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jadefyre:
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perhaps jon ‘i was a deeply annoying child’ sims actually developed that particular (unhealthy) habit where he tries to be his Most Annoying and Pedantic Self around new people so that they can decide if they hate that part of him BEFORE he gets attached (rather than trying to be less annoying and then having them hate him later when they find out). while this does not excuse his behavior, it would explain why he’s such an ass towards people that he has just met, such as statement givers, other avatars, and in s1, martin (given that jon and tim used to work together in research, and sasha was friends with tim for years, it is likely that they were both already exposed to jon at Max Annoying, which is why he was so comfortable with them already). in this essay i will
where’s the rest of the essay, op
i seem to have misplaced it, maybe near that strange fractal vase… in the meantime, you may enjoy this follow-up essay:
martin ‘my mother is just… strong-willed’ blackwood was forced to sacrifice huge parts of his life for his mother, who hated and continuously rejected him. these years of conditioning set him up both as a literary foil for jon’s assholery, and as someone with complementary trauma and bad coping mechanisms. he was perfectly suited to both feed on and enable jon’s behavior, and while at first this likely seems an ideal situation for both of them, it ultimately took significant changes in both of their ways of thinking and responding to other people and each other before their interactions and relationship became anything like healthy. building on my previous work, in this essay i will
hey actually thinking about it, it’s fascinating that jon and martin have similar traumas (rejection and resentment from a parental figure who should have loved and cared for them) but reacted in such radically different ways to create opposite but complementary coping mechanisms, while both having similar underlying motivations (to keep themselves from being abandoned by people they loved, also to protect the people they loved). and of course, in s4 we see them essentially swapping how they deal with fear and pain (martin pushes people away, jon pulls people closer even when he’s rejected), thus growing my initial essay from speculation about one character’s motivations in specific circumstances to a metatextual analysis of multiple characters’ parallels to each other’s arcs and the overall writing style, as all literary essays are doomed to become.
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equalseleventhirds:
equalseleventhirds:
jadefyre:
equalseleventhirds:
perhaps jon ‘i was a deeply annoying child’ sims actually developed that particular (unhealthy) habit where he tries to be his Most Annoying and Pedantic Self around new people so that they can decide if they hate that part of him BEFORE he gets attached (rather than trying to be less annoying and then having them hate him later when they find out). while this does not excuse his behavior, it would explain why he’s such an ass towards people that he has just met, such as statement givers, other avatars, and in s1, martin (given that jon and tim used to work together in research, and sasha was friends with tim for years, it is likely that they were both already exposed to jon at Max Annoying, which is why he was so comfortable with them already). in this essay i will
where’s the rest of the essay, op
i seem to have misplaced it, maybe near that strange fractal vase… in the meantime, you may enjoy this follow-up essay:
martin ‘my mother is just… strong-willed’ blackwood was forced to sacrifice huge parts of his life for his mother, who hated and continuously rejected him. these years of conditioning set him up both as a literary foil for jon’s assholery, and as someone with complementary trauma and bad coping mechanisms. he was perfectly suited to both feed on and enable jon’s behavior, and while at first this likely seems an ideal situation for both of them, it ultimately took significant changes in both of their ways of thinking and responding to other people and each other before their interactions and relationship became anything like healthy. building on my previous work, in this essay i will
hey actually thinking about it, it’s fascinating that jon and martin have similar traumas (rejection and resentment from a parental figure who should have loved and cared for them) but reacted in such radically different ways to create opposite but complementary coping mechanisms, while both having similar underlying motivations (to keep themselves from being abandoned by people they loved, also to protect the people they loved). and of course, in s4 we see them essentially swapping how they deal with fear and pain (martin pushes people away, jon pulls people closer even when he’s rejected), thus growing my initial essay from speculation about one character’s motivations in specific circumstances to a metatextual analysis of multiple characters’ parallels to each other’s arcs and the overall writing style, as all literary essays are doomed to become.
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