taxominn
casual anime + webnovel + webcomic + fantasy nerd. i write fanfiction when i remember that writing is a hobby i actually doao3 (i barely post): CyanCheetah/taxomin
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SOMEBODY WRITE A FANFIC PRONTO I'M BEGGING AND PLEADING RIGHT NOW
"What sharp teeth you have." ---- We did this art for a webtoon fairytale collab on insta! Check our post there if you want to see all the other participants! (ig handle is @rednflynn)
i seriously need more ppl to hop on board the enneagram character analysis train, it's lonely out here
Fruits Basket Personality Types Part 1: an Introduction to the Enneagram
If you've never heard of the Enneagram, it's a personality typing system that looks at your core motivations and the childhood wounds that inform them. I love it because it's entirely internal; while it's true that people of the same type tend to have some traits in common, what's most important is that deep-seated, all-encompassing belief that drives you. In this post, I will give a brief overview of the 9 types to refer back to when I analyze the characters of Fruits Basket. I plan to analyze all the cursed Sohmas, plus Tohru, Arisa, Saki, Kazuma, Kakeru, Machi, and possibly some more minor characters (like Kimi, Megumi, Kyoko, Katsuya, and anyone else who captures my interest).
As I've been writing fanfiction, I've been using the Enneagram as a tool to better understand the characters and their motivations. When I've been stuck on how to write a character, I try to figure out their Enneagram (and sometimes their MBTI) to get a better sense of who they are, what drives them, how they think, etc... It's a wonderful tool for writers, and I highly recommend learning about it if you ever struggle to understand a character (as a writer or a reader/viewer!).
When I first learned about the Enneagram, I connected strongly with 1, 2, 4, and 7. I connected slightly with 5 and 6, and not at all with 3, 8, and 9. Can you guess my Type (and Wing) from that information? Answer is at the bottom of this post!
[Information in this post about each type comes from the following sources: EnneaApp, Enneagram Explained, The Enneagram Institute, Helping Writers Become Authors, The Narrative Enneagram, and Truity.]
Type 1: The Reformer
Wound: heavily criticized
Wounding message: It's not okay to make mistakes.
Core desire: to be right/good
Core fear: being defective, morally flawed, wrong
Defense mechanism: be above criticism
Strengths: conscientious, rational, idealistic, responsible, can improve the world for themselves and others
Challenges: resentful, rigid, overly critical, obsessive, easily frustrated when things don't live up to their very high standards
When healthy: more spontaneous, joyful, optimistic, and self-accepting (like healthy Sevens)
When unhealthy: moody, irrational, melancholy, envious, withdrawn (like unhealthy Fours)
Wings: 9 and 2
Type 2: The Giver
Wound: loved only for utility to others
Wounding message: It's not okay to have your own needs.
Core desire: to be wanted, needed, loved
Core fear: being unneeded, unloved, unlovable
Defense mechanism: gain love and approval by giving to others and becoming central in their lives
Strengths: kind, generous, nurturing, relationship-oriented, selfless, warm, can nurture and care for the world around them
Challenges: intrusive, needy, possessive, people-pleasing, manipulative, martyrish, repress personal needs and feelings
When healthy: more self-nurturing, emotionally aware, accepting of painful feelings (like healthy Fours)
When unhealthy: aggressive, controlling, argumentative, blunt, demanding (like unhealthy Eights)
Wings: 1 and 3
Type 3: The Achiever
Wound: rewarded only for achievements
Wounding message: It's not okay to have your own feelings and identity.
Core desire: to be loved for who they are, to be valuable and worthwhile
Core fear: being worthless, insignificant; failure
Defense mechanism: strive for success and to distinguish themselves to gain admiration
Strengths: productive, adaptable, successful, pragmatic, driven, bear witness to the intrinsic value in themselves and others
Challenges: vain, overworked, inauthentic, impatient, competitive, emotionally out-of-touch, reliant on validation
When healthy: more committed to others, aware of feelings, authentic (like healthy Sixes)
When unhealthy: complacent, withdrawn, disengaged, apathetic (like unhealthy Nines)
Wings: 2 and 4
Type 4: The Individualist
Wound: abandoned
Wounding message: It's not okay to be too functional or happy.
Core desire: to be seen and loved for who they are
Core fear: having no personal identity or significance, being flawed and missing out on some basic aspect of happiness that other people have access to
Defense mechanism: amplify what is different and special about themselves, search for niche where they can be appreciated
Strengths: sensitive, introspective, expressive, idealistic, deeply-feeling, creative, compassionate, can release the past and live fully in the present
Challenges: dramatic, moody, self-absorbed, withdrawn, over-sensitive, envious, stubborn, depressed
When healthy: more objective, principled, disciplined (like healthy Ones)
When unhealthy: over-involved, clingy, jealous, testing of relationships (like unhealthy Twos)
Wings: 3 and 5
Type 5: The Investigator
Wound: lack of affection
Wounding message: It's not okay to be comfortable in the world.
Core desire: to have needs met, to be competent and understand their environment
Core fear: being overwhelmed by their own needs and those of others
Defense mechanism: withdraw from relationships and emotions, focusing on gathering information as an escape from the demands of the world
Strengths: perceptive, thoughtful, dependable, calm in crisis, objective, curious, independent, can observe themselves and others without judgment or expectations
Challenges: detached, isolated, withholding, arrogant, cynical, critical of others, secretive, nihilistic
When healthy: more assertive, self-confident, decisive (like healthy Eights)
When unhealthy: dissatisfied, indulgent, distracted, hyperactive, scattered (like unhealthy Sevens)
Wings: 4 and 6
Type 6: The Loyalist
Wound: unpredictable, unsafe environment
Wounding Message: It's not okay to trust yourself.
Core desire: to be safe, secure, supported by others
Core fear: being unprepared and unable to defend themselves from danger, being without support and guidance
Defense mechanism: prepare for every possible turn of events, seek support and reassurance from others, project emotions onto others
Strengths: perceptive, sensitive, loyal, engaging, witty, courageous, prepared, responsible, trouble-shooters, true courage and capability when standing up to life's challenges
Challenges: anxious, hyper-vigilant, pessimistic, contrary, paranoid, self-doubting, rigid, unpredictable, suspicious
When healthy: more relaxed, calm, less anxious, optimistic (like healthy Nines)
When unhealthy: afraid of failure, keep busy to distract themselves, competitive, arrogant (like unhealthy Threes)
Wings: 5 and 7
Type 7: The Enthusiast
Wound: deprived of nurturing
Wounding message: It's not okay to depend on anyone for anything.
Core desire: to be satisfied, to maintain freedom and happiness
Core fear: being deprived or experiencing pain
Defense mechanism: constantly seek out fun, exciting, and novel experiences; rationalize feelings to avoid pain
Strengths: adventurous, playful, imaginative, energetic, optimistic, quick-thinking, spontaneous, share joyful celebration of existence with those around them
Challenges: hedonistic, self-absorbed, unrealistic, uncommitted, impatient, unfocused, superficial, restless, impulsive, rebellious, escapist
When healthy: more focused, restrained, okay with painful things, fascinated by life (like healthy Fives)
When unhealthy: rigid, critical, pessimistic, angry, perfectionistic (like unhealthy Ones)
Wings: 6 and 8
Type 8: The Challenger
Wound: lack of safety
Wounding message: It's not okay to be vulnerable or trust anyone.
Core desire: to have people who are loyal to them, to be independent and protect themselves
Core fear: being vulnerable, powerless, controlled, or harmed
Defense mechanism: be strong and in control
Strengths: principled, courageous, determined, generous, loyal, resilient, direct, confident, resourceful, stand up for those weaker than them
Challenges: lustful, afraid of vulnerability, confrontational, insensitive, manipulative, possessive, rebellious
When healthy: compassionate, open-hearted, caring (like healthy Twos)
When unhealthy: detached, cynical, secretive, fearful (like unhealthy Fives)
Wings: 7 and 9
Type 9: The Peacemaker
Wound: overlooked or neglected
Wounding message: It's not okay to assert yourself.
Core desire: to avoid unpleasant emotions, to preserve things as they are, to matter
Core fear: separation, disconnection, loss
Defense mechanism: submit to the desires of others to be included, avoid internal and external conflict, "numb out" to avoid going too deep
Strengths: calm, excellent mediators, caring, non-judgmental, amiable, optimistic, good listeners, easy-going, reassuring, trusting, stable, bring healing to the world around them
Challenges: stubborn, ambivalent, forgetful, conflict-avoidant, indecisive, passive-aggressive, insecure, resigned, self-effacing, complacent
When healthy: assertive, present, energetic, self-developing (like healthy Threes)
When unhealthy: anxious, self-doubting, suspicious, worried (like unhealthy Sixes)
Wings: 8 and 1
Even as I was putting together this guide, my opinions on the Enneagrams of some characters changed. Who did you recognize? Who still has you stumped?
Did you figure out my type? I'm a 1 with a 2 wing. I connected to those two as well as 4 and 7, which corresponds to where Ones go when we're healthy or unhealthy.
Fruits Basket Personality Types: MBTI | Tohru | Akito | Kyo | Yuki | Haru | Kisa | Momiji | Hatori | Ayame | Rin | Hiro | Ritsu | Kureno | Shigure | Kagura | Kazuma | Saki | Arisa | Machi | Kakeru | The Hondas | Kaibara Students
When my love for vampire boys and cats collide
Here’s a quote from a LocalScriptMan video that summarizes why the “Annabel is a Type Six because she seeks out allies” argument is simply not it for me:
“You can tell Six leaders apart from non-Six leaders because Six leaders believe their own propaganda. When they say ‘we have to destroy the whatever’, they mean that shit. They believe in that cause. With an Eight leader or a Three leader, you never know if it’s a psyop, but Sixes? They believe in the thing 100%.” —Writing with the Enneagram: Type Six, LocalScriptMan
It’s a psyop. It’s literally a psyop. She does not believe in her group’s cause and is literally lying to all of them💀
I just reblogged a fandom post to a community and I’m not sure if I actually clicked the right community so I tried to look and the post. just. disappeared. I pressed ‘post’ but it’s nowhere to be found, anywhere
it’s incredible how much random, miscellaneous shit can cause you anxiety and dread
like seriously where the hell did the post go ????
The Case for Annabel Lee as a Vain Type Three
I’m making this as a response to the outrageous fact that users on Personality Database have typed Annabel Lee as an Enneagram Type Six, which ????
I am a Type Six. Annabel Lee is absolutely not.
This is copied from the comment I just posted on there, so don’t worry: I am only plagiarizing myself.
Annabel Lee is a Type Three, likely with a dominant social instinct. Here’s why I think so:
In a situation that is, effectively, a social game, the first consequential decision that Annabel Lee makes is in Episode 9. After Ada has offered herself, as well as a handpicked group of other students, as an ally willing to follow Annabel’s leadership, Ada must clarify one thing before their alliance is solidified—that Annabel Lee is exactly who Ada wants and expects her to be.
Ada is banking on this; within the first two days, she’s gone the mile of sucking up to Annabel Lee, making enemies with Lenore and her friends to “[sort] the wheat from the chaff”, and gathering allies for Annabel’s approval. This is because Ada has clocked Annabel as a social magnet, someone who carries the mark of a leader, and someone with power (because of her class demonstration as the ‘Lady in White’)—hell, she compares Annabel to a queen in their first conversation.
So, when Ada asks Annabel, “[that odd girl Lenore] seems to think that she’s your…friend. Is she?” It is a test to confirm that her expectations are correct: that an elegant, socially powerful young woman like Annabel would not associate herself with losers or ‘class clowns’, so to speak, and, as such, is capable of carrying Ada to the finish line of the game they’ve been forced to play.
Annabel Lee has two options: she can break Ada’s expectations or she can conform to them. Ultimately, Annabel Lee chooses to defend herself by relying on the E3’s particular defense mechanism, which is identification. We see Annabel walk through the academy halls observing and responding to a social environment that seems to favor and admire her, with Ada talking in her ear about how “posh” she is, or how much she’s like a queen, and that she and Ada are “the same sort of person.”
It’s clear, to Annabel, what people want from her, and because she is not like Lenore, who would almost certainly reject any kind of unwanted conformity, and because Annabel has learned that survival means living on the expectations of others, she does exactly that: “…Mn. No. The poor darling. I don’t know what I did to give her that impression.”
A quote from ‘The Complete Enneagram’ by Beatrice Chestnut, which explains identification:
“Naranjo explains that ‘central to type Three is identification with an ideal self-image built as a response to the expectation of others,’ which often starts with the defensive effort to match ideal characteristics their parents valued. Threes defensively transform themselves into what important others—people in their environment whom they want to impress—admire and appreciate. By noticing and adopting characteristics that others regard as valuable, Threes seek to match an external model to assure approval.” — The Complete Enneagram, Beatrice Chestnut
And Annabel commits to this. She does it over and over again, to the point of gaining ire from Lenore herself, on many occasions. Annabel’s reliance on this defense mechanism, and the manipulations and cruelty that result from attempting to maintain a particular image and “win” the social game, is at the CRUX of their relationship conflict.
It is extremely Type Three-coded, which is why I’m baffled that anyone would ever call her a Type Six, as a Type Six myself.
…and that’s all folks. Maybe next week I’ll talk about the outrageous typing of Will as a Type Two when he is a TYPE NINE. Come ON people, what are we doing here
Yoojin, after waking up from a power nap: Did I die? Is this heaven?
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Yoojin: Oh. It's hell
my favorite trope is when the elegant, emotionally distant character who doesn’t allow themself to be vulnerable around others just melts to bits and pieces for the blunt, rough-around-the-edges character who challenges them at every turn
my favorite pair of dead toxic lesbians
when there's sexual tension between you and the monster that literally wants to rip your eyeballs out of their sockets
Clip from ManlyBadassHero’s playthrough of this on his YT channel
some of my favorite fanfics thus far in no particular order:
self-insert oc fic where a med student is summoned into Naruto by way of blood sacrifice ritual conducted by infamous Jashin worshipper Hidan and must improv herself out of getting immediately slaughtered for literally the rest of the story
beastars x avatar au where legoshi is the avatar and has to hide it from everyone, but haru and louis find out and help him train his air and fire bending and also louis and legoshi fall in love
oc fic where a borderline suicidal office worker has the power to die and then come back to life and ends up getting saved by Batman who tries really hard to keep her from casually ending her life all the time and also falls in love with her
solo leveling x game of thrones crossover au where jinwoo accidentally finds a dungeon that brings him to westeros and he also accidentally gets engaged to tywin lannister (i have literally never seen got in my life but this premise was too good lmao)
self-insert oc fic where a mouthy communist is reborn into naruto and propagandizes about the gospel of Marx to a captive audience of shinobi (...who live in villages that are fiscally and governmentally dependent on and determined by their military btw...)
Is it just me who's confused about why the sherlock holmes fandom tag is categorized under Anime & Manga on ao3...? lmao
I'm catching up on When The Third Wheel Strikes Back mamhwa while at work and I didn't realize we were getting a marriage arc /silly /j
we’re so spoiled about sung hyunje i dont think we can meet another virgin manwhore who looks so red flag but is actually so green flag bc while he wouldnt mind taking things that are useful to him he actually understands what it means to love someone. He doesn’t hurt them. He really cares for them. It might have been so hard for him to love. The concept might have been impossible for him bc of how his existence was prebuilt. But when it came to him, he understood the message. He is actually such a selfless lover, which. I think contrasts hyoojin in the sense that loving others for hyoojin is his selfish need of filling his own lack of self-love, his feelings of inadequacy being filled by others needing him…
(Of course Yoojin’s case is more complex than that. I call him selfish but it’s more complicated than that obviously! He is a complex lil guy)
Aguefort: Remember, Kristen. The greatest magic of all. Do you remember?
Kristen: ...is friendship?
Aguefort: What the fuck is wrong with you? Friendship? Are you about friendship? Friends die all the time! All this 'Love is the greatest magic of all'; so, in a war, when a mother and her children get fucking iced in an alleyway outside of their home, was the problem that they didn't love each other enough? That's crazy, Kristen! Love is not magic! Magic is magic; love is love!
Kristen: Okay, what's the answer, cokehead!?
Aguefort: Chronomacy! As I said on your first day--the greatest magic of all is chronomancy!
stories about time travel are about two things. number one is inevitable tragedy. number two is seeing that inevitable tragedy and saying oh god I will make this right please even if I can't fix it I will try to make this right. also I lied they're about three things and third is obviously love
in a sleep-deprived delirium i spent more coins on When The Third Wheel Strikes Backs than I have ever spent on any webtoon in my entire webtoon reading history and all i can remember now is a polycule in which 2/3rds of it despises each other
Hello everyone! I’m back again!
I was wondering if we wanted to do another sctir pride week this year. So I’m making this interest check!
- The Week Will Take Place Sunday, June 22 to Monday June 30th -
LMAOOO did Moon Hyuna and Sung Hyunjae just imply that they’d have a threesome with Song Taewon…and he’s just there like
So I'm rereading sctir after dropping the novel around ch.320 a while back. During that time, I read into personality typing, which had already fascinated me. I even did an analysis of Yoojin and Sung Hyunjae's relationship in 2024 (read here) based on the enneagram.
I got Hyunjae spot on. He's so perfectly enneagram type 7 it feels stereotypical. But, I won't lie, my Yoojin analysis was iffy... so I'm striking it from the record! If you read that, no you didn't.
I'm more familiar with the enneagram now, and I already have new thoughts after ch.2 of the webtoon lmao
I may write a revised Yoojin analysis... we'll see.
Just created a public My S-Class Hunters community! I was shocked by the fact that I didn't see a single community already when I searched for one, so I took it into my own hands lmao
Please join if you’re interested! 🫶💕
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
Rereading Equal Rites and I love how the old wizard is just like
*hands newborn baby ominous magical staff with carvings that hide untold secrets
*doesn't elaborate
*fucking dies
I've read so much SVSSS fanfiction that I don't remember which folders (in the 'SVSSS' file cabinet in my brain) contain things that actually canonically happened. help
🌍✨ A Voice from Gaza: Fighting for Hope ❤️🩹
Hi, my name is Mosab , and I’m from Gaza. Life here has been harder than I could ever imagine, but today I’m sharing my story with hope in my heart, because your kindness has already given us so much strength.
This journey hasn’t been easy. The war has taken 25 family members from us—25 beautiful souls we loved deeply. Their laughter, their presence, their love… all of it is gone, leaving behind memories that are both precious and painful. Every day, I carry the weight of their loss, but I also carry their spirit, which gives me the strength to keep going.
Our Journey So Far When I first reached out, I couldn’t have imagined we’d make it this far. Thanks to your incredible kindness, we’ve reached 19,800 out of 30,000. Your support has been a light in these difficult times, and we are so deeply grateful for every single contribution.
But the road ahead is still challenging. Every day, we’re reminded of how much we’ve lost and how much we still need to rebuild.
Here’s what life in Gaza looks like for my family right now: 🏠 Safety: The uncertainty of tomorrow weighs heavily on us. 😢 Loss: The absence of the 25 family members we’ve lost is a pain we carry every moment. 💔 Dreams on Hold: The future feels so far away when survival takes all our strength.
How You Can Help Us Cross the Finish Line Even the smallest act of kindness can make a difference:
$5 might not seem like much, but it could mean a meal, clean water, or a tiny bit of hope for my family.
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Why Your Support Matters Your kindness isn’t just about helping us meet our goal—it’s about reminding us that we’re not alone in this fight. It’s about hope. It’s about survival. And it’s about giving my family a chance to rebuild our lives, even in the face of unimaginable loss.
Thank you for helping us get this far. Your generosity and compassion have already brought us closer to a better tomorrow, and for that, I’m endlessly grateful.
With all my love and gratitude, Mosab and Family ❤️
For a novel with mpreg technically in it there is a criminally lack of pregnant yoojin fic and in this this essay i will-
I don’t even read mha, but why does it sound like yall are grieving over there,,, like damn, what happened???
just wanted to add my 2 cents! i like the point you made here.
I haven’t finished any of these stories yet, but I think what could play into this is the fact that TCF’s mc and ORV’s mc are interacting with world’s, situations, & people that they understood as fictional, at first (ORV a little less than TCF, but still).
for Yoojin, his post-regression reality has always been very real to him. there is no “plot” or storyline to follow — it’s his life relived immediately after experiencing traumatic loss, so he truly sees this life as his “second chance” to keep all that tragedy from happening again. there’s no degree of detachment or separation for him.
& that detachment is a specific point of internal conflict for sb like Kim Dokja — his ability as a “reader”, the Fourth Wall, is what allows him to detach himself from the emotional stress of any given situation. he can continue to be the “omniscient” observer, can continue to understand ppl through characterization and read their thoughts as if they were still on the page; then, he can act on that info w/o becoming emotionally vulnerable.
& i think this is somewhat proven when ORV veers into things that happened in Dokja’s life before TWSA began. anything dealing with his mother throws him off kilter — i think he still manages to keep his cool, but there’s a notable difference in the way he deals with situations involving her vs. situations he expects from TWSA’s plot.
I haven’t read as much of TCF so I can’t say quite as much! but there’s still a jarring difference between reliving your own life and living the life of an aristocrat in a fictional world you read about.
The S-Classes that I Raised often gets grouped with Omniscent Reader's Viewpoint and Trash of the Count's Family, but there's something distinctly different about Han Yoojin as a protagonist. I think it's that his story really makes you feel how much of a fighter he is. I'm not saying that Kim Dokja and Kim Roksoo aren't fighters exactly, but they tend to come off as schemers first and foremost. Their approach to most problems (from my perspective as someone who's read all of ORV and like a third of TCF) involves leveraging secrets of the world that only they know in order to get the better of their adversaries and achieve their goals. They plan things out a long time in advance, and sure, things don't always go their way, but they feel like chess players when they're confronted with obstacles.
Meanwhile, Han Yoojin feels like a guerilla soldier. He definitely also schemes, but SCTIR makes a dedicated effort to showing that his current knowledge of the future and the world's secrets will only take him so far. He does think ahead and plans for the future whenever he can, but most of his problems are solved by improvising. One of his greatest strengths is that he thinks on his feet and doesn't let himself be fazed by surprises. This ends up making him feel more like someone who has always had to fight desperately for every last scrap of respect and survival he could get his hands on in a way that ORV and TCF don't go for as much (as far as I can tell for TCF as of now). Kim Dokja and Kim Roksoo's plans go "first, I'm going to go to the super secret location to get a weapon that will help me in six months, and then in five weeks, I'm going to recruit an obscure powerhouse to be my spy for the operation I'll do next year..." whereas Han Yoojin's plans are more like "first, I'll get into some shit, and then, I'll figure it out."
It's kind of hard to explain the vibe difference because these characters are all defined by their cleverness, but I guess the best way to put it would be that Kim Dokja and Kim Roksoo seem more... exasperated? with the way they've been wronged in the past, whereas Han Yoojin seems more angry and spiteful about it. The first two mostly seem tired of dealing with the way their lives were going before and just want to be happy, but Han Yoojin gives off the feeling that he doesn't think he can find happiness without biting and clawing his way to it