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greatandholypangolin · 5 months

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Wee Free Men - An Unprofessional Diagnosis Of The Characters

alright, this is likely going to be a long post and likely going to be an unfinished post, but I’m a firm believer that Terry Pratchett was neurodivergent and has projected his neurodivergency onto every character in discworld, so I’m going to be making headcanon diagnosises for every character, starting with Wee Free Men because I’ve been reading Tiffany Aching and fuck chronological order.

Note- I’m only doing the neurodivergent traits from THIS BOOK because I’m not combing through the whole mini series, I’m may be stupid but I’m not an idiot.

Tiffany Aching

starting off strong with our main character. I believe she’s definitely autistic and I’m going to just list autistic traits she shows with quotes to support them.

Not knowing what was socially acceptable, the unspoken rules. ‘she’d read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren’t supposed to’ ‘I buried her cat […] someone had to’

word association that based on sensations ‘sussurus […] Tiffany liked the taste of the word. It made her think of mysterious people in long cloaks whispering important secrets behind a door’

not having the “correct” emotional reactions to things ‘I ought to be scared, but I’m just angry’

Being ignored or left out of things ‘People tended to leave Tiffany alone’

taking things literally (~measuring a soup plate after being told Jenny had eyes as big as soup plates~), ‘a girl was as beautiful as the day is long. Well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light’

Lacking a proper understanding of danger ‘she used her brother as bait’

being very blunt in her speech ‘are you a witch?’

noticing things that others don’t, being observant (~do I really need examples? It happens so often~)

questioning things generally accepted because they didn’t make sense to her ‘The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: where’s the evidence?’

I’ve come to the horrible realisation that I’ve gotten 9 autistic traits from only 2 chapters of this 14 chapter book, and only one character too. This may be a much larger task than I initially thought.

#Terry pratchett gnu #discworld #autism #neurodivergent #autistic #asd #disability representation #diagnosis #tiffany aching #wee free men #in depth #character analysis #media analysis #unfinished

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play-my-game · 5 months

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#Throat training #Red lips #In depth #At home

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enha-stars · 2 months

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y’all ain’t ready for this sunghoon fic i’m cooking up 😂😂😂

#GUESS WHAT #actually don’t #i’ll cry #all i’m gonna say is #chelsea #we talked about this #in DEPTH #and jo #i hope you like ur men sweet #anyways #today’s fast killed me lmao #i went to work today and left. apart of my soul there #i’m so exhausted #and i have so much work #and i want to talk to jo and stella so bad but being on ig makes me want to rip my hair out rn #anyways!#enha!me

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ven10 · 4 months

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hello :D! i'm curious that with the quagmires being your favorite characters, do you have headcanons for them, pre and/or post canon?

Hiya! :) I have SO MANY hcs about them so thanks for asking!!!! :D

Pre-canon relationship dynamic:

Quigley was closer to Isadora than to Duncan before the fire although he still was really close to Duncan too. I mainly think this bc in ‘The Slippery Slope’ Quigley mentioned Isadora on her own a few times, even quoting a couplet she wrote, whereas he only mentioned Duncan when talking about both of his siblings.

In order of most to least mischievous growing up I feel like it’d go Quigley, then Isadora and lastly Duncan.

Games/How the triplets would play when they were young:

Duncan: Would grab any random object of *aproximately* the right size (could be one of his mother’s shoes or it could be a spatula) and pretend it was a microphone. He’d follow people around “reporting” (more so narrating,really) what they were doing. This would REALLY annoy Isadora bc the worst thing when having writer’s block would be to have someone right beside you describing how you “stare blankly at a page in anguish. No inspiration detected for at least another treacherous week”.

Quigley: Strikes me as the kind of guy to climb trees, regardless of age tbh. He just has the vibe.

He would build forts at EVERY opportunity. Duncan once challenged him to build one in every room of the mansion and he almost did, with the exception of his parents’ office which was always locked.

He’d also draw loads. His drawing of a cave in TSS was described as an “elegant rendering” so I imagine he started doing art young. He’d get too passionate with a box of crayons and end up snapping most of them though. For his sixth birthday he’s gifted one of those pencils with multiple colours in the led and somehow angles it so that all the purple is used up first.

Isadora: She’d write plays for her+her siblings to perform for their parents+their parents’ friends that had surprisingly dark plot lines, especially for a 7 year old. Oh, and all the lines would rhyme, of course. She’d get annoyed when people read the script and asked if it was all one long song rather that the masterpiece of poetry she intended it to be perceived as.

Quigley would really enjoy acting in her plays+pour his heart and soul into the performance. Duncan would get really excited about it and do great when practicing with just the three of them but when it came to the actual performance he’d get shy+back out meaning Quigley or Isadora have to fill in for his role.

🎃 Halloween:

For Halloween one year, Isadora thought it’d be an amazing idea to dress up as Evelyn the conjoined twin bc she loved the song ‘Evelyn Evelyn’ based on her but Quigley found their story too depressing and Duncan didn’t like that it meant one of the triplets would get left out. Quigley suggests ‘Alvin and the chipmunks’ as a group costume earning instant “no”s from his siblings. They end up dressing in individual costumes based off historical figures (A poet, an investigative journalist and an explorer) but create their own story involving time-travel that connects the 3 characters.

Isadora loves Halloween as she is a goth(headcannon) so it really goes with her vibe. Quigley takes information about monsters/spooky creatures like vampires or werewolves and uses it to decide on which part of the world would be best for them to inhabit. Duncan then uses Quigley’s theories to research newspaper articles from the area, searching for any sign of the creatures.

Style/Fashion sense 🌟🧥

Duncan 📰:

Comfy green jumpers/sweaters or sweater-vests, white short-sleeved dress shirts and dress trousers/pants. (Pre-canon)

Comfy green polo-neck jumpers and (usually brown) corduroy pants/trousers and either dark green or white high top shoes. (Post-canon) Occasionally wears neatly applied eyeliner. The slight change in style is bc Duncan doesn’t want to wear clothes that feel so similar to a school uniform after spending so much time with those as his only clothes at Prufrock. He’ll occasionally wear hoodies but not if he’s to be seen in public.

Owns a few T-shirts with Dorothy Parker quotes which he cherishes and wears daily, even if they can’t be seen under the jumper/sweater. One quote he’d have is: “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue”

Isadora+Quigley once bought him a quirky reporter’s hat with a feather in it as a joke but Duncan ended up adoring it; convincing himself it gave him an extra boost of inspiration when writing articles. 🪶

Has a Polaroid camera looped round his neck 📸

Quigley 🗺:

Initially, he struck me as a rucksack guy but I was reading over TSS yesterday and discovered he canonically uses a totebag, “I was putting an atlas in a totebag I found”-Quigley Quagmire (‘The Slippery Slope’ Chapter 8, page 148) so technically that’s a canon not a headcanon but oh well 🙃

Wears clothes more so for practicality than for style, although if he has a choice he’ll get things in dark purple.

He’d wear cargo pants bc of all the pockets; this would inspire Isadora to write a poem titled ‘Two and a half’ about a scientist who was trying to clone someone twice but messed up, resulting in one of the copies (Quigley) having no legs.

He would also wear a jacket with tonnes of pockets bc it’s practical for the explorer’s life he leads plus it looks cool. Although, it looks a little less cool when he stitches on a hood with fabric that doesn’t even match.

He drew maps on a couple of T-shirts and wears those, unfortunately he has to redraw them every time they get washed.

Wears exclusively boots bc of their grip+durability, one boot would have purple laces and the boot on the other foot would have black laces bc the original lace got stuck in a thorn bush so he stole borrowed one of Isadora’s.

As for accessories; a compass on string looped round his neck, clips shoved in at random to keep hair from falling in his face as he climbs, a hat/beanie with pins on it

Also: Frayed fingerless gloves!!! I saw this in one of Quill’s art pieces of Quigley and like the idea immensely ( @lemonysnicket ) :))

Always has the most RANDOM items in his pockets; will reach in looking for a packet of gum and come out with binoculars.

Isadora 📜:

Goth.Goth.Emo.Goth.

Wears almost exclusively black: Black boots or high top converse (with doodles on the white toe bit in sharpie),

Wore black nail polish pre-canon. At Prufrock she improvises using black markers+pens on her nails. She once tried the same trick for mimicking eyeliner…it did not turn out well and Duncan brings it up at the WORST times.

Wears winged black eyeliner, smudged under the eyes.

Likes long swishy skirts (midi skirts). They’re sometimes a bit impractical but if she’s just spending the day writing poetry it’s fine. Otherwise she likes cuffed shorts with leggings underneath.

Violet once bought fishnet gloves bc she liked how they looked but gave them to Isa after they kept getting caught in her inventions. Isadora loves them even more bc they’re from Violet.

Has a really cool leather jacket but doesn’t wear it much bc she secretly worries that she isn’t cool enough for the jacket.

Has a T-shirt with all of Sappho’s poems printed out really small and arranged into a picture of Sappho herself. Quigley owns a similar one but his contains the bee-movie script.

Cooking abilities ranked🍳:

1: Quigley 🗺- he’s the best bc he had to cook for himself while “dead”. Granted, he did just eat canned peaches, toasted marshmallows, almonds and carrots but he had to find his own food anyway so that’s a start.

2: Isadora 📜- Her meals at Prufrock were cooked for her but it’s possible she had to cook for Duncan and herself at previous guardians. This task would fall on her as Duncan used to be afraid of stoves for a while after the fire

‘ “For a long time,” Duncan admitted, “I was afraid of any kind of fire. I didn’t even like to look at stoves.”’ -The Austere Academy, Chapter 3, page 47.

3: Duncan 📰- For the reason above and also bc he seems like the kind of guy who would mess up simple dishes by trying to apply extra information, “I read in a news article once about a famous chef who’d put mozzarella in porridge for extra flavour, let’s try that!” (Made-up quote)

Choice of stationary 🖊

Isadora: Fountain pen ✒️ bc it makes her poetry look fancy

Duncan: Biro bc it doesn’t smudge easily and he needs to writes down a lot of info quickly for his journalism 🖊

Quigley: Coloured biros bc they make maps easily decipherable+they don’t smudge easily which is useful for accuracy

In a modern AU Quigley has a 6 hour screen time average and it is ENTIRELY Google maps. Duncan listens to podcasts. Isadora’s Pinterest is made up completely of quotes.

Books/Literature 📚:

Apart from atlases, Quigley reads fantasy books with maps. He would adore books in the Grishaverse bc of this, especially obsessing over the canal system of Ketterdam which can be seen in detail in a map in ‘Crooked Kingdom’ by Leigh Bardugo. 📚 🧙‍♀️ However, with the Grisha triology (Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm + Ruin and Rising) he would be disappointed by how little the cartographer/ex-cartographer protagonist mentions maps.

Duncan would enjoy the ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ series due to the strategic, organised layout alongside Pip-the protagonist- ‘s note-taking skills. As Duncan aspires to be an investigative journalist he’d be enthralled by the investigations that are central in these books. He would annotate the books as he reads them; filling them with his own theories as well as highlighting important information.

The poem ‘Long Distance II’ by Tony Harrison doesn’t consist of rhyming couplets but I think Isadora would find its portrayal of grief powerful regardless of whether it’s in her preferred poetic format. Especially as it’s about the loss of family members.

Quigley would create his own fantasy map using tea-stained paper with rice spilled on it, drawing around the rice to get the outline of a country. He’d be really strategic about the details he draws though; having mountains before rivers so the water runs off of them etc. 🗺

Favourite Colours 🎨:

Isadora: Pitch black 🖤

Duncan: Dark green 💚

Quigley: Dark purple💜

(Bc of their notebooks 📓)

Thanks for the ask!! :) <3

I wasn’t sure what to include so I wrote quite a bit, this was me restraining myself tho. I think about the Quagmire triplets a LOT :). This is only the tip of the iceberg ;)! :) I also have kind of detailed hcs about injuries the triplets would have after the eagle fight if u want to hear about that.

Please send more asks if you like! You can be as specific as you like, especially if it’s about the Quagmires! :D

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yuno-karei · 3 months

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Should I do a similar thing to my bloodline ability explanations... but for familiars

#like I know I've already made posts about it but!!#what if:#in depth #yuno rambles

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epellucid · 10 days

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#u #38359421 #in depth #2009

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jcs-study · 10 months

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JCS my way

(@nemoverne is partially responsible for this post, but truthfully I'd been meaning to get to it anyway. Still, thanks for being the kick in the ass that I needed to do it!)

Background

It goes without saying that JCS is one of my favorite musicals of all time, or else this blog wouldn't exist. Naturally, I've been brainstorming how to stage this thing since the first grade, and everybody who knows me knows that.

Indeed, I've had so many visions of how to do so over the years that, without my ever openly expressing any of my notions, I've seen many of them echoed by established directors, which gives me a certain amount of confidence that I'm on the right track.

While versions of these notes have previously appeared on my old Tumblr side blog (@gdelgidirector), on my main (non-Tumblr) blog Ars Pro Concreta, and on various forums, subreddits, and other places of discussion devoted to JCS, they have yet to appear on this blog, where I otherwise center all of my thinking about the show. Thanks to a recent ask, that changes this evening.

Links

Click here to access my latest proposal for staging JCS.

Additionally, while this is not a 1:1 reflection of the Musical Arrangements section of my notes (an earlier version of which from my main Tumblr handle was previously reblogged by nemoverne), I assembled a "JCS mix tape" of sorts with the help of a friend that I hear in my head when I picture what I describe in these pages. If you want to hear what I hear when I envision JCS, you can click here to listen to that.

#jesus christ superstar #andrew lloyd webber #tim rice #jcs #jesus christ super star #jcss #jesus christ super-star #ideas #in depth #playlist #mix tape

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moreespressoformydepresso · 1 year

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Call me controversial, but I don’t think people like Kaminari and dislike or hate Mineta because of their respective looks. Although I acknowledge it’s probably a factor, I personally don’t think it’s the main reason. I might be wrong, but I think I at least have some ground to stand on because I’m a person who, when getting into a new piece of media, picks their favorites by which character they think is the prettiest until they figure out personalities and change or keep favorites based on their actual character/arc/story/etc.

Now, Kaminari is definitely attractive, and there are definitely people who give him a pass for the more… questionable things he’s done (yes, as a Kami fan I too would rather forget the whole cheerleader outfits thing), I think it would be a bit shortsighted to say that that’s the only reason. Personally, I’m of the belief that a lot of people would have still preferred Kaminari over Mineta even if Mineta was a hunk and Kaminari was ugly.

Again, looks do matter somewhat, but given the popularity of characters like Usopp from One Piece I feel safe in saying that it’s not the deciding factor for a lot of anime fans. Now, to finally get to what I believe is the main reason for why Kaminari is so loved and Mineta isn’t: personality. Or, more specifically, the depth of their personality. I’ll try my best to contrast the two of them and explain why I believe this, because I’m passionate about analysis and you can’t stop me. Feel free to correct or add to anything I write in the comment section, I’d love to hear your thoughts! So, first things first, what exactly are their core personalities?

When I think of Kaminari, I think of someone who’s friendly and outgoing, an energetic goofball with a good heart who’s generally someone you want to be around. Sometimes he’s a bit reckless and he can be a bit dumb, sometimes he’s petty, but in the end you can all laugh about it. Yes, like a lot of teenage boys, he likes girls. And sometimes, in that appreciation of women, he goes a tad too far but it’s nothing too extreme.

When I think of Mineta, however, I mostly think about his over-the-top obsession with girls. His motivation to become a hero is literally to get girls to like him. The second thing I think of is his cowardice and how annoying I find it when he starts crying in tough situations. I understand it, but I’m not the one trying to become a hero. Also, Mineta criticizes others for being perverts in situations that end up being misunderstandings while he himself does some objectively fucked up shit in the name of horny. Despite this, he’s shown to have courage and aptitude when it matters most, and given his scores he seems to be pretty smart.

The main difference between the two, I think, is how they are most commonly seen in the manga and show. There are plenty of instances where we see Kaminari’s good personality traits, whereas most of Mineta’s screen-time is devoted to an extended pervert-joke. Sure, he has redeeming qualities, but even on the rare occasions these are shown there’s usually some pervertedness involved in one way or another. And ultimately, I think that’s the biggest reason people prefer Kaminari. Not only does Mineta go a lot further in being pervy that Kaminari, his redeeming qualities are also not only barely shown but also always accompanied by his perverse nature. And that’s why I think people like Kaminari and not Mineta.

This concludes my newest bit of word-vomit, this time on why I believe two characters who some see as similar are regarded so differently and evoke such different reactions from people, thank you for coming to my Ted-Talk

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