son*

Hi sweetie how are you doing sweetie yeah sweetie just stay there haha *slowly inching towards door* it’s okay sweetie huh sweetie<3 *desperately fumbling with latch to get out*

*my son slowly walking towards me with pure evil menace in his eyes*

After finally getting out I now understand how people in horror movies struggle so much to do simple things like open doors. The panic blinds you. Anywho I love my son so much he’s such a sweet little baby <3

#true story #though probably good context to know the son I’m talking about is a chicken #and while most people would kill him for being who he is #a psychopath that lured others over by talking nicely to try and murder them #and has slowly been testing what a humans weak spot so he can figure out how to kill us #and being extremely intelligent #but I hand raised him and love him very much #so instead we made him a fenced in area for him to stay #he also doesnt seem to try and attack me when I talk to him how I used to when he was a baby #he’s my little baby boy that also happens to be a giant murderous rooster #but hey he certainly is fun

[library-love-affair]

“There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet especially to be happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and our compulsions, those least favorable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”

- Jon Ronson (The Psychopath Test)

#book quotes #bookblr #books and literature #book blog #books #dark academia #jon ronson #the psychopath test

[calandrinon]

I really did want to go to bed early tonight and I even got all my tasks done but tragically I thought "I wonder how the cricket is going?" and it is going REALLY WELL stop being so interesting dammit I need to sleep

#come on crossy get another wicket for all the spuds and psychopaths #(no balls podcast reference) #the cricket #women should get to play more tests! and five-day tests at that

[pesky--dust]

the "diagnosis" Chilton gave Will during his trial was the one closest to the truth ("Will Graham has never been diagnosed. He won't allow anyone to test him. He has carefully constructed a persona to hide his real nature from the world. He wears it so well, even Jack Crawford couldn't see past it. (...) There is not yet a name for whatever Will Graham is.")

unlike Alana Bloom or Jack Crawford, he saw what a manipulator Will was and that in front of them he played a poor, confused, wounded bird ("(...) A particularly-manipulative one at that. Poor, confused, wounded bird for Agent Crawford and Doctors Lecter and Bloom. And for me, well, I get the psychopath's triumvirate: charm, focus and ruthlessness. The charm, of course, being debateable.")

he believed Will that Hannibal may be the Chesapeake Ripper and said Jack Crawford: "Hannibal once served me tongue and made a joke about eating mine. It's hard not to at least consider it.". Jack ignored him. (I think Jack was already planning some large-scale action against Hannibal, but that's a topic for another post)

he called Dr Lecter "Hannibal the Cannibal"

he understood that Will Graham was alive because Hannibal Lecter liked him that way

criticized Jack for letting Will and Hannibal get closer to each other and then leaving Will alone ("You dangle Will Graham and now you cut bait. You are letting Hannibal have him hook, line and sinker.")

when Jack expressed hope that the relationship between Hannibal and Will was one of those friendships that ends after the disemboweling, Chilton told him: "I would argue, with these two, that's tantamount to flirtation. Will is going to lead you right to him." and let's be real, he was right.

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #murder husbands #jack crawford #frederick chilton #my dumb-dumb babygirl is actually always right #i love him #hannibal meme #hannibal memes #hannibal shitpost #hannibal crack #hannibal meta #hannibal analysis #i guess #character meta #character analysis #frederick chilton meta #frederick chilton analysis #pesky--dust crack #pesky dust thoughts #pesky--dust analysis

[saetoru]

✩ ‧₊˚ ✩ SORCERY SCHEMES — GETO SUGURU.

contents. non sorcery au!, husband! suguru, gn! reader, nanako and mimiko are still your kids, silly lil shenanigans of cult leader! suguru being in your dreams

suguru has been the source of your anger for lots of things over the years. some fair, others not so much.

that one important date he accidentally missed because he got caught up at work. that time you vented and he tried to tell you to toughen up instead of picking your side. that time he accidentally shrunk your favorite sweater in the laundry. that time he fell asleep while you were talking late at night (he had insisted he was tired, in his defense—you were just too stubborn to let him sleep.)

marriage has its ups and downs, but suguru likes to think you’re a strong couple—but this? this is the most outrageously ridiculous reason to be mad at him—he’s simply at a loss.

“so let me get this straight,” he starts slowly, as if trying to comprehend something far too complex for his simple mind, “you’re mad at me because i had some superpowers in your dream—”

“it was sorcery,” you hiss, “were you even listening?”

“right. sorry. i was…a sorcerer,” he apologizes. he looks at you like you’re insane—your eye twitches just a little. “and then suddenly i went crazy in the head and killed a village and adopted nanako and mimiko and…left. to basically cleanse an entire demographic. is that right?”

“you had a cult too.”

“and the cult,” he nods slowly, “can’t forget the cult.”

“yeah,” you glower—if looks could kill, suguru thinks he might have never been born at all. this is a new one, he has to admit. “and it was really fucking rude. you left. and you took the kids before i could even meet them.”

“okay,” he says tiredly, rubbing his forehead, “baby, i don’t know if you realize this, but i don’t…i can’t perform sorcery. and i don’t have a cult i can lead either. i’m just a literature teacher—”

“i know what you are,” you snap, shoving away the hand he tries to reach at you with, “you’re a selfish psychopath who committed heinous crimes and left me single and alone as you led a group of people to follow your crazy ideas. don’t even think about touching me—”

“so do you want me to apologize?” he sighs, “because i’m sorry—”

“what if i left you? huh? and just started killing everyone who has blue eyes? what then? i’ll take the kids this time and leave you alone, see how you like it.”

“well, at least that gets rid of satoru,” he mutters quietly. and then he grins—chuckles a soft little laugh that makes the edges of your lips curl just a bit. “you’re crazy,” he snorts, shaking his head. and then— “but i love you. c’mere.”

you don’t fight the hand the reaches towards you this time, letting his arm curl around your waist and pull you into his side. that’s a good sign, he thinks, so he tests the waters and plants a kiss to your head. you melt just a little.

“i’m still mad at you,” you mumble.

“yeah, i figured,” he grins, “anything i can do to erase my sins as a mass murderer?”

“you can make breakfast,” you hum, leaning closer as you rub circles into his chest, “and wash the dishes.”

“easy enough,” he nods, pulling a scowl from you.

“you’re not off the hook yet,” you click your teeth.

“of course,” he nods in agreement, “i still have to atone for my radical actions. i’ll start by resurrecting all the people i killed. that should do it, right?”

“suguru, be serious,” you huff, “i was very sad, okay?”

“did you miss me?” he wriggles his brows—you look at him incredulously before slapping his chest. he chuckles a little too long for your liking.

“what a stupid question,” you pinch your nose, “so if i became delusional and ran off to erase a population, you wouldn’t be upset with me?”

“actually, i’d follow you because i love you,” he shrugs, pinching your nose lightly, “i’d be your cult’s second-in-command. obviously you just didn’t love me enough in your dream to do the same for me.”

“you didn’t invite me,” you pout through a glare, “what was i supposed to do? show up unwelcome?”

“well, nothing was stopping you. was i at least a strong sorcerer?” he asks in wonder.

you think for a moment before nodding. “yeah,” you say thoughtfully, “one of the strongest.”

“nice,” he grins—he seems a bit too pleased for something that happened in your dreams.

you decide to deal the harsh blow. “but not nearly as strong as satoru. you know he was the literally the strongest?”

“okay,” he scowls, “if you do kill blue-eyed people, start with him.”

you giggle, leaning up to kiss his jaw as he lets a soft grin pull over his features. he laughs with you—and suddenly, you’re both chuckling together uncontrollably.

it’s a bit of a silly circumstance, but he kisses your forehead and means it when he says, “sorry i left you to kill people and led a cult and committed a bunch of crimes while i wiped out a whole group of people. i didn’t mean it.”

“you took the kids too,” you remind him.

“i don’t know what i was thinking,” he shakes his head, “those two are a handful. how was i managing being a single father with all that on my plate?”

“that’s why you shouldn’t have left me,” you point out.

“you’re right,” he agrees, “i’ll invite you if i ever snap and lose my sanity.”

“good. you’re forgiven. now, i want chocolate chip pancakes—and make coffee while you’re at it.”

“yeah, whatever,” he rolls his eyes. he kisses you though, a soft little peck over your lips as you hum into the kiss and cup his cheek, “you got it. whatever you want.”

“i want you,” you murmur, “unhinged sorcerer and all.”

he laughs at the craziness of it all—but he loves it anyway, loves you despite it all.

“and i want you too,” he grins, hopelessly in love, “if you’ll do me the honors and join my crazy sorcery schemes.”

hi i’m tee and i had a dream that my rude ass sister stole my car and totaled it and now im very mad at her and i am not speaking to her until she apologizes. she refuses so im now double mad

#teepods.writings #drabbles. #geto x reader #geto x you #geto fluff #jjk x reader #jjk x you #jjk fluff #geto suguru x reader #geto suguru x you #geto suguru fluff #jujutsu kaisen x reader #jujutsu kaisen x you #jujutsu kaisen fluff

[phantasmicfish]

Just some more Dune Part 2 things that I thought were interesting with a specific focus on Feyd-Rautha:

- just… the way that he’s so very accurately portrayed as a psychopath adds a level of grit I didn’t get reading when the book

- the scenes with him and Lady Fenring got me good. The book mentions that he finds her attractive, definitely echoed in the movie. There weren’t explicitly written scenes in the book of how Lady Fenring slept with him (but this was confirmed through dialogue), so I liked the movie’s interpretation of her luring him using her Bene Gesserit abilities

- I would have liked to see Feyd-Rautha tested by the Gom Jabbar the same way Paul was. In the book (and I think part 1 of the movie?) it’s specified that Paul has endured the most amount of pain anyone can handle from the test, but given that movie Feyd-Rautha seems canonically a sadist + masochist, I wonder how long he would have lasted?

- overall the vibe and aesthetic of the Harkonnen’s was terrifying and great. The black and white visuals, dimly lit rooms, flashing lights… There are a lot of different villains in Dune, especially in Part 2 — The Emperor, Jessica, but the most clear-cut ones by far are the Harkonnens. I think the visuals definitely amplify that. I find it rather interesting that the Harkonnens are portrayed to be evil as an entire house. The fact that they all had bald heads gave them a mass identity, served to make them seem perhaps more alien and less human, all capable of committing heinous crimes. Even Feyd-Raytha’s servants or whoever eat human organs

- I think it was an interesting choice to have Feyd-Rautha actually stab Paul during their final fight, we see the blade actually hurt Paul, penetrate his skin, we see Paul gasping for breath, we see Paul struggling for survival. I believe the book made the fight seem more cut-and-dry, that Feyd was a formidable opponent but he didn’t actually stab Paul (though he does draw blood). So I sorta felt the fight was a good contrast between showing Paul as still human while he maintains this cult status. I could see how his ability to survive this fight, despite his injuries, also elevate his messiah status among the Fremen

#I was on the edge of my seat the entire time Feyd-Rautha was on screen #he was terrifying #but also really cool #also that final fight scene was insane and choreographed so well #feyd rautha #feyd rautha harkonnen #paul atreides #dune #dune part 2 #dune part two #house harkonnen #lady fenring #margot fenring #dune spoilers