#good take
in any other story, merry would have died in battle or pippin in minas tirith, or frodo would have fallen or sam killed by gollum but tolkien, after facing losses in real life, said: no, this time they live. this time, they all get to live. in a way, the lord of the rings is a love letter to dead soldiers.
tolkien time and again denied characters a death in the battlefield, even if they wanted one.
most notably, eowyn and faramir who came to love each other and found happiness in a life they could have never imagined before. the most humble lives are preferable to the most honorable deaths.
The most humble lives are preferable to the most honorable deaths
Hmm though, not to slip into actual accidental intelligent conversation, but damn the abuse angle of this part of Dracula placing Jonathan into a traditionally feminine narrative. Dracula is awful but he is the Protector now, it could be Worse so at least be thankful he is there as a small help.
No surprises that adaptations like to conveniently miss this angle of the story.
The Dominant Function: The “White Noise” of Your Personality
How many hours a day do you spend in your room? Considering you have a Tumblr, it’s probably plenty.
Now, how many times have you walked into your room while looking for something and not found it, only for a family member or friend to walk in right after you and find it in a second? Followed by them saying something along the lines of, “It was right in front of your face!”
If you experience something, like a place or a person, all the time, the details can become fuzzy and the things that stay consistently the same can become “white noise.” Meaning you don’t notice them anymore.
I believe this concept applies to MBTI as well.
Your dominant function is never off. It’s always chugging along under the surface. It’s how you deal with most of your day to day problems. It IS you.
But, because it’s on all the time, it’s white noise. Not only to you, but to those around you as well. We only notice things that deviate from the “norm” or the “base.”
Adding onto my theory that the secondary function is the area that requires the most growth, I believe that the tertiary function behaves like the “Rising Sun” from astrology: It is how you are perceived by others.
It’s the function you use often enough that it’s noticeable but not so often that it becomes white noise. Your dominant function goes almost completely unnoticed by those around you although it’s obvious once you know what to look for and your secondary function works mainly subconsciously, melding into your dominant function near seamlessly.
Therefore, your tertiary function is the most notable to you and those around you, because it is seen as active. There is a change when you engage it, so it registers on everyone’s radar.
As examples: My boss is an ESFJ. She runs a daycare center/pre-school and WOW does she look creative. She is a neverending fountain of ideas and innovations. She was so creative she made me question my Ne-ness for approximately two seconds. But, the problem was that she was too noticeably “creative.” She never knows when to stop creating alternatives and her ideas tend to lack structure or any forethought. They can be good, but they usually need major tweaking, and she can be very touchy about trying to tweak her ideas. This is another red flag. A true Ne-dom would NEVER be touchy about changing ideas on the fly. Nor would they be as much of a busy body as her, constantly out shopping and working all day long. Ne’s prefer to work smart, not hard. They’re not just innovative sometimes, they’re innovative in every aspect of their life and can figure out how to get by while putting in the least amount of effort. On another note, she’s an entertainer. By that I mean that she does everything she does for her “audience”, not for herself. Ne’s are usually entertaining, but only by consequence. If you asked an Ne to try to entertain or explain what is entertaining, they’d fall completely flat. They just do what they want and if it entertains others (which it usually does) awesome. My boss’ tertiary Ne is her most notable feature, but it’s definitely not her dominant function.
Another example: My dad is an ISTJ, but he is renowned for his hard held morals. He is constantly described as a “good man” or a “true gentleman” or as being “inflexible in his beliefs.” But, his beliefs are not as extensive as my ISFP friend. She has opinions on EVERYTHING, and they all have fleshed out explanations and reasoning. Whether her views would be seen as logical is irrelevant to her: It’s how she feels. My dad’s beliefs are more like the ten commandments, he has a few large, expansive opinions that he uses to guide him through most of his life. But, he’d find having an individual fleshed out opinion on EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING ridiculous and a waste of time. Why spend all that time thinking about unimportant things when there’s work to be done?
Last example: My aforementioned ISFP friend. She is known amongst my friends as “the psychic.” (could there be anything more stereotypically Ni?) Of course, I don’t really see Ni as the “psychic” function, but rather as the “visionary” function. Ni’s believe that there is one true pattern to life, one cheat code to getting exactly what they want. They plan out their moves twenty turns ahead and are hard on themselves when things don’t turn out the way they planned. So, although my friend does enjoy playing psychic, she actually is also well-known for displaying true Ni traits as well. She has a notebook filled with page after page of where she sees herself in 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now, going all the way back to when she was in elementary school. She had a vision of what her perfect guy would look like, what job he’d have, and how they’d meet, which took until only a year or two ago to get her to let go of. She obsesses over where she’s going in life and how she wants her life to look right now. When things change, she panics, because now she has to revise her entire future. But, she’s nowhere near as integrated as my INFJ friend. His Ni visions aren’t just visions, they’re plans. He knows how he’s going to get the things he envisions for himself, and although he still obsesses over it, he’s able to change courses more fluidly than our ISFP. He can create a new path quickly and efficiently, so you rarely notice him doing it. It’s more notable in the ISFP because she throws herself into a depression every time her vision changes, rather than just taking the changes as they come and trying to make them work in your overarching plan.
This is already really long-winded, but people do this to me, too, as an ENFP. People see me initially as an “ice queen”, I’m often compared to characters like Hermione Granger, an ESTJ (who, interestingly enough, is a character created by a lower order Te-user as a caricature of herself), and my parents always describe me as “bossy.” But, I lack any actual organization skills. My Te is surface level, notable but not as complete as Hermione’s or even my father’s.
I think I need to end this here before I ramble anymore. Lol. Let me know what you think!
TLDR; Your tertiary function is your most noticeable function while your dominant function becomes “white noise.”
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