Have put off making this post bc I don’t want ppl I genuinely like and agree with on a regular basis to think I’m trashing them on like a personal level just bc I feel pretty strongly about this but I will say I’ve seen an uptick on “Jesse killed himself in Alaska” takes and headcanons and I just have to say that you are all staggeringly astonishingly incorrect like maybe yeah if we take him out of the context of the narrative he lives in which is structured like a narrative and contains overarching themes and character arcs and we all pretend that Breaking Bad is real and that New Mexico is a real place you can go to then sure, yeah, somebody in his situation might very well kill themselves. But if there are any lessons meant to be imparted to the audience by the trajectory of Jesse’s character arc, they are “endless self recrimination and self harm are actually not conducive to becoming a better person” and “letting other people decide the trajectory of your life for you is a bad decision in and of itself” and you might as well dice these themes up and melt them in a bathtub of hydrochloric acid if Jesse commits suicide post El Camino. To say that Jesse commits suicide is to take Walter White’s lying, deflated ass at face value when he tells Jesse that he could never make it on his own, that he needs Walt piloting his life for him, that he ever needed Walt more than Walt needed him, that he couldn’t possibly survive on the strength of his own merits and willpower. But he already did! He already did, in both BrBa and El Camino, and that’s what gives him the strength to go on, is just knowing that he can! And he will!
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i do not ghost purposely i just have no idea what to say ever
i wish people talked about how gay gale boetticher is more often. he was so gay for walter white. he was SO gay for him. he was so gay just in general. omg.
Jesse pinkman is trans elaborated on in a series of headcanons:
-He figured out he was when he was in early high school specifically, this is also where he started burning out and dropping in grades after he came out about it
-This is also what first got him into drugs, though it was just weed and alcohol at first to get a breather from being a pre-T trans guy in the early 2000’s, eventually it started to spiral into harder stuff through has he slipped further and further
-his parents weren’t overtly abusive, but they took his transition pretty shittily, they’d regularly try to tell him to “snap out of it” and would try to live in denial that he was even trans to begin with for the longest time only to try and ignore him when he wouldn’t “grow out of this silly tomboy phase”
-he got surgery from his drug money which is also why he was able to get keyhole too
-same goes for his hrt but before he could afford it, he got it early from some of his buddies he’d smoke with having extra on them
-he’s get into pretty intense arguments with his mom especially too in his high school years, as she wanted to help in her own(misguided) way but would only push him further and further away unintentionally
-he had the Trans Guy pixie cut as his first short hair but saw he didn’t pass so he got into the habit of just shaving it when it would get too long and letting it grow back out (also why it’s always so spiky and short)
-his deadname was the same at his current name just spelled “Jessie” , he used to think about getting a completely different name/legal name change but never really got around to it (until El Camino )
-he’s post-op when you first see him in Breaking Bad but he wears all his layers as a force of habit
-we all know this by know but his closer friends all knew he was trans (badger and skinny Pete kiss each other when the camera is turned I can’t prove it but I swear) but didn’t know him pre-transition as he cut off most people he knew then
-he’d run away to his aunts sometimes after getting into fights with his mom, his aunt was much more progressive and more of a hippie in her younger years, so she’d support him and they’d grow closer to each other, with him eventually living fully at her house by graduation, until the cancer took her as we see in the show
-when he was kidnapped Todd would occasionally offer to let him shower but he’d refuse because he didn’t want to out himself to them, he’d also hate anyone getting close to him or touching him because of it (also because Todd is evil but it’s another reason)
Body positivity is a step in the right direction for some people's recovery but the absolute number one thing that helped me was immersing myself in fat liberation. Starving was so much less appealing when I started to understand and believe that food and weight and being fat is morally neutral. It is possible and perfectly ok to be happy and fat. I'm thriving and I'm the heaviest I've been in years. I promise it's ok.
When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.
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