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[lujinarchive]

Katara and Sokka

[2009rad]

There’s a lot to critique about TSPWL, but one thing that stands out to me is the frankly cruel writing of Marina, a woman who serves no purpose other than to make Phillip’s life harder. A woman whose own children admit she would’ve been better off dead*. That’s such an insidious way to write about a mentally ill character. We don’t know much about her other than the fact that she’d been sad for her whole life, because giving her a backstory could potentially make her more than just a plot device and incubator, and make the scene where Phillip rapes her even more horrifying. She only exists as a contrast to Eloise, a plucky heroine who’s an expy of Maria von Trapp (add a penchant for letter writing and subtract the nun backstory.) Where Eloise is cheerful and whimsical, Marina is sullen and depressed. Where Eloise gladly engages with the children despite them putting her through the wringer, Marina can’t even muster up the energy to leave her bed. Eloise sexually pleases Phillip, while Marina had to be forced into it. Eloise brightens up his life, while Marina only worsened it even further.

There’s barely any sympathy given to a character who was literally raped by her husband and struggled with mental health as a woman in the 19th century, while her husband’s actions (raping her and later neglecting his children) are excused because of his dark past. Because Marina made poor Phillip’s life worse with her depression, the narrative treats her no better than an obstacle to the main couple’s happiness.

Add onto the fact that saying a depressed person is better off dead is so cruel and insidious. I’m not arguing that people with depression can’t unintentionally hurt their family members, but to imply that there’s nothing for them other than DYING is insane. Many depressed people have struggled with thoughts of suicide/suicidal ideation because they internalize this very idea, and to write a story where “everything turns out better” because the depressed person kills themselves sends such a horrible message: kill yourself unless you want everyone else to suffer because of you.

*I understand that children who were neglected by a parent suffering from mental illness can have complicated feelings, especially since the parent didn’t take care of them. But my point still stands.

[2009rad]

Lenu: No matter what I do, Lila’s always going to be better than me. She’s always one step ahead of everyone, and I’ll never catch up to her. All she’ll have is her brilliance while I’m stuck trying to recreate it, because she’s part of everything I do

Meanwhile Lila:

[2009rad]

Katniss is often compared to Lucy Gray, but her and Snow have a few parallels (if you can call it that.) One thing that always follows Snow in the beginning is his hunger, especially since it separates him from his other well-fed classmates. Every time Snow hates the districts, the rebels, or his position in life, he always points to how hungry he is. Sejanus, someone not born into Capitol wealth, constantly has homemade meals for lunch while Snow has to sneak cafeteria leftovers into his pocket. It’s this hunger that follows him through the novels, and he swears he will do anything to never be in this position ever again (which almost mirrors Scarlett O’Hara’s speech.)

While food insecurity is almost rare in the Capitol, it’s normal in District 12. Class distinctions still exist, with the merchant class able to enjoy a sort of middle class lifestyle while the poorer Seam residents live in poverty. Katniss isn’t the first kid to enter her name for tesserae, or routinely worry about hunting enough to feed her family. Her and Gale violate district rules by hunting in the woods. The Hunger Games is the first time she’s able to have three full meals, and this serves as a stark reminder of how dire her home situation is. Even when she’s fully provided for, she’s always reminded of how hungry she was.

Food for her and Snow were both luxuries, but for Snow he sees it as beneath him to have this struggle. He’s from a prominent Capitol family, but he’s forced to take scraps like he’s from the districts. The idea that he could be degraded into what he despises the most scares him.

[alwayseverlark]

This is another project I commissioned to @little-lynx because I love here “pages to blossom” series and I wanted to have this “Watercolours” a In-Panem AU after their last reaping. A “This would have happened anyway” type of story.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[cubistemoji]

Some observations on book covers

Edit because apparently this needs to be said: the point of a book cover is to tell you what you're about to read and whether or not you want to read it. Following trends in cover design doesn't mean the book is bad or had a bad cover designer. It's visual communication. I've read and enjoyed about half the books featured here.

[astroportals]

NOT morally opposed to the met gala because i know what it's for and why it's important and necessary for the continued preservation of textile arts.

but you should also still support the met union because 91% of hourly Met staff in the union earn less than a living wage, and 27% of salaried Met staff earn less than a living wage.

museums cost a lot of money to run and rely on private donations as public funding is often limited. just because the met gala only raises funds for a specific collection doesn't mean it's inherently bad. it's not just a rich people's party. and anyway, rich people should be giving their money to stuff like the preservation of the arts.

anyway, i'm not even someone who avidly follows the met gala stuff or cares about seeing celeb's costumes. i do care about people being accurate about the things they say though. the met gala is not the enemy, it's a necessary fundraising event. pretty much every museum has these types of events they're just not as big or in the public spotlight. my tiny local museum has yearly fundraising galas too. it's normal museum stuff.

[2009rad]

I want to write something more profound about the Neapolitan Quartet because it’s so good but I can’t get over how the sapphic subtext of Lila and Lenu’s relationship really comes out in the third book. I don’t think the author really intended it but that scene of Lenu seeing her daughter and Lila’s son touching each other and she’s like “what if that was me and Lila? No way, they would’ve beat us” like how else am I supposed to interpret that?

[fruiitlins]

hanging outttttttt

[existennialmemes]

Eight episodes is not enough for a season. A proper season should contain no less than:

12 Plot Driven episodes

5 Filler Episodes with vague but crucial references to the main plot

8 Purely Filler episodes

For a total of 25 episodes per season. This is what we deserve. This is our birthright.

Show runners need time to tell their stories. They need to space things out to generate suspense. They need to put their OCs into Silly Little Situations with no plot development just because those situations would be fun to watch.

Please, I'm begging. Restore this storytelling medium to its former glory. It's not too late.

[thesmileykate]

something about how their love is what makes everlark so vulnerable to the world's cruelty, but it's also what saves them both in the end.

[theinternetarchive]

More wallpapers bc i’m the most indecisive guy ever

[thatcutelittleneko]

[lgbtqgmh]

[Image is of a New Hope Church sign that reads, ‘God says homosexuality is in’ and two men in the foreground holding the S from the sign]

[melorasmushrooms]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[quasi-normalcy]

how does this have under 10,000 notes in spite of my having seen it regularly for the entire time I’ve been on here?

[2009rad]

Gale and Katniss as tragic foils of each other. Both Seam kids who’ve seen the worst of poverty and were forced to take care of their siblings after their fathers died in the same mine incident. Both who took radically different paths when it came to the revolution, with one indirectly killing the person the other gave up everything to protect.

When they’re about to blow up the Nut, Katniss gets nervous about the collateral damage since there are a lot of District 2 workers. Gale brushes it off because for him, “Killing isn’t personal”. But Katniss pushes back that it *is* personal, and this highlights how their experiences started to differ when she entered the games.

When Katniss is in the arena, she has to kill these tributes herself. When she hears Cato kill Thresh, she wonders if she could’ve killed him, especially after he briefly spared her life. Seeing their similarities due to growing up in two of the poorest districts, she even wonders if she and Peeta would’ve been friends with him if they weren’t in the games. She’s haunted by visions of killing Marvel, even though he killed Rue. For Katniss, death *is* personal because she’s the one on the ground doing the killing herself.

Gale watched as Capitol planes mercilessly bombed his home, seeing his neighbors burn to death. He likely lives with survivor’s guilt over not being able to save everyone. He witnessed the Capitol kill District 12 impersonally, so he doesn’t bat an eye when it comes to doing the same. After all, if the Capitol didn’t consider the killing of innocents to be personal, why should he feel the same way towards them? It’s this mentality that pushes him further towards Coin, and tragically it ends with Prim being caught in the crossfire.

[thefabelmans2022]

it feels like a lot of bridgerton fans just don't understand how bad it is for women in the regency era. like. if you're lucky you have a husband who loves you and is kind to you and some healthy children who you gave birth to completely unmedicated but your husband still has complete control over you. colin loves penelope, he treats her as an equal, but all that money she made from whistledown is his. it's not hers anymore. sophie's dowry is the price her father paid TO BENEDICT when they got married. it's his now. when violet gave birth to hyacinth and there were complications that required major decisions to be made about HER BODY. the doctors asked HER SON. NOT HER. BECAUSE SHE HAS NO CONTROL OVER HER OWN BODY. while gregory goes to eton and gets an actual education, hyacinth's "lessons" are all about how to attract a husband and run a household. she's thirteen!!!!!!! none of these girls received formal education past MIDDLE SCHOOL. they have the idea that their entire purpose and the only reason they have to live is to find a husband and have his children engrained into them from day one. francesca has a whole breakdown over it. and speaking of francesca!!!! she's forced by a complete stranger to have an uncomfortable, invasive, and entirely non-consensual examination, while she's grieving her dead husband, even when both she and her older brother have made it very clear that she doesn't want it done. she doesn't have a choice!! her body doesn't belong to her!!!!! even benedict speaking up for her doesn't help. none of these women have a choice in ANYTHING. this shit is so bad!!!!!!!!

[2009rad]

The women being treated well based solely on luck and how nice their husbands are is horrifying. The rest of your life is determined by how your husband feels about you.

[pinyatapix]

most funniest sudden deviation from a youtuber’s typical video lineup i’ve seen in recent memory

like bro imagine being SO pissed at the direction a show had taken that you have to momentarily quit spongeposting in order to talk about it for two whole hours. king shit