#ntj

-A lot of old books, like Common Sense by Thomas Paine, refer to OTJs with she/her. I love them dearly.

-Just google national personifications.

-Welcome to the Table. US Statespirits.

-Meanwhile in Australia. Australian Statespirits.

-Hetalia.

-Countryhumans.

-Scandinavia and the World.

-Paris Burning and associated universe. Cityspirits. I was majorly influenced by this.

-The Great Cities series by N.K. Jemisin, favorite books of all fucking time. The avatar terminology and style of personification fighting basically made it into my canon wholesale. Cityspirits and boroughspirits.

-Living Maps: An Atlas of Cities Personified. Haven’t got it yet but I really want it.

-The Bible, apparently. Cityspirits.

-@mur-art’s addition: Big Wayward Girl. Statespirits. California.

-This old-ass poem has Paris talking. There were a bunch like it, but I couldn’t find translations. I owe my life to JSTOR, and my fountain pens.

-Centricide. Political personifs.

-Polandball/Countryballs.

-Socialstuck, Fandomstuck, and Socialstuck Cloutchase.

-Purge the Poison by MARINA. Mother Nature dissing humanity for climate change in two minutes.

-I Am California by John Craigie.

-@mur-art’s addition: some Statehumans comics.

-@mur-art’s personif playlist

-@mur-art’s addition: Florida’s state song (I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS THING ALREADY OMG)

-@bread--quest’s addition: Sedona by Houndsmouth

-@milokissa707’s addition: Canadian provinces as roommates

-There are a bunch of things on quora; just search something related.

-Nico’s Proposal describes the Administrator like the personif of the Foundation.

-Fall Witness, Part 2. Autumn Court Fae create an artificial personif of the O4 Council. Vanguard tale <3

-SCP-1761. This thing got me into the SCP Wiki in the first place.

i won’t fail

i might cry, but that’s ok

my residents will be saved

i will vent to YOU before anyone else

Related answer:

What piece of advice would you give someone who really wants to be in a longterm relationship with an ENTJ or is already in a longterm relationship with an ENTJ?

Where/how would an entj female meet guys that won’t run for the hills?

Our types are prone to certain behaviors and trends that can make relationships challenging, such as:

1. Low prioritization. I used to refer to this as low EQ (emotional intelligence) but it’s not exactly that. The older I get, the more I realize a lot of us have understood other people’s emotions and perspectives– we just didn’t care or we didn’t care enough to do something about it. There’s a difference between “I don’t know” vs. “I don’t care” and for us it’s mostly “I don’t care.” For example, I completely understand why someone would be upset that I canceled a date to attend a business meeting– I just refused to change my behavior and accommodate them until later in my life when the date became more important than the business meeting.

Similarly, I’d expect an xNTJ trying to be a doctor or lawyer to easily prioritize medical school or law school over personal relationships because we understand that goals have small windows of opportunities while relationships have more time and flexibility to pursue later in life. To quote a dysfunctional (and fictional) ENTJ surgeon: “Anyone can fall in love and be blindly happy, but not everyone can pick up a scalpel and save a life.”

It’s difficult to be in a relationship when relationships aren’t prioritized.

2. Over-extrapolation. We have the tendency to see one type of behavior or trait in someone, fixate on it, and snowball it into something bigger via this mindset: “what if this small thing about this person is indicative of something bigger and more problematic later down the line?” And then eliminating the person from consideration without giving them a second chance. This causes us to be hypercritical, dismiss people too quickly, and quit too early.