Hey, Tumblr. You Like Non-stereotypical Depictions Of Autism? What About ✨ Neurodivergent Protagonists

Shout out to scenes in horror movies where a sadistic psycho tries to harm a guy but said guy is probably in love with the psycho and accepts said attempted harm as a form of intimacy, ends up weirding the psycho out and disappears from the movie entirely

this is absolutely not that deep but it drives me crazy how there is like 7127727272 various and deeply thought analysis of mike but everyone says the same repetitive and boring takes about Scott

i do think the narrator fits well to radiohead songs but i dont think hed listen to them. sorry

I think people forget about Chloe too much when they talk about fight club. She is the only real character outside of Project mayhem that Narrator can half stand. She's the only real character that represents the outside world in any real way. Marla is too detached from real life to provide any kind of normalcy or to contrast the Narrator and Tyler, since she is heading towards bottom, as Tyler himself even says.

I think Chloe is more important to the story than she's given credit for. She represents some real life, in the same kind of way Bob does. She is a normal person, she probably went to work and had friends and maybe began to think about a family. Then she gets cancer, and suffers enormously, and then she dies.

I think part of it (like with Bob) is that the Narrator recognizes that they didn't deserve their deaths. They did nothing wrong, they hurt nobody. They did everything they were supposed to, yet they still suffered and died feeling completely isolated from the people around them and the people who used to be in their life had left them.

But he did nothing right. He runs an underground fight club, he commits crimes, he steals, he threatens, he beats and destroys, he cooks down parts of people into soap and sells it without batting an eye. He let's other young men get dragged into it all, he is the real source of the issues, not Tyler. He refuses to even consider that he was to blame for things.

And yet, he's fine. He survives, he enjoys his time, he connects to somebody, he is surrounded by people practically falling over themselves to help him and do whatever he says. Chloe and Bob died, alone, and he lives, void of any consequence.

The whole 'a part of me died with him' concept but literally. After Tyler dies the narrator had huge chunks of memory gone, and unable to remember anything from that period of time Tyler was around.

Narrator going on a plane weeks later, and seeing the fake pamphlets Project Mayhem planted and completely believing them, getting panicked and sweaty at the sight of them, not being able to sleep through the flight like he vaguely remembers being used to.

For months he feels like something has gone, like when you forget a word but he felt it about an entire portion of his life, it was just gone. He sees a woman at an insomniac support group and feels uneasy, like he saw her in a dream somehow. Running out of the room when she calls him 'Tyler', even though he used fake names all the time, and probably had used that one at least once before.

At bars the men call him 'Sir', and 'Mr Durden', and he doesn't understand why- maybe it's the suit, maybe these bruised and bloodied men respect his authority, even though he knew he had lost enough weight over months to just look like a child playing dress-up.

"You look like Chloe" a voice whispered in the back of his skull as he lookedat his nude body, it was a voice that certainly felt like his, but he had no clue anymore. He puts it all down to a lack of sleep. People do crazy things when they're tired enough, he tells himself daily as new oddities pop out.

One day, after considering himself healed enough from what he considers a mental breakdown, he attempts to go back to work, only to get a panicked look from the pretty young receptionist and security called. He doesn't know what happened, but he wasn't working there anymore.

And even the bus driver is calling him 'Sir'.

having a cat is so miraculous. this little guy wants to sleep in my bed with me and purr on my chest. it’s his favorite hobby. no one told him to do that he just Loves His Mommy

Imagine if you locked Light and Patrick Bateman in a room together. They would be having the most generic conversation but you wouldn’t be able to hear it over the sound of their overlapping internal monologues. There would be a few seconds where their monologues both play in sync to say something misogynistic.

thinking of trying this new thing called saying a normal sentence

I will not accept the propaganda that tyler is incapable of being affectionate ok. him holding narrator in his arms after the car crash was not necessary. he didn't have to start crying after the chemical burn. he is so touchy with narrator in the book. he openly acknowledges that narrator loves him and doesn't seem to be emasculated by it. I don't think it comes very easy to him since his purpose is to be assertive and masculine but he's certainly capable of showing affection for reasons that go beyond just trying to manipulate narrator.... much to think about

We were robbed of so many things in the fight club movie. Like the project mayhem rules included

And Narrator's cheek hole