Jebbzfixations

“Talking to myself, but that’s just cause I, you know, got shit to say.” Currently: fixating on 5 fools in Philly monkeygohappy on AO3 I write inception fanfiction <3 21, she/her

[jebbzfixations]

Chapters: 23/23 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)

Somehow, I’ve finished uploading my pride and joy, this Inception fanfic. It is entirely too long, but it is also my favorite thing I’ve ever written. If you’re interested in reading a dastardly Eames being put in place by a strait-laced, definitely-not-secretly-sweet Arthur, perhaps give this story a try.

Thank you to everyone who has already been on this journey and anyone who even considers joining in. This fandom is so deep in my heart, as it will always be <3

[semi-sweet-dee]

The gang + text posts pt 4

[almostgaby]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Jimmy Fallon talking about Tom Hardy. (7-16-12)

[thaac-on]

There’s always time to have a chat about Tom Hardy.

[a-forger-and-a-point-man]

“He was big in Inception…”

-dead-

[jellogram]

Do you ever think about how Country Mac is portrayed as everything that Mac has ever wanted to be, like he's a badass, he's cool, he rides motorcycles and can fight, and he's proudly gay. He can do all the things that Mac always thought he had to do in order to be a real man, AND he's living the lifestyle that Mac represses in himself. He worked it out. He's confident and comfortable in his own skin. He's not shoving it down and praying it away. That must have been eating Mac alive inside even more than the badass stuff.

But then he fucking died. In a freak accident. Like an act of God. Mac saw a man who was everything he wanted to be, who openly admits to the sin that Mac has been wrestling with for his entire life, inspiring so much envy inside him, and then he watched that guy be struck down in a freak accident. Imagine what he must have been thinking and feeling about his own queerness in the months after that...

[loyus-inception]

realized my arthureames art is a spectrum of

and there is genuinely so many styles in between. what being a dedicated arthureames artist for almost three years does to a man (gender neutral)

[phillybabay]

"ill call you big fat mac😐"

"😮😃uh, i dont care! thats awesome if they think that!" they are so their charecyers here and they might be doing it conciuosly but its sooo natural like thats sweet dee thats mac that dennis thats charlei this is the best day ever

[sorbetsnatcher]

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

[c0smicjellyfish]

Mac does karate compilation :)

[sageisnotpepesilvia]

mac mcdonald having a good time

bonus:

check out mac having a bad time

[clrnyrchks]

who's going to tell him

[riddler-apologist]

bigs my eyes at yuo

[stimpry]

not homestuck but i kinda like how this turned out,,,

[appleofmyart]

the drugs dont work, they just make you worse

[xxsaintbaldwinxx]

Charlie and Waitress

[mackingonmac]

and i never posted that shit... tragic

[loyus-inception]

sometimes i feel like i’ve drawn every arthureames art ever and im just redrawing (this is not true there is so much more i could draw… SUGGESTIONS????? iknow theres like 10 sitting in the inbox IM SORRYY)

them + tom hardy study

[jebbzfixations]

Are the characters in IASIP flanderized?

No

Yes, but it makes them better

Yes, and it makes them worse

Only some characters/only to a certain extent

Voting ended onMay 16

Was hanging out with some friends the other night and one of them said what is essentially my sleeper agent phrase these days: “We should put on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia!” I had a Very Normal Reaction and my friends definitely thought I was So Normal but whatever. Me and the guy who suggested the show ended up having a very long wonderful convo about iasip as we watched the first four eps of s1. This question was something we disagreed on, so I’m curious to hear what other fans think! Maybe I’ll write more on it after I get some results … :D I’ll gatekeep my own opinion for now so I don’t bias the poll

In case anyone doesn’t know (I didn’t know there was a word for this until this conversation), Flanderization is when a trait or traits in a fictional character are heavily exaggerated as the show goes on, so much so that it distorts their original characterization. The term originally comes from Ned Flanders, but there are a lot of examples through media. A simple one that comes to mind is how in Parks and Rec (fantastic show), Leslie goes from mildly enjoying waffles to them being one of her core driving factors.

If anyone has more thoughts on flanderization and Sunny please feel free to discuss in the comments/reblogs. I’m so curious as to what people think!

[charmac]

Genuinely no hate to OP but I think the options of this poll in conjunction with the written text are inherently misleading.

A core aspect of Flanderisation is that a character no longer is/has lost the ability to be well-rounded because the writing of the character has declined in such a way that the character is reduced to one or two personality traits. There is no "makes them better" definition of flanderisation (unless you believe a certain character is better as one-dimensional), because the term is inherently linked to bad/lazy writing that comes from a lack of care and intent for characterisation and has instead relegated a character to a very specific trait/role (i.e. the character is written off to be able to slot into a formula instead of treated as complex and malleable).

If a character is different, distorted (or even unrecognisable) from their original version, but those changes are understandable/expected due to plots, relationship dynamics, and later-established lore within the canon of the show, that's (d)evolution, which is good character writing for long-standing shows, essentially the opposite of flanderisation (and arguably the only real way to combat it)

Of course you can make an argument any way you want (there are certainly episodes or even whole seasons where you can make a good case for flanderisation of certain characters in Sunny, but there are also continual examples to the contrary), but I think it's important to clarify that a key aspect of what defines a character as becoming flanderised is that they have become a shell of what they once were (or could have been) and are no longer complex or interesting due to the writing reducing the character down to one or two [inherent] character traits, not that they are simply different than they were from D1

[jebbzfixations]

I want to thank everyone, especially this user, for all of the input on this poll!! I didn’t know much abt flanderization before posting and didn’t realize just how complex it could get. I think the definition got too broad and inflated in my head. I’m gonna write more on this when I have time, but for now, I definitely agree with this addition. Thank you everyone for the discussion around this!!