Category: ENTP (Page 2 of 2)

Costuming with Personality

September 10, 2013 / Calise Sellers

{Update 5-29-14: I mentioned in the first Q&A that this post had incorrect typings that I needed to fix (though none of the ones that had been questioned thus far). I was really rushed last Semptember to get this post out, so I messed up a handful of typings. Mostly one-offs. Well, I finally went through the arduous task of meticulously combing through *all* the typings in this post 😛 I’m relieved to say this post is finally up to the quality standard of the rest of the blog, and I am very proud of the results! Enjoy and happy costuming!
<3 Calise}

It’s that time of year again; the time of year when stores put out Halloween decorations ridiculously early and you know their Christmas decorations are just around the corner. I swear they start marketing this stuff earlier every year. All the same, if you want an attractive and complex costume for Halloween (or wherever else you might wear a costume) you need time to prepare. Too many Halloweens I ended up trying to pick something to wear on the 31st and was bummed out when it didn’t come out as planned or no one knew what I was. While I think it’s worth it to go for the 1% who know what you’re dressed as, you want enough time so that *you* are happy and feel good about yourself.

In that vein, I love the idea of wearing a costume that matches your personality type or Paradoxitype! For Dragoncon this year, I dressed up as a steampunked version of Meg from Disney’s Hercules, with my INFJ dressed as a hydraulically powered Herc. We put the cosplays together last minute and had some armor issues. We didn’t end up getting *any* pictures together, which really bummed me out (though a bunch of strangers have pictures of us, wherever they are 😉 ). imho, they looked better in person, but with our little budget, they came out pretty great. Rocket-pack Pegasus is my favorite feature, along with Herc’s working arm pumps that pushed air into tubes every time he moved without limiting his range of motion very much. I’m also insanely proud of my guns, Pain and Panic, which started out as dollar store neon plastic and ended up with a torched steel effect. It’s the little details that make it special, even if other people never see it.
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The Personalities of Marble Hornets

August 11, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Today I have for you a typing that is particularly special to me. Not only is Marble Hornets my very favorite webseries ever, but it is in fact one of my favorite things to watch ever. I have to say right now, I’ve never liked horror before in my life. Why is Marble Hornets different? It’s all about personality.
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ENTP Megamind Complex – definition

August 6, 2013 / Calise Sellers

“No matter how hard I tried, I was always the odd man out, the last one picked, the screw-up, the black sheep… the bad boy. Was this my destiny?
Wait. Maybe it was! Being bad is the one thing I’m good at!
Then it hit me: if I was the bad boy,
then I was going to be the baddest boy of them ALL!”
Megamind

“Megamind Complex” is a classic ENTP coping mechanism. ENTP’s, whose primary focus in life is exploring what people can become, long for nothing more than to be great. If an ENTP lives in a culture where the way they explore is frowned upon, often rather than surrender those possibilities, an ENTP will give up hope of becoming a “good” larger-than-life person and will instead spit in expectations’ face, deciding that if they can’t be good, they’ll be the best at being bad. It’s a way for an ENTP to close up and pretend they don’t care that no one really sees or likes them for who they are and they’re likely to protect themselves by pretending they never wanted to be considered good in the first place.

Examples:
Neil Caffrey, White Collar
Flynn Rider, Tangled
Han Solo, Star Wars
and so many more…

Click here for an in-depth look at ENTP, “The Swashbuckler”!

Type Heroes: ENTP – The Swashbuckler

August 5, 2013 / Calise Sellers

All the typings and observations in this post are based on definitions and information presented in the aLBoP Guided Tour 😀 So if any of it bugs you, please go read that before leaving me a grumpy comment… Or, you know what? Let’s just skip the grumpy comments! Have a nice day! <3

ENTP
The Swashbuckler

“Never tell me the odds!”
Han Solo, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

The ENTP Swashbuckler does what works. Adapting their plan, disregarding the rules and following their gut. They may seem unpredictable because they’ll start fights sometimes, run from them others; be brutally honest one moment and charmingly secretive the next. This is because they observe first and act later (as all EP’s do) and so they themselves might not know until the moment they decide (after they’ve observed as much information as possible) what they are going to do. Often, while they figure it out, they’ll be making clever quips and banter. This is a way to stall for time while they decide what to do, learn more about their opponent and surroundings from the reactions they receive… and enjoy just how clever they are. And though rules aren’t always their cup of tea, you can be sure they follow their own code, which is usually doing whatever it takes to become the larger-than-life person they *want* to be.
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A.I. Typed: Robots and Their Personality

July 17, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Androids, computers, robots; call them what you will, they’re all A.I., artificial intelligence. Though the messages their stories tell may vary, throughout the years bots have won our hearts, made us laugh, made us think and freaked the crap out of us. Their quest to be a little more human represents humanity’s quest to be even more than that. This is a salute to both A.I. and humanity in all its varied hues.
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Paradoxitype – The Flip-Side of Personality (with examples!)

July 9, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Who are we deep inside? Well, there are several answers to this question, some that delve far deeper than others. I’m not going to share some of the deeper answers I know, for experience has enhanced my natural talent for individual cynicism. If you’d like to know more about *those* answers, inquire within.

But as far as what each of us has within in regards to our personality types; is all of us what lies on the surface? If you Google your own four letters and see posters with limericks and characters mistyped by stereotype, is that all there is to know about you? Who comes out in the times that you’re angry, sad or with your best friend? Who is there to know that the world doesn’t see?
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Type Heroes: Which Hero of Legend Will You Be?

April 30, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Let me introduce to you the most archetypal tale that has been played throughout the ages; a sweeping epic with sixteen protagonists; sixteen larger-than-life heroes that are each unique in purpose, style, thought and action and, like old friends, we would feel incomplete without any one. Each has their own treacherous journey to travail as they endeavor to stay true to themselves and not be overcome by the choices and obstacles that get in their way.
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Cooking with an ENTP: Gluten-Free Mexican Bean Crepes

April 13, 2013 / Calise Sellers

I’m in the middle of a series, “Type Heroes: Which Hero of Legend will you be?“–coming soon to a blog near you; but in the meantime I thought I’d share something else with you… my breakfast.

Like most things with ENTP’s, this meal began with a concept; a challenge: Could I make gluten and corn-free wraps from the ingredients I had around?

Disney Typed: Hades

April 9, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ENTP

“We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.”

“I’ve got 24 hours to get rid of this bozo, or the entire scheme I’ve been setting up for 18 years goes up in smoke, and you are wearing his merchandise?!?”

It takes a special individual to have buggy yellow eyes, spiky teeth and flame hair and still be able to bring sexy back. This is Hades, Lord of the Dead. Hi, how ya doin’? Is it any surprise that Hercules’s Hades is my favorite Disney villain?

There were just too many good Hades quotes so I had to narrow them down to my favorites. Though they aren’t nearly so smooth if not read in James Woods’s voice. Apparently before he came to the part, Hades was just menacing; not wise-cracking and quick on the draw.
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Disney Typed: Megara

April 7, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ENTP

“I’m a big tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything.”

“I thought my heart had learned its lesson. It feels so good when you start out.
My head is screaming get a grip, girl!
Unless you’re dying to cry your heart out…”

I love Megara from Disney’s Hercules. She’s dynamic, clever, well drawn and the closest thing to a Disney princess ENTP girls are ever going to get. Eh, we’re one of the rarest female types so we’ll get over it.* Plus, she’s awesome! So yay.