#mpdg

[fairydollparts]

#manic pixie dream girl #sadgirl #alt core #lana del ray aesthetic #mentally fucked #sick sad world #the feminine urge #mpdg #coquette #quiet bpd #barbie swan lake

[thefiresofpompeii]

clara oswald is a manic pixie dream girl, but only in the literal sense of each of those words, the non-metaphorical meaning. manic not in a cutesy ‘teehee i’m so quirky’ way, but in an ‘i’m an actual control freak who wants to be able to successfully balance two very different lives and be competent in leading both of them. apparently i also need to sleep and eat and relax like a normal human being??’ way. pixie not in an ‘uwu whimsical’ way, but in an ‘assertive woman of short stature who may or may not be a mischievous trickster entity from a distant mythological past, one that looks adorable at first glance but embodies ambiguity and mystery’ way. dream not in the typical sense, but in the ‘i walk through the valley of the shadow of death and fear no evil; i appear in your mind at inopportune times; you can’t get rid of the idea of me, i haunt you like a persistent nightmare’ sense. girl as in impossible.

point is, she is much-deserving of the label in a non-derogatory, non-dismissive way, but as a genuine expression of awe and fascination

#with a little tweaking much the same could be said of amy. but i’m a claraposter and i’ll leave that to somebody else #manic pixie dream girl #clara oswald #clara #jenna coleman #doctor who #dw #jamie catches up #doctor who meta #mpdg #twelveclara #doctor who series 8 #doctor who series 9 #jamie.txt #amy pond #twelfth doctor #eleventh doctor #whouffaldi

[throwmethatcello]

Very bold of The Bear to believe that an actual ER doctor in her last year of residency would have the time and energy to be a manic pixie dream girl.

#the bear #claire #mpdg #the bear fx

[manicpixiedreamghostt]

Pink Mood Board ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅

#coquette #hyper feminine #lana del rey #lizzy grant #manic pixie dream girl #girlblogging #mpdg #pink aesthetic #dollette #femcel #female hysteria #ethereal #this is what makes us girls #stargirl #kinderwhore #hell is a teenage girl #femme fatale #girl interrupted syndrome #not my pics #pinterest #moodboard

[inkblotsonmyhands]

***SPOILERS FOR THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (HUNGER GAMES PREQUEL) BY SUZANNE COLLINS***

suzanne collins just repeatedly pulls the best of a given genre, and what i love about tbosas is that it completely subverts the manic pixie dream girl trope.

the story opens with coriolanus snow, small-minded in his outlook, traumatized by war, starving, struggling to make his way in the world where nothing but his name holds value. he meets lucy gray baird, and instantly, she's the classic manic pixie dream girl. she sings, she wears a rainbow dress, she believes in the goodness of people, despite the fact that her life is as difficult as it gets. in standard trope fashion, she and snow are bound to each other by plot devices: he's meant to be helping her with something, but in reality she has more to help him. she says that nothing they can take from her is worth keeping—because everything she has doesn't have a name. this directly contrasts snow's position where his last name is all he has.

over time, snow begins to realise just how dire her situation is, gets actively more and more concerned about her dying, and eventually falls in love with her. she expands his world, she charms him (and everyone else), and quite literally saves his life. snow believes in debts, and when he owes his life to her, he cannot help but appreciate her for it. she falls for him too—she believes he's a good person, possibly because he's the only one in the capitol to be even remotely nice to her, combined with her genuine belief in goodness and apparent tendency for somewhat toxic relationships.

that's where the subversion starts. despite falling for snow, lucy gray's life does not revolve around him. the song she sings in her interview is about her past relationship, which greatly irks snow who has become incredibly possessive of her. possessiveness is often depicted as a desirable trait in stories with a mpdg angle, but suzanne immediately shows it as controlling and somewhat sinister, despite the story being from snow's pov.

they both end up in district 12, lucy gray as a victor, and snow as a disgraced peacekeeper. it's here that suzanne fully veers away from the more tropey aspects of such a relationship. snow enjoys listening to lucy gray sing, but is constantly upset when she doesn't sing about him, possessively thinks of her as "his girl", and clearly wants control over her life. he doesn't even enjoy all her music, disliking the more freestyle non-lyrical pieces that lucy gray and the covey clearly take a lot of pleasure in. when lucy gray takes him to the lake and meadow, snow enjoys it but hates the birds, mockingjays, that lucy gray loves. typical mpdg arcs often involve the the nature-loving girl taking the city boy to a peaceful outdoors place, showing him all the things she loves about it, and making him love them too. snow never loves the mockingjays and even makes a sport out of shooting them, and thus never appreciates the true reason why lucy gray loves that place. he appreciates it for her as his possession, but not for the freedom that it all represents. he gets increasingly uncomfortable as he starts to realise that free-spirited lucy gray no longer is dependent on him in her own turf, while he still owes his life to her.

when snow kills billy taupe and lucy gray says that this makes up for her saving his life, we see the shift truly happen. snow's debt has been repaid, and his love for lucy gray begins to fall apart without the debt tying him to her. her rebellious tendencies aggravate his capitol heart, and he starts being unable to confide in her when he does things such as inform the capitol of sejanus's escape plan.

in the final scene in the woods, we watch it all unravel. they're both equals, having killed three people each, but snow attempts to lie to lucy gray about his third kill and she realises it. she retaliates by running away and setting a snake on him. snow retaliates to that by chasing her with a loaded gun. he drowns the evidence of his second kill, frees himself of any ties to his dark past, and returns to the capitol where he believes he belongs, forgetting lucy gray and anything he learned from her.

the manic pixie dream girl does not save the desolate boy. it was never her intention to and it was not her life's goal. the boy could never be saved by anyone anyway; the only thing that might have saved him was himself, and suzanne displays repeatedly how he was never truly willing to broaden his perspective right from the start.

i love this because typical mpdg stories make the boy a victim and the girl burdened with healing him and saving him from going down a dark path, but here, it is repeatedly emphasized that snow is a victim of his own making and lucy gray goes through his life on her terms only, trying the change him out of care and the goodness of her heart but leaving him and prioritising herself when she realises that there is no point.

to summarize, lucy gray does not wear a necklace of rope besides the dead man; instead, she flees.

#ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #my writing #suzanne collins #my thoughts #hunger games #hunger games prequel #rachel zegler #manic pixie dream girl #mpdg #tropes #trope subversion #tbosas #the hanging tree

[expelliarmus-percabeth]

one interesting thing I haven't seen people talk about is the way lucy gray baird's personality is very reminiscent of the manic pixie dream girl trope - and that's not to say that she's poorly written or one-dimensional in any way, but the dress, the spontaneous singing, all her "quirky" behaviours, the way she's seen through the eyes of a guy who's "stuck in a societal system" and sees her as this completely different, rebellious, being that "breaks him out" of the mold he's in - sound familiar? but this is a dystopian novel and not a romcom - her character was very specifically crafted this way because of the role she serves in the greater narrative in the end: a legend, a myth, a mystery - and that's why her mpdg-type personality works so perfectly. to snow and the reader, lucy gray is always going to have that air of intrigue around her, because she ultimately lives on in our memories not as a person, but as an idea and an icon.

#its almost 6am im just yapping i hope this makes sense #tbosas analysis #lucy gray baird #thg #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #manic pixie dream girl #mpdg #anyway another funny way of wording this is “snow thinks hes jgl in 500 days of summer”

[goodgirlgoodsport]

#the virgin suicides #sofia coppola #kirsten dunst #lux lisbon #aesthetic #coquette #lizzy grant #lanadelrey #mpdg #lana del rey #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #indie #trailer park #coquette aesthetic #dollette #mary lisbon #cecilia lisbon #therese lisbon #bonnie lisbon #jeffrey eugenides #movies

[luffley]

#coquette #fiona apple #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girl #girlblog #girlblogger #girlblogging #lana del rey #lizzy grant #dollete #dollete aesthetic #vintage #pin up aesthetic #pink #just girly posts #mpdg #2014 aesthetic #tumblr girls #coquette moodboard #coquette aesthetic #coquette fashion #dolletecore #sylvia plath #boygenuis #lana core #ethel cain #midwest gothic #y2k nostalgia #dreamcore #weirdcore

[problematicmpdg]

Bro you better stop before I become really freaking intimate with you

#text post #silly #screaming #girlblogging #cryptic #slay #female manipulator #girlboss #mpdg #manic pixie dream girl #idk #thoughts #girlblog #crush culture #crush #crushcore #intimate #cute #mwah

[anothergameofwickedgrace]

I'm so tired of seeing Ramona Flowers on lists of Manic Pixie Dream Girls.

She does not fit into this trope. If anything she subverts it. Scott may see her as such, which is where I think the notion comes from, but she very much defies key parts of the trope, if not going directly against them.

Colored hair and quirky do not equal MPDG.

#ramona flowers #shes an asshole who actively makes peoples lives worse #love her but really #scott pilgram vs the world #scott pilgrim #spvtw #mpdg #manic pixie dream girl #wicked rambles

[pastelpinksoda]

#fashion #embroidery #girl blogger #coqeutte #female manipulator #meme #pink #mpdg #manic pixie dream girl #eternal sunshine of the spotless mind #ramona flowers #penny lane #almost famous #holly golightly #cassie skins

[averysillygoose]

reading in random places>>>

#booklr #readingblr #coquette #it girl #that girl #journaling #reading #book reccs #coquette books #booktok #books #starbucks #manic pixie dream girl #mpdg

[obl1v10nn]

manic pixie dream girl ★

#hot pink #moodboard #y2k #y2k moodboard #manic pixie dream girl #mpdg #ramona flowers #tw ciggarettes #hot pink moodboard #makeup #lipgloss #tomie #pink #pink moodboard #barbiecore #barbiecore moodboard

[toxi-kins]

Manic pixie dream girl archetrope flag by me

Free to use and edit but I would LOVE to be tagged in anything you make with these!

#archetrope #kin #otherkin #manic pixie dream girl #mpdg #fictionkin #flag #upload #mine

[manicpixiedreamghostt]

˳✧༚ blue hydrangea, cold cash divine ˳✧༚

#lana del rey #lizzy grant #stargirl #ethereal #blue #blue aesthetic #girlblogging #moodboard #manic pixie dream girl #mpdg #2014 aesthetic #grunge #soft grunge #pale grunge #not my pics #pinterest

[cunt-draculaa]

is she a manic pixie dream girl or is she just a woman? is she just a woman through the simple gaze of a man? she is seen as unreal, a dream, as a man cannot fathom a woman being more captivating, successful, wiser, more full of life than him. she is a dumbed down version as a man refuses to accept she is complex. how dare i have to figure you out? how dare i have to learn your interests. you are what i want you to be. i will leave you before i learn you. you should be my toy, my therapist, my property. lead me to righteousness so i can leave you for a woman i see as less complex. a woman i will fully love with what you have shown me. i will share my niche records with her. pass them off as mine. "you are so different," she says to me. yes i am different, because she has never met you.

#manic pixie dream girl #mpdg #poetry #original poem #poets on tumblr #writing #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #girl blogger #manic pixie nightmare