#the hyperfixations tag

[concerningwolves]

happy hallowe'en. please remember not to give the church grims sweets as they only have the teeth they were buried with, and those need to last them for the entirety of their vigil over the graveyard. fresh drinking water and assurances that they are good puppies will be very much appreciated

#misadventuring in mythology and folklore #the hyperfixations tag

[lupinus-sanguis]

chelldos for the soul <3

#My art #Artists on tumblr #Suggestive #Portal #Portal 2 #Chelldos #Chell #GLaDOS #Android glados #lesbian robot fans make some noise!!!!!! #portal 2 hyperfixation go brrrrrrr #wireplay #<- forgot to tag that! thanks rebloggers

[bixels]

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

[nicktoonsunite]

misc NU doodles part tres

last comic is based off off my nasb 2 clip

#nicktoons unite #danny phantom #jimmy neutron #the fairly oddparents #spongebob squarepants #el tigre #my life as a teenage robot #manny rivera #jenny wakeman #also HELLO HI ive been getting a surge of messages lately and i havent gotten to replying bc ive been a bit busy #and i also wanna say i love reading all the tags on my latest posts youre all so funny #thank you for enjoying my art theres more where that came from #im still i nthe middle of watching el tigre and i ended up getting hyperfixated i fear #mlaatr will be next hold ur horses jenny enjoyers #dewdles #comic

[lelelego]

ain’t that a kick in the head

#fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #eyy here's my courier oc! hes eli hes early-mid 20s and hes ready to stumble around and get offed bc of that 3 END #i'm thinking about preparing an info sheet for him too but hhhhh. saints row hyperfixation............. #also no offense these go pretty hard thank u <3 #doodly thingy #oc: eli #fallout tag

[sirenetica]

Get a load of these dudes!

+ some silly romance-y stuff

#“hey we should totally post more about our fantrolls on our secondary blog bc people are excited and youre excited” #“hm true but also remember our hyperfixation spinwheel?” #“yea?” #“Freddys time” #“what” #“feddy time” #sundrop #fnaf sun #moondrop #fnaf dca #dca fandom #daycare attendant #fnaf daycare attendant #eclipse fnaf #sun fnaf #moon fnaf #ik sundrop & moondrop arent their actual names its more for tagging sake #these are done in part because Ive been drafting up a fic.. for the them #and also because again #my hyperfixations kind of claw for the mantle all the time #my art #art #artwork

[ourenjiro]

i did not expect to finish (?) this at all, so im left scratching my head because i've already used the hozier lyrics on a fucking sketch. which is my bad, really

i will be the devil in your land of make believe

there. that should do it

#bloodweave #gale/astarion #astarion/gale #ONCE AGAIN tag hell. #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #if anyone's curious those lyrics are from “adultery” by dog fashion disco #anyway FINISHED not perfect im so tired i gotta stop hyperfixating on this piece and just move on yknow

[house-of-cards-and-crime]

was on namemc cause i was curious if the fishing madness had progressed and

grian??????? NOW what's happened???

#(this hasn't been shown in any videos/streams to my knowledge i just saw it on namemc - so idk if this counts as spoilers? #gonna tag for them anyway tho) #hermitcraft spoilers #hermitcraft s10 spoilers #hermitcraft #hermitcraft 10 #hermitcraft season 10 #hermitcraft s10 #hc s10 #hermitblr #grian #namemc spoilers #< stole this tag from a few reblogs cause i didnt know it existed but now realize it would be good to have #organizey tags as usual > #stuff and nonsense ramblings etc #cubic nonsense #hyperfixation type beat

[vypridae]

putting this here

#apparently the two worst people of all time are what my brain wants to hyperfixate on specifically so i (dont) apologize in advance #xandraws #hazbin hotel #vox #valentino #vox hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel valentino #valentino hazbin hotel #hazbin vox #hazbin valentino #vox x valentino #voxval #valvox #staticmoth #xanqueue #< new tag?

[papanowo]

so im kinda into star trek now lol

#my art #star trek #star trek aos #james t kirk #jim kirk #spock #spirk #i just spent the past 20 minutes trying to figure out this new tagging system jesus christ #anyways #so im not hyperfixated on star wars anymore whoops #im gonna try and finish the last of my sw wips but after that #idk if im gonna be drawing anymore star wars sorry #hopefully i get back into it for tbb s3 #but who knows

[concerningwolves]

some (not necessarily connected but similar) thoughts that have been plaguing me for several days:

It's very easy to retell the Perseus and the Gorgons myth by casting Perseus as a dumb thug who couldn't have completed the quest without as much divine aid as he received. I've read a few retellings that take this angle, and while it can be comedic, it isn't my favourite flavour of Perseus. It often verges into classism when adaptations focus on Perseus' "lowly" upbringing as a fisherman, and conflate this with his supposed idiocy. I think he's an impetuous teenager who isn't very bright – or perhaps it's fairer to say he's ignorant, being sheltered in his little corner of the world by his mother and guardian – but nonetheless starts with good intentions.

It isn't necessary to make Perseus a villain (or a dumb thug, as in previous Thought) in order to present a more sympathetic angle on Medusa. Perseus is tricked into volunteering for what is essentially a suicide mission in order to save his mother. The act of killing Medusa while she sleeps is a horrifically violent one – but so is King Polydectes' threat of forced marriage to Danae, which Perseus is trying to prevent. If Medusa and Perseus could have sat down and had a chat, it would be a very different myth, which is what makes it so tragic imo. (Although I'm definitely not saying Perseus was a Good Guy who did nothing wrong. Heroism ≠ goodness, which is something it's easy to forget when looking back at Greek myth through a modern lens).

I'm very fond of the mytheme/folklore archetype of a hero getting magical or divine aid to complete their quest. I actually think there's something in there about accessibility and ableism, and how most ordinary people who are thrust into a magical quest narrative would need some aid because the world of gods and monsters is a long way from the world of, say, a little-educated island fisherman. I don't think this aid detracts from their heroism.

#fragments of essays #greek mythology #misadventuring in mythology and folklore #medusa #perseus #the hyperfixations tag

[by-the-power-of-kuriboh]

I love Digimon. The final bosses of the minor arcs, in order, are

The devil

A monkey popstar

Dracula

Dracula Reloaded: Giant Spider Edition

A giant metal sea dragon

A puppet

Monkey Popstar, but he's metal now

A machinegun dragon

A clown

The personified Apocalypse

#digimon #kuribohmon #<- needed a digimon tag because I can feel a hyperfixation coming in. Feel free to block that tag

[keuwi-crafts]

New season, new hermits!

I was so excited when I saw that these guys were basing next to each other, this season is gonna be so good!

Bonus! No background version:

#hermitcraft #hermitcraft season 10 #grian #goodtimeswithscar #mumbo jumbo #smallishbeans #skizzleman #impulsesv #geminitay #magic mountain #hermitcraft fanart #hermitblr #mcyt #mcyt fanart #myart #tagging joel and skizz on hermitcraft art makes me so happy omg #also hello the yearly mcyt hyperfixation has come to hit me with the new season starting

[zvezdacito]

I just wanted an excuse to draw them tbh

+ Design refs for Levan because I've grown attached to the chara design I made for him despite knowing literally nothing about him. Also holding onto the slim hope that he is Chinese-coded for real😭

#twst #twisted wonderland #lilia vanrouge #levan draconia #< idk what his tag is RIP #zvzd art #twisted wonderland fanart #diasomnia #me when i finally have the opportunity to combine the hanfu interest with the twst hyperfixation #malleus draconia #meleanor draconia

[ghostlykidplaidbanana]

A continuation of this post

You thought it was just rise and 2012?

Im thinking I’ll make more of these crossover shenanigans I’ve got a lot of ideas silly smirk emoji

NEXT

#rottmnt #tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #art #rise tmnt #tmnt leonardo #2012 tmnt #2003 tmnt #tmnt crossover #it’s 4:44 am at the time of writing this lol #hyperfixated too much and I hear my family’s alarm clocks chiming #2003 leo #2003 teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2003 #gonna tag it crossover prank war or something idk #crossover prank war #ok that’s a lame tag what should I actually make it #tw eyetrain #cw eyestrain #eyestrian #eyestrain #can you tell I can’t to backgrounds #tmnt donatello

[theartingace]

so I saw one interesting comic about a podcast and accidentally have been binging it for nearly a week straight, it had me thinking of nothing else within 30 seconds of episode 1, Love this poor sad dishrag of a man and his poetry loving passenger <3

#Malevolent #malevolent fanart #malevolent podcast #it turned into a face bookcover cause why not #I was just trying to nail down his face #and suddenly #the first full painting I've done in months #the hyperfixation is strong with this one #I haven't checked the tag yet cause I'm trying to avoid spoilers #at least a little bit #just got past coda #poor arthur #character sketches to follow