#type nine

[triangle-banana]

Garfield with intp and nine because he's intp 9w8. And actually it's not the first time when I draw something like this, huh...

[the-mind-of-a-geek]

To everyone saying Troy wanting to go on the world boat trip to “be a man” is to do with not being like Abed anymore - no, I disagree. Here’s why.

Throughout his life, Troy has been whatever everyone else has wanted him to be. A football player, prom king, the Chosen One of the plumbers. Even with Abed he was participating in Abed’s interests and fantasies. Don’t get me wrong, he I think he genuinely enjoys those more, but it is just following whatever someone else wants for him.

Throughout the show, Troy has slowly learned to pursue his own interests, inspired by Abed’s confidence in himself, despite society alienating him. Abed being himself and being comfortable with that slowly allowed Troy to become himself as well. But, he is still heavily attached, even codependent, on someone else.

Seeing the world gives him a chance to forge his own path (literally?? Guess there aren’t any paths in the water but still ??) and come into his own. When he came back, Troy would have become a separate entity with Abed, rather than just an extension of him.

For the people who’ve seen Steven Universe and Community, it’s like when Ruby went and travelled away from Sapphire for a bit - she loves her, but wanted to find out who she was apart from her in order to reunite - stronger than ever.

[marshmalaphor]

A Love Letter to Type 9

To the Non-Confrontational,

           Thriving in peace, rather than in chaos, you keep routines. Inwardly and outwardly, to avoid confrontation to the best of your ability, you people-please, and it leaves you feeling disconsolate.

           But darling one, conflict is a necessary and beneficial part of life—you just can’t see that yet.

           Rarely angry, you push your feelings to the side to pick up others, which is an injustice to yourself.

           A master of minimizing your own emotions to make room for the emotions of those around you, sweet love, I see in you that you just want to understand every side to every story. And…that’s an admirable trait, but in doing so, you’ve camouflaged yourself in others’ problems.

           An amalgamation of those around you, you have, somehow, lost yourself. This mosaic, then—made up of millions upon millions of crystalline shards—does not serve you, pretty as it may seem to those on the outside.

           Even though you’re motivated by being heard, you continuously stifle yourself and your voice, only really speaking up when others come to you for advice—but even then, you feel it best not to rock the boat too far.

           Break—the glass—I beg of you. Shatter the remains of others in you, and let me help you find the pieces that make up you again. Let us fragment the empathy you give to others to make sure there’s enough left over for you.

           I know how hard it is to know who you are and what you want when you’ve been so caught up in everyone else’s desires and needs, but I believe you have it in you to find your way back home.

           Wanter of a simpler life, one filled with happiness and relaxation—one where you can blend in with society and prove not to be an outcast—you don’t have to have billions of pieces. You are, in fact, allowed to be more whole.

           Follow the North Star back to me—reverse breadcrumbing who it is you’ve always been along the way. I’ve glue to spare and lots of love for you.

With every bit of tape and warmth from my hearth,

r.h.

P.S. If someone does you wrong, speak up about it. You are not their doormat.

Song: Nine by Sleeping At Last

Song: Be OK by Ingrid Michaelson

[watchingtheunivereeexpand]

Willow Park (Enneagram Analysis)

From The Owl House by Dana Terrace/Disney

Type: 9w8 Subtype: so/sp Tritype: 947 Enneagram Analysis Masterlist

-> TYPE: 9w8

Core Desire: to be internally balanced and at peace, to have harmony with one's surroundings. Core Fear: of being separated from the world, of conflict and tension. Since they dislike conflict, type Nines tend to be too forgiving, too sympathetic, too much of push-overs. Instead of standing up for themselves, they swallow their anger and stay out of conflict in an attempt to be at peace. That was clear in Willow since her first episode, allowing Amity to push her around and, though implicitly, not expressing to her dads her desire to be in the Plants track. She just went along with whatever she was told to do, a sign of an unhealthy Nine. We also see in Understanding Willow that she has a lot of internalized anger that she bottled up for a long time. She hated being pushed around, she hated being weak, and helpless, and half-a-witch Willow. She shows signs of assertion every now and again that grant her an Eight wing, the internal tension between her passive and assertive side. Willow desintegrates onto Six: she's anxious and paralysed, doubting herself and her abilities, ignoring her own feelings out of the false belief that if she's at peace with the outside world, that'll grant her internal peace as well. She uses stock sayings to minimize her feelings: out of sight, out of mind. However, she integrates onto Three: here, she's self-confident, energetic and productive, making decisions by herself and for herself.

-> SUBTYPE: so/sp

Willow's primary instinctual drive, or subtype, is the social one. It is community-driven and wants to belong by working towards a shared purpose. Social Nines are friendly, outgoing and cheerful, giving all of themselves to others. Underneath her warm exterior, though, Willow has a fear of being excluded, especially now that she found her people. As a result, she has a hard time saying no and setting independent goals even regarding her closest friends, like in WILW. Her secondary instinctual drive is the self-preservation one, a pretty self-explanatory name. While they might be talented, Self-Preservation Nines tend to focus on simpler goals and small rewards that keep them from persuing their bigger dreams and aspirations. They're prone to have a wry sense of humor, I gotta go disappoint my professor. At their best, though, they allow themselves to be proud of their abilities and to have more ambitions in life, their Three integration.

-> TRITYPE: 947

Willow's body fix is 9. Her primary type, it also handles anger and assertiveness by repressing it, as discussed above. Her heart fix is 4. This fix deals with shame and image by prouding itself of the things it was ostracized for. Willow was bullied for being half-a-witch, less than, a bad student. But she was a good student, just not in the track they expected her to; when she's at her best, she's proud and energized by her Plant magic instead of ashamed of it. Her mind fix is 7. It handles fear by denying it, like Nine does with anger. One of the first things we learned about Willow is that she disliked the Abominations track, but rationalized that feeling away: her dads are right, this track has better opportunities, she should just go along with it. Sevens, as a type, have a tendency to rationalize away bad feelings to stay in their happiness bubble, a trait that carries on to Seven fixes.

[enneagrambias]

Anger according to Nine

The dark and unflattering side of 9 is that anger informs everything they do, it's just buried so deep down that they have to learn how to be angry like a normal person. At the root of the stillness they seek is that emotion: anger at chaos. The fact that chaos exists is deeply offensive, but since the fight against such an impersonal force is over before it begins, resignation becomes the coping mechanism that keeps anger locked away.

It’s conscious enough that there's an awareness of giving up. It’s not a complete secret to themselves. It’s not easygoingness for the sake of easygoingness, but a dream deferred (or worse, a complete loss of self), and deep inside is a well of anger that has to be acknowledged about that. The more anger is felt at the cosmic scale of things, the less room there is for giving much of a shit about the smaller stuff. But when something is being asked of the 9, and they don't have access to that primordial energy in order to say no like they really want to, the gap between that desire and the perceived ability to say no is felt each time.

Growth becomes impossible unless the anger can be acknowledged for what it is, because only then can reality be forgiven for breaking what is supposed to be universal love into many pieces, forcing chaos and obligation. Recognizing this anger for what it is becomes as upsetting to a 9 as it is important for growth.

[playsthetics]

Enneagram Moodboards

Type 9: The Peacemaker (The Mediator)

Easy-going, receptive, agreeable, balanced, complacent.

[sailforvalinor]

Enneagram Types as Lines of Poetry

Type One, the Reformer: ”For truth was to me

A breath, a wind,

A shadow, a phantom,

And never had I touched

The hem of its garment.” --Stephen Crane, “’Truth’, said a traveler”

Type Two, the Helper: ”Will it come like a change in the weather?

Will its greeting be courteous or rough?

Will it alter my life altogether?

O tell me the truth about love.” -- W. H. Auden, “Tell me the truth about love”

Type Three, the Achiever: ”Oh Fame!—if I e'er took delight in thy praises,

'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,

Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover,

She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.” --George Gordon Byron, “To Youth”

Type Four, the Individualist: “The lamp said,

‘Four o'clock,

Here is the number on the door.

Memory!

You have the key,

The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,

Mount.

The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,

Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life.’

The last twist of the knife.” --T. S. Eliot, “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”

Type Five, the Investigator: “’Faith’ is a fine invention

For Gentlemen who see!

But Microscopes are prudent

In an Emergency!” --Emily Dickenson, “‘Faith’ is a fine invention (202)”

Type Six, the Loyalist: “For I have known them all already, known them all:—

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” --T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Type Seven, the Enthusiast: “And the days are not full enough

And the nights are not full enough

And life slips by like a field mouse      

Not shaking the grass” --Ezra Pound, “And the days are not full enough”

Type Eight, the Challenger: “It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.” --William Ernest Henley, “Invictus”

Type Nine, the Peacemaker: “Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offense.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That wants it down.” --Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”

(Note for Fives: I originally wanted to use “Do I dare/Disturb the universe?/In a minute there is time/For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse,” from Eliot’s Prufrock for you guys, but I already had two other Eliot poems picked out, and I felt like three Eliot quotes would be too much.)

[glazedch3rry]

nine | sleeping at last