live laugh love Kitay (among other things)

for fandom things that have consumed my life <3 currently: the poppy war, percy jackson, babel, the hunger games

[athens-501]

look it’s percabeth!!!!!!!

[gazpachoandbooks]

Sometimes I think about Finnick trying to befriend Katniss before the Quell and I lose my shit

The other rebels are like you need to subtly let her know you're on her side, so you go bet and turn your charm up to 11. Which would have maybe worked on anyone else but this is Katniss Everdeen we're talking about.

So now you're stuck doing increasingly ridiculous social gymnastics every time she's around and still by the time the night before the Games arrives the only thing she's convinced of about you is that you are going to try to fucking murder her

So you freak out, seek out Haymitch and basically go "hey what the fuck is wrong with your kid". And Haymitch just stares ahead for a second, nods, takes off his bracelet, says "wear this" and leaves. You fucking hate district 12

So you go okay. Breathing exercises. This is fine. Guess I'll have to save her life during the Games or sth maybe that'll do the trick. And when you see the Arena you cheer up for a sec bc you definitely have the advantage here she'll have to trust you right?

Wrong. She can fucking swim. SHE CAN FUCKING SWIM.

So now you're in the Cornucopia with no cards up your sleeve, no time left, and arguably the other deadliest tribute in that Arena pointing at you with a bow, and so you go "you know what, fuck it, I'm going to die anyways" and you show her the bracelet

AND IT FUCKING WORKS

Bear in mind Finnick had no first-hand experience on Katniss and Haymitch's bitch-to-bitch telepathy this was his first contact with it

Just saying lucky for the Rebellion this was Finnick and not me if I was in his place I would have killed her there and then just out of principle

[athens-501]

back to this style!! here’s altan trengsin but if he was lowkey mad tsai

(notice that the necklace is a trident like his weapon of choice please and thank you)

[athens-501]

i once saw someone say that they’re having creation ideas above their skill level. that’s me. slowly going insane rn i have SO MANY IDEAS I JUST CANT UGHH

[xoxoxogigi]

desperately need someone to match my freak the way kitay and rin match eachother's freak.

[dooberlane]

at the end of the world

[snoelledarts]

Fuck love triangles, all the cool kids these days are in love squares that create perfectly balanced bisexual homeostasis. Net-zero polyamory.

[snoelledarts]

Like this:

[snoelledarts]

It needed another visual (it didn’t).

[snoelledarts]

I saw a post by @wisteriahyacinth and I realized... it's time. It's time to update the graph.

[itsis0k]

Baby will missing his siblings yayyy

With all the cancelling goin on I forgot to post this this is all willthespy's fault

[neekstuff]

people don’t talk about cabin 7 enough. i need a book about cabin 7. about lee, micheal, will, austin, kayla and all the other kids that died during the battle of manhattan. probably the cabin with the saddest story. i love cabin 7.

[itsis0k]

When you're small, scared and hurt but there are others who are also small, scared and hurt so someone has to step up

[neverjustblue]

i am STILL the leo valdez CEO dont be fooled by the fact that i havent drawn him in months ok

[hamabee]

You know that feeling when the love of your life is about to fall down into hell and then you grab them and then you both fall into hell?

Yeah, me too.

[cassieisinthebasementt]

Will’s initials are W.A.S. because that’s the tense all his siblings are in

[athens-501]

R.E.D? Is that you?

[aaaaalice]

Would an AU where Annabeth dies from the poisoned knife in tLO be too angsty? Some thoughts in no particular order:

- A reversal of Nico and Percy's roles where Percy is withdrawing from camp and Nico tries to coax him back into his community.

- All sorts of fun potential for Curse of Achilles stuff.

- Athena blaming him because obviously he doesn't have enough on his plate. Doubly juicy if we go with Percy's Sword of Hades characterization where he doesn't hold himself responsible for the deaths of people close to him because that would be devaluing their choices. Maybe she makes him do the Parthenos quest as recompense.

- All sorts of amnesia angst, especially if he remembers Annabeth but not that she's dead. At some point some deity would totally offer to take his memories of her away to numb the pain, and obviously he'd decline, but he would understand the appeal.

- Pereyna angst where Reyna’s attracted to him but recognizes he's not in the headspace for a relationship and Percy is attracted to Reyna but feels like he's betraying Annabeth's memory.

- Percy isn't sure if he's just imagining it, having genuine auditory hallucinations, or if Hades is actually letting her talk to him, but he swears he hears her voice sometimes.

- Percy going genuinely insane on his own in Tartarus.

- Would also be interesting to see the Lost Trio's intro to camp without Annabeth OR Percy. Doubly so if Percy's been so withdrawn that they aren't certain he's actually missing and not just avoiding them.

[cabingold]

clarisse and percy's relationship is never not going to be funny to me because like they act like they hate each other and they patronize one another and clarisse once tried to kill percy and percy almost stranded clarisse in a Cyclops lair when they were in middle school but also. they know one another's deepest darkest secrets and probably call to share gossip at 1am because they Can. while insulting each other every other sentence mind you.

they have the type of relationship where if sherman called percy an idiot clarisse would put sherman on toilet duty and tell him to be more respectful. then she would tell percy to go soak his head and that she hopes he gets eaten by a hellhound over the school year. does this make sense

[eclectic-freak]

Yin Nezha's experiences parallel womanhood. Your honour, HE IS A GIRL !

**spoilers for all three books but it's not that bad**

Yin Nezha in many ways has been forced to take on the traditional role of a woman. It all began when he was sent as the sacrificial lamb to the dragon by his father, we’ll get to Vaisra later on in the essay. The point I want to make now, is that this mirrors how women have been treated, they are the people whose body we sacrifice. In this essay I will be using the examples of child birth and marriage as dangerous things women have to do under a society that is defined by patriarchy. 

Women have been used as fodder to propel society through most of history. Though childbirth is necessary for life it is an extremely risky event that leads women to permanent change in their body and in lots of cases, death. A society that is run rampant with patriarchy (in the poppy war we know Nikan is riddled with it), it is important to note that this ritual of treating girls as fodder is not a choice made by girls. Although in Nikan we can probably expect a man telling a woman to get married and have babies, patriarchy does not need such direct communication to exert this obligation over women. It works in more insidious ways than that and it’s what Yin Nezha has experienced. He is forced to take on the dragon, forced to be fodder to Mugen (was probably sit through torture, though he was rescued) and forced to keep all of this suffering bottled up. This routine infliction of suffering and hiding it away just sounds so much like what women have had to go through. 

Another way we see patriarchy crop up is when women start to fully adopt it. In lots of cases women accept society for what it is and willingly participate in marriage and child birth, they even take part in its perpetuation by pressuring their daughters, relatives, friends to partake in this ritual. Nezha displays this quality to a tee. He resides himself to his suffering because he believes it is worth it because it is all in the name of his father’s Republic. Similar to how a woman might justify her suffering because it’s all in the name of contributing to society, it’s to make a family. 

Another facet of patriarchy is how ignorant a man can be to a woman’s suffering, not only that they witness it and think they are displays of bravery. They do not see the invisible (sometimes very visible actually) strings guiding these people to enact destruction on their body to have a child or marry a man that could kill you. Sometimes all they see is a mother, coming out better on the other side because she has created life. He does not see someone who has had no choice but to destroy her body. They see this thing that was supposed to be inferior to them take on acts of courage they could only dream of. Because at the end of the day men in rampant systems of patriarchy have a choice in participating in acts of courage.

Men always have an option of choosing cowardice, they can waste their life away and yet they wouldn’t be punished as much as a woman who’d do the same. So, time and time again these people witness their mothers, sisters, friends, STRANGERS accomplishing acts of bravery they choose not to. I’m sure there are other ways women have been forced to be brave in patriarchy. I just can’t come up with some right now. 

WGetting back to Nezha, what makes him even more like a woman is that he has this man in his life who witnesses his forced acts of courage. HIS DAD YEAH. He was the one who let him subjected to the dragon, had him supervise the 7th division in Khurdalain knowing there was risk of being captured by Mugen, he was the one who made him keep this suffering all a secret, yeah we fucking hate Vaisra. 

What makes Vaisra hate the shit out of Nezha though, is even after all of this Nezha still has so much hope for the republic. He is a hopeful boy riddled with scars but a hopeful one nonetheless. Nezha wants the republic to work so bad because he wants it to work for the people so bad, it justifies his suffering. This hope Vaisra couldn’t even begin to comprehend.

Bringing this back to women again, haven’t we seen countless times women trying to find sense in a system that oppressed them greatly? This sense is seen through the laborious efforts women put into making a household. Lots of women see it as a necessary feat to keep society going. However, this unfortunately is just fawn, the forgotten third component to fight or freeze. It’s appeasing an authority that harms you just to be able to survive. 

Again I need to highlight this, men have been blind to this being a coping mechanism. This is Vaisra, he doesn’t see Nezha as someone who isn’t in control of his own autonomy, he sees a successor who overshadows him in every way possible. He sees someone who wants a better system for others despite the suffering he has faced because of it. Yes, this hopefulness might ultimately be naivety, it might break his son in the long run but when has hardship ever killed him?

Apologies if I’ve generalized or misused words/concepts.  I haven’t cited anything, this is just my own observation. I also apologize if there are inconsistencies. I hope you were able to follow along with my thought process anyways. Truly this was just word vomit, maybe I’ll rewrite this again someday.