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"Which Character" Personality Quiz

I came across a personality quiz that aims to identify fictional characters that align best with your personality based on how you score during a series of personality related questions. If you're interested in learning about the quiz or taking it yourself, you can do so here . Below at the top 100 characters that were generated as my result. They're ranked starting from the highest percentage of similarities to those less alike. You can view my full list of results  here if you're curious, but in all honestly I think the top 100 should be more than enough entries to paint the picture.  The characters that I have come across while consuming entertainment mediums, do indeed seem like characters that I would gravitate towards as being similar to myself. (I've highlighted them in yellow)  But there are a lot of unknowns on the list that I can't speak for.  Elsie Hughes  (Westworld): 91% Kyle Broflovski  (South Park): 89% Rita  (The Handmaid's Tale): 89% ...

Pirates of the Caribbean

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Notes: Full disclosure with this one. I had originally wanted to discuss Pirates of the Caribbean on my blog way back in 2017 and I'd have had a rough draft for what I wanted to talk about sitting around this whole time. I've decided that now is the time to finally finish up what I wanted to say and publish the post. Obviously, this was before the whole Depp vs. Heard and Disney drama. So, what I've written remains in the context of that and not in the events that have happened since, savvy?  __________________________________________________________________________________ It appears that whenever Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is bought up, that you can sort out peoples reactions into three groups. Firstly, there those who love it; the people who could have grown up with the franchise and/or are invested enough to be involved to some extent in the wider fandom community surrounding it. Secondly, you have those who are the exact opposite, they despise i...